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A Clever Admission of Racism
Sometimes admissions of racism can be a healthy and open acceptance of responsibility for collective or individual sins of White privilege. Sometimes these admissions are cynical ploys aimed at normalizing racial abuse....
Posted: Sat, May 7, 2005 8:44am PDT
BPP reunion (Seattle)
Reunion of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. The first one formed outside the state of California....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 9:42pm PDT
Schwarzenegger 'just got off the boat'
Retired Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado), a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, blasted California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) for trying to "literally extort" tribes, The Biloxi Sun Herald reported....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 7:03pm PDT
5/5 in SF: Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Tomorrow is also Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
More about the Day can be found at
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 11:28pm PDT
Cinco de Mayo Festival in SF
WHEN & WHERE:
Cinco de Mayo Festival:
Thursday, May 5th
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Parque De Ninos
23rd Street between Folsom and Treat Street...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 10:32pm PDT
May 14th 2005 Demonstration for the 20th Year Since May 13th 1985 Massacre of MOVE!!
20th year since the government's massacre on innocent men, women, and children in Philadelphia. Free the MOVE 9!!!...
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 3:14am PDT
The Making of the Arab Menace
The fear mongering of the Bush administration and the right wing media pundits who make a living from demonizing Arabs and Muslims have inundated people with images of the violent Arabs bent on death and destruction. For media outlets like Fox Television, it is a way to sell their sensationalist news programs and for the current administration, a way to sell its wars....
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 11:24pm PDT
Indigenism, Anarchism, and the State
"Now, on the level of street confrontation, what can we deduce from that experience? Well, maybe a first lesson would be: if you actually want to engage in street confrontations as part of a further building trajectory, you might want to ditch the uniforms and stop self-identifying as somebody the police want to neutralize immediately. Unmask yourself, put on a phony beard, or a clean shave. Mask yourself in another way. Just this level of tactical evolution, they've refused. And this is...
Posted: Sat, Apr 30, 2005 8:34pm PDT
Harmon Leon - the Steven Glass of the Sacramento News & Review?
When I saw the cover story of last week's Sacramento News & Review, "My dinner with the white supremacists" (April 21, 2005) by Harmon Leon describing his recruitment dinner with a white supremacist group, it rang a bell. I seemed to recall reading a nearly identical article in the SF Weekly when I was visiting San Francisco last winter....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 7:44pm PDT
An evening with Bobby Seale, cofounder of the Black Panthers
Santa Cruz, CA. - On April 28, e-squared and the Ethnic Student Organization Council (ESOC) at UCSC presented the 4th Annual Speaker Blowout: An evening with Bobby Seale, cofounder of the Black Panthers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 8:35am PDT
Florida Denny's Sued After Telling Arab Americans "We Don't Serve Bin Ladens Here"
MIAMI (Reuters) - Seven Arab American men filed a $28 million lawsuit against a Denny's restaurant in Florida saying the manager kicked them out and told them, "We don't serve bin Ladens here," their lawyer said on Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 9:36pm PDT
BoutrosBoutros Ghali:'Rwandan genocide was 100 percent American responsibility'
Boutros-Ghali: a CIA Role in the 1994 Assassination of Rwanda's President Habyarimana?
By ROBIN PHILPOT
In March 2004, the former Secretary General declared to the French daily Libération that a major problem at the UN was that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations was very infiltrated by the American authorities. Here, briefly, is how the UN is infiltrated and the impact....
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2005 5:06pm PDT
United Hands Across Cal: Students Remember The Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Student Association at UC Berkeley organized one hour vigil on April 21st to remember those who died in the Armenian Genocide....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 6:13pm PDT
Prejudice Against Blondes
There is a form of racist prejudice in this country that seldom is ever acknowledged—namely prejudicial stereotyping of blonde people (particularly in negative ways). Often it is subtle and other times notso; and yet it seems more pervasive than many people may be willing to believe....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 2:59pm PDT
NIFC Speak Out Against Fascist Targeting of Irish Americans
NIFC Speak Out Against Fascist Targeting of Irish Americans...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 2:38pm PDT
america's addiction to lynching indians
Here is an overview of the indictment of two Indian men in the murder of American Indian Movement leader Anna Mae Pictou Aquash (1945-1976), In the past two years one man has been sentenced to life in prision, the other, John Graham resists extradtion to the U.s. from Vancouver, B.C....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 8:01pm PDT
Chicano Warrior's Life Ends
Chicano Movimiento Leader Corky Gonzales Died Today...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 4:06pm PDT
RESISTANCE CONSCIOUSNESS with John Trudell, Lakota traditionalist indian, PART 2 of 2 (audio/x-wav 1.3MB)
John was a mainline leader/activist in the American Indian Movement in the 1970s. In 1979,his family, including 3 young daughters, were murdered. He was given access to the world of famous musicians and allowed to go *in and out of craziness* while he greived and began to write. His deep inner-seeking brings out gems by the dozen. The State works overtime to suppress his insights so that you never even hear of him, much less his depths. He's a traditional-oriented American Indian who is part ...
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 4:06pm PDT
RCMP vs. NYM
This paper is about the Royal Canadian Mounted Polices attack on the Native Youth Movement, and the trial of one their spokespersons....
Posted: Fri, Apr 8, 2005 12:57am PDT