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Australian media uses Aurukun Aboriginal child rape case to push right-wing agenda Friday, December 21, 2007 :In the wake of the election of the Rudd Labor government, the Murdoch media has launched an extraordinary campaign to extend the Howard government’s military-police intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. This time, the target is the remote indigenous township of Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 9:12am PST
The Idea of a Black President (audio/mpeg 1.4MB) For much of the US populace, the very idea of a Black president is one so new, so novel, that it forces many people to think of it as if it is barely possible; as if it is the stuff of fiction, not fact.
Fiction has indeed been the realm of this idea, as in movies, and television series, actors have played the part, but that, of course, is on TV....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 6:48am PST
Senator Diane Feinstein uses Ballot Measure to de-populated thousands in the Bayview No one expects a Senior Senator Diane Feinstein to be behind a Ballot Measure to take over land on which stands Public Housing that is the only source of stability for poor people. Senator Diane Feinstein is behind a very EVIL Ballot Measure to take over huge parcels of land some under the jurisdiction of the California State Park, other measures that cannot be touch unless past Ballot Measures are revoked - making the Ballot Measure - a in your face or get out and make room for the filthy ri...
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 5:40am PST
Freedom! Lakota Declare Sovereign Nation Status 
Lakota sent a delegation to Washington DC this week to withdraw from all treaties made with the United States government....
Posted: Fri, Dec 21, 2007 12:33am PST
Uhuru Movement member arrested - International call-in starts tonight! Valerie Sanders, a member of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, is being held at the Pinellas County jail on false charges of grand theft. She is being framed by Boley Centers, Inc. because she spoke out after being fired for her affiliation with the Uhuru Movement....
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 11:02pm PST
In Shanland: Behind Enemy Lines in Burma Recently, I went into Burma to do a story with the Shan State Army, a rebel group fighting the Burmese government. The government doesn’t allow any journalists into the country. They control the internet and citizens have to use a thumb-print reader if they want to logon. They control the phones, mail, and cable TV. Basically the only news that can get in or out of Burma is by people crossing illegally, under the protection of one of the tribal armies....
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 8:22pm PST
Uhuru Fights for Education Rights in Florida InPDUM demonstration opposes plan to keep African children out of schools in own community!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 2:52pm PST
Liberty City 7 Verdict Announced Government frame-up of Liberty City 7 is set back by jury...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 2:25pm PST
Public Defender’s Office, ACLU, and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Call for Gang Injunction Exit Process Wednesday, December 19, 2007 : San Francisco -- In a letter addressed to the Board of Supervisors, the Public Defender?s Office, the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Lawyers? Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) requested today that the City enact a policy to ensure that all persons named in San Francisco gang injunctions are given the opportunity to be removed from the injunctions when appropriate....
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 10:37am PST
The Battle to Save New Orleans Public Housing Thursday, December 20, 2007 :In New Orleans, protests have been taking place for weeks to block the demolition of 4,500 units of public housing. Jacquie Soohen and Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films file a report from the streets of New Orleans....
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 9:57am PST
Lakota group restates sovereign status A group representing the Lakota Sioux Indian representatives from various reservations and states said Wednesday that it is declaring sovereign nation status and withdrawing from all treaties with the U.S. government.
"This is an historic day for our Lakota people," said Native American action and activist Russell Means. "United States colonial rule is at its end!"...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 9:17am PST
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing Hunters Point NO favor - it is a Superfund Site - $1 Billion When the clueless Mayor Gavin Newsom makes a statement that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has got the City and County of San Francisco - some $82 million or so - for the on going clean up - it really makes no sense. The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard needs over $1 Billion just to clean up Parcel E2 and Parcel E. It need more to clean up the other parcels B, C, D, and F - that is the Bay. Many, very polluting experiments - linked to the Atom Bomb, Depleted Uranium, Radiated Animals buried all over Hunter...
Posted: Thu, Dec 20, 2007 6:27am PST
America's Prisons Hold More Than 1.5 Million Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 : WASHINGTON - “Unlocking America: The Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population,” a report by the JFA Institute, found increased incarcerations did little to reduce crime. "In the United States, every year since 1970, when only 196,429 persons were in state and federal prisons, the prison population has grown....
Posted: Wed, Dec 19, 2007 7:16am PST
Winnemem Wintu Tribe and CSPA Respond to Governor's Statement on Delta Vision Report 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used the release of the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force's final report on Monday, December 17 as yet another opportunity to campaign for his water bond proposal for new dams and a peripheral canal. Schwarzenegger's proposal would result in increased water exports from the California Delta to subsidized agribusiness and southern California, further imperiling an estuary already in steep decline. Delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad, juvenile striped bas...
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 5:15pm PST
The Tale of Two Cities 
Community activists are demanding justice in the Lilly Mae Harmon Homicide case. They are outraged that the Fresno Police Department did not investigate her death and made the family pay for a private investigator to look into the homicide. Reverend Floyd D Harris, Jr, National President of the National Network in Action, a Civil and Human Rights Organization, said Lilly Mae Harmon’s family was discriminated against because they are poor people of color....
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 3:11pm PST
Police Accused of Racial Profiling in Alameda Murder Investigation Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 : The Halloween night murder of Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan in Alameda led to a serious investigation by Alameda police. Eight people were detained and two Southeast Asian boys were charged with the murder and their names were leaked to the media -- they were later released....
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 6:56am PST
Amazing Grace, 2007 Farm Bill Debate: Legacy of the Trans~Atlantic Slave Trade 
The World Trade Organization will watch closely today's Congressional Hearings on the Ongoing Legacy of the Trans~Atlantic Slave Trade. U.S. Senate and House Conference Committee on the 2007 Farm Bill will reflect on the 1862 creation of the United States Department of Agriculture, the people's department. President Lincoln gave his life, establishing a way forward, while preserving agribusiness without enslavement, today our nation begins an adult conversation on the ongoing impact of the...
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 3:54am PST
Interview with San Francisco 8 Defendant Richard Brown: A Case of Injustice & Torture Eight former Black Panthers were arrested January 23, 2007 and charged with murder and conspiracy related to the killing 35 years ago of a San Francisco police officer. This is not the first time these same charges have been brought against some of these defendants. Similar charges were thrown out in the 1970s after it was revealed that police used torture to extract confessions in New Orleans in 1973. It appears that the government plans to introduce the same torture-tainted evidence in 2007...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 12:17pm PST
White Supremacist Suffers Humiliating Defeat in Run for Comanche Nation Vice President White Supremacist Suffers Humiliating Defeat in Run for Comanche Nation Vice President...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 12:05pm PST
Justice for Gary King Jr. 
Community mural unveiling Demands Justice for Gary King Jr.,
and for an end to racist police killings in Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 11:56am PST
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