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Making a Sham of Dr. King's Dream There's an effort in San Diego to rid schools of rifle ranges considering schools have Zero Tolerance Policies that don't allow weapons on campuses. But as students get involved in their schools regarding this situation, their rights are being violated....
Posted: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 12:41am PST
Apartment Investment Management Company (AIMCO) adversely impacted hundreds. For the first time is recent history have so many African American and Latinos stood shoulder to shoulder - as sisters and brothers - to fight for the rights and expose corruption of the highest order. Victim after victim testified before Supervisor Jake McGoldrick - the Chair of the Neighborhood Services Committee - with Supervisor Sophie Maxwell going with the flow - when she was responsible for a lot of the madness. AIMCO has adversely impacted hundreds and must be punished for harming so ...
Posted: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 11:45am PST
Kenyans: 'Apologise for Obama photo' Friday, February 29, 2008 : Kenyan elders have demanded an apology from Washington ahead of a planned protest over the controversial photograph of the American presidential hopeful Barack Obama in traditional Somali dress....
Posted: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 7:05am PST
Wrongly Deported U.S. Citizen Leads to Civil Lawsuit Originally From New America Media
Friday, February 29, 2008 : Los Angeles— An ACLU-led civil lawsuit against the federal government was presented February 27, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, for the deportation of Pedro Guzman, an American citizen, wrongly sent to Mexico last August. Guzman, who has documented mental problems, was deported to Mexico by the United States government last May but three months later was arrested by ICE officers for trying re-enter the United States....
Posted: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 6:53am PST
Free Screening - Our Land Our Life 
Eastside Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd.
Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 9:57am PST
Vincent Harding on Dr. Martin Luther King’s Courageous—and Overlooked—Anti-War and Economic Justice Activism Thursday, February 28, 2008 :In the 40th year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, we speak to Dr. King's close associate and former speechwriter Dr. Vincent Harding. Dr. Harding drafted King's historic April 1967 antiwar speech "Beyond Vietnam." He is the author of many books including "Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 8:01am PST
Denmark's media mount a provocation by reprinting Mohammed cartoons Thursday, February 28, 2008 :Virtually the entire media in Denmark reprinted the notorious caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on February 13. The decision to re-print came just one day after three men, two Tunisians and a Danish national, were arrested for an alleged plot to kill one of the cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard. At least 15 papers across Denmark reprinted images of the cartoons, in what can only be described as a calculated provocation....
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 7:55am PST
California Senate Hears Testimony on University's Violations of Federal NAGPRA Law California Senate Hears Testimony on University's Violations of
Federal Law & Native American Rights
Tribes Demand 12,000 Ancestral Remains and 200,000 Sacred Objects
Returned from University of California Berkeley...
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 2:05pm PST
Nation’s Economic Woes Hit Black Workers Hardest Wednesday, February 27, 2008 : The share of African American manufacturing workers has declined by nearly 60 percent in the past 30 years. All workers have suffered in the seven years that President Bush has been in office. But black workers, even those in unions, have been hit hardest. African American incomes are dropping at the same time fewer African Americans belong to unions....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 7:18am PST
Another tree sit at UC Berkeley 
Another activist has taken up residence in a tree on the UC berkeley campus, this time in a cedar on Dwinelle Plaza, a few hundred feet from Sather Gate....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 6:50pm PST
Adverse possession: another word for land piracy 
Adverse possession is a legal term for squatting on land and claiming the land. For black farmers, it has been nothing less than land piracy, with billions of dollars in agricultural reas estate stolen out from under them....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 5:10pm PST
Groups Seek To Increase Gay Black Politicians Monday, February 25, 2008 :(Washington) Two organizations announced Monday they will actively help gay African Americans attain political office. The National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute (GLLI) announced the establishment of the Bayard Rustin Award. The award honors outstanding contributions to the field of political science on the topic of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender African-Americans in electoral politics. NCOBPS ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 7:03am PST
Blast of echoes - SF8's Hank Jones talks about America's racist past SF8's Hank Jones talks about America's racist past but steers clear
of discussing the 37-year-old murder he's accused of committing...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 2:36pm PST
What kind of system offers this to Black youth in the United States? What kind of system takes millions of Black youth and consigns them to segregated run-down neighborhoods and prison-like schools? Offers them lower paying, demeaning jobs—if at all—when they seek employment? Treats their style of dress or way they talk as evidence of criminal behavior? Makes “behind bars” more familiar than “campus classroom”? Destroys all hopes and dreams, and leaves only desperation?
Why keep a system that does this?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 12:33pm PST
Unexplained Hate Crimes Tactics Used to Silence BVHP Supporter, Please do not remove post! Mysterious Hate Crimes and Vandalism Attacks Against BVHP Supporter!!!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 6:52pm PST
Gipsies in Italy: a disperate appeal EveryOne Group and other human rights associations are launching a desperate appeal to the international institutions asking them not to ignore the effects of a vast and ruthless racist campaign....
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 8:43am PST
All sorts of Scum Bags coming for every which direction heading to the Dept of Elections When you are trained well in the Army - you learn to watch out for Scum Bags. So, it was very interesting to see the Scum Bags from Lennar and those linked to other dubious entities - head for the San Francisco, Department of the Elections - as soon as our Raw Count linked to the Fifty Percent Affordable Housing was complete. I had hardly got out, from inside the Dept - when I saw the Scum Bags - and I was totally surprised - how, so many Scum Bags could have got wind - of what was happening ...
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 6:33am PST
SF8 Court Date 
85O Bryant Street, San Francisco
Courtroom 23...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 11:00am PST
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 8:31pm PST
14th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival 
Kresge College Town Hall
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 3:15pm PST
Glaring Omissions In U.S. Testimony On Racial And Ethnic Discrimination, Says ACLU Friday, February 22, 2008 :NEW YORK - The U.S. government failed to adequately address problems of widespread racial and ethnic discrimination in America at hearings before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva that ended today, despite testimony from the American Civil Liberties Union and dozens of human rights groups highlighting the existence of pervasive racism in this country....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 9:49am PST
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