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Massive pain inflicted on Australian Aborigines to steal their land rights “In 2007, the soldiers came with their guns. The first experience of the Intervention for many was terror. Do we run into the bush to prevent their taking our kids, to avoid being shot?” The dread and panic is palpable in the relating. Rachel Willika’s eloquent and powerful telling inspired Rosie Scott to compile this anthology.” “The Intervention – an Anthology” has now been presented at eight venues in New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory. Eight years after the federal gover...
Posted: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 11:28pm PDT
Has the SF Human Rights Commission declared the Black community dead? For years the SF Human Rights Commission, which was created in 1964 to fight against discrimination and for equality. Today, sadly, there is strong evidence to suggest it discriminates against the Black community to the point of leaving for dead or worse....
Posted: Fri, Sep 18, 2015 8:04am PDT
Albert Woodfox Takes First Steps Towards Retrial in State Court on Sept. 21 in St. Francis 
This legal update on Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 was released today as the A3 Coalition Newsletter....
Posted: Tue, Sep 15, 2015 11:53am PDT
Letter to Pope Francis Re: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery 
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends has sent a letter to Pope Francis asking him to repudiate and rescind the Doctrine of Christian Discovery promulgated by predecessor popes. In addition to achieving its stated goal, the letter supports the Amah Mutsun effort to call attention to the inhuman way that the Catholic Church and many of those within it acted towards the Native Peoples of North America (and elsewhere)....
Posted: Sat, Sep 12, 2015 1:43am PDT
Landmark Agreement Ends Indeterminate Long-Term Solitary Confinement in California 
Settlement Reached in California Class Action Suit Moves Out of SHU Those There 10 Years or Longer, Ends Solitary Purely Due to Gang Validation...
Posted: Tue, Sep 1, 2015 4:36pm PDT
The Hidden Shackles and Chains on the Statue of Liberty 
The story behind the creation of the Statue of Liberty was suppressed for more than 125 years. Finally, the National Park Service includes literature that explains the shackles and chains. National Juneteenth Movement is preparing an amazing event on Liberty Island, Rev. Willie Douglass, Stockton, California was on the front line, making it happen in a good way... his legacy will help guide a positive way forward....
Posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2015 12:41pm PDT
Anonymous Operation Ferguson Soldiers On 
This is the second of only two official Press Releases ever published by Op Ferguson. Anonymous Operation Ferguson is far more than just a single Twitter account. We are an entire internet platform including a now iconic website at www.OperationFerguson.cf (a domain registered the very day Mike Brown was killed) an E-Mail server and more. All of this infrastructure was built within 24 hours of the tragic and barbaric slaying of Mike Brown, who has always been and will always remain the primar...
Posted: Sun, Aug 30, 2015 8:00pm PDT
Kai Lumumba Barrow and Shana Griffin talk about Ecohybridity: A Love Song For NOLA (audio/mpeg 19.5MB) WTUL News and Views Speaks to Kai Barrow and Shana Griffin about Ecohybridity: A Love Song for NOLA, a visual black opera in 5 acts that kicks off this weekend on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Aug 26, 2015 7:36am PDT
Anonymous reports impunity in Honduras 
Los Indigatos have been marching through the major cities of Honduras demanding an end to impunity and corruption. First hand accounts of the reality via Anonymous in Sydney are compiled in a monthly report. Coverage by the North American press has been meager - here's what you've been missing....
Posted: Mon, Aug 24, 2015 7:32pm PDT
Dr. Jill Stein speaks out in Ferguson July 25, 2015 (video/mp4 32.7MB) How many presidential candidates have visited Ferguson? While there, Jill Stein spoke against systemic racism that leads to fatalities, through forced choices in housing, education, and how we deliver justice. It is amazing she has been painted almost completely invisible by the media - even and especially the "progressive" media....
Posted: Sat, Aug 22, 2015 8:28pm PDT
Shoe theft allegation nets Alexander J. Bourne 9 months in jail. (audio/mpeg 28.8MB) Janet Hays interviews Alexander J. Bourne about why he spent 9 months locked up at Orleans Parish jail - [AKA Orleans Parish Prison (OPP)] over allegations of shoe theft - all on the taxpayer's dime. This is an inside look at one person's experience with pre-trial services, the bail industry, incarceration and potential political bribery in New Orleans....
Posted: Fri, Aug 21, 2015 11:13pm PDT
White Privilege in the Animal Rights Movement If animal liberation is to succeed, the movement must address the concerns of oppressed humans as well as non-humans. Human oppression cannot be co-opted or ignored, and it certainly cannot be pushed aside within a movement that is supposed to be based on compassion and care for all animals....
Posted: Thu, Aug 20, 2015 4:50pm PDT
In Support of Black Solidarity with Palestine It is certainly a milestone in opposing the 67 year occupation of Palestine by the American military base called Israel that we now have African-American solidarity with Palestine in the form of a statement signed by over 1,000 African-Americans and Africans in other countries found at http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html...
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 7:15pm PDT
Bruce Dixon on Black Activism and the Democratic Party (audio/mpeg 10.8MB) On Monday, 08.19.2015, Black Agenda Report Managing Editor Bruce Dixon spoke to WBAI's Morning Show Hosts Michael G. Haskins and Jed Brandt about Black Lives Matter, Black organizing, and the Democratic Party. He says that the attempt to claim the Democratic Party as a populist organization has a long history which included successes, but that elites changed the rules to undermine every one of them....
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 4:20pm PDT
Gahiji Lumumba Barrow interview with Ruth Idakula, Endesha Juakali and Dequi Kioni Sadiki (audio/mpeg 90.2MB) An interview that defines racism and identifies its presence in New Orleans, Katrina 10 and the protest against the narrative and political prisoners in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2015 7:46am PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal Has Active Hepatitis C; Is Suing Prison for Medical Neglect 
On August 3, 2015, political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lawyers filed an amended lawsuit suing Pennsylvania state prison staff for medical neglect. Two days prior, Abu-Jamal was informed by prison medical staff that he has active Hepatitis C, but is being refused critical treatment. Prison Radio, the San Francisco based non-profit that records Abu-Jamal’s radio commentaries, is calling for supporters world-wide to join the demand for his medical care by going to: bit.ly/fight4mumia...
Posted: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 3:36pm PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal Files Suit Over Prison's Refusal to Provide Necessary Medical Care August 3, 2015: Attorneys for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal filed an amended lawsuit today in the Middle District of Pennsylvania federal court to challenge prison medical staff’s denial of necessary medical treatment – denial that nearly killed Abu-Jamal earlier this year....
Posted: Tue, Aug 4, 2015 10:57am PDT
Photos: Giant Albert Woodfox mural in New Orleans by artist B-Mike w/ Amnesty Intl. USA 
Featured below are photos of the new Albert Woodfox mural in New Orleans, Louisiana, painted by artist Brandan "B-Mike" Odums in conjunction with Amnesty International USA. The photos below are taken by Amnesty USA and the A3 Coalition. Read the July 3 NOLA Times Picayune article to learn more about the mural and to view more photos. This first photo is of Michael Mable, brother of Albert Woodfox, standing in front of the mural....
Posted: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 2:51pm PDT
NNU Statement on Black Lives Matter and the Health Impact of Societal Racial Disparities 
National Nurses United joins with the AFL-CIO and activists across the United States in urging all presidential candidates to address the pervasive problems of racial and economic justice that have so stained our nation....
Posted: Thu, Jul 23, 2015 3:51pm PDT
Community Organizer Pam Nath speaks about White Supremacy, Forgiveness, and Hope (audio/mpeg 82.8MB) Pam Nath speaks to WTUL News and Views about the forgiveness the families of the victims of the Charleston shooting offered Dylan Roof, how White Supremacy operates in our society and the role white people can play, and how the debate between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mayor Mitch Landrieu demonstrates the issues still alive and well even among those making some effort to address issues of race. Includes conversation about hope and how we could move forward as a society....
Posted: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 7:33am PDT
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