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notes from new palestine: niggers can never go home again. (audio/mpeg 7.0MB)
kkkanadian towns have always had a history of, not only institutional,
b.u.t. local citizenry collective racism, harassment and complicity in
the rapes, murders and other wilful destruction of humnanbeings
undesired/'not wanted on the journey' by the static quo -- be they
natives, poor, black and now muslims and arabs - one might say that
kkkanada comes into it's own or collapses, for maybe it is what
ahmadinejad has said, 'colonialism time has come to an end', as the nwo
makes a power...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 5:58pm PST
Black America's Gay Problem -- Can Attitudes Change in the Black Church?
With the Medicare nightmare, Katrina aftermath and the war in Iraq hitting black America hard, can black church leaders resist bullying gays and get their priorities straight? PNS contributor Jasmyne Cannick says the tide may be turning toward acceptance....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 5:21pm PST
US radio host upsets Muslim body
A Muslim civil liberties group has demanded an apology from the host of a Los Angeles-area radio show for making fun of a stampede that killed hundreds of Muslims during the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 3:30pm PST
WILL IRAN BRING REVOLUTION INTO THE USA ?
Iran’s Oil Exchange Threatens the Greenback
by Mike Whitney
www.dissidentvoice.org
January 24, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 9:33pm PST
Foro Digest: Tired of the White Left
NAM contributor Roberto Lovato is attending the World Social Forum in Caracas, where more than 60,000 people, half of them from outside Venezuela, have gathered for the annual event. His impressions will be posted throughout the week....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 5:09pm PST
LOUISIANA’S COASTAL TRIBES APPEAL FOR HELP
Four of Louisiana’s coastal Native American tribes issued an urgent appeal for support in the aftermath of Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita. Despite the buzz of recovery activity in New Orleans and on other parts of the Gulf coast, tribal leaders say they have been forgotten and their people continue to suffer....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 7:32pm PST
Segregation Report Sheds Light on Challenges in Diversifying U.S. Schools
Schools in the Northeast and West continue to be more segregated than those in the South, with California and New York maintaining schools that are the most segregated, according to a recent report from the Harvard University Civil Rights Project....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 5:16pm PST
March Against Oakland Liquor Stores - January 28, 2006
Well over 80% of the 350 liquor stores in Oakland are owned or operatedby Muslims. This march and rally is a mobilization ofour community to send a strong message that we areoutraged by the destructive and misrepresentativeactions of our coreligionists and that wejoin allies from other groups in the struggle tocreate healthy and enriching neighborhoods. It is onestep of many that are being and will be taken toaffect a long-term and lasting redress of this issue.Organized and endorsed by a Coa...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 12:45pm PST
India: victims of Gujarat pogrom found in mass grave
Some of the many missing victims of the anti-Muslim pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat in 2002 were uncovered in a mass grave late last month in the village of Pandharwada. Relatives of the victims dug up the remains of about 20 bodies that had been dumped and buried in an unmarked pit....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:58pm PST
Martin’s legacy calls us to carry on in Fresno
Martin’s legacy calls us to carry on. 2 minute video...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 5:48pm PST
French Rights Groups March Against Colonialism Law
Fifty rights groups have urged the French to take to the streets on Wednesday, February25 , to protest a law glorifying French colonialism, as a decision by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to assign a lawyer who served in the Israeli army to re-consider the bill triggered a new controversy....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:17am PST
San Francisco Unified School District and the recent closures of some schools
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has NOT allowed the students to have a greater say in the closure and vision of the schools in San Francisco. Again and again in an environment of hostile shouting and fiasco decisions are made at many SFUSD Board Meetings. Parents for sure have a say but the students too have a greater stake in their future in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 6:45am PST
Plea for help to find hate-crime suspects
Plea for help to find hate-crime suspects...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 4:50pm PST
Reclaiming King Day ... from the NAACP
On January 13th I filed a request with the SC Budget and Control Board for use of the north side of the State House grounds on Monday January 15, 2007. The north side is where the Confederate flag flies. I was informed by officials at the agency that no application or written request had been made for the space at the time of my request....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 8:39pm PST
Jesse, King and the Business of Black Leadership
Unfair to Jesse Jackson or not, the claim in a new Martin Luther King Jr. biography that King saw Jackson as an opportunist resonates because of the flashy leadership style and middle-class myopia of today's civil rights leaders....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:35pm PST
Black Parents Considering Student Strike Over School Closings
Black parents met in the memorial room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Waterfall to stop what one city supervisor called the "death of black San Francisco" through the closing of dozens of schools in black and low-income neighborhoods. The decision by the San Francisco Unified board has been delayed until today January 19. Omar Khalif, one of the organizers of the Black Parents Together movement, urged parents to participate at the school board meeting, and says that a school strike m...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:33am PST
Breaking News Ace Washington Busted Again
Seems like City Hall wants to see Ace Washington a broken man. Don't ask for fairness in San Francisco especially if you are Black. Back to the plantation days...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 10:01pm PST
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and some thoughts
It is a fact that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. contributed a lot to Civil Rights and allowed millions of people from all races in America and elsewhere to get the best opportunities. Today, years after his death we still have 6 States that have not joined with the Nation to accept Dr. Martin Luther's Day as a National Holiday. And while the playing field has been some what been leveled - we still see racists and their ugly philosophy reign in some quarters....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:29am PST
Meet the Son of Jim Crow: MLK Day Below the Mason-Dixon Line
By RON JACOBS...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:27am PST
World Ag Expo ~ USDA Assistant for Civil Rights and California Black Farmers
"Mr. Vernon Parker, Assistant Secretary of USDA, provided our nation service beyond the call of duty in an almost impossible situation," states Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, California President, CEO, Michael Harris....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:14pm PST