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Yasiin Bey, dead prez & Mike Flo – Made You Die (Trayvon Martin Tribute) (Video)

“Made You Die” Trayvon Martin Tribute, featuring Yasiin Bey, Dead Prez, and mikeflo.
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Re:Fresh 23 - REFRESHPODCAST.COM

On this weeks show: ReFreshPodcast.com is up and in full swing. We talk about the arrest and the strange week that George Zimmerman has had, we hear out Occupy Wall Streets argument for free media, AND we talk about John Derbyshire’s racist article ‘The Talk: Nonblack Version’. We also examine CISPA, a new video game featuring Dr. Ron Paul, and Maryland becomes the first state to say that your employer cannot ask for your login information for social networks.

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Pontiac teacher fired for Trayvon Martin fundraiser

A national civil rights group called Monday for the reinstatement of a southeastern Michigan teacher it says was fired for helping students organize a fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin, a teen shot to death by a Florida neighborhood watch volunteer.

The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., said that Brooke Harris was fired in March “with little explanation” from Pontiac Academy for Excellence Middle School.

The center said Harris was fired for her role in a student fundraising effort that was opposed by the charter school’s leader.

Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell told The Associated Press that she couldn’t discuss personnel matters such as Harris’s firing but said she wants students’ focus at the end of the school year to be on learning, not activism.

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George Zimmerman creates website for his supporters and asks for donations

George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, started a website to raise money for his defense and living expenses, warning supporters about groups that falsely claim to do the same.

Zimmerman has started the site “to ensure my supporters they are receiving my full attention without any intermediaries.”

According to CNN and other media outlets, Zimmerman’s attorneys have confirmed the authenticity of the website, therealgeorgezimmerman.com.

“He is operating this on his own,” his attorney Craig Sonner told Reuters. “I can confirm this is his site.”

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Trayvon Martin Case: George Zimmerman’s Attorneys Quit, Say Client ‘Disappeared’

George Zimmerman’s attorneys said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon that they will no longer be representing him. The attorneys claim that Zimmerman repeatedly rebuffed their legal advice, and that they have now lost contact with him.

“As of now we are withdrawing as counsel for Mr. Zimmerman,” Craig Sonner, one of his attorneys, told reporters outside the Seminole County Courthouse in Sanford, Fla. “We’ve lost contact with him. Up to this point, we’ve had contact with him every day. He’s gone on his own. I’m not sure what he’s doing or who he’s talking to, but at this point we’re withdrawing as counsel. If he wants us to come back as counsel, he will contact us.”

Sonner said that he has never met Zimmerman in person, and that their conversations have all taken place via telephone.

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George Zimmerman is charged with 2nd-degree murder in Trayvon Martin shooting

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Florida teenager Trayvon Martin 46 days ago, was charged with second-degree murder Wednesday, marking a turning point in a case that has provoked nationwide debate over racial profiling.

Florida special prosecutor Angela B. Corey, who announced the charge in Jacksonville, said that “the search for justice has brought us to this moment.” Zimmerman turned himself in and was brought Wednesday evening to the Seminole County jail.

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BREAKING: George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting

Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as Wednesday afternoon that she is charging neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting ofTrayvon Martin, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation.

It was not immediately clear what charge Zimmerman will face.

Martin, 17 and unarmed, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by Zimmerman, who said he was acting in self-defense. Police in Sanford, Fla., where the shooting took place, did not charge Zimmerman, citing the state’s “stand your ground” law.

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You can be sure we’ll be talking about this on Sunday.

Fox News Accuses Obama of Using Trayvon Martin to Provoke Racial Confrontation

According to Fox News, the Trayvon Martin shooting is being made racial by President Obama who is using the killing of a seventeen year old kid to increase African American turnout for the general election. Of course, this is exactly what President Obama is not doing. Obama’s intervention has been limited to a statement of sympathy for Trayvon Martin’s family, and a plea for people to let the investigation play out so that the facts will be known.

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Young Tef (Chozen Few) - I Am Trayvon Martin

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However, now the attention has moved to the seconds before that back and forth. In those moments, Zimmerman can be heard moving after Martin (the sounds of his movements are what caused the officer to ask if he was pursuing Martin). In the midst of these sounds, there seems to be a quick comment made under Zimmerman’s breath and some now say  is  “fucking coons,” coon obviously being a racial slur against blacks.

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In eight chilling recordings, made the night of February 26, listeners can hear the frightened voices of neighbors calling to report screams for help, gunfire and then that someone was dead.

In perhaps the most disturbing of the recordings, a frightened voice in the background cries out for help and pleads “No! No!” and then continues to wail.

And for the first time, we hear the voice of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who admitted to police that he shot Martin, who was walking home from a convenience store to his father’s home in the gated community. Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged in the shooting.

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Re:Fresh is LIVE RIGHT NOW on GhettoRadio. If you love relevant discussion on what’s happening in our world, hip hop, video games and morning radio shows likeOpie & Anthony, Drew & Mike, Preston & Steve, or the All Out Show, then you should give Re:Fresh a shot.

On this weeks show: We spend some time talking about the most important story in American right now: the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin at the hand of George Zimmerman. We also see why Anonymous says “religion sucks lol”, go over 10 Occupy friendly candidates for public office, and Rick Santorum’s war on teh pr0nz. All this, plus SO much more on the 20th episode of Re:Fresh!

Brand NEW music on the show from Nas, as well as Wiz Khalifa from his brand new mixtape. Another new track from Flatbush ZOMBiES and the latest from Odd Future. We’ve also got music from Bambu & Fatgums, Ka, Stainless Steele, Kyzer Ricoy, S.o.S and we round out the show with a tribute to the Doomtree crew from MPLS!

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Say What Now of the Day: On this morning’s Fox and Friends, talk show host Geraldo Rivera blamed Trayvon Martin’s shooting on his attire, saying his hoodie was as much responsible for his death as George Zimmerman was.

“I am urging the parents of black and Latino particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies,” Rivera told his unfazed Fox News colleagues.

He went on to claim that the hoodie bears negative connotations that cannot be “rehabilitated.”

“I bet you money,” said Rivera, upping the audacity ante, “[I]f [Martin] didn’t have that hoodie on that nutty neighborhood watch guy wouldn’t have responded in that violent and aggressive way.” 

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These assholes, they always get away with saying stupid shit………see what I did there?

fuckin’ Goon.

R.I.P. Trayvon Martin

Much much more on the Trayvon Martin shooting on episode 20 of the Re:Fresh Podcast. Tomorrow at 2pm EST on GhettoRadio and 8pm on Gamer Escape Radio and podcast drops monday.

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