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California Black Farmers celebrate the beginning of National Ag Week in Oakland, California and offer clear linkages between fresh fruit and vegetables and positive health outcomes in our communities....

We all know how Slavery was defended and is used in today circles by those that foster greed. Oakdale Public Housing is a small area - too small to even meet the term "turf". While the City and County of San Francisco has FAILED to deliver Quality of Life standards to the constituents - Dennis Herrera and a bunch of impotent legal gurus think they have won the war. Well, little battles make a War - and you ain't seen anything yet....

Universal order and balance is visited upon earth every Vernal Equinox. Sacred African Agricultural Science first observed the movement of our earth through the universe and created the concept of documenting time. We celebrate Spring 2007 in the California Heartland and document the continual battle for basic human rights as California Black Farmers and Agriculturalists....

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled this week to stop plans by the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort to use treated waste water to make snow on a mountain sacred to Native Americans. Native American rights groups say the courts ruling is a first for recognizing Native American Religious Freedoms over government action. Environmental groups also challenged the plan citing concerns about the environmental safety of skiers and children who play in the snow....

It’s being hyped as “a clash of cultures”. Bruce Gordon was unable to able to fit into the NAACP bureaucracy and now the NAACP’s opponents are labeling the situation as being: “Gordon was too new school". And, that Gordon epitomized a generational struggle within Black America over the direction of a movement still wanting to face traditional civil rights issues; as opposed to “new school” thinking of Gordon who was “pressing for service needs not being addressed for blacks”....

In addition to the crimes of Ghouliani listed by 9/11 firefighters below, Ghouliani is best remembered by Muslims for his racial scapegoating and as the defender of the 1999 police martyrdom of Amadou Diallo on his doorstep in a hail of 41 bullets....

Indigenous Perspectives on Anarchism: Resistance, Solidarity & Paths of Self-Determination at The 12th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair At the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair this coming Saturday, a panel of Indigenous community organizers will discuss specific environmental and social justice struggles impacting their communities and address such topics as: “What relevance does anarchism & anarchists have to Indigenous communities in resistance?” & “Confronting White Privilege & Recolo...

Local support for the Cucap Communities Since approximately 9000 years ago the Cucap have lived in the land adjacent to the Rio Colorado, dedicated fundamentally to fishing. Eighteen years ago the Mexican federal government began passing laws that made it nearly impossible for the indigenous Cucap to live in these lands. In effect in 1993 the zone was declared an ecological reserve, protected by the general law of ecological equilibrium....

Oldest Urban Native American Community Center in the Nation Under Threat! "Save the Legacy" Fundraiser Events Scheduled to Save the Intertribal Friendship House...

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Chairman Omali Yeshitela will discuss this week's arrest of the Africanist Movement Director in Sierra Leone and the ongoing struggles in Guinea-Conakry....