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San Diego NAACP Fights Back

The San Diego NAACP took action last Thursday night that is certain to generate a strong response from the National NAACP.  On January 6, at its first regularly scheduled General Membership meeting of 2022, the San Diego NAACP voted to approve a motion that would protect the individual members of the San Diego branch from reprisals from the National NAACP, as the San Diego Branch seeks redress from the actions of the national office. This comes after the San Diego Executive Committee, in a closed session that left many members of the organization on hold in the Zoom waiting room for three hours, voted in December not to add the administrator appointed over the branch to the branch bank accounts, as demanded by the National NAACP in a letter to the branch.


The motion came in the form of a resolution which reads in part:

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Preservation

 

However we may choose to view them— as slave holding villains or heroic visionaries, or a mix of the two— the framers of the U.S. Constitution understood the immutable human tendency to abuse power. Looking back at models of governance throughout world history, the conclusion the founding fathers arrived at was this: Humans cannot be trusted with unchecked power. In response, and borrowing from the old world, as well as from the Iroquois Confederacy on Turtle Island, they created a government in which a system of checks and balances would theoretically restrain abuses of power. They decided Democracy in America should, for the most part, be transparent. That its representatives would be chosen by free and fair elections. That these representatives could be voted out of office. That they would be subject to the rule of law. That they could and would be held accountable if they abused their power.

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NAACP Secret Meeting Threatens Civil Rights Legacy in San Diego

The National NAACP removed the local San Diego Branch President, Francine Maxwell, from office in a letter last week that said she had refused to cooperate with the Nationally appointed “Administrator” who has taken over the San Diego Branch. They also suspended her Life Membership.When the NAACP San Diego Branch called for a closed door “executive session” meeting on December 21st, the outcry was immediate. Members of the NAACP started asking, “Why is this meeting closed?” The answer, apparently from Alphonso Braggs, the National NAACP Administrator who is now in charge of the San Diego Branch was,  "This meeting...is planned for Executive Session only, due to ‘personnel issues’ on the agenda." 

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Cindy Brown vs. The Bank of New York Mellon

When you get a momentHearing and Stunning Court Victory on Constitutional Right to Due Process and Dignity for Self-Represented Litigants Facing Vexatious Litigant Motions.

Harvard Law School Lawyer and civil rights attorney Raye Mitchell delivers research and support in Cindy Brown vs. The Bank of New York Mellon in defending vexatious litigant claims by bank attorneys-The Ryan Firm APC.

Los Angeles, California December 7, 2021, Raye Mitchell

The date is set. March 15, 2022, Cindy Brown will not be silenced and will finally get a chance to test the claims of the attorneys of the Bank of New York Mellon, who alleged that there was a valid foreclosure and eviction on her home. Cindy disagrees, and now there is a fresh look at the facts and law in the contest of a vexatious litigant motion filed by the Bank of New York Mellon.

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