ERA REINTRODUCED IN CONGRESS
Senator Ted Kennedy (D- MA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Rep. Carolyn
Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Ellie Smeal, President
of the Feminist Majority and strong leader on the fight for women's
equality will announce the reintroduction of the Women's Equality
Amendment. An amendment to guarantee equal rights to women has still
never been ratified and added to the U.S. Constitution, even though it
was first introduced in 1923. The ERA passed Congress in 1972 but lapsed
in 1982 when it fell three states short of ratification. This year,
there are more than 190 original co-sponsors of the Women's Equality
Amendment.
DON'T TELL, DON'T EVEN ASK
JERSEY JOURNAL, NJ - Here's some of the email exchange between Corey
Andrew of Jersey City and Sgt. Marcia Ramode on Feb. 27 and March 1 as
provided to The Jersey Journal by Andrew. Misspellings, capital letters
and grammatical errors are as they appear in the emails:
Sgt. Ramode: My name is Marcia Ramode, and I am United States Army
recruiter. I saw your resume on career builder and we have lots of
vacant positions in Logistics, Administration...If interested please
give me a call at my toll free number.
Andrew: Awesome! Sounds great! The US Military has so many vacant
positions and opportunities. I had no idea. I'm seriously considering
contacting you. One thing, I'm not up on current politics but since its
2007, I would imagine also that I am now able to serve in the US
military as an openly gay man, right?
Ramode: WELL IF YOU ARE GAY WE DON'T TAKE YOU. YOU ARE CONSIDERED
UNQUALIFIED.
Andrew: Wow! Unqualified to serve my country just because I'm gay? It's
because they think I might all of a sudden desire one last kiss from my
fellow male solider if ever facing death at the hands of the enemy in a
fox hole, isn't?... Funny, the US Government doesn't mind taking my
"gay" dollars every tax season or out of my paycheck every two weeks.
I'm stunned that the US ARMY could afford to be so choosey when I see
sergeants on my school campus and in the local shopping Mall...begging
teenagers to enlist.
Ramode: YOU ARE DEFINITELY UNQUALIFIED, NOW TAKE YOU GAY SELF SOMEPLACE
ELSE WE DO NOT TOLERATE GAY PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE MILITARY.
AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU PAYING TAXES THEN MIGRATE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY....
AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU ABOUT THE US MILITARY RECRUITING THEN YOU GO TELL
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION .... AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE RECRUITERS
RECRUITING IN FRONT YOU HIGH SCHOOL THEN COMPLAIN TO THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OR BETTER YET TRY COMPLAINING TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND
SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY... YOU SHOULD SAY THANK YOU MILITARY PEOPLE FOR
WHAT YOU DO SO THAT YOU CAN LIVE A FREE LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. FREEDOM IS
NOT FREE. . .
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-3/
1174888546111830.xml&coll=3
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14-YEAR-OLD TO SERVE UP TO SEVEN YEARS FOR SHOVING HALL MONITOR
HOWARD WITT, CHICAGO TRIBUNE - The sentences of many of the 4,700
delinquent youths now being held in Texas' juvenile prisons might have
been arbitrarily and unfairly extended by prison authorities and
thousands could be freed in a matter of weeks as part of a sweeping
overhaul of the scandal-plagued juvenile system, state officials say.
Jay Kimbrough, a special master appointed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to
investigate the system after allegations surfaced that some prison
officials were coercing imprisoned youths for sex, said he would
assemble a committee to review the sentence of every youth in the
system. . .
Among the leading candidates for early release is Shaquanda Cotton, a
14-year-old black girl from the small east Texas town of Paris, who was
sent to prison for up to 7 years for shoving a hall monitor at her high
school while other young white offenders convicted of more serious
crimes received probation in the town's courts.
Shaquanda's story was the subject of a March 12 Tribune article that
triggered hundreds of Internet blog articles and thousands of message
board postings and led to a nationwide letter-writing campaign to the
Texas governor decrying perceived racial discrimination in her case.
Cotton, now 15, has been incarcerated at a youth prison in Brownwood,
Texas, for the last year on a sentence that could run until her 21st
birthday. . .
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070326juveniles,1,1122206.
story?coll=chi-news-hed
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Senator Ted Kennedy (D- MA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Rep. Carolyn
Maloney (D-NY), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Ellie Smeal, President
of the Feminist Majority and strong leader on the fight for women's
equality will announce the reintroduction of the Women's Equality
Amendment. An amendment to guarantee equal rights to women has still
never been ratified and added to the U.S. Constitution, even though it
was first introduced in 1923. The ERA passed Congress in 1972 but lapsed
in 1982 when it fell three states short of ratification. This year,
there are more than 190 original co-sponsors of the Women's Equality
Amendment.
DON'T TELL, DON'T EVEN ASK
JERSEY JOURNAL, NJ - Here's some of the email exchange between Corey
Andrew of Jersey City and Sgt. Marcia Ramode on Feb. 27 and March 1 as
provided to The Jersey Journal by Andrew. Misspellings, capital letters
and grammatical errors are as they appear in the emails:
Sgt. Ramode: My name is Marcia Ramode, and I am United States Army
recruiter. I saw your resume on career builder and we have lots of
vacant positions in Logistics, Administration...If interested please
give me a call at my toll free number.
Andrew: Awesome! Sounds great! The US Military has so many vacant
positions and opportunities. I had no idea. I'm seriously considering
contacting you. One thing, I'm not up on current politics but since its
2007, I would imagine also that I am now able to serve in the US
military as an openly gay man, right?
Ramode: WELL IF YOU ARE GAY WE DON'T TAKE YOU. YOU ARE CONSIDERED
UNQUALIFIED.
Andrew: Wow! Unqualified to serve my country just because I'm gay? It's
because they think I might all of a sudden desire one last kiss from my
fellow male solider if ever facing death at the hands of the enemy in a
fox hole, isn't?... Funny, the US Government doesn't mind taking my
"gay" dollars every tax season or out of my paycheck every two weeks.
I'm stunned that the US ARMY could afford to be so choosey when I see
sergeants on my school campus and in the local shopping Mall...begging
teenagers to enlist.
Ramode: YOU ARE DEFINITELY UNQUALIFIED, NOW TAKE YOU GAY SELF SOMEPLACE
ELSE WE DO NOT TOLERATE GAY PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE MILITARY.
AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU PAYING TAXES THEN MIGRATE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY....
AND IF IT BOTHERS YOU ABOUT THE US MILITARY RECRUITING THEN YOU GO TELL
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION .... AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE RECRUITERS
RECRUITING IN FRONT YOU HIGH SCHOOL THEN COMPLAIN TO THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OR BETTER YET TRY COMPLAINING TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND
SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY... YOU SHOULD SAY THANK YOU MILITARY PEOPLE FOR
WHAT YOU DO SO THAT YOU CAN LIVE A FREE LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. FREEDOM IS
NOT FREE. . .
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-3/
1174888546111830.xml&coll=3
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14-YEAR-OLD TO SERVE UP TO SEVEN YEARS FOR SHOVING HALL MONITOR
HOWARD WITT, CHICAGO TRIBUNE - The sentences of many of the 4,700
delinquent youths now being held in Texas' juvenile prisons might have
been arbitrarily and unfairly extended by prison authorities and
thousands could be freed in a matter of weeks as part of a sweeping
overhaul of the scandal-plagued juvenile system, state officials say.
Jay Kimbrough, a special master appointed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to
investigate the system after allegations surfaced that some prison
officials were coercing imprisoned youths for sex, said he would
assemble a committee to review the sentence of every youth in the
system. . .
Among the leading candidates for early release is Shaquanda Cotton, a
14-year-old black girl from the small east Texas town of Paris, who was
sent to prison for up to 7 years for shoving a hall monitor at her high
school while other young white offenders convicted of more serious
crimes received probation in the town's courts.
Shaquanda's story was the subject of a March 12 Tribune article that
triggered hundreds of Internet blog articles and thousands of message
board postings and led to a nationwide letter-writing campaign to the
Texas governor decrying perceived racial discrimination in her case.
Cotton, now 15, has been incarcerated at a youth prison in Brownwood,
Texas, for the last year on a sentence that could run until her 21st
birthday. . .
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070326juveniles,1,1122206.
story?coll=chi-news-hed
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