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Baku writes at Austin IndyMedia: “Just in the past week we have seen resistance to a KKK meeting in Tomball, Texas. Austinites have been threatened by self-identifying Nazis. Last week, bricks were thrown at the windows of KPFT during a Latino literary radio program. And a few days ago, an unarmed Chicano youth was shot and killed by the Austin Police Department.”

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Activists Take on Klan at Tomball

Houston IndyMedia

Protests of June 11 draw on diverse traditions: faith and reconciliation, Anti-Racist Action, and the New Black Panther Party.

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Police Take on Activists at Tomball

Houston IndyMedia

how would u like to have your backpack held against your face and you cant move at all with a gun pointed at your knee ready to take you down if you do move?

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Activists Take on Police in Austin

Austin IndyMedia

One witness on Austin IndyMedia video says the 18-year-old victim had dropped his belly to the street just prior to being shot in the back and killed. Protests continue Monday 5pm outside Austin Police Headquarters.

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Activists Call on Police in Austin

Austin IndyMedia

The police confiscated the chains and arrested one of the Nazi’s for outstanding warrants. The other two were allowed to walk.

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Activists Discourage Calling On Police

Austin IndyMedia

Maybe try acting as if the cops didn’t even exist.

That’s what Golden Globe winning actor Jamie Foxx hollered in tribute to the folks back at the Terrell Tribune for putting his picture on the front page, at last.

Read what the Terrell Tribune has to say about the Texas Civil Rights Review at our fax collection from Brenda Denson-Prince in the Downloads section.

Denson-Prince is the fellow Terrell Southsider who also hopes to have her picture published page one as a winner. Her court challenge to be named County Commissioner is pending. The judge recused himself, saying fairness would call for an out-of-county jurist.

Meanwhile, we can’t help but to extend Foxx’s sporting spirit. Hey Northside: Got Globe?

Editorial
By Greg Moses

In a failed editorial on Sunday, I noted that Democratic officialdom was ignoring two things: the ongoing effort by Brenda Denson Prince to win election to Kaufman County Commissioner, and the harassment of Houston voters by Republican attorneys during the Heflin-Vo election contest.

The editorial failed, because it attempted to name the ignored topics under a general heading: “grassroots.” Since the Texas Democratic Party website makes use of the “grassroots” term, I thought the label would help to rally interest not only toward Prince and the Houston voters, but to a general will of some kind. But I was wrong about this. “Grassroots” turns out to be a pretty useless word. For some, it is no different than mainstream, for others it raises fears of loose cannons. I have learned that “grassroots” is a poor term to use when attempting to mobilize “progressive” Democrats.

So let’s forget the general terms and stick to the facts. Democratic officialdom has NOT publicly responded to the harassment of Democratic voters in Houston or to the ongoing struggle of Brenda Denson Prince in Kaufman County. These are just the facts. The official website of the party says many things, but nothing about Prince or the harassment of Houston voters.

Associate Editor Tony Gallucci sent me a note saying hey have you seen what Kuff’s saying about you?

Then I looked and got goose bumps. Kuff gets it.

The more I read of Moses’ work, the more I share his distaste with the sustained attacks that Taylor made not just on individual voters, but on the concept that voting is a right, and as such it shouldn’t be trivially denied. Mark Schmitt notes that a frequent question on the test for US citizenship is “WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RIGHT GRANTED TO U.S. CITIZENS?” The answer, of course, is “the right to vote”. Well, if that’s really so, why do we make it so hard to vote?

We’d only add that because of the immigrant rate in Vo’s district, it’s likely that more voters there passed that test than in Andy Taylor’s precinct.

Thank you Mr. Kuffner. Thanks again.

The big win

Thursday, January 20, 2005
By Tim Sullivan

As a teenager in Sài Gòn in the 1970s, Hubert Võ envisioned himself one day becoming a lawmaker in South Việt Nam’s democratic government. But the country’s fall in 1975 to communists vetoed that idea.

Fortunately, there was a place called Texas.

Full Story at Nguoi Viet Online (California)