In case anyone needed further evidence that President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is the Pentagon’s proxy, 140 Rwandan police are about to undertake special training before heading to Haiti, as reported in the Rwanda New Times, because, according to Rwandan Police Chief Edmund Kayiranga, “Rwanda wants to be involved in promoting peace in other countries” and, if need be, they would send more peacekeepers to other countries.
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Amnesty International,
Ann Garrison,
Belgian paratroopers,
Congolese Army (FARDC),
counter-terrorism,
criminal investigation,
cyber crimes investigation,
Dongo rebellion,
Equateur Province,
FBI training Rwandan police,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
Haitian lawyer and human rights activist Marguerite Laurent,
Human Rights Watch,
interrogating techniques,
journalists escape arrest,
Keith Harmon Snow,
mineral riches,
National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP),
oil and mineral rich D.R. Congo,
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President Paul Kagame,
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Rwandan Army’s constant invasions and mineral theft,
Rwandan CNDP militia,
Rwandan Defense Force,
Rwandan police,
Rwandan Police Chief Edmund Kayiranga,
Rwandan troops,
Rwanda’s Kigali Gitarama Prison,
Sen. Russ Feingold,
the Africa Faith and Justice Network,
the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Group,
the Greens European Free Alliance,
three viable parties,
U.N. peacekeepers (MONUC),
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM),
U.S. State Department
If Rwanda’s three viable opposition parties are allowed to register and participate in free and fair elections, they have a good chance, in coalition, of defeating Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) Party. Those three parties condemned the Feb. 19 deadly grenade attacks in Kigali, calling them “an attempt to instill fear in the population” prior to Rwanda’s August presidential election.
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autocratic rule,
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Democratic Republic of Congo,
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Double Genocide Theory,
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George Bush,
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human rights violations,
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Kigali’s Gasabo District,
Le Parti Social Imberakuri,
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Permanent Consultative Council of Opposition Parties in Rwanda,
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President Bill Clinton,
President Paul Kagame,
pretrial detention,
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Rwanda Chamber of Deputies,
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Rwanda News Agency,
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Rwandan Minister of Internal Security Sheikh Mussa Fazil Harerimana,
Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) Party,
Rwanda’s August presidential election,
Saddleback Church,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Senegalese Green Party President Papa Meissa Dieng,
terrorism,
The Democratic Green Party of Rwanda,
Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
Tutsi,
U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy and Labor,
United Democratic Forces – Inkingi,
University of Michigan Professor Allan Stam,
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza,
war crimes
The Fox News cable channel crew has discovered a new all-purpose Black boogey-man to rile latent racial animosity in America: Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally acclaimed death row journalist. Abu-Jamal is now a regular reference in the weapons of mass deception arsenal employed by Fox and its friends to demonize their enemies de jour.
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1968 Kerner Commission Report on race relations in America,
Amnesty International,
Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Abolition Campaign,
Angela Davis,
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Autonomous Unions of Haiti,
Berlin Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Black August,
Black Panther Party,
Charles Rangel,
civil rights investigation,
Cliff Kincaid,
Cornel West,
Cynthia McKinney,
David Horowitz,
death penalty,
death row journalist,
Dr. Suzanne Ross,
El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan,
Fignolé Saint-Cyr,
FOX News,
Fraternal Order of Police,
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition,
Glen Beck,
Gov. Tom Ridge,
Hilary Shelton,
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu,
Joseph “Jazz” Hayden,
Judge Albert Sabo,
Judge Sabo,
Julian Bond,
Kiilu Nyasha,
Laura Moye,
Linn Washington Jr,
Marvin “Doc” Cheatham Sr.,
Minister of Information,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
NAACP,
Noam Chomsky,
Officer Daniel Faulkner,
Pam Africa,
Panama Alba,
political prisoners,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
Robert Chobert,
Ruby Dee,
Sen. Ted Stevens,
Tariq Ali,
The Final Call,
Thomas Ruffin,
“fry the nigger”,
“Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones
“Resistance is growing – preparations are in progress,” Dr. Suzanne Ross, a clinical psychologist and co-chairperson of the Free Mumia/NY Coalition explained to The Final Call. Ms. Ross said she attended the emergency meeting at the Abiding Truth Ministries church in Philadelphia on Oct. 17, where plans were laid out for the upcoming campaign to get Mr. Abu-Jamal freed.
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Amnesty International,
Attorney Roger Wareham,
Daniel Faulkner,
December 12th Movement,
Dr. Suzanne Ross,
Germany,
Greece,
Harlem,
he Abiding Truth Ministries church,
Hilary Shelton,
Mexico,
Mr. Abu Jamal’s attorney Robert Bryan,
Mr. Abu-Jamal,
neo-Nazi Frank Spisak,
New York City,
Ohio,
Ohio Supreme Court standards for prejudice,
Pam Africa,
Philadelphia,
Smith v. Spisak,
the campaign against the death penalty,
the Department of Justice,
the Fraternal Order of Police,
the free Mumia Abu-Jamal movement,
the International Campaign to Save Mumia Abu Jamal,
the Philadelphia district attorney Lynne Abraham,
the Sheridan Texas Project,
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals,
the Supreme Court,
the U.S. Supreme Court,
U.S. Attorney Eric Holder
It seems that there’s a new, easy-way-out solution for security people having to deal with troubled kids who act out or cause disruptions in school: Taser them! That’s right. Zap them with electricity. Elementary and high schools across this great land of ours are hiring security guards equipped with the nasty little weapons that the manufacturers call “non-lethal.” In fact, over 4,000 law enforcement agencies now arm their security people with Tasers.
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12-year-old autistic boy,
Amnesty International,
Bunn,
California,
cardiac or respiratory arrest,
electricity,
Florida,
Jacksonville,
law enforcement agencies,
North Carolina,
Pennsylvania,
security guards,
Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation”,
Taser International,
troubled kids,
Virginia,
“Avanti Popolo: Italians Sailing Beyond Columbus”,
“Smash the Church
The Bush administration holdovers on the U.S. Parole Commission today adopted the position of the FBI that anyone who may be implicated in the killings of its agents should never be paroled and should be left to die in prison. The commission denied Leonard Peltier’s application for parole and set a reconsideration hearing in July 2024.
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Amnesty International,
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Eric Seitz,
FBI,
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Leonard Peltier,
Pine Ridge Reservation,
President Barack Obama,
President Obama,
Reign of Terror on the Pine Ridge Reservation,
the White House,
U.S. Parole Commission
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal from death-row journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of white Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in a 1982 trial deemed unfair by Amnesty International, the European Parliament, the Japanese Diet, Nelson Mandela and numerous others. Now Abu-Jamal’s international support network is calling for a federal civil rights investigation into his case.
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Amnesty International,
Arnold Howard,
Assistant Attorney General Andrew Fois,
Batson v. Kentucky,
Black Panther,
Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe,
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC),
constitutional law,
crimen falsi,
Cynthia White,
Daniel Alva,
Deborah Kordansky,
Dessie Hightower,
Dr. Suzanne Ross,
Educators for Mumia,
Federal District Court Judge William Yohn,
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition of New York City,
George Michael Newman,
Hans Bennett,
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu,
international standards of justice,
J. Patrick O'Connor,
James LeGrand,
Jean Langen,
Joseph McGill,
Journalists for Mumia,
Judge Albert Sabo,
Judge Thomas Ambro,
Kenneth Fleming,
Kenneth Freeman,
Linn Washington Jr,
Marcus Cannon,
Michael Schiffmann,
MOVE Commission,
MOVE family,
MOVE organization,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Mumia Exception,
NAACP,
Nelson Mandela,
Officer Gary Bell,
Officer John D. Baird,
Officer Thomas F. Ryan,
Officer Thomas M. Bray,
Pam Africa,
Pedro Polakoff,
peremptory strikes,
Philadelphia Judge Pamela Dembe,
Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner,
Philadelphia Police Officer Douglas Culbreth,
Police Officer Gary Wakshul,
Police Officer Gary Waskshul,
Post-Conviction Relief Act (PCRA),
Priscilla Durham,
professor Cornel West,
racial bias in jury selection,
racially discriminatory jury selection,
Rep. Chaka Fattah,
Rep. Cynthia McKinney,
Rep. John Conyers,
Rep. Maxine Waters,
Rep. Ron Dellums,
Riverside Church's Prison Ministry,
Robert Chobert,
Robert Harkins,
Sen. Ted Stevens,
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder,
U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel,
Veronica Jones,
William "Billy" Cook,
William Singletary
Haitian priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste was a Jesus-like revolutionary. In jail and out, he preached liberation of the poor, release of prisoners, human rights for all and a fair distribution of wealth. Though he died May 27, he remains present in the hearts of millions. Watch a video he recorded just for SF Bay View.
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Cite de Soleil,
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Florida,
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he U.S.-supported coup government,
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Kreyol,
liberation,
liberation theology,
Miami,
Mon Pere,
Port au Prince,
Prisoner of Conscience,
prisoners,
revolutionary,
St. Claire,
starving children,
the Bible,
the Declaration of Human Rights,
the poor,
trumped up charges,
U.S.,
wrongfully imprisoned
Troy Davis has spent 18 years on Georgia’s death row despite overwhelming proof that he is an innocent man. Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and around the world are outraged by the obvious injustices of this case, and they’ll be out demonstrating on May 19, Malcolm X’s birthday.
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Alice Walker,
Amnesty International,
Amnesty International USA's Rosa Clemente,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Bob Barr,
Campaign to End the Death Penalty,
death-row exoneree Lawrence Hayes,
Dianne Mathiowetz,
execution,
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue,
Impact,
innocence,
M1 of dead prez,
Martina Correia,
National Conference of Black Lawyers,
National Lawyers Guild,
New York NAACP,
New Yorkers for an Alternative to the Death Penalty,
Pardons and Parole Board,
police intimidation and threats,
Pope Benedict XVI,
Rebel Diaz,
Riverside Church Senior Minister Brad Braxton,
Troy Anthony Davis,
Welfare Poets,
William Sessions
The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that they have rejected death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal’s appeal for a new guilt phase trial. Readers are urged to contact the White House to protest this unjust ruling. Call (202) 456-1111 or visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/.
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Amnesty International,
Appellate Judge Thomas Ambro,
Batson,
Batson claim of racism in jury selection,
Batson v. Kentucky,
Congressional Black Caucus,
Dave Lindorff,
equal justice,
European Parliament,
fair jury,
Hans Bennett,
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu,
J. Patrick O'Connor,
Jack McMahon,
Judge Albert Sabo,
Judge Sabo,
Justice Samuel Alito,
Linn Washington,
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Mumia Exception,
NAACP,
Noelle Hanrahan,
Officer Faulkner,
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell,
peremptory challenges,
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham,
Prison Radio,
Prosecutor Joseph McGill,
racist exclusion of Blacks,
U.S. Supreme Court,
writ of certiorari
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
An 18,000-acre complex that still resembles the slave plantation it once was, Angola Prison is where Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 has served nearly all of his time in solitary confinement – 36 years, 2 months and 24 days.
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Albert Woodfox,
Amnesty International,
Angola 3,
Angola Warden Murray Henderson,
Anne Butler,
Billy Wayne Sinclair,
Black Panther Party,
Black Pantherism,
bloodiest prison in America,
bloodstained shirt,
Bobby Jindal,
Brent Miller,
Burl Cain,
butler,
Center for Equal Justice,
Chester Jackson,
Chris Aberle,
Christian redemption,
Christine Noland,
egregious prosecutorial misconduct,
freemen,
fresh fishes,
George Kendall,
Herman Wallace,
Hezekiah Brown,
homemade knife,
house boys,
hunger strike,
inmate-guard system,
James Ridgeway,
John Sinquefield,
Joseph Richey,
Kyle Duncan,
Louisiana Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell Jr.,
Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola,
Mississippi River delta,
Nick Trenticosta,
racial segregation,
Rep. John Conyers,
Robert King,
sexual enslavement,
slave plantation,
solitary confinement,
Thorazine,
trustees,
Warden Murray Henderson
The research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects.
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Amnesty International,
blunt trauma weapons,
David Hambling,
lasers,
microwaves,
National Institute for Justice,
pain beam weapons,
PHaSR,
reduced injuries,
rubber bullets,
Tasers,
torture
Introduced by Lawrence Fishburne, this music video brings together 16 of the world’s top musicians — some of whom have fled oppressive regimes — in a rousing musical plea to guarantee human rights for all. The track, donated by Aterciopelados and arranged by fusion music guru Andres Levin, combines the voices of Stephen Marley, Angelique [...]
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Amnesty International,
Angelique Kidjo,
Aterciopelados,
Chali 2Na of Jurassic 5,
Chiwoniso,
Emmanual Jal,
Hugh Masekela,
human rights,
Julieta Venegas,
Kiran Ahluwalia,
Lawrence Fishburne,
Natacha Atlas,
Natalie Merchant,
Rachid Taha,
Stephen Marley,
United Nations,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Yerba Buena,
Yungchen Lhamo
What makes this conflict particularly sickening is the role of U.S. and European corporations, together with Rwanda and Uganda, in the plunder of DRC’s resources. This is a war about self-interest and greed.
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Amnesty International,
coltan,
Committee on International Relations,
Congo,
Cynthia McKinney,
DARA Great Lakes Industry,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
DRC,
Eagles Wing Resources,
genocide,
House of Representatives,
Human Rights Watch,
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
International Rescue Committee,
Madam Safiatou Ba-N'Daw,
Mobutu,
President Kagame of Rwanda,
President Museveni of Uganda,
President Patrice Lumumba,
Robert Raun,
Rwanda,
SmartWood,
Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Righ,
U.N. Secretary General,
U.S. Special Forces,
Uganda,
UNICEF,
World Food Program
On Oct. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the death-row case of Troy Anthony Davis, putting him on the fast track to be murdered by the state of Georgia for the murder of a Savannah police officer in 1989. But on Friday, Oct. 24, in his third 11th-hour reprieve, the federal appeals court in Atlanta granted a stay so Troy’s lawyers can file claims of his innocence. Block Report Radio speaks with Troy’s sister Martina Davis about his case.
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Amnesty International,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Atlanta,
Block Report Radio,
Bob Barr,
Carol Moseley Braun,
death row,
Flashpoints,
Fraternal Order of Police,
Gary Graham,
Georgia Black legislative caucus,
Georgia Parole Board,
Herrera v. the United States,
innocence,
John Lewis,
Justice John Paul Stevens,
KPFA 94.1FM,
Ku Klux Klan,
Martina Davis,
Pope Benedict XVI,
President Jimmy Carter,
recant testimony,
San Quentin's death row,
Savannah,
Stanley Tookie Williams,
Troy Anthony Davis,
U.S. Supreme Court
A chorus of extraordinarily influential voices is calling for the freedom of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, the epitome of the Haitian genius for political organizing with superhuman courage and integrity, who was disappeared one year ago. Here are several of those voices: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Selma James, Pierre Labossiere, Kevin Pina, Michele Pierre-Antoine and President Bertrand Aristide.
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Amnesty International,
Black Jacobins,
Brian Concannon,
CLR James,
exile,
Fanmi Lavalas Party,
first free Black republic,
Fondayson Trant Septenm,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haitian State University,
human bondage,
Kevin Pina,
liberation theology,
Lovinsky Pierre Antoine,
Michele Pierre-Antoine,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Pierre Labossiere,
President Bertrand Aristide,
Selma James,
Simon Bolivar,
sweatshop,
U.N. High Commission on Human Rights,
U.N. troops
A group of journalists is determined to seek a fair retrial of death row prisoner, noted journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, and they point to evidence they say provides further proof of his innocence: photos from the crime scene that the jury never had the chance to see.
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Albert Sabo,
Amnesty International,
Amnesty International U.K. Director Kate Allen,
Billy Cook,
Central Park Five,
Daniel Faulkner,
David A. Love,
Dr. Michael Schiffmann,
Frank Rizzo,
Germany,
Hans Bennett,
Journalists for Mumia,
Linn Washington Jr,
Locust and 13th Streets in Philadelphia,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Pedro Polakoff,
Police officer James Forbes,
Race Against Death: Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Robert Chobert,
United States,
Wesley Cook
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