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Afghanistan Inc.: New Report Says "Contractors Making Big Money for Bad Work" As Afghanistan enters its fifth year under foreign occupation, we take a look at the state of the US-led reconstruction of the country. We speak with Afghan-American journalist Fariba Nawa, author of a new report from Corpwatch, "Afghanistan Inc."...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 8:11am PDT
Lennar BVHP exposes dangerous asbestos particles to young children Lennar BVHP LLC with the Blessings of Mayor Gavin Newsom exposes young children to asbestos for months on end. More the residents that live around Parcel A that have an abundance of Serpertine Rock when crushed produces asbestos fiber and tiny particles floating in the air. These very dangerous particles are inhaled by innocent children and adults. Years from now they will all die a slow but very painful death....
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 5:52am PDT
Campaign against Muslims in Germany generates Mozart opera controversy Germany now has its own debate over terror and security. Leading forces in German politics and the media are seeking to create an atmosphere of hysteria and fear in political and cultural life and thereby provide a justification for the increasingly aggressive stance taken by the government at home and abroad. As is already the case in the US and Great Britain, the threat of Islamic fundamentalism is being used as the pretext....
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2006 6:30am PDT
Why Hillary Clinton voted for the anti-immigrant wall Last May, in the wake of mass demonstrations that brought millions of immigrants to the streets in cities throughout the United States, New York’s Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton spoke with disdain for the Republican right’s proposals mandating a crackdown on foreign-born workers....
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2006 6:29am PDT
13th Annual Watsonville Peace and Unity March La Plaza de Watsonville (off Main Street)...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 7, 2006 11:30am PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 10:19am PDT
Citing Health Concerns, Farrakhan Turns Over Control of NOI WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Likening his predicament to that of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Minister Louis Farrakhan says he is facing some serious health challenges, causing him to turn over administration of the Nation of Islam to its executive board and cancel all appointments and personal appearances until further notice....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2006 6:28am PDT
Casinos Aggressively Market to Asian Americans, But Few Services Help Addicts It's Friday and David Liu is taking a 9:30 a.m. bus from Boston's Chinatown to the Mohegan Sun casino complex in Connecticut. Liu, an immigrant from Hong Kong who's been in the U.S. for about four years, says he first learned about the casino in an ad in a Chinese-language newspaper. Now that he's retired, he says, leaning into his seat, he enjoys gambling once or twice a week for fun....
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 4:22pm PDT
Considering Allah During the Jewish High Holy Days A writer looks back on the day she and her family walked out of a synagogue in rejection of simplicity and fear and into a more complex world where Jews and Muslims are closer than they think. Jill Hamburg Coplan is a freelance writer based in Montclair, N.J. She teaches journalism at New York University....
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 9:44am PDT
Pope Defends "Christian" Asylum Seekers VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, September28 , seemed to interfere in the highly sensitive political issue of asylum in Europe, expressing his opposition to deporting Christian asylum seekers....
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 6:21am PDT
Buchanan Gets Ugly -- Again at Buchanan's latest screed asks white Americans to lock and load against the invasion of nonwhite immigrants. It's a call to arms, yet mainstream pundits treat it as legitimate debate, writes Cecilia Munoz, vice president for policy of the National Council of La Raza. Immigration Matters regularly features the views of the nation's leading immigrant rights advocates....
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 6:14am PDT
Why 'Borat' Leaves Me Cold A native of Iran who was once the "crazy foreigner" says comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's bumbling journalist from Kazakhstan, portrayed in an upcoming and controversial Hollywood film, never goes beyond ridicule and stereotype to teach us something about ourselves....
Posted: Fri, Sep 29, 2006 6:13am PDT
Bush Administration Says Prominent Muslim Scholar Can’t Teach in the US He’s considered one of the most prominent Muslim intellectual in Europe. Time Magazine calls him of the 100 most likely innovators of the 21st century. But the US government won’t let him into the country. We get reaction from Oxford University professor Tariq Ramadan to the Bush administration’s latest explanation why he can't accept a teaching position in the United States....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 5:46pm PDT
SF: National Day of Action Against the Diamond Trade Tiffany & Co.
350 Post St. on Union Square...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 11:07am PDT
Double Standard for Hispanic Media? Miami Scandal Puts Journalists Under Fire Hispanic journalists are debating the firing of three El Nuevo Herald journalists who received payments from the U.S. government. Many applaud the journalists' dismissal, while others see a vicious double standard at work. Elena Shore is a writer for New America Media....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:23am PDT
A Platform of Bigotry - BOB HERBERT on George Allen ; 2nd Iraq reort, this time from UN - Herbert: Allen’s Bigotry - Where are the voices of reason in the Republican Party(the complete article)?
- Congress Rushing Off a Cliff: Democracy Loses - The New York Times Editorial and More...
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 6:29am PDT
The March in Memory of Mathew Johnson on 3rd Street a grand success The March in Memory of Mathew Johnson who was shot and killed by SFPD 40 years ago was a grand success. Hundreds marched down 3rd Street and the Nation of Islam provided Security. The people took control of this situation and the City and City Attorney Dennis Herrera was put on notice. We will not be moved. The 33,000 plus signatures gathered from constituents all over San Francisco and against the SF Redevelopment Agency - is the voice of the people. We will not be silenced. We will not be ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 6:11am PDT
The Patricia McAllister Show Comcast Cable TV, Channel 35, Ingelwood, California and surrounding areas...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 10:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 5:12pm PDT
Black Panther Party - Fred Hampton, Jr. Comcast Cable TV, Channel 24, Los Angeles, CA area...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 8:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 5:09pm PDT
Monday Night Football at the Superdome: New Orleans is Back ... Without Blacks Did anybody notice that there was hardly any black people in attendance for the grand re-opening of the New Orleans Superdome on Monday Night Football?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 6:26am PDT
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