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On Aug.13, Mayor Sylvester Turner was chosen as the Democratic candidate to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in the Nov. 5 election.
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Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
RESIDENTS in St Ann North Eastern say they are not yet ready to let go of their late Member of Parliament Shahine Robinson, who had served the constituency since 2001.
A Claremont native, Robinson — the woman who changed the tide of losses for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with an upset in a People's National Party (PNP) stronghold — was remembered as a “woman for the people” by Priory resident Herman Gordon.
Robinson was one of two JLP candidates to ever represent St Ann North Eastern in Parliament.
However, after that election, Manley Bowen of the PNP, a former Member of Parliament and a registered voter in the constituency, sought a declaration from the Supreme Court that she was not qualified to be elected due to her alleged dual citizenship.
In the process of the legal actions, she was forced to resign from the House of Representatives in December 2010, but returned to the Parliament that same month after defeating PNP challenger Devon Evans in another by-election, and was again sworn in as an MP in January 2011.
LOS ANGELES — Police brutality, daily protests, systemic racism, unemployment, looters destroying property, COVID-19, stay-at-home-orders, the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, black men (Malcolm Harsch and Robert Fuller) found hanging from trees.
Turner, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and is qualified to speak about the psychological effects of violence and racial trauma, the perception of police bias in communities of color, and talking with children about racism.
TURNER: Given what we know from research, when people experience this level of stress and dealing with encounters of systemic racism they are more likely to experience many different mental health consequences including anxiety, depression, decreased life satisfaction, and possible trauma due to witnessing police brutality.
TURNER: What we know from research is that when community members witness these types of incidents they often report higher levels of PTSD symptoms and depression, specifically in the Black community.
TURNER: Research has shown that discrimination and racism has a negative impact on mental health and self-esteem.
Surrounded by City Council members, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and Houston Police Officers Union representative Ray Hunt, Mayor Sylvester Turner today signed Executive Order 1-67 on Policing Reform: Use of Force, which applies to all police officers in the Houston Police Department.
For the first time, it codifies prohibited techniques, such as neck restraints or chokeholds, which cannot be used unless objectively necessary to prevent imminent serious bodily injury or death to the officer or others.
“Officers shall not place their knee, foot, or body weight on the neck of a suspect to control or contain the suspect’s movement,” Mayor Turner said.
We are committed to doing the work that leads to meaningful and actionable reform,” said Vice Mayor Pro-Tem Martha Castex-Tatum.
Work on strengthening the bond between police and the public will continue through the Mayor’s Task Force on Police Reform, which will be a citizen-driven process that includes additional input from city council members.
Nigerian authorities have linked the deaths of up to 600 people in the country's second largest city to coronavirus after probing a surge in fatalities there.
\"With regard to unexplained deaths in Kano which occurred in April, the team confirmed from graveyard records that a total of 979 deaths were recorded,\" Ehanire said at a briefing on Monday, adding that most fatalities were above the age of 65.
Ehanire said the surge in deaths had subsided by the beginning of May and the \"rate had reduced to the 11 deaths per day it used to be\".
Medical investigators had already put the bulk of the unexplained deaths down to coronavirus but had not previously given detailed figures.
Teams have also been probing reported dramatic increases in death rates from April and May in some regions neighbouring Kano.
This week on the What’s In it For Us? podcast, Dr. Christina Greer and Dr. Jason Johnsondiscuss Biden’s electoral college... View Article
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BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic’s main opposition coalition on Sunday demanded the Dec. 27 general election be postponed due to violence by armed groups outside the capital Bangui, while the government insisted the vote would go ahead. On Saturday, the authorities accused former president Francois Bozize of plotting a coup after his candidacy was rejected, as U.N. peacekeepers dispersed armed rebel groups occupying roads and towns near Bangui. Fighting was ongoing in several towns, including Mbaiki, about 100 km (62 miles) from Bangui, according to one security source and two humanitarian sources. The opposition alliance, called Cod2020, which includes Bozize, said violence was preventing presidential and parliamentary candidates from campaigning and had led to the destruction of electoral materials and threats in almost all provincial centres, without providing details. In a statement, it “noted the impossibility of pursuing an electoral campaign in current insecure conditions,” and demanded the postponement of the vote until stability is restored. In response, the government said it was doing everything possible to ensure the vote could take place as planned, deploying troops alongside U.N. peacekeepers to regain control of occupied towns. “There is no plan B, the elections will take place on December 27,” said government spokesman Ange Maxime Kazagui. President Faustin-Archange Touadera, who has struggled to maintain stability, is seeking re-election. Bozize was ousted in 2013 by mainly Muslim Seleka rebels, prompting reprisals from mostly Christian militias and plunging the country into a civil war. U.N. peacekeepers have been deployed since 2014, including over 12,800 in uniform. The violence has caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, displacing over 600,000 people within the country while a further 600,000 live as refugees in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad, and elsewhere, according to U.N. figures. - Reuters
HOUSTON (AP) — George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice.
More than 500 mourners wearing masks against the coronavirus packed a Houston church a little more than two weeks after Floyd was pinned to the pavement by a white Minneapolis police officer who put a knee on his neck for what prosecutors said was 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
“I don’t want to see any black man, any man, but most definitely not a black man sitting on the ground in the hands of bad police,” said Marcus Brooks, 47, who set up a tent with other graduates of Jack Yates High School, Floyd’s alma mater.
In the past two weeks, amid the furor over Floyd’s death, sweeping and previously unthinkable things have taken place: Confederate statues have been toppled, and many cities are debating overhauling, dismantling or cutting funding for police departments.
“The president talks about bringing in the military, but he did not say one word about 8 minutes and 46 seconds of police murder of George Floyd,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist.
The state is seeing record turnout as Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock seek to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
These crises will be forever linked in the annals of history not just because they collided in time but also just as the cruel murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police finally tore open the gapping cruelty of police in this nation toward its African-American citizens, COVID-19 laid bare the inequities of Black life from every aspect of their existence from poor housing, low paid jobs, lack of access to health care, and the list goes on.
The growing economic devastation in Black communities will require strong fiscal support to uplift Black communities that have, in addition to the current crisis, existed since Emancipation.
To help ensure the current double crisis is not exacerbated by reduced federal funding as the nation looks to recovery, makes it doubly important for every Black to be counted in the census for those who no longer can.
According to recent COVID-19 mortality data, the mortality rate for Black Americans is 2.3 times as
high as it is for Whites and Asians, and 2.2 times higher than the mortality rate for the Latinx community.
In addition, SCLC leadership offered the following, “The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai”. . . He said, ‘Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
Vincentian opposition decides against election court challenge KINGSTOWN (CMC): The main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) in St Vincent and the Grenadines says it will not pursue legal action in relation to the outcome of the November 5...
“Three Girls From Bronzeville” follows three close-knit children as they grow up to become radically different women.
Of these 185,260 votes he allocated 125,010 to the coalition, and 56,628 to the PPP/C, in other words inverting the result of the recount which put that party ahead of the incumbent in government.
He described it in an accompanying letter as a report of the “valid and credible” votes of the general and regional elections, and that his calculations were in accordance with the Representation of the People Act.
His justification for departing from Justice Claudette Singh’s instruction to him to submit a report based on the recount of the votes in order to certify the final result (he did not submit that report by the deadline) was the Appeal Court ruling on Monday that the provision in the Constitu-tion referring to “more votes are cast” should be interpreted to mean “more valid votes are cast”.
This compares with the recount results showing that the PPP/C had 233,336 votes and APNU+AFC 217,920, which translates into 33 seats for the first-named party, 31 for the coalition and one for the joint list of LJP, ANUG and TNM.
It has always been a simple question of completing the tallying of the Region Four votes in accordance with the law in order to obtain a final result.
By the standards of African American history, Bishop Randall Albert Carter is a little known figure. Born in Fort Valley, Georgia on January 1, 1867, he was educated at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina and Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. An active pastor in the Colored (later Christian) Methodist Episcopal Church, he was elected Bishop at the denomination’s national convention in St. Louis in 1914. On May 30, 1923, Bishop Carter was asked to give the Commencement Address at his alma mater, Paine College. He used the occasion to challenge his audience to set lofty personal goals and maintain high ethical standards even in the face of overwhelming racial bigotry. This presentation is included precisely because it was typical of many thousands of speeches given by hundreds of African American orators during the era of segregation. His presentation appears below.
I presume the reason I have been invited to come back to Paine College and talk to you today, after thirty years of fighting and climbing, until I have gained some laurels and reached the top of my calling, is that you may have the privilege of reading some pages out of my book of experience. As I stand here today in this beautiful chapel I can scarcely realize that more than three decades have passed since I walked, with others, from the old remodeled horse stables, which, in those days, served as dormitories and classrooms on this campus, down to old Trinity to the commencement exercise, and dreamed great dreams as I received my diploma from the hands of the lovable, lamented George Williams Walker. I little knew then to what I was going, when I stepped forth that day, eager, happy and hopeful, into the great world to make a name for myself. If I had known what awaited me perhaps I would have shrunk back aghast. However, I can say with all modesty, I have fought bravely, I have kept the faith fairly well, and I have weathered the many storms and fierce gales of spars and sails. And, today I have returned to the home port, like some
The ouster of Andy King from the City Council in October has created the need for a special election in the Bronx 12th District, to replace King. The Bronx 12th District covers parts of the north-east Bronx, Wakefield, Olinville, Edenwald, Eastchester, Baychester, Williamsbrdge, and Co-Op City.
People’s National Party (PNP) Campaign Director Phillip Paulwell believes that COVID-19 restrictions will transform political and canvassing strategy in Jamaica as the country prepares for a general election constitutionally due by February 2021.
Meanwhile, PNP President Dr Peter Phillips has warned the Holness administration to hold to its word that a general election will not be held while states of emergency (SOEs) are operational.
Phillips’ comment coincided with the imposition of SOEs in Kingston Central and Kingston Western, which bring to 10 the number of police divisions under emergency powers.
The last time an election was called under a state of emergency was in 1976 by Michael Manley, the then prime minister and PNP president.
We are ready to go,” Phillips told The Gleaner as he disclosed that the meeting facilitated the sharing of campaign strategy.
Madagascar's government has announced it will dispatch troops and doctors to an eastern town after several bodies were found in the streets and where two people died from the novel coronavirus.
Madagascar's cabinet held a special meeting on Sunday to discuss the situation in Toamasina, the country's second largest city.
Since Thursday, more than 120 new cases were confirmed, and several bodies were found in the city's streets though the cause of death was not clear.
\"Doctors must carry out thorough examinations to see if these deaths are caused by another illness (...) or if they are really due to severe acute respiratory problems which is the critical form of Covid-19,\" Professor Hanta Marie Danielle Vololontiana, spokesperson for the government's virus taskforce, said in a national broadcast on Sunday.
The cabinet has also announced an investigation into the death of a doctor in Toamasina.
The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has declined to halt enforcement of disputed provisions of the Tanzania Political Parties (Amendment) Act, 2019, as petitioned by leaders of opposition parties.
Five opposition party leaders wanted the regional court to stop the Tanzania government from implementing disputed provisions of the Act, pending determination on their compliance with the East African Community Treaty.
The court agrees with counsel representing the Tanzanian government that halting the Act would hold back civic education for political parties.
The opposition leaders in their temporary Application No 3 of 2019 seeking the regional court’s orders to stop enforcing provisions of the Act pending decision of their main Application No 2 of 2019.
In the main Application, the opposition leaders maintain that the Act violates human rights contrary to the Tanzania Constitution, the EAC Treaty, Leadership Ethics, the Universal Human Rights Declaration and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Dr. Mei-ling Malone, adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton
Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media
Last week, African action opponents At least one Republican elected official attended the event that the Silicon Valley Yang Cutter is an Asian American Republican running for State Assembly in District 77, which covers parts of northern San Diego and the nearby cities of Poway and Rancho Santa Fe, among others.
ACA a chance to uphold or overturn Proposition 209, a ballot measure that passed in 1996 outlawing the consideration of race in contracting, college admissions, employment and state data reporting in 5 in November, it would bring Affirmative Action back to the state of California.
Last month, the California Assembly Committee on Public Employment and Retirement approved ACA 5, which Assemblymember Dr. Shirley (D-San Diego) Weber, chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC), introduced earlier this year.
Dr. Mei-ling Malone, an adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton, who has an African American father and Taiwanese mother, supports ACA 5.
Malone, an instructor of African American Studies, told California Black Media that Asian Americans have an unfortunate history African Americans that dates all the way back to the late 1800s and early 1900s.
But in the last three weeks, progressive state Rep. Charles Booker, the youngest Black state lawmaker elected in Kentucky in nearly a century, has interrupted McGrath’s quiet stroll to the nomination.
The shifting race has turned the supposedly deep red state of Kentucky into the latest battleground between a more pragmatic Democratic establishment urging caution and a progressive insurgency arguing that the party should move faster to address the urgent needs of voters ― especially as a devastating pandemic, the economic collapse it has caused and a nationwide outburst of protests expose the country’s deep failings on health care, the economy, racial equality and American democracy itself.
Among progressives, it fueled the idea that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which officially backed McGrath in February of this year, had merely wanted a talented and inoffensive fundraiser who could occupy McConnell’s attention and money leading up to the election while the party chased more winnable seats elsewhere.
Beating McConnell is a near-impossible task no matter what tack a Democratic candidate takes, but early in the 2020 cycle, some in the state were eager to test the reverse strategy: a full-on fight against McConnell that prioritized the Democratic base and then tried to make the math work with suburban converts and a handful of more conservative rural Democrats who like Trump and dislike the national Democratic Party but might be wooed back with the right sort of message.
‘From The Hood To The Holler’
Booker, who worked in state government and Democratic politics before winning his state legislative seat in 2018, jumped into the Senate race in November with a stirring two-minute video that went after McConnell in righteous terms: “You know the name of the man I’m talking about, but he doesn’t know your name,” Booker said.
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\t\tGEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) — Guyana’s disputed March 2 regional and general election took a new turn on Monday after the Court of Appeal ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a motion regarding the election of a president, interpreting also that “more votes” cast in the election should in effect be “more valid votes” cast.
However, the three-member Court of Appeal did not grant all the remedies that had been sought by the private citizen, Eslyn David, in her motion and also agreed to a stay of three days on the judgment.
But in his minority ruling, Justice Rishi Persaud ruled that the motion was “premature” and “wholly ill-conceived”: and that the applicant should have awaited to take the matter before the High Court after GECOM would have announced the official election results.
Justice Persaud said the Court of Appeal is “without jurisdiction” based on Article 177 of Guyana’s constitution and that he was also unable to find any law showing that GECOM can pursue any evidential-based investigation or annul an election other than by an election petition at the High Court.
David has mounted her challenge before the appellate court pursuant to Article 177 (4) of the Constitution, which states ““the Court of Appeal shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any question as to the validity of an election of a President in so far as the question depends upon the qualification of any person for election or the interpretation of this Constitution….”
