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Amnesty International Denounces Torture in California Prisons --Interview w/ Tessa Murphy Two weeks after the release of Amnesty Intl’s new report on the use of prolonged solitary confinement inside California’s ‘Security Housing Units’ (SHUs), entitled "The Edge of Endurance: Conditions in California’s Security Housing Units," prisoners initiated another hunger strike, with 500 participants statewide. In this new interview, Tessa Murphy speaks about her visit to California SHUs and Amnesty's report based on the visit. Our introduction features key excerpts from Amnesty's report d...
Posted: Thu, Oct 18, 2012 4:33pm PDT
Women's Magazine (audio/mpeg 16.2MB) We take a look at the social issues that inspired Nayomi Munaweera to write a novel about the Sri Lankan civil war and Leslie Feinberg about Trans Liberation....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2012 1:44pm PDT
A White Supremacist Dream: "And Then There Were None" My parents were anti-racists and as a child they taught me many things not to say, not to sing, not to do that were racist. They also taught me many things to do to try to rid myself and my world of racism. To be honest I don't remember what they had to say about the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians." I remember the rhyme, but I don't remember most of the words. However, I do remember the ending. Anyway, this may not be the biggest news of the day, but it is "little" things like what ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2012 4:15pm PDT
Leonard Peltier's Indigenous Day Statement Leonard Peltier has released a 2012 Indigenous Day statement. Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement, and he has been incarcerated since 1977....
Posted: Mon, Oct 8, 2012 10:49am PDT
The Anaheim Uprising and the Politics of Opportunism 
Like the saying goes: “It’s good fishing in troubled waters”, it was predictable that the spontaneous uprising sparked by the murders of Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo by Anaheim Police Department officers this past summer, was going to be exploited like some sort of shock doctrine by some local “leaders” to advance their own agendas. In fact, they are already taking advantage of the unrest and are out to co-opt and divert the anger and energy of these incipient grass roots efforts into elector...
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 1:01pm PDT
Goshute Tribes Fight for Water Rights in Face of 300-Mile Pipeline to Vegas The clock is ticking on the 60-day review period for the environmental assessment report on a controversial water pipeline along the Nevada-Utah border that the Goshute Confederated Tribes say would draw down their own water supplies and impede economic development as well as compromise sacred sites. The eight-foot-diameter pipeline would carry water 300 miles from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas, pumping about 84,000 acre-feet of water annually from Goshute and other tribal lands....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2012 3:24pm PDT
In Service to Power: A First Read of Michelle Obama’s Speech As the U.S. sinks further and further into economic decline, with 23 million people unemployed or underemployed and one report after another detailing the everyday sense of dread the average working class family faces with a declining standard of living, cuts to education and vital services for those most in need, the tightly controlled spectacle called the Democratic National Convention featured First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday, September 4th....
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2012 9:11pm PDT
Pe'Sla - Buying Back The Sacred 
On August 23, the property known as Pe'Sla, the Heart of all that Is to the Great Sioux Nation, was withdrawan from public auction...and put up for private sale. The Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation have come together to buy their land back....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2012 2:57pm PDT
Four Contemporary Armenian Women Writers in New York 
An eclectic compilation of vocal pieces that reflect a contemplative look at life in the Armenian Diaspora....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2012 11:53am PDT
Do US Prisons Violate European Human Rights Law? --Interview w/ Hamja Ahsan & Aviva Stahl 
An important ruling is expected early in September from the European Court of Human Rights, regarding whether or not US prisons respect human rights enough for the UK to extradite ‘war on terror' suspects to the US. We interview activist/journalist Aviva Stahl from CagePrisoners.com alongside Hamja Ahsan, the brother of Talha Ahsan, one of the appellants that will be seriously affected by the September ruling, imprisoned since 2006....
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 7:49pm PDT
The Second Declaration of Independence ~ Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 
Deep in the sacred grove in Oshogbo, Osun State, Nigeria the plans for our 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation light up the sky with shooting stars from the heavens providing a light for a good way forward. Not long ago, a bottle of gin provided the consideration for 4-5 captured human beings in a transaction of sale. We must return to the scene of the crime and move towards the start of a new path, September 22, 1862. Today, the journey remains incomplete, yet we can reflec...
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 12:21pm PDT
Fight Back Against Racist Police Terror Family of Shantel Davis, Unarmed Black Woman Killed by NYPD, Stands in Solidarity with the Victims of Racist Police Policies in Anaheim
We in The Shantel Davis Committee for Justice and Beyond in Brooklyn understand racist police killings aren’t just an event isolated in New York City. Therefore we should build in solidarity wherever the cops senselessly murder our black and Latino youth. Too many of those youth have had their lives cut short. We say enough is enough! From New York to Cali...
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 11:07am PDT
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