Morning
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
pushes Coke to take a stand against Georgia election law
>Also
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Church shot up by Dylan Roof in Charleston
>https://nypost.com/2021/03/27/activists-push-coca-cola-to-take-stand-against-georgia-election-law/
Activists in Georgia are calling for a boycott of Coca-Cola until the Atlanta-based company comes out against the state’s new election-law changes.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, which represents 500 black churches, on Thursday called for the boycott, and the hashtag #BoycottCocaCola was trending into the weekend.
If “Coca-Cola wants black and brown people to drink their product, then they must speak up when our rights, our lives and our very democracy as we know it is under attack,” Bishop Reginald Jackson said at an Atlanta rally Thursday outside the Georgia Capitol, as state lawmakers voted to adopt the new provisions and Gov. Brian Kemp signed them into law.
>https://archive.ph/zsVTD
Before he allegedly opened fire on members of a Bible study group at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Dylann Roof sat with them. He might have prayed with them.
A Snapchat video from Wednesday night at the historic African-American church shows Roof at a table with the small group. Nothing in the footage suggests the carnage to come.
Police say Roof shot and killed nine peopleinside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, near the heart of Charleston’s tourist district. Eight died at the scene; a ninth died at a hospital.
Authorities were shocked not only by the killings but that the violence occurred in a house of worship.
>The African Methodist Episcopal Church
>pushes Coke to take a stand against Georgia election law
Who does Coke really take orders from though?
Coca-Cola in China
About Coca-Cola China
The Coca-Cola system iscurrently investing $4 billionin China for future growth from 2015 to 2017,building on $9 billionof investments made in the market since 1979. The Coca-Cola system today employs more than 45,000 people in China, 99% of whom are local hires.
The Coca-Cola System in China Completes Definitive …
==The forgotten alliance between Black activists and China
And the warning it carries for U.S. foreign policy==
Yet the most vocal support for Black lives from Asia came from the representatives of Beijing. State-run media outlets such as the Global Times and the China Daily published hundreds of articles related to the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent unrest. Lijian Zhao, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, described the United States’ race problem as a “social ill” and argued that “Black Lives Matter and their human rights should be protected.” Another spokesperson, Hua Chunying, affirmed a now common refrain of the movement by tweeting, “I can’t breathe.”
Black internationalist affinities with China began during the age of empire. In 1911, when the Qing dynasty collapsed under repeated foreign incursions, Black activists saw commonalities in the experiences of Chinese people, who had also endured racial subjugation under Western imperialism. Like White anxieties about Black emancipation during Reconstruction, China’s resistance to colonial rule triggered a fear of a “yellow peril” to White Christendom. Edward Cooper, a prominent Black journalist at the time, wrote that he “did not blame the Chinese for resenting the interference of foreigners.”According to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, a prominent Black newspaper,China’s subsequent transformation into a Western-style republic was the embodiment of a quest for racial parity from an “Oriental’s — and aye, a colored man’s — point of view.”
Solidarity between Black activists and Chinese patriots reached a pinnacle in 1944 during World War II, when the major countries of the Allied forcesChina, the United States, Britain and Soviet Russia convened in Washington, D.C., to discuss the foundations for what would become the United Nations. China was the only member of the “the Big Four” to propose that a racial equity clause be included in the new charter.
”We must vote like never before,”
like never before
never before
> said AME Church Senior Bishop Adam J. Richardson. Sr.
100% voter turnout
AME Church to mobilize 1.5 Million Voters for November 3rd Election
With the most pivotal election in our times in less than 90 days, the Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church has decided to use the congregations and members of the AME Church mobilize 1.5 million voters around the United States.”We must vote like never before,” said AME Church Senior Bishop Adam J. […]
August 21, 2020
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With the most pivotal election in our times in less than 90 days, the Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church has decided to use the congregations and members of the AME Church mobilize 1.5 million voters around the United States.”We must vote like never before,” said AME Church Senior Bishop Adam J. Richardson. Sr. “This faith body in its history of serving the greater community while ministering to the disenfranchised has been vigilant in addressing issues and urging equitable solutions.”
Racism continues to rage 223 years after the AME Church was birthed to end racial discrimination and ensure economic equality. The 26-year-old Richard Allen supported by the 43 yr old Absalom Jones (who today would be considered a Millennial and Gen-Xer) led the walkout and founding of the Free African Society. They immediately recognized the unbreakable ties to freedom and liberty for enslaved Africans and justice for all people.
Just as these visionaries risked their lives to help with the 1793 yellow fever epidemic recovery in Philadelphia, their progeny are poised and engaged in recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the evidence of racism lingering in this land of liberty and justice still lingering in 2020. Whether the issue is mass incarceration, underperforming public schools, unemployment, lack of affordable housing, limited healthcare options, the bias in career upward mobility, or valuing property over lives, the AME Church has stood with and spoken out on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised. It is at the core of its mission across the United States.
”The AME Church via AME V-Alert and its membersis engaged in almost every walk of life and welcomes partnerships, collaborations, and stakeholderswho aim to achieve 100 percent voter turnout,”says Council of Bishops President Bishop Michael Mitchell.
On Nov 4th, we intend for the headlines to read, ‘Largest Voter turnout in history will lead to strong leadership that takes this country’s core values seriously”.
Learn more at www.amev-alert.org
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that didn't take long
==AME Church Communists, Soros, Democrats==
>https://religionnews.com/2020/08/21/ame-church-to-mobilize-1-5-million-voters-for-november-3rd-election/
On Nov 4th, we intend for the headlines to read, ‘Largest Voter turnout in history will lead to strong leadership that takes this country’s core values seriously”.
<Learn more at www.amev-alert.org
>www.amev-alert.org
ABOUT US
AME Voter-ALERT (V-ALERT) is the Voter Education, Mobilization, and Education Project by the AME Church Connectional Lay Organization. AME V-ALERT seeks to create networks that include local congregations and engaged community partners to encourage eligible voters to vote!
>https://archive.ph/DesR2
AME V-ALERT at
Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church - Trenton NJ
For more information about the AME Social Action Commission and AME V-ALERT, please visit <www.ame-sac.org or
<Facebook (@AMESocialActionCommission).
>http://ame-sac.org/partners/
Below is a list of organizations to partner with for local events around Voting Rights. They have been long-time champions for informing and empowering communities around voting rights, voter protection, civil and human rights issues.
The Advancement Project – www.advancementproject.org/
NAACP Legal Defense Fund – www.naacpldf.org/
American Civil Liberties Union – www.aclu.org
Common Cause– www.commoncause.org/
Demos – www.demos.org/
Fair Elections Legal Network – www.fairelectionsnetwork.com/
Hip Hop Caucus – www.hiphopcaucus.org/
Human Rights Campaign – www.hrc.org
League of Women’s Voters – www.lwv.org/
National Bar Association – www.nationalbar.org/
National Action Network–www.nationalactionnetwork.net/
Project Vote – www.projectvote.org/
Rainbow Push Coalition– www.rainbowpush.org/
AFL-CIO – www.aflcio.org
People for the American Way – www.pfaw.org
Black and Brown People Vote –www.BlackandBrownPeopleVote.org
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation – www.ncbcp.org/
The National Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights – www.lawyerscommittee.org
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights – www.civilrights.org
that's the one
the first foreign company into China, when opened up to foreigners
Was digging on that until the African Methodist Church tangent
These corporations are the worst kind of carpet baggers
>https://chinachannel.org/2019/02/06/coke-in-china/
On December 13, 1978, two days before the announcement of Sino-American normalization, Coca-Cola became the first foreign corporation allowed back in to the People’s Republic of China, and just celebrated its 40th anniversary of relations with China. Representatives of President Jimmy Carter, another of Georgia’s more famous exports, had to politely request that Cokedelay announcing the dealto avoid the embarrassment of the US being beaten to the diplomatic punch by a purveyor of carbonated sugar-water.
Coca-Cola was an unlikely candidate for this particular milestone. In the decades prior to the agreement, the company had eagerly tied its business practices to the American government’s aim of defeating global communism and promoting democracy. In China, meanwhile, anti-American propaganda smeared Coca-Cola as one of the worst incarnations of American imperialism. Yet the little-known story of how Coke went from imperialist shill to the first foreign brand welcomed back to the PRC illustrates forces that still define the economic relationship between China and American business.
Throughout the Mao years, as noted by Chuck Kraus in a new article in Diplomatic History, anti-US propagandists repeatedly targeted Coca-Cola. In 1950, Minister of Culture Mao Dun warned in the People’s Daily that Coca-Cola and its efforts to spread “American civilization” was just as dangerous as the nation’s formidable military, which China was at that time fighting in a proxy war against in Korea. Chinese periodicals used the term “Coca-Colanization” to describe the way the drink undermined sovereignty and local culture. Others emphasized that Coca-Cola accompanied American troops wherever they went. (On this last point, the propagandists may have been on to something: by the end of WWII, Coca-Cola owned 64 international bottling plants that had provided refreshment to American combat troops, the vast majority of them paid for by the US government.)
After the war, Coca-Cola came to see itself as a crucial force in America’s global campaign against communism”
>https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://zhuhuaxin.blog.caixin.com/archives/189964
For a long time, consumer brands such asCoca-Cola and McDonald's have been regarded as symbols of the decadence and degeneration of Western culture and the hegemony of capitalist culture. As early as the beginning of liberation, the great writer Mao Dun wrote an article "Peeling off the Mask of the "Masked Bandit"" and regarded Coca-Cola as a "special product" of US imperialism "dumping" to the world, "corroding the will of the youth of the invaded nation." ". Even in 2015, there were still party school professors who believed: "American democracy not only disrupts the economic and social development of some countries, but also shakes its cultural roots and value veins… You don’t need to speak in the national language, and use a few sentences of American English as “upper”. Fan"; originally a person who eats fast and recites Buddhism, but goes to the Christian church to find feelings for weddings and funerals; even drinking Coca-Cola and watching Hollywood movies as being in line with the world. The cultural inferiority revealed by these details of life is more than open cultural rebellion It can shake the cultural foundation even more.” (June 29, 2015 "The so-called democratic model is also a kind of "fundamentalism", and democratic paranoia is no different from religious extremes")
>100% voter turnout
>AME Church to mobilize 1.5 Million Voters for November 3rd Election
Thinking back to the election fraud hearings, Wasn't there a church address in Fulton County where there was a shit ton of fake ballots?
Also, I wonder if this AME V-Alert platform had access to the voter fileslike rock the vote and those losers