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Film "Reel Bad Arabs—How Hollywood Vilifies a People" & Potluck Dinner 2489 Mission St. Room 30, at 21st St. SF
near 24th St. BART, #14, #49 MUNI...
Event Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 12:35pm PST
The Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe 
As a lesson in history, wisdom, and reconciliation, Beth retells the Guadalupe legend which is celebrated today by a feast which commemorates a miraculous appearance to Juan Diego near Mexico City in 1531....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 12:24pm PST
ELDER FIGHTS BACK AND WIN AGAINST GIANT GAS MUNICIPALITY Black elder was threatened with gas utility cutoff by the state's gas municipality after one of its auhoritized service payment agents stole the senior's cash gas bill payment. Senior was forced by the utility to pay the bill again or suffer gas utility cutoff during the fall-winter season. Senior sued the gas company in pro se, without an attorney, for fraud, outrage, and infliction of emotional distress and won....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 12:17pm PST
U.S. Senate and the 2007 Farm Bill: President Bush Veto Threat Will Impact The Debate 
Congressional agriculture leaders seem to suffer from myopia given the public statements concerning the global impact the Senate version of the 2007 Farm Bill will have on our world. Scheduled attendees of the coming House~Senate conference committee have shared blurry vision of what U.S. taxpayers truly want, especially the 40 million or food insecure U.S. residents. With myopia, the eyeball is too long, or the cornea is too steep, so images are focused in the vitreous inside the eye rathe...
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 12:10pm PST
Commission Makes Thousands of Prisoners Jailed on Crack Offenses Eligible for Reduced Sentences Wednesday, December 12, 2007 :A day after a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to give federal prisoners jailed on crack cocaine offenses a chance to reduce their sentences. We speak with attorney Deborah Small and Kemba Smith, who was sentenced to more than twenty-four years in prison on drug conspiracy charges. She received clemency in 2000. [includes rush transcript - partial]...
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 9:02am PST
Report Shows Racial Impact of Drug War Policies in Counties Across U.S. Wednesday, December 12, 2007 : Tuesday, December 11, 2007The racism of drug war policies, long evident in federal and state enforcement practices, has now been documented across the country at the local level. A new report by the Justice Policy Institute found that 97 percent of the nation's large-population counties imprisoned African Americans at a higher rate than whites....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 9:01am PST
End the Insanity in Drug Sentencing Laws Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 : Disparities in drug sentencing have become a national embarrassment, but the U.S. Supreme Court should not just stop with ending sentencing disparities between powdered and crack cocaine. It should totally scrap the sentencing disparity, says NAM associate editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 8:59am PST
Vick’s Sentence Shows America's Racist Ways Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 : Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback Michael Vick was sentenced to two years in prison for running a dogfighting ring out of his home and some dog-lovers are up in arms over – what they say – is not enough time. But New America Media commentator Charles Jones says that the reaction of some Americans to the Vick case gives away their contradictory views regarding black men....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 8:59am PST
SF Gang Injunction Hearing "This is the Wrong Way to Address Violence!" 
Supervisor Daly hosted a hearing on the contriversial SF Gang Injunctions Yesterday. Community members criticized the proposal as racist & ineffective, and called on the City to put an Injunction on Poverty! An Injunction on Gentrification! And Injunction on the Criminalization of our Youth! And to address the root causes of violence not the symptoms!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 10:09pm PST
Morality of Memory: 2007 Farm Bill Senate Debate 
2007 Farm Bill, And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so....
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 12:04pm PST
The Obama Factor: Can a 'Brotha' Win? (audio/mpeg 2.0MB) The question really gets to the central Black concern - does he 'get' it? Does he know what our lives really are? It is an historical oddity that he emerges as a quite serious presidential candidate in the same year, the same election, as the well known wife of a former president, Sen. Hillary Rodham-Clinton (D. -N. Y.), is widely regarded not merely as the front runner, but as the heir apparent of the seat vacated by her husband, Bill, some 7 years ago....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 7:25pm PST
Gang Injunction in SF - no exit policy, no sound factors - gentrification, depopulation The Gang Injunction hearing held - December 10, 2007- in San Francisco and called by Supervisor Chris Daly in Room 263 at City Hall in San Francisco - exposed the City Attorney and Mayor Gavin Newsom - to a City "thug" policy with poor thinking and pointing to gentrification - galore. Further de-population, discrimination, and a multitude of adverse impacts - imposed on poor folks and mostly of color. Rich neighborhoods have no gang injunctions and Mayor Gavin Newsom has NO intention of takin...
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 7:07pm PST
US "Abysmal" Discrimination Record COLUMBIA — The United States has an "abysmal" record of racial discrimination with minorities, including Muslims, unfairly treated in a range of areas, a coalition of 250 civic groups concluded in a report on Monday, December 10....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 8:58am PST
Rape case ruling shocks Australia Monday, December 10, 2007 : A decision not to jail nine men who admitted raping a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl is widely criticised in Australia....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 8:50am PST
UPDATE: NBC Breaks Media Blackout of Mumia Photos; Smerconish and Faulkner outraged 
According to a new Counterpunch article by Linn Washington Jr, Today Show guests Michael Smerconish and Maureen Faulkner (authors of "Murdered By Mumia"), were reportedly outraged by the show, which entailed several challenging questions from co-host Matt Lauer.
Also, please contact The Today Show (today@msnbc.com) to thank them for their fair and balanced report....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 2:06am PST
Fotos of the solidarity demonstration for Mumia abu Jamal in Berne, Switzerland Here you find fotos and a little text about the demonstration for Mumia abu Jamal in Bern, Switzerland from the 8. of december
http://ch.indymedia.org/de/2007/12/55327.shtml
Brick by Brick, Wall by Wall we gonna free Mumia abu Jamal!...
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 1:06pm PST
First People of the Bay Area - the Ohlone - 18 treaties signed - never ratified by U.S. 18 treaties signed by the United States Government - were never ratified and thousands of the First People - treated worse then third class citizens of California and this Nation. The Ohlone lived in the Bay Area for thousands of years - more then 10,000 years. Then, came the strangers and stole the land. All over San Francisco and all over the Bay Area - exists, the Sacred Burial Mounds - known as Shellmounds. Again and again these Shellmounds have been desecrated by the Strangers - disrespe...
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 8:28am PST
Sikh Massacre 'Missing' Witness Surfaces in Bay Area Originally From New America Media
Sunday, December 9, 2007 : After Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984 violent anti-Sikh riots resulted in the killings of thousands of Sikhs, many of them in the nation's capital. Voting lists were allegedly used to identify Sikh families and the Congress government was accused by many human rights group of at best doing nothing, and at worst, abetting and even orchestrating the killings....
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 8:07am PST
Revitalization March and Rally: Davis, Californai -to- DQ university California's only American Indian controlled college is floundering. DQ University rose in the 1970's -only to fall in 2005. Now, students and community activists throughout California are mobilizing to get the school back on its feet again....
Posted: Sat, Dec 8, 2007 1:18pm PST
Religions in conflict: India's state of war Thursday, December 6, 2007 : It is called the Bombay Hotel but there is no service to speak of....
Posted: Sat, Dec 8, 2007 9:00am PST
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