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The Black Action Network / local National Action Network will be affected greatly by hurricaneac Local chapter of NAN (Lafayette - Iberia - St. Martin) already overwhelmed by
issues concerning hurricane Katrina, now under the gun of hurricane Rita in south central Louisiana....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 9:21am PDT
REMEMBERING THE FILIPINO MARTYRS OF THE RESISTANCE AGAINST THE U.S.-MARCOS DICTATORSHIP 
Over 4 decades ago,in September 1972, with U.S. support, Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines and killed thousands of Filipino women, peasants, workers, Moros, Igorots, and others. Never again will Filipinos allow imperialist and comprador brutality to prevail. Let us remember those who fell in the night--woman activist Liliosa Hilao, tortured and murdered by the military; Jallores and Tagamolila, New People's Army combatants, and many others--who continue to inspire the ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 8:08pm PDT
Hurricane Katrina -- Beware of disaster profiteers and peddlers of hate! The Campaign to Stop Funding Hate urges donors to make an informed decision about how they want their contributions channeled and ask all those committed to broad values of secularism, pluralism and justice to oppose the forces that use the pretext of relief operations to further their sectarian agendas....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 12:10pm PDT
Roberts Grilled on Voting Rights Act Chief Justice nominee John Roberts was grilled on a number of contentious issues on the second day of his Senate confirmation hearing, including abortion, civil rights, women's rights and education. We play excerpts of the hearing....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 7:20am PDT
New Orleans Resident Discusses Race and Looting at Circle K New Orleans resident Mike Howell is a "holdout" - one of those refusing to leave his home - in the French Quarter. He discusses the looting of a local grocery store saying, "this could happen in Santa Monica, California, it could happen on Long Island, New York, it could happen in Palm Beach, Florida...if people felt they were going to run out of food and water."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 7:51am PDT
When the sky is taken by storm: The rage and anguish of Black America The unprecedented in America destruction of New Orleans and other vast regions of the South by Hurricane Katrina coupled with the studied, indifferent response of the federal government has caused rage and anguish throughout Black America. Though these tragic events are yet unfolding, it is not too early to ask, is this a seminal event in African American history?...
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 9:51am PDT
Cornel West On Katrina: Exiles from a city and from a nation As the tide of evacuees rolls into Baton Rouge, Jamie Doward learns that thousands will not go back to New Orleans - and the effect on the economy across the South will be deep and prolonged...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 7:00pm PDT
Bush and Third World America very good read!!...story of black america, third world america, racism, the elite, corporatist america, etc...wow!!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:49pm PDT
Unbearable Crime On The Mississippi When I woke up today, the only thought that came to mind was Reverend Jesse Jackson's indignant cry, "This is the bottom of the slave ship we are looking at."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:38pm PDT
Blasphemy About New Orleans: A God With Whom I Am Not Familiar This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt:
You don't know me. But I know you....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:36pm PDT
First Hand Accounts From New Orleans On "This American Life" "This American Life" has interviewed many different people who tried to get out of New Orleans and it's one of the most revealing accounts as to what happened and perhaps why. If you think the problem was just poverty take a listen and its revealing how much race played in the response and how racism was perhaps one of the major reasons for the response....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 12:46pm PDT
Rush Limbaugh: Racist Pig (audio/mpeg 304.1KB) In his defense of the admministration, Limbaugh intentionally flubs N.O. Mayor Nagin's name. Give a listen and you tell me....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 8:18am PDT
Laura Bush takes umbrage: Racism and the Republican Party In an interview with American Urban Radio Networks on Thursday, First Lady Laura Bush waxed indignant about recent suggestions that racism may have played a role in the government’s slow reaction to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. “I think all of those remarks were disgusting,” she declared, adding, “President Bush cares about everyone in our country.”...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 9:15pm PDT
KATRINA TELLS THE TALE: Racism and Classism in Capitalist America Katrina has turned out to be the worst disaster in the recorded history of this nation. What’s most egregious is that it was predicted years earlier in books on climate change and the growing global warming crisis, as well as from local officials of the region who knew of the dangers and tried to get Federal assistance....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 5:29pm PDT
New Black Panther Party Search and Rescue Mission Proves Successful On September 3rd the New Black Panther Party launched a search and rescue mission in the core of New Orleans. There efforts resulted in over 500 people being rescued and provided with food, clothing, and other relief supplies....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 5:37pm PDT
No Child Left Behind? BU**SH** 
Poster in PDF format of New Orleans people, government callous inaction...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 10:33am PDT
Three Displaced New Orleans Residents Discuss Race and Hurricane Katrina We speak with three residents of New Orleans who were forced to flee - David Gladstone, Beverly Wright and Curtis Muhammad - about who gets saved and who doesn't and even the question: will New Orleans be rebuilt?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:26am PDT
Did Katrina Blow Off the White Sheets of American Racism? Maybe this will be our generation's Birmingham.
The pictures that streamed out of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 showed young Black boys and girls attacked by German Shepherds and drenched with the powerful spray of fire hoses.
Those pictures exposed to the world the hypocrisy that rests at the heart of America. Those pictures exposed the intense racism that rests at the heart of this country.
Those pictures exposed the utter lack of credibility of the U.S. in its bloody intervention i...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:03am PDT
Hip Hop: Chuck D Poem and New Orleans Commentary mp3 download (audio/mpeg 17.3MB) Chuck D On Air America From Sept 4th...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 12:35pm PDT
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