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POPULAR received
preliminary DOJ
response and Hesburgh
writes Conyers and
Holders for POPULAR's
Executive Director
preliminary DOJ
response and Hesburgh
writes Conyers and
Holders for POPULAR's
Executive Director
July 7 2009 Continuing September 22 2009 November 19 2009 To Date
POPULAR teams with ACORN 8,
jointly submitting first case to
DOJ alleging government
retaliation against 2 POPULAR
Advisory Board members
jointly submitting first case to
DOJ alleging government
retaliation against 2 POPULAR
Advisory Board members
Arguable retaliation
against POPULAR
Advisory Board
members Stokes and
Mellen continues
and arguably
intensifies
against POPULAR
Advisory Board
members Stokes and
Mellen continues
and arguably
intensifies
POPULAR issues First
DOJ Report Card and
supplements complaint
7709 with additional
evidence of arguable
retaliation against Stokes,
Mellen & supporters
DOJ Report Card and
supplements complaint
7709 with additional
evidence of arguable
retaliation against Stokes,
Mellen & supporters
Campaign Cosponsors Profile
POPULAR, Inc.
Power
Over
Poverty
Under
Laws of
America
Restored
Over
Poverty
Under
Laws of
America
Restored
POPULAR is an association of
public interest attorneys and
Juris Doctors, advised by a
board of nonlawyer
community leaders. These
good government advocates
are committed to helping poor
and other disadvantaged
people access affordable and
public interest attorneys and
Juris Doctors, advised by a
board of nonlawyer
community leaders. These
good government advocates
are committed to helping poor
and other disadvantaged
people access affordable and
competent legal representation, appropriate
judicial oversight, and important civil and
criminal justice system reforms.
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judicial oversight, and important civil and
criminal justice system reforms.
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The
People’s
Movement
to
Reform
ACORN
People’s
Movement
to
Reform
ACORN
ACORN (Association of
Community Organizations for
Reform Now ) has suffered
Community Organizations for
Reform Now ) has suffered
through the turmoil of embezzlement of
huge amounts of money by key figures in
the organization. To move forward it needs
to openly confront the past and eliminate
the possibility of such abuse in the future.
Reforming ACORN for the good of low and
moderate income people is what the
ACORN 8 are about.
LEARN MORE
huge amounts of money by key figures in
the organization. To move forward it needs
to openly confront the past and eliminate
the possibility of such abuse in the future.
Reforming ACORN for the good of low and
moderate income people is what the
ACORN 8 are about.
LEARN MORE
Our "Obama Lights The Way" campaign is to include candlelight vigils for justice; periodic requests that the Criminal Section, Civil
Rights Division of the U. S. Justice Department investigate certain violations of civil, constitutional, and/or human rights; and
corresponding evaluations of the agency's user-friendliness or "POPULARITY." LEARN MORE
Rights Division of the U. S. Justice Department investigate certain violations of civil, constitutional, and/or human rights; and
corresponding evaluations of the agency's user-friendliness or "POPULARITY." LEARN MORE
News and Op-Ed Releases
Contact Information
Zena Crenshaw Logal
POPULAR, Inc.
admin@popular4people.org
Michael R. McCray
ACORN 8
c/o nhall@advantageci.com
888.478.4439 Ext 2 or 3
Zena Crenshaw Logal
POPULAR, Inc.
admin@popular4people.org
Michael R. McCray
ACORN 8
c/o nhall@advantageci.com
888.478.4439 Ext 2 or 3
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Internet Radio CHANGE
OF VENUE host Zena
Crenshaw interviews
guest Nancy Swan -
Judicial Misconduct:
Taking A Bite Out The
Middle Class
Click to Listen
OF VENUE host Zena
Crenshaw interviews
guest Nancy Swan -
Judicial Misconduct:
Taking A Bite Out The
Middle Class
Click to Listen
Lobbyists on a Roll: Gutting Reform
on Banking, Energy, and Health Care
By ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
TOO MUCH: Monitoring Inequality
By Tom Rigbert
Too Poor to Make the News
Written by BARBARA EHRENREICH,
Op-Ed Contributor - The New York
Times
CHECK THIS OUT:
Obama's Justice Department Renews
Civil Rights Fight
Eric Holder has made fighting
discrimination a priority -
By Alex Kingsbury of US News and
World Report
HE'S AT IT AGAIN . . .
Check out: Poor Fathers Go Directly
to Jail and other cutting edge articles
by POPULAR's own Dr. Mark Adams,
also of Daily Censored, the blog for
the premier media watchdog
organization, Project Censored.
Adams reports - "Judges in Lee
County, Florida are throwing poor
fathers in jail for failure to pay child
support, even ones who are
unemployed and suffering from
disabilities." Read More
UPDATE: FBI, DOJ refuse to
investigate charges of judicial
corruption
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Examiner Columnist
12/03/09 3:12 PM EST
Read More
"The path to
a renewal of
the criminal misconduct of the
Bush years is being prepared
right now. And Obama Justice
Department lawyers are doing
the work."
Read the Harper's Magazine story
on Banking, Energy, and Health Care
By ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
TOO MUCH: Monitoring Inequality
By Tom Rigbert
Too Poor to Make the News
Written by BARBARA EHRENREICH,
Op-Ed Contributor - The New York
Times
CHECK THIS OUT:
Obama's Justice Department Renews
Civil Rights Fight
Eric Holder has made fighting
discrimination a priority -
By Alex Kingsbury of US News and
World Report
HE'S AT IT AGAIN . . .
Check out: Poor Fathers Go Directly
to Jail and other cutting edge articles
by POPULAR's own Dr. Mark Adams,
also of Daily Censored, the blog for
the premier media watchdog
organization, Project Censored.
Adams reports - "Judges in Lee
County, Florida are throwing poor
fathers in jail for failure to pay child
support, even ones who are
unemployed and suffering from
disabilities." Read More
UPDATE: FBI, DOJ refuse to
investigate charges of judicial
corruption
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Examiner Columnist
12/03/09 3:12 PM EST
Read More
"The path to
a renewal of
the criminal misconduct of the
Bush years is being prepared
right now. And Obama Justice
Department lawyers are doing
the work."
Read the Harper's Magazine story
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DOJ
Case
Submissions:
Alleged Government
Retaliation against
POPULAR Advisory Board
members Michayl Mellen
and George Stokes:
No. 7709 w/o Attachments
and
Supplement to No. 7709
( w/o Attachments )
Case
Submissions:
Alleged Government
Retaliation against
POPULAR Advisory Board
members Michayl Mellen
and George Stokes:
No. 7709 w/o Attachments
and
Supplement to No. 7709
( w/o Attachments )
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Justice Department Has Grassroots Reform Groups Hot Under The Blue Collar
POPULAR, Inc. (POPULAR) is a grassroots legal reform organization named after the
acronym for Power Over Poverty Under Laws of America Reformed. As its first year
anniversary approaches, the group celebrates by publicizing its first report card on the
Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division for the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The
division section got high grades for good manners but “incompletes” and an “F” in substantive
performance areas as well as an “F” for persistence due to its limited prosecutions of 18 U.S.
C. sections 241 and 242 violations.
Notre Dame President Emeritus Calls On House Judiciary Chairman and U.S.
Attorney General To Meet With Embattled Legal Reform Activist
Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame at
South Bend, Indiana, recently wrote U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. and Attorney
General Eric Holder on behalf of Notre Dame graduate and good government advocate,
Zena Crenshaw-Logal. Noting that he welcomed President Barack Obama to the university’s
campus for its 2009 commencement address but had yet to meet them, Hesburgh
encouraged Representative Conyers and Attorney General Holder to meet with Zena,
describing her as “a young woman with whom I have much in common.” Hesburgh wrote
Conyers and Holder upon learning of Zena’s troubles following her public challenge, “with
substantial community support (of alleged) bias by courts of Lake County, Indiana . . .” - 2009-
10-6
FROM PATERNALISM TO EMPOWERMENT: Why the DOJ Should Emphasize
Anti-discrimination and First Amendment Enforcement in Protecting America’s
Most Vulnerable People
By the time related circumstances warrant federal intervention, historically protected people
are often more than discrimination victims, having by then become advocates for personal
vindication and broader reform. As envisioned by our U. S. Civil Rights Commission in 1965,
“(p)rimary responsibility for correcting (their) problems . . . rests with the individual States”
which fail given obstacles more insidious than unlawful discrimination. Anyone legitimately
pressing beyond local officials to our federal government for relief, needs a DOJ committed
to First Amendment as much if not more than anti-discrimination enforcement. - 2009-9-22
ACORN 8 Gets "POPULAR" - Groups Challenge Justice Department to Protect
America's Poor and Middle Class
More than 50 years ago, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) committed itself “to upholding
the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans, including some of the most vulnerable
members of our society.” “Relative lack of wealth” literally defines the most vulnerable
segment of American society according to Zena Crenshaw Logal, Executive Director of a
good government advocate known as POPULAR (Power Over Poverty Under Laws of America
Restored). Shortly after his election, we accordingly hastened President Obama to foster a
Justice Department that is conspicuously pro-average American. And today, POPULAR
teamed with the ACORN 8 L.L.C. (ACORN 8) in submitting their first joint complaint to the
Criminal Section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. “We will continually submit compelling
evidence of various conspiracies against rights and deprivations of rights under color of law
and publicize the DOJ’s response” says attorney Michael McCray, national spokesperson for
the ACORN 8. - 2009-07-07
POPULAR, Inc. (POPULAR) is a grassroots legal reform organization named after the
acronym for Power Over Poverty Under Laws of America Reformed. As its first year
anniversary approaches, the group celebrates by publicizing its first report card on the
Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division for the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The
division section got high grades for good manners but “incompletes” and an “F” in substantive
performance areas as well as an “F” for persistence due to its limited prosecutions of 18 U.S.
C. sections 241 and 242 violations.
Notre Dame President Emeritus Calls On House Judiciary Chairman and U.S.
Attorney General To Meet With Embattled Legal Reform Activist
Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame at
South Bend, Indiana, recently wrote U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. and Attorney
General Eric Holder on behalf of Notre Dame graduate and good government advocate,
Zena Crenshaw-Logal. Noting that he welcomed President Barack Obama to the university’s
campus for its 2009 commencement address but had yet to meet them, Hesburgh
encouraged Representative Conyers and Attorney General Holder to meet with Zena,
describing her as “a young woman with whom I have much in common.” Hesburgh wrote
Conyers and Holder upon learning of Zena’s troubles following her public challenge, “with
substantial community support (of alleged) bias by courts of Lake County, Indiana . . .” - 2009-
10-6
FROM PATERNALISM TO EMPOWERMENT: Why the DOJ Should Emphasize
Anti-discrimination and First Amendment Enforcement in Protecting America’s
Most Vulnerable People
By the time related circumstances warrant federal intervention, historically protected people
are often more than discrimination victims, having by then become advocates for personal
vindication and broader reform. As envisioned by our U. S. Civil Rights Commission in 1965,
“(p)rimary responsibility for correcting (their) problems . . . rests with the individual States”
which fail given obstacles more insidious than unlawful discrimination. Anyone legitimately
pressing beyond local officials to our federal government for relief, needs a DOJ committed
to First Amendment as much if not more than anti-discrimination enforcement. - 2009-9-22
ACORN 8 Gets "POPULAR" - Groups Challenge Justice Department to Protect
America's Poor and Middle Class
More than 50 years ago, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) committed itself “to upholding
the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans, including some of the most vulnerable
members of our society.” “Relative lack of wealth” literally defines the most vulnerable
segment of American society according to Zena Crenshaw Logal, Executive Director of a
good government advocate known as POPULAR (Power Over Poverty Under Laws of America
Restored). Shortly after his election, we accordingly hastened President Obama to foster a
Justice Department that is conspicuously pro-average American. And today, POPULAR
teamed with the ACORN 8 L.L.C. (ACORN 8) in submitting their first joint complaint to the
Criminal Section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. “We will continually submit compelling
evidence of various conspiracies against rights and deprivations of rights under color of law
and publicize the DOJ’s response” says attorney Michael McCray, national spokesperson for
the ACORN 8. - 2009-07-07
To Read Hesburgh's Letter
for Zena to Conyers and
Holder:
CLICK HERE
for Zena to Conyers and
Holder:
CLICK HERE
Pictured:
Mark Adams, J.D., MBA.
Mark Adams, J.D., MBA.
Private citizens
are blogging
about their
experience with
FBI and DOJ
are blogging
about their
experience with
FBI and DOJ
Grassroots Advocates Question Legal Aid for Wealthy Supporter by House
Judiciary Committee
Today, the grassroots advocate known as POPULAR noted in a letter to House Judiciary
Chairman John Conyers, Jr.: "(u)nless an era has dawned in which 'due process' routinely
includes direct congressional review of questionable legal proceedings, that being provided
(Mississippi lawyer) Paul Minor is a serious misdirection of limited government resources." -
2009-02-12
Anti-Corruption Advocates Announce Their "Obama Lights The Way" Campaign
And Candlelight Vigils For Justice
POPULAR urged President-Elect Obama, through his virtual office at Change.Gov, to foster
a Justice Department that fervently prosecutes criminal violations of civil and constitutional
rights. According to POPULAR Advisory Board Vice-President Nancy Swan, the online
communication started what the group calls its "Obama Lights The Way" campaign. "Our
campaign is to include candlelight vigils for justice; periodic, post-inauguration requests that
the Justice Department investigate certain violations of civil, constitutional, and/or human
rights; and corresponding evaluations of the Justice Department's user-friendliness," explains
Swan. - 2008-12-18
Judiciary Committee
Today, the grassroots advocate known as POPULAR noted in a letter to House Judiciary
Chairman John Conyers, Jr.: "(u)nless an era has dawned in which 'due process' routinely
includes direct congressional review of questionable legal proceedings, that being provided
(Mississippi lawyer) Paul Minor is a serious misdirection of limited government resources." -
2009-02-12
Anti-Corruption Advocates Announce Their "Obama Lights The Way" Campaign
And Candlelight Vigils For Justice
POPULAR urged President-Elect Obama, through his virtual office at Change.Gov, to foster
a Justice Department that fervently prosecutes criminal violations of civil and constitutional
rights. According to POPULAR Advisory Board Vice-President Nancy Swan, the online
communication started what the group calls its "Obama Lights The Way" campaign. "Our
campaign is to include candlelight vigils for justice; periodic, post-inauguration requests that
the Justice Department investigate certain violations of civil, constitutional, and/or human
rights; and corresponding evaluations of the Justice Department's user-friendliness," explains
Swan. - 2008-12-18
POPULAR issues
First DOJ Report Card
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enlarge them
First DOJ Report Card
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For pdf of DOJ Report Card:
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE