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Friday, March 28, 2008 :Since its election last November, the Rudd government has substantially expanded the previous Howard government’s police-military intervention into indigenous communities across the Northern Territory (NT), with full assistance from the NT Labor government. Behind the cloak of the national “apology” that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered to indigenous people last month for the genocidal crimes committed against them over the past two centuries, Labor has stepped up the...

Third Circuit Court Upholds Frame-Up Conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Orders Hearing to Reinstate Death Penalty or Entomb Him for Life Free Mumia Now!...

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 :Will there be no end to this tiresome "national conversation" as to whether a black man trumps a white woman, or vice versa, on our nation's list of the wronged? One possible end might arrive, of course, when another white man is elected in November and American politics returns to business as usual....

NoArmy.com, an unauthorized remix of GoArmy.com that tells the truth recruiters don't want you to know....

“This whole thing is so twisted. You’ve got the victims—Sean and the other two with him that night—being attacked like they’re the criminals, and the criminals—the cops who killed Sean—being treated like they’re the victims. But you know, I’ve been at other trials of police who’ve murdered Black people and here’s the thing. It plays out pretty much the same way every time.”...

Presentations from the 1st annual nyc bookfair held on 14-15 April 2007...

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 :Last week, the BBC ran its “White Season”—a series as puerile as it was offensive. Billed as an exploration of “what it means to be white and working-class in 21st century Britain,” the trailer summed up the central message. A close-up facial shot of a white, bald and obviously working class male was shown....

In this new interview (03/08), Ramona Africa talks about observing the MOVE 9 trial, before she actually became a member of MOVE. The video also features archival footage from the documentary "MOVE," made by Cohort Media, and narrated by Howard Zinn. The intro spotlights the public beating of Delbert Africa, while the conclusion features the illegal destruction of MOVE's house and the fraudulent "conspiracy" charge used to convict the MOVE 9....

Thursday, March 13, 2008 :On Monday, New York Lieutenant Governor David Paterson will be sworn in to replace Eliot Spitzer as the state's chief executive. Paterson will become New York's first African-American governor and the first blind governor in the nation's history. We speak with Harlem journalist Herb Boyd who has covered Paterson for years, New York State Senator Liz Krueger who worked closely with David Paterson during his time in the New York Senate and Carl Augusto, the president o...

There’s a lot of people right now excited about the fact that Barack Obama could be the first Black president. People hope that if he becomes president, there could be someone in the White House who will bring about real change—including ending the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and doing something about the destruction of the environment, the horrific oppression of Black people and other minority nationalities, the Gestapo round-ups of immigrants, and the attacks on fundamental rights. ...