The struggle continues in Selma as we stand against the land giveaway to the KKK lovers ( no exaggeration... they say we should be happy they made us slaves and want to honor the first grand wizard of the Klan... and the CITY OF SELMA gonna give them land when they already owe the city..) Extraordinary circumstances ... Meet us at the St. James at 5 p.m. today Faya Ora Rose Touré is a Harvard-educated Civil Rights activist and litigation attorney who has worked on some of the highest-profile civil rights cases to come before the courts. Touré--who spent most of her career as Rose Sanders until she decided to step away from her "slave name" in 2003--was the first African-American female judge in Alabama and was part of the winning legal team in Pigford vs. Veneman, the largest civil rights case in history. This case led to the payment of a billion dollars in damages to black farmers by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. In addition, Touré is founder of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabamahttp://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/YRQiFyhWaWpDGzAdbjTk3A?feat=directlinkFaya Ora Rose Touré is a Harvard-educated Civil Rights activist and litigation attorney who has worked
on some of the highest-profile civil rights cases to come before the courts. Touré--who spent most of her career as Rose Sanders until she decided to step away from her "slave name" in 2003--was the first African-American female judge in Alabama and was part of the winning legal team in Pigford vs. Veneman, the largest civil rights case in history. This case led to the payment of a billion dollars in damages to black farmers by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. In addition, Touré is founder of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama, and a founding partner in the law firm of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Pettaway & Campbell, LLC. Intensely passionate about her activism and legal work and the needs of the black community, Touré has founded learning and cultural centers, political and legal organizations, and community initiatives that have benefited Alabamians for three decades. She uses her many talents to further her message and is a prolific songwriter and playwright, as well as the host of a weekly radio show, Faya's Fire.Memberships: Alabama New South Coalition; Coalition of Alabamians Reforming Education; National Bar Association; National Conference of Black Lawyers of Alabama; Legal Defense Fund.
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For almost a year the people of Selma have been fighting to keep a 12 ft statue of Nathan B Forest, a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War & the first Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, from being erected in the city of Selma. The Selma City Council (that is majority black, along with a Black Mayor) voted in favor of this monument for this klansman & denied Faya Rose Toure, one of the leaders in the movement to stop this monument from being put up, the opportunity to speak at the mtg. She was arrested after insisting to speak on the issue and is now refusing bail in protest of this travesty. I quote my her in saying that “Glorifying Nathan B. Forrest (a Klansman) in Selma is like glorifying Hitler (a Nazi) in Germany". THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! PLEASE HELP US FIGHT THIS BY SIGNING THIS PETITION TELLING THE CITY COUNCIL TO DISCONTINUE EFFORTS TO BUILD THIS MONUMENT.
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