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Passports Denied: Mexican-Americans Can't Travel Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 :Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people of Mexican descent were subjected to unreasonable and arbitrary demands to prove that they are citizens of the United States before getting a passport. This includes Texas native, David Hernandez, a decorated Army veteran, reports NAM writer Roberto Lovato....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 7:33am PDT
German Left Stands up to anti-Muslim Fascists; Clashes in Cologne From a Sunday, September 21, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2008 9:48am PDT
God is Dangerous Faith and religion could be a force for peace after militarism and intolerance are excised as false corrupted consciousness. Prejudice could be a stepping stone to the event of understanding, the fusion of horizons (H.G.Gadamer). The truth that sets us free is a process, not a cudgel....
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2008 6:03am PDT
Historic 2008 Election Could See Unprecedented Attempts to Bar African-American Voters Thursday, September 18, 2008 :As we continue on the subject of voter suppression and race, we turn to Queens College Political Science professor and best-selling author Andrew Hacker. In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, Hacker writes: "Obstacles to getting blacks to vote have always been formidable, but this year there will be barriers - some new, some long-standing - that previous campaigns have not had to face."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2008 8:07am PDT
SF Demonstration in Solidarity with Terrorized Immigrants in Arizona and Elsewhere Thursday, September 18, 11:30 AM
Wells Fargo Headquarters, 130 Sansome St, SF
(between Bush and Pine, one block east of Montgomery)....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 11:02pm PDT
Current situation & Emergency meeting at D-Q University (Davis Ca,) As of tonight (Sept. 12th at 10:13pm) the cops are out at the campus with orders to arrest occupiers. They are clearing the campus for the classes that are to be held this weekend. The help and numbers of the community are needed tomorrow 9/13/08 for a meeting at 1808 Rst in Sacramento, CA @ 11:00am.
The Illegal board of trustees Susan Reese and Shirley Lincoln as well some other individuals came in to D-Q University today demanding that everyone at D-Q U has to get off of D-Q U! Racist ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2008 10:21pm PDT
Save Reginald Blanton, sentenced to death in Texas due to racial prejudice Save Reginald Blanton, sentenced to death in Texas due to racial prejudice
Sign now: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/reggie/petition.html...
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 3:23pm PDT
Active US Muslims Fight 9/11 Stigma CAIRO — For many US Muslims, pro-activity and engagement with the wider community have proved the best way to counter an image as the enemy within in post 9/11 America, where prejudices and stereotypes about their faith still persist....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 9:48pm PDT
Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean” Charley James –
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination....
Posted: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 7:30pm PDT
Sunday's Town Hall Meeting on KPFA Most importantly for everyone in the Bay Area, don't miss the Town Hall Meeting this Sunday, your opportunity to shape KPFA into an instrument for Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed people. We can do it!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 5:47pm PDT
Indigenous Occupation of land in Minnesota: Defend Camp Coldwater! B'Dote Defenders! On Tuesday September 2nd, Members of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate reoccupied Coldwater Spring and the surrounding land. The Coldwater Spring site is an abandoned property of the defunct Bureau of Mines. As Dakota people who consider the spring as essential to our spiritual lifeway and the surrounding land as a part of our homeland of Bdote, we believe that we will be better stewards of the land than either the United States or the State of Minnesota has been....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 3:12pm PDT
The saga of Shaymaa Samir Qudeih Discrimination where you'd least expect it...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 12:23am PDT
Barack Obama, and the “Lawrence Summers Effect” Barack Obama's ascendancy to the pedestal of history is widely regarded as a sobering call for an acknowledgment that racial-progress is all-but-finalized. Nevertheless, one must be candid about the politics at play, and the medium through which such a high-premium seat at the table of imperialism is attained. Within the last few months, Sen. Obama has – consciously or subconsciously - informed his Black, Brown and Red supporters that he intends to be nonspecific in dealing with their concern...
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 6:52pm PDT
Iran demolished a Suuni mosque in Balochistan, Iran A regime that claims to be an Islamic regime and has staged widespread demonstrations about alleged offences on Islam and Quran by the western world has been engaged in demolition of several Sunni mosques and tearing apart of Holy Quran in Iran. Whenever a Mosque in Iran has been demolished, the libraries of the mosques which included hundreds of books including the holy Quran have been totally destroyed. This demonstrates the depth of the hatred of the Iranian regime against the Sunnis and ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 7:53am PDT
In Front of Record Convention Crowd, Obama Accepts Democratic Nomination Friday, August 29, 2008 :Senator Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party's nomination last night before a record convention crowd of over 84,000 at Invesco Field in Denver, becoming the first major party African American presidential nominee in US history. Obama's nomination speech came on the forty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington. We play an excerpt of his address....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 5:04pm PDT
Three Years After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Still Reeling. Now There’s Gustav Thursday, August 28, 2008 : Only 11 percent of families have been able to return to New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. The Bush administration’s ideology-driven neglect of New Orleans has left the city vulnerable again to a potentially devastating hurricane, three years after Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people and left thousands homeless....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 8:03am PDT
Indian Americans Flex Muscle at Democratic Convention Originally From New America Media
Friday, August 29, 2008 : DENVER, Colo. The growing clout of Indian Americans in the American political arena is reflected in the record number of Indian American delegates and other participants at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, said speakers at a reception hosted by the Indian American Leadership Initiative at the Denver Athletic Club Aug. 25....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 8:02am PDT
In Historic Move, Democrats Nominate Obama as Presidential Nominee Thursday, August 28, 2008 :The formal nomination makes Barack Obama the first African American major party candidate in US history. The historic moment came after Senator Hillary Clinton walked onto the floor of the convention hall and asked Democratic delegates to suspend their count and approve Obama’s nomination by acclamation....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 7:33am PDT
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Walks Out of Screening of Katrina Documentary <i>Trouble the Water</i> Thursday, August 28, 2008 :Five minutes into a screening of the new documentary Trouble the Water, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin walked out of the theater. Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat reports....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 7:30am PDT
Melissa Harris-Lacewell Urges Obama to Draw on Political Rhetoric of African American Women Like Hamer, Chisholm & Jordan Thursday, August 28, 2008 :The Democratic Party is preparing to pay tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King today ahead of Barack Obama's nomination speech. While Obama is expected to reference King's speech tonight, one of his longtime supporters is urging him to also draw on the political rhetoric of African American women, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm. We speak with Melissa Harris-Lacewell....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 7:27am PDT
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