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India’s Hindu-chauvinist BJP attempts to incite communal riots India’s official opposition, the Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has once again attempted to incite communal strife, this time in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh where state assembly elections are currently underway....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:19am PDT
Why Imus Had to Go...& What It Says About this Racist, Sexist System Imus comment and what this says about this racist, sexist system...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 4:06pm PDT
INTERVIEW: Mumia's lawyer responds to DA In this interview, San Francisco attorney Robert R. Bryan responds to the recent move from the Philadelphia DA requesting that the entire Third Circuit Court recuse itself from Mumia’s case....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 12:56am PDT
It's not just Imus On April 11, NBC News announced that it was dropping MSNBC's simulcast of Imus in the Morning in the wake of the controversy that erupted over host Don Imus' reference to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." The following day, CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves announced that CBS -- which owns both the radio station that broadcast Imus' program and Westwood One, which syndicated the program -- has fired Imus and would cease broadcasting his radio show. But a...
Posted: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 11:50am PDT
German media, politicians launch chauvinist campaign over a “Muslim takeover” of Germany Campaigns alleging that a nation is being “swamped” by foreigners have always been part of the repertoire of right-wing extremist politics. The influx of immigrants, their culture and language is regarded as a threat to one’s “own” people and—depending upon which version is being promulgated—Western or German culture. In recent times, the danger of being “swamped” has been replaced by that of a “Muslim-takeover,” with the difference, however, that such agitation is not limited to right-wing e...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:31am PDT
PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from Documentary on Second World War A coalition of Latino organizations have been criticizing PBS over a forthcoming documentary by Ken Burns on World War II because it ignores the role played by Latino soldiers in the war. The 14-hour film, “The War,” includes no interviews with any Latino veterans even though over 500,000 Latinos served in the war. The documentary also includes no interviews with any Native American veterans. We speak with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a University of Texas professor who has led the protests agains...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:51am PDT
Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Condemn Don Imus' Remarks MSNBC and CBS Radio are coming under increasing pressure to fire Don Imus over his recent remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team calling them "nappy-headed hos." Imus has suspended for two weeks beginning on Monday but he remains on the air this week. On Tuesday members of the Rutgers women's basketball team spoke out for the first time. We play excerpts....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:38am PDT
Why Imus Won't Go Editor’s Note: Members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, NAACP, the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable and the National Youth Advocacy Coalition were among the many groups demanding the ouster of radio jock Don Imus for his comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball players. But New America Media editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson says despite the protests and apologies, shock jocks like Don Imus thrive because there is too much money in race trash talk and the political leaders ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 6:29am PDT
Why Imus Won't Go Members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, NAACP, the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable and the National Youth Advocacy Coalition were among the many groups demanding the ouster of radio jock Don Imus for his comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball players. But New America Media editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson says despite the protests and apologies, shock jocks like Don Imus thrive because there is too much money in race trash talk and the political leaders tacitly condone...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 8:53am PDT
India: Five years after 2002 Gujarat pogrom While the victims languish, the perpetrators go unpunished...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:29pm PDT
Dump Don Imus - Take Action! Does "Imus" rhyme with "Disgust"? Well, not quite. But it oughta....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:36am PDT
Sharpton Calls for Imus to Be Fired Calls are increasing for the dismissal of talk show host Don Imus over racist comments he made on his nationally syndicated program. Imus referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos" on his show on Wednesday. We speak with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is calling for Imus to be fired and with Maretta Short, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization for Women....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:35am PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Movilización ante la audiencia del 17 de mayo Artículo de Hans Bennett sobre la presentación de argumentos orales en el caso del preso político Mumia Abu-Jamal, con citas de una entrevista con Pam África sobre el caso y la movilización...
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 10:46am PDT
Dr. Martin L. King Assassinated, April 4, 1968 I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land."
Interviews of aging union men by Amy Goodman on King's Birthday this year once again verified the presence of "numerous military intelligence people" in Memphis immediately prior to the assasination of Martin Luther King. In December of 1999, numerous witnesses came forward in court with details of the US Government plot against King....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 6:36pm PDT
Newt’s Tiny But Dangerous Ghetto of a World View Newt Gingrich’s narrow-minded equation of Spanish and bilingual education with ghetto-living reveals the kind of America he wants, warns NAM contributor Roberto Lovato....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:01am PDT
El gueto idiomático La suprema ironía de los disparatados comentarios que el ex presidente de la Cámara Baja Newt Gingrich ha vertido acerca de lo indeseable del multilingüismo en Estados Unidos es la alusión desafortunada al "gueto" en el cual, según él, quienes hablamos español nos confinamos....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 9:27am PDT
The Idiomatic 'Ghetto' The supreme irony of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s absurd comments about the undesirability of multilingualism in the United States was his unfortunate allusion to the “ghetto” to which, according to him, those who speak Spanish are confined....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 9:26am PDT
National Support Needed: Anti-racist Group Calls for Phone Jam Against Neo-nazi Conference On April 6th, 2007 Stone Kingdom Ministries, a "Christian Identity" ministry based in Asheville, NC is coming to the Philadelphia area to hold a "Spring Bible Conference." In reality, this so-called ministry is coming to our area to preach hatred and: Christian Identity adherents believe that white people are God's chosen people, while all non-whites are "mud people." Those who practice this "religion" are virulently racist and anti-Semitic....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 8:59pm PDT
Suzi Hazahza and the Pirates of Homeland Security One by one, all the helium-inflated excuses for arresting and imprisoning Suzi Hazahza have been popped and now lie on the ground. And the single memory humanizing the government that still holds her unlawfully behind bars is the look on one Federal Magistrate's face Thursday in Dallas when he was told by a US Attorney that Congress has stripped the federal bench of any right to order Suzi Hazahza freed until a full six months of illegal detention have passed....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 9:37am PDT
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