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Example of Racist Media Caught by Web Surfer During Hurricane Katrina Coverage New Orleans, LA (emergingminds.org) - Among the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, one web surfer on an Atlanta message board did not let the disaster blind him of how racist the media in American remains. A message board poster with the alias “Noah_The_African” pointed out a prime example of how America’s racist media will quickly portray African Americans in a different light than White Americans even in a time of crisis....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:09pm PDT
Coffee and Epithets: An Update on Race Relations in Cincinnati There was a race riot in Cincinnati in April 2001, rooted in years of conflicts between the police force and black population and set off by the shooting of an unarmed black man. I recently left the Bay Area for a stint in the Queen City, as she's known, and got a glimpse of modern race relations in Cincinnati....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 2:46pm PDT
Black Activist Ntwk. Coordinating Aid for Louisiana The Black Action Network needs your help in putting together community activist
groups who want to help in
any kind of way. The Black Action Network originates from south Louisiana....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 11:03am PDT
Environmental Racism: How Minority Communities Are Exposed to "Toxic Soup" We speak with Damu Smith, founder of Black Voices for Peace and executive director of the National Black Environmental Justice Network about environmental racism. Smith says, "People, black and white and Latino, who live in these [heavy industrial] areas are exposed to toxic soup of chemicals regularly released into the air, into the soil, into the water."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 7:59am PDT
Nationwide boycott of eBay's Nazi policies 
A nationwide boycott of eBay is protesting eBay's hypocrisy regarding Nazi items that glorify Nazism. Ebay abets sales of Nazi stamps and coins, for example. eBay's Nazi stamps and coins show offensive items that were made by Nazis to glorify Nazism, Hitler, hatred & racism.
Hypocritically, eBay banned the sale of a historic photograph of the USA's original Pledge of Allegiance (which was the origin of the Nazi salute) while allowing Nazi stamps that show the Nazi flag saluted....
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 1:21am PDT
50 Years After the Murder of Emmett Till, the Investigation Continues This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Emmett Till. He was beaten and shot near Money, Mississippi after he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk. We speak with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp who produced "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" and University of Missouri-Columbia professor Clenora Hudson-Weems....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Compa Marco -Presente! On August 24, 2005 at 5:30 a.m. the movement for
Raza liberation lost one of its most committed and
talented activists, Marco Anguiano. A talented
organizer, writer, political strategist and artist,
Compañero Marco lost his struggle against cancer. He
was 52 years old....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 11:38am PDT
From Death Row: Texas Set to Execute First African-American Woman Since Civil War 
The State of Texas is scheduled to execute Frances Newton on September 14. Supporters say the courts should grant her another trial based on new evidence, especially given that infamous defense attorney Ron Mock originally represented her. We hear from Frances Newton herself and speak with her attorney David Dow....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:57am PDT
‘Stop the execution of Frances Newton!’ 
The mobilization to stop the execution of Frances Newton is in high gear and growing by the day. Her execution is set for 6 p.m. on Sept. 14. Frances Newton would be the first African American woman executed in the state of Texas in over 100 years....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 4:28pm PDT
Who You Calling 'Wetback'? A Chicano Becomes The Immigrant 
Growing up as a Chicano, three generations deep in the United States, I have always felt the segregation between Chicanos and Mexican immigrants -- what we call "border brothers" and some call "wetbacks." It is a clash of identity and misunderstanding on both sides. Even something as lethal as the gang warfare between Nortenos and Surenos here in the Bay Area has this conflict at its base....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 1:36pm PDT
Media Giant John H. Johnson Paved the Way for Black-Owned Press On Monday, thousands mourned the death of publishing and entrepreneurial pioneer John H. Johnson. He founded Ebony and Jet magazines and seared the image of the brutalized Emmett Till into the nation's consciousness. We speak with the editor of the Chicago Defender, the nation's only black daily newspaper....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 7:17am PDT
Forces trained in Britain’s dirty war in Northern Ireland involved in de Menezes killing The admission that army special forces were involved in the police execution of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes confirms that the techniques perfected in the dirty war conducted by British imperialism in Northern Ireland are now being employed on the streets of Britain....
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 6:15am PDT
The Silent Victims of Sept. 11 
After the terrorist strikes, millions of Arab-and Muslim Americans became targets for random hate and violence. They became the latest ethnic group to be singled out in an American time of crisis....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 11:18am PDT
Native Hawaiians resist US occupation, federal Indian policy Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) and supporters celebrate La Ho'iho'i Ea, a national holiday, while resisting US federal Indian policy and the continued occupation and militarization of Hawaii....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 6:23am PDT
Activist Damu Smith: Fighting Systemic Racial Disparities in American Healthcare Longtime activist Damu Smith is the founder of Black Voices for Peace. He has fought for war and racism for decades. Now he’s fighting for his life. He has colon cancer. We speak with Damu Smith about his struggle with cancer and for equitable healthcare in this country....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 7:10am PDT
Anti-Minutemen Meeting in San Diego area on 8/1 español abajo
This is a call for people to organize in the North County of San Diego and in all Mexican/Latino Communities in general. Please attend the meeting on Monday, August 1st at 6:30 p.m. at the California Rural Legal Assistance office...
Due to the situation occurring in Campo in which the Minutemen supporters are calling for general support for their movement, activists, including migrant rights lawyer Claudia Smith and film maker Mark Day, are making a call to organize in defe...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 12:53pm PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (2/4) 
The photograph below shows "Baldy," "Dixieland_Delight," and "Konkwista88," with other reputed neo-Nazi skinheads and white supremacists who attended the anti-monument rally in Baldwin Park, California on Saturday, June 25, 2005. "Advocate" is the tall, older man in the back wearing a grey cap. This photograph reportedly was taken on the same day, possibly at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation area in the San Gabriel Valley....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 9:08am PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (3 of 4) 
Another view of the SOS demonstration in Baldwin Park, California on Saturday, June 25, 2005 with the same white supremacists holding the "STOP IMMIGRATION" banner. This same banner would later be used in an anti-Home Depot protest in Santa Clarita, California on July 10, 2005. Photo sent to me anonymously via email....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 8:53am PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (4/4) 
The photograph below shows "Konkwista88," "Dixieland_Delight," and "Advocate" holding the banner, "DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS," at the anti-day laborer center protest in Laguna Beach, California on Saturday, July 16, 2005. "Konkwista88" was one of three men who allegedly tried to assault Naui Huitzilopochtli, a counterdemonstrator that showed up to oppose them. This photo was originally published on the front page of the July 22nd issue of The Lagu...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 8:35am PDT
Roberts' Record on Civil Rights Enters Battle Over Supreme Court Nomination In the ongoing controversy over the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts, questions are being raised over Roberts’ role in the civil rights debates of the 1980s. During his tenure as Deputy Assistant General under Reagan, Roberts advocated a narrow interpretation of a variety of civil rights laws, and presented a defense of congressional efforts to strip the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over busing, abortion and school prayer cases. We speak with Ralph Neas of People for the American Way...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 10:49pm PDT
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