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Kenyan Activist Tours U.S. 
Andrew Mwangura's speaking engagements in the U.S. will address imperialism's strategy of imposing neo-colonialist leaders to avert the genuine liberation of African people. He will be joined in Florida by Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Director of the Africanist Movement. These two events are titled "In the U.S., Kenya, or Sierra Leone - Black President Doesn't Equal Black Power"....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 1:12pm PDT
Benefit Concert for RunningWolf 
Ashkenaz Music Hall
1317 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 12:40pm PDT
Understanding Cesar Chavez Monday, March 31, 2008 : Today is Cesar Chavez Day in California. Chavez is the nation’s most honored Latino, and momentum is growing for a national holiday in his honor. In the fall of 2005, I began planning a book that would portray how Chavez, and the ideas and staff of the farmworkers movement of the 1960’s and 70’s, still shape today’s progressive movements....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 7:32am PDT
D-Q University Students Face New Threats of Arrests Students at D-Q University continue classes despite threats of arrests....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 11:05pm PDT
Sheriff Visits DQU; Elders, Students and Supporters Prepare for Possible Raid 
On Sunday, March 30th, a group of about 15 people drove from Santa Cruz to DQU in support of DQU students, elders, land and future generations. At 7:38pm, a Yolo County Sheriff drove onto the property of DQU and then left after about a minute. It is very rare for a Sheriff to drive onto DQU....
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 10:42pm PDT
Ruling Against Mumia Shows: No Justice in the Capitalist Courts On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the...
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 7:57pm PDT
DQU Students Threatened with Lock Out- Callout for Support 
DQU is expected to be visited by sheriffs and a locksmith on Monday to remove their locks and possibly students. Everyone is welcome on that day to come and stand with the students who may conduct civil disobedience and resist the theft of their education and right to self-determination.
Supporters from Santa Cruz will be meeting in the parking lot of the RCNV at 515 Broadway, at 10:30am Sunday, to carpool to DQU (outside of Davis- see map on their website) for a trip of connecting, sharing ...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 6:57pm PDT
Stop scapegoating immigrants! Friday, March 28, 2008 : The Republican leaders in Congress and the Bush administration continue trying to score points in an election year by using undocumented immigrants as scapegoats for their owned failed policies. The GOP House leadership, abetted by a few Democrats, is pushing the viciously anti-immigrant HR 4088, the SAVE Act....
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 2:02pm PDT
Lennar busy spreading lies - fails on adverse impacts on home owners all over the Nation. Lennar Corporation is a known entity all over the Nation that will build inferior homes and more on toxic land. It makes its forte zeroing on Army, Navy, Air Force Surplus Land - making vague promises and then doing as it places. It is into Land Banking. In San Francisco it has chosen Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and now Candlestick Park. It main backers the Pacific Heights Mafia. However, this time around - Lennar will be exposed lock, stock, and barrel. This time around Lennar will drown in...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 6:08am PDT
Spiritual Holocaust by Bikbaye Inejnema 
Malcolm X Library
5148 Market St...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 9:37pm PDT
Photos From The Oakland March 28 "Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Emergency protest" 
"On March 27, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding Mumia Abu-Jamal’s frame-up conviction. In turning down Mumia’s appeal for a new trial, the Court ordered a new sentencing hearing to decide whether he is again to be sentenced to die or condemned to the living death of life in prison...
The Partisan Defense Committee and Labor Black League for Social Defense ... called for a protest... in Oakland at 14th and Broadway from 4:30-6:30 pm. " (From announcement flyer)
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Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 6:36pm PDT
Following Mixed Court Ruling, Mumia Abu Jamal's Lead Attorney Maintains Hope for Overturning Conviction Friday, March 28, 2008 :A federal appeals court Thursday refused to overturn the conviction of imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu Jamal and rejected his call for a new trial. However the long-awaited ruling said Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for 26 years, deserves a new sentencing hearing because of flawed jury instructions. If he is resentenced he will face either death or life in prison without parole. We speak to Abu Jamal's lead attorney, Robert Bryan....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:45am PDT
Australia: Federal and NT Labor governments expand punitive measures in Aboriginal communities Friday, March 28, 2008 :Since its election last November, the Rudd government has substantially expanded the previous Howard government’s police-military intervention into indigenous communities across the Northern Territory (NT), with full assistance from the NT Labor government. Behind the cloak of the national “apology” that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered to indigenous people last month for the genocidal crimes committed against them over the past two centuries, Labor has stepped up the...
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 7:42am PDT
Workers adversely impacted by AIMCO testify before CDLAC in Sacramento and expose SF There was a special hearing at SF City Hall on Apartment Investment Management Company (AIMCO) before the person that caused all these problems - Sophina Maxwell. It was a better hearing in Sacramento - where the workers testified before the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee (CDLAC) and shocked most of the Board Members. In the end it is the SF City and County of San Francisco that bears full responsibility. Mayor Gavin Newsom bears responsibility and has done nothing....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2008 6:46am PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal's lead attorney Robert R. Bryan responds to court ruling Following Thursday's court ruling, Mumia Abu-Jamal's lead attorney, Robert R. Bryan, responded in an interview with "Journalists for Mumia Abu-Jamal." The full text is below....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 10:56pm PDT
27 March 2008 PDC Press Release - Mumia Abu-Jamal 
Third Circuit Court Upholds Frame-Up Conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Orders Hearing to Reinstate Death Penalty or Entomb Him for Life
Free Mumia Now!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 8:55pm PDT
Hannity, Clinton, Obama, Rev. Wright and "Racism 101" Rev. Jeremiah Wright has done nothing worse than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Jefferson, when he responded to America's despicable history of slavery and racism by proclaiming "God Damn America."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 6:11pm PDT
¿El Consejo de Libertad Condicional siente algún remordimiento? 
Campaña para que "Los 9 de MOVE" salgan bajo libertad condicional después de pasar 30 años en prisión....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 5:35pm PDT
EMERGENCY PROTESTS! Court Rejects All Appeals for Mumia Abu-Jamal EMERGENCY PROTESTS! Court Rejects All Appeals for Journalist/Innocent Death Row Inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal
Fri 3/28 - SF; Sat 4/19 - SF and National; Sat 4/26 - Philadelphia...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 2:11pm PDT
Justin Smith: Why Race and Gender are Seperate Issues Wednesday, March 26, 2008 :Will there be no end to this tiresome "national conversation" as to whether a black man trumps a white woman, or vice versa, on our nation's list of the wronged? One possible end might arrive, of course, when another white man is elected in November and American politics returns to business as usual....
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 7:27am PDT
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