December 2012 Blog Posts (21)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP congressional leaders and officials never tire of accusing President Obama of trying to blame them for the chaos that would result if the nation tumbles over the fiscal cliff. They are right and they deserve every bit of the blame for pushing the nation to the budget brink. Surveys and polls consistently show that the overwhelming majority of Americans say that they want a deal on the budget, and that deal must include the…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

President Obama took much heat a year ago when he floated a series of proposed budget cuts that would have slashed programs for the poor. The cuts would have reduced funding or eliminated out right community service block grants that fund an array of community education, health and social service programs in poor, underserved, largely inner-city neighborhoods, cut programs in science, technology, youth mentoring programs, and…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

This past September the National Rifle Association swung into high gear. It posted these blunt action alerts on its website to its tens of thousands of members and backers. “Senator Ben Nelson needs to go.” Outgoing Nebraska Senator Nelson’s alleged sin was that he helped put Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. It reminded its supporters that the Nebraska Senator can’t be a pro-gun senator when he backs anti-gun judges. It’s…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers implored President Obama to simply issue executive orders toughening gun curbs. They made their impassioned plea three years before the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. They and others will make even more impassioned pleas to Obama to put his executive pen to paper and enact one or more measures that put some clamps on the types of guns that can be bought and sold and who…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The Sandy Hook Elementary School monstrous massacre guaranteed that the heat will be turned up on President Obama to take the “meaningful action” that he called for on gun control. The heat is justified, but it’s not the White House that has routinely killed life-saving gun control measures during the past decade. It’s been Congress.

 The spectacular scope and magnitude of the congressional wipe out is barely known to the…

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December 16, 2012

Ms. Candice Bohr  Director

Newtown Youth & Family Services

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Sandy Hook, Ct. 06482

Dear Ms. Bohr:

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable is proud to award the Newtown Youth & Family Services agency a special Impact Micro Award. The cash award is to support you in…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A compassionate and tearful President Obama minced no words following the Sandy Hook, Connecticut school massacre and demanded action. Though Obama did not specify what action he had in mind, the action that has and will again spark colossal debate is how to crack down on the manic and senseless gun violence that has caused indescribable pain and suffering for so many victims, and now those victims are the innocent of…

Today’s tragedy didn’t make any sense at all. What do 20 innocent children in Newtown, CT have to with a deranged individual is beyond me. This could have happened to my children back in the 80’s and 90’s when they were in school. It could…

The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced a special Impact cash award to the Newtown Youth & Family Services. This vital family services provider is on the front line in providing aid and support to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School horrific massacre. Every dollar of the Impact Award will go directly to…

Possible Civil Rights Violations Committed in Killing

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Friday, December 14 called on US Attorney Andre Birotte to conduct a federal probe into the circumstances surrounding the slaying of Bartholomew Paul Williams, a Cal State San Bernardino University Student, killed by a campus police officer. The student was shot after an alleged…

 Calls Into Question Police Version of Shooting

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Tuesday, December 11 received new details from the family of Bartholomew Williams, slain Saturday, December 8 by a Cal State San Bernardino University campus police officer. The new details call into serious…

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Monday, December 10 called on Cal State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed to immediately implement a policy on the use of force in student confrontations. Hutchinson called on Reed to require that officers have full access too and training in the use of non-lethal force in confrontations with students that may face mental challenges. The call was…

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Sunday, December 9 called on San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos to launch a fast track probe into the slaying of Bartholomew Paul Williams, a Cal State San Bernardino University Student, by a campus police officer. The student was shot after an alleged altercation with campus police. There is no report that the student was armed.  The civil…

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The resignation of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint from the Senate followed close on the heels of the desertion from the Tea Party of Freedom Works head Dick Armey took some by surprise. DeMint and Armey were the two biggest and most identifiable fish in the Tea Party affiliated pond. DeMint could be relied on to broker his name ID and prodigious fund raising prowess to every Tea Party backed Senatorial candidate—and…

In an exclusive interview on The Hutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AM Radio and streamed globally on ktym.com, on Friday, December 7, 9:30 AM PST, Marc Morial, National Urban League President, discusses recent White House talks he had with President Obama on the impact of the fiscal cliff and pending budget cuts on minorities and the poor. Morial details the proposals that the Urban League put forth to deal with the potential crisis in…

 The Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable announced its Impact Micro Awards for December on Monday, December 3. The December awards are part of its Building Self-Sustaining Communities Project. The Project supports organizations working in Los Angeles and America’s most underserved communities in cities nationally. The city chosen in December is Cumberland, Maryland. The city was ranked by the 2011 Census…