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FBI investigates supremacist anti-'Jena 6' Web site NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- The FBI is reviewing a white supremacist Web site that purports to list the addresses of five of the six black teenagers accused of beating a white student in Jena and "essentially called for their lynching," an agency spokeswoman said Saturday....
Posted: Sun, Sep 23, 2007 8:22am PDT
Muslim Americans today Sunday, September 23, 2007 :Homeland discrimination for Arabs and Muslims remains a staple feature of Bush's war on terror, writes Abdus Sattar Ghazali*...
Posted: Sun, Sep 23, 2007 8:15am PDT
Stop adjudicating Ed Jew's case in the Press and leading the pack gossip columnist The San Francisco City Charter does not cater to a case like Ed Jew any intelligent person that studies it will tell you. Ed Jew's case must go before the Courts and a fair trial and it is only there - when all the facts are laid before the judge can the matter be adjudicated. It is blatant fact that because Ed Jew is Chinese that he is being judged by some racists folks that themselves have faulted again and again - and standing out - is Mayor Gavin Newsom....
Posted: Sun, Sep 23, 2007 7:34am PDT
Free the JENA 6 SF Chapter THE BATTLE HAS JUST BEGUN.
CONNECT AND ORGANIZE WITH PEOPLE FROM THE BAY AREA WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE BIG NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF THE JENA 6. MAKE PLANS, AND TAKE THE STRUGGLE FURTHER!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 11:17pm PDT
photos from the rally at Jena LA part 2 
As part of a national call by Revolution Newspaper for people to come to Jena and demonstrate against white supremacy, a group of us headed to Jena from the bay area in two minivans....
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 6:15pm PDT
photos from the rally at Jena LA part 1 
As part of a national call by Revolution Newspaper for people to come to Jena and demonstrate against white supremacy, a group of us headed to Jena from the bay area in two minivans....
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 6:00pm PDT
100,000 March for Jena Six in Louisiana Originally From New America Media
Saturday, September 22, 2007 : More than 100,000 people, according to Louisiana State Police, predominantly African Americans, swarmed on a little-known community called Jena, La., on Sept. 20 to demand justice for six Black teenagers convicted as adults for aggravated assault of a White student....
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 10:06am PDT
CNN lets neo-nazi air Jena6 death threats The large civil rights rally in Jena, Louisiana called for equality in schools and law enforcement in addition to justice for 6 boys receiving outrageous charge for a school fistfight (some of whom hadn't been involved in the fight at all). This received very good coverage in the national media, with some cable news stations placing several reporters in the crowd of tens of thousands, and offering 10-20 minute blocks of airtime.
The next day, the focus of the story switched to the reactio...
Posted: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 8:17am PDT
Hoopa Valley Tribe Chairman Testifies in Congress in Support of Trinity River Funding 
Clifford Lyle Marshall, Chairman of the Hoopa Valley Tribe of northern California, testified beforethe House Natural Resources Committee this week on behalf of Rep. Mike Thompson's bill, H.R. 2733, to fund the restoration of the Trinity River. Marshall fears that San Joaquin River restoration legislation could cripple Trinity River restoration efforts....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:45pm PDT
Delta Flows - Restore the Delta Event Features Mark Franco, Winnemem Wintu Headman Here is the latest Delta Flows E-newsletter from Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla of Restore the Delta. Mark Franco, headman of the Winnemen Wintu Tribe, gave a fantastic talk on the indigenous view of the Governor's peripheral canal and dam proposals at the organization's fourth community event, held at Tower Park Resort on Wednesday night. Dante Nomellini, water rights attorney, also gave a great presentation on why we must fight to stop the canal....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:20pm PDT
Report from Berkeley and San Francisco Protests to Free the Jena 6 Initial Report on the protests in Berkeley and San Francisco on September 20....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 5:10pm PDT
New Outrage in the Jena 6 Case: Mychal Bell Not Granted Bond One day after 60,000 people demonstrated in Jena Louisiana against the outrageous frame-up of the Jena 6. Mychal Bell was denied bail!! On Friday, September 14, Louisiana's Third Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Mychal Bell's conviction of second-degree battery. In response to an emergency appeal by Bell’s lawyers, the court ruled that Bell had been tried improperly as an adult. AND NOW THEY WON"T LET THIS YOUNG MAN OUT ON BAIL!!! This new development in the case underscores even more the...
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 5:07pm PDT
Native Americans Rally At UCB over. Ancestral Remains Sproul Plaza at UCB (Bancroft and Telegraph)
Native Americans & Social Justice Allies to Rally at UC Berkeley to
Protect Native Ancestral Remains & Sacred Objects...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 3:58pm PDT
Bay Area Protest Demand "Free the Jena 6!" 
On September 20, as 60,000 people converged on Jena Louisiana from all over the US to demand freedom for the Jena 6, thousands also demonstrated throughout the Bay Area. Over 1,000 held a spirited rally at UC Berkeley which was joined by scores of students from Berkeley High who had walked out of school. About 300 students then marched around the Berkeley campus. Berkeley High students who were at the Cal rally returned to their school and "broke out" over 100 more students to take a stand...
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 10:33am PDT
In Historic March, Tens of Thousands Gather from Across Nation to Demand Justice for Jena Six Friday, September 21, 2007 :
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered Thursday in the town of Jena, Louisiana to demand justice for the Jena Six -- the six African American teenagers facing a total of over 100 years in prison for allegedly beating a white student in a schoolyard fight. The fight occurred after white students hung nooses from a tree at the school. Thursday's protest was one of the largest civil rights rallies in the South since the 1960s....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:52am PDT
UC Berkeley: Hundreds Rally in Support of "Jena Six" Friday, September 21, 2007 : Hundreds of people on campus yesterday - along with many others across the country - rallied to protest what many have called a blatant example of racism in the prosecution of six black high school students in Jena, La.following a fight with a white male. All but one had charges reduced to battery....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:38am PDT
Thousands demonstrate in support of "Jena Six" Friday, September 21, 2007 :Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the rural Louisiana town of Jena on Thursday to protest the racist prosecution of six black high school students. The six students face the possibility of over 20 years in prison after a fight that injured one white student, Justin Barker, last December. The incident followed months of racial tension that began when nooses were hung on a tree under which white students usually sat for lunch (the “white tree”)....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:37am PDT
The media's obsession with O.J. Simpson Friday, September 21, 2007 :Former American hall of fame football star O.J. Simpson’s recent arrest for armed robbery, kidnapping and a number of other offenses—ten felony charges in all—has provided the US news media with another opportunity to debase itself and drag its audience in the direction of an insignificant and, if possible, degrading story at the expense of serious news developments....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:35am PDT
After partial victory, momentum builds for Jena 6 Friday, September 21, 2007 : Facing an angry firestorm, a state appeals court overturned the conviction of 17-year-old Mychal Bell on aggravated battery charges stemming from his resistance to a racist hate crime in the town of Jena in central Louisiana last year. Yet Bell still remains in jail. Louisiana’s 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Sept....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:31am PDT
Saving Private Ramos: Ken Burns' World War II Documentary Continue to Incite Latino Protest Originally From New America Media
Friday, September 21, 2007 : Eighty-seven year-old Carlos Alvarez remembers his first experience of war, when he dodged the bullets of Japanese gunners and airplanes in the Philippine jungles during World War II. Now, 60-plus years later, he’s on the front lines of a media war pitting grassroots Latino groups against the multimillion-dollar guns of PBS, its corporate sponsors and legendary filmmaker, Ken Burns....
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:20am PDT
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