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AIDS Deaths Decreased in 2007, though Domestic Focus on Infected African-Americans Lags Wednesday, July 30, 2008 : The UN announced on Tuesday that the percentage of AIDS deaths worldwide has decreased 10%. However, the prevalence of new infections has remained the same at 2.7 million cases a year. The UN report......
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 7:06pm PDT
Irish complicity in West’s war crimes Another Letter For The Pope And For Ireland
While the White Pope plays the PR game at home the Black Pope does the biz abroad.
Nothing new in East Timor, Vietnam, Rwanda or Croatia
The following Letter appeared in the Irish Independent dated Wednesday 30th of July 2008. Its contents , which I believe, and which, apart from other references , is intelligible, hinge not too remotely on Papal hypocrisy as well as the infinite depravity of my country under the Papacy’s influence. The ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 9:22am PDT
Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS Epidemic Wednesday, July 30, 2008 :According to a new report by the Black AIDS Institute, if blacks in the United States constituted their own country, that nation would rank sixteenth in the world in the number of people living with HIV. Two percent of adult black Americans are infected with the virus, and only four countries outside Africa have a higher HIV prevalence....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 8:13am PDT
Report: Vast Majority of African American and Latino Middle-Class Families Are on Shaky Financial Ground Wednesday, July 30, 2008 :A landmark study developed by Demos and Brandeis University finds that three-out-of-four African American and four-out-of-five Latino middle-class families are on shaky financial ground. This marks the first comprehensive report to examine economic stability of households of color in this country....
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 8:13am PDT
Obama Holds Brief Q&A Before Thousands of Journalists of Color at UNITY Convention Monday, July 28, 2008 :Senator Barack Obama addressed a crowd of thousands of journalists of color at the UNITY convention in Chicago Sunday. We play highlights of the Q&A session, including Obama responding to questions about affirmative action, African American reparations and whether, if elected, his administration would consider issuing an apology to Native Americans. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2008 7:18am PDT
How Chicago Shaped Obama: A Look at the Rise of a Politician Monday, July 28, 2008 :We take an in-depth look at how the presumptive democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, was shaped as a politician by his years in Chicago and how he navigated the tough world of Chicago politics. We speak with Ryan Lizza, the political correspondent for The New Yorker magazine. His latest article, "Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama," traces Obama's political rise in Chicago. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Tue, Jul 29, 2008 7:17am PDT
Hate Crimes in America: Beyond free speech While hate crimes have gone up since 9/11, prosecution for such cases has also risen, which is a welcome development, writes James Zogby*...
Posted: Sat, Jul 26, 2008 7:41pm PDT
Race, Politics and the Media: A Roundtable Discussion from the UNITY Conference Friday, July 25, 2008 :In Chicago, nearly 10,000 journalists of color are gathered for a convention that brings together members of the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association and the Native American Journalists Association. It's organized by UNITY, Journalists of Color, Inc. We host a discussion with Democracy Now! co-host and former president of NAHJ, Juan Gonzalez, and journalists Roberto Lovato...
Posted: Fri, Jul 25, 2008 8:04am PDT
Friend of Mexican Immigrant Beaten to Death in Pennsylvania Gives Eyewitness Account of Attack Thursday, July 24, 2008 :Luis Ramirez, a twenty-five-year-old Mexican immigrant, was beaten to death last week by a group of teenagers in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He was walking home last Monday night when six white high school students brutally beat him while yelling racial slurs. Despite eyewitness testimony, no charges have been filed. We speak with Arielle Garcia, a friend of Ramirez who witnessed the attack....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 8:31am PDT
Death by Taser: Police Accused of Cover-Up in Death of African American Man Shocked Nine Times While in Handcuffs Thursday, July 24, 2008 :Police in the city of Winnfield, Louisiana are being accused of covering up the death of twenty-one-year-old Baron Pikes. He died in police custody on January 21 after being shot nine times with a taser gun while in handcuffs. The city police chief initially claimed that Pikes was high on crack cocaine and PCP at the time of his death. But the coroner recently ruled Pikes' death to be a homicide, after an autopsy determined there were no drugs in his system. The coron...
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 8:31am PDT
Northern Territory intervention Aboriginal oppositional voices ignored and censored by the media Thursday, July 24, 2008 :World Socialist Web Site journalists Susan Allan and Richard Phillips and freelance photographer John Hulme recently visited central Australia to report on the social and political impact of the federal governments Northern Territory Emergency Response or police/military intervention into Aboriginal communities....
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 7:13am PDT
Diversity Gap Grows in UC Med Schools, Says Report Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 : A new report looking at who is enrolled in medical schools in the UC system finds that there is a growing diversity gap. The student body looks less and less like the population its going to serve in a minority majority state like California. NAM Contributor Ekaterina Basilaia has this report....
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 7:49am PDT
First All-Women-of-Color Presidential Ticket in U.S. History: Green Party Nominee Cynthia McKinney and Running Mate Rosa Clemente Monday, July 21, 2008 :The Green Party made history last week when it nominated the first all-women-of-color Presidential ticket in US history. Former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who was the first African-American woman elected to Congress in Georgia, won the Green Party's nomination last Monday. She named longtime community organizer, journalist and former director of the Hip Hop Caucus, Rosa Clemente as her running mate earlier this month. They both joins us for a wide-rangin...
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 7:23am PDT
Gypsy girls' corpses on beach in Italy fail to put off sunbathers Questions about the attitude of Italians to their Roma minority were again being asked yesterday after photographs were published of sunbathers continuing as normal with a day at the beach despite the bodies of two Gypsy girls who had drowned being laid out on the sand nearby....
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 7:04am PDT
UK MPs Urge Probe Into Muslims Torture CAIRO — British lawmakers called on Sunday, July 20, for a thorough investigation into charges that British intelligence turned British Muslim citizens to Pakistan for torture....
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2008 6:58am PDT
Abuses in and around Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - Parcel B and Parcel A - go figure! Recently, there was a Notice Of Violation (NOV) on Parcel A - read this article for details. On Parcel B - that is contaminated the United States Navy wants to cap the whole area - and issue a Mitigation Plan that favors less then more of a through - clean up. So, now - even the U.S. Navy has fallen in line and is following the orders of very corrupt politicians - one being Senator Diane Feinstein. We had a exceedance of over 138,000 structures per cubic meter of Asbestos - on May 30, 2008 bu...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2008 2:54pm PDT
Chip Fitzgerald Denied Parole After 38 Years in Prison! Chip Fitzgerald, the longest held Black Panther Party Political Prisoner was denied parole after 38 years of lockup. We vow to continue the fight until Chip is FREE! Please pass the word, sign the petition as we gear up for the next phase of the campaign....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 9:47pm PDT
SPLC exaggerates hate groups to justify funding Whenever a report of a hate group is picked up by the SPLC, we can bet that it will be magnified out of proportion from the actual existing threat. By drumming up fear of organized racists, the SPLC justifies it's current role of spying on anti-globalization activists.....
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 5:46pm PDT
More White Supremacist Propaganda Posted "BRING THE TROOPS HOME! and put them on the Mexican Border"...
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 11:45am PDT
Peskin, Maxwell, Dufty and McGoldrick filed Initiative on Combustion Turbines - dirty deed Aaron Peskin, President of the SF Board of Supervisors, Sophina Maxwell, Bevan Dufty, and Jake McGoldrick should be ashamed of themselves. As Espanola Jackson, long time Bayview resident stated before the Rules Committee - July 17, 2008 - these four Supervisors are Racists. That statement coming from Espanola Jackson - says it all. These four Supervisors again and again - have discriminated against the Bayview Hunters Point - and should be ashamed of themselves - never voting for what is righ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 10:25am PDT
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