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The Muwekma Ohlone - the First People of San Francisco The Muwekma Ohlone are the first people of San Francisco. The Muwekma Ohlone were Federally Recognized until 1927 and then illegally removed by a Bureau of Indian Affairs agent - L.A. Dorrington. Today, the Muwekma Ohlone are in the Supreme Court fighting the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The United States government favors giving the tribes that were here first - the worst type of hardship especially when Native American Tribes seek Federal Recognition....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 6:28pm PDT
California's Darker Side California's history is often told in glorious and nostaligic terms, but what happened to Native Americans was nothing short of wholesale slaughter....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 12:14pm PDT
Suzi Hazahza and the Pirates of Homeland Security One by one, all the helium-inflated excuses for arresting and imprisoning Suzi Hazahza have been popped and now lie on the ground. And the single memory humanizing the government that still holds her unlawfully behind bars is the look on one Federal Magistrate's face Thursday in Dallas when he was told by a US Attorney that Congress has stripped the federal bench of any right to order Suzi Hazahza freed until a full six months of illegal detention have passed....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 9:37am PDT
The Sacred Shellmound Walkers All over the Bay Area for thousands of years stood the Sacred Shellmounds. Sacred Burial Grounds of the Ohlone people. Kudos to Wounded Knee, Corina Gould, Morning Star, Perry Matlock, many others who have continued to visit these Sacred Sites in pilgrimage over which the Ohlone have Patrimonial Jurisdiction. San Bruno Mountain very close to San Francisco is the largest intact Shellmound. Now, once again a developer wants to build homes in and around the Shellmound....
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 6:28am PDT
SF Cesar Chavez Day Parade and Festival 11 a.m. - Assemble for Parade
24th St. & Potrero...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 8:44am PDT
Leidesdorff Ranch vs. Goethe Park ~ World Heritage Tourism 2007 California State University, Sacramento removes name of Goethe. Sacramento City School District considers doing the same. Leidesdorff Adobe Ranch site could become a heritage tourist destination showcasing authentic California History....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 10:06pm PDT
The Queen's Celebration: Slavery Without Regrets Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Prime Minister Tony Blair, among a congregation of 2000 attending the memorial service at London's historic Westminster Abbey earlier this week to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, quickly glanced at their programmes....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 6:02pm PDT
Intertribal Friendship House saved by community support & action! (4/6) Oldest Urban Native American Community Center in the Nation Recently
Saved From Auction Block But Still Under Threat!
IFH will host a Community Feast & Celebration to Honor This Important
Victory & To Strengthen Our Communities From Widespread Predatory
Development that pushes People of Color and Oakland residents out!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 2:35pm PDT
The Racist War On Immigrants The war in America on Latino immigrants....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 1:37pm PDT
Setback for Indian caste quota plan The Indian supreme court has suspended a government plan to reserve more college places for lower castes, a move opposed by mainly upper-caste students and many academics....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 10:15am PDT
Prominent Latino Organizations Silent on Alberto Gonzales Alberto Gonzales is the first Latino Attorney General in U.S. history and was once endorsed by many pre-eminent Latino organizations. Those same organizations now remain silent on his recent troubles, reports NAM contributor Roberto Lovato....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 10:02am PDT
The Black Panthers advocated armed struggle. Emory Douglas' weapon of choice? The pen In January 1967, the organizers of San Francisco's first annual
Malcolm X Grassroots Memorial tapped Emory Douglas, a 22-year-old
graphic arts student, to create the poster and flyers for the
Hunter's Point event....
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 5:56pm PDT
Plastic Surgery As Racial Surgery Plastic surgery is on the rise in ethnic communities across the United States, and in 2005 Asian-Americans had 437,000 cosmetic surgeries, up 58 percent from 2004. NAM editor Andrew Lam, who contemplated getting double eyelid surgery, could have been part of that statistic. Lam is the author of “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 6:23am PDT
SF, April 14, "No More Pig Logic: Criminalization and Solidarity in Communities of Color" "No More Pig Logic: Criminalization and Solidarity in Communities of Color"
Saturday, April 14, 2-5pm, La Raza Centro Legal, 474 Valencia St. Suite
295 San Francisco
Join a participatory discussion on the opportunities and challenges in
building a multi-ethnic, multi-racial people-of-color movement in the
US where we learn from each others' histories of resistance to
capitalism, white supremacy and colonialism. This afternoon discussion
will break down criminalization and the ways ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 1:18am PDT
The wall that divides Hunters Point Constituents Mayor Gavin Newsom is about dividing people. Lennar BVHP LLC has been very busy dividing people by building walls. Walls are meant to keep people out. Folks that live in " gated communities" are mostly dubious in nature. Lennar has a track record of discrimination....
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 7:31am PDT
Upcoming Community Events March 27th- April 7th Iraq: 4 Years after "Freedom", Featuring Professor Ayad Alqazzaz
Date: April 9, 7:00 – 9:30 pm
Location: 10 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley
Join us for the first event of our new program, Arab American Legal Services. A night to memorialize 4 years of war on Iraq , featuring academics, students, and performance artists....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 5:37pm PDT
ISLAM-INFONET: CAIR Takes On Its Critics / CAIR-MI Strives to Bridge Cultures / CAIR-CA Ho * CAIR Takes On Its Critics (Chicago Tribune)
* CAIR-MI Strives to Bridge Cultures (Detroit Free Press)
- CAIR-MI: Islam Promotes Social Justice (Kalamazoo Gazette)
* CAIR-CT: School Project Promotes Tolerance (The Day)
- CAIR-CA Holds Citizenship Rights Forum (Sacramento Bee)
- CAIR-TX Joins Rally in Support of Immigrant Rights (DMN)
* Zbigniew Brzezinski: Terrorized by 'War on Terror' (Wash Post)
* NC: Vigil Held for Dr. Al-Arian (News & Observer)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 9:27am PDT
Support the Cucapah Struggle in Baja California In order to solve the historic problem of this continual violation of their fishing, land, cultural, economic, spiritual, and linguistic rights,...(1 minute video/commentary)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 7:27am PDT
Black Politicians Chicken Out on Reparations WASHINGTON -- When will black American voters figure out that they’ve been sold out by inept politicians?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 7:17am PDT
Bishops call for Blair slavery apology Expressing Britain's 'profound regret' is not enough, Archbishop of the West Indies says...
Posted: Sun, Mar 25, 2007 11:41am PDT
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