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Racism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation 2004 Racism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation
and IRS Attack on NAACP
Accuses John Ashcroft of Partisan Support of Intimidation
Efforts
Calls for Blacks to Rise Up, Challenge and Defeat It...
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 3:10pm PDT
Press Advisory: national confference on Race & Public Policy Comes to Berkeley Ten days after the general election, the Applied Research Center will gather community leaders, academics, policy advocates, and activists from around the country to assess the state of civil rights and to develop strategies for the emerging “racial justice” movement....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:16am PDT
Voter Verifying Campaign Launched; Higher Minority Voter Turnout is Goal Voter verification is the thrust of a new nationwide voter education effort being launched by the non-partisan NAACP National Voter Fund (NVF), designed to generate the largest minority voter turnout in any presidential election....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:43am PDT
New Florida vote scandal feared A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 3:38pm PDT
Tonight: Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits Film Night > >
> > Native American Two-Spirit Film Night
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> > WHEN: Thursday, October 21, 7p.m.
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> > WHERE: New College of California, Theatre Room
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> > 777 Valencia Street @19th Street, San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 9:46am PDT
Howard Zinn, NEW Voices of a People's History... ZNet interview...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 2:19am PDT
March for Social Justice This Saturday! (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence, is among those scheduled to speak at the 1pm rally following the March for Social Justice this Saturday at Lake Merritt (audio clip 4m4s)...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 7:26pm PDT
Community Groups Respond to the Call for Racial Justice Week Before the Elections What: Press Conference for Racial Justice Week
When: Thursday, October 21, 2004, 11am
Where: Oakland Unified School District Office, 1025 Second Ave, Oakland...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 7:18pm PDT
Leonard Peltier for President Leonard Peltier is the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in California. This article gives an overview and update of his case and his campaign for a presidential pardon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:20am PDT
Prince Sings Against Anti-Muslim Bigotry WASHINGTON, October 16 (IslamOnline.net) - US rock star Prince released a new song portraying an Arab-American girl forced by the post-September11 harassment and racism to envisage blowing herself up in an airport, but changes her mind after spotting innocent playful children....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:40am PDT
3 Strikes locks up Blacks at 13 times the rate of whites Washington, D.C. - New data released Wednesday by the Justice Policy Institute revealed that California’s Three Strikes law disproportionately locks up African Americans and Latinos compared to whites. According to this first-of-its-kind analysis of the racial and ethnic makeup of Three Strikes defendants, African Americans are given life sentences under Three Strikes at nearly 13 times the rate of whites and the Latinos are incarcerated under Three Strikes a staggering 82 percent more than w...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 9:09pm PDT
"Columbus Day... NOT!" - Xispas 
"Columbus Day... NOT!" - With this special issue, Xispas, the online journal of Chicano culture, art, and politics... looks at the meaning and role of Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 6:26pm PDT
From Columbus Day to Indian Resistance Day The oligarchic "opposition" and its national mass media have no respect for anything: currently, Radio Caracas TV (RCTV) is preparing commercials for its mind-controlled adherents to celebrate "Día de la Raza" (Colombus Day) next Tuesday -- October 12, 2004....
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 12:14pm PDT
Leidesdorff: President of First California School Board First Public School Board President in California will one day be included in the History-Social Science Content Standards of our California State Board of Education...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 12:57pm PDT
The Bush Administration's Healthy Marriage Iniative (audio/mpeg 16.8MB) The Bush Administration's Healthy Marriage Initiative: a solution to poverty or a paternalistic policy aimed at regulating the sexual and reproductive lives of low income women, especailly women of color?? 29:20...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 8:46pm PDT
Return Stolen Land this Columbus ?Day Land concessions to tribal people are most important in the regions where logging corporations like Maxxam/Pacific Lumber are profiting from destruction of forests on stolen land. The regions Maxxam/PL claims as their property were stolen via force and murder from indigenous people. We can begin restoration by recognizing the First People who were the original caretakers of the forests....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 10:34am PDT
Prisoner Protests Conditions At High Desert State Prison Following is an article I wrote about my son, who is a prisoner at, High Desert State Prison. In an effort to call attention to conditions at the prison, my son is on a hunger strike. I promised that I would advocate for him, and this is one way I am keeping my promise. The article is about the conditons at High Desert, as he described them to me....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 7:15pm PDT
Intent to Establish a National Latino LGBT Organization Our movement's flame dimmed momentarily by LLEGO's recent
closure, but it was not completely extinguished. The next
generation of leadership for the Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender movement will soon be taking the helm of a newly
created national organization dedicated to the advancement and
empowerment of Latino LGBT people and their families....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 11:52pm PDT
10/1, Speak Out Against Racism And Discrimination, Stand Up For Inclusion A coalition of primarily LGBT
organizations have come together to plan an October 1 demonstration to
raise awareness about racism and other forms of discrimination within
the San Francisco LGBT community. The theme is "Speak Out Against
Racism
And Discrimination, Stand Up For Inclusion."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 11:37pm PDT
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