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Best of CA Ethnic Media to be Showcased Nov. 17
ew California Media (NCM) will showcase the best in California’s ethnic journalism at a special two-hour gala awards banquet in the state capitol on November 17th....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:58pm PST
Paris Project
Details about a project of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence...
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 9:08pm PST
Briefs, Not Bullets Target Native Peoples
Wars for indigenous people's lands are no longer waged on the plains or with bullets.
Now, the fights are waged with briefs filed in courthouses around the world....
Posted: Fri, Nov 5, 2004 10:36pm PST
Concede Nothing To Bush: Black Consensus Remains Intact
The worst possible outcome of Tuesday’s election would have been that George Bush won with the help of a divided Black electorate. Instead, African Americans reaffirmed the vitality of the Black Political Consensus – our eyes firmly fixed on the prize: peace, jobs and justice. Despite faith-based blandishments to the sell-out branch of the Black clergy, massive deployment of the GOP’s gay wedge issue and, most hurtfully, the Kerry team’s initial determination to render African Americans invis...
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 3:30pm PST
Eugenicist Coburn becomes Oklahoma Senator
Tom Coburn may now be one of the most conservative members of the senate. Coburn was criticized for sterilizing a young women against her will when she gave birth, making comments about black people having 'short lifespan' genes, and telling crazy stories about lesbianism being promoted in Oklahoma high schools....
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 7:00am PST
Nov 5-7 National Asian American Students Conference
Nov 5-7 National Asian American Students Conference (NAASCon) University of
Southern California, Los Angeles!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 6:13pm PST
Desperate Bush Seeks to Suppress Hispanic Turnout with Harsh Negative Attack on Choice
Desperate to suppress turnout among minority voters, President Bush has recycled with a Spanish translation an attack ad rated as the worst of the campaign by a USA Today focus group, NARAL Pro-Choice America said today....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 12:27am PDT
Racism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation
2004 Racism Watch Denounces Race-Based Voter Intimidation
and IRS Attack on NAACP
Accuses John Ashcroft of Partisan Support of Intimidation
Efforts
Calls for Blacks to Rise Up, Challenge and Defeat It...
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 3:10pm PDT
Press Advisory: national confference on Race & Public Policy Comes to Berkeley
Ten days after the general election, the Applied Research Center will gather community leaders, academics, policy advocates, and activists from around the country to assess the state of civil rights and to develop strategies for the emerging “racial justice” movement....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:16am PDT
Voter Verifying Campaign Launched; Higher Minority Voter Turnout is Goal
Voter verification is the thrust of a new nationwide voter education effort being launched by the non-partisan NAACP National Voter Fund (NVF), designed to generate the largest minority voter turnout in any presidential election....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:43am PDT
New Florida vote scandal feared
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 3:38pm PDT
Tonight: Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits Film Night
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> > WHEN: Thursday, October 21, 7p.m.
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> > WHERE: New College of California, Theatre Room
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> > 777 Valencia Street @19th Street, San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 9:46am PDT
Howard Zinn, NEW Voices of a People's History...
ZNet interview...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 2:19am PDT
March for Social Justice This Saturday! (audio/mpeg 1.9MB)
Penny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence, is among those scheduled to speak at the 1pm rally following the March for Social Justice this Saturday at Lake Merritt (audio clip 4m4s)...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 7:26pm PDT
Community Groups Respond to the Call for Racial Justice Week Before the Elections
What: Press Conference for Racial Justice Week
When: Thursday, October 21, 2004, 11am
Where: Oakland Unified School District Office, 1025 Second Ave, Oakland...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 7:18pm PDT
Leonard Peltier for President
Leonard Peltier is the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in California. This article gives an overview and update of his case and his campaign for a presidential pardon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:20am PDT
Prince Sings Against Anti-Muslim Bigotry
WASHINGTON, October 16 (IslamOnline.net) - US rock star Prince released a new song portraying an Arab-American girl forced by the post-September11 harassment and racism to envisage blowing herself up in an airport, but changes her mind after spotting innocent playful children....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:40am PDT
3 Strikes locks up Blacks at 13 times the rate of whites
Washington, D.C. - New data released Wednesday by the Justice Policy Institute revealed that California’s Three Strikes law disproportionately locks up African Americans and Latinos compared to whites. According to this first-of-its-kind analysis of the racial and ethnic makeup of Three Strikes defendants, African Americans are given life sentences under Three Strikes at nearly 13 times the rate of whites and the Latinos are incarcerated under Three Strikes a staggering 82 percent more than w...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 9:09pm PDT
"Columbus Day... NOT!" - Xispas
"Columbus Day... NOT!" - With this special issue, Xispas, the online journal of Chicano culture, art, and politics... looks at the meaning and role of Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 6:26pm PDT