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indyNewswire 9.26.08: Critical Resistance 10 + Fair Trade Cocoa (audio/mpeg 33.5MB)
This week the indyNewswire focuses on Critical Resistance's CR10 gathering going on now, during the whole weekend of September 26-28. The conference will be a huge gathering of people opposed to the prison system; and we'll hear from Adrienne Fitch-Frankel, fair trade cocoa campaigner for Global Exchange. Most cheap readily available chocolate is produced by child labor if not outright child slavery. Fitch-Frankel discusses the campaign to support fair trade cocoa....
Posted: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 11:50am PDT
Obama and 'the Bubba Vote' (audio/mpeg 2.2MB)
There is another factor that we cannot ignore; what former GOP house majority leader, Dick Armey (R - Tex) calls 'the Bubba vote.
In Armey's words, "The Bubba vote is there, and it's very real, and it is everywhere," Armey went on to explain what he meant by 'the Bubba vote'; "There's an awful lot of people in America, bless their heart, who simply are not emotionally prepared to vote for a black man." There it is....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 7:08am PDT
Police Violence at KPFA (audio/mpeg 7.3MB)
16 minutes cut from
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=27972...
Posted: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 9:41am PDT
"Oooh! -- Sorry About that Slavery Thing!" (audio/mpeg 1.8MB)
Centuries of slavery, the intentional destruction of families, tribes, and nations; ripping people asunder from their religions, their clans, their spouses, children, lands and all that they knew and loved -- for centuries -- to build and enrich a nation of strangers -- who enforced the practices of slavery for a hundred years after it's supposed abolition; only to consign the grandchildren of these people to the bitter half-lives of sub-par education, poor housing, second rate health care, u...
Posted: Thu, Aug 14, 2008 10:59am PDT
"What I Meant to Say Was....Uh...." (audio/mpeg 1.3MB)
Once again, a major American scientific figure has emerged from the shadows of his laboratory, to insult Black people, and their genetic inability....
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 1:43pm PDT
indynewswire: Simba Kenyatta on Overcoming Racism and Building a Racially Just County (audio/mpeg 30.0MB)
Simba Kenyatta is a member of the Coalition for a County Wide Community Dialogue on Race, Poverty, Equality, and Justice, and a political and social activist with decades of work in Santa Cruz. We talked about the Coalition's Listening Sessions that are documenting the experience and reality of racism in the community. 43 Minutes & 42 Seconds, MP3 format....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 3:06pm PDT
The Boy They Called "Bus Head" (audio/mpeg 2.0MB)
When he was housed at the state prison in Pittsburgh, he participated in the Scared Straight program, and spoke to young people coming into the prison, deeply impressing upon them the emptiness and loss of imprisonment. He did all he could to convince them to avoid this fate.
Bushead was 50 years old. He lived from the streets to the prison, a high octane, high energy, high volume life. His illness, which led to his long and tortuous suffering, was utterly debilitating.
Hi ...
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2008 12:34pm PDT
Hillary's Homecoming (audio/mpeg 1.3MB)
At the beginning of the primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton was the inevitable candidate, and even her staunchest opponents all but conceded her victory in November, given the Clinton name, the aura of an ex-president, a wealth of funding, and a ready organization at the highest levels of the Democratic Party....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 8:29pm PDT
Rejecting the Church Pew, for the Alter of Power (audio/mpeg 1.6MB)
The heat and light of politics does not reflect well on the inner sanctums of the Black Church, which, since its inception during the hellish depths of American slavery, had to speak in voices of pain, bitterness, truth and hope, in order to have any relevance to a people drowning in a sea of hopelessness....
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2008 4:38am PDT
Is Obama's Victory Ours? (audio/mpeg 1.5MB)
With the nation's manufacturing base also a thing of history, amidst the socioeconomic wreckage of globalization, with foreign affairs in shambles, the rulers reach for a pretty, brown face to front for the Empire.
'Real change that you could believe in' would be an end to Empire, and an end to wars for corporate greed, not just a change of the shade of the political managers.
That change, I'm afraid, is still to come....
Posted: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 11:22pm PDT
When Votes Matter (And When They Didn't) (audio/mpeg 1.2MB)
Neither Sen. Clinton nor many of her supporters made that demand in the 2000 presidential campaign, nor did a single U.S. Senator stand with members of the Congressional Black Caucus when they, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, needed one senatorial vote to formally investigate the thousands of stolen votes, especially among Black Floridians. Not one senator. Not Sen. Clinton; not Sen, John Kerry, not Sen. John Edwards; not then Sen. Albert Gore....not one....
Posted: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 2:01pm PDT
Sean Bell's Second Slaying (audio/mpeg 1.1MB)
The defense utilized the "bad company" argument: that Bell was shot and killed because he was among "the wrong crowd."
That such an argument swayed Supreme Court justice Arthur Cooperman (in New York state, unlike most other states, the trial court is termed the Supreme Court, and the state's highest court is their Court of Appeals.) is a measure of how devalued Black life is, and how easy Black men are to demonize and disparage....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 3:47am PDT
Hillary Clinton Backers Use Illegal Robocalls To Suppress African American Votes (audio/x-wav 890.8KB)
Here's another for the annals of vote suppression. Calls have gone out to an untold number of North Carolina voters telling them that they need to fill out a registration form before they vote. Democracy North Carolina, a government watchdog that has posted audio (wav) of the call, says that the calls went out to "black neighborhoods."
It seems not to be a scheme limited to North Carolina. As Facing South reports, the same call evidently went out to some voters in Columbus, Ohio two days b...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 6:24pm PDT
indynewswire: april 25th 2008 (audio/mpeg 42.8MB)
This news show airs weekly on Freak Radio, Friday mornings 10-12 noon, broadcasting news and opinion from independent media worldwide, focused on indymedia sites but also drawing from other websites....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2008 12:06pm PDT
SPP Summit New Orleans 2008 (audio/mpeg 7.8MB)
April 21st, 2008, was the first day of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Summit, in which the presidents of Mexico and the United States, and the prime mi...
Posted: Sun, Oct 23, 2016 10:49am PDT
PeaceTalks:Courts Refuse To Hear Evidence of Innocence in Death Row Inmate Troy Davis Case (audio/mpeg 12.9MB)
George Cadman Of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Martina Correa, Troy Davis's sister, about his case and the recent 4-3 decision by the Georgia Supreme Court to deny him an evidentiary hearing that may have led to a new trial....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 4:20pm PDT
PeaceTalks: Death Row Inmate Troy Davis's Attorney On His Case and What Comes Next (audio/mpeg 18.4MB)
George Cadman Of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Jason Ewart, Troy Davis's attorney, about his case and the recent 4-3 decision by the Georgia Supreme...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 4:37pm PDT
PoP dEFECT RADIO: Racism Vol1 (audio/mpeg 33.6MB)
Collage mix on the subject of racism spoken word from Angelo Moore music from Propagandhi, Blue Meanies, Janes Addiction and Kevin Moore aka Chroma Key.
Some of this is hard to hear but needs to be heard....
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 11:35am PDT