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20 SFPD Cops Suspended for Racist Video!!! Press Conference in BVHP Tomorrow 9:30am!!!***
***BREAKING NEWS: 20 SFPD Cops Suspended for Racist Video!!! Press Conference in
BVHP Tomorrow 9:30am!!!***...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 8:17pm PST
Take Action to Save Tookie Williams NOW
Now is The Key Time to Act to Save Tookie Williams:
www.savetookie.org
1. Make your call TODAY (Schwarzenegger - 916.445.2841)
2. Rally for Clemency on Thursday, 10AM at the Capitol
Building in Sacramento (other events at
www.savetookie.org)
3. Send a Letter to the Editor under 250 words,
include your
address and phone # to triblet@angnewspapers.com,
letters@sfchronicle.com and other papers
(samples at www.savetookie.org)...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 10:08am PST
World Ag Expo ~ Human Rights Violations against Black Farmers
"California Grown" racial apart-hate is demonstrated at the World Ag Expo 2006 and limits equal opportunity for global Black Farmers....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 6:32pm PST
Bay Area Weekly Publishes Hate Group Apologetic
On November 18th, 2005, "J, the Jewish Newsweekly of Northern California" ran a commentary defending the history of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), calling it an organization guilty of nothing more than "standing up unequivocally for the Jewish people". The FBI, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and the Southern Poverty Law Center think otherwise....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 8:24am PST
Meeting of the Tribes on Alcatraz
Alcatraz and its brief take over by the Native Americans has always inspired many all over the world but more importantly the many Native American Tribes of California. Here is California many tribes have yet to be put on the Federal Register and this is not Just. Even as we speak we have corruption in the White House and in Washington DC - some folks pretending to help Native Americans and making millions - some of it in the name of Native Americans....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:40pm PST
Angry hurricane evacuees sue feds
A few short months after the nation’s greatest natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina, followed by Hurricane Rita, the news media are reporting that donor-weary Americans are moving on with their lives and preparing for the holidays.
That reality flew in the face of members of the Hurricane Evacuee Council-Bay Area, who experienced disinterest and insensitivity from about 60 percent of the spectators who rushed past them to get to the tree lighting ceremony in Ghirardelli Square on Friday....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:58am PST
‘People of color are already the majority; we just need to take charge!’
“People of color are already the majority in California; we just need to take charge,” said Steve Phillips, former San Francisco school board member and executive director of PowerPac.org. Phillips’ well-informed voice joined a panel of legislators and policy makers at last week’s Racial Policy Summit held in Oakland....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:55am PST
Liquor Store Attacks Go Deeper than Booze
Mom-and-pop liquor stores have long been a target for blacks angry at the economic disempowerment of their communities. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a contributing editor at Pacific News Service and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:53am PST
Hip-Hop Predicted Liquor Store Trashings Long Ago
Hip hop musicians have long addressed -- and frequently profited from -- liquor sales in impoverished black neighborhoods. PNS contributor Adisa Banjoko is a lecturer and author of the upcoming book "Lyrical Swords Vol. 2: Westside Rebellion." For more information visit http://www.lyricalswords.com....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:51am PST
Rosa Parks & the Civil Rights Movement
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 5PM
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dec. 1, 2005 marks the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat, and the beginning of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott. The bus boycott set in motion the Civil Rights Movement and eventually brought down the Jim Crow segregation laws....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 1:51pm PST
Televising the Revolution Film Series: Indigenous Struggles - This Tuesday
Honor Indigenous Struggles. Check out the Film
“A Tattoo On My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973”
El Rio Tuesday night, 8pm...
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 9:01am PST
Danny Glover invites you to see Tookie Movie 12/4 in SF
Danny Glover, Barbara Becnel, Kevin Epps, Boots Riley speak at screening of "Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story" at www.victoriathreatre.org...
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 4:55pm PST
Shellmound Peace Walk nears the end
Soon the Shellmound Peace Walk will come to an end. I joined them from Executive Park near Hunters Point, through Bayview, then the old Army Street (Cesar Chavez) to Mission Dolores Park. There the Shellmound Peace Walkers rested after walking about 20 miles. They have been doing this since November 7, 2005 walking about 20 miles every single day....
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 5:56am PST
Shellmound Peace Walkers
Shellmound are Sacred Burial Grounds. We have over 450 Shellmounds all over the Bay Area.
Shellmound are not Middens or Trash Sites. One of the largest intact Shellmounds lies beneath
the San Bruno Mountain home of the endangered Blue Butterfly....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 7:10am PST
Photos from Rally to Save Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Pics from rally at San Questin on November 19 to prevent the execution of Stan "Tookie" Williams...
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2005 8:17pm PST
Civil Rights March and Protest at U.C. Regents meeting
The U.C. regents have come to vote for fee hikes, nuclear weapons contracts, and continuing the illegal ban on affirmative action. we were marching today and demanding the same things as we were over 300 years ago. which is justice and equal rights in education and opportunity to live in harmony and equality. we are marching for global justice....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 6:31pm PST
Students Arrested at Powell Speech Protest Accuse Police of Racial Profiling
Police arrested eight people Friday night at the San Francisco Bay Area's De Anza College while protesting against a visit by Colin Powell. Six of the eight arrested were Muslims. Students are accusing police of using racial profiling and excessive force while arresting activists during the demonstrations....
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 6:36am PST
Inside Arnold's Camp - Where are the people of color?
I slipped in, I saw...I saw nothing but white cowboys.......
Posted: Sun, Nov 6, 2005 6:45pm PST
11/9: Serious Meeting Re: SF Communities of Color
WHEN: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005
12 Noon
WHERE: Ella Hill Hutch Community Center
McAllister & Webster Streets
San Francisco, Ca...
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 1:38pm PST