A group of advisors who will report to the director of the U.N. Habitat agency held a town hall meeting in New Orleans on Sunday, July 26, to hear from resident experts and other community members about housing rights violations along the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina.
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Advocates for Environmental and Human Rights,
Africa and the World,
Asia,
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Barney Frank,
Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital,
Darwin Bond-Graham,
Europe,
Gulf Coast,
HANO (Housing Authority of New Orleans),
HUD chief Alphonso Jackson,
human rights violations,
Hurricane Katrina,
Kali Akuno of the U.S. Human Rights Network,
Latin America,
Louisiana Justice Institute,
LSU-VA hospital complex,
May Day New Orleans,
New Orleans,
Reps. Maxine Waters,
Sam Jackson of May Day New Orleans,
Stephanie Mingo,
Survivor’s Village,
The Advisory Group on Forced Evictions (AGFE),
the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative,
the Obama administration,
the Section 8 program,
the U.N. Habitat agency
At 8 a.m. July 20, 10 sheriff’s deputies arrived at Tasha and James Alberti’s West Oakland home after they had left for work, forced their children and grandchildren out and left them on the sidewalk. The grassroots movement to stop unfair foreclosure evictions is heating up. ACORN is helping the Albertis reclaim their home from B of A. Just Cause Oakland invites the community to a press conference at Karen Mims’ home of 42 years at 9401 Cherry St., East Oakland, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 12 noon, to announce a temporary stay of her eviction.
Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates is arguably the most prominent Black intellectual in the U.S. On July 14, cops in Cambridge, Massachusetts, forced him to do a perp walk from his own home to a police car in handcuffs. The charge was disorderly conduct, but Gates’ real offense was being Black and unwilling to bow and scrape when ordered to do so by a white cop.
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Barack Obama,
Black intellectual,
Black people,
Cambridge,
Carl Dix,
FOX News,
Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates,
Massachusetts,
Obama,
October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality,
the Cambridge Police Department,
The Stolen Lives Project
Childbirth is a painful and difficult experience for most women, but Toya Murray says for her, it was torture. Like many other incarcerated women across New York state, she was shackled immediately before and after giving birth. “When it was due for me to have my baby, they shackled my hands and feet when I went into labor to go to the hospital,” Murray said.
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a rally held to end the shackling of inmates before and after delivery,
Ami Sanghvi,
anti-shackling legislation,
Bedford Hills Correctional Facility,
California,
Childbirth,
Gov. Paterson,
Human Rights Watch,
Illinois,
Jacquie Simone,
Jeana Marie,
New Mexico,
New York state,
Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D-Brooklyn),
Serena Alfieri,
Shackling,
Texas,
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
the American Public Health Association,
The Center for Reproductive Rights,
the Correctional Association of New York,
the Eighth Amendment,
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU ),
the New York state Senate and Assembly,
the Women in Prison Project,
Toya Murray,
Vermont,
Westchester County,
Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH)
The California Legislature is now actively collaborating in the bankers’ coup d’état led by Government Sachs. Here are the details:
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a 90-day foreclosure moratorium,
Assemblyman Ted Lieu,
Bank of America,
Citimortgage,
comprehensive loan modification plan,
derivatives disaster,
Deutschebank,
EMC Mortgage,
global recession,
Goldman Sachs,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Kondur Capital,
predatory lending practices,
securitized home loans,
The California Legislature,
the mortgage meltdown,
the Sacramento Bee
According to The ARC (advocacy, respect and commitment) of California, the governor has made devastatingly destructive cuts in the support system for people with developmental disabilities and their families. Recently I received a letter from the president of the ARC, Dwight Stratton, stating that our elected legislators decided to ignore the will of the people of the state of California by decimating the Lanterman Act.
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Apollonia Jordan,
Armond,
autism,
developmental disabilities,
Dwight Stratton,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “I don’t give a damn” attitude,
low-income communities,
occupational therapy,
PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) training,
public schools,
Schwarzenegger’s Department of Developmental Services,
sign language training,
speech therapy,
the 10 members of the Legislature’s Budget Conference,
the Lanterman Act,
the Lynn Center
California’s phony bleeding heart liberal Democrats have just helped to pass a Republican budget deal that shreds California’s safety net by cutting $15.5 billion from the state’s service sector to partially close a $26.3 billion funding shortfall in state revenues. The Democrats supported a $1.3 billion cut to MediCal, a $2.8 billion cut to the statewide university system, and a $6 billion cut to California’s K-12 schools. The Democratic leadership also supported the Republicans’ push to slash the children’s health insurance program known as Healthy Families, as well as In-Home Supportive Services and the CalWORKs program by cutting $878 million or more in coming months.
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Assembly Speaker Karen Bass,
Berkeley,
California’s K-12 schools,
Congresswoman Barbara Lee,
Democrats,
Eleanor Walden,
Healthy Families,
In-Home Supportive Services,
Kevin D. Shields,
Kevin Shield,
Lydia Gans of Food Not Bombs,
Lynda Carson,
MediCal,
Oakland,
People’s Park,
Pro Tem Darrel Steinberg,
Republican,
Ricci Graham,
Sacramento,
the CalWORKs program,
the Disabled Students Program at the University of California,
Zachary Norris of Books Not Bars
Mass imprisonment is a consequence of the war on drugs. It is estimated that over 600,000 of the 2,300,000 people in state and federal prisons are in prison for nonviolent drug offenses. This does not include the other 5 million people who are either confined in county jails or on probation or parole, a majority of whom are nonviolent drug offenders. This means out of a United States population of over 250 million people, over 7 million people are in one way or another under the supervision of the prison system.
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Comrade George L. Jackson,
confiscation of assets,
equipment,
increased law enforcement budgets,
lobbying,
Lovelle Mixon,
March 21st in Oakland,
Mass imprisonment,
police departments in the United States,
poverty,
President Nixon,
President Obama,
Robert Saleem Holbrook,
the government’s war on drugs,
the militarization of law enforcement,
training,
“Blood in My Eye”
“George Jackson was my hero. He set a standard for prisoners, political prisoners, for people. He showed the love, the strength, the revolutionary fervor that’s characteristic of any soldier for the people. He inspired prisoners, whom I later encountered, to put his ideas into practice. And so his spirit became a living thing.” – from the eulogy by Huey P. Newton, former Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party, at the Revolutionary Memorial Service for George Jackson, 1971
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August,
Black Liberation Movement,
Black Panther Party,
Bobby Hutton,
California,
Dr. Huey P. Newton,
FBI,
Field Marshal George,
former Minister of Defense,
George and Jonathan Jackson,
James McClain,
John Brown,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Nat Turner,
New Jersey,
Newark,
Ph.D.,
Robert Lawrence,
San Quentin Prison,
Steve Bartholomew,
Sylvester Bel,
Sylvester Bell,
the LAPD,
the Philadelphia-based naturalist MOVE Organization,
the Revolutionary Memorial Service for George Jackson,
Tommy Lewis,
William Christmas,
www.blockreportradio.com,
www.citylights.com,
www.prisonradio.org,
“Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A.”
Mayor Gavin Newsom claims the most important item on his agenda is the revitalization of Bayview Hunters Point. Illustrating his editorial is this picture of a Black woman laborer. She is likely to be the only Black worker on any Hunters Point construction if things do not change. I propose an anti-gentrification subsidy of affordable housing and jobs for all residents displaced or in danger of displacement.
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affordable homeownership,
anti-gentrification subsidy,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Black woman laborer,
breathmobiles,
community benefit,
economic and ethnic diversity,
electricians,
Farmers Home Administration,
Fillmore,
gentrification,
Hayes Valley,
homeowners,
homeownership,
Hunters View,
HVAC workers,
job skills,
Joseph Debro,
National Association of Minority Contractors,
on-the-job training,
plumbers,
quality health for children,
Redevelopment Agency,
Sunnydale,
Visitacion Valley,
Visitacion Valley Community Development Corp.,
Western Addition
Black British filmmaker Ishmahil Blagrove was aboard Free Gaza’s Spirit of Humanity, abducted by the Israeli Navy and, like Cynthia McKinney, one of the Free Gaza 21 imprisoned in an Israeli jail. He reports: “The prison population in Israel is 90 percent Black, which is why I was so welcomed by fellow inmates. There are thousands upon thousands of Africans inside the Israeli prisons.”
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Africans,
Ashdod Port,
BBC,
former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney,
Gaza,
Ishmahil Blagrove,
Israeli gunships,
Israeli judiciary system,
Israeli warships,
Janelle Oswald,
mainstream British media,
Martin Luther King,
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire,
Palestinians,
Ramle High Security Prison,
Spirit of Humanity,
The Voice,
Zodiac Special Forces
Madness went down in Paris, Texas, on Tuesday, July 21, as members of the New Black Panther Party and white supremacists squared off. The trouble took place when skinheads descended upon a rally held by members of the Black community to protest the Jasper-style dragging death of Brandon McClelland last September by two white men.
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Associated Press (AP),
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Black Power,
black separatists,
Brandon McClelland,
Brother Jesse Muhammad,
Davey D,
Final Call newspaper,
Hard Knock Radio,
Jasper-style dragging death,
KKK,
KPFA,
Neo-Nazis,
New Black Panther Party,
Obama,
Paris Texas,
skinheads,
Southern Shift TV,
Toby Shook,
Troopers,
white power,
white supremacists
Last week President Obama spoke boldly about persistent racial discrimination and criticized the “structural inequality” that presents “the steepest barrier” to African American equality in the 21st century.
Cynthia McKinney, the outspoken former congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, recently got out of jail.
Yeah. That’s right. Jail.
It’s possible that you had no idea she was in jail.
That’s because she was in detention for almost a week in Israel.
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500 Africans,
anti-Jewish,
anti-Semitic,
Ashdod Port,
Barack Obama,
Black British filmmaker Ishmahil Blagrove,
Blagrove,
British media,
cement,
Cuba,
Cynthia McKinney,
Cyprus,
David Milliband,
Eritrea,
Ghana,
Gordon Brown,
Ivory Coast,
Larnaca,
Martin Luther King,
medical supplies,
Michael Jackson,
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire,
olive trees,
Palestinians,
Ramle,
Ramle High Security Prison,
Tel Aviv,
The Israeli government,
the Israeli judiciary system,
the vessel Spirit of Humanity,
U.S. military aid,
West London,
www.prisonradio.org,
Zodiac Special Forces
The Prisoners of Conscience Committee is embarking on a six-month tour and education campaign around the planet called “You Can Kill a Revolutionary But You Can’t Kill the Revolution.” The purpose is to educate and re-inform people about the 40th anniversary of one of Black and colonized people’s “September 11ths,” the “Massacre on Monroe,” where the U.S. government by way of the Chicago Police Department assassinated 21-year-old Chairman Fred Hampton and Defense Captain Mark Clark of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, at approximately 4:35 in the morning on Dec. 4, 1969, on the West Side of Chicago.
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Adolph Grimes,
Annette Garcia,
Daryl Hamilton,
Deondre Brunston,
Donte Story,
East Bay Politicz,
Imix Books,
Kathryn Johnston,
Lovelle Mixon,
M.O.I. JR,
Oscar Grant III,
POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
Sean Bell,
the first Oscar Grant Rebellion,
the Ibota Lounge,
the Kaos Network,
Trak the Entertainer,
“Ghetto Manifesto”,
“The Assassination of Chairman Fred”
Rekia Mohammed Jabrin has been involved in the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement in more than one way. She has been a consistent spectator at the Johannes Mehserle indictment hearings, taking notes, as well as one of the cofounders of Oakland Cop Watch. We are talking to her to get our audience prepared for the July 24 hearings in Oakland’s Superior Court, where Mehserle’s lawyer will be arguing to get the murder trial taken out of Alameda County.
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accountability,
Anthony Pirone,
Black people,
Johannes Mehserle,
M.O.I. JR,
Marysol Domenici,
Michael Reins,
Oakland Cop Watch,
Oscar Grant,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
Rekia Mohammed Jabrin,
solidarity,
stopping police terror in our communities,
the Civilian Review Boards,
the Fruitvale BART station,
the Internal Affairs Department of the Oakland Police Department,
the Oakland Police Department
For well over five years now, Rev. Edward Pinkney, living in the depths of the de facto apartheid-type township of Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been waging a relentless struggle on behalf of the people of Benton Harbor (Berrien County) against the avaricious, blood sucking, wily Whirlpool Corp. and its mentally somniferous lackeys. It has been and remains, a real people’s struggle to, in the words of Huey P. Newton, “determine and control institutions, so that they reflect the integrity of the people” – in this case Benton Harbor. After he was locked up for over a year in eight different Michigan prisons, an appeals court has ruled in his favor.
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Benton Harbor,
Green Party,
Harbor Shores Project,
Howard Zinn,
Huey P. Newton,
Judge Alfred Butzbaugh,
Judge Butzbaugh,
Judge Wiley of Berrien County,
Larry Pinkney,
Michigan,
PBS NewsHour,
Rev. Edward Pinkney,
Rev. William Wylie-Kellerman,
the Associated Press,
the Black Panther Party,
the Cornerstone Alliance,
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,
the Michigan Appeals Court,
the United Nations,
Whirlpool Corp.,
“Benton Harbor 2007: A Case Study of State Sanctioned Suppression of Black Voting Rights”,
“Keeping It Real”,
“Reverend Pinkney Jailed for Exercising Free Speech”,
“Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker”
This video will change your life by giving you the strength to commit – and organize others to commit – to ending the police war against Black and Brown communities and especially our youth, our future. The BART board will hold a special meeting Thursday, July 30, 6:30 p.m., in the MetroCenter auditorium, 101 Eighth St. in Oakland, across from BART’s Lake Merritt Station, to discuss citizen review of BART police. Be there!
“I was born here.” Mrs. Patterson didn’t look up as she spoke, her voice inaudible, lost in the cement, concrete, doorways, truck exhaust, honking horns, brick walls and glass storefronts of downtown San Francisco. Her skin, the color of earth and wind, land and nature, was camouflaged in long ago lost clothing, shredded blankets and plastic ware.
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a roof,
Bob Offer-Westort,
land,
love,
Market St.,
Michael Hall,
Mrs. Patterson,
Officer Chiu,
POOR Magazine,
Poor News Network,
proper care,
reparations,
respect,
Rhonda Patterson,
San Francisco,
SFPD,
the Coalition on Homelessness,
the courtroom,
the false charges,
unheard heroes
Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have raised our concern about the security of citizens’rights and the impact of the situation on people of African descent.
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Afro-Honduran organizations,
Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubí Ávila,
Central America,
civil liberties,
Dr. Castillo,
Dr. Luther Castillo,
Enrique Ortez Colindres,
flagrant violation of the Constitution of the Republic,
Garifuna,
Honduras,
Hugo Llorens,
human rights,
La Ceiba,
military coup,
ODECO President Celeo Alvarez Casildo,
ONECA (Central American Black Organization),
Patricia Rodas,
people of African descent,
President Manuel Zelaya,
racism and discrimination,
The Afro-Honduran NGO ODECO (Organization of Ethnic Community Development),
the Honduran army,
the Luaga Hatuadi Waduheñu Foundation,
the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
the United States,
TransAfrica Forum,
U.S. President Barack Obama,
‘Chancellor’Ortez Colindres,
“negrito”,
“nigger”,
“We Condemn the Honduran Coup”
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