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This Is Our Home, It Is Not For Sale is the 60-year history of an archetypal American neighborhood, Riverside in Houston, Texas, which experienced the classic syndrome of integration, real estate blockbusting, white flight, and regentrification common to virtually every American city. The film's title comes from that era of racial transition when whites, pressed by real estate agents to sell to blacks, prominently displayed signs proclaiming: "This Is Our Home, It Is Not For Sale"--words that would be swallowed in almost every case as white owners stampeded and property values collapsed. Years later, that dictum remained just as timely and relevant to Riverside's affluent black community as they continued to protest various social and institutional encroachments into the area. For thirty years, Riverside was the cultural center of Houston's Jewish community, who came to settle here upon being barred from other elite areas of the city by the existing "gentlemen's agreements." A viable community, Riverside seemed to have a stable future as a residence where white upper and middle class families--both Jewish and gentile--lived harmoniously together. But a series of unforeseen factors brought unexpected change. This change was heralded by four sticks of dynamite which rocked the home of the Jack Caesar family, the first black family to break the color barrier and move into Riverside. This well-publicized bombing plus wide-spread blockbusting by real estate agents accelerated the racial transition. Middle and upper class blacks replaced fleeing whites into the area. As such, Riverside emerged as one of the leading minority communities in the U.S. For upwardly mobile blacks who had found the good life here, their status quo was threatened by: 1) the expansion of two universities into the area; 2) the construction of a freeway displacing the western edge of the neighborhood; 3) the placement of a county psychiatric hospital within the neighborhood; and 4) the reappearance of white home buyers into the area. The poignance of the re-enactment of resident responses, despite role reversals and a changing cast of characters, serves to evoke a deeper appreciation of the meanings and values we attach to home and neighborhood and of the forces that threaten those values. That a neighborhood with a sense of community faced crises, changed, and yet retained the same view the very nature of people, who, despite their differences, share many of the same hopes and aspirations. Brimming with history, replete with social and political issues, the Riverside story is above all a human document. For Riverside is a neighborhood that speaks not just of history and issues, but of the intangible rhythms, spirit, and dreams of the people who have lived there. more.... http://thisisourhomeitisnotforsale.com / ---------- Riverside Terrace was a neighborhood for rich Jewish people to be accepted and live because they were not accepted in nearby River Oaks in Houston. In the 60's a well off black family moved in and some of the Jewish residence got angry and tried to make them move, they wouldn't. After no success, white flight took over and property values went down as more blacks moved in. Today it is a mixed neighborhood. Very interesting documentary.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop... Nov. 14, 2007, 8:04PM Pasadena man fatally shoots burglary suspects A Pasadena homeowner this afternoon fatally shot two men he believed were burglarizing his neighbor's house, police said. About 2 p.m., the homeowner in the Village Grove East subdivision heard noises he thought sounded like broken glass, said Capt. A.H. "Bud" Corbett, with the Pasadena Police Department. The man determined the noise was coming from next door. The man, who police have not identified, knew the owner of the house in the 7400 block of Timberline Drive was not home, and that the noise could possibly be a burglary, Corbett said. The man then called police to inform them he thought his neighbor's house was being burglarized. The man then saw two men coming through a gate in the backyard of the neighbor's house. "He confronted them with a shotgun," Corbett said, and asked them to stop. They did not and he fired two shots, striking each man once, Corbett said. One man was found dead about two houses from where the reported burglary occurred. The other was found dead across the street, Corbett said. ...more --------------------------------------- I agree that a person should protect their home and property from burglars but all I can do is shake my head on this one. Those burglars were getting away with the stuff so he had to shoot them dead. Well, at least his neighbor got his stuff back. The neighbors are calling him a hero...I don't think so. Flame on.
And our government doesn't care. Apparently word is out that you can rape a native woman and get away with it as long as you do it on native land. NPR has been reporting for two days straight on these assaults that has been happening the last few years. These criminals are getting away with it. The government has set it up that law enforcement on native land can only prosecute native Americans. If they have a non-native in custody, they have to turn them over to federal agents. That is where nothing gets done. No charges are likely filed. See here for more info on this tragedy: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p... All Things Considered, July 26, 2007
"Many of the criminals know Indian lands are almost a lawless community, where they can do whatever they want," O'Neal said.
· At 14, Bonnie, a Cherokee Indian, needed a ride home. She grew up near the small city of Talequah, on the eastern side of Oklahoma. A woman she knew from town offered her a ride, instructing Bonnie to wait at her house. The woman's husband was home, drinking with four of his friends. "I was in the other room, and they came in and threw me on the bed," Bonnie said. "And they all held me down." Bonnie never reported the rape. She says she had been told many times by her mother and other relatives that nobody was going to take a case involving an Indian girl getting raped. "I just didn't figure anyone would believe me — a child against five white men," Bonnie said. Another story of an assault from yesterday was of a woman that was at a party and four guys were threatening to beat her up. She called her friend to tell her and her husband to come and get her. She was crying, then she hung up. The next day they found her in a hospital raped and beaten up real bad. She told her friend that was in the room to turn the lights on (the lights were on). She explained that all four raped her in a bathroom and left her there. She said she took some diabetic pills so she could pass out and maybe they would leave her alone. They didn't. They came back and beat and raped her again. The next day someone found her and called an ambulance. Btw, a few days later...the woman died. Why is our government allowing this to happen? Is this racism? If these assaults were happening to white women by non white men, I doubt the government turn a blind eye to it.
I respect your right to have an opinion, and I spent 20+ years of my life serving my country so that people could have the right to their own opinion even if I disagree with it.
Be pro-Bush if you like, but never forget that the man is a deserter from the Texas National Guard who only received an honorable discharge because of his father.
What is more, I personally saw the man do lines of drugs laid out on a bar on Richmond Drive in 1973 while I was home on leave.
In addition, to being a deserter, drunk, and a druggie, his number two man is a gutless, five deferrment individual who had too much important drinking to do to server his country during Vietnam.
And, last, but not least, the entire Bush team is a gutless group of wannabe tough guys who keep everything they have done hidden behind presidential secrecy, because they know they will all go to jail if anyone every finds out what has really been said and done behind their closed doors.
Cowards, liars, and con artists hide behind closed doors.
James E. Atkinson, US Navy (ret)
7/8/2007 2:44:04 PMhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/...
And then there's Juror No. 0677. She is a television producer. She claimed she had paid attention to the case in a "circumfery" manner, and she has booked some of the journalists involved in the case. She was questioned about her ties to these reporters and whether she could evaluate their testimony without favor. She said yes. As for Cheney, she said, "I don't have any objective feelings about whether he would be more or less credible in this case."
She also mentioned that she was once an intern at the National Journalism Center and then an intern at The Washington Times, the conservative newspaper owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. There were no queries from the judge and lawyers about these connections. Yet might she be a conservative harboring pro-administration inclinations? Though the National Journalism Center has a bland name, it is a rightwing outfit that trains young conservative journalists and finds them jobs. Not all of its graduates are ideologically minded. But the group was launched in part by the American Conservative Union. It has received funding from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation, leading conservative foundations. (The John M. Olin Foundation funded itself out of business in 2005.) Several years ago, the National Journalism Center was taken over by another conservative group, the Young Americas Foundation.
Jurors ought not be blackballed for their political views. But if a National Journalism Center graduate makes it on to the jury, the Libby legal team would have reason to be pleased. Fitzgerald might want to ask her a few more questions. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgame...
 madman: a person who is or behaves as if insane; lunatic; maniac.
What do you see when you look at this art? I see blood spilled in the sand.  And check this one out. It's called "Reign of Terror": 
See below:  
 "Watch your step, you don't want to step in any pig shit."
Even after all these years? - Then a week or so later after the photos appeared, some detective in Florida says that the pics could not have been Johnny Gosch. He said he remembers the pic from the internet back in 1979. Of course, the internet wasn't available to us back then. The pic that was supposedly not Johnny Gosch is the one with the other two boys. He never said anything about the other pic. Next, you get all of these reports stating how the photos are not of Johnny Gosch. They just ran with that. Here is a link, which was one of many:
Investigator: Photos could not be Johnny Gosch
- Next, we hear more information that an anonymous tipster sent a note to the authorities in Iowa indicating that a hoax had been played on Mrs. Gosch....
- And now we have the Florida investigator now admitting that the Hillsborough County, Fla., sheriff's office cannot find any evidence proving the photos were actually from a case he worked in 1979, as he recalled. Here is the link for this:
Ex-investigator - No proof photos aren't of Gosch
Everytime Mrs. Gosch and her private investigators come close to finding information on her missing son and presenting it to the FBI or the police, someone (or some group) comes along and sabotages whatever leads they are given. Even after all these years. It just doesn't make sense. It's puzzling to me so I can only imagine how she must feel. My heart goes out to Mrs. Gosch and I hope someday, she will finally be able to solve this horrible case.  You can learn a lot of information from Mrs. Gosch herself from her website: http://www.johnnygosch.com / and Here are several recent videos discussing the Johnny Gosch case: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer...
Ignore the spokesman. They are only told what to say. LOL!
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