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America's Last Plantation ~ NAACP joins Black Farmers Quest toward Freedom 
USDA Secretary Johanns is providing forward thinking leadership to make postive progress in the 2007 Farm and Food Bill . Bipartisan leadership within our House Agriculture Committee is moving backwards towards U.S. Ag Public Policy that may start a 2007 "Civil War" on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that will look something like tonight's fireworks. We can move from an "ostrich like notion of burying one's head in sand" to clear forward thinking or return to the past reality...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 10:59am PDT
ProLibertad Activist Digest 1. July 21st ProLibertad Cookout 2007.
2. Donate to Isabel Rosado, she needs our support...
3. Message from OScar Lopez Rivera: Check oput the ProLibertad Blog:
http://prolibertad-freepuertorico.blogspot.com...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 10:45am PDT
Black and Brown unite to stop the Minutemen Los Angeles – Anti-Minuteman protestors, called by the Mayday Defense Committee and Unión del Barrio, linked arms across the 43rd Place entrance to Leimert Park three lines deep to defend the park against the minutemen. Across the street, Choose Black America (CBA), a front group for the anti-immigrant march sponsors, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), and Save Our State, a Minuteman spin-off, fretted and stewed. The LAPD, obviously sensing the determination of the people and ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 10:27am PDT
Failure of Immigration Bill Could Lead to Racist Ordinances Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :New America Media, News Report, Eugenia Chien, Posted: Jul 03, 2007 Editor's Note: Immigration advocates warned ethnic media during a NAM Access Washington teleconference that with immigration reform effectively dead in the Senate, immigrant communities need to brace themselves for a defense against harsh enforcement-only ordinances....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:13am PDT
Cherokee Tribe Reinstates Blacks Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :The Final Call, News Report, Staff, Posted: Jul 03, 2007 Editor's Note: After Black Cherokee tribe members were stripped of their tribal membership, a federal suit was filed on their behave to block the tribes elections. WASHINGTON, D.C. - On June 13, the Federal District Court denied a motion to halt the June 23 Cherokee election....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 9:12am PDT
Thugs sent all over the Bayview to spread misinformation by SF Health Department Why would the San Francisco Health Department and Dr. Rajiv Bhatia resort to educating thugs and others at the last moment to send them into the community to spread misinformation. Lennar has been bombarding the community with toxic dust and Asbestos friables for months. Now, suddenly the SF Health Department has chosen to remedy the situation after adversely impacting the Bayview Hunters Point community for so long....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 8:34am PDT
Victims Witness Protection in San Francisco, It's failures to Protect... The San Francisco's Witness Protection has failed this black family of eight, mom, dad and 6 children and still dumped them in an unprotected and dangerous neighborhood. I am the grand mother and am looking for VOICES IN THE BAY AREA to force the District Attorney, Kamala D. Harris to relocate my family out of this city before someone else in Witness Protection is hurt or worse....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 7:55am PDT
!Anti-Canada Day 2007! 
On July 1st 2007, the third annual Indigenous anti-canada day event was held in Coast Salish Territories (vancouver, B.C.). A rail line in the native neighbourhood of Commercial Drive was blockaded as part of Indigenous People's ongoing resistance to the occupation of our territories by the state of Canada and capitalist corporations. This was one of many actions across the continent....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:38pm PDT
Louisiana teen guilty in school beating case An all-white jury in the central Louisiana town of Jena swiftly convicted a black teenager Thursday for attacking a white student in an incident that capped months of racial unrest and attracted the scrutiny of civil rights leaders concerned about the application of justice in the town....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 6:12pm PDT
Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports Cody's Bookstore
1730 Fourth Street, Berkeley
(near University Ave.)...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 10:14am PDT
Louay Safi: Steve Emerson's Fantastic Obsession Monday, July 2, 2007 :What would an investigative reporter turned director of a private intelligence operation, who is increasingly obsessed with proving that mainstream Muslim American organizations are radical, do when he fails to find evidence to support his obsession? Human decency and Ethical conduct dictate that he give up his obsession and admit that he was wrong....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:03pm PDT
Worker Center Alliances: The Austin Example Monday, July 2, 2007 : Last week, we reported that Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, Calif., was the first local worker center in the Golden State to affiliate with a local AFL-CIO central body....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 6:55pm PDT
Historic California Black Farm Community renamed Nigger Hill by U.S. Government 
The NAACP, through its STOP Campaign calls on those outside and especially those within the Black community to Stop Defaming our Women, Degrading our Community, and Denigrating our History. No word defames, degrades and denigrates like the N-Word and we want to STOP it!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 10:15am PDT
SF Mayor Courts Chinese Americans for Embattled Supervisor’s Seat Saturday, June 30, 2007: San Francisco’s only Asian-American supervisor, Ed Jew, is facing charges that he does not live in his district. Meanwhile, several Chinese-American names have surfaced as potential candidates to replace him. Asian Americans represent nearly a third of San Francisco’s population. At least 20 percent of San Francisco’s population is Chinese-American. The World Journal is a Chinese-language daily newspaper published in major U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Chicago...
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:45am PDT
Chipping Away at 'Brown' Saturday, June 30, 2007 : The public secret is that most school systems in the United States have resegregated themselves, if they were ever desegregated to begin with. Now, however, it's more likely that European Americans will be educated apart from schools comprised of Latino and African American students....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:44am PDT
Asian Parents and Students Face Challenge of Diversity Saturday, June 30, 2007 :The U.S. Supreme Court struck down voluntary school desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., because they use race to assign some students to schools in an attempt to avoid racial isolation. For many Asian-American students, self-segregation is a part of their high school life. Meanwhile, Asian-American parents navigate between the choice of sending their children to the best school and ensuring that their children can adapt to a diverse society....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:43am PDT
EU 'faces backlash from Turkey' Saturday, June 30, 2007 : The European Union is risking an Islamic backlash in Turkey, the EU's enlargement commissioner says....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:27am PDT
Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the "Children are Sacred" report Saturday, June 30, 2007 :Prime Minister John Howard has claimed that the trigger for his announcement last week of a federal military takeover of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory was the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry’s report into sexual abuse of Aboriginal children, entitled "Little Children are Sacred"....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:51am PDT
Quigley: How to Destroy an African-American City – Lessons From Katrina Saturday, June 30, 2007 : Step One. Delay....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 7:50am PDT
Black Agriculture: land theft, racism, environmental destruction ~ the Story of Love, TX 
Museum of African Diaspora, based in San Francisco, MoAD is committed to showcasing the "best of the best" from the African global experience. While the African Union nation states debate the tools to create our United States of Africa. An American notion of moving towards, "forming a more perfect union" remains extremely elusive to utilize "Black Agriculture as the foundation of Black Culture" to manifest generational economic, political and social stability....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 1:30pm PDT
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