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Longtime White Supremacist Opens Fire at DC Holocaust Museum; Shooting is Third in as Many Months Linked to White Nationalist Groups Thursday, June 11, 2009 :Longtime white supremacist James W. von Brunn opened fire at Washington, DC's Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, killing a security guard and injuring another. It was the third recent shooting involving a gunman with ties to the white nationalist movement, following last month's slaying of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and the shooting of three police officers in Philadelphia in April. We speak with one of the nation's leading researchers on right-wing hate...
Posted: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 7:48am PDT
As Tensions Flare in Peruvian Amazon, Award-Winning Actor Qorianka Kilcher Heads to Peru to Support Indigenous Rights Wednesday, June 10, 2009 :Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been granted asylum in Nicaragua after leading protests against oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Over the weekend, an estimated sixty people died after police tried to break up a blockade. We speak to actor Qorianka Kilcher, of part Indigenous Quechua descent, who is heading to Peru to support the Amazonian protest....
Posted: Wed, Jun 10, 2009 6:56am PDT
UCSB Academic Senate to investigate mishandling of Robinson case Faculty Legislature votes to examine how charges against sociology professor were handled and recommend policy changes...
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 3:54pm PDT
Born Black Magazine on Leonard Peltier -- parole hearing July 27 
Native American artist, writer, and activist Leonard Peltier––one of the most widely recognized political prisoners in the world––has spent more than 33 years in some of the cruelest prisons in the United States, unjustly condemned to a double life sentence for the shooting death of two FBI agents in 1975. His situation is now aggravated by health problems. Leonard’s Parole Hearing has finally been scheduled for July 27, 2009, and is the focus of an international campaign in the coming months...
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 12:44pm PDT
Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle Monday, June 8, 2009 :Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Peruvian authorities have declared a military curfew, and troops are patrolling towns in the Amazon jungle. Authorities say up to twenty-two policemen have been killed, and two remain missing. The indigenous community says at least forty people, including three children, were killed ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 7:46am PDT
50 days of protest and one massacre in the Peruvian Amazon 
Following 50 days of continuous protest, the APRA government of Alan García Pérez has unleashed a bloody repression in the Peruvian Amazon. Yesterday morning, the government sendt in police to violently remove the protesters, with different reports claiming as many as 20, 30, or more lives lost in the violent fight that erupted. The protesters had been sleeping at a roadblock maintained over the past few weeks when helicopters arrived and shot at people below, according to witnesses and loca...
Posted: Sat, Jun 6, 2009 1:55pm PDT
Muslim-American Syed Fahad Hashmi Held in 23-Hour Solitary Pre-Trial Confinement for Over Two Years Friday, June 5, 2009 :One day after President Obama trumpeted the achievements and freedoms of Muslim-Americans in his celebrated Cairo speech, we look at the case of case of Syed Fahad Hashmi, a
U.S. citizen who has been held in pre-trial 23-hour solitary confinement in a Manhattan federal prison for over two years.
Hashmi is charged with providing material support to Al Qaeda in a case that rests on the testimony of Junaid Babar, an old acquaintance of Hashmi's who turned government info...
Posted: Fri, Jun 5, 2009 7:50am PDT
Israeli forces kill Palestinian demonstrator in Ni’lin Israeli forces have killed a demonstrator in the West Bank village of Ni’lin. The Israeli army shot Yousef Akil Srour, aged 36 years in the chest with 0.22 caliber live ammunition. He was dead upon arrival to Ramallah Hospital....
Posted: Fri, Jun 5, 2009 7:22am PDT
Jamie and Gladys Scott: Wrongfully Convicted Jamie and Gladys Scott are two sisters that have been wrongfully convicted. Learn more about their story....
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:01pm PDT
Racist Radio Host Hal Turner Arrested For almost a decade it appeared as if something was protecting the offensive right wing radio host Hal Turner from law enforcement holding him to task over his outrageous racist threats on various ethnic groups and public officials.
The tide has finally turned, because as of June 3, 2009 4:00 PM Hal Turner has been residing in a New Jersey jail cell, arrested by the North Bergen NJ police for making a public call for the shooting of lawmakers and an ethics officer in the state of Connecticut...
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:46am PDT
Why White Cops Kill Black Cops: Debate over Edwards’ Dead Body A team of New York police were lurking through East Harlem and saw a young Black man with a gun running down 125th Street. They shot him dead. However this killing has been hard to cover up or justify because the dead man was Omar J. Edwards, a fellow New York cop assigned to patrol the housing projects. [Sequence of events]...
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:43am PDT
Which Way Forward for the Black Left: The Formation of DIGNITY Cynthia McKinney Announces Formation of DIGNITY
The path leads in the same direction it always has: agitation, organization, and confrontation with Power....
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:29am PDT
The Elders Step Up: International Meeting of Indigenous Spiritual Leaders Report on Historic International Meeting of Indigenous Spiritual Elders in Northern Arizona...
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 6:24am PDT
Auschwitz survivor: “I can identify with Palestinian youth” Tuesday, June 2, 2009 :Hajo Meyer, author of the book The End of Judaism, was born in Bielefeld, in Germany, in 1924. In 1939, he fled on his own at age 14 to the Netherlands to escape the Nazi regime, and was unable to attend school. A year later, when the Germans occupied the Netherlands he lived in hiding with a poorly forged ID....
Posted: Tue, Jun 2, 2009 7:16am PDT
For immediate release: No Toxic Waste Dump or Border Wall on O’odham Lands Friday, June 5, 2009 at 12:00 p.m - Indigenous and environmental justice protest to take place at the municipal building in Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico to demand the cancelation of a toxic dump near the O’odham sacred site of Quitovac in Sonora, Mexico. Protest will also demand a stop to the building of the border wall on O’odham lands....
Posted: Mon, Jun 1, 2009 8:18pm PDT
Civil rights violations in US I draw your attention to a miscarriage of justice and ongoing civil rights abuses in the US, as described by the international human rights organization Fair Trials International, and ask you to intervene in the case of Anant Tripati who has been imprisoned in Arizona for crimes that he did not commit....
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 5:00pm PDT
The Climate Gap -- Poor, Minorities Hardest Hit by Climate Change People who live in neighborhoods with dirtier air and water -– usually low-income and ethnic minorities -- will bear the brunt of climate change, according to a report released today....
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 3:34pm PDT
Israel, cada vez mas cerca de ser un estado nazista Israel ha alcanzado ya el limite de la demencia racista...
Posted: Fri, May 29, 2009 4:51pm PDT
Despite No Links to Violence, Founders of Muslim Charity Sentenced to Lengthy Terms for Donations to Needy Palestinians Friday, May 29, 2009 :Five founders of the Holy Land Foundation, once the nation's
largest Muslim charity, have received prison terms of up to sixty-five years on charges of supporting the Palestinian group Hamas. The five were never accused of supporting violence and were convicted for funding charities that aided needy Palestinians. The government's case relied on Israeli intelligence as well as disputed documents and electronic surveillance gathered by the FBI over a span of fifteen years...
Posted: Fri, May 29, 2009 7:58am PDT
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