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Author    Post   untanglingwebs El Supremo FREE REV. EDWARD PINKNEY! RECALL ... - Voice of Detroit Apr 26, 2014 ... VOICE OF DETROIT: The city's independent newspaper, unbossed .... http:// voiceofdetroit.net/2012/08/16/rev-pinkney-fights-latest-attempt-to- ... voiceofdetroit.net/2014/04/26/free-rev-edward-pinkney-recall-whirlpool-stooge-be... VOICE OF DETROIT: The city's independent newspaper, unbossed ... 12 hours ago ... DETROIT – As “retiree groups” allegedly began caving in to a Detroit ..... http:// voiceofdetroit.net/2012/08/16/rev-pinkney-fights-latest-attempt-to- ... voiceofdetroit.net/ rev. pinkney fights latest attempt to topple him from ... - Voice of Detroit Aug 16, 2012 ... Rev. Edward Pinkney, President of the Benton Harbor Twin Cities NAACP (center in cap) with his supporters after initial court hearing on ... voiceofdetroit.net/2012/08/16/rev-pinkney-fights-latest-attempt-to-topple-him-fr... pastor fights state naacp takeover of benton harbor ... - Voice of Detroit Apr 16, 2012 ... Rev. Edward Pinkney (top center with cap) and some of his supporters, before April 11 court hearing; BH NAACP Secretary Joyce Smith is ... voiceofdetroit.net/2012/04/16/pastor-fights-state-naacp-takeover-of-benton-harbo... BENTON HARBOR BLOSSOM TIME: 'RECALL ... - Voice of Detroit May 12, 2011 ... Rev. Edward Pinkney and friend greet Snyder as other protesters turn ... from conducting any city business at http://voiceofdetroit.net/?p=6939. voiceofdetroit.net/2011/05/12/benton-harbor-blossom-time-%e2%80%98recall-rick%e2... BOYCOTT WHIRLPOOL, KITCHEN-AID; REPEAL ... - Voice of Detroit May 31, 2012 ... VOICE OF DETROIT: The city's independent newspaper, unbossed and ... Rev. Edward Pinkney of BANCO rallies crowd before the march May ... Last edited by untanglingwebs on Sun May 04, 2014 9:52 am; edited 1 time in total Sun May 04, 2014 9:47 am  untanglingwebs El Supremo ← SUPREME COURT: WHITE MAJORITIES ÜBER ALLES FREE REV. EDWARD PINKNEY! RECALL WHIRLPOOL STOOGE, BENTON HARBOR MAYOR JAMES HIGHTOWER Posted on 04/26/2014 by Diane Bukowski Rev. Pinkney arrested, charged in effort to stop recall election May 6 Activist faces up to 20 years in prison; is under house arrest; judge has banned his computer use Hearing on whether recall will proceed set for Tues. Apr. 29 at 9 a.m. By Diane Bukowski April 26, 2014 BENTON HARBOR – The Rev. Edward Pinkney, a longtime fighter against Whirlpool’s impoverishment of this majority-Black city and Gov. Rick Snyder’s emergency management, was arrested April 25 and charged with five felony counts of election fraud, each carrying up to five years in prison, and six misdemeanors. His supporters say it is an attempt to stop the May 6 election recall of Whirlpool ally Mayor James Hightower.A SWAT team composed of Berrien County sheriffs, Michigan State police, and Benton Harbor Township police surrounded and stormed Pinckney’s home April 24, just after he left with his wife to celebrate her birthday. “I guess they came to kill,” Rev. Pinkney told VOD in a phone interview. “The phone started blowing up with neighbors telling us what was going on. We spent the night in Kalamazoo. My attorney Ted Parrish called police and said I would turn myself in Monday April 28, but they insisted they wanted me immediately. They spent that night driving all over Benton Harbor looking for me.” Youth lead march against Whirlpool and PGA May 26, 2012.Youth lead march against Whirlpool and PGA May 26, 2012. Rev. Pinkney turned himself in the next morning with his attorney at the Berrien County County Courthouse, where he was arraigned on the charges. Circuit Court Judge James LaFata placed him under house arrest and banned him from using his computer. “I don’t even think that’s legal,” Pinkney said. He said supporters will still conduct his Sunday evening radio call-in show at 5 p.m. Callers can reach them at 347-994-3644. Benton Harbor citizens, including James Cornelius, who initiated the recall campaign and also faces one charge, say they want Hightower recalled because he opposed a city income tax that would include Whirlpool, the mammoth appliance corporation headquartered in Benton Harbor.A website for Rev. Pinkney’s organization BANCO (Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizations), describes Hightower’s alliance with Whirlpool. . “Mayor James Hightower . . . says the Whirlpool Corporation should not pay taxes – only the residents of the city of Benton Harbor should foot the bills,” the BANCO site says. “Whirlpool Corporation’s profit last year was more than ten billion dollars, and it paid no taxes to the city of Benton Harbor where the headquarters resides.“Mayor James Hightower and the Whirlpool Corporation fought extremely hard [in Nov. 2013] to defeat the city income tax which would have provided $3.5 million dollars the very first year and every year after. Residents and those who work in the city would pay the income tax. Corporations would, too.” The site says the income tax would have charged residents and businesses 1 percent, and non-residents, who make up 90 percent of those who work in Benton Harbor, 0.5 percent. After residents voted the income tax down, Hightower took out a $2.3 million loan to finance city expenses, pushing the economically-strapped city further into debt. Over the past decades, Whirlpool has shut down numerous plants in the city that once employed residents, and has been conducting a massive take-over of choice Benton Harbor land, including that surrounding the gorgeous Lake Michigan beach which is part of the public Jean Klock Park. Gov. Rick Snyder is taunted by hundreds of protesters during Benton Harbor's Blossom Time Parade, where he presided as Grand MarshalGov. Rick Snyder is taunted by hundreds of protesters during Benton Harbor’s Blossom Time Parade, where he presided as Grand Marshal. Here he passes by construction of new Whirlpool HQ. Whirlpool has put their brand new headquarters on riverfront property in Benton Harbor, and built a luxury golf course and residential development directly off the Klock Park beach. BANCO has called for a “Mass Demonstration against Voter Suppression in Benton Harbor,” to be held May 24, 2014 at 11 a.m at Benton Harbor’s City Hall, 200 Wall Street. A press conference is set for 10:30 a.m. There will be other protests planned for Rev. Pinkney’s court appearances. “Voter suppression is led by the Whirlpool Corporation and the Berrien County Sheriff Department,” the organization says. “Protest all injustices being forced on our town, your town and all around the country! It is not one thing it is everything. The murder of Benton Harbor residents, gentrification by Whirlpool, Governor Snyder’s Emergency Manager dictatorship. Find it on the ActivateHub community calendar!” Support PinkneyRev. Pinkney has broad support across the country, for his battles not only against Whirlpool and Snyder, but also against police brutality and Berrien County’s racist courts. During one of those battles, he was incarcerated for quoting the Bible to a judge. On Oct. 7, 2013, BANCO sponsored a well-attended Justice Fund dinner whose speakers included actor Danny Glover and Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein/ For further information, call Rev. Pinkney at 269-925-0001, or go to the BANCO website at www.bhbanco.org/. 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