The U.S. Justice Dept. refuses to charge the NYPD officers who murdered Sean Bell on his wedding day in 2006. We can’t let this happen again; it’s ON US to get Oscar Grant’s killer cops convicted of murder! Minister of Information JR is hosting two events on two days, tonight in West Oakland and tomorrow in Los Angeles.
Tags:
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Boyce Watkins,
Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson,
criminal justice system,
Dedon Kamathi,
insufficient evidence,
Jack Bryson,
Kaos Network,
Keisha Brunston,
Michael Oliver,
Minister Keith Muhammad,
Minister of Information JR,
Movement for Justice for Oscar Grant,
Nicole Paultre-Bell,
NYPD officers,
Oscar Grant,
Oscar Grant’s killer cops,
POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
police intimidation,
President Barack Obama,
Rev. Al Sharpton,
Sean Bell,
Sean Bell’s killer cops,
Thandisizwe Chimurenga,
violation of Black civil rights,
William Bell
The Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) community was hopeful of your appointment almost a year ago by President Barack Obama and felt that finally there was to be deliberate dialogue, transparency, community engagement and participation in formulating solutions for environmental issues.
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adverse health effects due to exposure,
Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP),
Benjamin Chavis,
communities of color,
eliminating the sources of pollution,
environmental cleanup,
environmental justice fairness and equality,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
environmental racism,
First National People of Colour Environmental Leadership Summit,
historically underrepresented in EPA decision making,
history of excluding people of color from the leadership,
Hunters Point Shipyard (HPS),
Hunters Point Shipyard Regional Advisory Board (RAB),
Laura Yoshi,
Lennar Corp.,
life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants,
Lisa P. Jackson,
Michael Montgomery,
no community involvement,
nosebleeds,
Notices of Violation (NOVs),
particulate matter,
people disproportionately impacted by pollution,
President Barack Obama,
public participation in decision making,
RAB dissolved,
racial discrimination,
rashes,
Redevelopment Agency,
reinstatement of the RAB,
Superfund containments,
testing of BVHP community members,
toxic and hazardous waste facilities,
U.S. Navy,
United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice,
United States Navy,
vulnerable subpopulations
The New Orleans Saints won Super Bowl 44. I can’t believe I’m even typing the words. Four and a half years ago, after the levees broke, the concern was not whether there would be a Saints, but whether there would even be a New Orleans.
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Algiers,
Crescent City,
Dave Zirin,
displacement,
Education Secretary Arne Duncan,
former Black Panther Malik Rahim,
French Quarter,
Hurricane Katrina,
Louisiana Superdome,
New Orleans,
New Orleans Saints,
Ninth Ward,
Peyton Manning,
President Barack Obama,
Quarterback Drew Brees,
Scott Fujita,
Sean Payton,
Speaker of the House Republican Rep. Dennis Hastert,
Super Bowl champs,
Tim and Pam Tebow
Once the French army had subdued L’Ouverture and his rebel force, Napoleon intended to advance to the North American mainland, basing a new French empire in New Orleans and settling the vast territory west of the Mississippi River. By 1803, a frustrated Napoleon – denied his foothold in the New World – agreed to sell New Orleans and the Louisiana territories to Jefferson.
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African slaves,
Alexander Hamilton,
American Federalist Party,
American slavery,
Black Jacobins,
enslaved Africans,
first Black independent country,
French colony,
French plantations,
French Revolution,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
Haiti’s light-skinned elite,
Hispaniola,
Jean Bertrand Aristide,
Jean-Jacques Dessalines,
Louisiana Purchase,
Napoleon Bonaparte,
New Orleans,
Paul Finkelman,
Port au Prince,
President Abraham Lincoln,
President Barack Obama,
Robert Parry,
slave rebellion,
slave system,
slave uprisings,
St. Domingue,
Stanford University professor John Chester Miller,
Thomas Jefferson,
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus package into law in February, the U.S. Department of Transportation has handed out more than $150 million in contracts to companies for street, highway and bridge construction. New statistics released by the Transportation Equity Network (TEN) show that from that pot of money not a single dollar had been allocated to any African-American owned business.
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Aaron Glantz,
Black business,
construction apprentices,
disadvantaged communities,
DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program,
minority contracting,
National Association of Minority Contractors,
Obama administration,
President Barack Obama,
recession,
Richard Copeland,
Stephen Boykewich,
stimulus contracts,
Thor Construction,
Transportation Equity Network (TEN),
Transportation Secretary Roy LaHood,
unemployment rate
Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses – especially those owned by Blacks and Latinos. Overall, white-owned businesses received over $130 million in loans through the program, while Hispanic-owned businesses got $4 million and Black-owned businesses less than $2 million.
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Aaron Glantz,
American Bankers Association,
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),
America’s Recovery Capital (ARC),
Anthony Robinson,
ARC loan program,
James Ballentine,
Javier Palomarez,
Jonathan Swain,
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area,
Minority Business Legal Defense and Education Fund (MBELDEF),
minority businesses,
New America Media (NAM),
Obama administration,
Oren Sellstrom,
President Barack Obama,
Small Business Administration (SBA),
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Despite years and months of intense advocacy and organizing, whole nations and masses of people are facing increased possibilities of drowning, burning and/or starving to extinction. All the progressive forces we have met – inside and outside of the governments – have told us how determined they are to continue our generation’s mandate to reclaim the power from the selfish polluters who threaten the survival of all of us.
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350.org,
African Liberation Support Committee,
ALBA (Bolivarian Alternatives for the Americas),
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at,
Bella Center,
Bill McKibben,
carbon dioxide,
Copenhagen Accord,
Damu Smith,
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X),
emissions,
French President Nicholas Sarkozy,
global warming,
Greenpeace,
holocaust,
Ian Fry,
Kumi Naidoo,
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA),
polluters,
President Barack Obama,
President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives,
Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen of Denmark,
reparations,
Sudan Ambassador Lumumba Di-Aping,
Tuvalu,
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon,
United Nations’ Conference of Parties (COP 15) Climate Change Meetings
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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Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS),
Amy Goodman,
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at,
Bolivarian Alternatives of the Americas (ALBA),
Brother Ambassador Lumumba Di-Aping of Sudan in Afrika,
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop,
Democracy Now,
Denmark,
G77 group of exploited nations and former colonies,
Klimaforum09,
planetary rights,
President Barack Obama,
President Evo Morales,
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela,
reparations,
self defense,
Sister Ambassador Dessima Williams of Grenada in the Caribbean
The 10 Black members of the powerful House Finance Committee are still being applauded this week by the Black press and Black leaders nationally for boldly boycotting a committee meeting in order to force a $4 billion allocation to benefit the Black community. They plan to escalate protests if lawmakers continue to ignore the suffering of their constituents, including advertising discrimination against Black newspapers.
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access to capital,
advertising discrimination against Black newspapers,
Black businesses,
Black press,
Congressional Black Caucus,
Danny Bakewell,
declining ad revenues,
economic growth,
federal advertising dollars for Black newspapers,
Hazel Trice Edney,
health care benefits,
high foreclosure rate,
home foreclosures,
home owners,
job creation,
job losses,
jobs,
Michael House,
Mollie Belt,
National Newspaper Publishers' Association,
NNPA Foundation Chair Dorothy R. Leavell,
President Barack Obama,
Rep. Al Green,
Rep. Andre Carson,
Rep. Barbara Lee,
Rep. David Scott,
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II,
Rep. Gregory Meeks,
Rep. Keith Ellison,
Rep. Lacy Clay,
Rep. Maxine Waters,
Rep. Mel Watt,
small businesses,
the jobless
We are too big to fail! Call President Barack Obama to remind him that a bold reinvestment in, recovery for and restoration of our environment is even more critical, and less expensive, than the trillions he has given to prop up Wall Street, the military contractors, capitalist for-profit corporations and now the insurance industry that stands to benefit so greatly from his health care “reform.”
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Alicia Garza,
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS),
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at,
Cecil Corbin-Mark,
climate change,
climate chaos,
Copenhagen,
deep reductions in emissions,
Diana Lopez,
Diana Pei Wu,
Dr. Henry Clark,
ecological debt,
environmental justice,
Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative,
fair and open treaty negotiations,
false solutions,
G77 grouping of “developing” nations,
Global South,
Gopal Dayaneni,
Gov. Arnold “Swastika” Schwarzenegger,
greenhouse gases and carbon,
Jill Johnston,
José Bravo,
Kalila Barnett,
lack of transparency,
Mari Rose Taruc,
Marisa Franco,
Michele Roberts,
Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project,
North American Indigenous Delegation,
Pacific Islanders,
President Barack Obama,
reparations,
Roxana Aguilar,
side deals,
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
weak targets
Here in the frigid capital of Denmark, we continue our long and difficult work to achieve REPARATIONS NOW! for Afrikan and Indigenous nations and ascendants, women and girls, and everyone in our sacred earth.
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adaption,
Ambassador Dessima Williams,
Ambassador Lumumba Stanislaus Kaw Di-Aping,
Annex I country,
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at,
Chioke Bakari,
climate justice,
financing,
G77,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
Klimaforum09,
Klimaforum09 People’s Summit Declaration,
Maurice Bishop,
mitigation,
Mobuto Sese Seko,
New Jewel Movement,
new oversight mechanisms,
Partrice Lumumba,
President Barack Obama,
President Eisenhower,
President Kennedy,
President Ronald Reagan,
Queen Cecile Louisa Herbert-Malloy,
renewable energy,
reparations,
REPARATIONS NOW,
technology transfers
Thousands of people from around our world – grassroots activists, government delegations, scholars, artists, media and, yes, representatives of capitalist corporations and the national and international police forces who serve them – have assembled in this large, Critical Mass-like 24/7, bicycle-friendly metropolis of Copenhagen. It is said that this Conference of Parties 15th year climate change meeting (COP-15) is the largest United Nations’ gathering ever!
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apartheid,
Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at,
Bhopal disaster,
Brother Kenneth Nana Amdateng,
colonialism,
COP-15,
debt,
enslavement,
FONAMI,
free trade,
Ghana National Youth Coalition on Climate Change in West Afrika,
global warming,
Greenpeace USA Global Warming Campaign Director Damon Moglen,
Mass imprisonment,
melting of the polar ice caps,
President Barack Obama,
reparations struggles,
restitution,
rise in sea levels,
trade in human beings,
trans-Atlantic enslavement,
United Nations
President Barack Obama has clearly stated, “We don’t torture.” Oh, yes we do. Big time. A myriad of studies have clearly shown that human beings are social creatures – making prolonged isolation torture.
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ADX-Florence Colorado Supermax,
Atul Gawande,
Black Panther,
Bret Grote,
Bureau of Prisons,
control unit,
domestic terrorists,
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle,
Hugo Pinell,
Human Rights Coalition-Fed Up!,
Imam Jalil al-Amin,
international terrorists,
Joseph R. Rowan,
Kiilu Nyasha,
legalized torture,
Lindsay M. Hayes,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Mutulu Shakur,
Pelican Bay State Prison,
President Barack Obama,
prison abolitionist organization,
prison suicides,
prolonged isolation,
prolonged torture,
San Quentin Six,
SCI Green,
segregation units,
SHU (Security Housing Unit),
solitary confinement,
supermax prisons
While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident “brings the war home.” “Fort Hood is pretty much a ghost town right now,” said Specialist Michael Kern, an active duty veteran of the Iraq war.
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Adm. Mike Mullen,
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center,
Dahr Jamail,
President Barack Obama,
Soldier Readiness Center,
Specialist Michael Kern,
Texas,
the Department of the Interior,
the Fort Hood military base,
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,
Victor Agosto
Using footage from local policing activity in Oakland, intimate interviews with marginalized residents who have been imprisoned or impacted by the imprisonment of close family members, “Oakland Lockdown” brings to light the trauma, destruction and frustration experienced by those who remain repetitively wreaked by the economic, psychological, social and moral stigmatization of criminalization.
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"Oakland Lockdown",
Attorney General Eric Holder,
banned from federal housing,
controversial parole practices,
COPS grant,
correctional supervision,
criminalization,
criminalization of marginalized populations,
Gov. Schwarzenegger,
homelessness,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE),
imprisonment,
incarceration,
parolee surveillance,
policing,
President Barack Obama,
race-based policing,
racism,
Rekia Mohammed-Jibrin,
Section 287(g),
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics,
violence
The Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign welcomes President Barack Obama’s decision to create a federal working group to examine our nation’s long-term recovery policies in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and to extend the mandate of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Recovery.
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Bayou Interfaith Shared Community Organizing (BISCO),
Congress,
Councilmember Bill Stallworth,
Department of Homeland Security,
Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Environmental Protection Agency,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Gulf Coast recovery,
HR 2269,
Hurricanes Katrina,
Monika Kalra Varma,
poverty,
President Barack Obama,
Sharon Gauthe,
the Army Corps of Engineers,
the Biloxi City Council,
The Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign,
the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Recovery,
the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights
“On Sunday, the 15th of July, about noon, we were at Hunters Point and they put on us what we now know was the atomic bomb.” – Capt. Charles B. McVay III, U.S. Navy commanding officer, USS Indianapolis (from the Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center)
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai,
atomic bombs,
breast cancer,
Capt. Lewis L. Haynes,
Capt. McVay,
Captain James Nolan,
Compensation and Liability Act,
Gun Mole Pier,
Hiroshima,
Japanese Emperor Hirohito,
Lockheed Missiles and Space Division,
low level radiation,
M.D.,
Major Robert Furman,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Nagasaki,
Naval Historical Center,
North Korea,
nuclear Iran,
nuclear weapons,
Operation Skycatch,
Parcel D,
President Barack Obama,
Radiation impacted sites,
skin cancer,
Superfund,
Tadatoshi Akiba,
the 2010 dirty transfer of radiation impacted buildings,
the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
the Historical Radiological Assessment,
the Hunters Point Shipyard,
The Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB),
the mayor of Hiroshima,
the Naval Historical Center,
The Navy,
The Navy Radiological Affairs Support Office,
the Operational Archives Branch,
the Radiological Subcommittee,
the U.S. Navy,
the USS Indianapolis,
Truman,
Winston Churchill,
World War II,
“Little Boy”
One is hard pressed to find media accounts of what the Congolese people want or how they believe that the United States could best play a constructive role in ending the suffering in the Congo. Considering that the United States has played a significant historical role in the stifling of the democratic aspirations of the Congolese people and the backing of the 1996 and 1998 invasions of the Congo by its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, which unleashed what the United Nations say is the deadliest conflict in the world since World War II, it is important to hear directly from the Congolese people regarding U.S. engagement in the Congo.
Tags:
American and Western firms trafficking in mineral resources,
Baraka,
Bibokoboko,
Bijombo,
bilateral cooperation,
Bosco Ntaganda,
Bukavu,
Bunyakiri,
Bwegera,
cassiterite,
Central Africa,
Congolese people,
diamonds,
disease,
evil destruction of property and infrastructure,
famine,
Fizi,
Friends of the Congo,
gold,
Hon. Bapolisi Bahuga Paulin,
Hon. Bashomberwa Martha,
Hon. Birindwa Chanikire Solide,
Hon. Bitakwira Hayi Bihona-Justin,
Hon. Buherwa Lupini Désiré,
Hon. Kanyegere Lwaboshi Samuel,
Hon. Marie-Jeanne Kika Zamud,
Hon. Masumbuko Bashomba Christophe,
Hon. Mpanano Ntamwenge Roger,
Hutus,
international justice (ICC),
Israel,
Kagabwe,
Kakungwe,
Kalambi,
Kalonge,
Kamituga,
Kaniola,
Kasika Katogota,
Katumba Kalehe,
Kaziba,
Kigulube,
Kiliba,
Kinshasa,
Kitutu,
large-scale movements of populations,
Laurent Nkundabatware,
Lemera,
looting of natural resources,
Lubuga,
Lugushwa,
Luhwindja,
Makobola,
Masango Tubimbi,
Minembwe,
MONUC (United Nations Organization Mission in DR Congo),
Mushago,
Mutambala,
Mwenga,
National Members of Parliament of South Kivu,
Ndola,
Ngando,
Nindja,
Palestine,
President Barack Obama,
President Paul Kagame,
rape,
Rwanda,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Shabunda,
Sun City in South Africa,
the Conference of Goma,
the DR Congo,
the geostrategic position,
the Marshall plan,
the National Parliament,
the Obama administration,
the United States of America,
theft and other degrading treatment,
Tutsis,
Uganda,
Uvira,
“blood” coltan
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.
Tags:
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
Charles Manson cheerleader Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme walked free last week through the front doors of Fort Worth Federal Prison. Fromme attempted in 1974 to assassinate then President Gerald R. Ford. Native American spiritual leader Leonard Peltier has also served almost 35 years behind bars for a crime that has never been proven. So it would seem to be a no brainer: If you’re going to release Fromme, still a self-proclaimed Manson supporter, it’s time to free this internationally revered indigenous leader who was clearly framed by the government and then ground through the racist prison system.
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi,
American Indian Movement (AIM),
beaten viciously,
Charlie Manson,
Dennis Bernstein,
Flashpoints,
Flashpoints in Espanol,
Folsom Prison,
John Virga,
John Waters,
KPFA,
La Onda,
Leonard Peltier,
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme,
Miguel Gavilan Molina,
Native American spiritual leader Leonard Peltier,
Native Americans,
Nelson Mandela,
Obama administration,
PanAm 103,
President Barack Obama,
President Gerald R. Ford
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