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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Racial imprisonment
"We must call for, agitate for and, if all else fails, create a new popular movement that struggles to break this caste system once and for all." Mumia Abu-Jamal addresses the "Imprisonment of a Race" Conference at Princeton University.
New Orleans news from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund Project Vote and New Orleans attorney Ronald Wilson filed a complaint in federal court alleging that Louisiana is disenfranchising minority and low-income voters by failing to offer them the opportunity to register to vote as required by the National Voter Registration Act.
‘Maffé Tiga’ (‘Peanut Butter Stew’): Help a young African filmmaker finish his production!
A short film written and directed by Mohamed Dione, “Maffé Tiga” (“Peanut Butter Stew”), is a romantic dramedy about a young African woman who finds that love is the true connection between her heritage and her future. Help this incredible film finish post-production and enter into popular film festivals around the world.
Systematic injustice against Sundiata Acoli
“Freeing all political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and prisoners of war” tops America’s social justice struggle, “because the state uses the criminal justice system to lock up those who sacrifice their livelihood for freedom and justices for the masses.”
‘I Mix What I Like’: an interview wit’ author Jared Ball, Ph.D.
Emancipatory journalism aggressively argues that we need radical community-based journalism that, while professional, organized and researched, is clear about its bias in favor of oppressed communities and their political organizations and struggle.
Burnett Child Development Center to be renamed Leola M. Havard Early Education School after...
The Burnett Child Development Center has been renamed in honor of the first African American woman school principal in the San Francisco Unified School District, Leola M. Havard. Community members called for a renaming of the school site due to Peter Burnett’s past political stances and support of laws which resulted in the discrimination against Blacks, Asians and Native Americans.
Black and Brown workers protest White contractor in Harlem
West Harlem streets around City College of New York were suddenly filled with angry workers’ chants on May 10: Black and Latino construction workers protesting the construction of City College’s new dormitory by a White-owned firm, while legitimate Harlem-based Black and Latino contractors were not hired, a pattern City College has followed for 30 years. Read how Harlem Fightback! and other coalitions have fought and are once again fighting back.
Why you should support Black PP/POWs
My name is Sundiata Acoli. I’m a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who was captured on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973 and am now a Black Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War who’s been held by the government for the last 37 years.
A legendary Three Strikes prisoner dies
The people of the state of California, by and through their draconian Three Strikes and You’re Out law, have achieved another very shameful in-custody death. On April 19, at approximately 1:20 p.m., Jeremiah Sheppard tragically died on a dirt exercise track at the Folsom State Prison.
Help for homecoming prisoners: Second Chance, Last Chance to Succeed at City College
Second Chance is a unique program at City College of San Francisco that provides academic and other services to parolees. It's the birth child of the Extended Opportunity Program or, as one of its founding fathers calls it, the Experienced Oppressed People’s Program, hard won by Third World students in the '60s.
The story of the Omaha Two
The Omaha Two are Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice). Both men are imprisoned at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, where they are serving life sentences for the Aug. 17, 1970, bombing murder of an Omaha police officer, in which they deny any involvement.
NAACP special investigation reveals broken promises by BP
A special investigation, “’My Name is 6508799’: State of the Gulf, One Year After the Oil Drilling Disaster,” recently released by the NAACP, indicates that thousands of Gulf Coast residents are still suffering mild to severe mental health problems stemming from BP oil drilling disaster last year.
Stic.man’s ‘The Workout’: Making health political – and fun
"It benefits the system to have a sick, weak and high mass population of apathy to govern over" says Stic.man, of the revolutionary rap group dead prez, speaking about his latest solo album, "The Workout," and how health and fitness is related to the political world we live in.
First they came for …: Uganda and U.S. culture wars
The anti-homosexual bill has, for better or worse, drawn Uganda into the midst of U.S. culture wars, and Ugandan human rights activists are unconvinced that the sudden attention has anything to do with genuine concern for Ugandans or their rights.
Sonoma honors Big Man’s 50th year of community service
The wonderful people of Sonoma gave Big Man a surprise dinner to honor his 50th year of community service. Big Man’s and my connection is based in the Black Panther Party. Even in the BPP, we used to run together.
Libya and Congo: Africa in the age of Obama – Why military intervention is...
The rationale for the U.S. intervention in Libya is to protect vulnerable civilians from mass slaughter by the Libyan regime. Why has the U.S. has pursued a military path to “protect” civilians in Libya, when there is a far greater humanitarian crisis unfolding in the heart of Africa, in the Congo. President Obama has the diplomatic tools at his disposal to help alleviate the human suffering in the Congo but has not used them. Watch the videos and sign the petition.
Respect the rights of all Ugandans, including LGBTI Ugandans
This is time for the gay movement around the world to make common cause with the average citizen of Uganda to decry the abuse of human rights of ALL Ugandans. Do not separate the two issues.
Rwanda: Who’s denying genocide?
The 2010 U.N. Mapping Exercise Report, U.N. Prosecutor Del Ponte’s 2009 exposé of Rwandan Patriotic Front crimes, and the 2008 Spanish genocide indictment of President Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front tell the real story.
Tanya pleads not guilty and we march next month
Tanya McDowell, the mother in Connecticut who was charged with larceny for allegedly stealing an education for her son, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $15,000 fine for sending her child to a school outside his district.
Fresh air at KPFA: an interview with KPFA interim Program Director Carrie Core
I want us to do good radio. I want people to listen to us because we are doing dynamic programming. I want communities to feel that they can tune into the station and hear someone addressing the issues that are important to them.