Phila. Front Page News Brief - International Longshoremen Association Major Possible Call On A Strike On The Rise by Janis Barksdale And Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (610) 803-1624

Phila. Front Page News Brief - International Longshoremen Association Major Possible Strike On The Rise by Janis Barksdale And Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (610) 803-1624 

According to CNBC if ILA (INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN 

ASSOCIATION) doesn't reach an agreement with the port's ownership there will be a major strike on October 1. 

 

The union is looking for more in wages and, the union also opposes port automation and exclusive port contracts. 

The union has not called on a strike since 1977 and Harold Daggett, president of ILA and the union's chief negotiator has said "a strike is only 1 of a few weapons in our arsenal...so if backed in a corner, we're not going to hesitate to strike back". 

 

His plan is motivated by the threat of job losses from terminal automation. 

 

If a strike takes place, it will disrupt the national economy from New England to Texas weeks before the presidential election.

 

Penn Suspends Amy Wax, Law Professor Accused of Making Racist Statements Reported By Van Stone, Phila. Front Page News/Westside Weekly frontpagenews1@yahoo.com

Penn Suspends Amy Wax, Law Professor Accused of Making Racist Statements Reported By Van Stone, Phila. Front Page News/Westside Weekly frontpagenews1@yahoo.com

Above: Amy Wax, Law Professor U. Penn The accusations against the professor,  who had invited a white nationalist to her class and said that Black people and women were less intelligent, led students and others to call for her to be fired.

 

The University of Pennsylvania is suspending Amy Wax, a tenured law professor accused of making racist, sexist and homophobic remarks, for a year with half pay. It is a significant sanction but one that falls short of the firing that some students wanted.

 

The university issued a “public letter of reprimand” to Dr. Wax describing the terms of her suspension, which will begin in the fall of 2025 and which also includes the loss of her named chair and the loss of summer pay in perpetuity.

 

Disciplinary proceedings against Dr. Wax tested the tenure protections of professors and whether such protections allow them to voice opinions that might be seen as inappropriate or downright insulting. Many students said that they could not trust Dr. Wax to grade students without bias. But many professors — even those who found her comments profoundly racist — objected to disciplining her, on the grounds of academic freedom.

 

Among allegations against her were that she had described some non-Western countries as “shitholes” and had said that “women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men.” She has said that Black people from the United States and people from non-Western countries feel shame for the “outsized achievements and contributions” of Western people, and has derided as unrealistic television ads depicting “Black men married to white women in an upper-class picket-fence house.”

 

Dr. Wax denied making some of the comments and said that others were taken out of context.

 

She has also invited a white nationalist, Jared Taylor, to class.

 

In a 12-page complaint filed in 2023, Theodore Ruger, the law school dean at the time, wrote that Dr. Wax had demonstrated “callous and flagrant disregard” for students, faculty and staff, subjecting them to “intentional and incessant racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic actions and statements.”

 

Her statements, the complaint added, “have led students and faculty to reasonably believe they will be subjected to discriminatory animus if they come into contact with her.” Mr. Ruger declined to comment on Monday.

 

Dr. Wax declined to comment on the decision. She has previously warned that she will sue the university if she is disciplined. A lawyer for Dr. Wax, David J. Shapiro, also declined to comment. 

 

For several free speech groups, the case represented a threat to one of the key tenets of academic tenure — the right of faculty members to speak freely, without fear of punishment, whether in public or in the classroom.

 

Reacting to the suspension, Alex Morey, an official with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech group, said that Penn’s decision “should send a chill down the spine of every faculty member, not just at Penn but at every private institution around the country.”

 

Ms. Morey, the group’s director of campus rights advocacy, argued that Penn had altered its customary disciplinary procedure to prosecute Dr. Wax. She added that she was gratified that Penn had not revoked Dr. Wax’s tenure — an indication, she said, of how flimsy the accusations were.

 

Peter Wood, president of the conservative-leaning National Association of Scholars, where Dr. Wax serves on the board, accused the university of a “serious error of judgment.”

 

“Professor Wax’s various statements on race, gender, ethnicity, immigration, inculturation and other matters were entirely within the zone of academic freedom,” he said, predicting that Dr. Wax would not “back down.”

 

A former assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, Dr. Wax argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court. Though Dr. Wax’s outspoken viewpoints have been a subject of debate for years, student demands for sanctions began in earnest in 2017, after she co-wrote an opinion article arguing that “all cultures are not equal.”

 

The long-running disciplinary case had gone before a faculty hearing committee. The university’s hearing board has said it does not dispute that academic freedom protects Dr. Wax’s speech, but said that she had violated “behavioral professional norms” in the way she presented her views.

 

The reprimand letter to Dr. Wax, dated Sept. 24 and signed by the university’s provost, John L. Jackson Jr., said that while academic freedom should be “very broad,” professors must conduct themselves “in a manner that conveys a willingness to assess all students fairly.”

 

It said Dr. Wax’s conduct had included making “sweeping generalizations about groups by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and immigration status. It also said that she had breached “the requirement that student grades be kept private by publicly speaking about the grades of law students by race, and continuing to do so even after being cautioned by the dean that it was a violation of university policy.”

 

The letter said that the university’s interim president, J. Larry Jameson, had confirmed the decision to suspend Dr. Wax. Because the academic year has already started, the suspension, which was first disclosed by The Philadelphia Inquirer, will not begin until next fall.

 

The letter also said that, in future public appearances, Dr. Wax must say that she was speaking for herself and not on behalf of the university.

 

Martha Richards Conley, Black Female Lawyers/Attorneys Made Visits To Robert "Sugar Bear" Lark, By Janis Barksdale and Van Stone, Phila. Front Page News frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (610) 803-1624

Martha Richards Conley, Black Female Lawyers/Attorneys Made Visits To Robert "Sugar Bear" Lark, By Janis Barksdale and Van Stone, Phila. Front Page News frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (610) 803-1624 

                                   Above: Martha Richards Conley

To Whom It May Concern:

I began visiting Robert Lark approximately 15 years ago as an Official Visitor for the Pennsylvania Prison Society.  We were introduced by my good friend David Demarest, a Carnegie Mellon University Professor who is now deceased, but who had been visiting him for many years before I started visiting.  During this time I have come to love and respect Robert.  He is a unique individual and has seen it as his mission to connect me with various people around the country who share my interest in prison reform.

I always enjoyed my visits with Robert which were alway positive and even uplifting.  He has maintained a positive mind set in spite of almost thirty years in solitary confinement.  He would often send me greeting cards and news clippings that he thought I might like or would interest me.

Robert is a product of American Society and the circumstances he was born into.  He is not the same person he was in 1986.  He deserves a second chance at life outside the prison walls.

Martha R. Conley

Attorney at Law

6439 Navarro Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

PA ID 15099

 

Nominated 2022 CNN Heroes, Robert "Sugar Bear" Lark - Nominated By Janis Barksdale, Founder/Pres Of Robert ("Sugar Bear") Lark Advisory Council Story By Van Stone Phila. Front Page News frontpagenews1@yahoo.com

Nominated 2022 CNN Heroes, Robert "Sugar Bear" Lark - Nominated By Janis Barksdale, Founder/Pres Of Robert ("Sugar Bear") Lark Advisory Council Story By Van Stone Phila. Front Page News frontpagenews1@yahoo.com

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022, at 10:54 AM, Janis Barksdale wrote:

 

In February 2014, I nominated Sugar Bear for the CNN Hero award. I knew it was a long shot but as you know nothing beats a failure but a TRY. 

 

In 2014, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and due to my treatments I lost my focus on this. 

As is his forte,  he encouraged me to watch the CNN Hero awards last night. There was a Hero by the name of Tyrique Glasgow from South Philly.  Due to the efforts he has put in place for the youth in South Philly the murder rate has gone down. I hope to put him in touch with our brother in Pittsburgh to help in that area. Below is a sample of what I submitted in 2014. I did receive confirmation from CNN that they received my application.  

 

Name of Nominee: Robert Lark AM4192

Phone Number : 724-852-2902

Q In your own words, why does your nominee deserve recognition as a CNN Hero?

A I'm not even sure this nomination will be accepted but I must try. Robert Lark is on death row in PA but even on the row he spends most of his time trying to help others. He has helped people get money to pay rent get food, cars, jobs,medical care,computers and get released from prison. For over 30 yrs while fighting for his release as an innocent he continues to help others and never ask for anything for himself. His motto is when someone is released even if its not him that means God is in the neighborhood. Sugar Bear as he is known to his friends has helped people all over the world and has done it all from death row.

Q How have your nominee's efforts made a difference for the better?

A As a death row inmate he reads more than 7 papers a day and misses nothing. He sends people information regarding their illness that will help them, he gives other prisoners information that has helped them obtain their freedom He has done so without the use of a computer. He was granted a new trial in 2007 but has not been tried. He is a hero to all who know him and he continues to encourage others through cards, letters and materials.

Q Is there a specific incident or turning point that motivated your nominee to take action?

A Life and the injustices that occur on a daily bases motivates him to help people. No matter the race, religion or beliefs. Almost every day I am commissioned by him to take information to someone he may not know that will help them during a foreclosure; a job fair is in the neighborhood or its sweeps month let this reporter know this is happening. A business is failing let them know that this organization gives money to those doing that kind of work.

Q Is there anything else that makes your nominee exceptional or unique?

A I have letters from all sorts of people he has helped and encouraged over the years. Inmates, ex-inmates, politicians, lawyers, doctors, authors, pastors, literacy agents and friends. In all of their correspondence they all say he is compassionate, encouraging, intelligent, always optimistic, full of life and never bitter. Sugar Bear is a person that does good for without any hope of getting anything in return he does it because it’s the right thing to do. He is a true Hero.

Q How will being recognized as a CNN Hero further your nominee's cause?

A Sugar Bear is a different Hero. As a young boy he was considered a modern day Robin Hood, taking care of 8 siblings and everyone in the neighborhood that needed help. This nomination would not be about him but about all those in prison unjustly.

Van Stone Phila: Know Your Rights - Robert (Sugar Bear) Lark Official Website/Exhibit - Join The Fight To Solve A Murder Mystery Case Since 1979

Van Stone Phila: Know Your Rights - Robert (Sugar Bear) Lark Official Website - Join The Fight To Solve A Murder Mystery Case Since 1979

Welcome to the Exhibit:

The Robert (Sugar Bear) Lark Advisory Council.

Readers will find news about the Robert (Sugar Bear) Lark Advisory Council here at this news feed site. 

Advisory councils provide specific guidance and oversight for boards of directors. 

The advisory council provides tailored advice that focuses on specific areas, such as technology, marketing, etc. Experienced advisory council members provide technical advice and critical thinking in areas beyond the board members’ typical fields of expertise.

Advisory councils - as officers - provide the members with the latest solutions, trending techniques, and knowledge so the organization stays competitive in its industry. 

In other words, the council gives the members a fresh perspective on programmatic issues. 

An advisory council can help an organization execute a project from launch to completion. It might include drafting project designs, developing competent teams, creating budgets, and establishing the roles of a project’s stakeholders. 

Additionally, an advisory council can help the board evaluate risks and plan proactively to enhance preparedness and resilience in the project. If risks do occur, the organization will be well-positioned to tackle them accordingly. 

The council also helps the members manage projects to ensure progress and key deadlines are met. That way, the organization can make informed decisions and ensure the project remains on track with predetermined goals. 

An advisory council can act as the organization’s advocate in the community it serves. Leveraging their expertise and industry network, council members can help an organization connect to a greater constituency. 

For example, organizations may appoint a county-specific advisory council to provide in-market expertise and shed light on the local industry and political culture. 

Alternatively, some advisory councils support industry development by making new introductions and acting on the organization’s behalf at social functions and industry events.

Advisory councils conduct their own meetings, which should be effective for maximum productivity.

We begin with a real life once  upon a time story. But this is only the beginning of a 'last death-penalty case' in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Oh, and please join the membership if you like. You may register at the top right of this website by filing out the register info and then hit submit.

In Philly's 'last death-penalty case,' killer gets a life sentence instead: Story from Philly.com Thu, November 9, 2017 at 5:09 AM EST

Above left: Robert (Sugar Bear) Lark, 26 yrs-old. Above Right: Philadelphia Police Dept. detaining Robert (Sugar Bear) Lark. Asked whether to impose the death penalty, the jurors, who had already found Robert Lark guilty of the 1979 murder, sent a note: "We are at a deadlock."

On Nov. 7, Philadelphia elected a district attorney who pledged to take the death penalty off the table.

But two days later, prosecutors asked a jury of Philadelphians to impose it one last time — in the case of Robert Lark, a 63-year-old man who has already spent more than three decades on death row for the 1979 murder of 36-year-old Tae Bong Cho, at a  take-out restaurant Cho owned in North Philadelphia.

The jurors, who had already found Lark guilty of the murder, sent a note out to Judge Steven Geroff after just an hour of deliberations: “We are at a deadlock. Nobody is budging, and there won’t be a unanimous decision.”

That meant Geroff would have to sentence Lark instead — to the mandatory term of life in prison with no possibility of parole.

“It’s obvious to me that you are quite a villain,” Geroff told Lark. Then, he tacked 22½ to 45 more years in prison on to the life sentence, for a series of related convictions on charges including terroristic threats and kidnapping.

Lark was first convicted of the crime in 1985. But that verdict was overturned in federal court based on Lark’s claim that the prosecutor in his trial had used race-based practices in jury selection. At an evidentiary hearing, the prosecutor could not provide an explanation other than race for striking three African-American jurors in the case.

Jury selection for Lark’s new trial, which began Oct. 2, took more than a week. In a death-penalty case, lawyers must select a pool of jurors who state they’re willing and able to impose the harshest punishment the law provides.

“Each of you,” Assistant District Attorney Gail Fairman told the jury, “looked inside of yourselves, and each of you stated, ‘Yes, we can do this.’”

A majority of Pennsylvanians no longer support capital punishment, according to a 2015 York College of Pennsylvania poll. One complaint is that so-called death-qualified juries are inherently biased, and that studies have shown such juries inherently are more likely to convict.

No one has been executed in Pennsylvania since 1999. Since 2015, Gov. Wolf has maintained a moratorium on executions.

The standard penalty for first-degree murder in Pennsylvania is life in prison, but aggravating factors can trigger the death sentence. The prosecutors described two such factors. The first, they said, was that Lark had murdered a witness. They said he killed Cho on Feb. 22, 1979, because Cho was scheduled to testify in court the next morning that Lark had robbed him at gunpoint two months earlier. Second, they said, Lark qualified to be executed because of his significant criminal history, which included the gunpoint robberies of a Strawbridge & Clothier store clerk, of Cho, and of his own landlord.

“The crime was an affront to the justice system,” Fairman said.

Lark’s lawyers presented mitigating factors: a childhood destroyed by his mother’s drug addiction and neglect, and his stepfather’s violent abuse.

His birth was a surprise to his 15-year-old mother, defense lawyer Regina Coyne said. “In his first year of school, when he was 5 or 6, he went to five different schools,” she said. “He was in survival mode.”

She described rats and a leaking roof, vomit on the floor. She spoke of foster homes where he was taken away from his siblings, and described how he ran away from those placements and slept in cars, until he could find his siblings and reunite them.

The jury’s decision means Lark will move from death row — where for 32 years he has been kept in his cell for 23 hours a day, according to his lawyer — into the general prison population.

Nonetheless, Lark will appeal the verdict, according to his other lawyer James Berardinelli, who said he had been prevented by the judge from presenting key evidence, including a pattern of questionable behavior by the police who investigated the case.

That, prosecutors noted, means prolonging the pain for Cho’s family as well.

Seeing the case return to court, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Notaristefano said, “brought back everything. They thought this was over with, and then they had to relive it all over again.”

YEADON COURTFIGHTER: The Mission -Phila. Front Page News Blames Media Delco County Courts And Philadelphia County Courts For Fire Disaster Likeness And Bullycide (Suicide)

YEADON COURTFIGHTER: The Mission -Phila. Front Page News Blames Media Delco County Courts And Philadelphia County Courts For Fire Disaster Likeness And Bullycide (Suicide)

COURTFIGHTER MISSION: to prevent small court or big court injustices from growing into larger ones.

And its mission is to unite against bullying in courts, schools, jobs, towns, and residential neighborhoods. It is a foundation for individual rights in courts. Engaged by the Van Stone Productions (VSP) Foundation, courtfighters have been fighting in court since 2002.

The Despicable Delaware County Family Court and Philadelphia County Court (Custody) and Misuse of Protection From Abuses (PFA's), and Criminal Orders Facts:  Boroughs and Townships and even (cities) of Delaware County, Pa and Philadelphia County, Pa have positive and loving presiding judges, voted in to office by residents and/or American citizens, who clearly understand family law concerning child custody and domestic relations matters. These judges also clearly understand criminal law. Unfortunately, Borough and Township family law and  criminal law is very limited to: final court orders involving custody, PFA's, and criminal as well.

Mandatory Guidelines force all adults and children who are either a Delaware County resident or a Philadelphia County resident actively involved with any possible child custody or protection from abuses court, or criminal issues to file for a conference or hearing at the Media Delaware County Courthouse or Philadelphia County Court.

The above mandatory guideline is sad news because most of the judges who preside concerning Borough, Township, or (city) family law, which we are including the City of Philadelphia and/or any other big or small city, are more aware of community and family matters in each district. Locally, these judges are more able to resolve family matters equally and quickly for the sake of all children and adults in each community. And there is ample court room space in each borough, township, and city courthouse for custody and PFA's  and criminal court cases.

Interestingly, because Philadelphia basically operates as a state and is as big as a state, only in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania does Philadelphia Family Court Judges directly handle all adults and children custody and/or protection from abuses, and criminal court cases.  And Philadelphia has the a long arm to provide both a child custody order and PFA order and criminal order even if the matter involves a party who is living in another county. The same goes for Media Delaware County.          
The contradictions and the problems within the boundaries of  the Media Delaware County Courthouse/Philadelphia County Court and quite a few other family courthouses is:  On the other hand, while Borough, Township and (city) court judges do an excellent job at making fair court orders for the equality of the family matters the bigger court of Media Delaware County/Philadelphia County Court most likely undo what the smaller court has done without even consultation or consideration (practices) with the Borough, Township, and/or (city) Judge. On the other hand, most often than not, the smaller court of Delaware County Borough, Township, and/or (city) most likely hold fast what the bigger court has done and even at times used consultation or consideration (practices) with the Media Delaware County Courthouse Judge.  

Ultimately, the family, the adult and child, who must often appear at the Media Delaware County Courthouse/Philadelphia County Court -if they have any hope of fixing a broken family matter -because the smaller court must not be the final preside in any custody or PFA's, criminal issue, suffers regardless of the outcome in Media Delaware County Courthouse and/or Philadelphia County Court.

Therefore, the group courtfighter calls Media Delco County Court/Philadelphia County Court Injustices a forest court institution for having many guidelines that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech, freedom of liberty, and freedom of having a normal life. And the group courtfighter calls Court Injustices bullying that equal depression that can equal bullycide (suicide).

Courtfighter motto: "Court cases don't kill people unfair judges and bullying do!"

This is stated because many judges daily make decisions like a serial killer does... They cause misery and aim to ruin.

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COURTFIGHTER respects the understanding that judges at the state level are not a part of the city or state government. Judges are elected to a seat by the American people who live under the process of Liberty and Justice for all. The government has put in place immunizes for judges. However if and when judges do things they are not permitted to do the government removes its immunity because the governmental system will not tolerate illegal activity against its citizens -regardless. Judges need to be remined that they are ordinary citizens who must obey all laws and not prevent police from protecting and serving citizens.

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By Google Search Engine -Yeadon Delaware County Courtfighter: Phila. Front Page News History

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The Philadelphia Front Page News

The Philadelphia Front Page News is an American newspaper, formerly headquartered at 3901 Market Street (Samuel Oshiver Hall) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that primarily targets the Black American, Bangladesh American, Greek American, and Latino community. Currently there is no physical office.  All publishing (FREE not for profit group) is operated on the Internet using web technology.

Published online daily at www.frontpagenews.us and www.fpnnews.us and newly www.delcofrontpagenews.com as well as www.powerwvsr1360.us it is the fresh continually running Black American newspaper, being created in 2000 by Samuel Van Stone Downing.

The Philadelphia Front Page News also publishes the WVSR-AM Newsletter at www.powerwvsr1360.us for its reader/viewers/listeners. The Front Page News has a readership of about 190,000 and is mostly read by people living in the Philadelphia, PA, Camden NJ, Delaware County, Wilmington, Delaware, Chester, PA, Bucks County, New York City, NY, Jersey City, NJ, California state, Harrisburg, Hopewell, VA, as well as the Rhode Island area. Readers are viewing the news in the Dominican Republic and Canada and countries in Asia and Eastern Asia as well as lands in Africa.

The Front Page News is a private founded organization. The Front Page News is one of the first located online newspapers and television and radio station combinations that allows viewers to read the newspaper, watch video television format and tune to the independent live radio over the Internet. Key people that help publish the Philadelphia Front Page News were Van Stone and Diane White.

Past names of newspaper is the Van Stone’s Digest.

Introduction

Philadelphia Front Page News online is a popular and pioneering daily newspaper and Internet television concept that defines itself as the nonprofit peoples news 7 days a week year long.

It provides newspaper features and television presentations that address issues pertaining to education, politics, solar energy, economical development, and community interest such as Ex-offenders, the wrongfully imprisoned, and the economically challenged.

Live Radio broadcasting is made available by the compliment web radio component, the West Philadelphia Van Stone Radio, “WVSR 1360.1 AM Philadelphia Internet Radio” found also on the web site: POWER WVSR1360.US at www.powerwvsr1360.us.

The Front Page News Group, formally the Van Stone’s Digest, is a small American multimedia nonprofit incorporation based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It express is that it's Philadelphia's fifth-largest newspaper publisher online, responsible for the Philadelphia Front Page News, and the WVSR-AM Newsletter. The Front Page News, under the auspicious of the Van Stone Productions Foundation Inc., also owns Front Page News Philly VSP/TV Radio Youth News Broadcasting and Delaware County Front Page News.

It competes with nonprofits and for profit economic and education groups for funding to create jobs and community development. All staff are volunteers. The paper works just the way facebook works FREE.

You may find Van Stone publishing at facebook by visiting Vanstone Philadelphiafrontpagenews NinabeldeJesus Vanstone and Rosarodriguez Vanstone.

Front Page News History

Front Page News is a media industry leader reaching U.S. households through newspaper publishing, television and radio broadcasting and the Internet. Operations are concentrated in the nation’s minor markets, including Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey City, Los Angeles, Hopewell, VA and Harrisburg.

The company was founded in 2000. That year, on May 19 2000, the Philadelphia Front Page News published its first online edition in a 3-bedroom apartment located at 5029 Walnut Street. The original press run consisted of stories about the first African-American Professional Wrestling Entertainment Company lead by former Philadelphia Eagles football player Skip Hamilton in the year 1998.

Hamilton who played briefly for the Philadelphia Eagles under coach Buddy Ryan during the player strike era, later worked with Samuel Van Stone Downing sharing volunteer time with needy children. In 1998 Van Stone, who was writing for years on a localwide and citywide level, began to organize solo the first edition of the Philadelphia Front Page News featuring Soul City Wrestling as the lead story. But, Stone’s newspaper was not a full newspaper just yet. Stone branched out on his own creating a magazine called Van Stone’s Digest with Marcia Brown's help.

Van Stone’s Digest ran for two years ending up as a transformation from hard copy print to the first Black American published online newspaper about the people of Philadelphia, PA and Yeadon, PA and East Lansdowne, PA, and Camden, NJ, and Harrisburg, PA, and Lancaster, PA. The Philadelphia Front Page News located at 5029 Walnut Street began.

In 2000, the Front Page News moved from West Philadelphia to a new office located at 509 Pembroke Avenue East Lansdowne, PA. Therein, Gerald McNeil, who was doing independent radio news and TV news, joined up with Van Stone Downing to manage Web Master production of the newspaper. The Front Page News was slowed down in 2002, when the alleged Great Judge Corruption raged through the Media Delaware County Courthouse, overseeing hearings in both East Lansdowne and Media city, the Front Page News was almost destroyed, due to Van Stone’s estranged spouse, Marcia Brown, and Media Delaware County District Board of Judges Honorable Barry C. Dozor, Honorable Maureen F. Fitzpatrick and Honorable Michael F.X. Coll legal issues.

In 2003 the Front Page News mixed community news with talk radio introducing the Van Stone Productions Foundation, Inc. Philly VSP TV/Radio Youth News. VSP TV/Radio represented West Philadelphia Van Stone Radio Station at the Front Page News.

A full Internet powered radio station began to discuss Ex-offenders, the unjust imprisoned and civil rights.

However, WVSR and The Front Page News came to a complete stop in September 27, 2004 when Van Stone was wrongfully imprisoned to Delaware County Prison, George Hill Prison, by both Judges Dozor and Fitzpartick.

After Gerald McNeil and a few family friends of Stone frantically tried to bail Stone out of jail but to no success Stone was ordered to return to Delaware County Prison for 6 consecutive weekends followed by legal eviction from the East Lansdowne home/office.

 He was ordered to never see his 2 children from the marriage, daughter and son, Cheyenne Samara Downing, Samson Dakota Downing, again or else be imprisoned. Stone, then became the unknown soldier, a courtfighter, who went into battle on the court grounds even though he had no clue about the dangers that would never cease to being at the Media Delaware County courts.

The Front Page News reappeared 18 days later from Stone’s September 27, 2004 wrongful imprisonment with an editorial declaring Media Delaware County Courthouse as allegedly corrupt. The newspaper’s founder, editor, publisher and owner, Van Stone, was exonerated by Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Family Court and led the city’s awareness on Judge Brutality, Anti-Domestic Violence and Lowering the Murder Rate in big cities interest.

The Front Page News lead Van Stone to become an Icon dealing with political analyst stories.

A native Philadlephian who first acquired an interest in newspaper companies in 1988, Stone gained full control of the newspaper in 2007 and guided it into social-welfare, educational and economical fighting tools for the under privileged and abused. Newspaper Reporter, Editor, and Community Activist Diane White, who is from Harrisburg, PA, came aboard the Front Page News during the strong restart in the same year of 2007.

James Sullivan and John Butt, volunteers, became publishers and editors in the same year.

Philadelphia’s WVSR-AM Radio (www.wvsr1360.webs.com) went on the air as its call letters reflecting the Philadelphia Front Page News’ renowned slogan, "Hear Yourself. Neediness and Freedom Must Be Heard.” The newspaper was an innovator from the start.

It was first to feature the West Philadelphia Housing Authority West Park After School and Summer Program Future Investment newsletter insert, the Soul City Wrestling and the WVSR 90.5 pirate radio station Philadelphia.

 Braking new ground by introducing stories from the courtroom during the infamous 2002 through 2009 “Protection From Abuse “ and “Custody" trial" in Media Delaware County Courthouse.

The Front Page News –Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was is one of the largest and most diverse content publication operations in the nation, managing and delivering content to a broad range of media, business, and community customers.

 Front Page News readers/viewers can choose from hundreds of different topics, including classic to cutting-edge comic strips, columns from top columnist and other specialty features products. In addition, the Front Page News produces and promotes independent television programming data; it’s online Museum and theater listings and a Harrisburg Pennsylvania station.

Front Page News entered the video/television/photo/encyclopedic museum industry in 2008, when it established James Sullivan’s Research Center online in Philadelphia, followed by WVSR-AM in Philadelphia and The Thoughts of Black Men in New York and SpeaktoMe in Philadelphia. These groups, became affiliates of The Front Page News Television Network, for a year.

Today FPN is one of the country’s largest independent TV news groups. You can find mentions about the FPN on facebook.com.

In 2009 Courtfighter organization for anyone in need of support was established at FPN, www.frontpagenews.us.

The Van Stone Productions Foundation –Front Page News was established as a charitable 501c3 trust since 1995.

The formation of Front Page News online Company signaled the growing importance of news, radio and television in the at-risk communities business mix.

Front Page News was created to develop, produce and distributes video television programming for Front Page News stations and non-Front Page News stations nationwide.

Several affiliations served to accelerate Front Page News’ growth. Most significant was the Office of Dr. Michael Pollard, Chiropractic Care in East Lansdowne, PA, Stefan Umstead, Actor in Los Angeles, California, the Student Legal Aid for Entrepreneurs of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pavlos Michaels, Professor in Hopewell, Virginia.

Front Page news grew dramatically during the feature stories about alleged corruption, evil acts, and courts orders by Media Delaware County Courthouse and Philadelphia Support Enforcement, Family Court Judges, who seemed to have a lot in common with fire erupting.

Stories were covered very closely by the Investigative Reporter Team, (a Front Page News I-Team) uncovering alleged unfair treatment of African-Americans, women and children by Judges Dozor, Fitzpatrick and Coll and in addition Judge Joel Johnson, Phila. Support Enforcement, based on classism and separatist.

This resulted in rapid partnerships within the news community and Front Page News played the role corruption watchdog in a way that citizens can understand. By expanding its interest the Front Page News provide a place for analysis, explanation, and public dialogue about the city’s family court.

In what would prove a wise investment, Front Page News acquired an interest in Internet Television Network upon its discovery that youth and low-income neighborhoods were at high risk of economic implosion.

The move ensured that Front Page News stories would have original and high-quality news profiles to help improve literacy. Soon, The Front Page News would prove to be a haven for teenage and young-adult readers.

Soon thereafter, the sister station of the Philadelphia Front Page News TV, WVSR-AM quickly became a model for multimedia contents sharing and cross promotion throughout Front Page News. And another news address, www.fpnnews.us, was established for it's increased readership.

Educational and Economical Producing Empowerment

Front Page News soon began a column about educational and economical producing empowerment at the online Newspaper, the James Sullivan's Research Center online, it’s online museum, WVSR-AM, and the SCOOP USA newspaper.

PFPN made available the SCOOP Newspaper for its readers online at www.scoopusanewspaper.com. At SCOOP you will see the entire hard copy newspaper that is circulated to 90,000.00 people weekly.

However Van Stone separated from the SCOOP USA newspaper in 2010.

Focusing on just tires and how recycling tires in Philadelphia would be something to better community education and economic improvement for Black Americans, Greek Americans, Bangladesh Americans, Irish Americans, Jewish Americans and Latino Americans.

Front Page News participation in production of Just Tires (Trash) into jobs also became good for youth in the community service and the school environment. PFPN used this idea about tire transformation involved in solar energy to help School dropout students. PFPN goal is to work with energy related companies in Philadelphia such as Gulf, Sunoco, GP, etc. PFPN seeks out small energy companies that produce or sell gas. PFPN introduces ways for cities to produce solar energy involving cars, real estate, schools and political advancements.

PFPN feature articles about using solar energy to improve the new Youth Study Center Project in West Philadelphia. PFPN produces weekly, lessons for students, and city council and businesses dealing with the problem of Philadelphia tire trash.

PFPN was the first Black American newspaper online to discuss how tire trash can be, the car, the bicycle, the toy, the shopping carts, the skate boards and whatever else that involves tires.

PFPN made rubber a key word to the Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, advising the Mayor to produce rubber recycling as a Philadelphia staple.

PFPN showed how rubber tires are so hard to get rid of. Many folks in Philadelphia dump tires in the streets, lots, and even business areas because they don't know what else to do with tires. PFPN showed how there are tire repair businesses that need help with this problem.

PFPN was praised for articles showing how small businesses dumped used and useless tires instead of destroy them properly. PFPN discussed how the Philadelphia highways are full of tires dumped by the “little guy” called the Tire RepairMan.

PFPN pledged that it wanted to help the “little guy” and not put all the blame on them to hurt their business. PFPN questioned its readers and the city of Philadelphia and universities, where does all those tires go when the tire repair man dump them from his station? PFPN demonstrated that the “little guy” does not only do tire dumping but the average good citizen does it too.

PFPN produced further stories showing Mayor Nutter that their stories on tire repair shops and the average citizen was help toward supporting clean energy as a way for proper trash removal. Recycling tire trash can be done using any type of clean energy.

Stone’s Incorruptible Icon Status Helping Victims

The story of Nancy Glover and Honorable Judge Maureen Fitzpatrick, Honorable Judge Barry C. Dozor, and Honorable Judge Michael F.X. Coll is one of almost unbelievable family court abuse and judge cruelty. In fact, the testimony of the defendant Mrs.Glover incriminates many others. Allegedly the others are certain Pennsylvania Justices at Media Delaware County Family Courthouse. Although there are currently 24 Delaware County Board of Judges, 19 District Court Judges 5 Senior District Court Judges, not to be confused with Delaware County Magistrate Justices.

Allegations of blatant inconsiderateness in the blood of Judges Maureen F. Fitzpatrick, Barry C. Dozor, and Michael F.X. Coll are the norm. But according to a story covered by PFPN’s Van Stone, Gerald McNeil, James Sullivan, Special Investigator John H. Coleman, Jr Mrs. Glover about Fitzpatrick, putting it as respectfully as PFPN could, Judge Fitzpatrick’s behavior was inconsistent with fair citizenship.

Newspaper Icon Van Stone met Judge Fitzpatrick.

In several PFPN reports Van Stone wrote about how if someone told Fitzpatrick that she would be inconsistent to decide for the plan after attacking it, most likely she would attack any way. An article showed while a family plan is to save families, according to Glover, Fitzpatrick’s decision is most often a report full of inconsistencies ending in fear.

Front Page News, with Van Stone Downing, reported how Glover was terrified from the memories of a 9MM automatic to her head and threats to kill the children.

 According to Nancy, her Judge, estranged husband and his girlfriend were allegedly systematically mentally torturing her. According to Nancy, her abuser stopped paying 5 months of bills & destroyed their heater. Fitzpatrick allowed an appraisal presented by estranged husband as factual during divorce proceedings based on a ride by from the street after the complete appraisal.

Overlooked was an engineers report concerning the structural damage caused allegedly by her husband during domestic violence incidents reported to police into consideration worth $150,000.00. This too happened according to Glover. Cashed were all of Glover’s insurance checks and reimbursement checks since 2000. These included doctors’ checks deposited in the girlfriend’s account. There was obstruction of evidence about an attempt to get the deed to the additional property -sell it out from under Nancy with the help of a friend.

PFPN with Van Stone Downing reported that in the end, Nancy alleges that Judge Fitzpatrick would not permit Nancy to speak or present any facts. And Nancy is to be removed from her home; she is disabled and uses a wheelchair, in less than two months. Nancy’s was on her way to being homeless and accompanied by her grandchild (Malia) and daughter (Amanda) who also has chronic medical conditions.

Van Stone reported that when such unjust things like this happen, as is the normal in Media Delaware County Courthouse, Glover should have been allowed to file an expedition to the next level of the court where the hearing would be put back before a Judge that would allow her to fairly present here testimony.

PFPN with Van Stone won praise for telling the story about Nancy’s complaints of having problems swallowing and that she was in pain from a broken collarbone were ignored by Judge Fitzpatrick.

PFPN with Van Stone gained even more praise as the article continued telling about the next morning Judge Fitzpatrick seemed more concerned with watching TV then getting Mrs. Glover help. There was no more pleasure for Fitzpatrick to get from abusing the defendant so Nancy was ordered to come up with thousands of dollars to pay or else be evicted and see the house sold. Nancy could not get the loan so desperately needed to save her home. Mrs. Glover called Van Stone with the very credible story and so Stone offered not only to help her in any way that he could, making her story plain to the public.

Van Stone soon made an offering to Glover to act as a co-signer on a loan, putting up my own house for her, if there is any legit lender that can help Nancy borrow up to $250,000.00 thousand dollars or else Glover would be homeless in one month. Furthermore, PFPN supported Glover’s push to become founder of an organization that fought for fair rights of families forced to enter family court in the U.S.

Front Page News daily newspapers targeting urban commuters represent yet another growth initiative.

The Philadelphia Front Page News launched its Radio SCOOP edition collaboration in 2008. The SCOOP USA Newspaper, in Philadelphia, PA, circulation 90,000, a Front Page News affiliate, tabloids are distributed free of charge and geared to young adults and businesses that want their news in an informative and entertaining format.

The Front Page News online newspaper/TV, www.frontpagenews.us, www.fpnnews.us, and Radio Stations, www.wvsr1360.webs.com is a national Licensed Philadelphia newspaper-radio programming.

VAN STONE PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION, INC.

For twenty-seven years the Van Stone Productions Foundation, Inc., has reinforced the safety, health and wellness of children and their families in the Pennsylvania area through social change, social service, and children’s guidance development. Today the Van Stone Productions Foundation is at the forefront of endeavors to stop street crime, school nutrition ignorance, environmental pollution, school underachievement, and youth violence, and we offer an array of programs and services designed to support children in their efforts to create crime free lives for themselves and their families. Van Stone Productions Foundation, Inc. Philadelphia, PA.

VAN STONE PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION, INC.

YOUTH SAFETY PROGRAM & CHILD WELFARE PROGRAM

VAN STONE PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION, INC.

Telephone Number:

(610) 803-1624

PO Box 395

E. Lansdowne, PA 19050
E-Mail Address: frontpagenews1@yahoo.com

Fax: (215) 474-5165

Visit at: https://thefrontpagenews.blogspot.com/

Non Profit Organization 501 (c) (3)DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM

Van Stone Productions Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization established and implemented in 1980 by President/CEO Mr. Samuel Van Stone Downing, Inspector along with 25 volunteer staff members consisting of parents and youth.

The organization doesn't earn any money and has no employees.  All members are volunteers. If there are any gifts such as monies or materials to the charity all proceeds are used for direct use to support family activity in any given community. And any community benefiting from VSP Foundation activity can be somewhere in the USA or even outside the USA if possible. 

The youth/senior safety center and child welfare program was created to help at risk youth and disabled adults from poor living conditions establish a means by which they can become educated in behavioral health activity, youth safety, and community safety officers activities; the result will lead to youth/education/bible support systems fulfilled; And it will accommodate the need for physical and intellectual expression of youth who are athletically as well as academically underachieving in school.

Under this organization, we have established a domestic abuse target campaign, stop the bullying education campaign, warring against indecency and it's effect on children campaign, health and safety summer camp, child and safety crisis lab, computer lab, traffic control lab and broadcast radio and senior lab which started out as a 15 member youth public housing and neighborhood resident social clubs; today, we patrol citywide to maintain a presence in the community and help prevent carjacking, youth violence and other related offences that endanger kids.

Weekly, participants engage in community news writing, net TV/Radio programming, maintenance exhibits, computers, youth sports; later, we have developed into a 1,000 kid member program to support youth/seniors in the west, northwest and southwest Philadelphia areas.

OUR POLICY

The organization does not discriminate in any manner against any person by reason of race, color, sex, national origin or religious or political affiliation.

DEMOGRAPHICS

The organization services low-income and at risk youth between ages of 3-18; disabled seniors.

VAN STONE PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION, INC.

YOUTH SAFETY PROGRAM AND CHILD WELFARE PROGRAM NEED FOR PROGRAM

Youth and disabled adults alike are located in an area that has few programs and are very limited in engaging in opportunities geared to help youth/seniors with job readiness skills and recreational activities; Safety is most often an immediate firsthand concern for them due to lack of security presence and resources in their community; lack of funding; and a majority of student/senior minorities are underachieving in their school education levels citywide. Youth violence, verbal violence, bullying; lack of new ideal situations to fix gun violence is a common issue that these teens/seniors are forced to cope with daily. Hope and work usually goes unfulfilled in their community.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

All youth/seniors will gain developmental skills and proper training which will allow them to learn trades that they can pursue as a career in their future; also youth/seniors will acquire motivational skills through the mentor program which supplies their needs with the proper guidance and counseling. To help youth/seniors cope with the transition from disabled to functional; to provide an atmosphere which supports self-confidence and self-esteem; to involve youth/seniors in sports and education that will induce healthy living and positive energy; to provide scholarships for students and or after school grade points to students, to further their education toward college.

FACILITIES TO BE USED TO CONDUCT ACTIVITIES

Activities will be conducted at one or more of the following sites: University Square; Dept. of Rec. Lee Cultural Center/Playground; Alain Locke Elementary School; West Park Community Center: Millcreek Playground; Mantua Playground and/or Belmont Playground; Belmont; Parkside Healthcare Center; Huey Elementary; Sayre Recreation Center; Malcolm X Park; any and all School(s) and Playground site(s) that invite our participation at their center.

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS TO BE SERVED AND LENGTH OF PROGRAM

The program (i.e. youth boxing, labs, safety patrolling, traffic control, school guidance counseling, domestic advocate support, senior praise-activities program) serves an average of 1,000 participants or more on a year to year basis starting approximately January 1^st (for a 9 week completion period(s)) and ending approximately December 31^st.

SUMMARY OF PROPOSED PROGRAM

The after-school program operates Monday through Friday, 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on school days and from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. during the summer. The program provides recreational activities such as basketball, tennis, football, kickball and soccer; as well as these particular classes: School Behavioral Health/Anger Management Education, Loss Management and Safety Education, School Education, Nutrition Education, Tutoring, Youth Safety Crisis Management, Traffic Control, Comm. Safety Patrol Officers Education.

Domestic Violence Issues, Legal Child Advocacy, Divorce, Counseling Network, Computers, School Guidance Counseling and Child Welfare; other topics of interest are, OUTREACH PROGRAM: home maintenance, car repair, landscaping, sewing, cosmetology, art and design, daycare, net broadcasting (i.e. talk radio, music radio, film, TV, video-photography) and catering. The purpose of these activities are to help keep kids from dying in the streets; comfort disabled seniors; and to keep communities safe.

Our mission and goal is to provide skilled teachers and educators for youth/seniors who are coping with drugs, violence, bullies, guns, gangs, teen issues (i.e. pregnancy, smoking) and school drop outs; we desire to create a successful program that supports high quality service learning and engages students/seniors in meeting community needs and achieving school academic levels.

Our curriculum consist of conducting a program that include mentoring which will link at risk youth/seniors with responsible adults to provide guidance and counseling that result in - youth/education/nutrition support systems fulfilled.