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DAFUR: the open sore of a continent Another human tragedy is playing out in western Sudan. It is the tragedy of Dafur. The conflict in the Sudan has been described as genocide. But we shall return to this. However, let me point out that what we see in Dafur is another example of how Africans are made victims of an expansionist, and brutal external marauders who have historically taken advantage of the inherent pacifism, and some might even say indolence, of the Negroid people....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:40pm PDT
The Case of Sami al-Arian We take a look at the case of Palestinian Professor Sami al-Arian, who has been imprisoned for over a year and is awaiting trial on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder. We speak with his attorney Linda Moreno....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:53am PDT
Felon Disenfranchisement: Purging the Minority Vote As the 2004 election nears, we take a look at how former felons - many of them African American Democrats - were wrongly included on a Florida state list of voters to be purged. We speak with an attorney with the ACLU who threatened to sue the state, a Florida elections supervisor who has publicly refused to purge voters based on the potential felons list and the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging felon disenfranchisement statutes in New York State....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 8:52am PDT
ECR Newsflash :: Indigenous conference streaming from Mt. Shasta International Indian Treaty Council July 8 - 11, 2004
from : Buckskin Family Territory, Fall River Mills, CA.
Streaming live at : www.enemycombatantradio.net...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 3:27pm PDT
Scholars attacked for comparing Zionism to Nazism "... [Prof.] Armitage also reportedly accused the benignly named American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC, Israel’s official but unregistered lobby) of funding opponents of the lobby’s critics, adding, “and believe me, they have money to spare...He also accused AIPAC of “buying our elections, which pisses me off … Israel has a hammerlock on America...."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2004 2:24pm PDT
Fourth of July Speech by Fredrick Douglass What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim....
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 3:14pm PDT
Governor Faces Protesters in Fresno Protestors segregated but refused to be silenced....
Posted: Sun, Jul 4, 2004 6:57pm PDT
"Reagan created the foundation for Bush" The US journalist and author Jill Nelson criticizes what she calls an `orgy of accolades' after former US president Ronald Reagan's demise....
Posted: Fri, Jul 2, 2004 10:07am PDT
Anti-Islam hatred reaches new heights in US The recent beheading of two Americans have added fuel to the angry backlash against Arab-Americans and Muslims that began after the 2001 terrorist attacks....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 6:13pm PDT
Chronicle story about Immigration Raid Press Conference Thanks to kick-ass media work by the coalition of immigrant rights groups who put it on, we got a good write-up in the usually-hostile Chronicle. --Jeff G...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 4:28pm PDT
June 23 - Rally against ICE/INS Raids in the Mission stop all raids!, that the city denounce the raids!, & that the police and FBI not cooperate with the INS stop violating the human rights of immigrants who are under custody of the INS...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 4:57pm PDT
Is Gay Marriage Really So Progressive? Radical people of color providing a critical view of the marriage "equality" movement....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 4:08pm PDT
Racism at Castro gay bar Badlands Link to a website created by former Badlands employees detailing overtly racist practices. People of color are systematically denied entrance to the club....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 1:29pm PDT
76-mile desert walk protests border rules Over 200 people protested U.S. immigration policies at the Tucson Sector Headquarters of the Border Patrol on June 6 at the end of the 76-mile Migrant Trail Walk.
According to Kat Rodríguez, coordinating organizer for the Derechos Humanos Coalition, 26 activists walked the whole length of the march, which started at the U.S.-Mexico border on May 31. Another seven walked part of the length through the Sonoran Desert, where a few hundred people perish each year trying to enter the United St...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:56am PDT
Reagan and Race: "He Maintained A System Of Rich And Poor, A System Of Black And White" We take a look at Reagan's policies on race and civil rights with the Rev. Graylan Hagler, discussing the former president's assault on affirmative actions and social welfare programs and the rise of the crack epidemic in African American communities....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 9:48am PDT
NEW! Track by Mumia,Omowali, and Dred-I Copy, master, burn CDs, whatever. Get this beat out! Free Mumia, and ALL political prisoners....
Posted: Sun, Jun 6, 2004 7:08pm PDT
80 year anniversary of American Indian citizenship act American Indians were given U.S. citizenship on 80 years ago, 5 years after women were given the right to vote....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 2:31pm PDT
Racial Justice Day of Actions - June 7 - Keynote Speaker: MUMIA! - PLEASE JOIN US!!! THOUSANDS will be pouring into San Francisco this weekend to RECLAIM THE COMMONS
(RTC)! One of the main goals of the RTC Mobilization is Movement Building,
specifically to strengthen the ties among the Racial Justice, Peace, and Global
Movements. With this in mind, organizers across the country have planned an
incredible week of actions and events June 3--9 (check out
http://www.reclaimthecommons.net). Please join us on June 7 for the Racial Justice
Day of Actions......
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 5:16pm PDT
Motion to enforce filed in Peltier's lawsuit against editor Paul DeMain In a lawsuit filed over one year ago, a motion to enforce a settlement agreement was filed today with the Eighth U.S. District Court of Claims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, between Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier and Paul DeMain, editor of News From Indian Country....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 8:02pm PDT
US Imperialism and the Politics of Asian/America Setsu Shigematsu of UC Riverside's Dept. of Ethnic Studies, will speak on the subject of how Asians and Asian Americans can be involved in opposing US Imperialism. She is a radical, revolutionary activist-writer. The event at Stanford Univ. is FREE!...
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 12:12am PDT
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