Newsitem List
All 2009 releases featuring Anti-Flag advance also Radio Moscow, Steve Earl, Sugar Knives, Nico Vega, Les Claypool and The Veils....
Posted: Tue, May 12, 2009 7:21pm PDT
Middle East scholar Dr. Stephen Zunes talks about how U.S. imperial hubris helped create, and continues to deepen and intensify the deadly chaos in Afghanistan....
Posted: Sun, May 10, 2009 3:05pm PDT
After five months in the Army, Dustin Che Stevens was told to go home and wait for his discharge. Seven years later, he was arrested for desertion. 20:12...
Posted: Sun, May 10, 2009 2:29pm PDT
KPFA Women's Magazine's Eryn Matthewson hosts Sadiyah Seraaj and Jenna Burton, cofounders of the health and environmental movement Red, Bike and Green, as they discuss Dr. King and Malcolm X, the role of women in contemporary civil rights and environmental struggles, and the Obamas' relationship dynamics....
Posted: Mon, May 4, 2009 11:44pm PDT
Julietta Kusnir and Lisa Dettmer speak with scholar and activist Barbara Ramsby about the legacy of Ella Baker, gender and the civil rights movement. Audio clip: 20 minutes....
Posted: Mon, May 4, 2009 11:25pm PDT
Rivian Berlin speaks with Roxanne McKinnon of City Life/Vida Urbana, which is organizing women to resist foreclosures with creative nonviolence....
Posted: Mon, May 4, 2009 11:10pm PDT
Interview with Rabblerouser of Anarchy Now! Radio about recent news of Swine Flu and how the government and corporates that be are using it to control the masses and testing out their toys....
Posted: Tue, Apr 28, 2009 3:30pm PDT
The truth is, none of the 20 leaders gathered in London has the slightest idea how to 'solve' the economic problems facing the globe....this is a crisis endemic to capitalism, where markets swallow markets and wealth is made by con games that would make the Mafia blush, by the biggest banks on earth. The latest economic summit was PR, amidst the flames of chaos....
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2009 3:35am PDT
radio zapatista analyzes the u.s. media's coverage of the drug war in mexico....
Posted: Sun, Apr 12, 2009 8:39pm PDT
Listen to the April 9, 2009 WBAI Radio show "Where We Live" focusing on the case of death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the April 4 US Supreme Court ruling which rejected Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new guilt phase trial....
Posted: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 1:06am PDT
Listen to the April 6 Prison Pipeline show, focusing on the US Supreme Court's rejection of a new guilt phase trial for death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 11:20pm PDT
Franklin was born amidst the flames and terrors of the infamous race riots that consumed Tulsa, Oklahoma, once the center of Black wealth and business success. The papers and even books called it a race riot, but it was actually an anti-Black pogrom by state and private racists in envy of Black Tulsa's achievements....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 10:41pm PDT
Today, the US Supreme Court rejected Mumia Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new guilt-phase trial. The Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to consider the Philadelphia DA's separate appeal, which is attempting to execute Abu-Jamal WITHOUT a new sentencing hearing.
In response to today's rejection, Abu-Jamal's lead attorney Robert R. Bryan will be filing a "petition for re-hearing" at the US Supreme Court.
Listen to Abu-Jamal's own response recorded this morning, interviewed by Noelle Hanrahan...
Posted: Mon, Apr 6, 2009 2:57pm PDT
Wilbert 'Bill' Tatum was a Black journalist, first, last and always -- as writer, columnist, editor and publisher of the New York Amsterdam News. Tatum, who recently died at 76 while vacationing with his wife, Susan, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, was no longer the paper's publisher, but he was always a presence there....
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 12:03pm PDT
MOVE supporter, I. Abdul Jon used to say, 'You only need to talk and write about freedom of speech, and freedom of religion and all other kinds of freedom if you ain't got it; 'cause if you got it, and ain't got no problem with nobody else havin' it -- and it's real, you ain't gotta write about, and talk about protectin' it, and whatnot....'...
Posted: Sun, Mar 29, 2009 8:59pm PDT
This is a new series of radio-essays by death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2009 8:40pm PDT
The US Navy’s is facing criticism for its training operations in the Pacific West Coast. Trainings include the use of sonar, aircraft and missles and underwater bomb detonations. Environmental groups says some areas should be off limits to weapons testing, and some criticize the militarization of the sea....
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 6:19pm PDT
Much of the current economic crisis is the direct result of the economic theory of deregulation, made, not under George Bush alone, but in the waning days of the Clinton administration. For it was in 1999 that Clinton's treasury secretaries, first Robert Rubin, and later Larry Summers, advocated the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a 1933 law which prohibited commercial banks and investment banks from functioning in the same house....
Posted: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 2:03am PDT
Most who voted for Obama certainly didn't vote for the Iraq War, one of the most overt imperial projects in modern U.S. history. They supported a quick and decisive end of the war - not its continuation nor its expansion....
Posted: Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:22pm PDT
In a time of war, when readers needed their services most, many papers simply took a dive, and served the interests of power, rather than the needs of the people. Most papers sold the president's line because they feared that they would be seen as disloyal in wartime, and lose subscribers....
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 5:48pm PDT