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Australian Prime Minister apologises to "stolen generation": rhetoric versus reality Tuesday, February 12, 2008 :If flowery phrases, pious sentiments and references to the terrible crimes and injustices committed against them were sufficient, then Aboriginal people in Australia could look forward to a bright future. But the reality is that the “Sorry Resolution” presented to the Australian parliament today, apologising for the forced removal over decades of Aboriginal children from their parents, along with the speech delivered by Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, will do noth...
Posted: Wed, Feb 13, 2008 7:46am PST
Australian federal parliament's "sorry" resolution: the real agenda Tuesday, February 12, 2008 :Millions of ordinary Australians will undoubtedly welcome the federal parliament’s formal apology to the Aboriginal “stolen generation” on Wednesday as a necessary step towards acknowledging the genocidal crimes inflicted upon Australia’s indigenous population over the past two centuries....
Posted: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 7:27am PST
Brave New World (audio/mpeg 1.7MB) For several years in the '80's and '90's, stories raced through communities of people being seduced, drugged, and when they awakened, to their horror, an internal organ, like a kidney, had been removed....
Recently, it has been reported that there is a brisk and bustling business in a country touted as 'the world's largest democracy', where the illicit sale of kidneys has become a kind of cottage industry!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 11, 2008 9:40am PST
Barack Obama - White Power in Black Face! "He hasn't said the word black out of his mouth, not even to talk about the color of his suit or his shoes! He cannot address the suffering of African people."...
Posted: Sun, Feb 10, 2008 1:50pm PST
Radio Free Utah: IN PRISON MY WHOLE LIFE's William Francome and Marc Evans 
The new British documentary about death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal just premiered at The Sundance Film Festival. Listen to this radio show, and also check out the articles at The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, and My Space. There are new trailers (1, 2, 3 4), and a previous interview with Francome....
Posted: Sat, Feb 9, 2008 9:05pm PST
IRSN: San Francisco St. Patrick's Day Anti-Imperialist Contingent After having boycotted the San Francisco St. Patrick's Day parade last year, to
protest the parade organizers having dedicated the parade in 2007 to the troops of
the US military, the International Republican Socialist Network's comrades in the
San Francisco Bay Area will again be participating in the parade this year and are
inviting other activists to join the IRSN's Anti-Imperialist Contingent....
Posted: Thu, Feb 7, 2008 4:34pm PST
Cynthia McKinney Supports The Reconstruction Movement in New Orleans 
Green Party presidential contender and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has never shied away from standing in solidarity with the people of New Orleans while other politicians come and go only to get their photos taken. In this reposted e-mail she voices her support for the people to determine their own future free of corporate designs on New Orleans. Activists in New Orleans are forming a Reconstruction Movement and Party on their own. Questions abound: Can the Green Party stand with ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 7, 2008 2:00pm PST
Farmers charge judicial corruption and collusion—seek Congressional hearings 
Farm rights activist seeks congressional hearing on possible judicial corruption in federal judiciary...
Posted: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 1:32pm PST
anarchist people of color conference 2008 discussion list serve brand new apoc conference discussion list serve 2008 apoc-conference-subscribe@yahoogroups.com...
Posted: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 12:33pm PST
Activists Demand Canadian and British Government and Religious Leaders Reveal Fate of 50K+ Activists continue serving demand letters on Canadian and international religious authorities concerning the fate of more than 50,000 missing Indian Residential school students....
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 11:52am PST
The Latino Voting Paradox Originally From New America Media
Monday, February 4, 2008 : A Hillary Clinton nomination might win the popular vote, but a Barack Obama nomination would secure the Electoral College, writes the commentator. That’s because, while Clinton is popular with more Latinos, Obama is popular with the “right” Latinos: those who live in swing states....
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 7:30am PST
Urgent Campaign: Save Sulukule. Sign Now! The campaign to save Sulukule achieves its first important results...
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 1:57am PST
Super Tuesday Raises Questions for Democrats Originally From New America Media
Sunday, February 3, 2008 : Super Tuesday will answer some key questions for Democrats, but will raise many more. Do Americans really want the change that they say they want? Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His forthcoming book is “The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House” (Middle Passage Press, February 2008)....
Posted: Sun, Feb 3, 2008 9:36pm PST
Sri Lankan independence: 60 years of communalism, social decay and war Sunday, February 3, 2008 :February 4, 2008 marks 60 years since Sri Lanka’s formal independence from Britain. The very character of today’s official celebrations—a military parade under conditions of a security lockdown in Colombo and a civil war raging in the north—is testimony to the complete political bankruptcy of the Sri Lankan ruling elites....
Posted: Sun, Feb 3, 2008 9:32pm PST
The Radical Alternative (audio/mpeg 2.1MB) I speak, of course, of Cynthia McKinney, the bold, outspoken former congresswoman from Georgia, who spoke out against the Iraq War when it wasn't popular.
She is running on the Green Party, according to published reports, but the media has virtually ignored this fact....
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 9:29am PST
With a "Brutha" Like This (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) Whenever I've heard the phrase 'first Black president' with regards to former U.S. President William J. Clinton, it's always disturbed me....
This sense of nonchalance seems to suggest that being 'black' is synonymous with dillydallying with women (not one's wife), or playing a musical instrument that has been closely identified with Black music (jazz)....
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2008 8:31am PST
Urgent Petition: Save Sulukule! 
Urgent campaign to save Sulukule (Turkey) and protect the oldest Rrom community in the world....
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2008 7:33am PST
BlackCommentator.com: Ward Connerly's Super Tuesday for Segregation 
Ward Connerly, that high profile opponent for affirmative action and Black water carrier for the new Jim Crow, has returned. He wants to eliminate affirmative action everywhere, and make a buck at the same time. And with the help of corporate philanthropy and hate groups, he wants to take us back to the future we know too well....
Posted: Thu, Jan 31, 2008 10:50am PST
Caltrans Says NOT to hate If anyone wants a copy of this email including headers, send me a request using a REAL email return address and I will forward it to you....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 12:09pm PST
The Black Holocaust- a Day of Remembrance We must start by understanding that the Black Holocaust is the greatest tragedy that has occurred in all the history of mankind; this is significant and where we must begin. We can now end our oppression; we must establish a universal basic income, we must guarantee a universal health care system, we must guarantee affordable housing for everyone and we must protect the rights of working class people, and today more than 99.9 % of all Blacks are in the working class....
Posted: Wed, Jan 30, 2008 10:10am PST
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