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3/22: All Nations Healing Through Music Festival - Peace + Dignity Journey Benefit 
All Nations Healing Through Music Festival
Saturday March 22 5PM
MAAC Project Charter School 1385 Third Avenue, Chula Vista
All Ages $10
Red Warrior Drummers, Kumeyaay Bird Singers,
Olmeca, Cihuatl-CE,
War Club, Raiz Muzik,
Guerrilla Queenz, Tierra Y Libertad,
Indigenous Radio, DJ Poncho,
MC Ras Pablo Aztlan...
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 1:03pm PST
After Rudd's "apology" to indigenous people Australian government extends welfare "quarantining" and land Tuesday, March 4, 2008 :When the Rudd government made a formal apology to the Aboriginal “stolen generations” on February 13, the WSWS warned that all those hailing the apology as a step toward rectifying the historic crimes committed against the indigenous people were carrying out a monstrous deception. We cited the old maxim that when the ruling class apologises for past crimes, it is only in order to better commit those of the present....
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2008 7:08am PST
Save Sulukule (Turkey) and 3000 gypsies Since November 2007, when Istanbul began its large-scale project of urban transformation, Sulukule, old and legendary neighborhood of Istanbul famous for its Roma population, has received its share of attention. Moving the Roma community to a new district is being advocated by an Italy-based social activist association....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 3:57pm PST
VIDEO: Ramona Africa interview about the MOVE 9 Parole Hearings In this new interview, Ramona Africa talks about the upcoming MOVE 9 Parole Hearings that are scheduled for April. MOVE is asking for support....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 2:14pm PST
Notes from the Trial of Sean Bell: Persecuting the Victim of Police Murder From a Revolution Newspaper correspondent
On February 27, the so-called trial for the police who murdered Sean Bell opened in New York City. And as the trial began, Sean Bell—the victim of police murder—was being persecuted even after his death....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 12:12pm PST
VIDEO: Mike Africa Jr. interview about the MOVE 9 Parole Hearings 
Born in prison, he is the son of MOVE prisoners Mike Sr. and Debbie Africa, who are both eligible for parole in 2008, after 30 years in prison, along with the six other remaining MOVE prisoners. This video is the first in a series of videos to be released in the weeks leading up to the Parole Hearings in April....
Posted: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 5:16am PST
Making a Sham of Dr. King's Dream There's an effort in San Diego to rid schools of rifle ranges considering schools have Zero Tolerance Policies that don't allow weapons on campuses. But as students get involved in their schools regarding this situation, their rights are being violated....
Posted: Sun, Mar 2, 2008 12:41am PST
Wrongly Deported U.S. Citizen Leads to Civil Lawsuit Originally From New America Media
Friday, February 29, 2008 : Los Angeles— An ACLU-led civil lawsuit against the federal government was presented February 27, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, for the deportation of Pedro Guzman, an American citizen, wrongly sent to Mexico last August. Guzman, who has documented mental problems, was deported to Mexico by the United States government last May but three months later was arrested by ICE officers for trying re-enter the United States....
Posted: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 6:53am PST
Vincent Harding on Dr. Martin Luther King’s Courageous—and Overlooked—Anti-War and Economic Justice Activism Thursday, February 28, 2008 :In the 40th year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, we speak to Dr. King's close associate and former speechwriter Dr. Vincent Harding. Dr. Harding drafted King's historic April 1967 antiwar speech "Beyond Vietnam." He is the author of many books including "Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 8:01am PST
Nation’s Economic Woes Hit Black Workers Hardest Wednesday, February 27, 2008 : The share of African American manufacturing workers has declined by nearly 60 percent in the past 30 years. All workers have suffered in the seven years that President Bush has been in office. But black workers, even those in unions, have been hit hardest. African American incomes are dropping at the same time fewer African Americans belong to unions....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 7:18am PST
Adverse possession: another word for land piracy 
Adverse possession is a legal term for squatting on land and claiming the land. For black farmers, it has been nothing less than land piracy, with billions of dollars in agricultural reas estate stolen out from under them....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 5:10pm PST
What kind of system offers this to Black youth in the United States? What kind of system takes millions of Black youth and consigns them to segregated run-down neighborhoods and prison-like schools? Offers them lower paying, demeaning jobs—if at all—when they seek employment? Treats their style of dress or way they talk as evidence of criminal behavior? Makes “behind bars” more familiar than “campus classroom”? Destroys all hopes and dreams, and leaves only desperation?
Why keep a system that does this?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 12:33pm PST
Gipsies in Italy: a disperate appeal EveryOne Group and other human rights associations are launching a desperate appeal to the international institutions asking them not to ignore the effects of a vast and ruthless racist campaign....
Posted: Sun, Feb 24, 2008 8:43am PST
Glaring Omissions In U.S. Testimony On Racial And Ethnic Discrimination, Says ACLU Friday, February 22, 2008 :NEW YORK - The U.S. government failed to adequately address problems of widespread racial and ethnic discrimination in America at hearings before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva that ended today, despite testimony from the American Civil Liberties Union and dozens of human rights groups highlighting the existence of pervasive racism in this country....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 9:49am PST
MOVE 9 Parole Hearings set for April! (audio/mpeg 2.9MB) Almost 30 years after the Aug. 8, 1978 police siege on MOVE's West Philadelphia home, the remaining eight prisoners are eligible for parole. Phil Africa is asking for people to write letters of support to The Parole Board....
Posted: Fri, Feb 22, 2008 11:50pm PST
Pennsylvania Court Rejects Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Appeal 21 Feb. 2008 Press Release...
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 7:51pm PST
Civil Rights Activist Yuri Kochiyama on Her Internment in a WWII Japanese-American Detention Camp & Malcolm X's Assassination Wednesday, February 20, 2008 :43 years ago this week, Malcolm X was gunned down in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. Yuri Kochiyama cradled his head as he lay dying on the stage. Kochiyama's activism began after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when she and her family were held in an internment camp along with more than 100,000 Japanese in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 7:25am PST
ACLU In Geneva To Testify On Ongoing Racial And Ethnic Injustice Monday, February 18, 2008 : NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union will be in Geneva this week to testify before the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on the contents of a flawed U.S. government report that underreported the state of racial discrimination in the United States....
Posted: Mon, Feb 18, 2008 11:42am PST
Australia: Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory intervention Friday, February 15, 2008 :Over the past week the local media has bombarded Australians with gushing praise for the Rudd government’s apology to members of the “stolen generations”—the Aboriginal and “half-caste” children who were forcibly removed from their parents by government authorities from 1900 to the early 1970s....
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2008 7:02am PST
Australia: "Stolen generations" speak out in Canberra Thursday, February 14, 2008 :Thousands of Australians—Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, young and old alike—attended rallies and watched lived broadcasts throughout the country as Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a formal apology to surviving members of the “stolen generations” yesterday from the federal parliament in Canberra....
Posted: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 7:01am PST
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