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We the under signed ask Marian Wright Edleman to show her support for Barack Obama for president 2008. We also would appreciate Marian explaining why her husband resigned from Bill clintons cabinet and why on July 24th when Marian Spoke to Amy Goodman at democracynow.org she didn't eleborate further in her views of Hillary Clinton who proclaims to be the candidate for childrens right.
The following are a few articles explaining in some detail as to the clintons dealings with regards to Marian Wright Edleman.
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) was a lobbyist,
lawyer, civil rights activist who founded the
Children's Defense Fund in 1973 to advocate children's
rights.
Marian Wright Edelman was born in Bennetsville, South
Carolina, on June 6, 1939 and was named for the singer
Marian Anderson. She was the youngest of five children
born to Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola (Bowen)
Wright. She spent her early years in Bennettsville. It
was, as she described it, a small-town, socially
segregated childhood. She went to racially segregated
public schools, but excelled academically. She took
piano and voice lessons and became a drum majorette in
her high school band.
Beginnings of Her Advocacy
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
When Bill Clinton was elected U.S. president in 1992,
it was expected that Edelman, a friend and
intellectual soul mate to First Lady Hillary Clinton,
who had served as chairman of the CDF, would command a
level of attention within the new administration that
had been absent during the tenures of Presidents Bush
and Reagan. There were even rumors that she would join
the cabinet, bet she was quick to discount such
rumors. "I need to work outside government, on my
own," she said.
In 1992, Edelman and the CDF began its "Leave No Child
Behind" campaign. She estimated that it would cost as
much as $47 billion to fulfill all the goals of a
fully-funded Head Start, proper medical insurance for
all children and their pregnant mothers, vaccinations
for every child, and an expanded children's tax credit
for children. She tirelessly lobbies for these goals
because she believes that "Investing in [children] is
not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a
national necessity. If the foundation of your house is
crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it
while you're building astronomically expensive fences
to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not
are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now,
upfront, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later
on."
On June 1, 1996, Edelman and the CDF held their "Stand
For Children" in Washington, D.C. An estimated 200,000
supporters showed up to march in support of children
and the CDF's goals. Many of Edelman's critics had
previously criticized Edelman and her ideas as
outdated. But with the large support she received
during "Stand For Children," she demonstrated that she
and the CDF are still a force to contend with in
American politics.
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
Edelman has been widely recognized for her spirited
activity as a lobbyist for her causes. She lectures,
writes, and travels to convince others of the many
needs facing young people. She is the author of the
books, Families In Peril: An Agenda For Social Change
(1987); Portrait of Inequality: Black and White
Children in America (1990); The Measure of Our
Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours (1992); and
Guide My Feet: Meditations and Prayers on Loving and
Working for Children (1995). She is also the author of
several reports, and many articles in support of
children and her causes. All the while, she stressed
that she is a doer rather than a scholar. She believed
that problems must be broken down and a range of
strategies must be considered to achieve goals. She
was less interested in forming theories than "in
feeding, clothing, housing, and educating as many
American children as soon as possible." She was also
able to balance her hectic, social-oriented work with
the demands of a family.
In the same interview, Edelman also criticized the
welfare legislation that the Clinton administration
created. This legislation cut $54 billion from such
programs as food stamps and child and family
nutrition. "I'm not trying to defend the former
welfare system," Edelman said. "But I'm for ending
child poverty as we know it, not just for ending
welfare as we know it." The CDF developed a volunteer
program to document the effects of this legislation,
hoping to discover if those who left the welfare
program now had jobs, health care, and child care.
Edelman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the highest civilian honor in the country, in 2000.
President Bill Clinton, who presented the award,
compared Edelman to ground-breaking opera singer
Marian Anderson. "Like her namesake, Marian's voice is
always strong and true, singing that we are all
children of God and, therefore, must protect all our
children," Clinton was quoted as saying in Jet.
During her career, Marian Wright Edelman has appeared
in Mississippi jail cells, Capitol Hill offices, and
TV talk shows, with the same objective: to help poor
or disenfranchised U.S. citizens. Best known as the
founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund
(CDF), Edelman is a lawyer, lobbyist, author, and
mentor to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. HOWEVER
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211 But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_summit2007
2007 Cradle to Prison PipelineŽ
Crisis in America National Summit
The clinton years may have been good at the time but
the welfare to work bill never funding the mothers for
proper education and never funding the children for
proper child care and the 1994 clinton crime bill that
took away pell grants which lead from a 30% recidivism
rate to a much higher rate costing americans dearly as prisons were privatized and children were allowed to go wild due to mothers having to work two jobs at micky D's and now we pay 100k a yr to support these children in jails as bill never reduced crack cocaine which puts
them in jail longer and thusly we pay to keep them
there which has caused us all to be further in debt
and more kids killing others as they see no jobs
because their mothers never got educated and could be
examples to them.
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
""The Clinton "welfare reform" law mandates a
five-year cumulative lifetime cap on the benefits. You
are off the rolls forever. The "safety net" that
Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband worked so hard to
get into law has been torn apart by William Jefferson
Clinton%u2014to the applause of his wife""
AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard
Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the
board of the Children's Defense Fund, of the
organization that you founded. America's Cradle to
Prison PipelineSM This CDF report
documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an
urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty
and race that puts Black boys at a one in three
lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a
one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. Tens of
thousands of children and teens are sucked into the
Pipeline each year
etc
etc
etc
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_report2007&JServSessionIdr008=ywf26wlxm7.app5b
Oh yea thats right Bill Clinton passed the 1994 crime
bill that removed
pell grants for prisoners
Federal Crime Bill By Paul Wright
On September 13, 1994, Bill Clinton signed the final
version of the
crime
bill into law. The same week congress passed the crime
bill it also
passed
the "Bank Reform Bill." Included in this law is a
provision which will
prevent the government from pursuing negligence cases
against the
individuals who caused the collapse of the savings and
loan industry
(mainly by looting the institutions they were
entrusted to run or that
they owned). Thus, it is apparent that "crime" isn't
the issue, the
issue
is who steals what from whom. The mood of congress was
accurately
captured
by Senator Joe Biden, an admitted plagiarist, who said
"If someone came
to
the floor and said we should barb wire the ankles of
anyone who
jaywalks,
I think it would pass."
Officially titled the "Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of
1994," the final version of the bill is 120 pages
long. It contains
many
administrative amendments to existing laws,
clarifications, etc. in
addition to its substantive portions.
etc
This law abolished Pell grants for prisoners. The
federal Pell Grant
was
created in 1965 by Senator Claiborne Pell, D-RI, to
aid low income
students for college. The 1965 bill stated that no
qualifying low
income
persons would be excluded, prisoners were specifically
mentioned in the
bill and were intended to be included in the grant
program. Media
hypsters
insinuated that prisoners were taking advantage of the
opportunity for
Pell
Grants because of an oversight in the original Pell
Grant Bill that
failed
to specifically exclude them.
The $6.3 billion program is considered a
quasi-entitlement, says the
U.S.
Department of Education, and receives whatever funding
is necessary for
grants to all income eligible persons. Of that $6.3
billion in the most
recent fiscal year, a total of $35 million was
allotted for prisoners.
Most of that amount was in the form of federal aid
paid not directly to
individual prisoners, but in the form of payments to
state programs
designed to provide educational services to their
prison inmates. The
$35
million allotted to prisoners represents less than six
tenths of 1
percent
of the $6.3 billion total. Political rhetoric has
propelled the myth
that
the money wasted on prisoner Pell Grants will now be
used to provide
assistance to more worthy recipients in the community.
The truth of the
matter is that the $35 million saved won't stay in the
education
budget.
It will be retained by the U.S. Treasury (presumably
to help pay for
the
$9.8 billion earmarked for construction of more
prisons).
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.R.3355.ENR:)
Are The CLINTONS Too INVESTED In The PRISON INDUSTRY?
"Supreme court rules yesterday on Crack Cocaine
sentencing disparities"
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/danielleclarke/CBXf
The following is a list of links that explain the
truth of Bill and Hillary Clinton with regards to
their continued support for keeping people who use
Crack Cocaine in prisons.
Bill never would reduce the crack cocaine that was
asked for by many during his administration. Yesterday
the supreme court gave permission to judges to have
disgression in sentencing guidlines.
Clinton Signs Bill To Disapprove of Equalizing
Crack-Powder Cocaine Sentences
""at the NPR black brown forum""
With Her Eye On Nov. '08, Polls Dictate Clinton Crime
Policy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/with-her-eye-on-nov-08_b_75207.html
""When asked about her own policy,
"""Clinton said she agreed with the feds'
recommendation for equalizing the sentences,
but she opposed making the sentencing changes
retroactive"".
"I have problems with retroactivity," she said. "It's
something a lot of communities will be concerned about
as well."
Obama, Edwards, Richarson, Dodd, Kucinich said they
were in favor of the sentencing change being applied
to those already serving time.
IS THIS CHANGE???
..................................................
Bill Clinton also passed the 1994 clinton crime bill
which took away pell grantS for prisoners and
increased the recidivism rate from 30% to 70% which
many white people supported unknowingly that it would
end up costing them 100k a yr to house these mostly
drug users. Hillary blames bush administration
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=2857
With respect to violence and re-entry, Hillary Clinton
discussed her youth opportunity agenda and the
importance of education. Clinton discussed the
disproportionate number of men of color who are in
prison, and how to ensure that they succeed when they
are released. She outlined options including providing
more vocational programs that train people who are
returning to the workforce. The Senator noted that
many industries, such as the auto and airline
industry, have a shortage of trained workers and it
would be wise to create and expand training programs
for people who are unemployed so they can fill
positions in these industries.
She also noted weaknesses in the Bush Administration,
pointing to how they eliminated education programs in
prison that would help people find work after their
release, and also how the current administration did
not do more to get guns off the street.
................................................
He also passed the welfare to work bill which never
funded the mother for education properly or the
children for child care. many of these poor mothers
were pushed off welfare and ended up on drugs. The
kids never had child care and grew up and are in jail.
He also never reduced the crack cocaine to shorter
sentences like what most white people get for using
regular coke and we pay 100k a yr to imprison them.
Most white people never complained. Not they are
finally having hearings to reduce crack cocaine to the
same charge as white peoples regular cocaine.
He was a major player with ALGORE (GOOGLE IT) to
create privatized prisons across the USA in many
states that would agree. Prisons are now big business
and on the NYstock exchange and traded UP hurting many
poor all for the royal buck.
The wonderful woman of color who started the
childrends defense fund = Marian wright edleman speaks
about the cradle to prison pipeline july 24th with Amy
Goodman of democracynowDOTorg that was created by the
clintons and about hillarys term on the board of the
wwwDOTchildrensdefensefundDOTorg
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
Bill Clinton goes to some black cnurches and trys to
portray himself as the black president but he is the
WHITE DEVIL
Yes the bills took until Bush was in office to become
effective so it was done to appear that it was all
Bushs fault. Yes then bush also did more harm as most
republican presidents do.
SEE MY SITE HERE =
http://bushclintonhurtchildren.blogspot.com/
BUSH CLINTON HURT CHILDREN GAYS BLACKWATER, MARK PENN,
HILLARY, AMY GOODMAN, GOP TIES, ETC **its all here**
The following is a long laundry list of sites and
people speaking the truth to people we all trust. I
have been acumulating them and it has sickened me to
see this truth.
"""Pell Grants in Prisons Reduce Crime Rate - New
YorkTimes Pell grants are among the very few
opportunitiesprisoners have to get ... A tough and
dumb crime billwill only add prisons, prisoners and
more debt to a..."""
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EED8153AF935A35751C0A962958260
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
The following are a few articles explaining in some detail as to the clintons dealings with regards to Marian Wright Edleman.
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) was a lobbyist,
lawyer, civil rights activist who founded the
Children's Defense Fund in 1973 to advocate children's
rights.
Marian Wright Edelman was born in Bennetsville, South
Carolina, on June 6, 1939 and was named for the singer
Marian Anderson. She was the youngest of five children
born to Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola (Bowen)
Wright. She spent her early years in Bennettsville. It
was, as she described it, a small-town, socially
segregated childhood. She went to racially segregated
public schools, but excelled academically. She took
piano and voice lessons and became a drum majorette in
her high school band.
Beginnings of Her Advocacy
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
When Bill Clinton was elected U.S. president in 1992,
it was expected that Edelman, a friend and
intellectual soul mate to First Lady Hillary Clinton,
who had served as chairman of the CDF, would command a
level of attention within the new administration that
had been absent during the tenures of Presidents Bush
and Reagan. There were even rumors that she would join
the cabinet, bet she was quick to discount such
rumors. "I need to work outside government, on my
own," she said.
In 1992, Edelman and the CDF began its "Leave No Child
Behind" campaign. She estimated that it would cost as
much as $47 billion to fulfill all the goals of a
fully-funded Head Start, proper medical insurance for
all children and their pregnant mothers, vaccinations
for every child, and an expanded children's tax credit
for children. She tirelessly lobbies for these goals
because she believes that "Investing in [children] is
not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a
national necessity. If the foundation of your house is
crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it
while you're building astronomically expensive fences
to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not
are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now,
upfront, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later
on."
On June 1, 1996, Edelman and the CDF held their "Stand
For Children" in Washington, D.C. An estimated 200,000
supporters showed up to march in support of children
and the CDF's goals. Many of Edelman's critics had
previously criticized Edelman and her ideas as
outdated. But with the large support she received
during "Stand For Children," she demonstrated that she
and the CDF are still a force to contend with in
American politics.
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
Edelman has been widely recognized for her spirited
activity as a lobbyist for her causes. She lectures,
writes, and travels to convince others of the many
needs facing young people. She is the author of the
books, Families In Peril: An Agenda For Social Change
(1987); Portrait of Inequality: Black and White
Children in America (1990); The Measure of Our
Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours (1992); and
Guide My Feet: Meditations and Prayers on Loving and
Working for Children (1995). She is also the author of
several reports, and many articles in support of
children and her causes. All the while, she stressed
that she is a doer rather than a scholar. She believed
that problems must be broken down and a range of
strategies must be considered to achieve goals. She
was less interested in forming theories than "in
feeding, clothing, housing, and educating as many
American children as soon as possible." She was also
able to balance her hectic, social-oriented work with
the demands of a family.
In the same interview, Edelman also criticized the
welfare legislation that the Clinton administration
created. This legislation cut $54 billion from such
programs as food stamps and child and family
nutrition. "I'm not trying to defend the former
welfare system," Edelman said. "But I'm for ending
child poverty as we know it, not just for ending
welfare as we know it." The CDF developed a volunteer
program to document the effects of this legislation,
hoping to discover if those who left the welfare
program now had jobs, health care, and child care.
Edelman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the highest civilian honor in the country, in 2000.
President Bill Clinton, who presented the award,
compared Edelman to ground-breaking opera singer
Marian Anderson. "Like her namesake, Marian's voice is
always strong and true, singing that we are all
children of God and, therefore, must protect all our
children," Clinton was quoted as saying in Jet.
During her career, Marian Wright Edelman has appeared
in Mississippi jail cells, Capitol Hill offices, and
TV talk shows, with the same objective: to help poor
or disenfranchised U.S. citizens. Best known as the
founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund
(CDF), Edelman is a lawyer, lobbyist, author, and
mentor to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. HOWEVER
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211 But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_summit2007
2007 Cradle to Prison PipelineŽ
Crisis in America National Summit
The clinton years may have been good at the time but
the welfare to work bill never funding the mothers for
proper education and never funding the children for
proper child care and the 1994 clinton crime bill that
took away pell grants which lead from a 30% recidivism
rate to a much higher rate costing americans dearly as prisons were privatized and children were allowed to go wild due to mothers having to work two jobs at micky D's and now we pay 100k a yr to support these children in jails as bill never reduced crack cocaine which puts
them in jail longer and thusly we pay to keep them
there which has caused us all to be further in debt
and more kids killing others as they see no jobs
because their mothers never got educated and could be
examples to them.
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
""The Clinton "welfare reform" law mandates a
five-year cumulative lifetime cap on the benefits. You
are off the rolls forever. The "safety net" that
Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband worked so hard to
get into law has been torn apart by William Jefferson
Clinton%u2014to the applause of his wife""
AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard
Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the
board of the Children's Defense Fund, of the
organization that you founded. America's Cradle to
Prison PipelineSM This CDF report
documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an
urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty
and race that puts Black boys at a one in three
lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a
one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. Tens of
thousands of children and teens are sucked into the
Pipeline each year
etc
etc
etc
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_report2007&JServSessionIdr008=ywf26wlxm7.app5b
Oh yea thats right Bill Clinton passed the 1994 crime
bill that removed
pell grants for prisoners
Federal Crime Bill By Paul Wright
On September 13, 1994, Bill Clinton signed the final
version of the
crime
bill into law. The same week congress passed the crime
bill it also
passed
the "Bank Reform Bill." Included in this law is a
provision which will
prevent the government from pursuing negligence cases
against the
individuals who caused the collapse of the savings and
loan industry
(mainly by looting the institutions they were
entrusted to run or that
they owned). Thus, it is apparent that "crime" isn't
the issue, the
issue
is who steals what from whom. The mood of congress was
accurately
captured
by Senator Joe Biden, an admitted plagiarist, who said
"If someone came
to
the floor and said we should barb wire the ankles of
anyone who
jaywalks,
I think it would pass."
Officially titled the "Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of
1994," the final version of the bill is 120 pages
long. It contains
many
administrative amendments to existing laws,
clarifications, etc. in
addition to its substantive portions.
etc
This law abolished Pell grants for prisoners. The
federal Pell Grant
was
created in 1965 by Senator Claiborne Pell, D-RI, to
aid low income
students for college. The 1965 bill stated that no
qualifying low
income
persons would be excluded, prisoners were specifically
mentioned in the
bill and were intended to be included in the grant
program. Media
hypsters
insinuated that prisoners were taking advantage of the
opportunity for
Pell
Grants because of an oversight in the original Pell
Grant Bill that
failed
to specifically exclude them.
The $6.3 billion program is considered a
quasi-entitlement, says the
U.S.
Department of Education, and receives whatever funding
is necessary for
grants to all income eligible persons. Of that $6.3
billion in the most
recent fiscal year, a total of $35 million was
allotted for prisoners.
Most of that amount was in the form of federal aid
paid not directly to
individual prisoners, but in the form of payments to
state programs
designed to provide educational services to their
prison inmates. The
$35
million allotted to prisoners represents less than six
tenths of 1
percent
of the $6.3 billion total. Political rhetoric has
propelled the myth
that
the money wasted on prisoner Pell Grants will now be
used to provide
assistance to more worthy recipients in the community.
The truth of the
matter is that the $35 million saved won't stay in the
education
budget.
It will be retained by the U.S. Treasury (presumably
to help pay for
the
$9.8 billion earmarked for construction of more
prisons).
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.R.3355.ENR:)
Are The CLINTONS Too INVESTED In The PRISON INDUSTRY?
"Supreme court rules yesterday on Crack Cocaine
sentencing disparities"
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/danielleclarke/CBXf
The following is a list of links that explain the
truth of Bill and Hillary Clinton with regards to
their continued support for keeping people who use
Crack Cocaine in prisons.
Bill never would reduce the crack cocaine that was
asked for by many during his administration. Yesterday
the supreme court gave permission to judges to have
disgression in sentencing guidlines.
Clinton Signs Bill To Disapprove of Equalizing
Crack-Powder Cocaine Sentences
""at the NPR black brown forum""
With Her Eye On Nov. '08, Polls Dictate Clinton Crime
Policy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/with-her-eye-on-nov-08_b_75207.html
""When asked about her own policy,
"""Clinton said she agreed with the feds'
recommendation for equalizing the sentences,
but she opposed making the sentencing changes
retroactive"".
"I have problems with retroactivity," she said. "It's
something a lot of communities will be concerned about
as well."
Obama, Edwards, Richarson, Dodd, Kucinich said they
were in favor of the sentencing change being applied
to those already serving time.
IS THIS CHANGE???
..................................................
Bill Clinton also passed the 1994 clinton crime bill
which took away pell grantS for prisoners and
increased the recidivism rate from 30% to 70% which
many white people supported unknowingly that it would
end up costing them 100k a yr to house these mostly
drug users. Hillary blames bush administration
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=2857
With respect to violence and re-entry, Hillary Clinton
discussed her youth opportunity agenda and the
importance of education. Clinton discussed the
disproportionate number of men of color who are in
prison, and how to ensure that they succeed when they
are released. She outlined options including providing
more vocational programs that train people who are
returning to the workforce. The Senator noted that
many industries, such as the auto and airline
industry, have a shortage of trained workers and it
would be wise to create and expand training programs
for people who are unemployed so they can fill
positions in these industries.
She also noted weaknesses in the Bush Administration,
pointing to how they eliminated education programs in
prison that would help people find work after their
release, and also how the current administration did
not do more to get guns off the street.
................................................
He also passed the welfare to work bill which never
funded the mother for education properly or the
children for child care. many of these poor mothers
were pushed off welfare and ended up on drugs. The
kids never had child care and grew up and are in jail.
He also never reduced the crack cocaine to shorter
sentences like what most white people get for using
regular coke and we pay 100k a yr to imprison them.
Most white people never complained. Not they are
finally having hearings to reduce crack cocaine to the
same charge as white peoples regular cocaine.
He was a major player with ALGORE (GOOGLE IT) to
create privatized prisons across the USA in many
states that would agree. Prisons are now big business
and on the NYstock exchange and traded UP hurting many
poor all for the royal buck.
The wonderful woman of color who started the
childrends defense fund = Marian wright edleman speaks
about the cradle to prison pipeline july 24th with Amy
Goodman of democracynowDOTorg that was created by the
clintons and about hillarys term on the board of the
wwwDOTchildrensdefensefundDOTorg
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
Bill Clinton goes to some black cnurches and trys to
portray himself as the black president but he is the
WHITE DEVIL
Yes the bills took until Bush was in office to become
effective so it was done to appear that it was all
Bushs fault. Yes then bush also did more harm as most
republican presidents do.
SEE MY SITE HERE =
http://bushclintonhurtchildren.blogspot.com/
BUSH CLINTON HURT CHILDREN GAYS BLACKWATER, MARK PENN,
HILLARY, AMY GOODMAN, GOP TIES, ETC **its all here**
The following is a long laundry list of sites and
people speaking the truth to people we all trust. I
have been acumulating them and it has sickened me to
see this truth.
"""Pell Grants in Prisons Reduce Crime Rate - New
YorkTimes Pell grants are among the very few
opportunitiesprisoners have to get ... A tough and
dumb crime billwill only add prisons, prisoners and
more debt to a..."""
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EED8153AF935A35751C0A962958260
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
We the under signed ask Marian Wright Edleman to show her support for Barack Obama for president 2008. We also would appreciate Marian explaining why her husband resigned from Bill clintons cabinet and why on July 24th when Marian Spoke to Amy Goodman at democracynow.org she didn't eleborate further in her views of Hillary Clinton who proclaims to be the candidate for childrens right.
The following are a few articles explaining in some detail as to the clintons dealings with regards to Marian Wright Edleman.
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) was a lobbyist,
lawyer, civil rights activist who founded the
Children's Defense Fund in 1973 to advocate children's
rights.
Marian Wright Edelman was born in Bennetsville, South
Carolina, on June 6, 1939 and was named for the singer
Marian Anderson. She was the youngest of five children
born to Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola (Bowen)
Wright. She spent her early years in Bennettsville. It
was, as she described it, a small-town, socially
segregated childhood. She went to racially segregated
public schools, but excelled academically. She took
piano and voice lessons and became a drum majorette in
her high school band.
Beginnings of Her Advocacy
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
When Bill Clinton was elected U.S. president in 1992,
it was expected that Edelman, a friend and
intellectual soul mate to First Lady Hillary Clinton,
who had served as chairman of the CDF, would command a
level of attention within the new administration that
had been absent during the tenures of Presidents Bush
and Reagan. There were even rumors that she would join
the cabinet, bet she was quick to discount such
rumors. "I need to work outside government, on my
own," she said.
In 1992, Edelman and the CDF began its "Leave No Child
Behind" campaign. She estimated that it would cost as
much as $47 billion to fulfill all the goals of a
fully-funded Head Start, proper medical insurance for
all children and their pregnant mothers, vaccinations
for every child, and an expanded children's tax credit
for children. She tirelessly lobbies for these goals
because she believes that "Investing in [children] is
not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a
national necessity. If the foundation of your house is
crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it
while you're building astronomically expensive fences
to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not
are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now,
upfront, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later
on."
On June 1, 1996, Edelman and the CDF held their "Stand
For Children" in Washington, D.C. An estimated 200,000
supporters showed up to march in support of children
and the CDF's goals. Many of Edelman's critics had
previously criticized Edelman and her ideas as
outdated. But with the large support she received
during "Stand For Children," she demonstrated that she
and the CDF are still a force to contend with in
American politics.
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
Edelman has been widely recognized for her spirited
activity as a lobbyist for her causes. She lectures,
writes, and travels to convince others of the many
needs facing young people. She is the author of the
books, Families In Peril: An Agenda For Social Change
(1987); Portrait of Inequality: Black and White
Children in America (1990); The Measure of Our
Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours (1992); and
Guide My Feet: Meditations and Prayers on Loving and
Working for Children (1995). She is also the author of
several reports, and many articles in support of
children and her causes. All the while, she stressed
that she is a doer rather than a scholar. She believed
that problems must be broken down and a range of
strategies must be considered to achieve goals. She
was less interested in forming theories than "in
feeding, clothing, housing, and educating as many
American children as soon as possible." She was also
able to balance her hectic, social-oriented work with
the demands of a family.
In the same interview, Edelman also criticized the
welfare legislation that the Clinton administration
created. This legislation cut $54 billion from such
programs as food stamps and child and family
nutrition. "I'm not trying to defend the former
welfare system," Edelman said. "But I'm for ending
child poverty as we know it, not just for ending
welfare as we know it." The CDF developed a volunteer
program to document the effects of this legislation,
hoping to discover if those who left the welfare
program now had jobs, health care, and child care.
Edelman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the highest civilian honor in the country, in 2000.
President Bill Clinton, who presented the award,
compared Edelman to ground-breaking opera singer
Marian Anderson. "Like her namesake, Marian's voice is
always strong and true, singing that we are all
children of God and, therefore, must protect all our
children," Clinton was quoted as saying in Jet.
During her career, Marian Wright Edelman has appeared
in Mississippi jail cells, Capitol Hill offices, and
TV talk shows, with the same objective: to help poor
or disenfranchised U.S. citizens. Best known as the
founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund
(CDF), Edelman is a lawyer, lobbyist, author, and
mentor to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. HOWEVER
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211 But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_summit2007
2007 Cradle to Prison PipelineŽ
Crisis in America National Summit
The clinton years may have been good at the time but
the welfare to work bill never funding the mothers for
proper education and never funding the children for
proper child care and the 1994 clinton crime bill that
took away pell grants which lead from a 30% recidivism
rate to a much higher rate costing americans dearly as prisons were privatized and children were allowed to go wild due to mothers having to work two jobs at micky D's and now we pay 100k a yr to support these children in jails as bill never reduced crack cocaine which puts
them in jail longer and thusly we pay to keep them
there which has caused us all to be further in debt
and more kids killing others as they see no jobs
because their mothers never got educated and could be
examples to them.
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
""The Clinton "welfare reform" law mandates a
five-year cumulative lifetime cap on the benefits. You
are off the rolls forever. The "safety net" that
Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband worked so hard to
get into law has been torn apart by William Jefferson
Clinton%u2014to the applause of his wife""
AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard
Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the
board of the Children's Defense Fund, of the
organization that you founded. America's Cradle to
Prison PipelineSM This CDF report
documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an
urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty
and race that puts Black boys at a one in three
lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a
one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. Tens of
thousands of children and teens are sucked into the
Pipeline each year
etc
etc
etc
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_report2007&JServSessionIdr008=ywf26wlxm7.app5b
Oh yea thats right Bill Clinton passed the 1994 crime
bill that removed
pell grants for prisoners
Federal Crime Bill By Paul Wright
On September 13, 1994, Bill Clinton signed the final
version of the
crime
bill into law. The same week congress passed the crime
bill it also
passed
the "Bank Reform Bill." Included in this law is a
provision which will
prevent the government from pursuing negligence cases
against the
individuals who caused the collapse of the savings and
loan industry
(mainly by looting the institutions they were
entrusted to run or that
they owned). Thus, it is apparent that "crime" isn't
the issue, the
issue
is who steals what from whom. The mood of congress was
accurately
captured
by Senator Joe Biden, an admitted plagiarist, who said
"If someone came
to
the floor and said we should barb wire the ankles of
anyone who
jaywalks,
I think it would pass."
Officially titled the "Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of
1994," the final version of the bill is 120 pages
long. It contains
many
administrative amendments to existing laws,
clarifications, etc. in
addition to its substantive portions.
etc
This law abolished Pell grants for prisoners. The
federal Pell Grant
was
created in 1965 by Senator Claiborne Pell, D-RI, to
aid low income
students for college. The 1965 bill stated that no
qualifying low
income
persons would be excluded, prisoners were specifically
mentioned in the
bill and were intended to be included in the grant
program. Media
hypsters
insinuated that prisoners were taking advantage of the
opportunity for
Pell
Grants because of an oversight in the original Pell
Grant Bill that
failed
to specifically exclude them.
The $6.3 billion program is considered a
quasi-entitlement, says the
U.S.
Department of Education, and receives whatever funding
is necessary for
grants to all income eligible persons. Of that $6.3
billion in the most
recent fiscal year, a total of $35 million was
allotted for prisoners.
Most of that amount was in the form of federal aid
paid not directly to
individual prisoners, but in the form of payments to
state programs
designed to provide educational services to their
prison inmates. The
$35
million allotted to prisoners represents less than six
tenths of 1
percent
of the $6.3 billion total. Political rhetoric has
propelled the myth
that
the money wasted on prisoner Pell Grants will now be
used to provide
assistance to more worthy recipients in the community.
The truth of the
matter is that the $35 million saved won't stay in the
education
budget.
It will be retained by the U.S. Treasury (presumably
to help pay for
the
$9.8 billion earmarked for construction of more
prisons).
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.R.3355.ENR:)
Are The CLINTONS Too INVESTED In The PRISON INDUSTRY?
"Supreme court rules yesterday on Crack Cocaine
sentencing disparities"
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/danielleclarke/CBXf
The following is a list of links that explain the
truth of Bill and Hillary Clinton with regards to
their continued support for keeping people who use
Crack Cocaine in prisons.
Bill never would reduce the crack cocaine that was
asked for by many during his administration. Yesterday
the supreme court gave permission to judges to have
disgression in sentencing guidlines.
Clinton Signs Bill To Disapprove of Equalizing
Crack-Powder Cocaine Sentences
""at the NPR black brown forum""
With Her Eye On Nov. '08, Polls Dictate Clinton Crime
Policy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/with-her-eye-on-nov-08_b_75207.html
""When asked about her own policy,
"""Clinton said she agreed with the feds'
recommendation for equalizing the sentences,
but she opposed making the sentencing changes
retroactive"".
"I have problems with retroactivity," she said. "It's
something a lot of communities will be concerned about
as well."
Obama, Edwards, Richarson, Dodd, Kucinich said they
were in favor of the sentencing change being applied
to those already serving time.
IS THIS CHANGE???
..................................................
Bill Clinton also passed the 1994 clinton crime bill
which took away pell grantS for prisoners and
increased the recidivism rate from 30% to 70% which
many white people supported unknowingly that it would
end up costing them 100k a yr to house these mostly
drug users. Hillary blames bush administration
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=2857
With respect to violence and re-entry, Hillary Clinton
discussed her youth opportunity agenda and the
importance of education. Clinton discussed the
disproportionate number of men of color who are in
prison, and how to ensure that they succeed when they
are released. She outlined options including providing
more vocational programs that train people who are
returning to the workforce. The Senator noted that
many industries, such as the auto and airline
industry, have a shortage of trained workers and it
would be wise to create and expand training programs
for people who are unemployed so they can fill
positions in these industries.
She also noted weaknesses in the Bush Administration,
pointing to how they eliminated education programs in
prison that would help people find work after their
release, and also how the current administration did
not do more to get guns off the street.
................................................
He also passed the welfare to work bill which never
funded the mother for education properly or the
children for child care. many of these poor mothers
were pushed off welfare and ended up on drugs. The
kids never had child care and grew up and are in jail.
He also never reduced the crack cocaine to shorter
sentences like what most white people get for using
regular coke and we pay 100k a yr to imprison them.
Most white people never complained. Not they are
finally having hearings to reduce crack cocaine to the
same charge as white peoples regular cocaine.
He was a major player with ALGORE (GOOGLE IT) to
create privatized prisons across the USA in many
states that would agree. Prisons are now big business
and on the NYstock exchange and traded UP hurting many
poor all for the royal buck.
The wonderful woman of color who started the
childrends defense fund = Marian wright edleman speaks
about the cradle to prison pipeline july 24th with Amy
Goodman of democracynowDOTorg that was created by the
clintons and about hillarys term on the board of the
wwwDOTchildrensdefensefundDOTorg
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
Bill Clinton goes to some black cnurches and trys to
portray himself as the black president but he is the
WHITE DEVIL
Yes the bills took until Bush was in office to become
effective so it was done to appear that it was all
Bushs fault. Yes then bush also did more harm as most
republican presidents do.
SEE MY SITE HERE =
http://bushclintonhurtchildren.blogspot.com/
BUSH CLINTON HURT CHILDREN GAYS BLACKWATER, MARK PENN,
HILLARY, AMY GOODMAN, GOP TIES, ETC **its all here**
The following is a long laundry list of sites and
people speaking the truth to people we all trust. I
have been acumulating them and it has sickened me to
see this truth.
"""Pell Grants in Prisons Reduce Crime Rate - New
YorkTimes Pell grants are among the very few
opportunitiesprisoners have to get ... A tough and
dumb crime billwill only add prisons, prisoners and
more debt to a..."""
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EED8153AF935A35751C0A962958260
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
The following are a few articles explaining in some detail as to the clintons dealings with regards to Marian Wright Edleman.
Marian Wright Edelman (born 1939) was a lobbyist,
lawyer, civil rights activist who founded the
Children's Defense Fund in 1973 to advocate children's
rights.
Marian Wright Edelman was born in Bennetsville, South
Carolina, on June 6, 1939 and was named for the singer
Marian Anderson. She was the youngest of five children
born to Arthur Jerome Wright and Maggie Leola (Bowen)
Wright. She spent her early years in Bennettsville. It
was, as she described it, a small-town, socially
segregated childhood. She went to racially segregated
public schools, but excelled academically. She took
piano and voice lessons and became a drum majorette in
her high school band.
Beginnings of Her Advocacy
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
When Bill Clinton was elected U.S. president in 1992,
it was expected that Edelman, a friend and
intellectual soul mate to First Lady Hillary Clinton,
who had served as chairman of the CDF, would command a
level of attention within the new administration that
had been absent during the tenures of Presidents Bush
and Reagan. There were even rumors that she would join
the cabinet, bet she was quick to discount such
rumors. "I need to work outside government, on my
own," she said.
In 1992, Edelman and the CDF began its "Leave No Child
Behind" campaign. She estimated that it would cost as
much as $47 billion to fulfill all the goals of a
fully-funded Head Start, proper medical insurance for
all children and their pregnant mothers, vaccinations
for every child, and an expanded children's tax credit
for children. She tirelessly lobbies for these goals
because she believes that "Investing in [children] is
not a national luxury or a national choice. It's a
national necessity. If the foundation of your house is
crumbling, you don't say you can't afford to fix it
while you're building astronomically expensive fences
to protect it from outside enemies. The issue is not
are we going to pay - it's are we going to pay now,
upfront, or are we going to pay a whole lot more later
on."
On June 1, 1996, Edelman and the CDF held their "Stand
For Children" in Washington, D.C. An estimated 200,000
supporters showed up to march in support of children
and the CDF's goals. Many of Edelman's critics had
previously criticized Edelman and her ideas as
outdated. But with the large support she received
during "Stand For Children," she demonstrated that she
and the CDF are still a force to contend with in
American politics.
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
Edelman has been widely recognized for her spirited
activity as a lobbyist for her causes. She lectures,
writes, and travels to convince others of the many
needs facing young people. She is the author of the
books, Families In Peril: An Agenda For Social Change
(1987); Portrait of Inequality: Black and White
Children in America (1990); The Measure of Our
Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours (1992); and
Guide My Feet: Meditations and Prayers on Loving and
Working for Children (1995). She is also the author of
several reports, and many articles in support of
children and her causes. All the while, she stressed
that she is a doer rather than a scholar. She believed
that problems must be broken down and a range of
strategies must be considered to achieve goals. She
was less interested in forming theories than "in
feeding, clothing, housing, and educating as many
American children as soon as possible." She was also
able to balance her hectic, social-oriented work with
the demands of a family.
In the same interview, Edelman also criticized the
welfare legislation that the Clinton administration
created. This legislation cut $54 billion from such
programs as food stamps and child and family
nutrition. "I'm not trying to defend the former
welfare system," Edelman said. "But I'm for ending
child poverty as we know it, not just for ending
welfare as we know it." The CDF developed a volunteer
program to document the effects of this legislation,
hoping to discover if those who left the welfare
program now had jobs, health care, and child care.
Edelman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the highest civilian honor in the country, in 2000.
President Bill Clinton, who presented the award,
compared Edelman to ground-breaking opera singer
Marian Anderson. "Like her namesake, Marian's voice is
always strong and true, singing that we are all
children of God and, therefore, must protect all our
children," Clinton was quoted as saying in Jet.
During her career, Marian Wright Edelman has appeared
in Mississippi jail cells, Capitol Hill offices, and
TV talk shows, with the same objective: to help poor
or disenfranchised U.S. citizens. Best known as the
founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund
(CDF), Edelman is a lawyer, lobbyist, author, and
mentor to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. HOWEVER
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
JULY 24TH 2007 MARIAN WRIGHT EDLEMAN SAYS =
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211 But you were extremely
critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President
Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare
reform bill, you said, %u201CHis signature on this
pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to
hurt children.%u201D So what are your hopes right now for
these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old friend, but they are not friends in
politics. We have to build a constituency, and you
don%u2019t -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of
the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for
welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need
good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to
invest preventively in all of our children to prevent
them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success,
you know, we%u2019ve got growing child poverty, we have
more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over
the last six years than we had earlier in the year.
When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare
reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is
not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I
consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of
what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:E_T52L02xVsJ:www.answers.com/topic/marian-wright-edelman marian wright edelman hillary clinton children prison&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
In 1997, Edelman criticized President Clinton for his
welfare reform package by warning it could lead to
record numbers of uninsured children, increased child
abuse, and rising firearms deaths. The CDF's "The
State of America's Children Yearbook 1997" criticized
the package and warned that "if America does not stand
up now for its children, it will not stand strong in
the new millennium."
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_summit2007
2007 Cradle to Prison PipelineŽ
Crisis in America National Summit
The clinton years may have been good at the time but
the welfare to work bill never funding the mothers for
proper education and never funding the children for
proper child care and the 1994 clinton crime bill that
took away pell grants which lead from a 30% recidivism
rate to a much higher rate costing americans dearly as prisons were privatized and children were allowed to go wild due to mothers having to work two jobs at micky D's and now we pay 100k a yr to support these children in jails as bill never reduced crack cocaine which puts
them in jail longer and thusly we pay to keep them
there which has caused us all to be further in debt
and more kids killing others as they see no jobs
because their mothers never got educated and could be
examples to them.
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
""The Clinton "welfare reform" law mandates a
five-year cumulative lifetime cap on the benefits. You
are off the rolls forever. The "safety net" that
Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband worked so hard to
get into law has been torn apart by William Jefferson
Clinton%u2014to the applause of his wife""
AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard
Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the
board of the Children's Defense Fund, of the
organization that you founded. America's Cradle to
Prison PipelineSM This CDF report
documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an
urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty
and race that puts Black boys at a one in three
lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a
one in six lifetime risk of the same fate. Tens of
thousands of children and teens are sucked into the
Pipeline each year
etc
etc
etc
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=c2pp_report2007&JServSessionIdr008=ywf26wlxm7.app5b
Oh yea thats right Bill Clinton passed the 1994 crime
bill that removed
pell grants for prisoners
Federal Crime Bill By Paul Wright
On September 13, 1994, Bill Clinton signed the final
version of the
crime
bill into law. The same week congress passed the crime
bill it also
passed
the "Bank Reform Bill." Included in this law is a
provision which will
prevent the government from pursuing negligence cases
against the
individuals who caused the collapse of the savings and
loan industry
(mainly by looting the institutions they were
entrusted to run or that
they owned). Thus, it is apparent that "crime" isn't
the issue, the
issue
is who steals what from whom. The mood of congress was
accurately
captured
by Senator Joe Biden, an admitted plagiarist, who said
"If someone came
to
the floor and said we should barb wire the ankles of
anyone who
jaywalks,
I think it would pass."
Officially titled the "Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of
1994," the final version of the bill is 120 pages
long. It contains
many
administrative amendments to existing laws,
clarifications, etc. in
addition to its substantive portions.
etc
This law abolished Pell grants for prisoners. The
federal Pell Grant
was
created in 1965 by Senator Claiborne Pell, D-RI, to
aid low income
students for college. The 1965 bill stated that no
qualifying low
income
persons would be excluded, prisoners were specifically
mentioned in the
bill and were intended to be included in the grant
program. Media
hypsters
insinuated that prisoners were taking advantage of the
opportunity for
Pell
Grants because of an oversight in the original Pell
Grant Bill that
failed
to specifically exclude them.
The $6.3 billion program is considered a
quasi-entitlement, says the
U.S.
Department of Education, and receives whatever funding
is necessary for
grants to all income eligible persons. Of that $6.3
billion in the most
recent fiscal year, a total of $35 million was
allotted for prisoners.
Most of that amount was in the form of federal aid
paid not directly to
individual prisoners, but in the form of payments to
state programs
designed to provide educational services to their
prison inmates. The
$35
million allotted to prisoners represents less than six
tenths of 1
percent
of the $6.3 billion total. Political rhetoric has
propelled the myth
that
the money wasted on prisoner Pell Grants will now be
used to provide
assistance to more worthy recipients in the community.
The truth of the
matter is that the $35 million saved won't stay in the
education
budget.
It will be retained by the U.S. Treasury (presumably
to help pay for
the
$9.8 billion earmarked for construction of more
prisons).
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.R.3355.ENR:)
Are The CLINTONS Too INVESTED In The PRISON INDUSTRY?
"Supreme court rules yesterday on Crack Cocaine
sentencing disparities"
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/danielleclarke/CBXf
The following is a list of links that explain the
truth of Bill and Hillary Clinton with regards to
their continued support for keeping people who use
Crack Cocaine in prisons.
Bill never would reduce the crack cocaine that was
asked for by many during his administration. Yesterday
the supreme court gave permission to judges to have
disgression in sentencing guidlines.
Clinton Signs Bill To Disapprove of Equalizing
Crack-Powder Cocaine Sentences
""at the NPR black brown forum""
With Her Eye On Nov. '08, Polls Dictate Clinton Crime
Policy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/with-her-eye-on-nov-08_b_75207.html
""When asked about her own policy,
"""Clinton said she agreed with the feds'
recommendation for equalizing the sentences,
but she opposed making the sentencing changes
retroactive"".
"I have problems with retroactivity," she said. "It's
something a lot of communities will be concerned about
as well."
Obama, Edwards, Richarson, Dodd, Kucinich said they
were in favor of the sentencing change being applied
to those already serving time.
IS THIS CHANGE???
..................................................
Bill Clinton also passed the 1994 clinton crime bill
which took away pell grantS for prisoners and
increased the recidivism rate from 30% to 70% which
many white people supported unknowingly that it would
end up costing them 100k a yr to house these mostly
drug users. Hillary blames bush administration
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=2857
With respect to violence and re-entry, Hillary Clinton
discussed her youth opportunity agenda and the
importance of education. Clinton discussed the
disproportionate number of men of color who are in
prison, and how to ensure that they succeed when they
are released. She outlined options including providing
more vocational programs that train people who are
returning to the workforce. The Senator noted that
many industries, such as the auto and airline
industry, have a shortage of trained workers and it
would be wise to create and expand training programs
for people who are unemployed so they can fill
positions in these industries.
She also noted weaknesses in the Bush Administration,
pointing to how they eliminated education programs in
prison that would help people find work after their
release, and also how the current administration did
not do more to get guns off the street.
................................................
He also passed the welfare to work bill which never
funded the mother for education properly or the
children for child care. many of these poor mothers
were pushed off welfare and ended up on drugs. The
kids never had child care and grew up and are in jail.
He also never reduced the crack cocaine to shorter
sentences like what most white people get for using
regular coke and we pay 100k a yr to imprison them.
Most white people never complained. Not they are
finally having hearings to reduce crack cocaine to the
same charge as white peoples regular cocaine.
He was a major player with ALGORE (GOOGLE IT) to
create privatized prisons across the USA in many
states that would agree. Prisons are now big business
and on the NYstock exchange and traded UP hurting many
poor all for the royal buck.
The wonderful woman of color who started the
childrends defense fund = Marian wright edleman speaks
about the cradle to prison pipeline july 24th with Amy
Goodman of democracynowDOTorg that was created by the
clintons and about hillarys term on the board of the
wwwDOTchildrensdefensefundDOTorg
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
Bill Clinton goes to some black cnurches and trys to
portray himself as the black president but he is the
WHITE DEVIL
Yes the bills took until Bush was in office to become
effective so it was done to appear that it was all
Bushs fault. Yes then bush also did more harm as most
republican presidents do.
SEE MY SITE HERE =
http://bushclintonhurtchildren.blogspot.com/
BUSH CLINTON HURT CHILDREN GAYS BLACKWATER, MARK PENN,
HILLARY, AMY GOODMAN, GOP TIES, ETC **its all here**
The following is a long laundry list of sites and
people speaking the truth to people we all trust. I
have been acumulating them and it has sickened me to
see this truth.
"""Pell Grants in Prisons Reduce Crime Rate - New
YorkTimes Pell grants are among the very few
opportunitiesprisoners have to get ... A tough and
dumb crime billwill only add prisons, prisoners and
more debt to a..."""
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EED8153AF935A35751C0A962958260
the CLINTONS and KIDS
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0011,hentoff,13268,6.html
We the under signed ask Marian Wright Edleman to show her support for Barack Obama for president 2008. We also would appreciate Marian explaining why her husband resigned from Bill clintons cabinet and why on July 24th when Marian Spoke to Amy Goodman at democracynow.org she didn't eleborate further in her views of Hillary Clinton who proclaims to be the candidate for childrens right.
The following are a few articles explaining in some detail as to the clintons dealings with regards to Marian Wright Edleman.
The following are a few articles explaining in some detail as to the clintons dealings with regards to Marian Wright Edleman.
We signed the "Ask Marian Wright Edleman to Support Barack Obama" petition!
# 362:
4:38 pm PST, Feb 4,
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# 361:
11:39 am PST, Feb 4,
Marsha Schneider, Illinois
I have been a great admirer of yours for many many years. Few people in public life measure up to my impossibly high standards. You are one. Senator Obama is another. I hope you will step forward and endorse Senator Obama. Your voice is an important one and it must be heard. If not now, when?
I have been a great admirer of yours for many many years. Few people in public life measure up to my impossibly high standards. You are one. Senator Obama is another. I hope you will step forward and endorse Senator Obama. Your voice is an important one and it must be heard. If not now, when?
# 360:
7:43 pm PST, Feb 3,
Victor Bond, California
Ms. Edleman, I have the deepest respect for the work that you done for children and for America. Please add to it with your support of Barack Obama as soon as you possibly can. I know that you realize how significant this would be. Please, Victor Bond
Ms. Edleman, I have the deepest respect for the work that you done for children and for America. Please add to it with your support of Barack Obama as soon as you possibly can. I know that you realize how significant this would be. Please, Victor Bond
# 359:
6:10 am PST, Jan 31,
Marjory Cahill-Shelton, Florida
# 358:
6:26 pm PST, Jan 29,
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# 357:
1:18 pm PST, Jan 29,
Jaime Mcclung, South Carolina
# 356:
2:20 pm PST, Jan 28,
Eric Downing, Kentucky
# 355:
6:27 am PST, Jan 28,
Aaron Hawkins, Kentucky
Please Please Please endorse Sen. Obama. As a nation, we need him now more than ever to build us back up to where we belong.
Please Please Please endorse Sen. Obama. As a nation, we need him now more than ever to build us back up to where we belong.
# 354:
7:29 pm PST, Jan 27,
Chiv Heng, Rhode Island
My hope is that people who have consistently shown courage and integrity in their personal, professional and public lives; people who have rightfully earned respect and admiration from friends and strangers alike, can speak in such a way as to amplify my own voice. With such an important election ahead of us, I know that a voice as powerful as Marian Wright Edleman's would lend a great deal of credence to the idea that it's not enough to change our politicians, but we need a fundamental change in the way our political system operates. Here's to respect, inclusiveness, transparency, and integrity.
My hope is that people who have consistently shown courage and integrity in their personal, professional and public lives; people who have rightfully earned respect and admiration from friends and strangers alike, can speak in such a way as to amplify my own voice. With such an important election ahead of us, I know that a voice as powerful as Marian Wright Edleman's would lend a great deal of credence to the idea that it's not enough to change our politicians, but we need a fundamental change in the way our political system operates. Here's to respect, inclusiveness, transparency, and integrity.
# 353:
1:17 pm PST, Jan 27,
Ariana Valderrama, Illinois
# 352:
7:33 am PST, Jan 27,
Bernisha Roundtree, Virginia
# 351:
4:17 pm PST, Jan 26,
Jackelyn Gaisie, New Jersey
# 350:
10:50 am PST, Jan 26,
Dietra Kelsey, New York
# 349:
4:26 am PST, Jan 26,
Betsy Cohen, Maryland
I strongly believe in the message of Barack Obama and strongly urge you to consider supporting this man with a vision of hope for our country.
I strongly believe in the message of Barack Obama and strongly urge you to consider supporting this man with a vision of hope for our country.
# 348:
5:35 pm PST, Jan 25,
Name not displayed, New York
# 347:
1:54 pm PST, Jan 25,
Vickie Smith, California
Mrs. Edleman, after enduring a couple of months of racially provocative, indefensible comments towards Senator Obama in particular, and the Black community in general, by Bill and Hillary Clinton and their surrogates, I am strongly encouraging you to publicly support the Obama campaign. I like many Black Americans, have been an avid supporter of the Clintons over the years. However, after observing their unapologetic repeated use of the "race card" during this campaign, and their attempts to slander and sully the image and reputation of Senator Obama, I can no longer support them. Thanks for your consideration. Vickie Smith
Mrs. Edleman, after enduring a couple of months of racially provocative, indefensible comments towards Senator Obama in particular, and the Black community in general, by Bill and Hillary Clinton and their surrogates, I am strongly encouraging you to publicly support the Obama campaign. I like many Black Americans, have been an avid supporter of the Clintons over the years. However, after observing their unapologetic repeated use of the "race card" during this campaign, and their attempts to slander and sully the image and reputation of Senator Obama, I can no longer support them. Thanks for your consideration. Vickie Smith
# 346:
1:38 pm PST, Jan 25,
Evelyn Staton, New Jersey
I never thought I would never sign a petition to support Senator Barack Obama. However, he is fighting an unfair battle - the "Clintons". Mr. Obama will benefit from strong individuals, regardless of gender. Please carefully review the facts and then draw your own conclusions. Mr. Obama needs uncompromising and fair support. Many thanks.
I never thought I would never sign a petition to support Senator Barack Obama. However, he is fighting an unfair battle - the "Clintons". Mr. Obama will benefit from strong individuals, regardless of gender. Please carefully review the facts and then draw your own conclusions. Mr. Obama needs uncompromising and fair support. Many thanks.
# 345:
12:07 pm PST, Jan 25,
Leslie Byers, Virginia
Please consider supporting Barack Obama, he is the salve this country needs!
Please consider supporting Barack Obama, he is the salve this country needs!
# 344:
7:33 am PST, Jan 25,
Tracey Malesa-wheaton, Indiana
# 343:
4:59 pm PST, Jan 24,
M. Alva, California
Support the spirit of change!! Barack truly has the vision.
Support the spirit of change!! Barack truly has the vision.
# 342:
2:50 pm PST, Jan 24,
Name not displayed, Illinois
As a social worker I had many reservations about the Clintons' welfare reform efforts. Now the number of low-income children and families who are living in poverty has increased as well as those who lack health insurance. Many single mothers struggle to provide for their children by taking low wage jobs with long hours and little or no benefits. As the child of a working single mother, Barack Obama understands these struggles. As a community organizer on the South side of Chicago, he knows the problems poverty causes. His experience, judgement and character will bring the changes this country needs and undo the hardships of welfare reform under the Clintons. In the face of the distortions and inaccurate attacks leveled at him by the Clintons, Barack needs your public support to win in the coming primaries.
As a social worker I had many reservations about the Clintons' welfare reform efforts. Now the number of low-income children and families who are living in poverty has increased as well as those who lack health insurance. Many single mothers struggle to provide for their children by taking low wage jobs with long hours and little or no benefits. As the child of a working single mother, Barack Obama understands these struggles. As a community organizer on the South side of Chicago, he knows the problems poverty causes. His experience, judgement and character will bring the changes this country needs and undo the hardships of welfare reform under the Clintons. In the face of the distortions and inaccurate attacks leveled at him by the Clintons, Barack needs your public support to win in the coming primaries.
# 341:
1:19 pm PST, Jan 24,
I.b. Acrakho, California
yo! mah blak ass be believin dat marian blak ass be supportin obama blak ass sose he kins helpz dem chillruns blak asses....YO!
yo! mah blak ass be believin dat marian blak ass be supportin obama blak ass sose he kins helpz dem chillruns blak asses....YO!
# 340:
9:51 am PST, Jan 24,
Tamera Harris, California
With your backgroud of standing up for what is right and good for this country it would certainly be an additional boon to Senator Obama's campaign if you would add your voice and support to his bid for the Presidency. It is my belief that this man with his belief in striving for hope and working at improving what his hopes lead him to will lead him to being one of the greatest Presidents this nation has seen in many years. Please add your voice to his in doing this nation the healing it has needed so badly for so long.
With your backgroud of standing up for what is right and good for this country it would certainly be an additional boon to Senator Obama's campaign if you would add your voice and support to his bid for the Presidency. It is my belief that this man with his belief in striving for hope and working at improving what his hopes lead him to will lead him to being one of the greatest Presidents this nation has seen in many years. Please add your voice to his in doing this nation the healing it has needed so badly for so long.
# 339:
9:20 am PST, Jan 24,
Sarah Kosenka, Illinois
# 338:
10:03 pm PST, Jan 23,
Deborah Robinson, New York
For more impact, add a personal comment here
For more impact, add a personal comment here
# 337:
9:53 pm PST, Jan 23,
Elizabeth Goldsmith, New York
It's definitely time for a change.
It's definitely time for a change.
# 336:
7:55 pm PST, Jan 23,
Rachelle Bradt, New York
Dear Mrs. Edelman, as the courageous and outspoken leader for social justice to whom we look for guidance, please consider supporting Barack Obama in the Democratic primary so that our nation can grasp this historic opportunity. Independent voters, Republicans and an international community of supporters are following the decision that rests in the hands of Democratic primary voters. Your word will mean a lot.
Dear Mrs. Edelman, as the courageous and outspoken leader for social justice to whom we look for guidance, please consider supporting Barack Obama in the Democratic primary so that our nation can grasp this historic opportunity. Independent voters, Republicans and an international community of supporters are following the decision that rests in the hands of Democratic primary voters. Your word will mean a lot.
# 335:
6:21 pm PST, Jan 23,
Christopher Spivey, Tennessee
I am 25 now and have been a diabetic since I was three years old. My father walk out on us when I was about 8 after my mother had left her job to attend law school. We had to turn to public assistance for a few months. There was never any problems for her getting all the supplies and insulin I needed. Because I was at the age to secure on my own thimgs I should not have eaten, I was hospitalized alot with my mother having no worries than my health. I lost my vision three years ago and while I worked, medicare did not start for 2 years and I was on the state medical program which limited the number of prescriptions per month and required alot of changes to get doctor's orders approved. If I had not had my mother, the lawyer, when I first needed medicade - I would have did without alot of needed medical assistance. A child needing anything their doctors prescribe should not have to have a mother that knows how to read the federal regs. or email the world. My mother told me that when we needed public medical assistance before, it did not come with the limitations and frustrations it does now. She also told me that it was because of your work and vision that we got the help that I did. I am now prusuing a different course of study now - French and public administration. I am excited about what I have read about Mr. Obama and you. It seems to me that you would support such a man, thus I am asking that is your endorsement would help him, as mant feel, that you please consider giving it.
I am 25 now and have been a diabetic since I was three years old. My father walk out on us when I was about 8 after my mother had left her job to attend law school. We had to turn to public assistance for a few months. There was never any problems for her getting all the supplies and insulin I needed. Because I was at the age to secure on my own thimgs I should not have eaten, I was hospitalized alot with my mother having no worries than my health. I lost my vision three years ago and while I worked, medicare did not start for 2 years and I was on the state medical program which limited the number of prescriptions per month and required alot of changes to get doctor's orders approved. If I had not had my mother, the lawyer, when I first needed medicade - I would have did without alot of needed medical assistance. A child needing anything their doctors prescribe should not have to have a mother that knows how to read the federal regs. or email the world. My mother told me that when we needed public medical assistance before, it did not come with the limitations and frustrations it does now. She also told me that it was because of your work and vision that we got the help that I did. I am now prusuing a different course of study now - French and public administration. I am excited about what I have read about Mr. Obama and you. It seems to me that you would support such a man, thus I am asking that is your endorsement would help him, as mant feel, that you please consider giving it.
# 334:
4:19 pm PST, Jan 23,
Carlton Bailey, New York
# 333:
4:14 pm PST, Jan 23,
Anna Roy, California
Ms. Wright Edelman, I really respect your work and all you have done on behalf of the world's and America's children. Writing about Clinton's calculated betrayal of the poor and America's kids was awful to learn about. As a former labor organizer myself, I believe in social change as a way to impact the world and nation. I am particularly skeptic about politicians, having lobbied them and been abandoned by them in such a way as Clinton. However, I truly believe that Barack Obama is the best choice for our next president. He is not perfect, but who is? He is the wisest choice Ms. Wright Edelman, and the truth is, if you do not speak out, your fail to fill a void that your leadership indeed fills in this world. At this time, it is imperative for you to speak up and please endorse Mr. Barack Obama, and do all that you can to get him elected, in your powers...With all respect and admiration, humbly yours, Anna Roy
Ms. Wright Edelman, I really respect your work and all you have done on behalf of the world's and America's children. Writing about Clinton's calculated betrayal of the poor and America's kids was awful to learn about. As a former labor organizer myself, I believe in social change as a way to impact the world and nation. I am particularly skeptic about politicians, having lobbied them and been abandoned by them in such a way as Clinton. However, I truly believe that Barack Obama is the best choice for our next president. He is not perfect, but who is? He is the wisest choice Ms. Wright Edelman, and the truth is, if you do not speak out, your fail to fill a void that your leadership indeed fills in this world. At this time, it is imperative for you to speak up and please endorse Mr. Barack Obama, and do all that you can to get him elected, in your powers...With all respect and admiration, humbly yours, Anna Roy
# 332:
1:29 pm PST, Jan 23,
Rosa Velez, New York
Dear Ms. Edelman: Thank you so much for the vitally important and significant work you have done over the years for our children and disenfranchised citizens! I respectfully ask you to please endorse Obama for President of this United States. His character and track record truly make him the most qualified of all candidates to best serve the interests and common good of the people! Blessings, Rosa
Dear Ms. Edelman: Thank you so much for the vitally important and significant work you have done over the years for our children and disenfranchised citizens! I respectfully ask you to please endorse Obama for President of this United States. His character and track record truly make him the most qualified of all candidates to best serve the interests and common good of the people! Blessings, Rosa
# 331:
10:19 am PST, Jan 23,
Renee Smith, New York
Be a part of history please endorse Barack Obama! This country needs him, the world needs him and we need him.
Be a part of history please endorse Barack Obama! This country needs him, the world needs him and we need him.
# 330:
9:20 am PST, Jan 23,
Helena Lacanglacang, California
Ms. Edleman, I am a senior in college with a two year old and I work full-time. I have never made politics a priority in my life until Senator Obama. Senator Obama is the most intelligent and moving speaker I have ever heard and if this petition does not want you to support him, then please, take the time to research him as a candidate and understand why so many people from around the WORLD want Senator Obama to be our next president. Thank you!
Ms. Edleman, I am a senior in college with a two year old and I work full-time. I have never made politics a priority in my life until Senator Obama. Senator Obama is the most intelligent and moving speaker I have ever heard and if this petition does not want you to support him, then please, take the time to research him as a candidate and understand why so many people from around the WORLD want Senator Obama to be our next president. Thank you!
# 329:
7:45 am PST, Jan 23,
Tara Shaw, New York
I support Obama and the CDF.
I support Obama and the CDF.
# 328:
7:07 am PST, Jan 23,
A. Brown, New Jersey
Barack Obama is the best candidate for this country, let's do all that we can to help get him elected in '08!!
Barack Obama is the best candidate for this country, let's do all that we can to help get him elected in '08!!
# 327:
6:46 am PST, Jan 23,
Theresa Thanjan, New York
Dear Ms. Edleman, As a social worker who has dedicated much of my life to working with young people, I consider you to be one of my heroes. I am writing to ask you to please endorse Barack Obama for president. He represents so much of is promising about our future and is an inpiration to young and old, of every race, color and creed. He is also a staunch advocate of children's rights and believes in equal access for them in terms of education, health care and social programs. Please Ms. Edleman, your endorsement could be the difference b/w eight more years of divisive politics through Senator Clinton or the change we so desperately need through Barack Obama. Yours truly, Theresa Thanjan
Dear Ms. Edleman, As a social worker who has dedicated much of my life to working with young people, I consider you to be one of my heroes. I am writing to ask you to please endorse Barack Obama for president. He represents so much of is promising about our future and is an inpiration to young and old, of every race, color and creed. He is also a staunch advocate of children's rights and believes in equal access for them in terms of education, health care and social programs. Please Ms. Edleman, your endorsement could be the difference b/w eight more years of divisive politics through Senator Clinton or the change we so desperately need through Barack Obama. Yours truly, Theresa Thanjan
# 326:
6:01 am PST, Jan 23,
Karen Peters, New York
# 325:
5:52 am PST, Jan 23,
Joe Rogers, New York
# 324:
5:51 am PST, Jan 23,
Jennifer Odem, Louisiana
# 323:
4:32 am PST, Jan 23,
Name not displayed, Delaware
oh he is so different and so incredibly inspiring and such a natural leader! to have someone as president that we could be proud of, who makes us proud of ourselves as a nation! there used to be people like that in the presidency. why does it need to seem such a pipe dream to have such a caliber of individual like him for our generation? please help us do something for our nation, instead of something to our nation, again. thank you.
oh he is so different and so incredibly inspiring and such a natural leader! to have someone as president that we could be proud of, who makes us proud of ourselves as a nation! there used to be people like that in the presidency. why does it need to seem such a pipe dream to have such a caliber of individual like him for our generation? please help us do something for our nation, instead of something to our nation, again. thank you.
# 322:
2:54 am PST, Jan 23,
Victoria Thomas, Wyoming
# 321:
11:47 pm PST, Jan 22,
Erin Colston, New York
It is time that Hilary stopped trying to take credit for other people's work to make herself look good.
It is time that Hilary stopped trying to take credit for other people's work to make herself look good.
# 320:
11:20 pm PST, Jan 22,
Deborah Phelan, California
I saw you on Democracy Now and was so moved by the story. America needs people of integrity such as yourself to stand up now in support of the renewal of America's ideals. Sen. Barack Obama represents hope to his millions of supporters and he is standing tall in a fight against a corrupt system. Please endorse this exceptional man!
I saw you on Democracy Now and was so moved by the story. America needs people of integrity such as yourself to stand up now in support of the renewal of America's ideals. Sen. Barack Obama represents hope to his millions of supporters and he is standing tall in a fight against a corrupt system. Please endorse this exceptional man!
# 319:
11:10 pm PST, Jan 22,
Shelley Peterson, California
I truly believe Senator Obama is the best Person for the job and is a unique and gifted leader who would not only unite America but inspire us as well. We need to be proud of our country and it's leader and with less baggage I believe the rest of the world would view him as a fresh start to unification around the world.
I truly believe Senator Obama is the best Person for the job and is a unique and gifted leader who would not only unite America but inspire us as well. We need to be proud of our country and it's leader and with less baggage I believe the rest of the world would view him as a fresh start to unification around the world.
# 318:
9:38 pm PST, Jan 22,
Lynda Woolard, Louisiana
Dear Ms. Edelman, We respectfully request your participation in this campaign. Wouldn't it be nice to keep the discourse on substantive issues? Wouldn't it be nice to move forward instead of returning to the same old dirty battles of the 90's? Wouldn't it be nice to unite the country behind a vision of hope? Think of all that could be accomplished in the next presidency. Please help us get there.
Dear Ms. Edelman, We respectfully request your participation in this campaign. Wouldn't it be nice to keep the discourse on substantive issues? Wouldn't it be nice to move forward instead of returning to the same old dirty battles of the 90's? Wouldn't it be nice to unite the country behind a vision of hope? Think of all that could be accomplished in the next presidency. Please help us get there.
# 317:
9:16 pm PST, Jan 22,
Haile Rivera, New York
Ms. Edleman, on July 10th (this year) I had the opportunity to have dinner with Barack. Yes, he's great on tv, very charismatic and well-spoken. In person, he's much more then that. You could tell that he wants to be President because he TRULY CARES about our country. He was not born rich and when he began his campaign, he did not have a million dollar like others. He is really committed to solving our nation's problems, especially those dealing with Welfare Reform. I can guarantee you that he will not let you nor I down. If I had a million dollars I will offer it as a guarantee but right now, all I have is my faith and hope. Please support him.
Ms. Edleman, on July 10th (this year) I had the opportunity to have dinner with Barack. Yes, he's great on tv, very charismatic and well-spoken. In person, he's much more then that. You could tell that he wants to be President because he TRULY CARES about our country. He was not born rich and when he began his campaign, he did not have a million dollar like others. He is really committed to solving our nation's problems, especially those dealing with Welfare Reform. I can guarantee you that he will not let you nor I down. If I had a million dollars I will offer it as a guarantee but right now, all I have is my faith and hope. Please support him.
# 316:
8:58 pm PST, Jan 22,
Andrew & Amy Waldron, Oklahoma
Please support Sen. Obama, his vision of hope, and to end the harmful political dynasties around since 1988.
Please support Sen. Obama, his vision of hope, and to end the harmful political dynasties around since 1988.
# 315:
8:26 pm PST, Jan 22,
Gladys Watson, New York
I have been a NYC Public school teacher for 20 years and have always supported you as an advocate for children. Your split with the Clinton administration's action concern the Defense Fund got my full support. Therefore, I would like to ask you to support Obama for President in 2008. Thank You
I have been a NYC Public school teacher for 20 years and have always supported you as an advocate for children. Your split with the Clinton administration's action concern the Defense Fund got my full support. Therefore, I would like to ask you to support Obama for President in 2008. Thank You
# 314:
8:12 pm PST, Jan 22,
Name not displayed, California
# 313:
7:56 pm PST, Jan 22,
Laura Hubka, Iowa
Ms. Edleman, I have admired you for years, you are a strong and couragous woman. I believe that you would help out someone of great charicter and strengh. I see Barack Obama as the future of this great country and a real change in politics. I know that the word change has been used a lot since Barack started using it at the begining of his campaign and that many politicians (even republicans) are now splattering it all over thier signs. After this last week of attacks on Obamas record and personal attacks he has taken just for being who he is I think that a strong endorsement from someone such as yourself would truely help to propel him through the Feb 5th states and on to the nomination. Think of how we will feel having a president we can be proud of! I ask you in all sincerity to think on this and help a great man save America before it is too late.
Ms. Edleman, I have admired you for years, you are a strong and couragous woman. I believe that you would help out someone of great charicter and strengh. I see Barack Obama as the future of this great country and a real change in politics. I know that the word change has been used a lot since Barack started using it at the begining of his campaign and that many politicians (even republicans) are now splattering it all over thier signs. After this last week of attacks on Obamas record and personal attacks he has taken just for being who he is I think that a strong endorsement from someone such as yourself would truely help to propel him through the Feb 5th states and on to the nomination. Think of how we will feel having a president we can be proud of! I ask you in all sincerity to think on this and help a great man save America before it is too late.
# 312:
7:43 pm PST, Jan 22,
Kate Royce, Texas
It is with the utmost respect for you and all that you have done for children that I respectfully ask you to endorse Sen. Obama for president. Your voice in support of him would have a profound - positive - effect on voters.
It is with the utmost respect for you and all that you have done for children that I respectfully ask you to endorse Sen. Obama for president. Your voice in support of him would have a profound - positive - effect on voters.
# 311:
7:39 pm PST, Jan 22,
Karen Cooney, Iowa
I work for the government & see the fallout from the bad bills that Clinton signed, so when their 5 years are up, it just falls on the Housing Programs to pay more for them to live. Exchange one program for the other & now the Housing programs are being cut. Please help us elect Obama.
I work for the government & see the fallout from the bad bills that Clinton signed, so when their 5 years are up, it just falls on the Housing Programs to pay more for them to live. Exchange one program for the other & now the Housing programs are being cut. Please help us elect Obama.
# 310:
6:47 pm PST, Jan 22,
Sarah Matthews, California
# 309:
6:22 pm PST, Jan 22,
Nia Crowder, California
# 308:
6:14 pm PST, Jan 22,
Name not displayed, New York
You can help make the difference in this primary, this election, and this country. Please support Barack Obama for President and give us the chance to, together, make a real difference.
You can help make the difference in this primary, this election, and this country. Please support Barack Obama for President and give us the chance to, together, make a real difference.
# 307:
6:06 pm PST, Jan 22,
Linda Breeze Sims, California
Senator Obama cares for the welfare of our children. He wants every child to have the same opportunities his children have. Please stand with us in support of the next President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Senator Obama cares for the welfare of our children. He wants every child to have the same opportunities his children have. Please stand with us in support of the next President of the United States, Barack Obama.
# 306:
5:40 pm PST, Jan 22,
Barbara Donaldson, Illinois
I believe Obama has been brought into America's life story for a purpose. He represents the future. He has paid attention to our youth and galvanized them into action for our democracy. He is an upstanding leader and has already created change. I hope you will consider endorsing him right now. We need a unified America and our time is now!
I believe Obama has been brought into America's life story for a purpose. He represents the future. He has paid attention to our youth and galvanized them into action for our democracy. He is an upstanding leader and has already created change. I hope you will consider endorsing him right now. We need a unified America and our time is now!
# 305:
4:35 pm PST, Jan 22,
Ashley Long, Maryland
Dear Marian Wright Edleman: I am adding a personal comment to my signature to encourage you, as strongly as I can, to please publicly endorse Senator Barack Obama for President. You have given voice to the voiceless throughout your career. Please use that voice now to endorse the candidate who has, himself, done the hard work of organizing and working for those without hope. He is our chance to rebuild America, both inside and out. Thank you, Ashley Long Lexington Park, MD
Dear Marian Wright Edleman: I am adding a personal comment to my signature to encourage you, as strongly as I can, to please publicly endorse Senator Barack Obama for President. You have given voice to the voiceless throughout your career. Please use that voice now to endorse the candidate who has, himself, done the hard work of organizing and working for those without hope. He is our chance to rebuild America, both inside and out. Thank you, Ashley Long Lexington Park, MD
# 304:
4:26 pm PST, Jan 22,
Deborah Chandran, Connecticut
Dear Mrs. Edleman, Thank you for your amazing dedication to women and children. I'm am a mom with two kids, 8 and 5, and am now it a position to reenter the work force. I have to remake myself, my computer degrees are long outdated from 7 years of inattention. And I ask myself what next? You are an example. I am asking with this petition that you support Barack Obama in this campaign. I originally supported Hillary Clinton, but the more I learn, the harder I am fighting. I have looked at Obama, and I see how he can stop hostilities, how he can generate successful legislation, how he can make make the right choices, and how he can lead us. Obama is running against an entrenched political legacy that I think will not be good for the country in the future. People are busy, and they don't research the campaigns, so they make wrong choices based on name brands, and believe the innuendos. But, when leaders speak up, people listen. Leaders can make a difference. I beseech, you, would you please consider endorsing Barack Obama?
Dear Mrs. Edleman, Thank you for your amazing dedication to women and children. I'm am a mom with two kids, 8 and 5, and am now it a position to reenter the work force. I have to remake myself, my computer degrees are long outdated from 7 years of inattention. And I ask myself what next? You are an example. I am asking with this petition that you support Barack Obama in this campaign. I originally supported Hillary Clinton, but the more I learn, the harder I am fighting. I have looked at Obama, and I see how he can stop hostilities, how he can generate successful legislation, how he can make make the right choices, and how he can lead us. Obama is running against an entrenched political legacy that I think will not be good for the country in the future. People are busy, and they don't research the campaigns, so they make wrong choices based on name brands, and believe the innuendos. But, when leaders speak up, people listen. Leaders can make a difference. I beseech, you, would you please consider endorsing Barack Obama?
# 303:
4:19 pm PST, Jan 22,
I.b. Acrakhore, California
yo bitch!! u ass best support obama ass cause we want batkitball free hunnert city fie day a year!!!!!
yo bitch!! u ass best support obama ass cause we want batkitball free hunnert city fie day a year!!!!!
# 302:
4:19 pm PST, Jan 22,
Joshua Taylor, Washington D.C.
Ms. Wright-Edelman, You are a hero of mine for your years of dedicated work on behalf of the "least of these". I write to ask you to please endorse Sen. Obama in the very near future. As a former community organizer and now a strong national leader, Sen. Obama best understands the problems faced by everyday working families, has the best opportunity to unify the country, and put an end to the "old politics". Please do not let your name be repeatedly invoked by another candidate who went against everything you stood for by supporting the 1996 Welfare reform law.
Ms. Wright-Edelman, You are a hero of mine for your years of dedicated work on behalf of the "least of these". I write to ask you to please endorse Sen. Obama in the very near future. As a former community organizer and now a strong national leader, Sen. Obama best understands the problems faced by everyday working families, has the best opportunity to unify the country, and put an end to the "old politics". Please do not let your name be repeatedly invoked by another candidate who went against everything you stood for by supporting the 1996 Welfare reform law.
# 301:
11:08 pm PST, Jan 21,
Abdulla Adel, Bahrain
