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NAACP President Ben Jealous on the Group's 100th Anniversary, Reviving the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division... Tuesday, September 8, 2009 :We speak with Ben Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP about Attorney General Eric Holder's recent announcement that efforts are being made to reshape the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the case of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP and more....
Posted: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 7:26am PDT
Chowchilla, Valley State Prison for Women - Pacific Islander and Native American event. Some of us from San Francisco took the liberty to visit the Chowchilla, Valley State Prison for Women some 160 miles away from San Francisco. I was invited by Rudy Corpus from United Playaz who does good work visiting many facilities where men and women are incarcerated. Folks in San Francisco may not know it, but Chowchilla is one of the world's largest facilities holding incarcerated women. It was built to hold 2000 inmates but holds more then 3100....
Posted: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 6:58am PDT
TX State Board of Ed: No Cesar Chavez & Thurgood Marshall in new social studies curriculum There is an education war going on in Texas that you need to know about and get involved with. The TX State Board of Education is currently preparing to adopt new social studies curriculum standards. These standards have major national implications as Texas is such a major purchaser of textbooks and their state’s required curriculum drives the content of textbooks produced nationwide - Arguing that the state’s social studies and history textbooks are giving "too much attention" to some of the...
Posted: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 10:55am PDT
Fall Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance Fall Delegation to Bolivia: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Resistance
Spend Thanksgiving celebrating indigenous resistance and exploring food sovereignty issues in Bolivia, the first country in the hemisphere to be governed by an indigenous president....
Posted: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:30am PDT
Incarceration a TRILLION dollar business - a present day slave plantation expanding. San Francisco is a Racist City that encourages those in power to prey on the poor and those especially living in Public Housing. Gang Injunctions that do not work and other ploys and machinations have been used by corrupt politicians, mayors, wanabee City Attorneys and District Attorneys to send innocent folks to jails to make money for the Prison Industry. Only in America do we incarcerate in huge numbers and yet try to brag that we care about humanity and decency. Never mind that most of th...
Posted: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 1:48am PDT
CLAIMS DELAYED, JUSTICE DENIED On behalf of the Justice for Filipino American Veterans(JFAV) a national alliance of veterans, youth, students and community organizations and activist for veterans rights based in Los Angeles, California, points out the fact that as of August 2009, less than 10 percent of more than 35,000 Filipino World War II veterans who applied for their claims have received their benefits. Although you have reassured our fellow organization, the ACFV that the VA department is doing its best to implement ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 1:36pm PDT
Four Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Struggling to Recover From the Storm Monday, August 31, 2009 :President Obama promised Saturday that his administration would not forget the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. He vowed to help people finish the task of rebuilding and recovery while working to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. For an assessment of the pace of recovery four years after Hurricane Katrina, we speak to life-long New Orleans resident and civil rights attorney, Tracie Washington....
Posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 7:37am PDT
On the Unjust Prosecution of the San Francisco 8 In the name of fairness and justice and human rights, we urge you to reconsider the continuation of this misguided prosecution....
Posted: Sun, Aug 30, 2009 11:10am PDT
Former Wells Fargo Subprime Loan Officer: Bank Targeted Black Churches as Part of Predatory Subprime Lending Scheme Friday, August 28, 2009 :Up until two years ago, Elizabeth Jacobson was the top producing loan officer in the subprime division at Wells Fargo. Today she is speaking out against the practices of her former company. Earlier this summer, she filed a sworn affidavit with a federal court in support of the city of Baltimore's lawsuit against Wells Fargo for pushing high-interest, subprime loans onto African Americans in Baltimore and the Maryland suburbs, leading hundreds into foreclosure....
Posted: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:46am PDT
"From Recession to Depression: The Destruction of the Black Middle Class" Friday, August 28, 2009 :We speak with Dedrick Muhammad of the Institute for Policy Studies about his latest article with Barbara Ehrenreich called "The Destruction of the Black Middle Class." They write, "For African Americans -- and to a large extent, Latinos -- the recession is over. It occurred between 2000 and 2007...What's happening now is a depression."...
Posted: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 7:45am PDT
Reclaming Sacred Sites Saturday August 29th 2009 Mount Rushmore South Dakota Native Americans to gather in Keystone, South Dakota to Commemorate the 39th Year Anniversary of the Historic Invasion and Occupation of the ''National Shrine of Democracy' Mount Rushmore and to bring awareness to the importance of Protecting our Mother Earth & Demand Justice For Leonard Peltier....
Posted: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 10:21am PDT
Mark Leno Senate Bill 792 encounters hurdles and LACKS support in Sacramento and Bayview. Senator Mark Leno's Senate Bill 792 will FAIL but what is more it will bring the downfall of Mark Leno and his future quests to exploit innocent people for his own selfish needs. Let me state very clearly Mark Leno is NO Harry Britt or Harvey Milk. Having said that - Mark Leno has now resorted to invite individuals to meet one on one, to MAKE deals, much like LENNAR a Rogue Developer. SB 792 is dead and the consequences and adverse impacts too much for the Bayview Hunters Point to bear. This ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 7:39am PDT
Italy: Xenophobic immigration policy leads to hundreds of deaths in the Mediterranean Thursday, August 27, 2009 :
A further 73 African refugees have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea as they attempted to sail from Libya to Italy. According to the UN refugee aid organization, 525 boat refugees died at sea in 2008 and several hundred have already drowned this year....
Posted: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 6:56am PDT
Over 500 Organizations Demand White House End Flawed State And Local Immigration Enforcement Program Thursday, August 27, 2009 : WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union and 520 other local and national organizations sent a letter to President Obama this week demanding that the administration terminate the 287(g) program that allows certain state and local law enforcement agencies to engage in federal immigration enforcement activities....
Posted: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 6:55am PDT
Lynching of Cynthia McKinney urged by ‘journalist’ trained and paid by FBI Visiting the Bay Area on a five-day fundraising tour for the SF Bay View, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney joins Bay View publisher Willie Ratcliff at a gathering Friday, Aug. 21, at the Black Dot in West Oakland. Two days later, on Aug. 23, she learned that a “journalist” who had called for her lynching in 2006 was working at the time for the FBI.
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sent an email around on Sunday in which she wrote:
“[I]t has just now come to my attention that a ‘...
Posted: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 8:56am PDT
Imprisoned Native American Activist Leonard Peltier Again Denied Parole Monday, August 24, 2009 :The imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been denied parole again. The U.S. Parole Commission told the 64-year-old Peltier on Friday that his release would "depreciate the seriousness of [his] offenses" and "promote disrespect for the law." It was Peltier's first full parole hearing in 15 years and he will not be eligible for parole again until July 2024, at the age of 79. We speak with Eric Seitz, Leonard Peltier's attorney....
Posted: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 7:32am PDT
Open Email to Andrea Lewis of KPFA re Peter Richardson's Murder Claim Against the Panthers Earlier emailed-in radio question today, read on KPFA's "Sunday Sedition" (August, 23, 2009) radio show, with host Andrea Lewis, for guest PETER RICHARDSON (author of _A Bomb In Every Issue: How The Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America_), and follow-up email, regarding the 1975 murder of Betty Van Patter, a onetime bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party....
Posted: Sun, Aug 23, 2009 5:36pm PDT
Sri Lanka: Detention of Tamil civilians to continue indefinitely Saturday, August 22, 2009 :
Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse reiterated on Monday that up to 300,000 Tamil civilians who fled the fighting in the final days of the country’s protracted civil war will remain incarcerated indefinitely. Their detention in squalid camps near Vavuniya and Jaffna as de facto prisoners of war is a flagrant abuse of democratic rights....
Posted: Sat, Aug 22, 2009 8:16am PDT
Influential Puerto Rican Activist Group the Young Lords Marks 40th Anniversary Friday, August 21, 2009 :This weekend marks the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the revolutionary community organizing group the Young Lords. The group called for self-determination for all Puerto Ricans, community control of institutions and land, freedom for all political prisoners and the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, Puerto Rico and other areas. The Young Lords would also play a pivotal role in spreading awareness of Puerto Rican culture and history, leaving a legacy still...
Posted: Fri, Aug 21, 2009 7:45am PDT
Can we talk? The Middle East “peace industry” Thursday, August 20, 2009 :Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote "coexistence" and "dialogue" between both sides of the "conflict," no doubt expecting me to give a nod of approval. However, these efforts are harmful and undermine the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions of Israel -- the only way of pressuring Israel to ce...
Posted: Thu, Aug 20, 2009 10:44am PDT
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