In December 2009, leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen cited new satellite data doubling or tripling previous sea level rise predictions. Climate change, he said, “is really a moral issue analogous to that faced by Lincoln with slavery,” an apt comparison considering the dangers for peoples of color in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco.
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There was an emergency service system established in Haiti under the government of President Aristide. We had trained people, trained volunteers everywhere in Haiti. There were buildings with materials and goods stocked there, so in case of an emergency, people would have the means to survive.
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Faced with mounting issues like melting glaciers and destruction of the rainforests on his home continent, President Morales has called for very necessary measures to lower our world’s temperatures by even more than the recent warnings from most scientists and even our colleagues in G77, Africa Group and AOSIS. “One degree (Centigrade) rise is too much!” says Morales. Negotiators remain at work. Keep calling the Obama administration.
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Recently, a white KPFA supporter asked me do I really think that KPFA as a station is racist and deserves to be categorized as apartheid radio? The answer was yes, because still in 2009 KPFA does not have a Black show that speaks to the issues of the Black community in the U.S. KPFA does have shows for the white community, like The Morning Show, Democracy Now and Against the Grain, and for other communities, like the Asians with APEX Express, the Latinos with La Onda and La Raza Chronicles, disabled people with Pushing Limits and so on, but Black people living in the United States are supposed to beg other programmers to air what is important to our community.
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Democracy Now,
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KPFA,
La Onda,
La Raza Chronicles,
Minister of Information JR,
Nadra Foster,
Oakland,
Oakland Seen,
Pushing Limits,
Sasha Lilley,
the Black community,
The Block Report,
The Morning Show
To make KPFA’s powerful signal work for us, the Black community is putting its faith in Adam Hudson, who is running for KPFA Local Station Board in an election that ends next week – ballots must be received at KPFA by midnight Thursday, Oct. 15. Call the Bay View at (415) 671-0789 if you need more info. Be sure to vote!
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Palo Alto,
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People’s Radio,
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Stanford,
the Concerned Listeners,
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the NAACP,
the Pacifica Network,
the Program Council
Rebuilding efforts in St. Bernard Parish, a small community just outside New Orleans, have recently gotten a major boost. One nonprofit focused on rebuilding in the area has received the endorsement of CNN, Alice Walker the touring production of the play “The Color Purple” and even President Obama. But an alliance of Gulf Coast and national organizations are now raising questions about the cause these high profile names are supporting.
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Lynn Dean,
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Moving Forward Gulf Coast,
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative,
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President Obama,
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Salvation Army,
St. Bernard Parish,
TeleSur,
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the Fair Housing Act,
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the Greater New Orleans Foundation,
the New Orleans Times-Picayune,
the Southern Institute for Education and Research,
Tulane University,
U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan,
United Way,
Zack Rosenburg,
“The Color Purple”,
“The St. Bernard Project
“Malcolm X would love to make mixtapes, have those out on the streets. The same reasons they boycotted and had protests in that era are our reasons too. We’re coming from that same mindset, but we’re using new tools, trying to get our inheritance.”
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Lionsgate Entertainment,
Louisiana,
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New Orleans,
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TeleSur,
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Tom Brokaw,
tourism,
USA Today,
WBOK,
Youth Studies Center
Chauncey Bailey was probably the best known Black journalist in the Bay Area, yet his own Black newspaper is ignored by every agency investigating his murder. Justice for this Black journalist cannot be achieved by silencing Black journalism. By interviewing only the mainstream media, Democracy Now is implying that the Black press and the Black community have nothing significant to say about the murder of the Black editor of a Black newspaper.
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Judge Henry Ramsey Jr.,
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Robert Rosenthal,
San Francisco Chronicle,
Your Black Muslim Bakery,
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Recently KPFA has been making headlines for a number of reasons, most notably the Aug. 20 police beat down of Black programmer of 12 years Nadra Foster after a member of the KPFA management team called the police on her with approval from Pacifica management after Foster was accused of using a KPFA telephone for a personal call. So whose job is it to report on issues such as these in the Black community in and around KPFA or nationally? A daily or weekly Black public affairs show.
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Democracy Now,
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KPFA,
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KPFA management,
Martina Davis,
Mos Def,
Mumia Abu Jamal's daughter Goldii,
Nadra Foster,
Paul Mooney,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
Welfare Poets
The Army Times reports that the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Team is returning from Iraq to defend the Homeland as “an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” But at the same time, the Bush administration may be seeking a justification to establish martial law and intervene militarily within the USA.
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Democracy Now,
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Global Research,
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Iraq,
martial law,
Matthew Rothschild,
Michel Chossudovsky,
National Security Presidential Directive 51,
nonlethal weapons,
NorthCom,
police state,
Posse Comitatus Act,
The Progressive
The officers were waiting, loaded firearms dangling from their waists, steel filled chests puffed out, glassy stares behind helmets. She was one woman alone. She was a reporter doing her job. She was attacked by the police for no reason at all. Her only crime was being a media producer in a hostile location.
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