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{COVER P 6 Democrats take Republicans to Courtin Lawsuit

{local P 3 - 4

100 Black Men of SyracuseSponsors Summer Read Challenge Local Hair Salon SendsKids Back to School with Style Syracuse Regroups after Season-Opening Loss

{State P 4 - 5

NY Urged to Address High, Broad-Based Taxes Jury Awards $280,000 in NY Case overN-Word Abuse

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Obama: Congress, World Credibility onthe Line Study: Most States Lack Disaster Planfor Kids

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Cloucesters Rebellion: Another LessonAbout our Character

By Benjamin Jealous

President Obamas Suria Strike Poses

Major Challenge to Backers

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama Challenges America:Keep Marching

By Hazel Trice-Edney

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10, 17 and 24Job Resource Assistance Drop-inTime: 1:00-3:00 pmLocaon: Central Library -447 South

Salina St.Receive help with online jobsearching, resumes, creangproles and more. No appointmentnecessary.Space is limited andavailable on a rst come, rstseated basis.Call 315.435.1900 with anyquesons.

10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26English for Speakers of Other

Languages - ESOL ClassesTime: 12:30 pmLocaon: White Branch Library -763 Buernut St.

These free English language classeswill teach grammar, vocabulary,reading and wring so that non-nave speakers will learn to moreclearly and eecvely communicatein everyday situaons. Register atthe Refugee Assistance Program(Bobs School), 501 Park St., orcall 435-4984.

10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26GED ClassesTime: 9:00 amLocaon: White Branch Library -763 Buernut St.Catch these free study sessionsdesigned to help those who are

interested in obtaining theirGeneral Equivalency Diploma,the equivalent of a high schooldiploma. Registraon is required.Contact the Family Welcome Centerat Grant Middle School, 240 GrantBlvd., Room 356 or call 435-6376 toget started on your new future.

11, 18 and 25FOR TEENS & ADULTS: GED ClassesTime: 10:00 amLocaon: Hazard Branch Library -1620 W. Genesee St.Hazard Library and The NewlandCenter have partnered to provide

GED instrucon at the library.If youwould like assistance preparing forthe GED exam, come to Hazard anyWednesday, 10:00 am.

12, 19 and 26Free One-on-One Basic ComputerClassesTime: 1:00-2:00 pmLocaon: Central Library -447 SouthSalina St.Covers basic topics concerning theInternet and Microso Oce. Heldin the Pass Computer Lab on Level4. Call 315.435.1900 to registeror for more details.Thursdays, byAppointment Only

15The STRATHMORE PARKS RUN 2013Time: 11.00amLocaon: Onondaga Park

The STRATHMORE PARKS RUN is a4 mile run/walk sponsored by theGreater Strathmore NeighborhoodAssociaon and supported by the

Jim Dwyer, Jr. Memorial Fund.Scenic course begins in OnondagaPark, goes through some ofSyracuses historic Strathmoreneighborhood. Construcon at theWoodland Reservoir means therewill be some course changes thisyear. Reservoir is OUT, o-roadrunning through Elmwood Park isIN. It will be fun. Race nishes backin Onondaga Park.Prizes will be awarded at eachSyrathon race and and at series end(just register at the Syrathon tableat each race).

1550th anniversary of the 16thStreet Bapst Church bombingBirmingham, ALTime: 4:00-6:30 pmLocaon: Grant Auditorium,Syracuse University College of Law,The Cold Case Jusce Iniaveis sponsoring a program tocommemorate the 50th anniversaryof the 16th Street Bapst Churchbombing Birmingham, AL. Theprogram is free and open to thepublic. Parking is free at IrvingGarage, SU campus.

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Legends of Jazz Series:DianneReevesTime: 7:00PMLocaon: Storer Auditorium atOnondaga Community College.This seasons Jazz Series openswith Grammy award winning andnominated arsts Dianne Reeves.She is among the worlds top jazzvocalists and a threeme Grammy Award winner.

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177th Annual Bravest vs. Finest

basketball gameTime: 7:00 p.m.Locaon: Instute of Technology(Central Tech), 258 East AdamsStreet.The friendly compeon pitsplayers from the Syracuse PoliceDepartment (the Bravest) againstplayers from the Syracuse FireDepartment (the Finest). Basketballisnt the way they make their living,but these amateurs ght hard tocome out on top. Join us for thissuspense lled contest, and rootfor the team of your choice.Price of admission is $2. Moneyraised through the game will helpthe Conservancy buy ags for theSheridan First Responders Park inEastwood, and to help with SPCrent and operang expenses.

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100 Black Men of SyracuseSponsors Summer Read Challenge

Local non-prot organizaon 100 BlackMen of Syracuse promoted summerreading by oering a challenge toyoung, black, middle and high schoolstudents.

With all the distracons that thesummer can bring to young men, thechallenge was meant to ensure thatcrical thinking and educaon fromreading remain a part of the youngminds throughout the summer.

12 young, black men were challengedto read four thought provoking booksthat was posive and relave to theirculture. Aer reading each book,the young men were to write a bookreport and an oral presentaon of thebook. Every book and presentaonearned them $25.

Most of the boys who took part inthe challenge were members of theorganizaons year round mentorprogram.

Vincent Love, President of the 100 Black Menof Syracuse NY | Photo by LaVergne Harden

There were several back to schooldrives and events where children weregiven book bags and school suppliesfor the new school year. A local hairsalon sent kids back to school in stylewith free hairstyles Tuesday.

Divine Desny Creaons, located onNorth Salina St., gave free roller sets,wraps and blow dry hairstyles to 53kids ranging from grades kindergartenthrough 12th. 48 kids from Syracuseand 5 from Auburn aended theevent.

Owner Jayvana Rucker said, It was agreat event and very successful.

Rucker has been in business 3 years.This is the second year she has givenfree hairstyles to students.

It was just something that was put onmy heart, Rucker said. We actuallyhave 3 stylists, so clients came in andhelped at the front desk and a stylistcame from another salon to help out.

Rucker said she knows how expensiveschool shopping is and with her backto school free hairstyles, theres oneless thing parents have to worry about.She said she plans to have the back to

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By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer

SYRACUSE, N.Y. At long last, Syracusecoach Sco Shafer has his starng

quarterback, and so far no buddingcontroversy.

Oklahoma transfer Drew Allen took thenod over sophomore Terrel Hunt andplayed the enre game against PennState in the season opener Saturday.Although Allen didnt have the bestof performances in a 23-17 loss atMetLife Stadium in New Jersey hethrew two intercepons and was just16 for 37 for 189 yards his coachliked a lot of what he saw.

It was his rst start in a long me. Itwasnt since his high school days thathe had the opportunity to play in theow of a game, Shafer said Tuesday.

He really hasnt played a lot of footballin the last four years. I thought he didsome good things early. Later, we puthim in some dicult situaons.

We were in far too many third-and-long situaons. We need to win on rstdown. But I did like his composure.He never really got ustered. He keptcompeng, and the communicaonwas excellent on the sideline.

The 6-foot-5, 226-pound Allen is agraduate transfer from Oklahoma withone year of eligibility remaining. Heis also a former blue-chip high schoolprospect, and in two seasons as abackup for the Sooners, Allen was 18

for 30 for 160 yards.

He didnt join Syracuse unl preseasonpracce.

Shafer said he made his quarterbackdecision about 10 days beforethe opener aer Allen had a goodscrimmage during the Oranges visit toFort Drum, an Army post in northernNew York thats been used the pasttwo years to build team chemistry.

Shafer kept it a secret unl gameme.

It wasnt so much that Terrel wasntemerging, Shafer said. It was just thatDrew had a lile bit beer handle onthings at that point in me. It was justtwo guys baling. I feel comfortablewith both guys.

Hunt has never thrown a college pass

and played only briey on specialteams in just one game in his Syracusecareer. But his experience in the teamssystem gave him a head start on Allenin the race to replace Ryan Nassib, whowas draed by the New York Giants.

When we made the decision to startDrew, it was dicult for Terrel, as itshould be with any competor, Shafersaid. But then he came back the nextday and pracced well. Hes neverhung his head. All I told him was hesone play away from geng on thateld, so he has to be locked in andready to go.

Im very proud of the way Terrel has

handled the situaon.

The somewhat hosle environment

at a neutral-site game Penn Statefans easily outnumbered those ofthe Orange certainly didnt helpmaers. Syracuse players complainedof trouble communicang along theline, and the Orange nished withve dropped passes and nine missedtackles.

You cant have that, Shafer said.We need to connue to work (atcommunicang).

The Niany Lions also contained whatwas expected to be the Orangesstrong point this season. Syracuse sureseemed to miss the seling presenceof former star le tackle Jusn Pugh,

who le school a year early and also

was draed by the Giants.

Tailbacks Jerome Smith (16 rushes,73 yards, two TDs) and Prince-TysonGulley (12, 24) carried the bulk of theload for a running game that producedless than two yards per carry (37, 71).Last season, Smith had 1,171 rushing,the h-highest in school history,and Gulley contributed 830 yards andscored nine TDs.

Up front, we have to win thosebales, Shafer said, adding that hehoped to give George Morris andDevante McFarlane more playing megoing forward. We need to nish ourblocks with the oensive line.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State ocialsare being urged this week to adoptnew proposals to cut broad-basedtaxes for all New Yorkers instead ofconnuing polically targeted taxbreaks for businesses and Hollywoodproducons.

E.J. McMahon of the ManhaanInstute says New Yorks high taxstatus grew worse in recent years witha temporary income tax extendedtwice so far that takes in $2 billion ayear.

The naonal Tax Foundaons JosephHenchman tesed in the same stateSenate hearing Wednesday that NewYork is ranked last in business climateamong all 50 states.

The Unshackle Upstate business groupsays New York needs to cut incometaxes by 25 percent for upstateresidents making less than $50,000 toturn around the economy.

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Syracuse coach Sco Shafer reacts during the second quarter of an NCAA college football gameagainst Penn State Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)


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STATEJury awards $280,000in NY case over N-word abuseLARRY NEUMEISTER

NEW YORK (AP) - The lawyer for a blackwoman whose hosle workplace claimagainst a black bosss N-word rantproduced a $280,000 jury award saysshe hopes the case teaches societysomething.

Its the most oensive word in theEnglish language, aorney MarjorieM. Sharpe said outside federal court inManhaan aer a jury Tuesday added$30,000 in punive damages to go witha $250,000 compensatory damagesaward it imposed last week againstSTRIVE East Harlem and founder RobCarmona.

Sharpe stood with her client, 38-year-old Brandi Johnson, aer a jury of sixmen and two women determinedCarmona owes her $25,000 andSTRIVE $5,000 in addional damagesin a case that put a legal microscopeto the concept that the word that is adegrading slur when spoken by whitescan be used without retribuon andsomemes aeconately amongblacks, even in the workplace.

Sharpe said the double standard hadpersisted far too long as people havetried to take the sng away from theN-word.

Johnson said she hopes the word nowwont be tolerated no maer whatyour race is.

Carmona, a 61-year-old black man ofPuerto Rican descent, had tesedat the trial that he was dispensingtough love in language he faced fromcounselors who turned him from adrug addict with an arrest recordinto the creator of an oen-praisedorganizaon that has helped nearly50,000 hard-to-employ people ndwork since 1984.

Johnson had recorded the March 2012rade about inappropriate workplaceare and unprofessional behavior thatwas aired for the jury and described byboth sides as the trials centerpiece.She said she cried for 45 minutes inthe restroom aerward.

I was oended. I was hurt. I feltdegraded. I felt disrespected. I wasembarrassed, Johnson tesed.

Outside court aer her victory,Johnson said she was very happyand rejected Carmonas claims fromthe witness stand Tuesday that theverdict made him realize he needs to

take stock of how he communicates

with people he is trying to help.

I come from a dierent me,Carmona said hesitantly, wiping hiseyes repeatedly with a cloth. Sharpetold jurors they were ghost tears.

So now, now youre sorry? Johnsonsaid outside court, adding she doubtedhis sincerity and nong Carmona hadrefused to apologize to her in courtlast week. She said he should havebeen sorry the day when he told methe N-word eight mes.

Carmona le the courthouse withoutimmediately commenng, as did alleight jurors. When he tesed last

week, he tried to defend his use ofthe word, saying it had mulplecontexts in the black and Lanocommunies, somemes indicanganger, somemes love.

In a statement, STRIVE said it wasdisappointed but was exploringopons, including an appeal andlooking forward to the judicial processtaking its enre course. A STRIVEexecuve tesed Tuesday that theorganizaon already has changedbecause of the verdict with plans toprovide its sta addional diversity,discriminaon and an-harassmenttraining.

It also cited Johnson as a primeexample of the second chances thatSTRIVE provides to both its parcipantsand nonparcipants alike.

It noted that Johnson, who was nevera STRIVE parcipant, was employedthere despite a previous conviconfor grand larceny that required herto pay about $100,000 in restuon.The judge barred lawyers from tellingjurors about the convicon.

Brandi Johnson, le, and her lawyer, MarjorieM. Sharpe, leave federal court in New York,

Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, aer a civil juryawarded $30,000 in punive damages in

addion to the $250,000 in compensatorydamages that had been awarded last week.

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The candidacy for mayor has turnedinto a legal dispute in Syracuse, withOnondaga County Democrats takingtheir Republican colleagues to courtin a lawsuit. Democrats are sayingRepublicans should lose their spot onthe mayoral ballot because the partyhas violated the spirit and leer ofelecon law.

The Republican Party, to date, sll hasnot chosen a candidate, and has beentrying to exhaust all of its opons while

the search connues.

Republican commiee chairman TomDadey originally put his own name onthe peons for mayoral candidacy,but recently moved out of the city ofSyracuse, thereby disqualifying himselffrom the race.

The party has since turned to KevinKuehner, even though Kuehnerhas openly admied to not beinginterested in running for mayor.

This is the problem for the Democratsand, according to Democrac EleconsCommissioner Dusn Czarny who alsohas joined the lawsuit, by using aseries of loopholes and technicalies,the GOP has muddled up what shouldbe transparent.

Democrats are saying the paperworkclearly shows discrepancies, whileDadey says the Democrats just wantto clear the path for current SyracuseMayor Stephanie Miner. Miner is notcurrently involved in the lawsuit, butit would only help her in her quest forre-elecon if Democrats win the suit.

I mean, our goal is to have acandidate so we can have a discussionabout the issues. I mean, the citys intough shape. Whether its nancially,whether its the increase in crime,whether its the school district, the cityhas very tough issues, said Dadey.

Democrac challenger Pat Hogan issteering clear of the lawsuit, althoughhes made it clear that hes not in favorof the ordeal.

The mayor, being the state partyboss, instructed one of her vassals,the county boss, to do what bossesdo. Find legal means, I guess, to denythe cizens of the city of Syracuse anactual chance to vote in November,Hogan said.

Hogan will be challenging Miner nextweek during the Democrac primaryand denies the rumor that a deal hasbeen made where the RepublicanParty will endorse Hogan when theprimaries are over.

Republicans, like Democrats, arenot above taking an issue to court.Republican Ian Hunter was removedfrom the ballot by ruling of a judgeaer the Republican commieeclaimed Hunter didnt meet state law

requirements with his peons.

Hunter will be the Conservave Partycandidate in November.

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BRADLEY KLAPPER and JULIE PACE

WASHINGTON (AP) - In an impassioned

appeal for support both at home andabroad, President Barack Obamasaid Wednesday the credibility of theinternaonal community and Congressis on the line in the debate over how torespond to the alleged use of chemicalweapons in Syria. As Obama made hiscase overseas during a visit to Sweden,his appeal for military intervenon raninto trouble on Capitol Hill.

The Senate Foreign RelaonsCommiee delayed its public meengand remained huddled in privateaer Sen. John McCain, an outspokenadvocate of intervenon, said he didnot support the latest version of theSenate resoluon to authorize military

force. The Arizona Republican saidhe wants more than cruise missilestrikes and other limited acon. Thecommiees plan to vote on theresoluon Wednesday was throwninto doubt.

On the other side of the Syria debate,Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said he wasnot persuaded to support militaryacon, saying the military has beendecimated by budget cuts andwere just not in a posion to takeon any major confrontaon. Inhofespoke as he emerged from a closed-door brieng of the Senate ArmedServices Commiee that lasted morethan two hours.

Obama, asked about his own pastcomments drawing a red line againstthe use of chemical weapons, said itwas a line that had rst been clearlydrawn by countries around the worldand by Congress, in rafying a treatythat bans the use of chemical weapons.

That wasnt something I just kind ofmade up, he said. I didnt pluck it outof thin air. Theres a reason for it.

Obama said that if the world failsto act, it will send a message thatdespots and authoritarian regimescan connue to act with impunity.

The moral thing to do is not to standby and do nothing, he declared ata news conference in Stockholmwith Swedish Prime Minister FredrikReinfeldt.

With Obama in Europe, the presidentstop naonal security aides werebrieng legislators in a series ofpublic and private hearings, hopingto advance their case for limitedstrikes against Syrian President BasharAssads regime in retaliaon for whatthe administraon says was a deadlysarin gas aack by his forces outsideDamascus last month.

The Senate Foreign Relaons

Commiees vote would be the rstin a series as the presidents requestmakes its way through Senate andHouse commiees before coming

before the two chambers for a nalvote. But with some senators sayingthe resoluon is too strong and others

believing it too weak, Sen. JohnBarrasso, R-Wyo., said a vote could bedelayed.

Aer brieng the commiee inprivate, Secretary of State John Kerrywas asked whether it was too soon fora vote, and said: You have to ask thegentlemen. We had a good meeng.

In an inial survey, the AP found 17senators supporng or leaning infavor of the resoluon approvinga U.S. military response in Syria,and 14 against or leaning against it.There were 69 senators who eithersaid they were undecided or whoseviews were unknown. Of those

supporng or leaning in favor of theresoluon, 13 were Democrats andfour were Republicans. Those againstor leaning against the resoluon were2 Democrats, 11 Republicans and oneindependent.

Sending a message to Congress fromafar, Obama insisted there was farmore than his own credibility at stake.

I didnt set a red line, the world set ared line, he said. The world set a redline when governments represenng98 percent of world populaon saidthe use of chemical weapons areabhorrent. He added that Congressset a red line when it raed that

treaty.

The Senate Foreign RelaonsCommiees top members draed aresoluon late Tuesday that permitsObama to order a limited andtailored military mission againstSyria, as long as it doesnt exceed 90days and involves no American troopson the ground for combat operaons.

We have pursued a course of aconthat gives the president the authorityhe needs to deploy force in responseto the Assad regimes criminal useof chemical weapons against theSyrian people, while assuring that theauthorizaon is narrow and focused,

said the commiees chairman, Sen.Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who draedthe measure with Sen. Bob Corkerof Tennessee, the panels seniorRepublican.

We have an obligaon to act,not witness and watch while ahumanitarian tragedy is unfolding inplain view, Menendez said.

Asked whether he would take aconagainst Syria if he fails to get approvalfrom Congress, the president saidhis request to lawmakers was notan empty exercise, but that ascommander in chief, I always preservethe right and the responsibility to

act on behalf of Americas naonalsecurity.

To get a green light from Congress,

Obama needs to persuade aRepublican-dominated House thathas opposed almost the enrety of

Obamas agenda since seizing themajority more than three years ago.Several conservave Republicans andsome an-war Democrats alreadyhave come out in opposion toObamas plans, even as Republicanand Democrac House leaders gavetheir support to the president Tuesday.

House Foreign Aairs CommieeChairman Ed Royce, R-Cal., said thatwhile it would be important to deterthe use of chemical weapons by Assadand others, there remained manyunanswered quesons, including whatthe U.S. would do if Assad retaliated toan American aack.

The administraons Syria policydoesnt build condence, Royce saidin his prepared remarks.

The audience at the House ForeignAairs Commiee hearing includedseveral people wearing signs opposingU.S. acon against Syria and who hadcolored the palms of their hands red.

House Speaker John Boehner emergedfrom a meeng at the White Houseand declared that the U.S. hasenemies around the world that needto understand that were not going totolerate this type of behavior. We alsohave allies around the world and alliesin the region who also need to know

that America will be there and standup when its necessary.

Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majorityleader, also backed acon. But heacknowledged the split posionsamong both pares and said it wasup to Obama to make the case toCongress and to the American peoplethat this is the right course of acon.

Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hageland the chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofSta, Gen. Marn Dempsey, made thatargument before the House ForeignAairs panel. They and other senioradministraon ocials also providedclassied briengs to the Senate

Foreign Relaons and Armed Servicescommiees.

In prepared tesmony for the Housecommiee, Kerry told lawmakers thatthe world is watching not just to seewhat we decide. It is watching to seehow we make this decision - whether inthis dangerous world we can sll makeour government speak with one voice.Hagel, in his prepared text, secondedObamas warnings about the potenalscope of danger from failing to upholdinternaonal standards, saying arefusal to act would underminethe credibility of Americas othersecurity commitments - including thepresidents commitment to prevent

Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Obama, who arrived in Stockholm earlyWednesday, was hoping to maintain

the momentum toward congressionalapproval that he has generated sinceSaturday, when he announced he

would ask lawmakers to authorizewhat unl then had appeared to beimminent military acon against Syria.

On Monday, the president metprivately at the White House withthe Senates two leading Republicanhawks, McCain and Lindsey Grahamof South Carolina, and persuadedthem to support his plans for anintervenon on condion that he alsoseek to aid the Syrian rebels seeking tooust Assad.

A day later, he sat down with Boehner,Cantor and several other seniorlawmakers to make a similar case thatAssad must be punished for breaching

the nearly century-old internaonaltaboo of using chemical weapons.Aer gaining signicant support,Kerry, Hagel and Dempsey appearedto get the backing of most senators atTuesdays hearing.

However, even proponents of militaryacon urged Obama to do more to sellhis plans to an American public that ishighly skepcal aer a decade of warin Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama, who will travel from Swedenscapital to an economic summit in St.Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, haslile internaonal support for aconright now. Among major allies, only

France has oered publicly to jointhe United States in a strike, althoughPresident Francois Hollande says hellawait Congress decision.

Obama had canceled a one-on-onemeeng in Moscow with RussianPresident Vladimir Pun amid tensionsover Russias granng of asylumto Naonal Security Agency leakerEdward Snowden.

In a wide-ranging interview Tuesdaywith The Associated Press, Punexpressed hope that the two wouldhave serious discussions about Syriaand other issues in St. Petersburg. Punhas warned the West against taking

one-sided acon in Syria but also saidRussia doesnt exclude suppornga U.N. resoluon on punive militarystrikes if it is proved that Damascusused poison gas on its own people.

Obama, for his part, said that he isalways hopeful that Pun will changehis posion on taking acon in Syria.

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Pace reported from Stockholm,Sweden. Associated Press writersDavid Espo, Josh Lederman, DonnaCassata, Alan Fram, Jennifer C. Kerrand Lolita C. Baldor contributed to thisreport.

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Study: Most states lack disaster plans for kidsWASHINGTON (AP) - Eight years after

Hurricane Katrina, most states still dont

require four basic safety plans to protect

children in school and child care from

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The group faulted 28 states and the

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Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois,

Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan,

Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada,

North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio,

Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode

Island, South Carolina, South Dakota,

Texas and Virginia.

Every workday, 68 million children are

separated from their parents, Carolyn

Miles, Save the Childrens president and

CEO, said in a statement with the groups

annual disaster report card. We owe it to

these children to protect them before the

next disaster strikes.

After Katrina exposed problems in

the nations disaster preparedness,

the presidentially appointed National

Commission on Children and Disaster

issued nal recommendations in 2010

.calling on the states to require K-12

schools to have comprehensive disaster

preparedness plans and child care centers

to have disaster plans for evacuation, family

reunication and special needs students.

Idaho, Iowa, Kansas and Michigan do

not require any of the four recommended

plans, the study found, while D.C. and the

remaining states each require one or more

of them.

The number of states meeting all four

standards has increased from four to 22

since 2008, the report said. The group

praised New Jersey, Tennessee, Nebraska

and Utah for taking steps over the past year

to meet all four standards.

Save the Children said it found gaps

in emergency preparedness during a

year when school shootings devastated

Newtown, Conn., Superstorm Sandy

wreaked havoc along the East Coast and

tornadoes ravaged Oklahoma.

Miles said such disasters should be a

wake-up call, but too many states wont

budge.

A spokeswoman for the National Governors

Association declined comment on the

report, referring questions to the various

states.


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10 www.cnyvision.com |september 5 - 11| 2013OPINION/EDITORIAL The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do notnecessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision

BENJAMIN JEALOUS

Three hundredyears beforea mulracialc o a l i t i o ns t o r m e dW a s h i n g t o n sNaonal Mallto demandequal rights andeconomic jusce,the working menof GloucesterCounty, Va.,

made a stand of their own based onclass, not race. We oen ask whetherMarn Luther King Jr. would recognizethe world in 2013, but it is equallyvalid to ask whether he would haverecognized the world of 1663, whenBlack and White children of slavesand servants did play together in thetobacco elds.

One of the forgoen landmarks of civilrights history occurred 350 years agoSunday: Sept. 1, 1663. This day marksthe rst recorded instance of Africanslaves and European indenturedservants standing together for jusceagainst the ruling elite.

The Gloucester County Conspiracytook place at a me when Virginiatobacco growers relied on bothslaves and indentured servants to

farm tobacco. Management treatedtheir workers with cruel abandon,regardless of color.

Unwilling to accept their fate, a groupof black and white workers met insecret to plan a revolt. Aer securingweapons and a drum, they wouldmarch from house to house unlthey reached the mansion of RoyalGovernor Sir William Berkeley. Theywould demand their freedom, andresort to force if necessary.

Though the plot failed, the landownersrecognized the power that theGloucester rebels possessed whenbanded together. Over the next severaldecades, they sought to breed racialcontempt between the white andblack members of the underclass. Onthe plantaon level, they gave whitesnominal control in the eld. On thecolony level, they allowed whites tojoin the milia and carry rearms. Ashistorian Edmund Morgan writes, thelandowners used racism as a devicefor control.

On this 350th anniversary, theGloucester rebellion can teach usas much about our character as theMarch on Washington.

The rebels in Gloucester recognized

what King memorialized in his famousremarks: we are, by our nature,capable of great things when we judgeone another solely on the content ofour character, not by the color of ourskin.

The original state of race relaons inAmerica is one of shared struggle,not mutually assured destrucon. Itis ulmately the introducon of anoutside variable - money, power, orthe desire for control - that tends toalter that natural state.

It turns out that 2013 is a perfectyear for this lesson. The ght forvong rights is making its own 50thanniversary curtain call, in the form ofthe Supreme Courts decision in ShelbyCounty v. Holder and countless votersuppression laws that aect African-Americans but also Americans of allcolors, ages and incomes. The failedWar on Drugs connues to destroyfamilies in black inner city America,and, increasingly, white rural America.

Finally, 45 years aer King was killedin the midst of his Poor PeoplesCampaign, low-wage workers of allhues are organizing across geographicand demographic lines to demand ahigher minimum wage.

Polics is a lot like physics. For everyacon, there is an equal and oppositereacon, and objects in mooneventually return to their originalstate. As we tackle these challenges,let us consider that the original stateof race relaons in America may beone of unity - and that the possibilityof moving beyond our naons legacyof racism is obtainable.

In his 1869 speech Our CompositeNaonality, Frederick Douglasswrote about the unique phenomenonand mission of America. On thisanniversary, let us remember hiswords: Our geographical posion,our relaon to the outside world, ourfundamental principles of Government... our vast resources, requiring allmanner of labor to develop them,and our already exisng compositepopulaon, all conspire to one grandend, and that is to make us the mostperfect naonal illustraon of theunity and dignity of the human family,that the world has ever seen.

------------------------Benjamin Todd Jealous is the presidentand CEO of the naonal NAACP.

Gloucesters Rebellion: Another Lesson About Our Character

Within momentsaer PresidentObama bluntlyindicated that hewas ready andwilling to strikeSyrian PresidentBashar al-Assadsforces for itsalleged masschemical aackon civilians,

dozens of themost liberal

House Democrats signed a leerwarning him to tread very carefullyon any Syrian acon. Their messagewas cauous, genle, and diplomac.The implicaon behind it was that anObama administraon strike againstSyria carried grave polical risks. Onerisk was obvious. And that is that withor without Congresss authorizaon,waging war against a naon that hasnot directly aacked or poses anydirect threat to the United States againtags the U.S. as the dreaded, and in

the Middle East, hated aggressor andbully.

Obama was mindful of this risk whenhe early on ignored GOP war hawksand did not rush headlong into anaack on the country without clear andveriable evidence that Assads hardwar against rebel facons threatenedU.S. and allied interests in the area.He ignored the GOP hawks againwhen he tossed the ball to Congress

to make the decision whether to strikeand what the parameters of the strikeobjecves should be.

The unstated risk was hopelesslyalienang his most impassionedsupporters while giving his inveterateGOP detractors another card to playagainst him. The even more long-range polical peril is to further taintDemocrats in the eyes of liberals andprogressives as a party that is just aswilling to wage war as the GOP. Allthree are important consideraonsfor Obama. They take on even more

signicance given that polls showAmericans overwhelmingly opposeany involvement in Syria, masses ofdemonstrators have already takento the streets in protest of a strike,and some Tea Party-aliated GOPcongressional reps have screamedloudly against the war drums. AndGOP Senate war hawks want nothingless than an all-out aack to removethe Assad regime.

The threat of an acve and passivedri of progressives away from a full-throated support of his policies hasbeen building for some me with deepquesons on everything from thecompromises hes made on health carereform to the perceived over cateringto Wall Street interests. The hardreality, though, is that Obama needsliberal Democrats and progressivesin Congress and in the eld to sellhis iniaves on immigraon reform,jobs and the economy, the loomingshowdown with the GOP over thebudget, and his sta and judicial

appointments. Red dog Democrats,bankers, corporate CEOs and lobbyistscant and wont put the passion, energyand, most importantly, the bodies outthere to do the grunt polical work toback him and to spearhead the toughbale many Democrats face to keeptheir seats in the House and Senate in2014.

There were 120 million voters in 2012.The Congressional Black Caucus,

the Hispanic Congressional Caucus,and the Progressive DemocracCaucus, the third pares, le-leaninglabor unions, and le independentstogether represent an esmated 10 to15 percent of the overall vote. Thats12 to 15 million voters. However, itsnot just the numbers. Its also wherethe numbers are. The bulk of thevoters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, NorthCarolina and Florida tradionallyare Republican, independents,and moderate and conservaveDemocrats. With the excepon ofPennsylvania, Bush won these states

EARL HUTCHINSON

President Obamas Syria Strike Poses Major Challenge to Backers

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(TriceEdneyWire.com) Standingin the very spot

where Dr. MarnLuther King Jr.stood 50 yearsbefore, PresidentBarack Obama Americas rstBlack President,challenged thenaon to take alesson from the

past and keep marching.

Because they kept marching, Americachanged. Because they marched, aCivil Rights law was passed. Becausethey marched, a Vong Rights law wassigned. Because they marched, doorsof opportunity and educaon swung

open so their daughters and sons couldnally imagine a life for themselvesbeyond washing somebody elseslaundry or shining somebody elsesshoes. Because they marched, citycouncils changed and state legislatureschanged, and Congress changed, and,yes, eventually, the White Housechanged, he said to enthusiascapplause.

It was the Let Freedom RingCeremony, commemorang the50th Anniversary of the March onWashington for Jobs and Freedom.The drizzly Aug. 28 day did not deterthousands from coming to witnessthe event. The crowd of people lined

the mall from the Lincoln Memorial,where King spoke in 1963, aroundthe Tidal Basin and almost back tothe Washington Monument. In fact,hundreds le the event aer standingin line for hours due to a boleneck atsecurity gates for the event that wasbilled as free and open to the public.

But for the thousands that remained,channg and cheering from whatseemed like miles away, President

Obama exhorted them to march in anew way.

That reless teacher who gets toclass early and stays late and dipsinto her own pocket to buy suppliesbecause she believes that every childis her charge - shes marching. Thatsuccessful businessman who doesnthave to but pays his workers a fairwage and then oers a shot to a man,maybe an ex-con who is down on hisluck - hes marching.

The mother who pours her love intoher daughter so that she grows upwith the condence to walk throughthe same door as anybodys son - shesmarching. The father who realizes themost important job hell ever have israising his boy right, even if he didnt

have a father - especially if he didnthave a father at home - hes marching.The bale-scarred veterans whodevote themselves not only to helpingtheir fellow warriors stand again, andwalk again, and run again, but to keepserving their country when they comehome - they are marching, he said toapplause.

Facing new inequies in America,President Obama did not shy awayfrom the realies of the moment.

Inequality has steadily risen overthe decades. Upward mobilityhas become harder. In too manycommunies across this country, in

cies and suburbs and rural hamlets,the shadow of poverty casts a pallover our youth, their lives a fortress ofsubstandard schools and diminishedprospects, inadequate health care andperennial violence, he said.

Yes, there have been examples ofsuccess within Black America thatwould have been unimaginable ahalf century agoBut, as has alreadybeen noted, Black unemployment

has remained almost twice as highas White unemployment, Lanounemployment close behind. The

gap in wealth between races has notlessened, its grown. And as PresidentClinton indicated, the posion of allworking Americans, regardless ofcolor, has eroded, making the dreamDr. King described even more elusive.

Three presidents Obama, Bill Clintonand Jimmy Carter addressed thecrowd, in addion to luminaries thatincluded Oprah Winfrey, Marn LutherKing III, the Rev. Bernice King andCongressman John Lewis.

With the Trayvon Marn case sllheavy on the minds of jusce-seekers,Clinton stressed that Dr. King, urgedthe vicms of racial violence to meet

White Americans with an outstretchedhand; not a clinched st. And in sodoing, proved the redeeming power ofunearned suering.

President Carter drew applausefrom the crowd when he pointed tothe inequies of the criminal juscesystem. There are more than 835,000African-American men in prison, vemes as many as when I le oce. Andwith one third of all African-Americanmales being desned to be in prisonin our lifeme, there is a tremendousagenda ahead of us, Carter said.

Rev. Bernice King, with the intensecadence of her father, delivered a

ery speech, also outlining the grossinjusces of 2013.

We come once again to let freedomring. Because if freedom stops ringing,then the sound will disappear andthe atmosphere will be charged withsomething else, she said. We aresll crippled by pracces and policiessteeped in racial pride, hatred andhoslity, some of which have usstanding our ground rather than

nding common ground. We are sllchained by economic disparity, incomeand class inequality and condions of

poverty for many of Gods childrenaround this naon and the world.We are sll bound by civil unrest andapparent social biases in a world thatoen mes degenerates into violenceand destrucon; especially againstwomen and children. We are at thislanding, and now we must break thecycle, she said. The Prot King spokethe vision. He made it plain. And wemust run with it in this generaon.

The chiming of a bell at exactly 3 p.m.was intended to mark the momentthat Dr. King proclaimed the words,Let Freedom Ring!...From EveryMountain Side, Let Freedom Ring!

President Obama, the nal speaker,encouraged the naon that if theyconnue to march not just in thestreets, but in the ways he outlined change will be inevitable.

America, I know the road will be long,but I know we can get there. Yes, wewill stumble, but I know well get backup. Thats how a movement happens.Thats how history bends. Thats howwhen somebody is faint of heart,somebody else brings them alongand says, come on, were marching,he said. We might not face thesame dangers of 1963, but the erceurgency of now remains. We maynever duplicate the swelling crowds

and dazzling procession of that dayso long ago - no one can match Kingsbrilliance - but the same ame thatlit the heart of all who are willing totake a rst step for jusce, I know thatame remains.

OPINION/EDITORIALThe views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do notnecessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision

HAzEL TRICE EDNEY

President Obama Challenges America: Keep Marching

in 2000 and 2004, and bagged theWhite House. Obama did not changethe voter demographic in these states.He did, however, drascally rev upthe numbers of black, Lano, andyouth voters, generally more sociallyand polically progressive, and self-designated progressive voters thatturned out. This made the crucialdierence and cinched his wins, aswell as that of many House and SenateDemocrats.

Liberal Democrats and progressiveswithin and without Congress haverepeatedly reminded Obama toremember the promises he made on

Iraq and Afghanistan. In the case ofIraq, he blasted it as a failed and awedwar that should never have beenfought. He promised that as presidenthe would move as quickly as possibleto end it. He kept that promise. Asfor Afghanistan, he escalated thewar, but there was always the explicitunderstanding that the establishedmetable for phased withdrawalwould be kept and there would bean actual end to direct U.S. militaryinvolvement in the country. Hes keptthat promise.

Though Obama has taken much heatfrom the le for his willingness to play

the tough guy on defense and naonalsecurity issues, the truth is that he hasmoved with far more apparent cauonon these issues than crics claim. TheSyrian strike threat is again the bestexample. Obama has made it clearthere will not be direct U.S. militaryinvolvement. This is an easy call sincefew Americans will back that anyway.Hes hedged on when the threatenedmissile strikes against Syria will occur,saying that theres no set metablefor the launch if Congress approvesacon.

This is Obamas nod to his backerswho oppose any acon against the

country, or demand the most limitedacon possible to insure no repeat ofanther Iraq and Afghanistan quagmire.Obamas challenge is to assure them aSyria strike wont lead to that.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an authorand polical analyst. He is a frequentMSNBC contributor. He is an associateeditor of New America Media. He isa weekly co-host of the Al SharptonShow on American Urban RadioNetwork. He is the host of the weeklyHutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AMRadio Los Angeles and KPFK-Radio andthe Pacica Network.

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