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Activist Lives: an Interview with Bay View Publisher Willie Ratcliff New College, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 4:10pm PDT
Indigenous protest at UC Berkeley (audio/mpeg 7.0MB) Radio Zapatista interviewed Morning Star, from the Intertribal Friendship House, and Cesar, an indigenous movement supporter, about the protests at UC Berkeley, where 13,000 indigenous ancestor bodies are being held, without consultation with indigenous peoples, at the Hearst Museum....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 1:10am PDT
Vernon Bellecourt dies 
Vernon Bellecourt has died of pneumonia at age 75. One of the original American Indian Movement activists in several prominent midwestern indigenous rights struggles during the 70s, and later a divisive figure along with his brother Clyde in feuds with other AIM members, Vernon Bellecourt got a lot of major media focus as a spokesman for national indian issues...
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 10:54pm PDT
Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony Celebrates UN adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Originally From New America Media
Sunday, October 14, 2007 : The 2007 Sunrise Ceremony at Alcatraz celebrated a new landmark in the history of the American Indian Movement. After years of struggle and negotiation, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in September....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 11:02am PDT
Black farmer’s situation in Kentucky too hot to handle for locals The phone calls and support, which come in on a daily basis give him the strength to keep on going, despite an alleged KKK vandalism on land he is currently farming. Steel gateposts have been yanked out of the ground; hay for sitting has been trucked in, and remnants of ceremonial fires and meetings are still highly visible on the land. Yet, this Black farmer refused to be discouraged....
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 9:16pm PDT
Blair admits he is shocked by discrimination on the West Bank Saturday, October 13, 2007 : While his aides munched tuna bagels thoughtfully provided by the Israeli military, a shirt-sleeved Tony Blair peered intently at a map showing the two main cargo crossing-points that will function between the West Bank and Israel once the 450-mile separation barrier between them is complete....
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 9:23am PDT
More migrant deaths as Europe tightens border controls Saturday, October 13, 2007 :A recent study conducted by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), estimates that up to 3,000 migrants have died attempting to cross from West Africa into Europe. Most of these deaths were on the perilous sea crossing to the Canary Islands. More than 30,000 migrants arrived on the islands in 2006 from the West African countries of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Mauritania and Morocco, but the number has dropped this year to about 6,500, du...
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 9:11am PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC BOMBARDS Bayview Hunters Point constituents Oct 9 and 10, 2007 Lennar BVHP LLC bombards the constituents of Bayview Hunters Point with toxic dirt containing heavy metals and Asbestos Structures registered at 81,000 structures per cubic meter. The cap is 16,000 structures per cubic meter. Shame on Gavin Newsom, the SF Health Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the California Department of Public Health and the fake agency - The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. You all have blood o...
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 5:59am PDT
City finds a clever way to keeps Blacks from renting apartments This city gets apartment owners to refuse to rent to convicts, a racist trick to keep Blacks out of it's city limits. Many other cities use the same trick!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 3:35pm PDT
BRUCE OR BUST :: Hyphen's Opening Night Party for Justin Lin's Finishing the Game 
Club Six
60 6th St
San Francisco, CA 94103...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2007 9:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 1:03pm PDT
Paul Ortiz Leaving UCSC Hey everyone,
I heard some bad news yesterday - Paul Ortiz is leaving UCSC because the University failed to take the necessary steps to retain him at this campus....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 11:15am PDT
Iran -- Rumors of War? (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) The newest target may well be Iran, despite the fact that if Iran is indeed more influential today, it's because of the U.S. invasion, occupation, and near destruction of Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:20am PDT
Australian government resorts to anti-African witch hunt Friday, October 12, 2007 : With a federal election imminent and opinion polls predicting a rout for the government, Australian Prime Minister John Howard is once again playing the race card, this time directed against Sudanese and other African immigrants. As he has done repeatedly over the past decade, Howard is deliberately encouraging divisive racist sentiment to divert attention from his own government’s responsibility for slashing of essential services and deepening social inequality....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:01am PDT
Latino Congreso sets 2008 agenda Friday, October 12, 2007 : LOS ANGELES — Some 2,000 Latino leaders and activists from throughout the United States met here Oct. 5-9 to map an action plan and social justice program for the 2008 elections. Their goal is to bring out 10 million Latino voters who can play a decisive role in the presidential and congressional elections....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:59am PDT
Republican Group's Event Plans Under Fire Friday, October 12, 2007 : Plans for an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week to be hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans on campus later this month are prompting opposition from some students and local groups....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:49am PDT
Tortured Confessions -- The San Francisco 8 Originally From New America Media
Thursday, October 11, 2007 : The San Francisco 8, are currently fighting conspiracy and murder charges in the case of a San Francisco police officer slain in 1971. Courts originally threw the case out after it was acknowledged that some of the defendants were tortured in 1975....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:39am PDT
Defense Motion on Torture Statements Denied in SF 8 Case In front of a packed courtroom, SF 8 presiding
Judge Moscone denied a significant defense motion
asking that statements made under torture by
Harold Taylor in 1973 be precluded from consideration in this case....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 10:55pm PDT
Howard Calls for 'New Reconciliation' Referendum for Indigenous People SYDNEY: The Australian prime minister, John Howard, proposed a referendum Thursday to change the country's Constitution to recognize the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia's history....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 4:46pm PDT
Rogo Livorno. Racism in Italy kills the Roma People Newsweek has published an article about the persecution the Italian authorities (with the complicity of the media) is carrying out against the Roma and Sinti people. Gruppo EveryOne, Opera Nomadi, Circolo Pasolini and a few other groups are leading a difficult campaign for the lives and rights of these minorities, and against the increasing racism that is ruthlessly killing innocent men, women and children....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 2:01pm PDT
How The Muslim Community Has Been Impacted By Global Terrorism SJSU Student Union University Room
One Washington Square, San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95112
http://www.union.sjsu.edu/su/su.html...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 12:37pm PDT
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