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IF IT WEREN’T FOR THE INTERNET WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD: Six Nations conflict heats up (audio/mpeg 14.9MB) Six Nations’ people and supporters have occupied their land for approximately three months to prevent its invasion.This is an interview of Thahoketoteh of the Bear Clan, Mohawk Nation of Grand River, who is a member of the Mohawk Nation News....
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 8:01pm PDT
Greg Palast: The Front Lines of the Class War from 1927 to Today Investigative journalist Greg Palast discusses the disenfranchising of black voters from the voters rolls and what he calls "other dispatches front lines of the class war." Palast is author of the book, "Armed Madhouse."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 7:38am PDT
Race Still A Factor In Death Penalty Cases A new study shows that racial characteristics are still prominent factors when it comes to deciding the fate of defendants in death penalty cases, when the accused is of African descent....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 6:26pm PDT
I was kicked after being shot, says terror raid Muslim A young Muslim shot by police during a dawn terror raid on a suspected bomb factory in east London broke down today as he described the moment anti-terrorist officers stormed his house....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 9:33am PDT
BOUNDLESS LOVE: A MEMORIAL TO IDRISS STELLEY June 13, 2006 is the fifth anniversary of the murder of Idriss "E" Stelley, shot 48 times in 2001 by nine SFPD as they burst into an empty auditorium where he sat alone at the Sony Metreon Theater at 4th and Mission in San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 8:29am PDT
The Case of the Toronto 17: Has Racism Invaded Canada? This has been a good week to be in Canada--or an awful week, depending on your point of view--to understand just how irretrievably biased and potentially racist the Canadian press has become. For, after the arrest of 17 Canadian Muslims on "terrorism" charges, the Toronto Globe and Mail and, to a slightly lesser extent, the National Post, have indulged in an orgy of finger-pointing that must reduce the chances of any fair trial and, at the same time, sow fear in the hearts of the country's mo...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:42pm PDT
Chronic ill-health in Australia’s Aboriginal prison population During the past weeks, since Alice Springs Crown Prosecutor, Nannette Rogers, made allegations on national television about widespread child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities, Australian politicians and the media have stepped up demands for repressive measures against Aboriginal people....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 7:04am PDT
African People's Solidarity Day Campaign Meeting Upaya Center, 478 Santa Clara Ave (at Grand Ave) Oakland...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 11:30pm PDT
Black Churches Fail The Youth When It Comes To Black Youth And Violence In The Bayview Our Black youth are being killed in the Bayview Hunters Point and the Black Church have NOT steped up to the plate to do the right thing. Often times in the Bayview you will hear Black Pators scream and shout but nothing more and nothing less. At one time the Black Pastors were a force to be reckoned with - no more. Today, most of them are on the take and play second fiddle to those issues that really affect the community - the Black on Black killing in one of them....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 4:14pm PDT
Putting N-Word on Trial Again Is Empty Activism More important issues should fire up activism in the black community than the unnerving endurance of one vile expletive, says the writer. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage Press). The Hutchinson Report can also be read at http://www.earlofarihutchinson.blogspot.com....
Posted: Sun, Jun 11, 2006 3:26pm PDT
California Juneteenth ~ Historic Folsom 
Historic Folsom is the site for authentic California History 1845-1865. What was the role of people of African Ancestry in early California? Will our Governor follow the legal requirement to recognize our contributions to the foward flow of humanity?
Should the story of early Black Pioneers in California be officially recognized by the State of California?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 6:39pm PDT
AIDS Fades from White to Black NEW YORK --When a strange disease, later known as AIDS, was first detected at UCLA 25 years ago, it was difficult to get African-Americans interested in what was largely dismissed as ''White gay disease.''...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 6:17am PDT
Surprising Denton (video/quicktime 32.7MB) Students and workers fighting for diversity at UC Santa Cruz silently gather outside a meeting with Chancellor Denton inside and surprise her...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 4:13pm PDT
Australia: Riot squad called to shut down Aboriginal community The increasingly vicious resort by both federal and state governments in Australia to police repression to deal with deep-rooted social deprivation in Aboriginal communities was on display in a chilling riot squad operation last month....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:43am PDT
UCSC Charged With Disadvantaging Students, Faculty and Workers of Color 
On June 6th, UC Santa Cruz students and workers held multiple rallies and confronted Chancellor Denice Denton to demand affirmative diversity on campus. Workers and students are charging UCSC with active institutional racism and sexism by sustaining hidden systematic policies and practices that have the effect of disadvantaging students, faculty and workers of color. Affirmative diversity means actively working against the status quo of institutional racism and sexism at UCSC. The Diversity C...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 1:43am PDT
Anglo students attack migrant youth in Vacaville Ms. Luz Cardona, a Migrant Education youth counselor
at Vaca High in Vacaville, reported this week that
sometime on Friday (June 2) afternoon a 16 year-old
migrant youth was beaten while in the bathroom
severely enough to be attended by a physician, by some
six anglo youths....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 10:18pm PDT
Recruiting Lives. Student documentary About Military Recruitment. (video/mpeg 27.6MB) This is a short documentary about military recruitment and counter-recruitment in colleges and high schools. About 6.5 minutes long in MP4 (QuickTime)....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:13pm PDT
Affirmative Diversity Talking Points STUDENTS AND WORKERS RALLY TO DEMAND AFFIRMATIVE DIVERSITY!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:05pm PDT
Students and Workers Rally to Demand Affirmative Diversity FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5, 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 6:17pm PDT
TRUDELL, the documantary TRUDELL, the documentary was released on DVD this week. The film, which premiered at Sundance, is about Native American poet and activist John Trudell who was the leader of the American Indian Movement during the 1970's....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 10:05am PDT
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