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Banner of Liberty is dedicated to providing accurate, complete information from original sources. The website was created in 1998 to bring the actual words of political candidates in congressional and state elections to the voters without commentary or spin by links to websites of those running for office.
Mary Mostert, who has more than fifty years experience in investigative print journalism, first as a liberal Democrat and, in the last 25 years, as a Republican, has developed a new form of print-internet journalism that allows the reader to read or hear the actual words of those involved in the news. She has used this newly developed form of journalism in her newest book, Foundations of Freedom: A Hunger for Liberty Leads to the Constitution to provide the reader with the exciting story of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States in the actual words of George Washington, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and others. Hundreds of footnotes allow the reader to internet websites that allow the reader a wealth of researchable information on the subject. see: US Constitution Educators.com
Mary Mostert's Biography
Mary was involved in politics before she was old enough to vote and was writing articles for national magazines at the age of nineteen. She organized one of the first interracial youth groups in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1940s as a teenager, and was involved nationally and internationally in the civil rights movement and the peace movement.
As executive director of the Independent Political forum, she was one of 52 American Women, including Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., who met hundreds of women from other nations, including the Soviet Union, in Geneva, Switzerland in 1962 to petition delegates at the Disarmament Conference to sign the first Nuclear Test-ban treaty. At the time, almost the entire Senate and President John F. Kennedy were opposed to halting the testing of nuclear bombs. However, the small ad hoc "Mother's Lobby" helped change public opinion. In approximately six months the Senate approved the treaty with six dissenting votes and, after they picketed the White House, JFK signed it.
She was the first, or one of the first, female political commentators published in a major metropolitan newspaper in the 1960s and one of the first women building contractors running her own construction company in the 1960s-1970s repairing, building and managing innercity properties. She served on redevelopment boards in the inner city of Rochester, New York, implementing President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty programs. Over the years she won three architectural awards for the restoration of historic buildings, served on committees in the inner city and received annual awards for her work in civil rights. However, after years of first hand experience with the War on Poverty entitlement programs she concluded that they were doing irreparable harm to the black families they were meant to assist and she became a registered Republican.
During those years she was also a wife and mother of six young children. Her children grew up working with her, learning to clean, paint and repair on her various projects. She ran, unsuccessfuly, for the New York State Senate and became campaign manager for a number of candidates.
In 1991-92 she served a mission as Public Affairs Director for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Johannesburg, SA. She was responsible for public affairs for the Church's Africa Area, which included 44 Sub-Sahara nations. In that capacity she met with most of the women leaders of South Africa as secretary of "Positive Action NOW!" - a national woman's group which sought to reduce the hostility among the nation's various racial, religious and political groups. She and her companion, Julia Mavimbela of Soweto, and other women met with then President F.W. de Klerk, the current President Nelson Mandela and most of the leaders of the nation's 22 political parties which were writing the new South African Constitution. They gave each leader a "constitution packet" which included a video on the writing of the US Constitution, "More Perfect Union," a copy of the US Constitution and other material designed to help them solve disagreements and write a freedom-protecting constitution.
From 1994-2001 she researched, wrote and edited articles for national talk show host Michael Reagan's Information Interchange on the Internet, and for The REAGAN MONITOR, a monthly newsletter that provides in depth information on key issues. Her book, COMING HOME - Families Can Stop the Unraveling of America," was published in 1996 by Gold Leaf Press.
During the 1998 Congressional election campaign, she launched a website to provide voters in every state the websites of candidates for every major state and national office, allowing voters to compare the candidates views. She was the only national news analyst who predicted prior to the election that Republicans would not only maintain control of the House in 2002, but would increase numbers and also win control of the Senate. Click here for your state.
Today she is completing her second book,A Hunger for Liberty Leads to the Constitution, write 3-4 news analyses per week and manages to keep track of her six adult children, her 25 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren scattered in ten states.
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