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textYour Comments Needed to Save Nine Mile Canyon! by Sacred Land Film Project
Sacred Land Defense Team Action Alert - Comments Needed by 11/29! Oil and Gas Drilling Threatens Native American Ancestral Sites and Petroglyphs in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah...
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 12:48am PST
textTennessee Muslims Denied Right to Construct Cemetery by IOL
TENNESSEE, United States, November 24 (IslamOnline.net) – The Muslim community in the southern US state of Tennessee has been denied the right to construct a cemetery over protests from local residents....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:16am PST
textNAACP Outraged By Move To Suppress The Poor Vote by Roll Back The Rents
In The News--The NAACP Is Outraged By Efforts To Suppress The Poor Vote, Plus Links To The Human Rights Report Which Details How Hundreds Of Thousands Of Poor People Are Deprived Of Housing For Petty Crimes Or For Only Being Arrested, But Not Convicted Of Anything!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 7:27pm PST
imageHow Can We Name the Darfur Crisis
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by Mahmood Mamdani
PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON DARFUR How can we name the Darfur crisis? The US Congress, and now Secretary of State Colin Powell, claim that genocide has occurred in Darfur. The European Union says it is not genocide. And so does the African Union....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 12:39pm PST
textRights group blasts 'racist' US media by ALJ
A rights group has blasted some US media organisations for allowing for 'racist and hate-filled speech' during its coverage of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's death. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said it was deeply concerned with "the alarming hostility expressed by media commentators towards the Palestinian people in the wake of the death of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat," according to a statement released this week....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 3:34pm PST
textBriefs, Not Bullets Target Native Peoples by Cassandra "Sandy" Frost
Wars for indigenous people's lands are no longer waged on the plains or with bullets. Now, the fights are waged with briefs filed in courthouses around the world....
Posted: Fri, Nov 5, 2004 10:36pm PST
textConcede Nothing To Bush: Black Consensus Remains Intact by The Black Commentator
The worst possible outcome of Tuesday’s election would have been that George Bush won with the help of a divided Black electorate. Instead, African Americans reaffirmed the vitality of the Black Political Consensus – our eyes firmly fixed on the prize: peace, jobs and justice. Despite faith-based blandishments to the sell-out branch of the Black clergy, massive deployment of the GOP’s gay wedge issue and, most hurtfully, the Kerry team’s initial determination to render African Americans invis...
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 3:30pm PST
textEugenicist Coburn becomes Oklahoma Senator by Guardian
Tom Coburn may now be one of the most conservative members of the senate. Coburn was criticized for sterilizing a young women against her will when she gave birth, making comments about black people having 'short lifespan' genes, and telling crazy stories about lesbianism being promoted in Oklahoma high schools....
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 7:00am PST
textNov 5-7 National Asian American Students Conference by NAASCon
Nov 5-7 National Asian American Students Conference (NAASCon) University of Southern California, Los Angeles!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 6:13pm PST
textDesperate Bush Seeks to Suppress Hispanic Turnout with Harsh Negative Attack on Choice by NARAL Pro-Choice America
Desperate to suppress turnout among minority voters, President Bush has recycled with a Spanish translation an attack ad rated as the worst of the campaign by a USA Today focus group, NARAL Pro-Choice America said today....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 12:27am PDT
textRacism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation by Racism Watch
2004 Racism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation and IRS Attack on NAACP Accuses John Ashcroft of Partisan Support of Intimidation Efforts Calls for Blacks to Rise Up, Challenge and Defeat It...
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 3:10pm PDT
textVoter Verifying Campaign Launched; Higher Minority Voter Turnout is Goal by NAACP
Voter verification is the thrust of a new nationwide voter education effort being launched by the non-partisan NAACP National Voter Fund (NVF), designed to generate the largest minority voter turnout in any presidential election....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:43am PDT
textNew Florida vote scandal feared by BBC (reposted)
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 3:38pm PDT
textHoward Zinn, NEW Voices of a People's History... by catB
ZNet interview...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 2:19am PDT
textLeonard Peltier for President by Paul Burton
Leonard Peltier is the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in California. This article gives an overview and update of his case and his campaign for a presidential pardon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:20am PDT
textPrince Sings Against Anti-Muslim Bigotry by IOL
WASHINGTON, October 16 (IslamOnline.net) - US rock star Prince released a new song portraying an Arab-American girl forced by the post-September11 harassment and racism to envisage blowing herself up in an airport, but changes her mind after spotting innocent playful children....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:40am PDT
text3 Strikes locks up Blacks at 13 times the rate of whites by Bay View Repost
Washington, D.C. - New data released Wednesday by the Justice Policy Institute revealed that California’s Three Strikes law disproportionately locks up African Americans and Latinos compared to whites. According to this first-of-its-kind analysis of the racial and ethnic makeup of Three Strikes defendants, African Americans are given life sentences under Three Strikes at nearly 13 times the rate of whites and the Latinos are incarcerated under Three Strikes a staggering 82 percent more than w...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 9:09pm PDT
image"Columbus Day... NOT!" - Xispas
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by Xispas
"Columbus Day... NOT!" - With this special issue, Xispas, the online journal of Chicano culture, art, and politics... looks at the meaning and role of Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 6:26pm PDT
textFrom Columbus Day to Indian Resistance Day by raceandhistory.com
The oligarchic "opposition" and its national mass media have no respect for anything: currently, Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) is preparing commercials for its mind-controlled adherents to celebrate "Día de la Raza" (Colombus Day) next Tuesday -- October 12, 2004....
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 12:14pm PDT
audioThe Bush Administration's Healthy Marriage Iniative (audio/mpeg 16.8MB) by Sarah Olson
The Bush Administration's Healthy Marriage Initiative: a solution to poverty or a paternalistic policy aimed at regulating the sexual and reproductive lives of low income women, especailly women of color?? 29:20...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 8:46pm PDT
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