Greetings Arlene Johnson:
My name is Hasaan B. Shakoor aka Derricc Frazier #999284. I read your message and I am emailing you to respond to this message. Ma'am we fight along the same lines. After reading your message over and over again, I have come to the conclusion that I want to get involved in getting the message out with you. I am the founder and editor of a newsletter called Operation L.I.F.E. I am also a death row prisoner accused of a crime that is evident that I didn't commit. I became a voice of such magnitude because people don't really know what goes on over here and with all that's being staged, this situation that is of death row is being ignored. America is at this very moment repeating what it did over 400 hundred years ago. If you recall when my African ancestors were brought over to this land that we now call the land of the free and home of the brave, the boat stopped at a particular point. This stop was made to basically break my people of all culture they had before coming to the States. They had their heads shaved along with their heritage stripped away. Those that resisted were either left there or sent over to South America. Do you know this place? It is called today Guantanamo bay! Yes, this is the same place where people from the east are taken and made to shave their faces and they are basically being treated the same way we were over 400 years ago. History repeats itself in many ways. Blacks were slaughtered and murdered as well. Take for example, John Brown and the Harpers Ferry raid! Being that people don't want to pay you any attention, I believe that if we band together and push each other, we will be too loud for others not to hear what's being said! I want to help you and you help me as well. We could make a difference if we only try. I am amazed at what you are doing and I am proud all at the same time for I see that I am not the only one that's fighting this fight and taking action instead of just talking about it. This email address is a direct email so you contact me here or you can write me direct at:
Hasaan Baz'il Shakoor
[Derricc Frazier #999284]
12002 FM 350 South
Livingston, TX 77351 U. S. A.
This is how to contact me by mail. I believe in what you are doing and I want to support it by putting it in my newsletter each month the things that you are doing. At the moment, my newsletter is on the internet. I pull it up and make copies and give it to people. Being that I don't have financial support at all, I stopped doing that because I need help running this thing to be able to do that. But I plan on starting that back up soon. But I am in several countries and several people do read my work and have seen my work on numerous occasions. We could work well together. I am just here in this cage trying to win my life back so I must continue to fight and try to band with as many people possible to insure that this will continue. If you want to, please contact me and let me know what are your thoughts on my offer. I really do look forward to hearing from you soon. Hopefully things will be a lot smoother for me soon and I can be able to do more work. Take care and you are correct, peace begins with you, but to achieve it, it begins with us all.
Hasaan
Operation L.I.F.E.
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I have read some kooky stuff, but your take on 9-11 takes the cake :)Frontiers of Freedom Email: freedom@ff.org
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Dear Arlene,You might be happy to know that I have forwarded your email about the good work that you do to a 'net friend abroad who is politically-minded with a lot of connections to others like him both here & abroad. Hopefully that got you or will get you more subscribers & hits to your website. I'll send this one you just sent me to someone else I now know too.
I know that people are rather commonly not in their own best interest, & frankly, I don't understand it either. Those kind of people I don't respect one iota. I could never be that way. Yes, it's only a matter of time that they'll remember what you said & finally believe you & it'll be too late for them. That's their own fault. I'd hate to be them.
But, at least you can say that you've done your job. You've got your priorities straight -- you know what matters & you live like it. Be proud of that!!!
Take care,
Lisa Ann Tyree, (CMA)
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Dear Arlene,I hope you are doing fine.
I agree with you 100%. The USA is indeed, the world's leading terrorist outfit on the planet.
Please don't forget the wipe out of the Amercian Indians and the 300 year "legal" enslavement of black people, the brutal invasion of Panama and Grenada, the slaughter of of yellow people in Southeast Asia, and the two, not one, but two atom bombs on defenseless Japan. The USA opened and started the nuclear age and arms race. We have never been the same since.
Keep speaking and spreading your truth.
Bye for now. And take care.
Love you!
T. Berry
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Thanks for all of your work. We are all grains of sand doing whatever we can to make a difference.:)
Brian
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Hi Arlene,Yes, I will be more than happy to promote your site. I checked it out and was pretty impressed with the amount of work put into the site, and the content as well.
I can add a banner for your site at the bottom of RamallahOnline, as a I offer free advertisement to sites devoted to the Palestinian cause.
I can also post a small article about the site, that will add it more to people's awareness.
Why do you require a password for logging into the magazine section?
Nick
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THANK YOU, YOU HAVE REALLY GIVEN ME A LOT TO THINK ABOUT. YES, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE DRUG LAWS AND SOON I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT IT. AFTER READING MY E-MAIL I FELT GUILTY. IT HELPS TO REMEMBER THAT THERE IS SOMEONE WORSE OFF THAN I AM. I WILL SAY THAT NO MATTER WHAT, GOD IS IN CONTROL!! GOD DOES GIVE US COMMON SENSE TO TRY TO HELP OURSELVES. HE ALSO GAVE US PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO HELP US WHEN WE FELT THAT WE HAD LOST OUR WAY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!SANDRA PETTY
USA
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Dear Arlene,Just discovered your magazine through "ReportersNotebook." I agree with what I have seen so far. America is not what it seems to be. We are constantly manipulated by the media -- the "dumbing down" of America over the years has finally served its purpose when people cannot think for themselves and can only shout "nuke 'em!" after seeking inspiration from Geraldo on FoxNews.
I noticed your photographs, but can't find info on them -- it certainly looks like Buenos Aires. What is your connection with Argentina?
Best of luck and my regards,
Yolanda
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503-465-8027
503-491-4725 Fax
Yolanda@attglobal.netEditor's note: The photographs in the Winter, 2001 edition are of Buenos Aires, taken in 1995 when I was there doing research. The photograph of the Muslim woman in that same edition was taken in Philadelphia after I took the picture of the Liberty Bell.
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Hi Arlene,W. D. Smith & the regime-at-large can never truthfully deny that the consciences didn't bother them in the wake of your great letter of December 26, 2000. I've just been looking over that again, admiring and appreciating your efforts. It was only two months after WD40 Smith got that letter that, against his wishes & decree, I was released from the CM torture chamber.
We're having Seattle weather today.
Three months after being released from CM at Taylor prison I was transferred to the Century school of piranha. Six months of that nearly stressed me out. Litigation finally persuaded Century Medical staff to send me over here t Lake Butler for a GI consult. So I'm waiting for them to render medical treatment. Hopefully the delays won't result in irreversible or permanent harm.
You may remember that I was on CM at Taylor because of a shank setup by guards 2 years ago. The lasting consequence has been delayed/denied interstate transfer previously earned & approved.
On 1-11-02, agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement came to visit, with agents from the Inspector General's office (an FDC arm, or strong arm). They said Missouri has already agreed to accept me. If I'm sent to Missouri will I stop pressing for prosecution of the criminal guards? Sure, vengeance isn't part of my agenda. I only want to stop being victimized by being kept in floriduh where I can never see my family.
So I think they'll finally be able to work this out.
You know how those "whatever became of..." stories go? I just want to give you this update because you really exerted yourself on my behalf, & I am grateful.
I wish you everything good. Take care.
Gerald
Editor's note: Gerald is a prisoner in Florida I was able to help over a situation in which he was accused of false allegations.
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Arlene,
Please keep it up. You are doing a great job and I mean it!!! We read your magazines:)
Chifu
Kenya
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ArleneRead it. Good stuff!
At www.gregpalast.com/ you can read and subscribe to Greg Palast's London Observer columns and view his reports for BBC Television's Newsnight. Pluto Press will release Palast's book, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," in March in the US and in April in Britain.
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