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Red Cross not allowed into New Orleans by government
after reading dKos and the other blogs all week and seeing over and over again comments that that FEMA and the NG were no where to be seen from the people on the ground in NO, I was wondering where the Red Cross was in all this. They were never mentioned. It was like they didn't exist. And, after yesterday's drama at the convention center, the Brown and Chertoff lies, the Red Cross was still MIA. Then, earlier today, I saw a note that the Red Cross was not allowed to enter NO. Hmm, that's doe...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Talk Race, But Don't Play Race Card With Katrina
Race has a lot to do with who's suffering and who isn't after hurricane Katrina. But wild accusations of racism will only make matters worse for all of New Orleans' poor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Katrina: a tragedy made worse
Chicago, Sept. 1, 2005 - All of us share the pain of those hit so hard by Hurricane Katrina. All of us will do what we can to help ease the burden of the families who have lost their loved ones, their homes and even their towns and cities....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:00pm PDT
'This is criminal': Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans
Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, for decades an organizer of public housing tenants both there and in San Francisco and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council, lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that is not flooded. They have no power, but the water is still good and the phones work. Their neighborhood could be sheltering and feeding at least 40,000 refugees, he says, but they are allowed to help no one. What h...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:59pm PDT
Native Hawaiian groups and allies rally to protect sacred sites and environment from U.S.
Convoys and marching groups will converge at sacred birthing stones to protest U.S. militarism and imperialism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 2:05pm PDT
Genocide americano en New Orleans
Esperaba seriamente que no tendría que escribir este artículo. Pero ha sido demasiado largo ahora, y tengo que decir algo. Sin importar debido a si el masse del en de las muertes de la gente negra pobre en New Orleans es la negligencia o maliciousness, el resultado final es constructivo un genocide en negros pobres en América, ahora, en 2005. La carencia de la ayuda a New Orleans en esta última hora (7 P.M., sept. 1) no es explicables. Tengo solamente una explicación que pueda reunir para arr...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 9:51am PDT
Race in New Orleans: Shaping the Response to Katrina?
Race and class loom large in the critical discussion of the federal response to the impact of hurricane Katrina. We speak with two African-American activists about the poor communities that have been hit hardest by the hurricane....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 7:40am PDT
New Orleans: In Praise of Looting
Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am PDT
Genocide in New Orleans
I was seriously hoping that I would not have to write this article. But it has been too long now, and I have to say something. Regardless of whether the deaths en masse of poor black folks in New Orleans is due to neglect or maliciousness, the end result is constructively a genocide on poor blacks in America, right now, in 2005. The lack of aid to New Orleans at this late hour (7 pm, Sept. 1) is not explicable. I have only one explanation that I can muster up. And that explanation is classism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:22am PDT
New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good
The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the decay of democracy at every level....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:11pm PDT
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