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Arab Talk Radio: Civil Liberties in Peril: The Case of Muhammad Saleh (audio/mpeg 22.5MB) Arab Talk Co-Hosts Jess Ghannam and Jamal Dajani interview Mr. Michael Deutsch, lawyer for Muhammad Salah about the gross constitutional violations of Mr. Salah's case....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 3:48pm PDT
US Sentences Al-Arian After Plea Bargaining CAIRO, May2 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net) - Arab-American former professor Sami Al-Arian was sentenced Monday, May1 , to 57 months in jail and deportation for aiding the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad, deemed "terrorist" by the US administration, in a plea bargaining he accepted to end his family's sufferings....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 9:30am PDT
The War on Terror on the Lodi Front Two juries in US District court in Sacramento issued verdicts last week on government prosecutions of supposed terrorists. One jury dealt a terrible injustice to a young Pakistani. The other jury split, thus--at least for now -- balking the FBI of its prey....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 8:23am PDT
Racism Runs Deep Immigration opponents hiding behind the myth of stolen jobs and lost wages.. The research shows that immigration only has a tiny negative impact on local wages....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 7:52am PDT
Negro Hill Burial Ground Project ~ 36th Annual Cap to Cap Trip 
36th Annual Cap to Cap Trip is a wonderful opportunity to address 36 "Unknown" early Black Pioneers moved by our U.S. Government to provide regional flood control....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 7:28am PDT
5,000 Link Hands Across the Golden Gate Bridge 
As rallies were held across the United States, 5,000 people linked hands across the Golden Gate Bridge to protest the continuing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and to push for action by the United States and the international community....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 5:14pm PDT
New Orleans: The Struggle Continues NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans Black activist who prefers anonymity put it this way: “People say that you’re an Uncle Tom if you support Mitch [Landrieu] for mayor. Another brother answers, ‘but you’ve already got an Uncle Tom in office.’”...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 9:31am PDT
Still being hunted: an interview with Black Panther Richard Brown On our radio show, POCC Radio: The Block Report, our guest was Richard Brown, a Bay Area resident and one of five Black Panthers who were incarcerated in September 2005 during a secret Homeland Security initiated grand jury investigation of a 34-year-old police murder....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 9:14am PDT
Fighting the power: Meet the Brown Berets One thing that we should note about the Bay Area is that it's the home of political activism and movements. As the immigration debate rages on, we should note the increased visibility of the Watsonville Brown Berets....
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2006 9:07am PDT
New Thriller Highlights Post-9/11 Paranoia About Arabs NEW YORK, April29 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Highlighting the US paranoia about Arabs and Muslims after the9 /11 attacks, a new movie has been screened at a New York film festival with a clear message to the world: "stop portraying Arabs and Muslims as terrorists."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 9:47am PDT
African Woman, Jailed and Strip-searched, Wins $65,000 Settlement San Francisco – In the midst of a national debate about U.S. immigration policy, the United States has agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a young woman from Africa who was abused by U.S. immigration agents at San Francisco International Airport. The settlement was filed Wednesday at the federal courthouse in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Apr 29, 2006 9:46am PDT
Call to action: Not in our Name, Not in our Honor! Please join the Bay Area Indigenous Community as they join in protest of the racist mural dedication at Gaylords in Oakland....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 5:08pm PDT
Paul Rusesabagina speaks in SF on the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur: audio and photos 
Paul Rusesabagina, general manager of the Hotel des Mille Collines during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, spoke at A Clean, Well-Lighted Place for Books in San Francisco on Friday, April 21, 2006....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 8:33am PDT
Tens of Thousands Expected for DC Demonstration Against Darfur Genocide On Sunday, tens of thousands are expected to gather in Washington for a demonstration against the ongoing genocide in Sudan. We speak with Joe Madison president of the Sudan Campaign....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:46am PDT
Jesse Jackson on Race Comments by New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow We get response from the Rev. Jesse Jackson about comments made by incoming White Press Secretary - former Fox News commentator Tony Snow. Last week, Snow said on his radio program, "People like Jesse Jackson who have committed themselves to a view that blacks are constantly victims have succeeded in creating...an underclass that doesn't seem to be going anywhere."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:43am PDT
Kurdish Intifada In the last few weeks, the people living in the Kurdish cities of Turkey showed a determined resistance and civil uprising. Starting in Diyarbakir, the uprising spread to other cities including Batman, Siirt, Mardin, Kiziltepe, Nusaybin, Hakkari, Agri, Van, Ergani, Kars, and Istanbul. Kurds took to the streets to voice their demands and defended themselves against police attacks by throwing stones and firebombs. The clashes started with the killing of 14 HPG (People’s Defensive Forces of Kurd...
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 7:18am PDT
On Anniversary, Koreans Still Scarred by Coverage of Rodney King Riots On the anniversary of the riots in Los Angeles that followed the Rodney King verdict, a Korean-American comments on the lessons learned by media on covering racially charged issues. Kapson Yim Lee reports on the Korean community for New America Media from Los Angeles....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 6:13am PDT
A LESSON OF ANTI-OPPRESSION PUBLIC ART FOR THE MURALIST ROCKY BAIRD Dear muralist Rocky Baird: Take a deep breath, listen carefully to those who disagree with your mural, be greatful, and finally, take some reflection before doing what you can still do: Apologize to the local Native community, modify the mural in a way that accommodates the views of a wider audience, and better educate yourself about what Native and non-Native protesters want you to know. This would be a way to be accountable for your commitment to anti-oppressive public art, in particular de...
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2006 11:57am PDT
California Black Farmers Support Unity Rally For Justice in our Nation's Capitol 
California Black Farmers travel to our nations capitol to demonstrate unity and prepare for the opportunity to create a new generation of Black Farmers in our nations #1 agriculture region....
Posted: Wed, Apr 26, 2006 5:45am PDT
The Armenian Genocide: An Event, and a Movement Armenians across the world march on April 24, 2006, in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 in Turkey. Hayg Oshagan, an Armenian born in Lebanon who came to the United States in 1975, is the director of the Graduate Program of the Dept. of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit. Oshagan is behind the effort to have the genocide taught in U.S. curriculum. He talked to NAM staff writer Pete Micek....
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 5:22pm PDT
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