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Protests Continue in Anaheim Over Police Killings 
ANAHEIM - July 29th 2012 was a sunny Sunday in Anaheim that brought over 250 protesters from all over California to demand justice for the series of recent officer involved shootings in Anaheim, during the last week and a half alone, two of which were fatal....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 9:03pm PDT
Visual History of Anaheim Protests, Police Attacks & Militarization Anaheim police shot and killed on July 21st and again July 22nd. The people have been standing up to resist these police murders. As the people have stood up, protesting in the streets and within the local police station itself, police have used projectile weapons on peaceful protesters. Some protesters responded by breaking windows in the area and setting trash cans ablaze. Now police have taken a full-on siege mentality, erecting barricades around their police station and donning military ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 1:38pm PDT
Republicrats Campaign About Jobs and Do Nothing About High Unemployment Recently, Mitt Romney made a stop on his “Jobs Tour” in upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia. His appearance was supposed to be, interestingly, at a local WAWA store (for those out-of-state, WAWA is a convenience store chain) Why is this interesting? Because WAWA, like so many employers these days, is a low wage, no benefit “job creator.”...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 6:20pm PDT
This Week in Palestine, June 22nd, 2012 (audio/mpeg 9.0MB) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 15th to 22nd 2012....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 11:11pm PDT
Remembering Jose Rizal: 151 Years After 
Recently, international activists discovered that Jose Rizal. the national hero of the Philippines, participated in what may be called "OCCUPY MADRID" in Nov. 1884, for several days. He joined student mass demonstrations protesting authoritarian practices at Madrid University. In 1956. Prof. Marguerite Fisher reminded us that Rizal was one of the first "to proclaim this idea [of racial equalitarianism] in Asia, for Asians; he became "far more than a Filipino patriot" against Spanish coloniali...
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 11:04am PDT
Solitary Confinement on Trial --An interview with law professor Angela A. Allen-Bell 
On the eve of Tuesday morning's Senate hearing about solitary confinement, we interview Angela A. Allen-Bell, a law professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge. The newly released issue of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly features an article by Prof. Bell entitled "Perception Profiling & Prolonged Solitary Confinement Viewed Through the Lens of the Angola 3 Case: When Prison Officials Become Judges, Judges Become Visually Challenged and Justice Become Legally Blind.” Prof. Bell's...
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 11:50pm PDT
The Police Think We’re Animals 
Racism among America’s police forces is linked to their role as keepers of the status quo in an unequal society. They enforce laws written by politicians on behalf of the wealthy — laws that end up trapping poor and working-class people in desperate lives. Immigrants and racial and sexual minorities are seen as threats to the social order. When we protest the law and “occupy” a space, we are beaten and arrested. When we commit a crime to “get some,” we are beaten and arrested. And when we do ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 17, 2012 12:29pm PDT
President Obama unveils bold new immigration policy 
6.15.12, Washington, D.C. --In what some are calling a campaign move and others praise as a positive step, President Obama unveiled his bold new immigration policy on Friday....
Posted: Sat, Jun 16, 2012 1:13am PDT
This Week in Palestine, June 14th, 2012 (audio/mpeg 10.4MB) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 9th to 14th 2012....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2012 9:23pm PDT
Little Africa African history month is dedicated to the Motherland's and Diaspora's histories, and every month has a different theme, and " Little Africa " will represent June in 2012. "Little Africa" was the name; whites gave to the prosperous African-American Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, later became known as "Black Wall Street."
And Little Africa was an exemplary accomplishment during that time period....
Posted: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 5:24am PDT
Madonna invites leftist groups to (Israeli) concert, Anarchists refuse. Madonna's peace concert chose Israel as the first stop yet failed to speak out against the Israeli occupation of Palestine while claiming to want peace for all....
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 6:12pm PDT
No SNWA Pipeline! Let's Keep the SPRING in Spring Valley! 539 members of the Goshute tribe in western Utah are all that stand between the Southern Nevada Water Authority and a proposed multi-billion-dollar pipeline that would “pump billions of gallons of groundwater” from the Goshutes’ home in Spring Valley “to parched Las Vegas,” in a 92" wide pipe that would run for 300 miles....
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 5:30pm PDT
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