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12 Sep, 2007 9:03 am
... now, I suspect you all know the absurd and tragic story of the Jena 6. Mychal Bell, the first of
the six boys convicted, is scheduled to be sentenced on September 20th ... good ol' fashioned racism, and the like. They expressed outrage at the events in Jena. At the same time, they felt powerless to do anything beyond offer the family ... person. Now for some discussion questions. First, what do you make of
the events in Jena, Louisiana? Second, what, if anything, can/should everyday folk do in response ...
24 Sep, 2007 1:18 pm
... various other 'abuse of process' proceedings are employed to enable successful concealment and prevention of accountability. Pertaining to the JENA 6, it is astonishing -and I feel certain the average layperson could have told the Jena 6 prosecutor( ... correlation between A PROBE into what happened or did not happen surrounding Warren Jeffs,
and what happened in Jena is synonymous with the reality that when specific conditions exist for a long time, and the EFFECTS reverberate in
public view, such ...
8 Sep, 2007 8:41 am
I just heard about JENA 6 . Racial Discrimination seems to have found a new dimension in the Jim Crow
South. First we had Brown v. board of education ... The Country seems to have lost its touch on notions of equality. Ash reports as to what is Jena 6; At Jena High School in Louisiana, white students usually sat under
a tree ... white student who suffered a concussion during the fight. These black students, dubbed the "Jena six" were arrested and are
undergoing trial for attempted second-degree murder. ...
24 Sep, 2007 12:45 am
... supremacist Web site that purports to list the addresses of five of the six black teenagers accused of beating a white student in Jena and
"essentially called for their lynching," an agency spokeswoman said Saturday. Sheila Thorne, an agent in the FBI ... to do so. However, it does not protect what the law calls true
threats. Is a website with the addresses of five of the Jena 6 a true threat? This is similar to the
well known "Nuremberg Files" case, Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life ...
10 Jan, 2008 1:53 pm
... do well? Based on her own reporting, she explains why it pays to be skeptical of the claims that Mychal Bell, the most prominent Jena
6 defendant, was railroaded by flat-out racists, both at school and in the courts. She points out that Bell's ... the prosecutor's and other
whites' claims of purity, showing them to be patronizing, at best, toward the blacks in their town. Jena's "racial cliquishness" belies its
white leaders' claims of racial harmony, Waldman writes. She makes her case clearly and ...
20 Sep, 2007 3:44 pm
... have not blogged at all about the so-called "Jena 6" case, in part because it has not quite yet
become a sentencing story. However, as TalkLeft notes ... national news story. And this picture from the CNN coverage of today's protests in Jena, Louisiana spotlights that many people care a lot about what is transpiring in the case. Meanwhile, as detailed ... into a teaching moment. In other
words, what can and should we learn from the "Jena 6" case? UPDATE: I now see that Orin Kerr here is
also scratching ...
4 Dec, 2007 1:23 pm
Mychal Bell, the 17-year-old accused of hitting a white classmate in the famous "Jena Six" case pled guilty yesterday to assaulting Justin
Barker. Bell and five other ... sure that your son or daughter's case stays within the juvenile court system. "Jena 6" Teen Admits Fault in Plea Deal, USA Today, December 3, 2007 ... states ponder changes, USA Today, December 1, 2007 Related Web Resources: The Case of the
Jena Six: Black High School Students Charged with Attempted Murder for Schoolyard Fight After ...
20 Sep, 2007 7:51 am
... pressure on, and rock star David Bowie just donated $10,000 to the legal defense fund for the "Jena 6." The most detailed timeline BoardBuzz has found is, not surprisingly, the one from the local paper, the Jena
Times (although parts of it are a bit defensive). Between 5,000 and 40,000 protesters are expected today in Jena. Schools will be closed. And
the tree? The school board had it cut down before the school year started. "A clean slate," explained LaSalle Parish School Board ...
20 Sep, 2007 9:01 am
... in tiny Jena, Louisiana today along with folks from all over the country to rally in celebration of the court's vacation of charges against
"the Jena 6," responding to a demonstration "conjured out of the ether of cyberspace," according to
the Chicago Tribune. The Dallas South blog says 14 buses are headed to Jena from the DFW area, and the Houston Chronicle reported more than 400
Houstonians also made the trek. Mark Sorkin wrote in The ...
22 Jul, 2007 10:00 am
Perhaps you heard the mothers, fathers and others talking about the Jena 6 on democracy now!. Here is
another outrageous but true example of segregation-era oppression happening today in Jena, Louisiana. I signed onto ColorOfChange.org's
campaign for justice in Jena,...
12 Sep, 2007 12:14 pm
If you would like further info on the Jena 6, take a look at these reports.NBC News Covers the
Jena Six [www.youtube.com] <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeFkIj8HbZw&mode=related&search> = The Jena Six from Collateral News [www.youtube.com] <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY>
24 Oct, 2007 11:06 am
... , Craig Franklin, uses this article to debunk a dozen myths that he says have been adopted by Jena 6 supporters and lazy journalists who got their "facts" only from one side's advocates, or from blogs. Franklin writes: Myths replaced facts, and journalists
abdicated their solemn ... appealing but false narrative of racial injustice.Because I haven't dug deeply into the facts in Jena, I'm resisting
the urge to be seduced by Franklin's claims -- tempting though that may be, since it ...
3 Sep, 2007 9:02 am
"On Sept. 20, several national organizations will rally in Jena. That's the date Bell is scheduled to be sentenced. Unfortunately, as noted by
George Tucker -- the attorney representing another "Jena 6" defendant -- there's been a "top-heavy
effort to...
24 Sep, 2007 2:56 pm
"But what happened, exactly?" That's how AP's Todd Lewan kicks his story on the Jena 6 into gear,
after a long lead-in that recounts the turmoil over a racially combustible case. After all the protests and cable-TV shrieking, Lewan promises "a more nuanced ... of events - one that
can be found in court testimony, in interviews with teachers, officials and students at Jena High, and in public statements from a U.S.
attorney who reviewed the case for possible federal intervention." He ...
2 Aug, 2008 12:58 am
The judge in the Jena 6 case has been removed due to inappropriate comments about the arrested teens.
Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. had acknowledged calling the teens "trouble makers" and "a violent bunch" but insisted he could be impartial. Defense attorneys disagreed and asked that he be
removed. Judge Thomas M. Yeager, who was appointed by the state Supreme Court to decide whether Mauffray should be taken off the case, found there was an appearance of impropriety. "The
right ...
23 Sep, 2007 7:09 pm
Over at TalkLeft, Jeralyn Merritt has a very helpful post on what we know - and what we don't - about the "Jena 6" controversy. Based on her summary, it...
23 Oct, 2007 8:59 am
... and New York Timeses, AP, Hearst, Belo, Gannett, CNN and ABC. Juvenile-court secrecy, of course, has clear justifications. But not in a case like Jena 6, where the public is already keenly aware of the defendants' identities and the facts -- but also is highly
susceptible to rumor and false claims about how the justice system is working. The Trib's story, unfortunately, doesn't tell us how easily challenged the ruling is ...
8 Feb, 2008 4:54 am
... Star columnist said that too many in the national media relied on Bean's account. Concludes Whitlock: 'I'm not saying it's Bean's fault-- that's unfair to him. If there's any bad
guys in the Jena 6 story it's the media. We blew this.' Keith Woods of the Poynter Institute says the
national media is 'subject to cast things inaccurately by not delving down deeply enough into individual details of the story.' " American Journalism Review
19 Sep, 2007 9:02 am
... 's donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund was announced by the NAACP as thousands of protesters were expected to march through
Jena on Thursday in defense of Mychal Bell and five other teens. The group has become known as the Jena Six. " ... expects more than 10,000 marchers. "We are gratified that rock star David Bowie was moved to donate to the NAACP's Jena campaign," National Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said in a ...
20 Sep, 2007 9:58 am
... black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate. The crowd broke into chants of "Free the Jena
Six" as the Rev. Al Sharpton arrived at the local courthouse with family members of the jailed teens. Martin Luther King III ... one crowd. Dennis Courtland Hayes, interim president and
CEO of the NAACP, compared the outcry over the arrests in Jena to the controversy that followed racial remarks by radio personality Don Imus.
"People are saying, 'That's enough, ...
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