Publish to Newswire
Add an EventFeature Archives
Indigenous people and their supporters continue to observe "Thanksgiving" as a mournful holiday that represents the destruction of native peoples' lives and cultures, as well as a day of coming together as a community. The 32nd annual American Indian Day of Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island took place on Thursday, November 24th. People arrived well before 5:00am to purchase tickets for the ferry to the island. KPFA provided radio coverage during the event.
A free, public pot-luck feast took place from 11:00am to 5:00 pm at the Oakland Inter-Tribal Friendship House at 523 International Boulevard in Oakland. This event included music, special guest speakers and more.
The annual Food Not Bombs Give Thanks Vegetarian Potluck Feast took place at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, beginning at 6:00pm. Riot Folk performed, and any proceeds from the event were donated to the Doe Family, people who were injured while they were performing jail solidarity following their arrests at the 2004 Reclaim the Commons convergence in San Francisco.
Indybay's 2004 Coverage of Thanksgiving | American Indian Treaty Council | East Bay Food Not Bombs | Riot Folk | InterTribal Friendship House | Bay Native Circle Radio Show on KPFA | Friendship House Association of American Indians, SF | Bay Area Indian Calendar
A free, public pot-luck feast took place from 11:00am to 5:00 pm at the Oakland Inter-Tribal Friendship House at 523 International Boulevard in Oakland. This event included music, special guest speakers and more.
The annual Food Not Bombs Give Thanks Vegetarian Potluck Feast took place at Ashkenaz in Berkeley, beginning at 6:00pm. Riot Folk performed, and any proceeds from the event were donated to the Doe Family, people who were injured while they were performing jail solidarity following their arrests at the 2004 Reclaim the Commons convergence in San Francisco.
Indybay's 2004 Coverage of Thanksgiving | American Indian Treaty Council | East Bay Food Not Bombs | Riot Folk | InterTribal Friendship House | Bay Native Circle Radio Show on KPFA | Friendship House Association of American Indians, SF | Bay Area Indian Calendar
Colin Powell spoke at De Anza College from November 9th through November 11th.
A peace camp and various civil disobedience actions took place throughout the three days, sponsored by a wide range of students and Bay Area anti-war organizations.
On Friday November 11th, protests started in front of the Flint Center before Powell’s third appearance. One protester got inside and was arrested and while others tried to push their way through the police line outside. While the majority of those who engaged in confrontation were white, most of the people arrested were people of color. Out of seven of the protesters who were arrested outside of the Flint Center, six were Muslims of Arabic and African descent.
"They couldn't stand that we were dressed in Palestinian and Arabic clothes...They wanted revenge so they chased down, every one of us who were Muslim, until they could beat and arrest us, that's what they were waiting for " said De Anza student Hanni Zaki, 22, who was hospitalized for receiving injury to the head from police who stepped on his face and beat him with their batons.
Brian Helmle, was the first to be arrested inside the Flint Center earlier that night, during Powell's speech and was charged for Disturbing the Peace and Resisting Arrest. Helmle, who is 27, stood up while Powell was speaking about the virtues of American kindness and yelled out "Liar - liar, murderer – murderer," and blew his whistle until officers carried him across the stands to arrest him.
Helmle, who later met with other arrestees, was shocked to find that they were treated with such harshness and brutality and that he was the only Caucasian to be arrested that night. "I think that this is all about white privilege," said Helmle. "I wasn't treated in any harshness whatsoever by the police. The fact is that the eyes of the white crowd were on a white male doing strange things inside. What happened to those outside in the protest is ridiculous and racist. All they were trying to do was leave and get to their cars. I was intentionally trying to get arrested."
Police released Helmle by 1 a.m. that same night without taking him into custody. The seven others who were arrested outside the Flint Center were taken into custody, including the minor Eltilib, and detained overnight in harsh conditions. Al-Hayiek is the only one to still be in custody awaiting an arraignment for bond.
Photos: 1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
Minorities Beat by Police at Powell Protest | Students Arrested at Powell Speech Protest Accuse Police of Racial Profiling
Event Announcement |
Freak Radio PSA
Colin Powell De Anza College Resistance Blog
On Friday November 11th, protests started in front of the Flint Center before Powell’s third appearance. One protester got inside and was arrested and while others tried to push their way through the police line outside. While the majority of those who engaged in confrontation were white, most of the people arrested were people of color. Out of seven of the protesters who were arrested outside of the Flint Center, six were Muslims of Arabic and African descent.
"They couldn't stand that we were dressed in Palestinian and Arabic clothes...They wanted revenge so they chased down, every one of us who were Muslim, until they could beat and arrest us, that's what they were waiting for " said De Anza student Hanni Zaki, 22, who was hospitalized for receiving injury to the head from police who stepped on his face and beat him with their batons.
Brian Helmle, was the first to be arrested inside the Flint Center earlier that night, during Powell's speech and was charged for Disturbing the Peace and Resisting Arrest. Helmle, who is 27, stood up while Powell was speaking about the virtues of American kindness and yelled out "Liar - liar, murderer – murderer," and blew his whistle until officers carried him across the stands to arrest him.
Helmle, who later met with other arrestees, was shocked to find that they were treated with such harshness and brutality and that he was the only Caucasian to be arrested that night. "I think that this is all about white privilege," said Helmle. "I wasn't treated in any harshness whatsoever by the police. The fact is that the eyes of the white crowd were on a white male doing strange things inside. What happened to those outside in the protest is ridiculous and racist. All they were trying to do was leave and get to their cars. I was intentionally trying to get arrested."
Police released Helmle by 1 a.m. that same night without taking him into custody. The seven others who were arrested outside the Flint Center were taken into custody, including the minor Eltilib, and detained overnight in harsh conditions. Al-Hayiek is the only one to still be in custody awaiting an arraignment for bond.
Photos: 1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
Minorities Beat by Police at Powell Protest | Students Arrested at Powell Speech Protest Accuse Police of Racial Profiling
Event Announcement |
Freak Radio PSA
Colin Powell De Anza College Resistance Blog
Tue Oct 25 2005
Rosa Parks Has Died
On October 24th 2005,
Rosa Parks, died of natural causes Monday evening at her home in Detroit. She was 92.
Moved by hear death, students at UC Santa Cruz held a somber vigil November 2nd in honor of her life and legacy. Organized by UC Santa Cruz's African/Black Student Alliance (A/BSA), the late-night vigil featured song, prayer, a moment of silence, and speeches on Parks' life. Photos
"It was 50 years ago this December that Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws. Her act of resistance led to a 13-month boycott of the Montgomery bus system that would spark the civil rights movement. And it would inspire freedom struggles abroad including in South Africa. The bus boycott would also help transform a 26-year-old preacher named Martin Luther King Junior to national prominence. Rosa Parks’ arrest came just months after the lynching of Emmett Till."
Rare 1956 Interview | Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine, is dead | Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson & Others Pay Tribute to Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks | Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Lies in Honor in Capitol Rotunda | Democracy Now: Tributes To Rosa Parks
Moved by hear death, students at UC Santa Cruz held a somber vigil November 2nd in honor of her life and legacy. Organized by UC Santa Cruz's African/Black Student Alliance (A/BSA), the late-night vigil featured song, prayer, a moment of silence, and speeches on Parks' life. Photos
"It was 50 years ago this December that Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s segregation laws. Her act of resistance led to a 13-month boycott of the Montgomery bus system that would spark the civil rights movement. And it would inspire freedom struggles abroad including in South Africa. The bus boycott would also help transform a 26-year-old preacher named Martin Luther King Junior to national prominence. Rosa Parks’ arrest came just months after the lynching of Emmett Till."
Rare 1956 Interview | Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine, is dead | Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson & Others Pay Tribute to Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks | Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Lies in Honor in Capitol Rotunda | Democracy Now: Tributes To Rosa Parks
On October 15th, 2005, the National Socialist Movement (NSM) attempted
to hold a picket and march in a predominantly African-American
neighborhood in the North End of Toledo, Ohio. The neo-Nazi rally was
protested by hundreds of neighborhood residents who were joined by
members of the Anti-Racist Action Network from across the United
States and Canada. Approximately 114 local people were arrested in a police riot that
followed the cancellation of the neo-Nazi march. They are being
charged with a variety of misdemeanors and felonies. A week later, at least a dozen people are still being held in
Toledo jails. Judges have refused to reduce bail or offer bond, so
these 12 adults continue to be held on $10,000 cash in lieu of bond
following an arraignment last Monday.
Anti-racist activists think that this bail is unnecessarily large, and is just another way for the Toledo government to continue to oppress members of this working class North Toledo neighborhood. Most people cannot afford to pay this huge sum of money, and everyone arrested is a local resident with roots in the community and thus not a flight risk. They are calling for people to act in solidarity with the anti-fascist arrestees and show the State that they cannot intimidate protesters into not acting against fascist threats. Bail money is urgently needed, and they are asking anyone who can to send money. Read more
10/18 Democracy Now Report | Columbus Indymedia Article with Photos and Video | Other Media Reports | Anti-Racist Action Network | NSM website: www.nsm88.com (not for the squeamish)
Anti-racist activists think that this bail is unnecessarily large, and is just another way for the Toledo government to continue to oppress members of this working class North Toledo neighborhood. Most people cannot afford to pay this huge sum of money, and everyone arrested is a local resident with roots in the community and thus not a flight risk. They are calling for people to act in solidarity with the anti-fascist arrestees and show the State that they cannot intimidate protesters into not acting against fascist threats. Bail money is urgently needed, and they are asking anyone who can to send money. Read more
10/18 Democracy Now Report | Columbus Indymedia Article with Photos and Video | Other Media Reports | Anti-Racist Action Network | NSM website: www.nsm88.com (not for the squeamish)
Fri Sep 2 2005
Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans
From The Newswire:
New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2005- It's criminal. From what you're hearing, the people trapped in New Orleans are nothing but looters. We're told we should be more "neighborly." But nobody talked about being neighborly until after the people who could afford to leave … left.
If you ain't got no money in America, you're on your own. People were told to go to the Superdome, but they have no food, no water there. And before they could get in, people had to stand in line for 4-5 hours in the rain because everybody was being searched one by one at the entrance.
I can understand the chaos that happened after the tsunami, because they had no warning, but here there was plenty of warning. In the three days before the hurricane hit, we knew it was coming and everyone could have been evacuated.
We have Amtrak here that could have carried everybody out of town. There were enough school buses that could have evacuated 20,000 people easily, but they just let them be flooded. My son watched 40 buses go underwater - they just wouldn't move them, afraid they'd be stolen.
People who could afford to leave were so afraid someone would steal what they own that they just let it all be flooded. They could have let a family without a vehicle borrow their extra car, but instead they left it behind to be destroyed.
There are gangs of white vigilantes near here riding around in pickup trucks, all of them armed, and any young Black they see who they figure doesn't belong in their community, they shoot him. I tell them, "Stop! You're going to start a riot."
Read More | Listen to a interview with Malik Rahim on radioActive San Diego
Racism And Hurricane Katrina:
Example of Racist Media Caught by Web Surfer | Special Treatment for white Britons at Superdome | Only Whites Claim Katrina’s Poor Response is NOT Racist | Rapper Kanye West blasts Bush on Live TV (Video) | An open letter to NBC news, 9/2/05, on Katrina reporting | Race in New Orleans: Shaping the Response to Katrina? | Talk Race, But Don't Play Race Card With Katrina | Black lawmakers angry at Bush response to Katrina | Rev. Al Sharpton: President Bush's Response "Inexcusable" | Chuck D Poem and New Orleans Commentary (Audio) | White people can't imagine black people who are just like them | New Black Panther Party Sends Rescue Team to New Orleans
New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2005- It's criminal. From what you're hearing, the people trapped in New Orleans are nothing but looters. We're told we should be more "neighborly." But nobody talked about being neighborly until after the people who could afford to leave … left.
If you ain't got no money in America, you're on your own. People were told to go to the Superdome, but they have no food, no water there. And before they could get in, people had to stand in line for 4-5 hours in the rain because everybody was being searched one by one at the entrance.
I can understand the chaos that happened after the tsunami, because they had no warning, but here there was plenty of warning. In the three days before the hurricane hit, we knew it was coming and everyone could have been evacuated.
We have Amtrak here that could have carried everybody out of town. There were enough school buses that could have evacuated 20,000 people easily, but they just let them be flooded. My son watched 40 buses go underwater - they just wouldn't move them, afraid they'd be stolen.
People who could afford to leave were so afraid someone would steal what they own that they just let it all be flooded. They could have let a family without a vehicle borrow their extra car, but instead they left it behind to be destroyed.
There are gangs of white vigilantes near here riding around in pickup trucks, all of them armed, and any young Black they see who they figure doesn't belong in their community, they shoot him. I tell them, "Stop! You're going to start a riot."
Read More | Listen to a interview with Malik Rahim on radioActive San Diego
Racism And Hurricane Katrina:
Example of Racist Media Caught by Web Surfer | Special Treatment for white Britons at Superdome | Only Whites Claim Katrina’s Poor Response is NOT Racist | Rapper Kanye West blasts Bush on Live TV (Video) | An open letter to NBC news, 9/2/05, on Katrina reporting | Race in New Orleans: Shaping the Response to Katrina? | Talk Race, But Don't Play Race Card With Katrina | Black lawmakers angry at Bush response to Katrina | Rev. Al Sharpton: President Bush's Response "Inexcusable" | Chuck D Poem and New Orleans Commentary (Audio) | White people can't imagine black people who are just like them | New Black Panther Party Sends Rescue Team to New Orleans
Wed Aug 17 2005
Black August Observed in Oakland This Week
Black August is a time of remembering the plight of freedom fighters, who are imprisoned "behind enemy lines," who have given their lives to the cause of Black and oppressed people being free from the shackles of capitalistic slavery – people like George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson and Khatari Gaulden, to name a few. More people whose contributions will be honored during Black August '05
Many people observe Black August by fasting from sun up to sun down on all the days of August except on the martyr days: Aug. 2, Aug. 7 and Aug. 21, which are days when some fast completely. Exercise, organizing, and study are also intensified.
In Oakland, Black August ‘05 was celebrated with two public events. The first event was on August 17th at 2232 Martin Luther King Way in Oakland. There were African dancers, Taiko drummers, Polynesian dancers and Pomo dancers, among the many acts that were scheduled to perform. The second event took place on August 21st at 1933 Broadway in Oakland. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of the POCC (Prisoners of Conscience Committee), Pam Africa, dead prez, and Rico Pabon of Prophets of Rage were some of the people featured at this 12-hour concert/forum. It was planned to be a place where people could bring their friends and family to a revolutionary event where "everybody is destined to learn something as well as find out how they can get involved." Pam Africa also spoke in San Francisco on August 19th. A major hip hop show and a Black August Film Festival were held in New York this month.
Tickets for Black August ‘05 could purchased at various locations around the Bay. | Read more | Black August Organizing Committee | BlackAugust.net | Black August's 25th Anniversary
Many people observe Black August by fasting from sun up to sun down on all the days of August except on the martyr days: Aug. 2, Aug. 7 and Aug. 21, which are days when some fast completely. Exercise, organizing, and study are also intensified.
In Oakland, Black August ‘05 was celebrated with two public events. The first event was on August 17th at 2232 Martin Luther King Way in Oakland. There were African dancers, Taiko drummers, Polynesian dancers and Pomo dancers, among the many acts that were scheduled to perform. The second event took place on August 21st at 1933 Broadway in Oakland. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of the POCC (Prisoners of Conscience Committee), Pam Africa, dead prez, and Rico Pabon of Prophets of Rage were some of the people featured at this 12-hour concert/forum. It was planned to be a place where people could bring their friends and family to a revolutionary event where "everybody is destined to learn something as well as find out how they can get involved." Pam Africa also spoke in San Francisco on August 19th. A major hip hop show and a Black August Film Festival were held in New York this month.
Tickets for Black August ‘05 could purchased at various locations around the Bay. | Read more | Black August Organizing Committee | BlackAugust.net | Black August's 25th Anniversary
From the newswire:
When three men allegedly tried to assault Naui Huitzilopochtli, a counterdemonstrator at the Saturday, July 16, 2005 rally against the day laborer center in Laguna Beach, California, they probably didn't realize the political earthquake they were about to set into motion. For many months now, rumors had been floating around the internet among progressive activists that there was some kind of a bizarre relationship beginning to emerge between Save Our State (SOS) members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, and White Supremacists.
Cryptic postings on the Stormfront White Nationalist Community website, a nationwide bulletin board run by an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, hinted that something was up. Thread after thread of messages suggested that racists of all stripes across Southern California were trying to hook up with SOS. Despite the enormous amount of message traffic being generated by these persons unknown on the Stormfront and SOS websites, progressive activists just couldn't figure out exactly what was going on, but what happened in Laguna Beach on July 16th has changed everything. The very moment those three men set foot off the sidewalk, they opened themselves up to an intense amount of scrutiny. The cameras began clicking, reporters started scribbling, and policemen began investigating.
Read More With Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Joseph Turner founded the Save Our State (SOS) group, naming it after the 1994 Prop 187 initiative which sought to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. SOS has strong ties to the Minutemen and other anti-immigrant hate groups. On May 14th 2005, Save Our State organized a protest in opposition to an installation artwork at the Baldwin Park Metrolink Station near Los Angeles, claiming the piece was pro-illegal immigration; many counterdemonstrators showed up to protest the growing racism in California
Reports From Baldwin Park: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Racist network of right wingers
SOS is not the same group as SFSOS which was a group that helped Newsom get elected and has support from Feinstein and many other leaders of the state Democratic Party. SFSOS is run by political consultant Wade Randlett and partly financed by Gap Chairman Don Fisher. While SFSOS presents itself as a moderate organization, it has worked to undermine San Francisco's school desegregation program and used anti-immigrant rhetoric when it campained to defeat San Francisco's Prop F in 2004. SFSOS and SOS may or may not be linked, but aside from similar names they also seem to hold some views in common.
When three men allegedly tried to assault Naui Huitzilopochtli, a counterdemonstrator at the Saturday, July 16, 2005 rally against the day laborer center in Laguna Beach, California, they probably didn't realize the political earthquake they were about to set into motion. For many months now, rumors had been floating around the internet among progressive activists that there was some kind of a bizarre relationship beginning to emerge between Save Our State (SOS) members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, and White Supremacists.
Cryptic postings on the Stormfront White Nationalist Community website, a nationwide bulletin board run by an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader, hinted that something was up. Thread after thread of messages suggested that racists of all stripes across Southern California were trying to hook up with SOS. Despite the enormous amount of message traffic being generated by these persons unknown on the Stormfront and SOS websites, progressive activists just couldn't figure out exactly what was going on, but what happened in Laguna Beach on July 16th has changed everything. The very moment those three men set foot off the sidewalk, they opened themselves up to an intense amount of scrutiny. The cameras began clicking, reporters started scribbling, and policemen began investigating.
Read More With Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Joseph Turner founded the Save Our State (SOS) group, naming it after the 1994 Prop 187 initiative which sought to deny public services to undocumented immigrants. SOS has strong ties to the Minutemen and other anti-immigrant hate groups. On May 14th 2005, Save Our State organized a protest in opposition to an installation artwork at the Baldwin Park Metrolink Station near Los Angeles, claiming the piece was pro-illegal immigration; many counterdemonstrators showed up to protest the growing racism in California
Reports From Baldwin Park: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Racist network of right wingers
SOS is not the same group as SFSOS which was a group that helped Newsom get elected and has support from Feinstein and many other leaders of the state Democratic Party. SFSOS is run by political consultant Wade Randlett and partly financed by Gap Chairman Don Fisher. While SFSOS presents itself as a moderate organization, it has worked to undermine San Francisco's school desegregation program and used anti-immigrant rhetoric when it campained to defeat San Francisco's Prop F in 2004. SFSOS and SOS may or may not be linked, but aside from similar names they also seem to hold some views in common.
Racial Justice:
87
87