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Lifetime liberationist, and later scholar Muhammad Ahmad ( f/k/a Max Stanford, Jr.) has given us all a unique and revealing look at this movement, often told from the inside. In his new book, We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations - 1960 1975, (Chi., IL: Kerr Publ., 2007) Ahmad tells us of the formative years, apex of development, and the fall of several radical and revolutionary groups: the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Revolutionary Action Movem...

Hundreds of students crowded into the College Nine-Ten Multipurpose Room on October 27th for the 5th annual Practical Activism Conference at UC Santa Cruz. The room's capacity was maxed out when Angela Davis spoke and approximately 175 students heard the speech through speakers setup outside the Multipurpose Room. Activist organizations based on campus and in the community were tabling, food was provided and the workshops were very well attended....

Radio Zapatista interviewed Morning Star, from the Intertribal Friendship House, and Cesar, an indigenous movement supporter, about the protests at UC Berkeley, where 13,000 indigenous ancestor bodies are being held, without consultation with indigenous peoples, at the Hearst Museum....

After the ravages of Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and its surrounding areas, hundreds of imprisoned people were transported to the Jena Juvenile Justice Center, in Jena, Louisiana, a place that became their nightmare. The place was so medieval and tortuous in its treatment of young people, that it was severely criticized by a federal judge as a place where people were "treated as if they walked on all fours," before it was closed....

According to some researchers and reporters, Blackwater was getting down similarly -- in the U.S.! Think back to 2005, when the winds, rains, and gushing waters from Lake Pontchartrain swept through New Orleans, another force beset the already besieged town....

8/26/2007 (Ruins of Empire) Segment called 'The Barry 'Bonding' of Black Athletes: Michael Vic, Barry Bonds and the Politics of Negotiated Outrage in America...

In a follow-up to our story in May about the case of Mumia Abu Jamal being heard by the 3rd Circuit US Court of Appeals, we present an interview with the man himself....

The following radio segment was aired on student-run radio station KZSC on May 24. It has audio from the Defend Alette rally, with clips from Angela Davis, Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal and more....

Following Thursday's oral arguments I interviewed the following observers who were present in the courtroom, about their reflections on the procedure: Ward Churchill, Volker Ratzmann (From The German Parliament), Ramona Africa, and Mark Taylor (Educators for Mumia) Abu-Jamal-News.com...

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