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Big Mountain, Black Mesa Struggle Continues/Spring Caravan from the Bay & NCoast RIGHT NOW there is an amendment on the congressional floor that sets a new
timetable for the forced relocation of a number of indigenous Navajo families on
Black Mesa. This bill, S1003, comes at a time when the world's largest coal
company, Peabody Coal, prepares not only to continue, but in fact to
expand its strip mining of American Indian lands.
# This spring a caravan will be traveling to Black Mesa from Northern
California and the San Francisco Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 12:27am PST
Native American Tribes Attempt to Recover After Being Defrauded of Tens of Millions by Abr Former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who served as chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that investigated the scandal, and Tigua tribal governor Arturo Senclair, one of the Indian tribes defrauded by Abramoff, discuss the Native American tribes that have been embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal. The tribes hired Abramoff to represent them in Washington regarding casino and gambling issues. As their lobbyist, Abramoff instructed the tribes to make political donations to cert...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 7:42am PST
Death to the System! Populist History & Spoken Word w/ New Orleans Kalamu ya Salaam 
New Orleans neo-griot Kalamu ya Salaam announces Listen to the People radical history project & blows the roof off NYC Bowery Poetry Club Katrina benefit with a "poem" perhaps described as "Superdome Systems of Thought - Death to the System!"
25 minute, 37 MG quicktime.mov video....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 10:50pm PST
Black Forever: Race, Class and Activism in the South By J.L. CHESTNUT, Jr....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:43am PST
World Trade ~ Global Black Farmers Need State Support Now Few new Black Farmers will be helped to join the company of the ruling elite, allowing the government and its rich allies to claim success. But millions of subsistence farmers, whose forebears had to suffer from the exploitation of apartheid, will be as condemned as ever to lives of drudgery and defeat....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 2:40pm PST
Election of Evo Morales bodes well for Africans in Bolivia and U.S. The position of the organized Afro-Bolivians on the historic election of Evo Morales is implicit in an email received on Monday from Monica Rey Guiterrez, director of the Center for Afro Bolivian Development and a very dear friend and recent house guest. “Many of us are happy. Some are worried. We await the changes,” she wrote....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 7:18am PST
Activists Vow to Continue Tookie's Legacy Community activists and supporters condemned Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger following the execution of death row inmate Stanley “Tookie” Williams but nevertheless called for calm and vowed to continue his “legacy” to end gang violence....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:16pm PST
The Boondocks is On: Pryor's Comedic Legacy Lives On Aaron McGruder’s groundbreaking and controversial animated series The Boondocks has sparked outrage from some African Americans that take issue with the show's use of the N Word. Fans of the show are drawn to the humor that was pioneered by black comics like Richard Pryor. PNS contributor Charles Jones is an editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia (www.youthoutlook.org) a project of Pacific News Service....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:14pm PST
Black buying blackout - Christmas 2005 Blacks urged not to spend money on Saturday, Dec. 17 and 24...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 6:59am PST
Arab American Group Protests Hate Messages An Arab American defense organization is challenging a new billboard campaign in New Mexico and North Carolina, which they say utilizes negative, racist images of Arabs and Arab cultural symbols....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 8:07pm PST
Racism Spares the Killers of Blacks In a tense juvenile hall in California following the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the writer explores with several youths the prejudices exposed by death penalty statistics. Had Williams killed four black people, he would likely be alive today....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 8:06pm PST
Inflammatory Ads Mislead Public on Hate Crimes The Human Rights Campaign released the following letter
today in response to full-page ads placed today by right-wing extremist
groups in opposition to hate crimes laws....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:36pm PST
Angela Davis Speaks On Stanley Tookie Williams' Death We speak with longtime prison activist and professor Angela Davis about the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams. She was outside San Quentin prison when he died. In the written response to Williams' clemency appeal, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said "The dedication of Williams' book 'Life in Prison' casts significant doubt on his personal redemption." - the dedication includes Angela Davis....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:45am PST
Richard Pryor 1940-2005: Revealed Reality of African-American Experience to Wide Audience Groundbreaking comedian, Richard Pryor, died in Los Angeles Saturday at the age of 65 of a heart attack. Pryor's body of work set the standard for American comedy while penetrating and revealing the African-American experience to a wide audience. We speak with journalist and author Mel Watkins....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:13am PST
The Philly Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal When They Don't Bash, They Ignore
By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:04am PST
Bob Avakian on Richard Pryor Recently I was reading reports of police assaults on Black people and of Black people fighting against the police in Memphis and Miami. This called to mind a story I was told a while back. A rookie cop was riding in his police car with his veteran partner when a report came in that there was a Black man in the vicinity with a gun. As their car screeched around the corner, a young Black man suddenly appeared sprinting up an alley--into a dead end. "Shoot him!", the older cop screamed...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 10:02pm PST
Role of Race and Class in Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina Three months after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the southern coast of the United States, decimating communities in Mississippi and Louisiana, we play excerpts of an explosive congressional hearing focusing on race and the government's response to the disaster....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:12am PST
Secret memo exposes DeLay’s racist power grab Grassroots leaders in Texas reacted angrily to new evidence that Tom DeLay’s redistricting plan rammed through the Texas Legislature violated the Voting Rights Act in carving up the state to insure five additional Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:46pm PST
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