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NO TORTURE, JUST PEACE
San Franciscans rally against Racism and War, Saturday 1.27.07. The event began at Noon on Market and Powell. Some pictures of the event....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 3:21pm PST
EJS Creative Justice Art Show Reception
University of San Francisco School of Law
EJS Creative Justice Art Show
2199 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 5:30pm PST
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 3:53am PST
Integration Efforts in the North During the Civil Rights Era
ISSC Conference Room
2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste), Berkeley
(Near Channing Way between College and Telegraph Avenues)...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 3:30pm PST
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 3:31am PST
Civil Rights Litigation and Movement Building
- Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 3:15am PST
Monday, Jan. 29: UC Berkeley programs on Civil Rights history
The Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley is sponsoring two programs on the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its impact, North as well as South. (For the first program, at Noon, see the URL at the end.)...
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 3:06am PST
Media Stokes Islamophobia
CAIRO — The Western media and film industry are perpetuating Islamophobia and prejudice by demonizing Muslims and Arabs as violent, dangerous and threatening people, according to a new British report released Friday, January 26....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 6:25pm PST
Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath
UC Berkeley Campus - 2040 Life Sciences Building (LSB)
Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 11:32am PST
Murder Charges Against Former Black Panthers Based on Confessions Extracted by Torture
Police in California, New York and Florida arrested eight former Black Panthers earlier this week on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Charges were thrown out in 1974 after it was revealed police used torture to extract confessions in the case. We speak with two of the defendants’ attorneys....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 8:15am PST
American students attack Palestinian students on US soil
"It was the ugliest thing I have ever seen," said Awartani, a freshman pursuing a double major in aerospace and mechanical engineering at NC State. "I've seen Israeli soldiers doing this to me in Palestine, but I've never seen this with citizens. It just came with punches, kicks and brass knuckles. There were witnesses that told me they were picking up rocks and bricks and hitting me."
All this was accompanied by 'sand niggers,' 'fucking Palestinians,' 'terrorists.' I would like to say seve...
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 7:41pm PST
Promoting proximity: Islamic scholars meet in Doha
Islamic scholars meet in Doha and call for unity in Islam amid fiery sessions and latent accusations, writes Rasha Saad...
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2007 6:13pm PST
Film-"The Untold Story Of Emmett Louis Till"
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar (1 block east of MLK Jr. Way @ Bonita)
Berkeley, CA 94709...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 11:03pm PST
Honor Leonard Peltier in San Jose
Pagesincolor.com
Fair Trade Store
888 East Santa Clara Street
near 19th Street
San Jose, CA 95116...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:58pm PST
Public Showing of Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible
Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 4:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:47pm PST
FORMER BLACK PANTHERS ARRESTED AND INDICTED 1/23 IN 1971 HOMICIDE
Preliminary reports indicate several arrests including former Panthers that resisted a 2005 grand jury and others in a 1971 SF case involving the death of a police officer. In 1975 cases were dropped as the evidence against Panthers was derived by the torture of several arrested in 1973....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 10:01am PST
LEGACY OF TORTURE: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement
Roxie Theater
16th & Valencia Streets, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 9:48am PST
State of the Union: African Americans are Against War
In black communities across America, the war in Iraq, continued racial discrimination and violence in the streets weigh heavy on the minds of its average citizens, according to a recent BlackAmericaWeb.com survey....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:23am PST
tuesday: 8 BLA arrests for 1971 police killing in S.F.
Eight men were arrested Tuesday [1/23/2007] in the 1971 killing of a police officer that authorities say was part of a black power group's five-year effort to attack and kill law enforcement officers in San Francisco and New York....
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 4:38pm PST
FCC Commissioner: Declining Black Media Ownership is a ‘National Disgrace’
NEW YORK (NNPA) – The level of Black ownership of broadcast media, which has fallen by 30 percent over the past nine years, is a “national disgrace” and reflects overall retrenchment in the march toward justice and equality, a member of the Federal Communications Commission has charged....
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:04am PST
European Recipe to End Islamophobia
PARIS — A leading European anti-racism watchdog has proposed a recipe to fight the spiraling Islamophobia and deep-seated discrimination of Muslims in jobs, education and housing across the European continent....
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:58am PST
‘Dr. King was nation’s greatest unionist’ Millions commemorate peace, civil rights leader
Last week, Americans marched, rallied, petitioned, held community service events and worshipped in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Here are only a few of the tens of thousands of events honoring King’s legacy, the civil rights movement and the fight for peace, dignity and economic justice for all....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 7:01am PST