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Vick’s Sentence Shows America's Racist Ways Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 : Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback Michael Vick was sentenced to two years in prison for running a dogfighting ring out of his home and some dog-lovers are up in arms over – what they say – is not enough time. But New America Media commentator Charles Jones says that the reaction of some Americans to the Vick case gives away their contradictory views regarding black men....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2007 8:59am PST
SF Gang Injunction Hearing "This is the Wrong Way to Address Violence!" 
Supervisor Daly hosted a hearing on the contriversial SF Gang Injunctions Yesterday. Community members criticized the proposal as racist & ineffective, and called on the City to put an Injunction on Poverty! An Injunction on Gentrification! And Injunction on the Criminalization of our Youth! And to address the root causes of violence not the symptoms!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 10:09pm PST
Morality of Memory: 2007 Farm Bill Senate Debate 
2007 Farm Bill, And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so....
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2007 12:04pm PST
The Obama Factor: Can a 'Brotha' Win? (audio/mpeg 2.0MB) The question really gets to the central Black concern - does he 'get' it? Does he know what our lives really are? It is an historical oddity that he emerges as a quite serious presidential candidate in the same year, the same election, as the well known wife of a former president, Sen. Hillary Rodham-Clinton (D. -N. Y.), is widely regarded not merely as the front runner, but as the heir apparent of the seat vacated by her husband, Bill, some 7 years ago....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 7:25pm PST
Gang Injunction in SF - no exit policy, no sound factors - gentrification, depopulation The Gang Injunction hearing held - December 10, 2007- in San Francisco and called by Supervisor Chris Daly in Room 263 at City Hall in San Francisco - exposed the City Attorney and Mayor Gavin Newsom - to a City "thug" policy with poor thinking and pointing to gentrification - galore. Further de-population, discrimination, and a multitude of adverse impacts - imposed on poor folks and mostly of color. Rich neighborhoods have no gang injunctions and Mayor Gavin Newsom has NO intention of takin...
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 7:07pm PST
US "Abysmal" Discrimination Record COLUMBIA — The United States has an "abysmal" record of racial discrimination with minorities, including Muslims, unfairly treated in a range of areas, a coalition of 250 civic groups concluded in a report on Monday, December 10....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 8:58am PST
Rape case ruling shocks Australia Monday, December 10, 2007 : A decision not to jail nine men who admitted raping a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl is widely criticised in Australia....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 8:50am PST
UPDATE: NBC Breaks Media Blackout of Mumia Photos; Smerconish and Faulkner outraged 
According to a new Counterpunch article by Linn Washington Jr, Today Show guests Michael Smerconish and Maureen Faulkner (authors of "Murdered By Mumia"), were reportedly outraged by the show, which entailed several challenging questions from co-host Matt Lauer.
Also, please contact The Today Show (today@msnbc.com) to thank them for their fair and balanced report....
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 2:06am PST
Fotos of the solidarity demonstration for Mumia abu Jamal in Berne, Switzerland Here you find fotos and a little text about the demonstration for Mumia abu Jamal in Bern, Switzerland from the 8. of december
http://ch.indymedia.org/de/2007/12/55327.shtml
Brick by Brick, Wall by Wall we gonna free Mumia abu Jamal!...
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 1:06pm PST
First People of the Bay Area - the Ohlone - 18 treaties signed - never ratified by U.S. 18 treaties signed by the United States Government - were never ratified and thousands of the First People - treated worse then third class citizens of California and this Nation. The Ohlone lived in the Bay Area for thousands of years - more then 10,000 years. Then, came the strangers and stole the land. All over San Francisco and all over the Bay Area - exists, the Sacred Burial Mounds - known as Shellmounds. Again and again these Shellmounds have been desecrated by the Strangers - disrespe...
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 8:28am PST
Sikh Massacre 'Missing' Witness Surfaces in Bay Area Originally From New America Media
Sunday, December 9, 2007 : After Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in 1984 violent anti-Sikh riots resulted in the killings of thousands of Sikhs, many of them in the nation's capital. Voting lists were allegedly used to identify Sikh families and the Congress government was accused by many human rights group of at best doing nothing, and at worst, abetting and even orchestrating the killings....
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2007 8:07am PST
Revitalization March and Rally: Davis, Californai -to- DQ university California's only American Indian controlled college is floundering. DQ University rose in the 1970's -only to fall in 2005. Now, students and community activists throughout California are mobilizing to get the school back on its feet again....
Posted: Sat, Dec 8, 2007 1:18pm PST
Religions in conflict: India's state of war Thursday, December 6, 2007 : It is called the Bombay Hotel but there is no service to speak of....
Posted: Sat, Dec 8, 2007 9:00am PST
Lennar Corporation's ploy to consolidate equity raise hard cash will fail because of trust Lennar Corporation - has been selling many of its land holdings - borrowing money - forty cents on a dollar - and making a last ditch effort from drowning in a cesspool of its own making. Lennar Corporation has forgotten - that, it did many innocent people wrong - and its most egregious project that adversely impacted thousands was Parcel A on Hunter Point Naval Shipyard - a Superfund Site. Also, a site where Depleted Uranium was first tested - not to mention many Atomic experiments. Radiated...
Posted: Sat, Dec 8, 2007 8:58am PST
John Graham pleads not guilty, family shocked by swift extradition 
His court hearing took less than 15 minutes. A prosecutor told a magistrate judge that Graham is a flight risk and needs to be detained. Graham was sent to the Pennington County Jail....
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 7:05pm PST
Racial profiling at Yale protested Workers at Yale are still waiting for an apology, five weeks after an African American library worker was the victim of racial profiling by a supervisor. On Oct. 23, Bernard Rogers, who has 26 years’ seniority, went outside the Social Science Library where he works to get a $20 loan repaid from his friend and loan him his car....
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 8:06am PST
Romney: Some Beliefs are More Equal than Others From a Friday, December 7, 2007 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 8:04am PST
Muslims Slam Merkel's Mosque Remark BERLIN — German Muslims have hit out at Chancellor Angela Merkel for suggesting that mosque minarets should not be higher than church steeples, saying her provocative remarks were politically motivated....
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 7:58am PST
UK Muslims Criminalized for "Thoughts" CAIRO — The umbrella representation body of British Muslims is complaining that some Muslims are being criminalized under the draconian anti-terror measures in Britain for "silly thoughts."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 7:57am PST
Nobel winners: "drop charges against San Francisco 8" SAN FRANCISCO — A statement issued last week by Nobel Peace Prize laureates including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has galvanized attention on a long-simmering case involving eight former Black Panther Party members charged with the 1971 murder of a San Francisco police sergeant. The men and their supporters contend the evidence cited against them was obtained under torture....
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2007 7:55am PST
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