Dear God/ess, I am hanging out with Ulysses this evening, and also creating a Face Book Page for my radio show, Kate Loving And The Collective Wisdom. I like the excitement surrounding doing interviews for New World Library authors. I also am looking for someone to come on the radio to discuss abolishing the Death Penalty. I am still disturbed and will always be disturbed by the execution/murder of Troy Anthony Davis at 2308, 9/22/2011. I will try and contact Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow. The book offers a chilling account of the way people of color are tortured and abused in prison and just about everywhere else.

Here is a quote from her book: "Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy. Cotton's family tree tells the story of several generations of black men who were born in the United States but were denied the most basic freedom that democracy promises--the freedom to vote for those who will make the rules and laws that govern one's life. Cotton's great-great grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation. His father was barred from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Jarvious Cotton cannot vote  because he, like many black men in the United State, has been labeled a felon and in currently on parole."

I just contacted Ms Alexander's publisher to see if she will come on the show.

The demonstrations on Wall Street are attracting greater numbers of peaceful protesters, yet the police are spraying the activists in the face with pepper spray and violently throwing them to the ground. I guess neither the police or the Mayor of New York realized that everyone has a camera these days, and these examples of Police Brutality are becoming widely available on the Internet. The National News has so far ignored these protests. Imagine, the Banks and the Wall Street traders have been stealing from us for years, and never have had to pay. Yet these nonviolent protesters are being thrown into jail, and beaten.

We have a society that is rising up. Nothing is adding up as far as the World is concerned. But we know that Spirit will lead the way. We know that there is nothing to fear.

Om Peace Amen

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