PageA2________________________________________ _____ Œ,I ' Millions More Movement Takes Place This Saturday ;jjjortlanì> ©bsCrUer ________________________ New Orleans Beating Victim Baffled D oesn't know Goal to fight poverty and injustice why officers The organizers of The Mil bands and sons. attacked Those orchestrating the lion Man March will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the historic event with The Mil lions More Movement, sched uled for Saturday at the Na tional Mall in Washington, D.C. The Millions More Move ment will focus on mobilizing men, women and youth into an effective national movement with the goal of transforming American society and elimi nating poverty and injustice. The march will focus on em powering poor people to help themselves, beginning with the knowledge that in numbers comes strength and a com mon purpose to effect change. The gathering takes place on the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March, which peacefully mobilized two mil lion black men in order to help them be better fathers, hus- event include Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, Dr. Dorothy Height and the National Council of Negro Women, Bruce Gordon and the NAACP, Mark Morial and the National Urban League, Russell Simmons and the Hip- Hop Summit Action Network, Dr. Charles Steele and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Reverend Jesse Jackson and the National Rain- bow/PUSH Coalition, the Rev erend A1 Sharpton and the National Action Network and Congressman Mel Watt and the Congressional Black Cau cus, among a multitude of ce lebrity leaders. The National Director of the Millions More Movement is Washington, D.C. pastor the Reverend Willie Wilson. (A P) - A retired elementary te a c h e r w ho w as re p e a te d ly punched in the head by police in an incident caught on videotape said Monday he was not drunk, put up no resistance and was baffled by what happened. Robert Davis said he had re turned to New Orleans to check on property his family owns in the storm-ravaged city, and was out looking to buy cigarettes when he was beaten and arrested Saturday night in the French Quarter. Police have alleged that the 64- year-old Davis was publicly in toxicated, a charge he strongly denied as he stood on the street com er where the incident played Saturday, October 15, 2005, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Crowne Plaza Hotel - Lake Oswego 14811 Kruse Oaks Drive Lake Oswego, OR 97035 Participants should wear shorts or skirts for screening. 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Police said Davis was booked on public intoxication, resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and pub lic intimidation. The head of the New Orleans police union said the officers told him they had acted appropriately. “They feel they were justified in their actions and they were using the am ount o f force neces sary to overcom e the situation,” Lt. David Benelli told W DSU in New O rleans. An earthquake victim cries as he receives medical treatment near Uri, India. (AP photo) stan rem ained at around 20,000 peo p le, but a se n io r arm y o ffi cial close to the rescu e o p e ra tio n s said go v ern m en t o ffic ia ls w ere e stim a tin g that betw een 35,000 and 40,000 died. The Saturdaty quake dam aged sanitation system s in the region. d e stro y e d h o s p ita ls and le ft many victims with no access to clean drinking water, making them more vulnerable to disease. “ M easles c o u ld p o te n tia lly b eco m e a se rio u s p ro b le m ,” sa id F a d e la C h a ib , s p o k e s w om an for the W orld H ealth O rg an izatio n . “ W e fear th a t if people huddle clo sely to g e th e r in te m p o r a r y s h e lte r s a n d c r o w d e d c o n d i t i o n s m o re m easles cases could o c c u r.” M easles - deadly for children - are already endem ic in the region and only 60 percent o f the ch il dren are protected. At least 90 percent coverage is needed to prevent an epidem ic, W HO said. The agency will soon start gath ering essential vaccines for a mass immunization program. Bush Commentator Probe Wanted Leg Discomfort? Swelling? compression stockings for attending! out Saturday. “I haven’t had a drink in 25 years,” Davis said. He had stitches beneath his left eye, a bandage on his left hand and complained of soreness in his back and aches in his left shoulder. A federal civil rights investiga M easles, cholera could spread easily J Put an end to the pain and appearance of varicose veins To find a treatment right for you, register for a free varicose vein screening exam and evaluation provided by a team of venous disease specialists. Plus, recieve one pair of Robert Davis tion was begun in the case. Davis is black; the three city police officers seen on the tape are white. But Davis, his attorney and po lice spokesman Marlon Defillo all said they do not believe ra te was an issue. “He does not see it as a racial thing,” said Davis’ lawyer, Joseph Bruno. The APTN tape shows an officer hitting Davis at least four times in the head outside a bar. Davis tw isted and flailed as he was dragged to the ground by several officers. Davis’s lawyer said his client did not resist. “I don ’ t thi nk that when a person is getting beat up there’s a whole lot of thought. It’s survival. You don’t have a whole lot o f time to think when you're being pum- meled,” Bruno said. Davis was kneed and pushed to the sidewalk with blood streaming down his arm and into the gutter. Disease Warning in Quake Zone (AP) - M easles and waterborne diseases such as cholera and di a rrh e a c o u ld sp re a d q u ic k ly among victim s o f south A sia’s d e v a s ta tin g e a r th q u a k e , the U nited Nations warned Tuesday. H eavy rain and hail forced the c a n c e llatio n o f som e re lie f flig h ts to e a rth q u a k e -stric k e n reg io n s and su rvivors scu ffled over the badly needed food - the first larg e -sc a le aid to m ake it o v erland to the d ev astated city o f M u zaffarabad, P akistan. T he o fficial death toll in P a k i Free Varicose Vein October 12. 2005 » Audit finds covert propaganda (AP) - Democratic senators on Thursday pressed for a criminal fraud investigation of the Bush administration’s hiring of African American commentator Armstrong Williams to promote its agenda. C ongressional auditors con cluded last week that the Education Department engaged in illegal “co vert propaganda” by hiring W ill iams to endorse the No Child Left Behind Act without requiring him to disclose he was paid. That review by the Government Accountability Office did not come with any penalty. In a letter to Attorney General Alberto G onzales, Sens. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said questions of fraud remain for the department and for Williams. The department paid Williams, a commentator with newspaper, tele vision and radio audiences, to pro duce ads promoting Bush’s law. Work orders show he also was to provide media time to department officials and persuade other blacks in the media to discuss the law. Armstrong Williams Yel.the department provided the GAO with almost no evidence of the work that Williams cited in his m onthly reports. In their own search, GAO auditors either could not find the work Williams listed or could not connect the work they found to his contract. ‘Taking tax payer dollars for work you didn’t do is fraud - period,” Lautenberg said. “Americans are already upset that Bush adminis tration paid off a columnist to write glowing reviews of the president’s education agenda. The notion that he may not have even done the work is even worse.” Unemployment Rate for Blacks Doubles Average T he A frican A m erican unem ploym ent rate in S eptem ber was nearly double the national a v erag e, acco rd in g to a report re leased last w eek by the B ureau o f L ab o r S ta tistic s. 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