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Australia: Police officer faces charges for killing Aboriginal prisoner The Labor government in the Australian state of Queensland was forced last Friday to announce it would prepare charges against a senior police officer for killing an Aboriginal prisoner in November 2004. A week later, charges have still to be laid. If the case proceeds, it will be the first time that a police or prison officer has faced trial for any of the more than 250 indigenous deaths in custody across Australia since 1980....
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 7:29am PST
Los Angeles - How you can support the Black Panther 8 The national website for up-to-the-minute information and to sign up for
the supporters' list serve is www.cdhrsupport.org. Donations should be made
out to CDHR/AGAPE and sent to the Committee for the Defense of Human
Rights, P.O. Box 90221, Pasadena, CA 91109....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 10:07am PST
Victory for LA Eight: Judge Throws Out Charges in 20 Year Old Palestinian Deportation Case 
LOS ANGELES - In a decision received today, Los Angeles Immigration Judge Bruce J. Einhorn ordered an end to deportation proceedings against Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, members of the "Los Angeles Eight" (LA8). The two have faced deportation for their alleged political associations with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization for more than twenty years....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 8:51am PST
“Australian values” attack on rock concert organisers Each year in the last week of January, as Australia’s summer holiday season draws to a close, tens of thousands of young people attend Big Day Out (BDO) rock festivals in capital cities across the continent. The popular outdoor event, which is one of the country’s longest-running and most successful rock events, featuring local and international bands, is generally ignored by politicians....
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:30am PST
Senator Prejudice: The Day Joe Biden Threatened to Kick My Ass It was nearly two decades ago, yet the memory of a campus speech delivered by Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware remains especially vivid (and even more so after hearing his latest gaffe to Senator Barack Obama). The topic was predictably foreign policy, on which he is allegedly an expert, but reason for attending was not to hear the verbose senator sanctimoniously expound on international relations. Rather, it was in anticipation of the question and answer session to follow. At the time, Israe...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:15am PST
Sorting Out the Legacy of Farrakhan After months of battling a painful recurrence of problems related to prostate cancer, Louis Farrakhan’s days as the titular and very controversial leader of the Nation of Islam are over. But he has created a legend that will last long after him. New America Media Associate Editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of “The Emerging Black GOP Majority” (Middle Passage Press, September 2006)...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:12am PST
Sac band:The Jazz Generation performs @ 2007 Community Women of Color Day/Diversity Event the Ben Ali Shrine (Shriners), 3262 Marysville Blvd, in the Del Paso section of Sacramento...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 4:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 8:24pm PST
Sac band:The Jazz Generation performs @ 2007 Community Women of Color Day/Diversity Event The public is invited to the March 4, 2007, 4 to 8 pm Commemoration the 21st annual International Women of Color Day—a celebration which has encouraged local communities to recognize outstanding local women of color and men, women and organizations of any group which is engaged in efforts promoting diversity and cross-cultural collaboration....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 8:17pm PST
On Fox News Sunday, NPR's Juan Williams claimed Obama's Muslim father "presents a problem" On the January 21 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, National Public Radio senior correspondent and Fox News contributor Juan Williams noted that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "comes from a father who was a Muslim" and added that "given that we're at war with Muslim extremists, that presents a problem."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 6:21pm PST
Oakland: Anti-Racist Author Tim Wise First Congregational Church of Oakland
2501 Harrison Street
Oakland, CA 94612...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 7:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 6:03pm PST
UK Muslims Decry Damaging Raids BIRMINGHAM — Fearing a backlash, many British Muslims have warned that massive anti-terror police raids would tarnish the image of the minority and fuel anti-Muslim sentiments....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 9:03am PST
Defining a New Strategy to Combat HIV/AIDS in Minority Communities 
AIDS activists gather for town hall discussion on HIV testing, prevention and care strategies...
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 4:28pm PST
The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X New College of California, North Bay Campus, 99 Sixth Street, Santa Rosa CA 95407...
Event Date: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 4:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 8:18am PST
U.S. Partygoers Love Fantasy Arabs U.S. Partygoers Love Fantasy Arabs...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 8:50pm PST
Native Americans and Environmentalists Resist Energy Development on Sacred Land (audio/mpeg 1.8MB) Native American rights activists and environmentalists gathered at Calpine headquarters in San Jose today to dissuade the energy company from its decades long plan to develop a power plant on a sacred area near mount Shasta. Calpine operates over 90 geothermal, renewable power plants in the U.S. with nearly 30 in California. Tribes are concerned the power plants would pollute local indigenous communites and the sacred area called Medicine Lake in Northern California....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 11:36am PST
7 Year Anniversary of the Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc's Existence, an organizing center Celebrating 7 years of the the existence of a community grass-roots independent organizing center in San Jose, CalifAztlan...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 10:38am PST
More Than an Act of Vandalism There’s no doubt that for anyone who walks down Noe Street from Duboce Park towards Market, Guy Clark’s rows of fresh flowers are a welcomed sight. It’s certainly a familiar one. Clark has operated his small flower business from the garage at that location for about 25 years....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 8:05am PST
Black History Month Film: Huey P. Newton from Jail Uhuru Solidarity Center, 1601 2nd Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 12:11am PST
Raging Grannies Against Environmental Racism: Save Medicine Lake! 
Raging Grannies got the call from Morning Star and Dixie B and headed out to Calpine Headquarters at Noon for Rally to Protect Sacred Space. There we met many friends, old and new....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 9:49pm PST
UK Must See Muslims As Citizens: Study CAIRO — The British government's policy to engage Muslims is counterproductive, alienates the minority and makes the situation even worse by treating the entire Muslim population as a monolith with special needs that are different to the rest of the population,a study by a British think-tank showed on Monday, January 29....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 8:24pm PST
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