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Democracy Now! 9-19 Voices from Jena: White School Board Member Accuses Jena Six of Committing a Hate Crime
TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:
With Amy Goodman
* White School Board Member in Jena Says District Attorney Reed Walters Prevented the Board from Seeing School's Internal Investigation Before Vote to Expel Jena Six *
LaSalle Parish school board member Billy "Bulldog" Fowler reveals the school district conducted an internal investigation about the Jena Six but the school board was not allowed to review it before they voted to uphold the expulsion of the six. The school board¹s lawyer was none other than the prosecuting district attorney, Reed Walters. Asked if he felt that Walters had a conflict of interest that night, Fowler replied, ³Well, I¹m assuming that Mr. Walters knows the law.²
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/19/1621212
* Harlem Residents Head to Jena Louisiana for Rally to Free the Jena Six *
Activists from across the country are heading to Jena, Louisiana for a major demonstration on Thursday to protest the treatment of six African American high school students who were jailed and faced attempted murder charges for taking part in a fight after nooses were hung from a tree in the schoolyard. Last night we interviewed activists in Harlem as they boarded buses bound for Jena.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/19/1412242
* Voices from Jena: White School Board Member Accuses Jena Six of Committing a Hate Crime, Says Nooses Were Hung from a Schoolyard Tree "In a Joking Manner" *
During a recent trip to Jena, Democracy Now! interviewed Billy ³Bulldog² Fowler, a member of the La Salle Parish School Board. Fowler, 68, moved to Jena in 1940. He says Jena is being unfairly painted as racist. He feels the hanging nooses were blown out of proportion, that in the high school setting it was more of a prank: ³This is the Deep South, and [older] black people know the meaning of a noose. Let me tell you somethingyoung people don¹t.²
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/19/1412250
* Voices from Jena: African American Educator from Jena Accuses DA of
Conflict of Interest in Handling of Jena Six Case *
Former Assistant School Superintendent Cleveland Riser says local district attorney Reed Walters should have recused himself from the Jena Six case because he also serves as the attorney for the local school board. When the school board was asked to review the expulsion of the six students, Walters prevented them from reviewing an internal school district investigation.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/19/1412254
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/19/1412234
