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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 :The Democrats opened their four-day convention on Monday with thousands of delegates, party elders and lobbyists flooding the halls of the Pepsi Center in downtown Denver. Headlining the opening day was Michelle Obama, who delivered the final address of the night before a cheering crowd on the convention floor. We play highlights and speak with Salim Muwakkil, senior editor of In These Times....

KPFA management apparently called the cops to arrest a Black women programmer and in the process hog tied her and broke her arm. The use of police to deal with issues at KPFA has a long history with the lockout in 1999. There has been no report from the KPFA management about this incident and apparently management wants to hand it over to their lawyer and Concerned Listener support Daniel Siegel for more legal fees. This violent assault against a Black community programmer is yet another exa...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 :Earlier this month, a thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, who overstayed his visa, died in a Rhode Island immigration detention center. He had cancer in his liver, lung and bones, and a fractured spine. Despite repeated complaints of severe pain, Mr. Ng was refused independent medical evaluation by immigration officials. Before Mr. Ng died on August 6th, he told his sister that the nurses at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island...

The California Senate on Wednesday passed a Joint Resolution urging the federal government to restore federal recognition status to the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. The resolution, authored by Assembly Member Huffman, passed with 24 votes. The Tribe has played a big leadership role in the battle to restore the California Delta and Central Valley rivers and stop the raising of Shasta Dam....

The Sacramento Chapter of the ACLU today criticized the Sacramento Police Department for what it calls evidence of "racial profiling" after an analysis of traffic stops revealed black and Latino drivers were much more likely to be pulled over by police than other drivers in Sacramento....

"Fat Man" one of the Atomic bombs left Hunters Point where it was assembled and placed on a Carrier that took it to the Pacific Ocean. Then loaded on a plane to do it dirty deed. They say over 27,000 people died on that fateful day in Nagasaki. Over 70,000 people over an extended period- died. Did you all know that Karma is something we have to be aware of. No one can just kill so many innocent people and not suffer the consequences? There is war and there is war?...

On July 25, the Italian government headed by Silvio Berlusconi proclaimed a national state of emergency due to the continuing inflow of refugees by boat from across the Mediterranean Sea. This means that the state of emergency already imposed on Italy’s three southernmost provinces—Sicily, Apulia and Calabria—will be expanded to encompass the entire country....

freedom school- learn about the history of civil rights movement, social justice, human rights, and grass roots organizing and activist movement...

June 1, 1921 is a day that will be remembered when "Black Wall Street" was bombarded. May 30, 2008 in San Francisco there was another type of bombing - over 138,900 structures per cubic meter - blasted innocent children and elders - mostly of color. If we do not record such events - history will talk of other things but not important events. When mundane events are reported - they over shadow - that what MUST be told....

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 : Anti-affirmative action measures will be on the state-wide ballots in Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska this November. These measures call themselves civil rights initiatives but would effectively end affirmative action programs in these states. The deceptive wording borrows the language of civil right......