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Nagin Re-Elected, but New Orleans Faces Serious Problems New Orleans (NNPA) – In what turned out to be a racially charged election, Mayor Ray Nagin defeated Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in Saturday’s run-off but still faces an uphill battle in restoring the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:28am PDT
Western Shoshone and Downwinders Again Ask Federal Court to Stop Mushroom Cloud Blast 
Two Western Shoshone Tribes and individual Western Shoshone Indians and downwinders from Nevada and Utah have asked a federal judge in Las Vegas for a second time to stop the huge above-ground explosion now scheduled for June 23, 2006, at the Nevada Test Site. The blast was first scheduled for June 2, 2006, but then cancelled and re-scheduled after the lawsuit was filed on April 20....
Posted: Sat, May 27, 2006 1:27pm PDT
Australian government moves to abolish Aboriginal “land rights” Over the past year the Howard government has sent a series of signals indicating its intention to dismantle Aboriginal “land rights”, a policy framework introduced by the Whitlam Labor government in the 1970s, and continued in one form or another by successive governments over the past three decades....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:26am PDT
Fear of a Brown America! The simmering struggle over immigration continues to bubble over the congressional vacation, and after all is said and done, it is doubtful in the extreme that they have the solution....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 7:24am PDT
Barbara Lee, CBC members arrested in Darfur protest at Sudanese embassy Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., and CBC members Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, and Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisc., were arrested Tuesday morning at a protest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 7:22am PDT
Darfur: Inside the Crisis Top officials from two of Sudan’s main rebel groups and journalist Tina Susman of Newsday discuss the situation in Darfur and the new peace agreement. Abuduallahi of the Justice Equality Movement discusses why he opposed the peace agreement and Adam El Nor Mohammad from Sudan Liberation Movement on why he supported the agreement....
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 7:13am PDT
Blacks MIA at Darfur Rally As momentum increased last Sunday with a rally to end the slaughter of civilians in Darfur, Sudan, Blacks were few and far between in a sea of White protesters on the National Mall. “Save Darfur” campaign rhetoric claims that the appeal of the movement is its assorted religious groups, its protesters from diverse socio-economic backgrounds and political affiliations—but did the average Black person get the memo?...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 4:35pm PDT
The Dangers of Misunderstanding Sudan: Muslims Seek Voice in Darfur Demonstrations Although American Muslim leaders have spoken out vociferously against the atrocities in Darfur, there were no Muslim groups or speakers listed in the rally program at last weekend’s "Rally to Stop Genocide" in Darfur that took place in Washington D.C. This prompts speculation that there is an agenda of exclusion at work to present a distorted picture of the Muslim role in the Darfur crisis....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 4:33pm PDT
Spring Caravan to Indigenous Resistance Communities, RIDES NEEDED 
This spring, a caravan of work crews will be traveling across the states and spending a week with families affected by mining and relocation laws on Black Mesa May 26-June 6th. Join the caravan to Black Mesa to support human rights!...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 11:56pm PDT
There is hope in Darfur after over 200,000 died and over 2 million displaced There is some hope in Darfur today after the signing of the peace accord. Over 200,000 innocent people died and over 2 million displaced. Many of us after what happened in Rwandi and with deep thoughts of Cambodia and elsewhere thought that such a GENOCIDE would not take place in recent years and especially not in 2005 and 2006. However, that is exactly what we have seen the death of innocent children, women killed and rapaed, villages burnt down, and so many other horrible episodes. Suffice ...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 6:31pm PDT
Islamophobia, a Retrospective It was the potshot heard round the world that touched off a counter-crusade. Packaged in western free speech cliches, and marketed as innocent satire, the newspaper Jylland-Posten's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist/suicide bomber with a ticking bomb for a turban was "provocation-entrapment" propaganda. Dual-use entertainment, in this case frivolous caricature, is an unexamined aspect of "full spectrum information dominance." The US Secretary of Defense Dona...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 9:01am PDT
Russian authorities fail to tackle racist attacks At least 28 people were murdered and 366 assaulted on racial grounds in Russia last year, according to information collected by a Russia information centre (the Sova Information Analytical Centre). The real figure, however, is likely to be much higher as many racially motivated crimes are either not reported at all or not registered as such....
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 8:52am PDT
Arab Talk Radio: Civil Liberties in Peril: The Case of Muhammad Saleh (audio/mpeg 22.5MB) Arab Talk Co-Hosts Jess Ghannam and Jamal Dajani interview Mr. Michael Deutsch, lawyer for Muhammad Salah about the gross constitutional violations of Mr. Salah's case....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 3:48pm PDT
New Orleans: The Struggle Continues NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans Black activist who prefers anonymity put it this way: “People say that you’re an Uncle Tom if you support Mitch [Landrieu] for mayor. Another brother answers, ‘but you’ve already got an Uncle Tom in office.’”...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 9:31am PDT
Tens of Thousands Expected for DC Demonstration Against Darfur Genocide On Sunday, tens of thousands are expected to gather in Washington for a demonstration against the ongoing genocide in Sudan. We speak with Joe Madison president of the Sudan Campaign....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:46am PDT
Jesse Jackson on Race Comments by New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow We get response from the Rev. Jesse Jackson about comments made by incoming White Press Secretary - former Fox News commentator Tony Snow. Last week, Snow said on his radio program, "People like Jesse Jackson who have committed themselves to a view that blacks are constantly victims have succeeded in creating...an underclass that doesn't seem to be going anywhere."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:43am PDT
Kurdish Intifada In the last few weeks, the people living in the Kurdish cities of Turkey showed a determined resistance and civil uprising. Starting in Diyarbakir, the uprising spread to other cities including Batman, Siirt, Mardin, Kiziltepe, Nusaybin, Hakkari, Agri, Van, Ergani, Kars, and Istanbul. Kurds took to the streets to voice their demands and defended themselves against police attacks by throwing stones and firebombs. The clashes started with the killing of 14 HPG (People’s Defensive Forces of Kurd...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:18am PDT
On Anniversary, Koreans Still Scarred by Coverage of Rodney King Riots On the anniversary of the riots in Los Angeles that followed the Rodney King verdict, a Korean-American comments on the lessons learned by media on covering racially charged issues. Kapson Yim Lee reports on the Korean community for New America Media from Los Angeles....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 6:13am PDT
The Armenian Genocide: An Event, and a Movement Armenians across the world march on April 24, 2006, in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 in Turkey. Hayg Oshagan, an Armenian born in Lebanon who came to the United States in 1975, is the director of the Graduate Program of the Dept. of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit. Oshagan is behind the effort to have the genocide taught in U.S. curriculum. He talked to NAM staff writer Pete Micek....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 5:22pm PDT
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