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Martin Luther King Jr Celebration in Davis Join us in Davis for a diverse program of songs, remarks, a video and a Freedom March supporting his dream of a nonviolent society of people living together in peace. Keep The Dream Alive....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 9:39am PST
From The Back Of The Bus To Prison When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus 51 years ago it was the spark that brought about the American Civil Rights Movement; changing the lives for millions of Blacks. For a short while in the mid 60’s and 70’s Blacks made some social and racial gains, however today many Blacks are wasting away their lives in American prisons due to the unjust practice of the Three Strikes Laws....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 8:35am PST
The unelected President of the United States joked about hanging Martin Luther King Jr. Forty seconds into this ten minute and fifteen second video from January 21, 2002 George Bush showed his propensity for gallows humor while a house full of journalists laughed in response....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 5:09am PST
Birth of a New Nation I want to preach this morning from the subject, "The Birth of a New Nation." And I would like to use as a basis for our thinking together a story that has long since been stenciled on the mental sheets of succeeding generations......
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2007 10:43pm PST
Violence Prevention in San Francisco The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) under Allen Nance is side tracking the issue of Violence and Crime in San Francisco. In fact Allen Nance after pussyfooting at the MOCJ - where he had no place to be in the first place will soon jump ship to address Juvenile Issues with his Chicago,partner in crime William Sifferman. So, in steps some professor from Alameda with some others dubious in nature - to try to arrange the furniture in our living room....
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2007 12:37pm PST
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Event Dorsey's Locker Soul Food Restaurant & bar 5817 Shattuck Ave Oakland, CA 94609 510-428-1935...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2007 9:20am PST
Holiday Hypocrisy The corruption of US holidays for patriotism and profit....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 11:05am PST
Paris court defends racist provocateurs exploiting plight of homeless The Paris Administrative Tribunal has twice defended the right of an openly racist organisation, Solidarité des Français (SDF), to offer pig soup to homeless people in Paris, deliberately excluding those whose religion or customs forbid this food....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 10:37am PST
African 'Americans' in Brazil WASHINGTON -- Affirmative action programs are being blamed for “reverse discrimination.” Police homicides of black males are spiraling upward. Poverty remains concentrated in black urban areas and the prisons hold overwhelming numbers of blacks. Faced with such social realities, blacks have begun to call for a new Civil Rights Movement. By the way, all this is taking place in Brazil....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 10:24am PST
Martin Luther King and the Movement for White Solidarity with Black Freedom 1601 - 2nd Ave, Oakland (between E. 16th and E. 17th)...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 12, 2007 7:57pm PST
One City's Firebrand: A Look Back At The San Francisco Black Caucus The City of San Francisco, known for its social and political innovativeness; produced during the early 1970s, a radical grass roots Black American political organization that at its height boasted a membership of five hundred and focused on the areas of housing, employment, education, police brutality, voting rights, and labor issues that directly impacted San Francisco's Black population. This organization was the San Francisco Black Caucus. It was formed in September, 1970, in San Francisc...
Posted: Fri, Jan 12, 2007 7:43am PST
An Evening Lecture with Artist Dawoud Bey The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
685 Mission Street (at Third), San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 12:08pm PST
Support Dine Struggle against coal plant 
> Sithe Global & DPA are proposing to build the Desert Rock power plant,
> a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Corners area on the Navajo
> Reservation...
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 9:07am PST
I have been to the mountaintop: I have seen the promised land. 
" I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land."...
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 12:54am PST
Black Caucus Storms Congress Melanie Campbell, head of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, watched Thursday’s swearing-in of members of the Congressional Black Caucus and thought, “It feels good to be black in America.”...
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 6:24am PST
Australia: Murdoch media attacks 1976 Lebanese refugee intake On January 1 each year, Australia’s parliamentary cabinet papers from 30 years earlier are partially released. Invariably, the media coverage is tailored to fit the contemporary political agenda, rather than to probe and clarify the historical record....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2007 6:10am PST
Kevin Cooper's Death Sentence Challenged in Court Attorneys argued whether to overturn Kevin Cooper's death sentence in front of a 3-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal in San Francisco today. Cooper was convicted of murdering 3 family members, a house guest and injuring 1 in 1983. Cooper's scheduled execution in 2004 was halted due to a last minute appeal alleging misconduct and faulty evidence....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 8:15pm PST
Mexica-Aztec New Year Gardner Community Center
520 W. Virginia St.
San Jose, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 10, 2007 11:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 5:57pm PST
Dems '100 Hours' Agenda Does Little to Address Economic Divide Between Whites and People of Color House Democrats are set to begin their first "100 legislative hours" today. A new study has found their new agenda does little to address the economic divide between whites and people of color. We speak with the executive director of United for a Fair Economy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:12am PST
A message from Leonard Peltier For over 30 years I have sought justice from the United States Courts
which
have failed to provide me with any relief despite acknowledging numerous
acts of Government misconduct....
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2007 12:09pm PST
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