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In a TV interview last Thursday and at a rally before 10,000 supporters in Caen in Normandy the following Friday, Nicolas Sarkozy, presidential candidate for the ruling Gaullist UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), announced his intention, if elected, to set up a new ministry of immigration and national identity and to further strengthen immigration restrictions....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:20am PDT
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled this week to stop plans by the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort to use treated waste water to make snow on a mountain sacred to Native Americans. Native American rights groups say the courts ruling is a first for recognizing Native American Religious Freedoms over government action. Environmental groups also challenged the plan citing concerns about the environmental safety of skiers and children who play in the snow....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 7:38pm PDT
CAIRO — Six American imams have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the fifth largest airline in the US for removing them from a domestic flight and holding them for six hours over what a passenger felt was "suspicious behavior", The Washington Times reported on Wednesday, March 14....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:59am PDT
It’s being hyped as “a clash of cultures”. Bruce Gordon was unable to able to fit into the NAACP bureaucracy and now the NAACP’s opponents are labeling the situation as being: “Gordon was too new school". And, that Gordon epitomized a generational struggle within Black America over the direction of a movement still wanting to face traditional civil rights issues; as opposed to “new school” thinking of Gordon who was “pressing for service needs not being addressed for blacks”....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:43am PDT
Most White San Franciscans have no clue about Alice Griffith Public Housing. Mayor Gavin Newsom is trying one more time a gimmick that will fail. HUD will not fall prey to Mayor Gavin Newsom and his gimmicks. The City and County of San Francisco cannot handle its own mess and for the City to take over Housing, it will destroy what ever little credibility - this City of San Francisco has....
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 11:48am PDT
In addition to the crimes of Ghouliani listed by 9/11 firefighters below, Ghouliani is best remembered by Muslims for his racial scapegoating and as the defender of the 1999 police martyrdom of Amadou Diallo on his doorstep in a hail of 41 bullets....
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 8:34am PDT
CAIRO — Lamenting that one of the country's two main parties is promoting misconceptions rather than dispelling them, America's largest Muslim civil rights group blasted the Republicans' opposition to hold a Muslim seminar inside the Congress, The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday, March 13....
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 7:59am PDT
Indigenous Perspectives on Anarchism: Resistance, Solidarity & Paths of Self-Determination at The 12th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
At the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair this coming Saturday, a panel of Indigenous community organizers will discuss specific environmental and social justice struggles impacting their communities and address such topics as: “What relevance does anarchism & anarchists have to Indigenous communities in resistance?” & “Confronting White Privilege & Recolo...
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 10:14pm PDT
Free Screening- Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not out"
2940 16th st #207 San Francisco
Saturday, March 25th at 5pm...
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 10:11pm PDT
Local support for the Cucap Communities
Since approximately 9000 years ago the Cucap have lived in the land adjacent to the Rio Colorado, dedicated fundamentally to fishing. Eighteen years ago the Mexican federal government began passing laws that made it nearly impossible for the indigenous Cucap to live in these lands. In effect in 1993 the zone was declared an ecological reserve, protected by the general law of ecological equilibrium....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 3:46pm PDT
When the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma voted overwhelmingly on March 3 to deny citizenship to the descendants of former African slaves, at least two Black journalists felt the action personally....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 9:16am PDT
Oldest Urban Native American Community Center in the Nation Under Threat!
"Save the Legacy" Fundraiser Events Scheduled to Save the Intertribal Friendship House...
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2007 8:56pm PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom does NOT understand what a Superfund site really means. Only the very worst sites are put on the Superfund list. Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in the South East Sector of San Francisco is one of these. It is wrong to build homes in the middle of Chernobyl and Mayor Gavin Newsom fails, again and again, to understand this fact. He fails to understand this fact because he is a Racist and has no clue about environmental issues....
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2007 4:10pm PDT
Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Chairman Omali Yeshitela will discuss this week's arrest of the Africanist Movement Director in Sierra Leone and the ongoing struggles in Guinea-Conakry....
Posted: Sat, Mar 10, 2007 10:25am PST
PILGRIMAGE - A film by Tadashi H. Nakamura...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 10:36pm PST
A recent article by Thomas Riggins dealt cogently and insightfully with the recent controversy over an anti-Muslim book, While Europe Slept, which received a finalist nomination for a National Book award. Riggins presented an accurate distinction between “radical Islam” and Islam as a religion, and highlighted the open racist politics of group which have campaigned on chauvinist political platforms (“Keep Sweden Swedish”) while claiming to defend the civil rights and liberties of women, other...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 7:45am PST
A self described academic on Islam and Jewish professor, Raphael Israeli, has been condemned for explicit racism and sparking trouble in Australia after calling for a limit on Islamic migration to Australia, because Muslims were violent....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 6:56am PST
Three British institutions are engulfed by race rows - but the protagonists all deny any charges of bigotry...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 6:29am PST
Call-in campaign victorious in pushing back attacks on Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Africanist Movement!
The following communication comes from the office of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the Interim Committee of the African Socialist International (ASI). The African Socialist International is an international party of African revolutionaries. The ASI has as its historical mission the unification and liberation of Africa under an all-African socialist government under the leadership of the Africa...
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 8:26pm PST
On Sunday night Bruce S. Gordon, a longtime business executive resigned as president of the NAACP after less than two years at the helm. NAM writer and editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson and author of The Emerging Black GOP Majority (Middle Passage Press, wasn't surprised....
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 8:08am PST