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Echoes of a Freedom Struggle (A Book Review) (audio/mpeg 2.6MB)
Lifetime liberationist, and later scholar Muhammad Ahmad ( f/k/a Max Stanford, Jr.) has given us all a unique and revealing look at this movement, often told from the inside. In his new book, We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations - 1960 1975, (Chi., IL: Kerr Publ., 2007) Ahmad tells us of the formative years, apex of development, and the fall of several radical and revolutionary groups: the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Revolutionary Action Movem...
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 9:08pm PST
Santa Claus & Slavery
Uhuru Solidarity Center, 1601 - 2nd Ave, Oakland...
Event Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 1:54pm PST
Bolivian opposition resumes strikes
Thursday, November 29, 2007 : Morales aims to rewrite constitution to "empower indigenous majority"....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 8:26am PST
Paris Revolt No Surprise: Officials
CAIRO — The raging riots in the French's capital immigrant-heavy suburbs came as no surprise to officials who agreed that people in the long-forgotten areas had nothing but empty promises for years....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 8:14am PST
Minorities Hit Hardest by Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Thursday, November 29, 2007 :
We take a look at how the subprime mortgage crisis is affecting homeowners. The latest statistics show U.S. foreclosure filings nearly doubled in October from the same month last year. African-American and Latino homeowners have been particularly hard hit. A new study finds that African-Americans and Latinos were more than three times as likely as whites to have a high-cost loan....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 8:13am PST
Muslim Informant "Betrayed" by MI5
CAIRO — Seven years after risking his life to help Britain's MI5 and Scotland Yard penetrate extremists' circles, Reda Hassaine is still getting the same reward; nothing....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 8:13am PST
Massive police deployment in Villiers-le-Bel France: Three nights of rioting in response to youths' deaths
Thursday, November 29, 2007 :The town of Villiers-le-Bel on the northern outskirts of Paris resembled a civil war zone on Tuesday night. An occupation force of a thousand police, assisted by a helicopter with searchlights, attempted to quell the rebellion of youth enraged by the death, in a collision with a police car, of two teenagers, Larami, 16, and Moushin, 15....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 7:53am PST
Lennar BVHP LLC exposed linked to its operations on Parcle A and the question of intent
Lennar BVHP LLC for over four months bombarded the constituents in and around Parcel A - with toxic dust containing heavy metals, Asbestos Dust, and radiological elements. The victims mostly children, our elderly, and those with compromised health. Article 31 of the SF Health Department and the Disposition and Development Agreement ( both legal documents ) were thrown to the wind. The Main Media has been silent but now at long last one of the better articles by the Bay Guardian. Mayor Gavin N...
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 7:38am PST
Fresno Westside Residents Respond to Being Called Terrorists
West Fresno residents and their allies held a press conference on Monday, November 26, 2007 to respond to elected city officials identifying black gang members as terrorists....
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 8:14pm PST
Riots Rage in Paris Suburb After Police Collision
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 : Riots in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel continue Tuesday, following the death Sunday of two teenagers in a collision with police. Robert Siegel talks with Michael Deibert, Paris correspondent for the Inter Press Service, who says there are reports that the violence now is as bad as the riots of 2005....
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 8:20am PST
Britain: The real issues in the Oxford Union "free speech" debate
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 :The latest attempt to justify dissemination of right-wing views with the claim that it represents a commitment to “freedom of speech” is amongst the most cynical. On Monday night, the Oxford Union (OU) hosted a “debate,” supposedly on free speech, in which Nick Griffin, leader of the fascist British National Party (BNP), and the infamous holocaust denier David Irving were cast as the victims of an overzealous, totalitarian political correctness....
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 8:07am PST
Belgian City Bans Hijab
BRUSSELS — Ghent City, Belgium's third largest, has decided to prohibit civil servants who were with the public from donning hijab....
Posted: Wed, Nov 28, 2007 7:42am PST
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia @ 20th
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2007 7:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 5:31pm PST
TONIGHT Screening CATCH a FIRE to benefit POWER
Don't miss this anti-apartheid film showing tonight at El Rio to benefit the work of People Organized to Win Employment Rights!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 4:31pm PST
UCSF- the largest laboratory experimenting with RATS at Hunters Point, condoning pollution
University of California - San Francisco has the largest laboratory experimenting with RATS and other animals on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The lab has been there for over 20 years. UCSF will not come out openly and confront the pollution at Bayview Hunters Point and the adverse impacts as a result of Parcel A - and Lennar's illegal grading activities. UCSF purports that it serves the community - but it condones the activities of - "thug" and rogue companies like Lennar BVHP LLC. It has NO...
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 7:57am PST
France: Riots break out in Paris suburbs after police crash kills youth
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 :Riots have shaken the north Paris suburbs for two consecutive nights after the deaths of two youths, Moushin and Larimi, in Villiers-le-Bel around 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 25. The youths were riding on a motorbike that was hit by a police car and were left for dead by police. The basic details of the collision are not in dispute....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 7:30am PST
Germany: Neo-Nazi attack in Dortmund restaurant
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 :On November 17, a group of around 30 neo-Nazis, armed with cobblestones and batons, attacked the Casablanca restaurant in Dortmund. According to the police report, the group shouted “shit Turks” and “shit foreigners,” a reference to the Turkish guests inside. Nevertheless, the police are refusing to admit that the attack was racially motivated, and the offenders have been charged only with disturbing the peace....
Posted: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 7:29am PST
Redacting Thanksgiving
The freedom of Leonard Peltier is just as important as the freedom of Iraq. The problem is, the common factor, the United States of America is not representative of freedom. Our government perpetuates lies, hate and murder behind cries of liberty and screams of freedom. No one is free until Leonard is free! No one is free until the Iraqi people live lives without violence....
Posted: Mon, Nov 26, 2007 8:00pm PST
Stop Alameda Police Harassment of SE Asian Youth
In front of the City of Alameda Police Department, 1555 Oak St,
Alameda, CA 94501...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2007 4:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 26, 2007 7:06pm PST
Should our 110th U.S. Congress officially discuss enslavement of human beings in America?
For several centuries the economic impact of enslaved human beings of African ancestry and the ongoing disparaging treatment is not a salient measurable component of U.S. Democracy at the dawn of the 21st Century... we hold these truths self evident and continue to help form a more perfect union... U.S. House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee Chair holds the gavel in civic discourse, where is the collective Black Civic participation?...
Posted: Mon, Nov 26, 2007 5:54pm PST