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“Represento su peor pesadilla”: Mumia Abu-Jamal habla sobre el reciente fallo en su caso 
Una entrevista a Mumia Abu-Jamal para el Block Report por el Ministro de Información J.R y el presidente Fred Hampton, hijo, del Comité de Pres@s de Consciencia (POCC)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 5:22pm PDT
Response to Obama’s Speech Part II: “Separate But Equal”…and the Myth of “We the People" In Part I of our response to Barack Obama’s March 18 “speech on race,” see http://www.revcom.us/a/125/obama-en.html )we spoke to Obama’s claim that, while slavery was a “stain” on “America’s improbable experiment with democracy, the “answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution—a Constitution that had at its very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law.” In reality the Constitution represented a pact between southern slavery and northern wage slavery. ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 4:13pm PDT
Forty Years After Founding Seattle Black Panther Chapter, Aaron Dixon Still at Forefront of Struggle for Racial Equality Monday, April 14, 2008 :Forty years ago this month, the Black Panther Party formed one of its first chapters outside of its Oakland headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Aaron Dixon was just 19 at the time and he became the captain of the Seattle chapter for its first four years. Today, Dixon is a well-known community and civil rights activist. Dixon joins us as we broadcast from Seattle for a conversation on the struggle for racial equality then and now....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 7:53am PDT
PeaceTalks:Courts Refuse To Hear Evidence of Innocence in Death Row Inmate Troy Davis Case (audio/mpeg 12.9MB) George Cadman Of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Martina Correa, Troy Davis's sister, about his case and the recent 4-3 decision by the Georgia Supreme Court to deny him an evidentiary hearing that may have led to a new trial....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 4:20pm PDT
Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Nightmare of the “American Dream” for Black and Latino People Ozell and J.W. McBee, a retired Black couple, had lived with their three grandchildren in their South Side Chicago home since 1999. In 2006, they received a call from a “mortgage consulting” company offering to re-finance them into a mortgage with a monthly payment $100 lower than the $700 a month they were paying. But to get that lower rate, the McBees were told, they would first have to be refinanced into a mortgage with payments of $1,400 for two months. Ozell and J.W. signed up, and they ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 12:01pm PDT
Democracy Now! Special: Martin Luther King's Life and Legacy 40 Years After His Assassination Friday, April 4, 2008 :The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated forty years ago today. He was in Memphis, Tennessee to march with sanitation workers demanding a better wage. We spend the hour on his life and legacy. We hear from the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was with King at the Lorraine Motel, where he was killed; Harry Belafonte, who was with Coretta Scott King at the King home in Atlanta on April 4, 1968; Dr. Vincent Harding, a close friend and colleague of King's who wrote King...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 7:39am PDT
Forty years on, some lessons from the life--and death--of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, April 7, 2008 :Friday’s 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was marked by a march in Memphis, Tennessee, where the civil rights leader was slain, and numerous commemorations and tributes throughout the country, as well as widespread media attention. There was little, however, that conveyed a sense of the real King, and of his historical significance, achievements and limitations....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 7:38am PDT
On-the-spot report from central Australia Conditions of Aboriginal people in Alice Springs and the town camps Monday, April 7, 2008 :For most Australian residents, the Northern Territory (NT) town of Alice Springs—population 26,000 and located in the centre of the continent—is little more than a series of striking picture postcards of spectacular rocky desert scenery, native animals and brilliantly coloured contemporary Aboriginal paintings....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 7:37am PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal's supporters vow to keep up fight Saturday, April 5, 2008 : PHILADELPHIA — Following the decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals that Mumia Abu-Jamal must be sentenced to life in prison or receive a new sentencing trial, his attorney and his supporters are vowing to continue the fight for his exoneration. Abu-Jamal has been on death row for nearly 26 years, after being convicted in the murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 9:26am PDT
Dr. Martin Luther King Assassinated 40 years Ago 
"...I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of the our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world. And that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis." Robert F. KennedyIn December of 1999, numerous witnesses came forward in court with details of the US Government plot against King....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:49pm PDT
"Symbolic Racism" and the "US of KKK A" This brief, two-part, introduction to "Racism 101" should persuade you that Rev. Jeremiah Wright's utterance about present-day racism is no more outrageous than are the smug, self-serving beliefs of symbolic racists who maintain that "discrimination is no longer an obstacle for blacks, that their current lack of upward social mobility is caused by their unwillingness to work hard, that they demand too much of government, and that they have received more than they deserve." And nothing said by...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 6:34pm PDT
1968, Forty Years Later: A Look Back at the Orangeburg Massacre When SC Police Opened Fire on Black Students Protesting Segregation Thursday, April 3, 2008 :On February 8th, 1968, a crowd of black students gathered on the campus of South Carolina State University to protest segregation at Orangeburg's only bowling alley. Dozens of police arrived on the scene and the students lit a bonfire on a street in front of the campus. Tensions escalated and police officers opened fire into the crowd. When the shooting stopped, three students were dead and 27 wounded. We speak with the only person convicted of wrongdoing in what beca...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 8:36am PDT
PeaceTalks:Robert Bryan, Mumia Abu Jamal's Lead Attorney, On The Recent Ruling In His Case (audio/mpeg 12.0MB) George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Robert Bryan, Mumia's lead attorney, about recent developments in his case, including the long awaited ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals released on March 27, 2008....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:56am PDT
Listen Up Northwest (audio/mpeg 26.8MB) Listen Up Northwest is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washingon, Idaho, Montana and Oregon....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 8:41am PDT
Kaos en la Red in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal 
A call for actions in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 5:01am PDT
Kaos en la Red se solidariza con Mumia Abu-Jamal 
Un llamado a acciones en apoyo a Mumia Abu-Jamal...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 4:59am PDT
Response to Obama’s Speech “On Race”: Slavery, Capitalism, and the “Perfect Union” 
“Historic.” “Unprecedented.” In such terms, Barack Obama’s March 18 speech is being compared both in the establishment media and on the streets to “classic American speeches” like Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
The immediate impetus for the speech was pressure on Obama to condemn statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. The statements under attack were basically incontrovertible facts: Wright said, for example, speaking of Bl...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 4:51pm PDT
Understanding Cesar Chavez Monday, March 31, 2008 : Today is Cesar Chavez Day in California. Chavez is the nation’s most honored Latino, and momentum is growing for a national holiday in his honor. In the fall of 2005, I began planning a book that would portray how Chavez, and the ideas and staff of the farmworkers movement of the 1960’s and 70’s, still shape today’s progressive movements....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 7:32am PDT
Ruling Against Mumia Shows: No Justice in the Capitalist Courts On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. After previously rejecting Mumia’s request to present evidence of his innocence, as well as a host of issues showing that he was railroaded by a racist court, the Court turned down Mumia’s request for a new trial. It upheld the...
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 7:57pm PDT
Stop scapegoating immigrants! Friday, March 28, 2008 : The Republican leaders in Congress and the Bush administration continue trying to score points in an election year by using undocumented immigrants as scapegoats for their owned failed policies. The GOP House leadership, abetted by a few Democrats, is pushing the viciously anti-immigrant HR 4088, the SAVE Act....
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2008 2:02pm PDT
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