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Indigenous People's Day at Alcatraz
The first 2 times are sold out, and the next available
one is at 5:15 am.
the 5:15 departure n boards from
4:45 to 5 am....
Event Date: Thu, Nov 23, 2006 5:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 9:33pm PST
William Lee Brent 1930-2006: A 1998 Conversation in Havana with the Former Black Panther
Former Black Panther William Lee Brent has died at the age of 75. He made headlines in 1969 when he hijacked an Oakland plane and ordered the pilot to fly to Cuba. He was imprisoned in Cuba for two years and would go on to spend the rest of his life there. In 1998, Amy Goodman traveled to Havana and interviewed Brent. We play excerpts....
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 7:13am PST
Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party
Flores Forbes first joined the Black Panther Party when he was 16 years old. He became the youngest member of the Black Panther's Central Committee and ended up spending nearly five years in prison for an attempted assassination. Flores is now chief strategic officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation in Harlem. His new memoir is called "Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party." He joins us in our firehouse studio....
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 7:12am PST
Hearings on Profiling Sought After Imams Removed from MN Flight
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/21/06) – A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for congressional hearings on religious and ethnic profiling at airports after six Imams, or Muslim religious leaders, were removed from a domestic flight yesterday in Minnesota....
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 6:22am PST
US "Worst" in Welcoming Visitors
WASHINGTON — Rude immigration officials and long delays in processing visas have turned the United States into the world's most unfriendly country for international travelers, a new global survey has showed, amid a controversy over the kicking off of six imams from a US Airways flight....
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 6:19am PST
ACTION ALERT: Buy Nothing Day Supports Sacred Sites & Environmental Justice!
Indian People Organizing for Change(IPOC), invites all to the 5th Annual
Buy Nothing Day Action In Support of Indigenous Cultural Survival and
Environmental Justice. The demonstration site is at the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville, CA, which was recently built atop the Emeryville Shellmound over the objections of
Indian People Organizing for Change and supporters....
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 12:36am PST
Buy Nothing Day @ Bay Street Mall!
Dead Street Mall aka
Bay Street Mall
Emeryville Shellmound...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 24, 2006 12:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2006 4:14pm PST
Thanksgiving is a Lie
Thanksgiving is a lie. Just like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny....
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2006 7:55am PST
CNN to First Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison: "Prove to me that you are not working with our enemies"
Conservative Philadelphia-based radio host Glenn Beck held a brief interview with Congressman-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) on November 14 during a broadcast of CNN Headline News. Beck stated he wasn't accusing Ellison of being "an enemy," but felt many Americans would consider Ellison an enemy of the United States. A snippet of the interview is below......
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 7:30am PST
UCLA Police Repeatedly Taser Handcuffed Student For Refusal to Show ID, University Orders Outside Probe
Officials at the University of California in Los Angeles are launching an independent investigation into campus police officers' repeated shocking of an Iranian-American student with a Taser stun gun. The student was handcuffed the entire time. The incident was captured on video has and sparked outrage across his campus and the country....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 7:00am PST
Livingstone decries vilification of Islam
Muslims are being singled out for demonisation on a par with the victimisation of Jews during the last century, the mayor of London claimed today....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 6:35am PST
London Marches Against Islamophobia
CAIRO — A cohort of British figures and anti-racism organizations will organize a rally in the heart of London on Monday, November 20, to condemn stigmatization and demonization of Muslims and to call for freedom of religion, conscious and thought....
Posted: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 4:49pm PST
Un-Thanksgiving Day - the right of the First People in this land.
Un-Thanksgiving Day is round the corner for the First People. On this day the First People of this land will remember the "injustices" meted out to them every single day. In the 2006 there is no way for so many tribes not to be Federally Recognized and be given their rights. There is no way for so many Tribes to be on Reservations and others in other States - sent by the U.S. government suffering away from their Tribal Regions - because they were shipped away and now are so poor that they can...
Posted: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 8:56am PST
India Muslims Most Marginalized: Report
NEW DELHI — India's Muslims are lagging behind and face more poverty, illiteracy and unemployment than any other community in the country, Pakistan's Daily Times newspaper reported Saturday, November18 , citing an Indian government report....
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2006 10:21am PST
Lennar BVHP LLC defies decency and San Francisco's Precautionary Principle
San Francisco has the Precuationary Principle on its books. The Precautionary Principle aids the constituents of San Francisco and others by protecting them from any adverse impacts known to any entity that may cause harm in any way to all life. In this case Lennar is fully cognizant of the fact about radiological and other very toxic elements in and around Parcel A and still chooses to put thousands of innocent San Franciscans and others in harms way....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2006 8:51am PST
Stormfront.org Rally at Fresno State
They will be at fresno state trying to get members!...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2006 12:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 8:10pm PST
Conference on RACISM AND KATRINA
1606 Bonita at Cedar, thru the gate to the BFUU Education Bldg. , then upstairs
Berkeley, CA 94709...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2006 9:00am PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 7:04pm PST
War On Islam Shifting Fronts?
The following is a new article written by CA prisoner Kalima Aswad. It is followed by a poem that he asked to be included along with it. If you would like to contact him about the pieces, he can be reached at: Kalima Aswad (R. Duren), B-24120,
PO Box 2000, CMF-J-106-L
Vacaville, CA 95696-2000.
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Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 6:23pm PST
Will the Real Dr. King Please Stand Up?
When will America ever come to grips with honoring the real Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-- and his real dream?...
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 1:47pm PST
Muslim Workers Decry French Bigotry
PARIS — French Muslim workers of the Charles de Gaulle airport have decried their "discriminatory" expulsion from the airport for no apparent reason other than being Muslims, while Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to challenge court orders to reinstall some of them....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 9:47am PST