Fighting for the Right to Vote! TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
The Ordinary People Society is the first and only organization in the country to win the rights for drug offenders to vote out of prison and never lose their rights ( for crimes not involving Moral Turpetude ) . But continues to fight for those who are not allowed to vote for misdemeanors and low level [...]
Pastor Glasgow Receives an Honorary Georgia Citizen Award
Recently, former U.S. Ambassador Dr. Hall and State House Representative of Georgia, Roberta Abdul Salaam, honored T.O.P.S founder and President Pastor Kenneth Glasgow with an Honorary Georgia Citizen Award, at T.O.P.S. annual Banquet 2011. Pastor Glasgow has been very instrumental in the Georgia Prison Strike issue, First ever United States Social Forum and community work in Georgia. The Honorary Georgia [...]
Advocate: Alabama prisoners still being disenfranchised
By Markeshia Ricks
From Today’s Montgomery Advertiser
With just one day left to register for the June 1 primary, the issue of prisoner and felon voting is once again in the spotlight, and at least one community organizer is concerned that a lack of knowledge and confusion over the [...]
Sharpton to Keynote T.O.P.S. Founders’ Day Banquet
The Reverend Al Sharpton will be in Dothan, Alabama on Saturday, May 1, to join his younger brother, Reverend Kenneth Glasgow on T.O.P.S. Founder’s Day, marking 9 years of Community Service.
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Glasgow to Keynote 11th Annual Rock Against Racism, April 17, 2010
11th Annual Rock Against Racism
April 17th, 2010 from 12:00-9:00 PM SUNY New Paltz Old Main Quad, Plattekill Avenue New Paltz NORML/SSDP Books KRS-ONE and Reverend Kenny Glasgow (AlSharpton’s Brother) For Annual Rock Against Racism.
This video shows the fatal shooting of Melvin Williams by an officer (Jeffery Deal of the East Dublin Police Department) who did not have his power of arrest at the time. In Georgia, an officer has a power of arrest after completing certain minimum training and/or waiver requirements every year. This officer failed to do both, he failed to meet basic requirements to allow him to be on the street with a government issued firearm.
What’s so disturbing is that Jeffery Deal’s Police Chief allowed him to operate without his power of arrest for nearly two years. In fact, nearly the entire police department acted without their power of arrest for nearly two years (some longer).
I sat there and watched the debate about HB56 which became HB658.
I listened to the arguments, and the rebuttals. It really amazed me at the insensitivity of some of our legislatures talking.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks with addiction program alumni on March 1, 2012 before a speech at the Rescue Mission of Trenton outlining his proposal for making drug court mandatory for non-violent drug-maddicted offenders. (New Jersey Governor’s Office/Tim Larsen)
By Aaron Gould Sheinin and Bill Rankin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
4:49 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Calling it a historic day for Georgia, an emotional Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday signed into law major changes to how the state punishes non-violent criminals.
So I went to Washington and presented to our Congress some issues that we have down here in the Wiregrass and Alabama. I also presented the Patrick Humphrey Package of Bills, Open Records, and Police Training Bills. Came back and went to the Statehouse to see how our Bills are moving and if there was any progress.
Private Prison Corporations Are Modern Day Slave Traders By Glen Ford April 25, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The nation’s largest private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America, is on a buying spree. With a war chest of $250 million, the corporation, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, earlier this year sent letters to 48 states, offering to buy their prisons outright. To ensure their profitability, the corporation insists that it be guaranteed that the prisons be kept at least 90 percent full. Plus, the corporate jailers demand a 20-year management contract, on top of the profits they expect to extract by spending less money per prisoner.
It’s not easy for poor people to get cash assistance in America.
Prior to welfare reform in 1996, 68 of every 100 poor families with children received cash assistance through Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). But by 2010, under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program which replaced AFDC, just 27 of every 100 poor families received benefits. The rolls shrunk as states were given wide discretion over eligibility, benefit levels, time limits, and how to use their TANF block grants which were frozen at 1996 funding levels and not indexed for inflation.
A Sacramento, California area family is mourning the death of their mentally disabled son, who was shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy after the family had called the sheriff’s department for help in restraining him. Newspaper accounts suggest the deputy ordered the young man—a severe germophobe—onto the ground, which sparked intense struggling. After a tussle, the deputy shot the man in front of his family.
Someone asked me this morning why I was friends on facebook with a “radical black preacher” – aka Kenny Glasgow. I wont write my direct reply to him as its not safe for children or women to read but Ill share my reflected thoughts publicly…. Its nice to have someone in your life thats radical for truth, radical for his faith not the bs that most “big church” preachers have. Let me tell you what Pastor Glasgow is radical about- feeding the hungry, sheltering those without it. Clothing for the needy, providing a safe place for those trying to change their lives and holding AA meetings. Pastor Glasgow (my friend Kenny) actually does one thing very well….he lives and fights everyday for what the scriptures tell us to do. Glasgow is the real deal and above that hes my friend…END OF STORY.
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