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All 9 MOVE men and women were convicted in one of the longest (and most contentious) trials in city history, on dubious charges of 3rd degree murder of a city cop engaged in the raid on their home, and related charges. Even if all the charges were true (and they most certainly are not), the sentence 30 to 100 years can only be termed grossly excessive. At the time of trial, 3rd degree carried a sentence of 71/2 to 15 years --so essentially the MOVE people got more than double, and indeed, qua...

Native American activists and their supporters began the Longest Walk 2 today from Alcatraz Island to Washington DC – trekking across the country to raise awareness about global warming and the movement to protect sacred sites. The five month-long coast-to-coast journey commemorates the 30 year anniversary of the original Longest Walk in 1978....

I speak, of course, of Cynthia McKinney, the bold, outspoken former congresswoman from Georgia, who spoke out against the Iraq War when it wasn't popular. She is running on the Green Party, according to published reports, but the media has virtually ignored this fact....

In Houston, Texas, those who were the staunchest supporters of the now embattled D.A. there, Harris County's Chuck Rosenthal, are now calling for his resignation....

Speaking on behalf of The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King III speaks out for both Mumia Abu-Jamal and The MOVE 9 political prisoners from Philadelphia....

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....