A time bomb is ticking, waiting to explode in communities of color across the nation. Law enforcement officers have become an occupation force. If we are to have peace, we first must place economic justice at the top of our agenda. The day Lovelle Mixon died, those close to him mentioned two explanations: He dreaded being sent back to prison yet he couldn’t find a job.
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14th Amendment,
Abdur-Rahim Hameed,
affirmative action,
African American Contractors of San Francisco,
airborne asbestos,
Bayview Hunters Point,
beating,
Black business owners,
Black businesses,
Brazilian President Lula da Silva,
Caravan for Justice,
Congressional Black Caucus,
Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
criminal justice,
discrimination,
disrespect of citizens,
Earl Ofari Hutchison,
economic justice,
environmental justice,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,
HOPE SF,
Judge Thelton Henderson,
Kim Rohrbach,
Lennar,
Liberty Builders,
Local Hire Ordinance,
Lovelle Mixon,
minority- and women-owned business enterprises,
National Black Contractors of America,
occupation force,
Oscar Grant,
Peace Officers' Bill of Rights,
planting evidence,
police execution,
police misconduct,
political justice,
Proposition F,
Proposition G land grab,
public housing privatization,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Second Chance Act,
Sierra Club,
Superfund site,
The John Stewart Co.,
white supremacists,
Willie Ratcliff
National Women’s History Month’s roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women’s Day was first observed in 1909.
Davey D chops it up with dead prez about the cop killings in Oakland and Oscar Grant.
The recent UNHCR Gimme Shelter campaign uses the iconic Rolling Stones song and Hollywood star Ben Affleck’s video of suffering in Congo as a propaganda tool to peddle the international catastrophe of Western aid, intervention, plunder and depopulation in Central Africa.
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"wildlife conservation" enterprises,
Alison Des Forges,
Amnesty International,
Banro Corp.,
Ben Affleck,
brutalized,
CARE International,
Congo,
Dan Gertler,
Daryl Hannah,
death camps,
depopulation,
diamond cartels,
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund,
disenfranchised,
Ewan McGregor,
Forces for the Democratic Liberation of Rwanda,
Gen. Laurent Nkunda,
genocide,
George Forrest,
International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR),
International Crises Group,
International Rescue Committee,
Jane Goodall Institute,
John Bredenkamp,
Keith Harmon Snow,
Lockheed Martin Corp.,
Lord's Resistance Army,
Louis Michel,
Maurice Tempelsman,
Mia Farrow,
modern day slavery,
MONUC Public Information Office (PIO),
Moto Gold,
Natalie Portman,
National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP),
North Kivu,
Oxfam,
Philipe De Moerloose,
plunder,
President Bill Clinton,
President Juvenal Habyarimana,
PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PWC),
Raise Hope for Congo,
refugees,
Rwanda,
Rwandan Patriotic Army,
Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA),
Rwandan President Paul Kagame,
Sam Jonah,
Save the Children,
Sudan,
Titanium Resources Group,
U.N. "peacekeeping" mission,
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
Ugandan People's Defense Forces' (UPDF),
UNHCR,
United Nations Development Program (UNDP),
United Nations Observers Mission for Congo (MONUC),
uprooted,
Vangold Resources,
Walter Kansteiner,
Yoweri Museveni
“I Shot The Sheriff” by Bob Marley, who explained, “I wanted to say ‘I shot the police’ but the government would have made a fuss so I said ‘I shot the sheriff’ instead.”
Police are virtually an occupying military force in Black urban centers. Their presence will neither eliminate the plague of rampant crime nor address the underlying disease of extreme impoverishment.
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African National Congress (ANC),
Aisha Guillory,
Black community control,
Black Panther Lil Bobby Hutton,
Black Panther Party,
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense original10-point program,
Carl Finamore,
despair spawns violence,
economic neglect,
Eldridge Cleaver,
extreme impoverishment,
Hunters Point,
John Burris,
Lovelle Mixon,
Mack "Jody" Woodfox,
Marlon Brando,
motorcycle cops,
Oakland Police Chief Wayne Tucker,
Oakland Police Department,
occupying military force,
Officer Hector Jimenez,
oppressed communities,
police corruption and brutality,
police violence,
racist police oppression and brutality,
Riders,
search and destroy missions,
self-policing by African-American communities,
siege mentality of police,
unemployment rate
When the story that the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department (SFSD) was illegally strip-searching detainees and leaving them naked for hours in “cold cells” hit the front page of the Chronicle in September 2003, the public was both astonished and outraged. Attend the 9th Circuit hearing Thursday, 3/26, 10am, Courtroom 1, 95 7th St., San Francisco.
We think the rainbow – the gay symbol – is all about fun and parties, but there is also a dark side that no one likes to talk about, such as abuse or racism within the GLBT community.
The reason why so many people may have appeared gleeful at the killing by Lovelle Mixon of four Oakland cops is that the police have for so long looked at various communities as less than human.
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Amadou Diallo,
Annette Garcia,
Beeda Weeda and J Stalin,
Civil War,
Daniel Rocha,
Davey D,
Dead Prez,
Dominique DiPrima,
Jennifer Johns,
Jern-Eye,
Jesse Lee Owens,
KC Carter,
Kevin Brown,
Lovelle Mixon,
Mistah F.A.B.,
Oscar Grant,
Sean Bell,
Sophie King,
Truth Universal
Lovelle Mixon – the suspected shooter behind the deaths of four Oakland police officers on Saturday – has joined the pantheon of Black men who have conducted deadly rebellions: Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Huey Newton, Jonathan Jackson and Larry Davis.
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Anita Gay,
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,
Denmark Vesey,
Gary King Jr.,
Huey Newton,
Jonathan Jackson,
Kevin Weston,
Larry Davis,
Lovelle Mixon,
Nat Turner,
New America Media,
Oscar Grant,
Polly Klaas,
Sean Bell,
Three Strikes law
On March 21, Lovelle Mixon, 26, was murdered by Oakland police after allegedly killing four of them on MacArthur Blvd off of 73rd Avenue in East Oakland. Listen to JR’s Block Report interview with his family – his mother, Athena, his wife, Amara, and her sister, Alicia – broadcast March 30 on KPFA’s Flashpoints at http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/49609.
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Aaron Harrison,
Adolph Grimes,
Amadou Diallo,
Anita Gaye,
Annette Garcia,
BART,
Black Panther Party,
Casper Banjo,
Donte Story,
East Oakland,
Gary King,
Gaza Strip,
Johannes Mehserle,
John Burris,
Kathryn Johnston,
Lovelle Mixon,
Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton,
Oscar Grant III,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
Sean Bell,
Sgt. Mark Dunakin,
suicide sniper,
Terrance Mearis,
Three Strikes
When the full story is finally told and, though not likely freely admitted by many, deep within the spiritual thinking of numerous African Americans, an emotional candle will be lit in memory of Lovelle Mixon.
Guests on Friday’s Wanda’s Picks Radio are Tovi Scruggs, M.Ed., and Sharon Morrison Parker, directors of ASA Academy, who talked about an exciting conference next week: “MAN UP! First Annual Black Boys Conference: Extending the Arm of Brotherhood to Achieve Manhood” on Saturday, March 28.
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Afi Ayanna,
Allison L. Payne,
Angela Wellman,
Awele Makeba,
Barbara Thompson,
Bela Fleck,
Carla Blank,
Craig Marker,
David Roach,
Diana Block,
Dwight Huntsman,
Elizabeth Harney,
Ernest Gaines,
Halili Knox,
Ishmael Reed,
Janet Cooke,
John Santos,
Kathryn Tkel,
Lalla Essaydi,
Loretta Greco,
Marcel Diallo,
Margo Hall,
Omar Sosa,
Opal Palmer Adisa,
Peter Apfelbaum,
Phylicia Rashad,
Rebecca Schweitzer,
Renata Gray,
Richard Aoki,
Richard Crawley,
Ryan Peters,
Sharon Morrison Parker,
Sidney Littlefield Kasfir,
Simon Njami,
Talise Trevigne,
Tennessee Reed,
Thembinkosi A. Goniwe,
Toumani Diabaté,
Tovi Scruggs,
Tracey Scott Wilson,
Wanda Sabir
Azeem is definitely one of the artists in the Bay’s soundscape who puts the “c” in creative. He’s the rapper’s rapper, a creative lyricist, a conscious mind. Vote for him on BET at http://www.bet.com/OnTV/BETShows/deal/deal_ya_heard.htm??Referrer={626141E.
Early New Year’s morning phones in Hayward and Oakland were ringing: “Wake up, wake up. Something’s happened to the boys.” Calls were going back and forth between the families of 22-year-old Oscar Grant and his friends – families so close all the women were called “aunties.”
I implore the members of the Congressional Black Caucus to spearhead the participation of the United States in the United Nation’s World Conference Against Racism: to boldly go where we have gone before.
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Admiral Mike Mullen,
Afro-Latinos,
Anti-Defamation League,
anti-Israel,
anti-Semitic,
atom bomb,
Barbara Lee,
Black Panther Party,
Bush policies,
COINTELPRO,
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC),
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson,
Cynthia McKinney,
Dalits in India,
Durban,
European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance,
Gaza,
Geneva United Nations World Conference Against Racism (Durban II),
Guadeloupe,
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
International Relations Committee,
Israel,
Kathleen Cleaver,
Martinique,
Mary Robinson,
Paul Wolf,
Power to the People Green Party presidential campaign,
President Obama,
pullout,
reparations,
Tom Lantos,
trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,
Transpartisan Alliance,
Zionism
In October 2007, the Justice Department reported that during the three years from 2003 through 2005 police in the U.S. killed, on average, a person every day.
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Albert Hopkins,
Corcoran 8,
Deputy Christopher Long,
Deputy Dave Willard,
Emmett Till,
extrajudicial executions by U.S. police,
Gregory Boggs Jr.,
Harry Stern,
Jordan Swonger,
Justice Department,
Kathryn Johnston,
Michael Kan,
Michael Rains,
Oakland Riders,
Oscar Grant,
Peyton Strickland,
post-racial society,
Sean Bell,
taser,
William Bergin
James Bryant, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute’s San Francisco chapter and chairperson of SEIU Local 1021’s political action committee, is the subject of a Los Angeles Times investigation into corruption, largely for taking funds from PG&E and Lennar.
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A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI),
Aaron Peskin,
Andy Stern,
APRI-SF,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
CityBuild,
Clayola Brown,
conflict-of-interest rules,
Damita Davis Howard,
Daniel Borochoff,
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Guillermo Rodriguez,
James Bryant,
Josie Bryant,
Kamala Harris,
Lennar Homes,
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
Mark Leno,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E),
Paul Pringle,
SEIU Local 1021,
self-dealing,
Service Employees International Union (SEIU),
Tyrone Freeman,
Willie L. Brown
When opportunity presented itself in the form of widespread warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwean military leaders were quick to provide troops in exchange for permission to establish Zimbabwean corporations to exploit Congolese raw materials.
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Air Commodore Mike Tichafa Karakadzai,
Air Marshall Perence Shiri,
Brigadier General Sibusiso Busi Moyo,
Burundi,
Colonel Simpson Sikhulile Nyathi,
Colonel Tshinga Dube,
Congo gold and diamonds,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
DRC President Laurent Kabila,
economic "structural adjustments",
Economic Structural Adjustment Program (ESAP),
elites,
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
General Vitalis Musunga Gava Zvinavashe,
Jean Damu,
John Mikembe,
Joint Operations Command,
Joseph Kabila,
Morgan Tsvangirai,
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC),
National Security Council,
personal enrichment of military leaders,
political elite,
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe,
Rhodesia,
Rwanda,
Sidney Sekeramayi,
Solomon Mujuru (aka Rex Nhongo),
Thamer Bin Said Ahmed Al-Shanfari,
Uganda,
wealth accumulation,
Western economic sanctions,
ZANLA Deputy Commander Solomon Mujuru,
ZANU-PF,
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA),
Zimbabwe Executive Vice President Grace Mujuru,
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a fearless anti-lynching crusader, suffragist, women’s rights advocate, journalist and speaker, one of our nation’s most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of democracy.
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"Jim Crow" car,
1875 Civil Rights Act,
anti-lynching,
Black newspaper,
Booker T. Washington,
Calvin McDowell,
enslaved,
F.L. Barnett,
Henry Stewart,
Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Jane Addams,
journalist,
Lee D. Baker,
Lynch Law,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
Niagara Movement,
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896),
racial segregation,
radical,
Rev. R. Nightingale,
separate but equal,
suffragist,
Thomas Moss,
William E.B. DuBois,
women's rights advocate
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