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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
The Secret Truth About Goddard College & The UAW: The Case Of Professor Judy Hiramoto 
Artist and Goddard professor Judy Hiramoto was teaching at the "liberal" Goddard College. She discovered that there was systemic discrimination against Asian and Black faculty. She spoke up for her fellow workers and became herself a target of retaliation by the management. She filed grievances with the UAW but discovered that the union was not properly defending her...
Posted: Mon, Jun 4, 2012 5:28pm PDT
FINAL DECLARATION OF THE GLOBAL AFRICAN DIASPORA SUMMIT ~ Black Agriculture 
California ~ African Union and the Pan African Diaspora continues to open a new way forward, toward healing what is hurting Black America. Cultural identification, technical education and economic development is possible connecting to the direction of the Global African Diaspora Summit. California Black Agriculture Working Group is poised to share the best of appropriate technology and our unique experiential learning from our participation in the "Greatest Garden in the World" the #1 Agric...
Posted: Sat, Jun 2, 2012 2:47pm PDT
Aborigines “shivering with fear” over Australian uranium plan 
Aboriginal elders from Wiluna in central Western Australia have slammed the approval of a nearby future uranium mine by the state’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). It now appears only a matter of time for the state government to endorse the EPA decision. The go-ahead is for the Toro Energy company's proposal to develop the first uranium mine in Western Australia 30 kilometres from Wiluna....
Posted: Tue, May 29, 2012 12:18am PDT
This Week in Palestine, May 25th, 2012 (audio/mpeg 11.5MB) Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for May 19th to 25th 2012....
Posted: Sat, May 26, 2012 11:46pm PDT
"Stop Obama's Wars: Occupy Imperialism!" Uhuru Solidarity Movement National Convention (video/mp4 20.2MB) Activists from around the country will meet in Philadelphia to organize opposition to U.S. foreign military occupations and domestic police operations, and to build a campaign for the redistribution of resources to African and other oppressed communities....
Posted: Sat, May 26, 2012 10:00am PDT
Australian Aborigines launch their own government 
MEDIA RELEASE 25 May 2012
Foundation Meeting of the Sovereign Union – National Unity Government
A meeting of representatives from across the continent gathered to confirm their intent to form a National Unity Government of the Sovereign Union of First Nations Peoples in Australia.
This intent was confirmed with representatives formally signing an Act of Sovereign Union between First Nations Peoples in Australia....
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2012 9:09pm PDT
Tribal Leaders gather in Las Vegas to oppose SNWA water pipeline More than 25 Tribal Leaders, from four states, will gather in Las Vegas to issue a joint statement asking the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to deny the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s (SNWA) proposed groundwater pipeline project application....
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2012 5:16pm PDT
SCLC not likely to join NAACP in endorsing same sex marriage 
Today the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution endorsing same sex marriage as a civil right. The vote was taken by the Board of Directors at its second quarterly meeting in Miami....
Posted: Sun, May 20, 2012 12:52am PDT
New Angola 3 fact sheet flyer 
We have just released a new flyer providing the latest updates about the Angola 3, to be used as an organizing resource. The case is heating up with a recent Amnesty International petition and an upcoming May 29 court date for Albert Woodfox. Please help to spread the word....
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2012 11:09pm PDT
Amnesty Intl. delivers Angola 3 petitions but Gov. Jindal refuses to meet 
On April 17, 2012, Amnesty International was joined by a delegation of supporters, holding a press conference at the Louisiana State Capitol building in Baton Rouge, LA, and hand delivering to Governor Bobby Jindal's office the petition initiated by Amnesty International demanding the immediate release of the Angola 3's Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox from solitary confinement. Governor Jindal refused to meet with the delegation despite several attempts by Amnesty International to contact h...
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2012 11:19pm PDT
Goshutes battle to save their sacred water from SNWA pipeline Elders of the Goshute Nation and many scientists agree that removal of aquifer water from eastern Nevada with the SNWA proposed pipeline for Las Vegas suburban development will destroy the spring fed ecosystems that the goshute have depended upon for their cultural and physical survival. Preparations for spiritual and mental battle to protect sacred Goshute water are beginning....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2012 5:24pm PDT
Africa Day 2012: Black Agriculture marks the 150th Anniversary of the USDA and Morrill Act 
The California Black Agriculture Working Group will co-host a celebration of the 150th Anniversary of USDA and Morrill Act as part of our task to quantify and qualify a new methodology toward equity and equal opportunity within the #1 Agriculture region in the United States for people of Africa ancestry. The African Founding Father of California, Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr., was the catalyst to establish the first public pubic school in California and seen on our California...
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2012 2:22pm PDT
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