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CONCERT IN TRIBUTE OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2001 Rutgers University Campus Camden Annoucement |
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Councilman Israel Nieves pointed out, in his letter denouncing the "Camden Purchase", that "While I recognize that our City benefits by the significant infusion of capital dollars in the proposed legislation, I must strongly object to the degree to which Camden's neighborhoods are overlooked. If you ask any resident of our City, they will tell you that crime and drugs and the overall quality of life in our neighborhoods is the biggest problem which confronts our City. Yet this legislation provides funding to expand the Aquarium and to beautify the downtown area..without providing any real positive impact in our neighborhoods." The economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche, who opposes the Camden takeover, says. "The fundamental principle of a Republican form of government as opposed to a government which is owned by some person or class of people, is that the only legitimate authority of government to exist, is its authority and responsibility for the promotion of the General Welfare of all living persons and their posterity." The citizens must ally across ethnic divisions, and meet the attempt to impose dictatorship head on. How far is your opposition prepared to go, if you don't? What does this have to do with Camden? In February 1992, Dr.Frederick Goodwin of the NIMH, gave a speech to the National Advisory Mental Health Council, comparing people in the inner city to monkeys in a jungle. "If you look, for example, at male monkeys...roughly half of them survive to adulthood. the other half die by violence. The is the natural way of it for males, to knock each other off...the same hyper-aggressive monkeys who kill each other are also hypersexual. ... Now, one could say that...some of the loss of structure in this society, and particularly in the high impact inner city areas, has removed some of the civilizing evolutionary things that we have built up and that maybe it isn't just careless use of the word when people call certain areas of certain cities jungles, that we may have gone back to what is more natural... " What does this have to do with Camden? Hopefully, your response to all of this is, "We are not animals. We are not slaves; we are citizens." Are you prepared to convince the rest of your fellow citizens of that? We need to rally Camden citizens in the spirit of Martin Luther King's Civil Rights movement. Our citizens must free themselves from the self-destructive, suicidal passivity that justifies the blatant disregard for their humanity, that the "city takeover scam-artists" show. They require a morally uplifting experience, that re-affirms their humanity. Therefore, we are offering this Classical concert, consisting of African-American Spirituals and selections from the world's great music, as appropriate to strengthening the idea of Human Dignity, so denied to the citizens of Camden by the evil-doers that believe they "know what's best for the natives". Camden--"keep your hand on the plow" and hold on to your Freedom!!! |
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