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Nazi fuckbags holding hate-fest somewhere in Nor Cal
William Pierce, the (thankfully now deceased) racist fuck who founded the neo-Nazi "National Alliance", was born on Sept. 11th (hmm, creepy...) So to "celebrate" his followers are having some kind of white-supremacist music festival (they're calling it "Folk the System") from Sept. 11-12 this year, somewhere here in Northern California......
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 12:39am PDT
India bans movie for telling truth about Gujarat genocide
Award-winning documentary Final Solution, which looks at religious rioting between Hindus and Muslims, has been banned in India.
The film follows 2002 clashes in the western state of Gujarat, which left more than 1,000 people dead.
A censor board said the documentary was "highly provocative and may trigger off unrest and communal violence"....
Posted: Fri, Aug 6, 2004 7:11pm PDT
NAACP backs Mumia: Case Strong, Movement a Mess
The NAACP, after years of ducking taking a public stand on the case of Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, voted on an "emergency resolution" near the end of its annual convention in Philadelphia Thursday to call for a new trial for the black journalist/activist, and to urge local NAACP chapters to work toward that goal....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 10:24am PDT
Donna Warren Letter to Black Caucus on Nader
In 2000, Congressman Julian Dixon sold me out like a $2 dollar whore when, as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, he announced the CIA was not complicit in the destruction of the inner cities by crack cocaine. I'm tired of being sold out like a $2 dollar whore by Black people living the good life as my representative in our nation's capitol....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 4:37pm PDT
Rangel Arrested In Sudan Genocide Protest
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel
Washington, DC...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:19am PDT
French Police Arrest Woman For Hoax Anti-Semitic Attack
Pascal Boniface, the director of the French Institute for International and Strategic Studies, said the extensive coverage the hoax had received in French media demonstrated a double-standard approach in dealing with racist attacks in the European country.
"At a time when anti-Semitism crimes soar, we also find another kind of racism targeting the younger generations of immigrants, which is poorly covered by media," Boniface told IslamOnline.net.
"More and more, French ci...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:53am PDT
CLAREMONT Professor says police framed her
CLAREMONT, Calif. - A former Claremont McKenna College psychology professor accused of vandalizing her own car and falsely reporting it as a hate crime said police officers falsified their reports to help prosecutors win a conviction against her....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 5:00pm PDT
Letter to the CBC - Nader asks for apology for "obscene racist epithet" made at meeting
Nader: "Can you imagine if the Abolitionist Party was told not to run against the pro-slavery Whigs and Democratic Parties in the 1840s!"...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 4:32pm PDT
DAFUR: the open sore of a continent
Another human tragedy is playing out in western Sudan. It is the tragedy of Dafur. The conflict in the Sudan has been described as genocide. But we shall return to this. However, let me point out that what we see in Dafur is another example of how Africans are made victims of an expansionist, and brutal external marauders who have historically taken advantage of the inherent pacifism, and some might even say indolence, of the Negroid people....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:40pm PDT
The Case of Sami al-Arian
We take a look at the case of Palestinian Professor Sami al-Arian, who has been imprisoned for over a year and is awaiting trial on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder. We speak with his attorney Linda Moreno....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:53am PDT
Felon Disenfranchisement: Purging the Minority Vote
As the 2004 election nears, we take a look at how former felons - many of them African American Democrats - were wrongly included on a Florida state list of voters to be purged. We speak with an attorney with the ACLU who threatened to sue the state, a Florida elections supervisor who has publicly refused to purge voters based on the potential felons list and the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging felon disenfranchisement statutes in New York State....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:52am PDT
Scholars attacked for comparing Zionism to Nazism
"... [Prof.] Armitage also reportedly accused the benignly named American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC, Israel’s official but unregistered lobby) of funding opponents of the lobby’s critics, adding, “and believe me, they have money to spare...He also accused AIPAC of “buying our elections, which pisses me off … Israel has a hammerlock on America...."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 2:24pm PDT
Fourth of July Speech by Fredrick Douglass
What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 3:14pm PDT
Anti-Islam hatred reaches new heights in US
The recent beheading of two Americans have added fuel to the angry backlash against Arab-Americans and Muslims that began after the 2001 terrorist attacks....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 6:13pm PDT
76-mile desert walk protests border rules
Over 200 people protested U.S. immigration policies at the Tucson Sector Headquarters of the Border Patrol on June 6 at the end of the 76-mile Migrant Trail Walk.
According to Kat Rodríguez, coordinating organizer for the Derechos Humanos Coalition, 26 activists walked the whole length of the march, which started at the U.S.-Mexico border on May 31. Another seven walked part of the length through the Sonoran Desert, where a few hundred people perish each year trying to enter the United St...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:56am PDT
Reagan and Race: "He Maintained A System Of Rich And Poor, A System Of Black And White"
We take a look at Reagan's policies on race and civil rights with the Rev. Graylan Hagler, discussing the former president's assault on affirmative actions and social welfare programs and the rise of the crack epidemic in African American communities....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:48am PDT
80 year anniversary of American Indian citizenship act
American Indians were given U.S. citizenship on 80 years ago, 5 years after women were given the right to vote....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 2:31pm PDT
Motion to enforce filed in Peltier's lawsuit against editor Paul DeMain
In a lawsuit filed over one year ago, a motion to enforce a settlement agreement was filed today with the Eighth U.S. District Court of Claims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, between Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier and Paul DeMain, editor of News From Indian Country....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 8:02pm PDT
Gloria Anzaldua's Obituary
it is with great sorrow y dolor en el corazon que hoy les doy la mala
noticia de la muerte de gloria anzaldua. todavia no se saben todos los
detalles de su muerte, pero por favor, si saben algo, please pass along
the
information...
ahorita no tengo las palabras que surgen dentro de mi... all i can say
for
now is that my heart goes out to the family and all those who know and
can
understand the detrimental magnitude of loosing one of the most
admirable,
inspiring, and ove...
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 4:56pm PDT
Stan Goff: Another Open Letter to the US Troops in Iraq
Special thanks to the folks at Z magazine and Counterpunch.org....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:47am PDT