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Bill Monning, potential CA Assembly candidate if Prop. 93 fails, introduces Boatamo. She serves on the International Advisory Board for Global Majority, a gro...

The questions have been digitally amplified for you listening convenience. Please excuse the hiss but its the best we could do. :-)...

There is an old saying: 'knowledge is power.' The axiom sprang to mind unbidden, when I read an article recently on a distraught, single, Liberian mother, in fear of the violent drug trade engulfing her Staten Island, N. Y. neighborhood, who promptly shipped her oldest son back to their West African homeland. She reasoned that even war-torn Liberia, which has been plunged into civil war for at least the last generation, would prove a safer place than a project in a New York bo...

In the century following Columbus' landing, millions of Native Americans died from a combination of European diseases, harsh treatment, and murder. Africans took their places in the mines and fields of the New World. The 80 million Native Americans alive in 1492 became only 10 million left alive a century later. But the 10,000 Africans working in the Americas in 1527, had by the end of the century become 90...

The question really gets to the central Black concern - does he 'get' it? Does he know what our lives really are? It is an historical oddity that he emerges as a quite serious presidential candidate in the same year, the same election, as the well known wife of a former president, Sen. Hillary Rodham-Clinton (D. -N. Y.), is widely regarded not merely as the front runner, but as the heir apparent of the seat vacated by her husband, Bill, some 7 years ago....

Lifetime liberationist, and later scholar Muhammad Ahmad ( f/k/a Max Stanford, Jr.) has given us all a unique and revealing look at this movement, often told from the inside. In his new book, We Will Return in the Whirlwind: Black Radical Organizations - 1960 1975, (Chi., IL: Kerr Publ., 2007) Ahmad tells us of the formative years, apex of development, and the fall of several radical and revolutionary groups: the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Revolutionary Action Movem...

Hundreds of students crowded into the College Nine-Ten Multipurpose Room on October 27th for the 5th annual Practical Activism Conference at UC Santa Cruz. The room's capacity was maxed out when Angela Davis spoke and approximately 175 students heard the speech through speakers setup outside the Multipurpose Room. Activist organizations based on campus and in the community were tabling, food was provided and the workshops were very well attended....

Radio Zapatista interviewed Morning Star, from the Intertribal Friendship House, and Cesar, an indigenous movement supporter, about the protests at UC Berkeley, where 13,000 indigenous ancestor bodies are being held, without consultation with indigenous peoples, at the Hearst Museum....

After the ravages of Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and its surrounding areas, hundreds of imprisoned people were transported to the Jena Juvenile Justice Center, in Jena, Louisiana, a place that became their nightmare. The place was so medieval and tortuous in its treatment of young people, that it was severely criticized by a federal judge as a place where people were "treated as if they walked on all fours," before it was closed....

According to some researchers and reporters, Blackwater was getting down similarly -- in the U.S.! Think back to 2005, when the winds, rains, and gushing waters from Lake Pontchartrain swept through New Orleans, another force beset the already besieged town....