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Slavery Reparations Movement Growing Strong
NEW YORK, July 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Advocates for slavery reparations from corporations are applauding victories amounting to $20 million. The effort, referred to as the "corporate restitution movement," has grown from a one-woman campaign to include legislation, landmark reparations lawsuits, and a student loan boycott.
"We are encouraged by the momentum in the movement. The $20 million paid is a good start, but these are trillion dollar companies that owe their existence to enslaved African laborers. They must pay much more," said Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, pioneer of the corporate restitution movement and Executive Director of the Restitution Study Group. In 2000, she single-handedly initiated the effort exposing corporations complicit in slavery. Her first targets were Aetna Inc.
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Local week in review
A lawyer for a Caroline County woman convicted of killing her husband told an appeals court last week that crucial errors were made in jury selection at her trial last year.
Donna Lee Blanton, 40, was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 46-year-old state police 1st Sgt. Taylor V. Blanton.
She was sentenced to 28 years in prison, which is what the jury recommended in May 2005 after a grueling seven-day trial in Caroline Circuit Court.
Her lawyer, Mark Murphy of Fredericksburg, said the ultimate goal is to win a new trial.
River claims another lifeRandy Knowles, a Stafford County resident, is believed to have drowned in the Rappahannock River last Saturday evening. Knowles, a retired Marine, was the husband of Battalion Chief Lori Knowles, who works in Stafford's emergency services operations.