www.peopleneedtoknow.com A new project of Ebony Showcase Theatre Online.
All the world is a stage and we are merely players .. William Shakespeare
My father, Nick Stewart, is in the final scene of the following clip from the 1963 comedy classic titled It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, directed by Stanley Kramer, with Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers and many other famous comedians.
I selected this particular clip for the introduction to peopleneedtoknow because my father's final words in the clip were prophetic.
My parents were treated unfairly by the City of Los Angeles Redevelopment Agency and the city of Los Angeles so
I created the website to help others who are fighting for their rights, fighting corruption, or seeking the truth. Often the newspapers tell a one-sided version of a story. I witnessed redevelopment abuse that included governmental lies and alteration of documentation that misled the pubic and led to the misappropiation of a HUD blockgrant, an eminent domain taking and demolition without a demolition permit in direct defiance of the programmatic agreement with the State Cultural Heritage of the buildings that housed the Ebony Showcase Theatre, founded by my parents in 1950. The newspaper stories did not tell a complete story. When we were interviewed by reporters the resulting, published, stories told half-truths and outright lies. This experience taught me that if this was happening to us, then other people were experiencing a similar plight. This website will reveal the other side of their stories.
Valarie Stewart
People Need to Know
We are here to provide information and to give a voice to people and to their cases and causes. On this website we tell about people, events, issues, products, and services that people should know about. Information will be published on this website, on the radio, in podcasts. We're presenting stories of brave people who have causes, issues and interests that they want you to know about. Often they face situations with an independent outlook and independent thinking; sometimes they fight an unjust system on their own, conducting endless hours of research, detective work, and investigation, without public knowlege, as I did. They don't accept everything they are told. Instead, they look beneath the surface to find the truth and to make a difference.
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CASES and CAUSES The other side of some controversial issues
2006 Los Angeles Times series, GUARDIANS FOR PROFIT, revisited
In 2005 and 2006 the Los Angeles Times presented several articles on the subject of conservatorship of senior citizens. In the December 27, 2005, issue of the Los Angeles Times, the author of the article titled Guardian for Profit, said of conservators "Though they hold sweeping authority over their clients' lives, no agency licenses conservators or investigates complaints against them. The Times' investigation found that professional conservators often gain legal authority over elderly people without their knowledge or consent, taking control of their lives and finances with jarring speed. Some conservators neglected their wards, isolated them from relatives and ran up excessive fees. Others used their power over seniors' estates to benefit themselves, their employers or their friends."
In other words, sometimes conservators bring the police, kidnap the senior in the middle of the night, put them in a mental ward, fill them with psych drugs, confiscate their belongings and property, sell their assets, and isolate them from their families.
Amid the clutter on Rittenhouse's desk, in a cramped office on the ground floor of the marble-and-glass Arizona Supreme Court building, sits a pin that might as well be her motto:
"Aging -- If it's not your issue ... it will be."
I met a man who is currently fighting to save his mother from this system, specifically the Los Angeles County Public Guardian. His story will be on our website soon.
Gary Reeves, who received an early release from prison, is seeking exoneration for a crime he served time for in the 1970s. His sister, who was convinced of his innocence, found evidence that Gary had been framed.
Coming soon: Mona Buhl became an activist and prisoner's advocate after her husband was convicted for statutory rape and sentenced to 49 1/2 years in a North Carolina prison. She wants to know why a rape kit was mentioned at his hearing yet no DNA evidence was introduced to the court. She wants to know if sentencing guidelines were adhered to since her husband, who had no previous criminal record, was sentenced to 49 1/2 years. She is seeking answers to other irregularities in her husband's case; and she is helping other prisoners and their families through activism and advocacy online.Coming soon: A California woman, who lives in Watts, is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff in a beating case that has not been publicized.
CORRUPTION CLOSER TO HOME Redevelopment Abuse and HUD Fraud
The above photos show the 1998 demolition of the main building that once housed the legitimate theater founded by my parents, Nick and Edna Stewart, who, unknown to most people, were sued in an eminent domain lawsuit. The buildings were demolished by the CRA - Community Redevelopment Agency, who fraudently used HUD block-grant money for this project.
Here is a link to some information about the situation. Click here Here is a link to a website that I built to help another victims of eminent domain schemes. click here
HERE ARE SOME TOOLS AND NEW SOCIAL NETWORKS TO HELP YOU GET YOUR STORY OUT Add videos, photos, tell your own story; learn about what is happening in the lives of others, too.
Coming soon: Mona Buhl became an activist and prisoner's advocate after her husband was convicted for statutory rape and sentenced to 49 1/2 years in a North Carolina prison. She wants to know why a rape kit was mentioned at his hearing yet no DNA evidence was introduced to the court. She wants to know if sentencing guidelines were adhered to since her husband, who had no previous criminal record, was sentenced to 49 1/2 years. She is seeking answers to other irregularities in her husband's case; and she is helping other prisoners and their families through activism and advocacy online.
Coming soon: A California woman, who lives in Watts, is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff in a beating case that has not been publicized.
