Sedition. Meaning crystal clear.

 Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or insurrection against, established authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel.

https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/sedition.html

Sedition

By FindLaw Staff | Reviewed by Maddy Teka, Esq. | Last updated January 08, 2021

Suppose that over the course of a few months, a small band of armed militants has coordinated strategies to distribute firearms and take over the nation's capital by force through a website on the clandestine "deep web." All indications show that the group is dead serious in its intentions, but they're thwarted by an FBI investigation that leads to arrests. While sharing information and discussing ideas -- even distasteful ones -- is generally protected as free speech, the FBI believes this crosses the line. The alleged ringleaders of the plot are charged with "seditious conspiracy" (simply referred to as "sedition"), a federal crime related to treason and other anti-government offenses.

Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it. The following provides an overview of this particular crime against the government, with historical references.

Seditious Conspiracy and Federal Law: The Basics

The federal law against seditious conspiracy can be found in Title 18 of the U.S. Code (which includes treason, rebellion, and similar offenses), specifically 18 U.S.C. § 2384. According to the statutory definition of sedition, it is a crime for two or more people within the jurisdiction of the United States:

• To conspire to overthrow or destroy by force the government of the United States or to level war against them;
• To oppose by force the authority of the United States government; to prevent, hinder, or delay by force the execution of any law of the United States; or
• To take, seize, or possess by force any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof.

Free Speech, Sedition, and Treason

In order to get a conviction for seditious conspiracy, the government must prove that the defendant in fact conspired to use force. Simply advocating for the use of force is not the same thing and in most cases is protected as free speech under the First Amendment. For example, two or more people who give public speeches suggesting the need for a total revolution "by any means necessary" have not necessarily conspired to overthrow the government. Rather, they're just sharing their opinions, however unsavory. But actively planning such an action (distributing guns, working out the logistics of an attack, actively opposing lawful authority, etc.) could be considered a seditious conspiracy.

Ultimately, the goal is to prevent threats against the United States while protecting individuals' First Amendment rights, which isn't always such a clear distinction.

Why service members charged in the Capitol riot are staying in uniform — for now. May 2021

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/05/22/military-capitol-riot/

By 

Alex Horton

May 22, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Within days of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, some people who participated were fired from their jobs when images showing them storming the building appeared online.

But the process is playing out differently for service members charged in the riot.

Commanders are waiting for legal proceedings at the Justice Department before they make administrative decisions for charged troops, defense officials have said.

At least five service members face federal charges for allegedly participating: an active-duty Marine Corps officer who was arrested last week, two part-time soldiers in the Army Reserve and two in the National Guard.

Their charges include assaulting federal police, violent entry and disorderly conduct at the Capitol.

“The harm is against the civilian government. The civilian government should be prosecuting it,” said Rachel E. VanLandingham, a former Air Force lawyer and president of the National Institute of Military Justice, a nonprofit focused on military law issues.

Read the Full Article at:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/05/22/military-capitol-riot/

Reality.....Keeper of the Flame.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eq2YoBlYDc

Water Security. Watch "How to Fix Chennai's Water Crisis"

 

https://youtu.be/SqwPupYwb_w 

Food Insecurity. Nationwide Drive Launched to Get 200 Congressional Signers in 10 Days on Bipartisan Senate Letter About Food Crisis

Opportunities arise before the crisis of no return strikes

BEMA International

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer"

 

For Immediate Release May 20, 2021

 

R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com   View and share this news release on Facebook here or view the web version here.

 

Nationwide Drive Launched to Get 200 Congressional Signers in 10 Days on Bipartisan Senate Letter About Food Crisis

 

 

Billings, Mont. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) and U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) called attention to a food crisis in America. In a comprehensive bipartisan letter, the senators succinctly described the anatomy of the nation’s food crisis marked by consumers paying an unnecessary, over-inflated price for beef in the store while the nation’s cattle ranchers and farmers are on the verge of going broke. The letter explains that if Congress does not take immediate action, current policies will “cause the demise of the American rancher and American consumers will be forced to pay a higher price for a much lower quality product.” The letter attributes the crisis to a failed marketing structure in which the middlemen have a stranglehold over both consumers and ranchers. Following a Facebook Live event held yesterday, the ranch group R-CALF USA launched an urgent, nationwide drive to get 200 members of Congress, from both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, to join with Senators Rounds and Smith by adding their name to the bipartisan letter within the next 10 days. “The most important step consumers and cattle producers can do today is to share this senate letter with their own senators and representative and get them to sign on,” said Brett Kenzy, a rancher and director of R-CALF USA. Kenzy said there have been many joint letters circulated by Congress, but not since the passage of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 – exactly 100 years ago – has there been a more important letter than this one. “This letter describes the crisis so clearly that representatives of both consumers and ranchers will immediately understand that they must join the bipartisan letter to reverse the crisis before it gets any worse.” Kenzy said he encourages every consumer and every cattle producer to put this bipartisan letter into the hands of each of their congressional members and to get their commitment to put an end to this serious crisis that affects everyone. Congressional members can join the letter by contacting the office of either Rounds or Smith. The public can check to see if their members of Congress have joined the bipartisan letter by going to the R-CALF USA Website at www.r-calfusa.com, which will be updated daily.

 

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R-CALF USA (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America) is the largest producer-only lobbying and trade association representing U.S. cattle producers. It is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the continued profitability and viability of the U.S. cattle industry. Visit www.r-calfusa.com or, call 406-252-2516 for more information.

 

Woody Strode. Black Actor should be recognized for his achievements. May 2021

 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Woody-Strode

Woody Strode, byname of Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode, (born July 28, 1914, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died December 31, 1994, Glendora, California), American character actor who was part of director John Ford’s "family" of actors, appearing in nearly a dozen of Ford’s films. Strode also had a brief career as a professional gridiron football player and was among the first African Americans to play in the National Football League.

While a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, Strode starred on the football team along with two other African American players, Jackie Robinson and Kenny Washington. In 1946 Strode and Washington signed with the Los Angeles Rams, thus (along with two others) integrating professional football in the United States. After a single season with the Rams, Strode played football in Canada and also did a stint as a professional wrestler. He made his film debut in Sundown in 1941, but it was not until the 1950s that he worked regularly in the movie industry. He appeared as the king of Ethiopia in The Ten Commandments (1956). He also gave memorable performances in Spartacus (1960) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), as well as the Ford-directed films Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Two Rode Together (1961), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). In Sergeant Rutledge Strode played the lead role of a cavalry officer wrongly accused of rape and murder. In 1968 he starred in Black Jesus, an Italian production of a story based on the life of African nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba.

Put simply: The cure for homelessness is a home. Opinion: D.C. has the resources and the know-how to ensure nobody else lives (or dies) without housing

 Homelessness can end in all major cities with a systematic approach.  One of the key features when disasters strike, and homeless can be considered a national\global disaster is to provide shelter, water, and food during recovery. 

Homelessness is an end result of individuals and families in a phase of recovery.  From domestic violence, financial recovery, mental & physical health recovery, drug recovery, loss of family member, a disability or functional need, retirement, and aging.

 Displacement of the most vulnerable.  Women and girls.

BEMA International

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/14/dc-chronic-homelessness-bowser-housing/ Opinion: D.C. has the resources and the know-how to ensure nobody else lives (or dies) without housing Homeless people living in tents in the L Street NE tunnel in January 2020. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) Opinion by Christy Respress Christy Respress is executive director of Pathways to Housing DC. May 14, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. EDT   Though D.C. continues to make progress toward ending both family and veteran    homelessness, which have decreased significantly from prior years, the number of single adults experiencing chronic homelessness increased by an alarming 21 percent in the past year, according to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments’s annual report of homelessness in our region, which was released Wednesday. D.C. is to be applauded for having made significant investments over the years to end homelessness for families and veterans. Now we need to bring even greater focus, energy and financial resources toward ending chronic homelessness. The spike in chronic homelessness is distressing. Ending chronic homelessness is not only possible and cost-effective but also urgent. At least 180 people experiencing homelessness died in 2020. We can and must do better as a community and as a region. It’s time the city made big, bold investments to end homelessness for all residents. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has a crucial choice to make: Save lives by investing in housing or underinvest in the urgent housing needs of our unsheltered neighbors. D.C. has the resources and the know-how to ensure that nobody else lives (or dies) without housing. I’m thinking of Clemit Jones, one of 5,111 neighbors sleeping in shelters and designated pandemic sites, in parks, under bridges and in doorways the night of Jan. 27, when surveyors fanned out across D.C. to conduct the annual census, known as the Point-in-Time Count. (Though not perfect, the annual snapshot captures valuable data used to allocate funding and track progress). Jones’s life began to unravel in 2008 when he lost his job. For 13 years, he has bounced from place to place — couch surfing or sleeping outside the library, in parks, in a shelter or in his car. In December, he landed in the hospital with a blood clot, the result of sleeping for so many years in his car, doctors told him. Tests also revealed a previously undiagnosed heart condition. Back on the streets, he found life even more challenging during the pandemic. “There are so many things you take for granted when you have a home,” he says. Like sleeping in a bed. Or having access to a bathroom — something that has been much harder during the coronavirus pandemic. He is grateful for store owners who helped him when he hadn’t eaten for four or five days. Since introducing the Housing First approach to this region 17 years ago, Pathways to Housing DC has met thousands of people like Jones, men and women who have been homeless for a year or more (sometimes decades) who are living with challenging health conditions. Their lives might be complicated, but the solution is not: Provide them with housing first, then combine that permanent housing with supportive services in the areas of mental and physical health, substance use, education and employment. Put simply: The cure for homelessness is a home. The past year has reminded us not only how integral housing is to health but also that homelessness is caused by a persistent legacy of systemic racism, not personal failings. The annual Point-in-Time Count confirms what we know: People of color are disproportionally impacted. A staggering 86.5 percent of individuals experiencing homelessness in D.C. are Black. Centuries of racist policies have denied entire communities the ability to thrive. Against an ongoing backdrop of racial inequities and a looming eviction tsunami, and as a member of the Way Home Campaign, I call upon Bowser and the D.C. Council to follow through on the goal of making homelessness “rare, brief and nonrecurring” by ending chronic homelessness for 2,761 individuals and 432 families with an investment of $100 million. This figure is based on government and nonprofit projections of what it costs to house an individual in a given year. In addition, let’s invest in prevention and street outreach, in wide-scale rent and utility relief, the Local Rent Supplement Program and the Housing Production Trust Fund. Similar investments must be made by leaders across the region to ensure a more aggressive plan to end homelessness, address issues of racism and housing affordability, and ensure that no person experiences homelessness again. Let’s also use lessons of the past year to continue to find innovative solutions going forward. I’m thinking of virtual housing inspections and converting office space and hotels for housing, among other new approaches that eliminate barriers and add more housing options. In January, when Jones was released from the hospital, he was beginning to wonder whether he’d ever move off the streets. Yet, with the help of his Pathways housing navigator, he was recently approved for an apartment and expects to move into his own place by summer. I asked him what he is most looking forward to. “Stability. Solitude. A shower.” Not that long ago, individuals who had lived on the streets for years had little hope of living independently. Today, with targeted funding, ending homelessness is within our grasp.

GULLAH JUNETEENTH FREEDOM CELEBRATION. Saturday, June 19, 2021 12Noon - 3:00 PM.

 

You are invited to the following event: Gullah Juneteenth Freedom Celebration Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Saturday, June 19, 2021 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (EDT) Charleston Gardensboro Park 10 Wharfside Drive Charleston, SC 29401 View Map   Click here for Registration   Cum jayn de Gullah/Geechee Family Foundation fa "Gullah Juneteenth" een de Gullah/Geechee Nation. We gwine honor we ancestas. Share this event on Facebook and Twitter. We hope you can make it! Cheers, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition & All Mobile Productions™ (AMP™)

Linking Communities Globally. 2021 San Francisco Black Film Festival. June 10-June 13, 2021

San Francisco Black Film Festival

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San Francisco, CA 94115

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San Francisco Black Film Festival XXIII Fact Sheet

June 10-June 13, 2021

The San Francisco Black Film Festival is the brainchild of the late arts impresario Ave Montague.  It is a rare Black legacy organization in San Francisco as Kali O’Ray and Katerra Crossley, Montague’s son and daughter-in-law, became the directors in 2010. Due to the untimely demise of Kali O’Ray just three weeks before the entertainment industry lost Chadwick Boseman, the leadership now includes Cree Ray and Kali Ray, the children of Kali O’Ray who joins Katera Crossley to continue the legacy.  Annually more than 50 films are screened at various venues in San Francisco giving both the independent filmmaker and Hollywood actors and filmmakers an opportunity to interact and exchange ideas as the festival is a platform for thought provoking panels, parties and film showcases.

The Coronavirus Pandemic impacted the festival as all entertainment and most businesses were impacted.  Yet it did not stop the growth of the festival as Director Kali O’Ray gave blessings for publicist and community development director, Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises to initiate international projects with the Durban International Film Festival and Durban Film Mart.  The projects continue in the current year of the festival as it expands its vision to engage the worldwide African Diaspora.

The San Francisco Black Film Festival that delivered in the virtual space at the height of the pandemic will continue to do so with plans underway to include live events as the City of San Francisco allows for socially-distanced events.   

A characteristic of the San Francisco Black Film Festival has always been the family-friendly prices. The family-friendly priced tickets will be on sale in early June.  They can be found at the festival website: www.sfbff.org.  The San Francisco Black Film Festival is open to everyone.  It’s an opportunity for all multicultural Bay Area residents and visitors to San Francisco see the worldwide African Diaspora from an affirming perspective. The San Francisco Film Festival films and venues can be found at www.sfbff.org.  Family friendly priced tickets are $10-$50 (All Acess Festival Pass).

Community involvement is a mainstay of the San Francisco Black Film Festival which has given job training opportunities in the areas of event planning, customer service, public relations, writing, photography, social media and other life skills training.  Working with the National Coalition of 100 Black Women San Francisco Chapter’s Doris Ward Workforce Employment and Training Program, The San Francisco Black Film Festival has not only made a difference in the lives of hundreds of filmmakers, it has trained youth and trainsitioning adults for a better path to employment for the past three years.  The San Francisco Black Film Festival “Walks the Talk” as it is the change it wants to see when it comes to social justice.

The establishment of the Jeff Adachi Social Justice Award for filmmakers who embark on equity and equality themes in their films is just another indication of the San Francisco Black Film Festival being true to its core value of “Healing the World One Film at A Time.”                         

HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST FESTIVALS

San Francisco Black Film Festival & Durban South Africa 2020

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/521952379/sf-black-film-festival-xxii-virtually-possible-thru-august-30th-via-atlanta-ga-san-diego-ca-durban-south-africa

 

San Francisco Black Film Festival Promoted Equal Standard @DIFF

https://www.prlog.org/12838487-black-lives-matter-takes-stage-at-durban-international-film-festival-with-equal-standard.html

 

San Francisco Black Film Festival Jeff Adachi Media Briefing @ Cinemark 2019

https://www.prlog.org/12777045-view-films-screened-at-tribute-to-late-sf-public-defender-jeff-adachi-san-francisco-black-film-festival-xxi.html

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Don Cheadle's "Miles Ahead" 2018

https://www.prlog.org/12713223-san-francisco-black-film-festival-xx-june-14-17-just-the-facts-at-glance.html

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Danny Glover Headlines San Francisco Black Film Festival 2017
https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Danny-Glover-in-person-to-kick-off-SF-Black-Film-11217951.php#photo-13055093

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“Lambadina” Opening Night San Francisco Black Film Festival @ SF State University 2016

https://lca.sfsu.edu/events/2016-06-17-010000-2016-06-17-040000/814791

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“Restored Me” San Francisco Black Film Festival at AMC  1000 2016

https://youtu.be/sJGVk4AVUjU

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KPIX Interview with Mayor Willie Brown & Kevin Epps 2015- “America’s Still the Place” based on San Franciscan Charlie Walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDd9GUWhSU

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“America's Still the Place” Directed by Patrick Giles

http://sfbayview.com/2015/06/the-san-francisco-black-film-festival-enriched-thousands-of-moviegoers-left-them-eager-for-more/

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SF Black Film Festival at Dolby Laboratories 2014

Life of a King with Cuba Gooding Jr. & Dennis Haysbert
https://www.prlog.org/12333880

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NFL's Desean Jackson's Film/Media Briefing at Dolby Laboratories 2013

https://www.prlog.org/12154613

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Robert Townsend 2012
http://sfbayview.com/2012/06/champion-karim-mayfield-and-director-robert-townsend-bring-knockout-power-and-star-power-to-san-francisco-black-film-festival/

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Mario Van Peebles 2011
https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/strong-second-act/Content?oid=2181850

About San Francisco Black Film Festival

Ave Montague (1945-2009), arts impresario, fashion industry executive, publicist, founded the San Francisco Black Film Festival in 1998.   Montague created the San Francisco Black Film Festival, a 501c3 nonprofit, with the artistic vision to provide a platform for Black filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors to present their art. As a competitive film festival, SFBFF identifies filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors that are emerging as talents and established artists who are contributing to the cinematic legacy of African Americans. SFBFF conscientiously expands the notions of “Black film-making” to a global perspective. The organization is multicultural and inclusive of all in the expression of the African Diaspora experience.   The San Francisco Black Film Festival has screened more than 10,000 films from around the world.  Kali O’Ray (son of Ave Montague) and his wife Katera Crossley, both formerly of Atlanta, Georgia, co-directed The San Francisco Black Film Festival until O’Ray’s untimely death in August 2020.  Now the festival is directed with O’Ray’s children Cree Ray and Kali Ray.  

The Mission of the San Francisco Black Film Festival is to celebrate African American cinema and the African Cultural Diaspora and to showcase a diverse collection of films – from emerging and established filmmakers. This is accomplished by presenting Black films, which reinforce positive images and dispel negative stereotypes, and providing film artists from the Bay Area in particular and around the world in general, a forum for their work to be viewed and discussed.  The San Francisco Black Film Festival believes film can lead to a better understanding of and communication between, peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while simultaneously serving as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.  For more information about the San Francisco Black Film Festival visit www.sfbff.org.