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Soweto, 30 years after the uprising On the morning of June 16 1976, a crowd of 10,000 black students gathered in the South African township of Soweto. They were demonstrating against a decree from the apartheid government that all pupils must learn Afrikaans in school. The protest was peaceful, but police opened fire, and at least 566 people were killed in the events that followed. The massacre brought the brutality of the racist regime to the attention of the world - and, some say, marked the beginning of the end for apartheid...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 10:14pm PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal: "Just in the Name of 'Democracy' " (June 3, 2006) 
It is ironic that a government that is profoundly autocratic, that relies on elite authoritarianism, secrecy, wireless wiretaps, secret prisons and torture, can claim to be fighting for something that is becoming so rare in the U.S. (ahem -- democracy)....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 8:27pm PDT
California Juneteenth ~ Our Journey Towards Freedom 
Should California Juneteenth Celebrations include the History of California Slavery?...
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 8:40am PDT
‘Case dismissed,’ says the judge in Congressman Bobby Rush vs. POCC Info Min. JR JR called after the court hearing Monday, a smile in his voice. When his case came up – a case that could have locked him in jail for a year – he was in court, but his accuser, i.e., his false accuser, Congressman and former Illinois Black Panther Party Defense Minister Bobby Rush, wasn’t....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 6:48am PDT
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Murder Reinvestigated Little did I know that I would come head to head with the chief investigator into the death of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, and how Bob Ecoffey would come to be a defendant in one of my lawsuits, presided over by a federal judge who, 12 years earlier, had helped Ecoffey frame up Arlo Looking Cloud for the murder of Anna Mae. The judge and former U.S. Attorney is blasting my lawsuits out of her court before even allowed into Court....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 8:25pm PDT
Kamala Harris and her ploy to defend her Witness Protection Program San Francisco's District Attorney Kamala Harris does NOT fully comprehend the constituents of San Francisco. It is too late to bring some cronies together to discuss the Witness Protection Program that has so far failed and was not brought to the community to disscuss in the first place. Any program that does not have the blessing of the community - poor or rich will NOT survive in San Francisco. Gone are the days when Willie L. Brown Jr. and his crones got away with murder - in recent months...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 7:16am PDT
IF IT WEREN’T FOR THE INTERNET WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD: Six Nations conflict heats up (audio/mpeg 14.9MB) Six Nations’ people and supporters have occupied their land for approximately three months to prevent its invasion.This is an interview of Thahoketoteh of the Bear Clan, Mohawk Nation of Grand River, who is a member of the Mohawk Nation News....
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 8:01pm PDT
Greg Palast: The Front Lines of the Class War from 1927 to Today Investigative journalist Greg Palast discusses the disenfranchising of black voters from the voters rolls and what he calls "other dispatches front lines of the class war." Palast is author of the book, "Armed Madhouse."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 7:38am PDT
Race Still A Factor In Death Penalty Cases A new study shows that racial characteristics are still prominent factors when it comes to deciding the fate of defendants in death penalty cases, when the accused is of African descent....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 6:26pm PDT
I was kicked after being shot, says terror raid Muslim A young Muslim shot by police during a dawn terror raid on a suspected bomb factory in east London broke down today as he described the moment anti-terrorist officers stormed his house....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 9:33am PDT
BOUNDLESS LOVE: A MEMORIAL TO IDRISS STELLEY June 13, 2006 is the fifth anniversary of the murder of Idriss "E" Stelley, shot 48 times in 2001 by nine SFPD as they burst into an empty auditorium where he sat alone at the Sony Metreon Theater at 4th and Mission in San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 8:29am PDT
The Case of the Toronto 17: Has Racism Invaded Canada? This has been a good week to be in Canada--or an awful week, depending on your point of view--to understand just how irretrievably biased and potentially racist the Canadian press has become. For, after the arrest of 17 Canadian Muslims on "terrorism" charges, the Toronto Globe and Mail and, to a slightly lesser extent, the National Post, have indulged in an orgy of finger-pointing that must reduce the chances of any fair trial and, at the same time, sow fear in the hearts of the country's mo...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:42pm PDT
Chronic ill-health in Australia’s Aboriginal prison population During the past weeks, since Alice Springs Crown Prosecutor, Nannette Rogers, made allegations on national television about widespread child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities, Australian politicians and the media have stepped up demands for repressive measures against Aboriginal people....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 7:04am PDT
African People's Solidarity Day Campaign Meeting Upaya Center, 478 Santa Clara Ave (at Grand Ave) Oakland...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 11:30pm PDT
Black Churches Fail The Youth When It Comes To Black Youth And Violence In The Bayview Our Black youth are being killed in the Bayview Hunters Point and the Black Church have NOT steped up to the plate to do the right thing. Often times in the Bayview you will hear Black Pators scream and shout but nothing more and nothing less. At one time the Black Pastors were a force to be reckoned with - no more. Today, most of them are on the take and play second fiddle to those issues that really affect the community - the Black on Black killing in one of them....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 4:14pm PDT
Putting N-Word on Trial Again Is Empty Activism More important issues should fire up activism in the black community than the unnerving endurance of one vile expletive, says the writer. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage Press). The Hutchinson Report can also be read at http://www.earlofarihutchinson.blogspot.com....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 3:26pm PDT
California Juneteenth ~ Historic Folsom 
Historic Folsom is the site for authentic California History 1845-1865. What was the role of people of African Ancestry in early California? Will our Governor follow the legal requirement to recognize our contributions to the foward flow of humanity?
Should the story of early Black Pioneers in California be officially recognized by the State of California?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 6:39pm PDT
AIDS Fades from White to Black NEW YORK --When a strange disease, later known as AIDS, was first detected at UCLA 25 years ago, it was difficult to get African-Americans interested in what was largely dismissed as ''White gay disease.''...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 6:17am PDT
Surprising Denton (video/quicktime 32.7MB) Students and workers fighting for diversity at UC Santa Cruz silently gather outside a meeting with Chancellor Denton inside and surprise her...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 4:13pm PDT
Australia: Riot squad called to shut down Aboriginal community The increasingly vicious resort by both federal and state governments in Australia to police repression to deal with deep-rooted social deprivation in Aboriginal communities was on display in a chilling riot squad operation last month....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:43am PDT
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