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France in Flames Unfortunately, the lessons of the past, as with the race riots years ago in the UK, have not been learned. The politics of nuance extends far beyond simply immigrant issues and race relations....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 11:00am PST
Rosa Parks and the lessons of the civil rights movement Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks became a symbol of the mass movement against racism that eventually forced the dismantling of the system of official segregation in the American South. Her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggered a year-long bus boycott, an event that is generally seen as the beginning of a decade-long battle against segregation that mobilized millions and won the support of workers all ov...
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:23am PST
The Left's Response to the French Riots Why The Left has been so slow to respond to the French riots....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 9:00pm PST
Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson & Others Pay Tribute to Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks On Monday, thousands of mourners filled the Metropolitian AME church in Washington for a memorial service for the late Rosa Parks, who died last week at the age of 92. Over the past two days, more than 40,000 people filed past her casket in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Monday where her body had lain in honor. She was the first civilian and only second woman or African-American to receive such an honor. Speakers at Monday's memorial included Oprah Winfrey, actress Cicely Tyson, NAACP chair Julian ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 12:47pm PST
Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Lies in Honor in Capitol Rotunda The body of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was flown to Washingon DC Sunday night to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. She is the first woman and second African American to lie in state. We speak with the Rev. Joseph and author Diane McWhorter and we go back to 1956 to air a rare interview with Parks aired on Pacifica Radio's KPFA....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:36am PST
Why There Are No Asians On TV “He also spend thousand of thousand dollar of your hard earned money to go to college and grad school, but not to be doctor or lawyer or engineer or doctor or lawyer, instead, he spend all your American money to be…to be….Hey, what you do anyway?”
-- From Tim Huang’s musical “AND THE EARTH MOVED”...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 5:41pm PDT
U.S. Made "Inappropriate" Allegations of Terrorism Before Sentencing Iraqi-American Doctor Iraqi-American doctor Rafil Dhafir is sentenced to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions through his charity “Help the Needy.” We speak with Barrie Gewanter of the NY Civil Liberties Union about the case, who has publicly questioned the fairness of the trial....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:52am PDT
Rosa Parks 1913-2005 (Rare 1956 Interview) Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who was jailed in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat, has died at the age of 92. Democratic Representative of Michigan John Conyers, whose staff Parks worked on, reflects on Parks’ life and her legacy....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 7:39am PDT
Malik Rahim Demands Inquiry into Hurricane Katrina Deaths and Amnesty for “Looters” This past weekend, activists, scholars and survivors testified at a people’s inquiry set up to present evidence and assess whether President Bush and his administration have committed crimes against humanity. Malik Rahim traveled to New York to testify....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 7:31am PDT
eBay's Nazi policies boycotted nationwide 
A nationwide boycott of eBay is protesting eBay's hypocrisy regarding Nazi items that glorify Nazism. Ebay abets sales of Nazi stamps and coins, for example. eBay's Nazi stamps and coins show offensive items that were made by Nazis to glorify Nazism, Hitler, hatred & racism. Hypocritically, eBay banned the sale of a historic photograph of the USA's original Pledge of Allegiance (which was the origin of the Nazi salute) while allowing Nazi stamps that show the Nazi flag saluted....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 4:24am PDT
Remarks Prepared for Delivery: The Millions More March The speech that didn't happen...
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 1:12am PDT
URGENT SOLIDARITY NEEDED: SUPPORT THOSE ARRESTED PROTESTING NEO-NAZIS IN TOLEDO, OH! This is an emergency request for bail money for people arrested at the
anti-Nazi demonstration in Toledo, OH. Please Western Union money to
Chris Fox in Kent, OH. Call him at 330-389-0891 once the money is
wired....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 12:02pm PDT
Over 100 Arrested in Toledo, Ohio After Neo-Nazi March Prompts Counter-Protest & Riot Over one hundred people were arrested this weekend in Toledo, Ohio after a riot broke out in the North section of the city where a Neo-Nazi group planned to march through a predominately African-American neighborhood....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 7:49am PDT
Russell Simmons, Larry Hamm and Julianne Malveaux on the Millions More Movement Ten years after the Million Man march, the Millions More Movement is heading to Washington DC. This time around the event is open to women and is supported by a broad coalition of groups. We speak with grassroots organizer Larry Hamm, economist Julianne Malveaux and Russell Simmons, founder of Hip Hop label Def Jam records....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 7:00am PDT
Today is World Indigenous Peoples Day! YOU can help hold Chevron accountable for poisoning the rainforests and peoples of the Amazon. Indigenous communities in Ecuador are calling for your urgent support in the critical campaign to hold Chevron accountable for its “rainforest Chernobyl”— an ecological and human catastrophe created by the company's spilling of more than 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewater and 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into pristine rainforest areas....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 11:47am PDT
New Orleans: The Making of An Urban Catasrophe Caldwell's analysis of the interconnected factors that led to the disaster in New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 10:53pm PDT
BTL:Groups Campaign to End Veneration of Columbus and Transform Holiday Interview with Glenn Morris, of the Colorado American Indian Movement, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 9:38am PDT
Happy Italian american Day When Taino Indians saved Christopher Columbus from certain death on the fateful morning of Oct. 12, 1492, a glorious opportunity presented itself. The cultures Europe of and the Americas could have merged and the beauty of both races could have flourished.
Unfortunately, what occurred was neither beautiful nor heroic. Just as Columbus could not, and did not, "discover" a hemisphere that was already inhabited by nearly 100 million people, his arrival cannot, and will not, be recog...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:29am PDT
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