NEWS - Continues from Page 1low international aidin,told to inform the overnment of theirtravel plans or face opin and to takearmy escorts to most areas outside ofBanda Aceh. Meanwhile, Indonesia TsVice-President Jusuf Kalla called onWednesday for forei | troops helpiwith selicf efforts to seve Ach by theend of March, ns :NEW YORK CITY, NC - Ed Lewis, aco-founder of Essence magazine and itsparent company, acknowledges that thecompany did not seek to partner withother large black media firms before sell-ing the business to Timé Inc.As reported Wednesday, EarlGraves St., publisher of Black Enter-prise magazine, said that black entre-comes ocould have made an offeror the company and possibly preserveEssence as a black-owned business andinstitution. ? |In an interview with Paul D.Colford in the New York Daily News,Essence's Lewis Says HeolLewis replied, oIt would be naive to as___sume that Essence hasn't been ap-proached over the years by both blackand mainstream companies. ?4 potential suitor oHis statement continued: We:wereialso given a uniquie chance to odate ?Ore hitching up for oEssence became convinced thatno other company could match the op-portunities for international expansionand access to resources that Time Warnermade availableto'us. ?In a'radio interview with ChicagoDefender Editor Roland Martin, whichaired on WVON in Chicago and waspublished in the Defender, Lewiswith T Black Entertainment Televisionfounder Robert L. Johnson, who toldJournal-isms Wednesday that large blackfirms should form a conglomerate to beable to afford to purchase companiessuch as Essence. oFrom John Johnson to Earl Gravesand myself, there needs to be more of usin terms of havi tion of wealthtobe able todo something like this Tharis just a long-term: s. I think peopleshould realize that Earl and I are the thirdgeneration that Ts going to be able to pro-vide opportunities for his children, butI'm going to be able to provide o por-tunities for many more people who areing to come along and bare the possi-ilities of doing these kinds of things; ofpetting an aggregation of wealth anding able to buy companies, ? LewisHe also said he hopes to develop apolitical action committee.need to be restored to the drought-reliefJanuary 17 - 31,2005 Theout four teams to assess humanitarian needand distribute aid to Somalis affected bythe ty Melo said Le :?,? presence o numbers o:ari alecrat guns owned by local warlordsprevented U.N. officials from flying overparts of the Somali coastline to assess thedamage in those areas last weekCTA: Iraq Becoming NewHaven For Terrorists NEWYORK CITY- The CIA T NationalIntelligence Council has released a newreport that concludes Iraq has replaced Af-istan as the main training ground forthe next generation of so-called5 rofessionalzed ? terrorists, The reportfound that following the US invaded Iraqbecome the prime training and recruitingcenter a jihadists around the world. ;Bush Says War in Iraq oAbsolute yWorth It =Tonight ABC will air rare televisedinterview with President Bush by BarbaraWalters. A transcript of the interview hasalready been released. When Walters askedBush if the war in Iraq was worth it. Heresponded oabsolutely,Files foe Chapter 11LOS ANGELES, CA - The WaveCommunity Newspapers Inc. hasMinority Voice Newspaper Page'S. |filed Chapter 11 forms with the U.S.Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles, Thenation Ts largest African-American-owned newspaper publisher rutis anetwork of black and totaling more than 150,000 in cireu-lation. The Chapter 11 filing is im con-nection with a $4 million loan WaveCommunity Newspapers receivedfrom Los Angeles Community Devel-opment Bank, company officials say.James Brown's surgery to.combatProstate cancer was deemeff a full suc- ©cess by his doctor.Brown underwent arocedure yesterday (Dec. 15) to treatbis recently diagnosed cancer.At the completetion of his opera-tion, his urologist, Dr. James Bennett,said the Godfather of Soul most likelywill beat the disease. vi_ oMr. Brown has successfully un-dergone a localized prostate cancertocedure and is resting comfortably, ?fe said in a statement. oWe expect afull recovery. With proper follow-uand care, we can also expect a fullcure. ?Brown plans to take three weeksoff to recouperate from the procedure,When he Ts back on his feet, a tour ofAsia and Australia is in the works.Beyond ElectionsContinues from Page 3how others voted. For King, no deformedfranchise can make human subjugationlegitimate. Over protests from liberals andDemocrats, the boycotts, the sit-ins, thefreedom rides, the freedom schools spreadWoolworths not only lost Black busi-ness in the South, it suffered economictums from demonstrations and pick-ets in the North. It was only a matter oftime before Woolworths adopted its policyof total in ion.Other les-lengwn boycotts took placethroughout the South. The boycott ofAtlanta had immediate effects, and Rich Tsended its policy of racial tion.King was almost fastidious about tim-ing and tactics. At one period he notedthat, oexcept for Christmas, Easter is themain shopping period of the year ... thebest time to bring pressure to bear on themerchants for the needed change. ? Kingargued that it is almost impossible tochangethe political power structure without at-tacking the economic power structure aswell, :A student activist captured the es-sence of movement strategy when he said: oYou got to find out what your opponentcares about. Then go after it. We ask our-selves " What do we possess that our en-emy needs? Man, if you answer that ques-Victims The latest U.N. assessment showed50,000 ? that some 54,000 people in the counNAIROBI, Kenya - At least 50,000 were badly affected by tsunami, Rudopeople in Somalia urgently needfood, saidwater, shelter and medical care a week Most of the victims are from the In-after deadly tsunamis slammed African Ocean coastline of the semiautono-shores, officials said Bete mous region of Puntland, including theSome 24 countries, including the northeastern Hafun island that was hard-United States, have pledged to'send relief est hit by the tsunami.supplies to Somalia, but nothing has ar- The waves were triggered by the un-rived on the ground, said Somali presi-dersea uake centered off the Indonesiandential-spokesman Yusuf Mohamed iland of Sumatra about 2,800 tale oaIsmail. He said survivors urgently needhelp the Indian Ocean, :after losing their hornes and livelihoods. The tsunami hit during fishing sea-~~» oWeare very happy that relief sup- son, when Somalis set up temporary fish-plies have arrived in Asia, which was hit settlements closer to the coast, Rudolfthe hardest by the tragedy, but Somalia - roll the AP.which has been ravaged from a 13-year They lost fishing uipment, per-civil war, drought and political neglect - sonal belongings and livelihoods. The fewalso needs emergency help to deal with caitle herders along the coast have also beenthe latest calamity, ? Yusuf told The Asso- affected as their grazing has now beenciated Press, Party damaged, said Laura Melo, spokes-At least 200 people were killed and woman of the U.N. food aid agency.many others are missing after violent waves All fishery activities along the Soma-hammered the Somali coast on Dec. 26, _ lia coast seem to have been suspended,Yusuf said. Melo said.Some of those affected have begun Members of the Somali communityreceiving food aid from United Nations road are raising funds to help compatri-agencies that diverted supplies intended ots affected by the deadly waves, Yusuffor Somalis suffering from a four-year said,drought, Yusufand U.N. officials said. Unlike other affected countries inut Kazimiro Rudolf, acting head of Asia, Somalia lacks the Capacity to assessthe U.N. Office for the Coordination of " the .Humanitarian Affairs, said those supplies The U.N. food aid agency has senttion, youd be surprised how quickly ne- . We often remember King for civil dis-gotiations take place. ? obedience, but civil disobedience involvedIn 1966 and 1967, King launched relatively small numbers of activists, Kinga major boycott in Chicago " the first never required participants in the move-Black employment affirmative action pro- ment to break the law Boycotts and dem-gram in the U.S. Blacks refused to spendmoney where corporations refused to hireBlacks. oBy 1967, ? King writes, othe re-sults were remarkable .... Operation Bread-basket completed Negotiations with threemajor industries: milk, soft drinks, andchain grocery stores. oKing argued thatdirect action against merchants is oftenmore effective than verbal appeals to gov-ernment officials and members of Con-ess. A strong non-violent movementBeyond the halls of Congress is a pre-con-dition to legislative success.Rich's restaurant and other restaurants in_ We handle Conv.,(252) 757-169To Buy, Rent, or Sell Real Estate,Call theD. D. 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It was the combination ofmany kinds of non-cooperation that madeKings strategy effective.A Strarecy BEYOND ELECTIONSHoward Zinn, the indefatigable ac-tivist and historian, veteran of the civilrights movement, summed up civil rightsstrategy as early as 1966 ina seminal essay: oNon-violent Direct Action ?; oI speak of non-violent direct action... . Whatever the specific form, this tech-nique has certain qualities, It disturbs thestatus quo. It intrudes on the complacencyof the majority... It creates tension andtrouble and thus forces the holders ofpower to move faster... . What the civilrights movement has revealed is that it isnecessary for people concerned with lib-erty, even if they live in an ap roximately Tcratic state, to create a political powerwhich resides outside the regular politicalestablishment. While outside, removedfrom the enticements of office and close tothose sources of human distress which ére-ated it, this power can use a thousand dif. -ferent devices to persuade and pressurethe official structure into recognizing itsneeds. ?Americans were converted to civilrights through creative tension, throi sd es that made iepossible for Americans to avoid the conse-quences of their own wrongs and deeds.In defense of his open-housingmarches through white communities inChicago, which caused a huge outcry fromwhites, King wrote: oThe purpose of ourdirect action program is to create a situa-tion so crisis-packed that it will inevitablyopen the door to negotiation. ? Within ayear Mayor Daley's Chicago passed open-ousing laws.KING Sexy ApPLizs To IMPERIALISMAs Wei As SEGREGATIONWe have much to learn from the stra-tegic concepts of Dr. King. Today's peacemovement is rightly focused on endingthe occupation of Iraq, a failed conquestdriven by the oo of the masterACOLDWECLLBANKGR_ LANDMARKPROPERTIES(252) 756- 1403 BUSINESS)) (252) 756-7144 FAXj | (252) 341-3552 CELLULAR1-888-537-1403 TOLLFREE .noria.namaz@coldwellbanker.com Agi Si] Each Otfice ls independently Owtied And Operated. (@2ySLPE wishang LER EREDon't MakeMe Olde. WWww.air-mania.com|. (282) 757-1907 Wk(252) 757-9863 FaxMove Without MeTow ual SageAirBrush |SERVICESWILLIAM GORHAM1307 W. 14th StGreenville, NC 27834REMEMBERING...| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jrr enwood addcock + Owner aetace. However, our movement has yet totap the social power that exists beyondelections, beyond the politics or verbal ar-gument and contained moral suasion.American elections are degenerating into.asystem of bribery and corporate control,No imperialist system was ever dismantledthrough electoral politics within the ag-gressor country. Gandhi's mass strategy, notthe British Parliament, brought down theBritish empire. The Vietnamese resistance,not legislators in Paris, ended Frenich colo-nialism in Indochina. And no illegal, im-moral war has ever been ended withoutdirect action and grassroots protest.King Ts teachings about non-coopera-tion with evil are as relevant today as theywere forty years ago. Like apartheid, im-perialism is a social system, not a merepolicy of one president or a single govern-ment. nos of Ki | sIn the teachings of King, respect forhuman rights is the pre-condition forgenu.ine, constitutional majority rule. No whitemajority, no matter how large, has any con-stitutional right to subjugate anotherpeople, whether it is a domestic minorityor a foreign nation. One hundred thou-sand Iraqis are dead, hospitals and mosquesdestroyed, cities in rubble, thousands ofchildren and civilians maimed with clus-ter bombs, all victims of America Ts militarytsunami.If we dare apply the teachings ofKing, we cannot ae the existing sys-tem without challenging the people wholive inside it, who take it for granted, whorefuse to measure human rights by oneyardstick, who support imperialism andwar even when they tog are victims. It isimpossible to end the U.S. occupation ofIraq, to halt the march of empire, withoutfirst confronting " in King Ts spirit of com-Passionate indignation " the people ofour own beloved nation. Let the memoryand teachings of King inspire us to carryon his struggle against elective despotismin America.Paul Rockwell isa columnist for InMotion Magazine. He can be reached atrockyspad@hotmail.comWill This Be ARecord BreakerYear For Shadby Janet HaseleyMaybe it's the unseasonably warmdays just now, but apparently the shadalso have noticed an early warming trendin the water because David Godwin ofStoney Creek Outfitters reports thatshad are being caught in nets right now(January 6th) in New Bern.Shad only come inland to the creekswhere they were hatched when the wa-ter temperature is in a certain range, andGriftons First Shad of each season is usu-ally not caught until early February. Butif the warming tend continues in easternNorth Carolina there is a high probabil-ity that the First Shad of 2005 wilt beentered in the Gnfion Shad Festival_ Hickory Shad Fishing Contest at an ear-lier date than ever before,Stoney Creek Outfitters is sponsor-ing the fishing contest and wilt awardeight $25 gift certificates and eight tro-shoe to fisher persons in four divisions,rizes will go for the oFirst Shad Caught ?and for the oBiggest Shad Caught ? byeach of the following; Male Adult, Fe-male Adult, Male Youth (age 12 andunder), Female Youth (age 12 and un-der). The contest officially started onJanuary 1st and will run until noon onWednesday, April 13th. Awards will beafter the Shad Festival Parade on Satur.day, pri 16.en you catch that First Shad of2005, take it to Sloney Creek Outfitterson NC Highway 11 near ContentneaCreek, just north of Griffon-Hugo Roadin Lenoir County. Weigh it an registerif there. Just be sure you catch the fishon hook and line because those taken inhets are not eligible for prizes, And whiteor American shad are also not eligible.This contest is for Hickory Shad only.For further information about shad fish.ing, click on the little, red fish labeled oFishing Information ? on the Town ofGriffon website at www. grifton.com.(Click on the yellow drawing of a fish toet to the Shad Festival pages.) Browsethrough the oihsr little red fish to learnmore about the Gnfton Shad Festivalwhich this year will be on the weekend"of April 16-17 wiih several of the 35events earlier than that. Or call 252-524.4356 or e-mail edhase@ao l.com,Hispanic papers