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For Racist Tea Partiers in DC, Officers Outnumbered and Video-taped, Back Off Shortly thereafter, the same group of people surrounded Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) as he entered a first-floor elevator. Above the cacophony, I heard one man call Waxman a "crook" and a "liar." "This is incredible," House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) told reporters of the slurs....
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2010 9:56am PDT
National Ag Day ~ Black Agenda Conference Documentation of the annual Spring Equinox celebration in Ancient Africa. Charting the sun, moon and stars help to provide the notion of measuring Black Agriculture, and a nationwide census. Black Agriculture in the 21st Century is the foundation of Black Culture and once the Black Agenda leaders embrace the wisdom from the "Garden of Eden" then we will move beyond a 3/5ths notion of "We Count" as a forecast enumeration of Census 2010....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2010 11:28am PDT
Brazilian Federal Police raids Native village and abducts Chief Babau in Bahia State At around two o’clock in the morning on March 10th a group of unidentified armed people entered the Tupinambá Native American Village Serra do Padeiro in the South of the Brazilian state of Bahia and brutalized, threatened with murder, drugged and abducted the local Chief Babau....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 12:36pm PDT
Worldwide Moment of Prayer for Black Farmers and Land Theft Victims Activists and ministers calling for Moment of Prayer for Black Farmers and Land Theft Victims...
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 9:45am PDT
Petition to Save Palestinians' Mamilla Cemetery from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's plans to Build over It From a Tuesday, March 9, 2010 entry on Informed Comment a blog run by Juan Cole...
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 8:30am PST
BA Nat'l anarchists abandon some efforts The Bay Area National Anarchists are an unsettling group advancing the 'tribalist' or national separatist philosophy combined with certain anarchist principles. Last year, their group published quite a few event reports and online videos which implied their group is growing, and adding chapters in Sacramento and other areas....
Posted: Sat, Mar 6, 2010 8:47pm PST
EPA tries to explain why ASBESTOS structures on Parcel A need more evluation of sorts. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed the community - more the community living in and around Hunters Point Shipyard. In the year 2000 there was a hazardous fire that raged for a month and the EPA failed the community. At Parcel A - Lennar a Rogue Developer to date has continued to bombard the community - backed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, the SF Public Health Department, the Mayor's Office of Economic Development and SF Redevelopment Agency for the last four years - plus....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 10:06am PST
Following String of Racist Incidents, UC San Diego Students Occupy Chancellor's Office Monday, March 1, 2010 :Crowds of students stormed and occupied the office of a University of California, San Diego chancellor for six hours Friday after a noose was found hanging from a bookcase in the main library. The noose is only the latest in a string of incidents over the past few weeks. Protests were initially sparked by an off-campus party last month they called "Compton Cookout" that mocked Black History Month and denigrated African American women. UC San Diego has the smallest perce...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 7:36am PST
The Indigenous Decolonial Concept of "Buen Vivir" in Latin America This original article "Sumac Kawsay" was published on the Web site of Foro Social Mundial on 6 February 2009. The Spanish translation by Blanca Diego, "Buen Vivir," was published on the same site on the same day. English translation by Christopher Reid. The French translation by Angélica Montes, "'Bien Vivre', un concept de la pensée décoloniale indigène en Amérique latine," is available at the Web site of le Mouvement des indigènes de la république (MIR)....
Posted: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 2:17pm PST
UCSD Chancellor's Office is Occupied In response to administrative equivacation regarding a student demand that UCSD be shut down to allow the community to heal from the racist act of hanging a noose in Giesel Library last night, students from the Black Student Union and allies have occupied the Chancellor's office. The action took place following a morning rally in which the pain associated with the discovery of the noose and the strength of the community were on display....
Posted: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 1:20pm PST
Noose Found in UCSD's Giesel Library In the wake of a racist frat party mocking Black History Month, racially derogatory and inciteful language by a member of the student-supported publication, the Koala, on UCSD's television station, and a week of protests organized by the Black Student Union and allies, a noose was found hanging on the seventh floor of the Giesel Library....
Posted: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 2:51am PST
Noon Rally Today at Oakland City Hall Against Racist, Classist Parking Enforcement Three Oakland parking enforcement whistleblowers have come forward to reveal that the city has been issuing "courtesy notices" to some of its wealthiest residents in the Montclair and Broadway Terrace neighborhoods while everyone else has been getting actual parking tickets with fines up to $100. This is the result of a July 24th, 2009, directive by Ronald Abernathy, a senior parking enforcement supervisor. The cash-strapped city has been targeting its lower income neighborhoods to make up ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 11:05am PST
Former Hunters Point Power Plant fast tracking clean up aided by Regulatory Agency - DTSC. The Department of Toxic and Substances Control (DTSC) has announced the Draft, Remedial Action Plan (RAP) linked to the former Hunters Point Power Plant. Within 34 days the public at large who do not have complete access to the required information are mandated to comment. The site about 30 acres is located by the Bay and Big Developers are waiting to develop this land. The area is very toxic and DTSC has a mandate to clean it up with the help of Pacific Gas and Electric - who operated the Po...
Posted: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 7:03am PST
Killer Cop Update from Second Los Angeles Status Hearing, February 19th, 2010 report from inside the court room Oscar Grant Report...
Posted: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 5:48pm PST
Ethnic self-awareness called pathological by affirmative action foes Ethnic media outlets criticized for being "too ethnic" in their reporting...
Posted: Thu, Feb 18, 2010 3:56pm PST
Blockade of Golden Ears Bridge, Unceded Katzie Coast Salish territory Early this morning members of Katzie First Nations and supporters took part in blocking the Golden Ears Bridge for 10 minutes in protest of the creation of this unwanted infrastructure....
Posted: Thu, Feb 18, 2010 2:57pm PST
Last Two of the Oakland 100 Headed to Trial JR Valrey and Holly Works, the last two of the Oakland 100 – the people arrested during the rebellions following the police murder of Oscar Grant last year – are still facing charges, and must raise legal defense funds for their imminent trials. JR’s trial starts next Monday, Feb. 22, and Holly’s starts the following Monday, March 1. Both will be held in department 11, 8:30am, 1225 Fallon St (@12th), Oakland. Supporters are organizing to make sure there is a community presence in the courtroo...
Posted: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 11:13pm PST
Vancouver Activists Greet Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony with People's Summit, Protest Friday, February 12, 2010 :The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are opening today in Vancouver. Large-scale protests are planned over the weekend. The Olympic Resistance Network has organized a people’s summit to coincide with the Games’ opening ceremonies. Franklin Lopez of the Vancouver Media Co-op filed this report....
Posted: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 9:46am PST
Racist, nazi firebomber pleads no contest to tattoo shop attack in Monterey Today in Monterey, California, Nathan Augustine, 35, pleaded no contest to arson charges after confessing to throwing a Molotov cocktail into the Creative Visions tattoo parlor after the tattoo artists refused to give him a tattoo with a swastika and crosshairs overlaid on President Obama's face....
Posted: Fri, Feb 12, 2010 1:17pm PST
2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver: Green Games are really a Greenwash Despite promises that the 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be ?the greenest games ever,? major environmental justice organizations and representatives from impacted communities in Western Canada say they have major concerns related to the direct environmental impacts of the games in BC, the environmental records of the Game?s host governments, and the environmental practices of a number of the Game?s high-profile corporate sponsors, most notably those involved in extraction and transportation o...
Posted: Fri, Feb 12, 2010 5:22am PST
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