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NY: Muslim Guard at Jail Claims Post-9/11 Abuse NY: MUSLIM GUARD AT BROOKLYN JAIL CLAIMS POST-SEPTEMBER 11 ABUSE...
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 6:43am PDT
Anti-Islam campaign in France: the background to the Redeker affair A political campaign to whip up anti-Islamic sentiments in France has found a new highpoint in the fierce debate surrounding an article written by philosophy teacher Robert Redeker....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 9:38pm PDT
French National Assembly makes denial of the Armenian genocide a punishable offence The decision by the French National Assembly to make denial of the genocide of Armenians in 1915 a punishable offence is a reactionary provocation....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 9:36pm PDT
UK's Labour Party accused of aiding extremists by its focus on Muslim issues Ministers were accused of playing into the hands of the far right and of Islamic extremists as a Labour backlash grew against the Government's continuing focus on Muslim issues....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 8:08am PDT
Young Blacks Are The Most Politically Engaged Says Study Think America's youth are nothing more than a bunch of lazy and ungrateful text-messaging, mall-dwelling, iPod-blasting brats?
A recent survey released last week from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement says to think again, especially when it comes to America's Black youth....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:32am PDT
Confronting Turkey's Armenian Genocide This has been a bad week for Holocaust deniers. I'm talking about those who wilfully lie about the 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Turks. On Thursday, France's lower house of parliament approved a Bill making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered genocide. And, within an hour, Turkey's most celebrated writer, Orhan Pamuk--only recently cleared by a Turkish court for insulting "Turkishness" (sic) by telling a Swiss newspaper that nobody in Turkey dared ment...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:26am PDT
Racism and Cheap Thrills at the University of Texas Law School When one of the first-year University of Texas law students who participated in a "ghetto fabulous" party posted pictures on the web, we saw the ugly face of white privilege and the racism in which it is rooted. But the depth of the problem of white supremacy at the university -- and in mainstream institutions more generally -- is also evident in the polite way in which the university administration chastised the students....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:25am PDT
21st California Indian Conference 21st California Indian Conference...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 10:20am PDT
UK Universities Urged to Spy on Muslims CAIRO — A document by the British Education Ministry will ask lecturers and university staff across Britain to spy on Muslim students on suspicious involvement in "extremist" activities, the Guardian reported on Monday, October16 ....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 7:52am PDT
Black Panther 40th Anniversary: Group Photo at the Alameda County Court House, 10/15/06 
Black Panther 40th Anniversary Reunion in Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 1:46pm PDT
73 shot and kiled in San Francisco and Mayor Gavin Newsom is still just talking the talk! In San Francisco youth especially young Black men are targeted by certain Law Enforcement working closely with Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ)
Hundreds of names are now on a list called the Urban Terrorists List and many innocent men and others are put on notice. This new ploy linking security with the Homeland Security has created a host of problems - the youth are confused and now feel they are second class citizens. More, any excuse can be used to roun...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 5:22pm PDT
Britain’s liberal media lines up behind government’s anti-Muslim offensive The political provocation mounted against Muslims by former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has found its most vociferous backing from the nominally liberal Guardian and Observer newspapers....
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:50am PDT
How Military Recruiters Pitch to Latinos In a 1958 CIA information report on revolutionary activities in Cuba, the agent in charge wrote "Che [Guevara] is fairly intellectual for a Latin." A racist assertion such as this was not uncommon in government documents. Throughout the Cold War, official bureaucratic language and content continued to be influenced by long-standing"scientific" theories about national character and racial psychology....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 5:16pm PDT
What Happens When Blacks Suppress White Votes? The Justice Dept. lawsuit accusing blacks of suppressing white votes in Mississippi, however sound, serves to distract from continuing voter discrimination against blacks nationwide. New America Media Associate Editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of "The Emerging Black GOP Majority (Middle Passage Press, September 2006)....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 5:15pm PDT
“Catch a Fire”: New Film Depicts Life of South African Freedom Fighter Patrick Chamusso Academy award-winning actor Tim Robbins joins us to talk about his new film, “Catch a Fire.” The movie tells the story of black South African freedom-fighter - Patrick Chamusso. The film depicts life under apartheid rule – a regime where torture and indefinite detention were commonplace for most of the population and the label terrorist was applied to those seeking to end apartheid and bring democracy to the country. We’re also joined by the film’s producer, Robyn Slovo, the the daughter of a...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:07am PDT
An Interview With South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu On His 75th Birthday On the day of announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, we play an interview with another Nobel Peace Prize winner -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Earlier this week he turned 75 years old....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:06am PDT
California State Fair reflects a continual decline since the exclusion of our Black Rodeo 
2006 California State Fair and Exposition may benchmark a changed paradigm for Black Farmers and Agriculturalists participation showcasing "California Grown" food, fiber and fuel to the world. Our Nations Community Food Systems cannot tolorate unchallenged continual systemic institutional racism that negates meaningful Black participation....
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 3:11pm PDT
SF: Enough is Enough! March+Rally for Demand Self-Determination for our Communitie MASS MARCH and DEMONSTRATION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16TH
front steps of CITY HALL
11AM-4PM...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 2:09pm PDT
Oakland: What We Want, What We Believe DVD Release at AK Press AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA
b/t MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 1:21pm PDT
France passes Armenia genocide law France's lower house of parliament has passed a bill making it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide, a step that has been strongly denounced by the Turkish government....
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 9:19am PDT
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