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24th Annual, California Rosa Parks Day Dinner and California State Capitol Celebration
2024 Rosa Parks Day in California and beyond, we pause to reflect upon Sister Rosa, and remember her example of “Womanity” showcasing dignified faith, work and courage, this special 2024 Black History Month we begin preparations for our 25th Annual Rosa Parks Day Celebration in her winter home of Los Angeles, California....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2024 7:16pm PST
Palestinians and Holocaust Scholar Testify in U.S. Court on Biden's Complicity in Genocide
Palestinians and a Holocaust scholar testified on the role of President Biden in the ongoing genocide in Palestine in U.S. federal court on Friday, describing family members digging in the rubble for children with their hands, and the weapons sent from the United States to Israel. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the lawsuit against Biden and cabinet members, said Biden has failed to uphold the Genocide Convention, which mandates the prevention of genocide. "Not only has the ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2024 5:05am PST
ICJ to deliver on Friday its order on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday announced that it will deliver its order on Friday “on the Request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa” in a genocide case against Israel....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2024 4:13pm PST
Double Exposure: Genocide in Residential Schools. Biden Genocide Case in U.S. Court
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada released new records from residential schools, essentially prisoner-of-war camps where Native children were the victims of genocide. At the same time, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the United States announced that its case of genocide in Palestine filed against President Biden begins in federal court in northern California next Friday....
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2024 10:46am PST
Fort McDermitt Tribal Leader Choked Youth During Lithium Americas Community Meeting
A Fort McDermitt tribal leader in Nevada attacked a minor and choked him during a public community meeting with Lithium Americas. The tribal youth was videotaping a meeting held about financial benefits from lithium mining by Lithium Americas of Canada, now digging into the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2024 6:07am PST
Minority rights at the heart of Germany’s trade policy
In 2021, Germany passed a milestone in defending and representing minorities, by electing the first two transgender Parliament members. The road to inclusion and to the respect owed to all minorities has been long. There’s no denying that German society is better off than a few decades ago, and that Germany is a vibrant haven for many minorities. Clearly, a valid cause for pride. But, as legitimate as rejoicing may be, promoters of equality and social justice should not forget that the fight ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2024 6:11am PST
Warrior Klee Benally Never Surrendered: A Life of Revolutionary Love: 'Regain Your Power'
Our hearts are broken by the sudden passing of our friend Klee Benally. Reflecting on Klee's life, we remember the words of Che Guevara that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. Klee never surrendered, he never surrendered to capitalism, the media, or the forces of conformity that sought to change who he was....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 7:20pm PST
Parallel Massacres: From the Zapatistas to Wounded Knee and Gaza
Parallel Massacres: From the Zapatistas to Wounded Knee and Gaza -- Censored News Most Censored 2023. The weapons flow and its tentacles in Indian country; the violations of the sacred; and the silencing of voices for Palestine at universities in the United States were among the most censored issues in 2023. The war crimes and genocide in Palestine with U.S. funds and weapons would not be possible without the complicity of the U.S. media, which has gone from lazy chair plagiarizing to becomin...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2023 7:34am PST
Human Exceptionalism Dehumanizes All
Op-ed: The current wave of dehumanizing language fueling the extermination and expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank relies upon the Human Exceptionalism-based stance that the dehumanizers themselves are not “animals”. However, through this insistence they have unwittingly rejected their own humanity....
Posted: Sat, Dec 16, 2023 5:12pm PST
Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council Supports Palestinians and an End to Israel's Genocide
The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council passed a resolution on Thursday in Rapid City, South Dakota, in support of Palestinians, calling for an immediate ceasefire, emergency humanitarian aid, and an end to United States military aid to Israel. Oceti Sakowin, the Great Sioux Nation, said Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing and genocide that mirrors what was done to the Oceti Sakowin. The Council said Israel's apartheid regime would not be possible without the United States government's military ...
Posted: Sat, Dec 16, 2023 8:11am PST
'Race, Liberation, and Palestine' Rutgers Didn't Bend to Pressure to Shut Down Event
The threats, pressure from a U.S. Congressman, and thousands of e-mails didn't shut down the event, "Race, Liberation and Palestine," at Rutgers University....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2023 8:12am PST
The Problem is Institutional Racism
Three hurdles make it difficult to talk about racism: the identity hurdle, the guilt hurdle and the renunciation hurdle. The fourth hurdle is the imagination hurdle....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2023 4:19pm PST
Lithium Mine Battle at Paiute Massacre Site Links to Global Battle Against Greenwashing
The struggle to protect Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, from lithium mine links the global struggles of uncontacted Indonesians battling nickel mining, child slaves in Congo's cobalt mines, and the peoples' battles against lithium mining in Serbia and Argentina. They are all battling the greenwashing of the false solution of electric vehicles for climate change....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2023 10:38am PST
U.S. War Crimes Result in Hate Crimes
While the United States continues to provide weapons for war crimes and genocide in Palestine, hate crimes toward Palestinians increased in the United States. Three Palestinians were shot last night in Vermont. This comes after a former US State Department was arrested for a racist rant and charged with a hate crime, after verbally assaulting a food vendor in New York City....
Posted: Sun, Nov 26, 2023 9:35pm PST
Carta de una mujer mapuche a una mujer palestina
Carta de una mujer mapuche a una mujer palestina...
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2023 3:04pm PST
Reclaiming the word “apartheid”
By Nkululeko Nkosi – 3rd February 2017
(https://africansforpeace.com/reclaiming-word-apartheid/)...
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2023 1:18pm PST
Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Deactivation
University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:23am PST
Justice for Raymond Mattia: Tohono O'odham Murdered by US Border Patrol Press Conference
Justice for Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, Murdered by U.S. Border Patrol Agents on the Front Steps of His Home on the Tohono O'odham Nation. The Press Conference will be at the Tucson Federal Courthouse, November 17, 2023, 10 a.m....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2023 9:42pm PST
Tibetan Protest Against Xi Jinping’s US APEC Visit
Tibetan Americans protested at the White House ahead of the Chinese President X- Jinping's visit to the US to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) calling upon President Biden to discuss the subject of Tibet during their meeting....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 6:23am PST
California Slavery of Pan Africans and the 1852 California Fugitive Slave Act
In 1852, California legislators passed a harsh fugitive slave law that condemned early California Pioneers of Pan African Descent to deportation and back to lifelong slavery. Historian today on the path toward "California Reparations" may examine the legal travails of three accused fugitive slaves to illuminate the social relations of slavery in Gold Rush California era (1840-1875) and the ongoing consequences of the California Fugitive Slave Law here in the Great State of California....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2023 1:49pm PDT