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	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Jena 6
		In a small highly segregated rural Louisiana town of Jena in September 2006, a fl student asked permission from school administrators to sit under the shade of a tree commonly reserved for the enjoyment of white students.
		The Jena Six should be tried by juries that reflect the racial and ethnic demographics of Jena, Louisiana.
		At the end of a school assembly on 31 August 2006, a fl student at Jena High School in Jena, Louisiana, jokingly asked the assistant principal of that institution if fl students were allowed to sit in the shade of a tree in a square at the center of campus.
	www.snopes.com /politics/crime/jena6.asp (1994 words)

	Justice in Jena! \| Of 'White Trees', Black Boys and Jena, Louisiana \| , White, Jena, School, Were
		I was astonished to learn that today, in the first decade of the 21st century, in Jena High School, there is still a 'white tree', called that not because the leaves are white, but because it is a generous giver of shade, and only white students sit under it.
		Jena's High School principal looked into the matter, found the three white students responsible, and recommended that they be expelled.
		Families and friends of the Jena 6 are organizing against this case, and are also being threatened by the local establishment.
	jena6.vesana.com /articles/press/of-white-trees-black-boys-and-jena-louisiana.html (758 words)

	Jena (Louisiana): News & Videos about Jena (Louisiana) - CNN.com
		A fl Louisiana teenager at the center of the racially charged "Jena 6" case was ordered Thursday to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility, after a judge ruled he had violated his probation for earlier juvenile convictions, a source with knowledge of the court proceedings said.
		A Louisiana appeals court ruled it was too early to consider a motion to release a fl teenager who allegedly took part in beating up a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, last year.
		A Louisiana appeals court Friday vacated the remaining conviction of a teenager accused in a violent, racially charged incident in Jena, Louisiana, his attorney said.
	topics.cnn.com /topics/jena_louisiana (1411 words)

	U.S. v. Louisiana -- Jena Agreement
		This United States' Jena Agreement (the "Agreement") is entered with the express purpose of resolving demands for preliminary injunctive relief asserted by the United States regarding conditions at Jena Juvenile Justice Center.
		The Governor of the State of Louisiana has delegated to the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections responsibility to assure compliance with this Agreement, and the Governor discharges his responsibility under this Agreement by conferring on the Secretary this responsibility.
		All use of chemical agents at Jena shall be videotaped, with sound recording, and the tape of the incident shall be maintained for the duration of this Agreement for inspection by the Private Plaintiffs, the United States, and the Court Expert.
	www.usdoj.gov /crt/split/documents/us-jena.htm (5430 words)

	Jena - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale.
		Jena was first mentioned in 1236 and developed as a market town up until the foundation of the university in 1558.
		Today Jena is a manufacturing city, specializing in precision machinery, pharmaceuticals, optics and photographic equipment, and is home to the famous Zeiss optics plant.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /jena.htm (311 words)

	Encyclopedia: Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Pentagon Barracks was later acquired by the state of Louisiana and has served as dormitories for Louisiana State University, as state offices, and as apartments for high-ranking state officials and employees, including (at present) the lieutenant-governor.
		In 1846, the Louisiana state legislature decided to move the seat of government away from New Orleans -- largely because a growing majority of legislators and state officials were fundamentalist Protestants and regarded the hedonistic Crescent City with distaste.
		Shreveport Alexandria is a city in Louisiana, U.S.A.; it is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Baton-Rouge,-Louisiana (9875 words)

	Jena, Louisiana -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jena is a town located in (Click link for more info and facts about La Salle Parish, Louisiana) La Salle Parish, Louisiana.
		Jena is located at 31°41'24" North, 92°7'29" West (31.689993, -92.124781).
		Out of the total population, 20.2% of those under the age of 18 and 17.0% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jena,_louisiana.htm (450 words)

	Jena, Louisiana Drug Rehab Louisiana Drug Rehab Alcohol Treatment Addiction Rehab Information Narconon Arrowhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Louisiana law enforcement authorities remain concerned due to cocaine's impact on the community in terms of its direct correlation to incidents of violent crime and homicide.
		Heroin: Altogether, heroin distribution and abuse is not a significant threat in Louisiana, with the exception of the greater New Orleans area.
		Because of the rural nature of Northern Louisiana and the abundance of horses and livestock, iodine crystals, commonly used in the handling of farm animals and as precursor chemical used in the ephedrine process of methamphetamine manufacturing, are widely available and accessible.
	www.stopaddiction.com /states/louisiana_drug_rehab_info~Jena.html (2139 words)

	Free The Jena 6!
		When three white students in Jena committed this hate crime, hanging three nooses from the “white tree,” they evoked the ugly history of slavery, segregation, lynching, and police brutality to threaten the lives of Black students at their school.
		The Jena 6, as the Black students have come to be called, are in prison and on trial for defending themselves against white supremacist attacks.
		The “white tree” stands in Jena, Louisiana today while entire neighborhoods and precious lives in the 9th ward of New Orleans are left wasting away, even as the more profitable and less Black areas of the city are rebuilt.
	www.rwor.org /a/095/free-jena-six-en.html (1817 words)

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	Thousands of protesters march on Jena, Louisiana
		Marchers head toward Jena High School during today's protest of the criminal trial of six fl teens in the beating of a white classmate.
		JENA, La. - Chanting "Free the Jena Six," thousands of protesters streamed into this tiny Louisiana town to support the fl teens charged with beating a white classmate.
		Jena became a focus of national leaders when six fl teens were charged shortly after the local prosecutor declined to charge three white teens who hung nooses in a tree on their high school grounds.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/wn_report/2007/09/20/2007-09-20_thousands_of_protesters_march_on_jena_lo.html?ref=rss (545 words)

	The Raw Story \| Racial demons resurface with nooses on Louisiana tree
		The racial demons of the Old South have resurfaced in a rural Louisiana town where fl students who tried to sit on the white side of the school yard were met by three hangmen's nooses dangling from a tree.
		Jena's troubles started in September when a few fl students tried to challenge the accepted state of things by crossing an invisible color line in the school yard.
		The biggest disparity is among men convicted of aggravated assault: fl men were sentenced to an average of 48 months in jail, which is 33 percent longer than the average sentence of 36 months received by white men, according to the Urban League's annual State of Black America report.
	rawstory.com /news/afp/Racial_demons_resurface_with_nooses_05242007.html (680 words)

	Thousands 'march for justice' in Jena, court orders hearing on teen - CNN.com
		They swarmed over the grounds of Jena High School, where nooses were hung from a tree in early August 2006, about three months before six fl teens known as the "Jena 6" were accused of beating a white classmate.
		Jena resident Terry Adams disagreed with any accusations that there might be a fl-white divide in the area.
		Jena's racial tensions were aggravated in August 2006, when three white teens hung the nooses the day after a group of fl students received permission from school administrators to sit under the tree -- a place where white students normally congregated.
	www.cnn.com /2007/US/law/09/20/jena.six/index.html?eref=rss_latest (1339 words)

	U.S. attorney: Nooses, beating at Jena High not related - CNN.com
		JENA, Louisiana (CNN) -- There is no link between the nooses hung by white students outside a Louisiana high school and the alleged beating of a white student by fl teens, according to the U.S. attorney who reviewed investigations into the incidents.
		Parents of the Jena 6 say they heard Barker was hurling racial epithets, but Barker's parents insist he did nothing to provoke the attack.
		He and the other five members of the Jena 6 -- all of them African-Americans -- were initially charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the December 4 beating.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /2007/US/law/09/19/jena.six.link/index.html (1092 words)

	Jena Louisiana Profile and Resource Guide, City or community of Jena, Louisiana Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
		The population of Jena is approximately 2,872 (2005).
		The distance from Jena to Washington DC is 1012 miles.
		Jena is positioned 31.68 degrees north of the equator and 92.12 degrees west of the prime meridian.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /lacountyjena.htm (300 words)

	Justice in Jena!
		Six fl students at Jena High School in Central Louisiana were arrested last December after a school fight in which a white student was beaten and suffered a concussion and multiple bruises.
		JENA, Louisiana (CNN) -- A judge Tuesday vacated one of two convictions against a teen involved in a violent, racially charged incident in Louisiana that left another teen hospitalized.
		JENA, La. -- Here in the woodsy heart of Louisiana, town leaders were looking for a fresh start, a way to erase the recent memory of Jim Crow-like hangman's nooses dangling from a shade tree at the local high school.
	freethejena6.org (1261 words)

	blackagendareport.com - The Struggle to Free the Jena Six
		Louisiana's effort to carry out a legal mass lynching demonstrates that the white students brandishing nooses have a better understanding of the real state of American justice than Barack Obama.
		Their call, "Free the Jena Six," was initially heard by activists from other parts of Louisiana, such as the Lafayette public access TV show, "Community Defender," which was the first media from outside their immediate area to give coverage of the case.
		Jena was also the former site of a notoriously brutal youth prison, which was closed after years of lawsuits and negative media exposure.
	www.blackagendareport.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=327&Itemid=33 (1677 words)

	Louisiana Hall of Shame
		Louisiana lawmakers should strip the Department of Corrections of its oversight of young offenders and close down one of the state's four juvenile prisons, a group of legislators was told Monday.
		Louisiana's $89 million juvenile justice system, which locks up youths mostly for minor, nonviolent crimes, and jails fl youths more often and for more time than white youths, badly needs and overhaul so that judges can help young offenders address their problems closer to home, a Baltimore philanthropy has concluded.
		Louisiana officials are negotiating with the owners of the juvenile prison in Tallulah on a deal that would eventually give the state ownership of the troubled youth prison.
	www.privateci.org /louisiana.htm (18904 words)

	Jena, Louisiana (LA) Relocation - Houses & Apartments - Schools, Jobs, Weather - For Sale & Rentals
		This is the real estate and relocation resource that allows you to view homes for sale, search apartment rentals, get free moving quotes, find a job or obtain a low-interest mortgage home loan.
		Population for Jena, LA (2000): 2,971 comprising 1,477 (49.7%) males and 1,494 (50.3%) females.
		Your one-stop resource for Jena and Louisiana city guides, real estate for sale, apartments for rent, home loans, school reports, movers, roommates, jobs and other moving needs.
	www.relo-guide.com /la/Jena_la.html (160 words)

	Louisiana Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehabilitation Addiction Treatment Programs and Substance Abuse Centers
		Louisiana is also linked by an extensive array of interstates and these roads are frequently used by the drug traffickers.
		Louisiana has also seen an increase in the distribution and abuse of steroids.
		Louisiana's notoriously harsh drug laws were largely responsible for the state’s past distinction of holding the highest incarceration rate in the country.
	www.addictionsearch.com /treatment/LA/louisiana.html (1642 words)

	On the road to Jena: Protesters endure roadblocks, delays - CNN.com
		It's that five of the Jena 6 were charged as adults, the attempted murder allegations were excessive and the bonds were set higher than the price of most homes in Jena, the protesters said.
		Emily Calloway, on the bus from Los Angeles, said she thinks it's a racist area, regardless of the nooses, and she thinks the police were being racist when they stopped the buses on Highway 165.
		Pressing on to Jena, she said, will "make an effective statement to the authorities and to the judge" in the Jena 6 case.
	www.cnn.com /2007/US/law/09/20/jena6.sidebar/index.html?eref=rss_us (952 words)

	Justice in Jena! \| Looking for Justice in Jena, Louisiana \| Students, Black, Were, Jena, White
		JENA, Louisiana (CNN) -- Thousands of protesters clogged the tiny town of Jena, Louisiana, Thursday to show their indignation over what they consider unjust, unequal punishments meted out in two racially charged incidents.
		Bean was speaking at a rally organized by residents of Jena, Louisiana.
		Jena itself is a mostly segregated community that was also the site of the Jena Juvenile Correctional Center for Youth, a legendarily brutal prison that was shut down in 2000.
	jena6.vesana.com /articles/press/looking-for-justice-in-jena-louisiana.html (1699 words)

	Black High School Students in Louisiana Threatened With Lynching
		In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree.
		Jena, Louisiana: An all-white jury was seated Tuesday to hear the case against the first of the "Jena Six" - a group of fl youths accused of beating a white fellow student amid racial discord at a Louisiana school.
		The racial tension began in late August in Jena - a central Louisiana town of 2,900 with about 350 fl residents - after a fl student sat under a tree traditionally used as a gathering spot by white students.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/062907M.shtml (1053 words)

	Jena Louisiana Information
		Jena, Louisiana is located in La Salle County.
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		Our History, Trivia and Facts Pages are populated with interesting, useless and random facts pertaining to Jena, Louisiana history, American history, family history and the history of names.
	htusa.webmaine.com /la/Jena.html (867 words)

	Jena Homes for Sale, Jena Real Estate Agents, Jena Real Estate Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		RE4.US provides Jena, Louisiana real estate information and resources to help guide homeowners and homebuyers through the process of selling and buying a house, condo or other Jena, Louisiana property.
		RE4.US links to services to access Jena homes for sale and the current Jena MLS listings, help find a real estate agent, get the value of your home and a comparative market analysis (CMA), find licensed contractors in Jena, Louisiana mortgages and more.
	re4.us /LA/Jena.shtml (284 words)

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