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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
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The officers accused of striking
Davis were identified as Schilling
and Evangelist.
During the arrest, another of­
ficer, identified as Smith, ordered
APTN producer Rich Matthews and
a cameraman to stop recording.
When Matthews held up his cre­
dentials, the officer grabbed the
producer, leaned him backward
over a car, jabbed him in the stom­
ach and unleashed a profanity-
laced tirade.
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.
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“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
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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.
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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. The jo b le ss
rate for blacks last m onth w as
9 .2 p ercent, co m p ared to the
national average o f 5.1 percent.
H ouse D e m o c ra tic L e a d e r
N ancy Pelosi said the num bers
in d ic a te th at P re sid e n t B ush
and the R epublican C o ngress
are out o f touch w ith the plight
o f h ard -w o rk in g fam ilies and
back up S e p te m b e r’s C ensus
r e p o r t , w h ic h s h o w e d th e
n a tio n ’s poverty rate rising for
the fourth y e a r in a row .
“W e cannot co n tin u e to stay
the course on such irre sp o n ­
sible econom ic policies that fail
to invest in jo b tra in in g , e d u c a ­
tio n , and in n o v a tio n , w h ich
w o u ld grow th e e c o n o m y ,”
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