8 Caban
Red
Galactic Earth
Flown the Arrow from the Bow –
Gone the small white Stone
Into a Beast’s Forehead –
America shuffles off
Coils of Limitation, Cruelty –
War and Mayhem dead
She wants no Repeat of History
Fascism. . . Corruption. . . Bigotry
An adolescent Nation ripens –
Evolution
races like the small Stone –
Shock, Torpor and Denial lift
Conviction defeats the Unthinkable
Action takes a Turn and strong –
The Arrow finds its Mark
Consciousness rises with the Sun
Evil dies in Washington.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Dorie Ladner
Dorie Ann Ladner (born 1942) is an American civil rights activist.
Early life
She was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on June 28, 1942.
Education
In 1973, Ladner earned her B.A. degree from Tougaloo College, and in 1975, she earned a master’s degree in social work (MSW) from the Howard University School of Social Work.
Activism
She played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi ever since, as a high school student, she joined the NAACP Youth Council in Hattiesburg where she met NAACP state president Medgar Evers. In 1961, she became engaged with the Freedom Riders. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was arrested in 1962 trying to integrate the Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Jackson.
She was expelled from Jackson State University for her support of the Tougaloo Nine. She and her sister Joyce Ladner were invited to enroll at Tougaloo College.
Dorie was jailed for picketing in the 1962 Jackson, Mississippi boycotts:
Just before Christmas of 1962, after months of discussions and a false start the previous year, a vigorous boycott had finally been launched against downtown merchants in Jackson. Initially, young people carried the spirit of the movement. Dorie and Joyce Ladner were heavily involved. At a time when bail money was unpredictable and most Mississippi-born students were afraid of reprisals against their parents, Dorie was among the first to go to jail for picketing.
In 1964, she became a key organizer in the Freedom Summer Project. She became the first woman to head a COFO Council of Federated Organizations project in 1964. She served as the SNCC project director in Natchez, Mississippi (1964-1966).
Current work
She currently lives in Washington, D.C. where she is frequently invited to speak on panels and interviewed for documentary film projects. For example, in 2014 she was interviewed for the American Experience PBS documentary on Freedom Summer and she spoke on a panel with Stanley Nelson Jr. and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, hosted by New America (organization) in New York. In August 2017, Ladner was one of the panelists for a workshop called "SNCC: Civil Right Activism to DC Statehood" at the National Lawyers Guild 80th annual convention in Washington, D.C. along with Judy Richardson, Courtland Cox, Frank Smith (D.C. Council), and others.
Recognition
May 18, 2014: Awarded an honorary doctorate from Tougaloo College.
2016: "Well-Behaved Women Don’t Make ‘Her-Story’: The Dorie Ladner Story" documentary produced by Kendall Little.
June, 2017: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the District of Columbia.*
CABAN
Kin 177: Red Galactic Earth
I harmonize in order to evolve
Modeling synchronicity
I seal the matrix of navigation
With the galactic tone of integrity
I am guided by the power of birth.
There is much invisible activity on our behalf which goes on behind or beyond the third-dimensional screen.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity. Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
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Muladhara Chakra (Seli Plasma)
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