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Mediation is off -- Badlands Picket is on! At the last minute, Les Natali has backtracked on his agreement to mediate on
Saturday, August 6. This means we need EVERYONE back at the picket line in front of
Badlands at 10pm Saturday night! The picket is co-sponsored this week by the San
Francisco Young Democrats....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2005 10:11am PDT
Black August ‘05 Black August is a time when we remember the plight of freedom fighters, behind enemy lines, who gave their lives to the cause of Black and oppressed people being free from the shackles of capitalistic slavery – people like George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson and Khatari Gaulden, to name a few. It is also a time when souljahs recommit and deepen their commitment to the Movement, realizing that ain’t nobody going to free us but us....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 7:20am PDT
The Silent Victims of Sept. 11 
After the terrorist strikes, millions of Arab-and Muslim Americans became targets for random hate and violence. They became the latest ethnic group to be singled out in an American time of crisis....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 11:18am PDT
Reminder: Entertainment Commission Tonight @ 5pm, City Hall We urgently need you (and all your friends)...
***Come to the Entertainment Commission hearing TONIGHT!***
5pm, Tuesday August 2 at City Hall (Room 406)...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 4:13pm PDT
Native Hawaiians resist US occupation, federal Indian policy Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) and supporters celebrate La Ho'iho'i Ea, a national holiday, while resisting US federal Indian policy and the continued occupation and militarization of Hawaii....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 6:23am PDT
Activist Damu Smith: Fighting Systemic Racial Disparities in American Healthcare Longtime activist Damu Smith is the founder of Black Voices for Peace. He has fought for war and racism for decades. Now he’s fighting for his life. He has colon cancer. We speak with Damu Smith about his struggle with cancer and for equitable healthcare in this country....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 7:10am PDT
Anti-Chechen Discrimination Spiraling In Russia MOSCOW, July31 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Anti-Chechen discrimination has risen sharply across the Russian federation since last year's Beslan school hostage massacre, a Russian human rights watchdog said Sunday, July31 ....
Posted: Sun, Jul 31, 2005 10:35pm PDT
tonight: PersuAsian party & dragonboat fundraiser This
anniversary event will be held at Studio Z, formerly known as the
Transmission Theater, located at 314 11th Street, San Francisco, CA....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 12:59pm PDT
Anti-Minutemen Meeting in San Diego area on 8/1 español abajo
This is a call for people to organize in the North County of San Diego and in all Mexican/Latino Communities in general. Please attend the meeting on Monday, August 1st at 6:30 p.m. at the California Rural Legal Assistance office...
Due to the situation occurring in Campo in which the Minutemen supporters are calling for general support for their movement, activists, including migrant rights lawyer Claudia Smith and film maker Mark Day, are making a call to organize in defe...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 12:53pm PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (1/4) 
The photograph below shows Don Silva, a top spokeperson for Save our State (SOS), the immigrant bashing group founded by Joe Turner of Ventura County, California, holding up the blue banner, "DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS," along with a man reputed to be "Advocate," at the Saturday, July 16th, 2005 rally against the day laborer center in Laguna Beach, California. A woman reputed to be "Dixieland_Delight" poses before the camera while waving an American flag. Both "A...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 9:25am PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (2/4) 
The photograph below shows "Baldy," "Dixieland_Delight," and "Konkwista88," with other reputed neo-Nazi skinheads and white supremacists who attended the anti-monument rally in Baldwin Park, California on Saturday, June 25, 2005. "Advocate" is the tall, older man in the back wearing a grey cap. This photograph reportedly was taken on the same day, possibly at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation area in the San Gabriel Valley....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 9:08am PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (3 of 4) 
Another view of the SOS demonstration in Baldwin Park, California on Saturday, June 25, 2005 with the same white supremacists holding the "STOP IMMIGRATION" banner. This same banner would later be used in an anti-Home Depot protest in Santa Clarita, California on July 10, 2005. Photo sent to me anonymously via email....
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 8:53am PDT
SOS members, Neo-Nazi Skinheads, & White Supremacists (4/4) 
The photograph below shows "Konkwista88," "Dixieland_Delight," and "Advocate" holding the banner, "DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS," at the anti-day laborer center protest in Laguna Beach, California on Saturday, July 16, 2005. "Konkwista88" was one of three men who allegedly tried to assault Naui Huitzilopochtli, a counterdemonstrator that showed up to oppose them. This photo was originally published on the front page of the July 22nd issue of The Lagu...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 8:35am PDT
Roberts' Record on Civil Rights Enters Battle Over Supreme Court Nomination In the ongoing controversy over the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts, questions are being raised over Roberts’ role in the civil rights debates of the 1980s. During his tenure as Deputy Assistant General under Reagan, Roberts advocated a narrow interpretation of a variety of civil rights laws, and presented a defense of congressional efforts to strip the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over busing, abortion and school prayer cases. We speak with Ralph Neas of People for the American Way...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 10:49pm PDT
Inside Incarnation NYC Orphans and their role in NIH drug trials...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 4:59am PDT
Lynching Reenactment in Georgia Dramatizes Call for Indictments in 59-year-old Case Civil rights activists in Georgia reenacted a 59-year-old lynching this month to push for indictments in the murder of four African Americans, two men and two women, one of whom was seven-months pregnant at the time. No one was ever prosecuted in the case. We speak with the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, which organized the reenactment....
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 7:58am PDT
Minutemen Suspected in Border Shootings "Rogue" Minutemen may be behind border shootings...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 1:14am PDT
Britain: media defend state killing, police chief warns more to come Jean Charles de Menezes, the 27-year-old Brazilian slain by police last week in a London subway carriage, was shot eight times at point blank range—seven times in the head and once in the neck....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 8:37pm PDT
Racist anti-Mexican hate mail received at IMC office in SF 
A typed hate-mail letter from "G.R.O.M." (Get Rid of Mexicans) was received today at the SF Bay Area IMC office in San Francisco. The letter included a pile of cut-up INS, California, and Mexican ID cards belonging to residents of San Jose, Redwood City, Gilroy, and San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 2:00pm PDT
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