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Race, Politics, Dr. King and the Primaries in South Carolina Tuesday, January 15, 2008 :On the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, we take a look at how Dr. King's life and legacy have factored into this year's Democratic presidential race. And we examine the upcoming Democratic primary in South Carolina, the first state to hold a primary or caucus with a sizable black population. South Carolina has a long history as a battleground in the civil rights struggle....
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 10:13am PST
King Day Celebration Combines Civil Rights, Labor and Political Strength Tuesday, January 15, 2008 :...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 10:02am PST
When Democrats Use Race ... Tuesday, January 15, 2008 : We’ve come to expect race baiting when a minority candidate tries to break down barriers in public life. After all, Republicans built their majority over four decades by employing a Southern Strategy that used coded words to revive latent racist sensibilities. And if Barack Obama gets the presidential nomination, they will certainly try it again....
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 9:41am PST
Conceptual Plan by Lennar BVHP LLC introduced at Land Use with lots of sell outs present. Lennar BVHP LLC simply does not get it. Lennar BVHP LLC will NOT succeed and will be buried if it does not learn some basic principles. Again and again it uses "thugs" to intimidate innocent folks at meetings. Yesterday, at the Land Use Meeting - Black sellouts came to the meeting - all invited by Lennar BVHP LLC and all on Lennar's payroll. It is this type of "thug" operations - that will come to bite Lennar BVHP LLC in the butt. The real community does not want Lennar in our community of Ba...
Posted: Tue, Jan 15, 2008 7:12am PST
WOUNDED KNEE DE OCAMPO, Miwok Elder speaks on the Longest Walk and Sacred Sites UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP HALL
CEDAR AND BONITA (1 block up Cedar from M.L.King Jr. Way)
Berkeley...
Event Date: Sun, Jan 20, 2008 10:30am PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 5:20pm PST
More Info on Opposing Lynch Mob Racists in Jena on Jan 21 January 21st: Oppose the Lynch Mob Racists!
No to Nooses! Free the Jena Six!
We Want a Better World!
White Supremacists plan to march in Jena on Martin Luther King Day in 2008. On Martin Luther King Day of all days, the one day that is supposed to be about the struggle of Black people, they are coming to march with Nooses! This is a call to people everywhere: On Monday January 21st, get to Jena! OPPOSE THE LYNCH MOB RACISTS!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 12:23pm PST
KKKluckers with NOOSES marching on MLK Day in Jena, unopposed? NO WAY! 
A white supremacist group that calls itself the “Nationalist Movement” plans to march in Jena on January 21. They’re telling people to bring signs calling for jailing the Jena 6, abolishing the Martin Luther King holiday, and “down with communism.” They’re openly encouraging people to DISPLAY NOOSES!! Around the country, when people heard about this, a lot of them said, “it’s time to go back to Jena.” And in Jena, many said, “it’s time for people to come back to Jena.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 12:19pm PST
Race and Gender in Presidential Politics: A Debate Between Gloria Steinem and Melissa Harris Lacewell Monday, January 14, 2008 :In the race for the Democratic nomination, a victory for either Senator Hillary Clinton or Senator Barack Obama -- as the first woman or African American Democratic nominee -- would be unprecedented in U.S. history. We host a discussion on race and gender politics with feminist pioneer, Gloria Steinem and Princeton University professor, Melissa Harris Lacewell....
Posted: Mon, Jan 14, 2008 7:24am PST
Native Youth Murdered by Oakland Police Department Services for Andrew will be held January 10th, Thursday at 10 am at Colonial Chapel, followed by a memorial gathering at IFH (Intertribal Friendship House) around 2 pm. We send our condolences to the family for their loss....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 1:23pm PST
Clintons in Anti-Obama Racial Slur Former president Bill Clinton and his wife Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary have whipped a firestorm with alleged racial comments against rival candidate Barack Obama, who aspires to be the first black president in US history, reported the Washington Post on Saturday, January 12....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 11:06am PST
2008…Bad or Good Omen for EU Muslims? As Islamophobia gained momentum in 2007, European Muslim leaders are divided whether the Muslim cup is half full or half empty in 2008....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 11:04am PST
Republican Rhetoric Alienates US Muslims American Muslims, whose religiosity and family values traditionally attracted them to Republicans, are becoming increasingly irritated by a growing anti-Muslim rhetoric on the campaign trail....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 11:02am PST
Corey D. B. Walker: Barack Obama and the Crisis of the White Intellectual Saturday, January 12, 2008 :After Iowa and New Hampshire the nation will now finally entertain the very real possibility of an African American president. Or rather, a president who happens to be African American. No longer a distant dream, the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama has energized the 2008 presidential race with such force that David Brooks used one of his columns to announce that an earthquake had rocked the American political landscape....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 10:57am PST
Lennar's New Homes Fetch 60% Less 
Will Lennar or the City keep its promises in Bay View Hunters Point?
Lets look at the facts...
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 10:14am PST
How Israel Promotes Anti-Semitism 
Today, in an attempt to smear me, posts have gone up all over the internet accusing me of being an anti-Semite. Pieces of the following essay are posted with other words inserted that are not my own. In addition, accusations have been made that I have attempted to delete the following essay from the public record. To contradict this smear tactic, and to prove that opposing Zionism is not anti-Semitic, I am reposting the entire essay in full.
I wrote the following essay early in 2001 as ...
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 6:10am PST
No to Rightist Ron Paul, Better Strategies for Ending the War 
"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it." Socialist Anti-war Candidate Eugene Debs (who garnered nearly a million votes while he sat in prison for opposition to U.S. involvement in World War One).
"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action" wrote Ron Paul, who voted against t...
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2008 3:04am PST
'No treaty withdrawal', says Lakota tribal elder 
The Lakota Freedom Delegation, which in December declared that the Lakota people were withdrawing from their treaties with the United States and reasserting their sovereignty as an independent state, is acting without the support of the Treaty Council, the traditional government of the Lakota, Wikinews has learned....
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 10:35pm PST
The Minuteman Highway? The Minutemen are “benevolently” giving back! So they think. According to LA Times’ Richard Marosi, the Minutemen were recently approved by the California Transportation Department to adopt a two mile stretch of the 5 Freeway near San Clemente, CA. As part of the program and agreement to collect rubbish within the specified area, Caltrans (State of California Transportation Department) has posted two signs along the freeway that read “ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY- SAN DIEGO MINUTEMEN”. (Although, there ar...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 6:06pm PST
Could Barack Obama expose the Democrats in the Bay Area for their pathetic behavior? Senator Diane Feinstein, Congressperson Nancy Peloso, Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Mafia like organizations that are working to strong arm certain policies - must be challenged by Senator Edwards and Senator Barack Obama. On of the most important issues is what is happening at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - a Superfund Site. One of the ten most toxic sites in the Nation. Now, Diane Feinstein is using her influence to intimidate others to have her way - as was revealed in her long winded drab l...
Posted: Sat, Jan 12, 2008 5:28am PST
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