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How Military Recruiters Pitch to Latinos In a 1958 CIA information report on revolutionary activities in Cuba, the agent in charge wrote "Che [Guevara] is fairly intellectual for a Latin." A racist assertion such as this was not uncommon in government documents. Throughout the Cold War, official bureaucratic language and content continued to be influenced by long-standing"scientific" theories about national character and racial psychology....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 5:16pm PDT
What Happens When Blacks Suppress White Votes? The Justice Dept. lawsuit accusing blacks of suppressing white votes in Mississippi, however sound, serves to distract from continuing voter discrimination against blacks nationwide. New America Media Associate Editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of "The Emerging Black GOP Majority (Middle Passage Press, September 2006)....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 5:15pm PDT
“Catch a Fire”: New Film Depicts Life of South African Freedom Fighter Patrick Chamusso Academy award-winning actor Tim Robbins joins us to talk about his new film, “Catch a Fire.” The movie tells the story of black South African freedom-fighter - Patrick Chamusso. The film depicts life under apartheid rule – a regime where torture and indefinite detention were commonplace for most of the population and the label terrorist was applied to those seeking to end apartheid and bring democracy to the country. We’re also joined by the film’s producer, Robyn Slovo, the the daughter of a...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:07am PDT
An Interview With South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu On His 75th Birthday On the day of announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, we play an interview with another Nobel Peace Prize winner -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Earlier this week he turned 75 years old....
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:06am PDT
California State Fair reflects a continual decline since the exclusion of our Black Rodeo 
2006 California State Fair and Exposition may benchmark a changed paradigm for Black Farmers and Agriculturalists participation showcasing "California Grown" food, fiber and fuel to the world. Our Nations Community Food Systems cannot tolorate unchallenged continual systemic institutional racism that negates meaningful Black participation....
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 3:11pm PDT
SF: Enough is Enough! March+Rally for Demand Self-Determination for our Communitie MASS MARCH and DEMONSTRATION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16TH
front steps of CITY HALL
11AM-4PM...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 2:09pm PDT
Oakland: What We Want, What We Believe DVD Release at AK Press AK Press 674-A 23rd. St Oakland, CA
b/t MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 1:21pm PDT
France passes Armenia genocide law France's lower house of parliament has passed a bill making it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide, a step that has been strongly denounced by the Turkish government....
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 9:19am PDT
October 16, 2006 a Rally of good men, women and children in front of City Hall This City of San Francisco under Mayor Gavin Newsom has lost all sense of decency. Gavin is all about Spin and Media and wrong policies when it come especially dealing with poor people. We will gather on October 16, 2006 at noon to state once and all who is in charge of this City. We will not request but we will " demand ". For too long, have too many people, suffered in silence while come very EVIL people using money, crooked tactics, have violated the rights of innocent children, women and...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2006 6:06am PDT
Oakland: Spike Lee's WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE Uhuru Solidarity Center, 1601 - 2nd Avenue, Oakland...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 10:41pm PDT
SF: Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the WU Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 10:52am PDT
Big Jump in Hate Crimes Against Muslims Documented WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Complaints of discrimination, harassment and violence against Muslims jumped over 30 percent in 2005 from the previous year, according to a report released Sept. 18 by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim organization....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 8:11am PDT
Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off DN! Debate With Columbia Student Organizer The anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project announced yesterday that they are seeking to strip Columbia University of federal funding for what they say are violations of their civil rights. Last week, student demonstrators disrupted a speech by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who was invited to the school by the College Republicans. Gilchrist and student organizer Karina Garcia joins us for a debate that ends when Gilchrist abruptly pulls the plug....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 7:49am PDT
HIP HOP & Healthy Sexuality At Humboldt State University in Arcata, see the HSU website if you need more details on how to get there, or a campus map. Presentation will be in Theatre Arts 11. Enter the door in front of the bike rack and make a left. It's a classroom....
Event Date: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 10:33pm PDT
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera betrays constistuents of San Francisco Elections time I would see San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera come around and speak to issues and state that he was about preserving the rights of the constitutents of San Francisco. Standing up for what is right. Time and time again the City Attorney Dennis Herrera has betrayed San Francisco and more its constituents....
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:59am PDT
Australian coroner: Police killed Aboriginal prisoner on Palm Island In a highly revealing ruling, a coroner has found that police bashed and killed an innocent Aboriginal man on Queensland’s Palm Island nearly two years ago. The report provides a damning case study of police violence and its systemic use against indigenous Australians....
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:03am PDT
KPFA will air the Black Panther Party Reunion Interim Manager Lemlem Rijio wrote the editors of the SF Bay View to say that she was open to it all along and that KPFA will offer a live broadcast of this historic event....
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 9:16pm PDT
October 16, 2006 at 12 noon on the steps of City Hall Over 33,000 signatures were collected from constituents all over the City and County of San Francisco and all of them very certified by the SF Department of the Elections. Then came the City Attorney, Dennis Herrera and Mayor Gavin Newsom - and invalidated the signatures on some vague law that does not make sense. 33,000 signatures are a lot of signatures and the people spoke. Now the people will speak once again and this time - City Hall will have to listen. We demand that the voice of the ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 8:12pm PDT
In the Name of Allah Fundraiser Supperclub, 657 Harrison Street between 2nd & 3rd Streets, San Francisco. Oct 16
home of in Palo Alto. Oct 18...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 10:36am PDT
Arabs in the Media — 4 hour special on Link TV Tune in to Link TV nationwide on DIRECTV ch. 375 and DISH NETWORK ch. 9410, as well as on cable channel MHz3 in DC, VA and MD; eaTV (ch. 27) in San Francisco; and KRCB (ch. 22) in Northern California....
Event Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 10:31am PDT
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