Cuba’s policies of internationalism have arguably been the most politically advanced in the world – from the direct military intervention to help in the defeat of Apartheid in southern Africa in 1988 to direct medical aid and solidarity with Haiti – before the earthquake. Since the earthquake, Western media has been suspiciously silent on the exceptional role Cuba has played in support of Haiti with more than 900 health care providers on the ground, the largest and most organized contingent on the island.
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In the depths of a near-Depression, the Vermont Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for health and safety over jobs and tax revenue when it chose not to renew Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant’s operating license when it expires in 2012.
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Cynthia McKinney sets the theme for Black Resistance to Police Terrorism Month, marked by five events in two weeks – four in Oakland, on Feb. 7, 17, 21 and 22, and one on Oscar Grant in Los Angeles, on Feb. 18, the eve of killer cop Mehserle’s Feb. 19 hearing – featuring your favorite speakers coming to Cali from around the country. And pack the courtroom Feb. 22, 8:30 a.m., 1225 Fallon, Oakland, for Minister of Information JR’s trial. Free JR!
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Amadou Diallo,
André Shepherd,
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Atlanta Police Department (APD),
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Ruby Ridge,
Sammy Weaver,
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shot in back,
shot in genitals,
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U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
violation of civil rights,
white supremacist organization,
wrongful death,
“no-knock” warrant
On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal and granted the Philadelphia DA’s petition for a writ of certiorari. We are now at the highest level of Code Red in the case of Mumia Abu Jamal. The people must come to this tireless souljah’s defense.
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abolish the death penalty,
Academics for Mumia,
Block Report,
civil rights investigation,
death penalty,
district attorney,
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first Black DA in Philadelphia,
Francisco Torres,
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition of New York City,
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu,
Journalists for Mumia,
Mills case concerning jury instructions,
Minister of Information JR,
Mumia Abu Jamal,
Oscar Grant,
Pam Africa,
petitions,
President Obama,
Robert Bryan,
San Francisco 8,
Seth Williams,
Shaka Sankofa,
Skip Gates,
Spisak case,
Supreme Court,
Tookie Williams,
Troy Davis,
U.S. attorney general,
White House,
“Free Mumia” movement
“From the very beginning, U.S. assistance to Haiti has looked to me more like an invasion than a humanitarian relief operation,” says McKinney. The SF Bay View, Block Report Radio, POCC and Haiti Action Committee are preparing to send a media-medical team to Haiti to serve the people most in need. Come to the fundraiser Sunday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m., at the Black Dot Café, 1195 Pine St. in West Oakland. Bring medical supplies. Spread the word!
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Black liberation,
Blackwater in New Orleans,
Cynthia McKinney,
Dr. Georges Michel,
Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Dunn Plantation at Fort Liberte in Haiti,
Ezili Dantò,
fifth largest embassy in the world,
food and shelter,
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Haiti earthquake,
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN),
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Haiti’s deep water ports,
Haiti’s oil resources,
humanitarian relief,
Hurricane Katrina,
internment for Haitian nationals,
invasion,
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Marine Expeditionary Force,
military assessment team,
Napoleon’s France,
oil in Haiti,
Operation Lantern Spike,
Pat Robertson,
political and economic self-determination,
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President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
President Obama,
prolonged U.S. military presence in Haiti,
reconnaissance drones,
Secretary of State Colin Powell,
Simon Bolivar,
Temporary Protected Status (TPS),
thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers,
U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral James Watson IV,
United Nations troops,
Victor Hugo
Hundreds of thousands of people in Haiti have had no access to clean water since the quake hit. Have you ever felt the raw fear in the gut when you are not sure where your next drink of water is going to come from? People can die within hours if they are exposed to heat without water.
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Bill Quigley,
Center for Constitutional Rights,
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drinking bad water,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
human rights,
humanitarian aid,
Pere Jean-Juste,
Port au Prince,
President Obama,
Richard Dubin,
richest nation in the history of the world
Allow all Haitians in the U.S. to work and send money home. Do not allow U.S. military in Haiti to point their guns at Haitians. Do not allow the victims to be cast as criminals. Give Haiti grants as help, not loans. Enact Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Release all Haitians in U.S. jails who are not accused of any crimes. And more.
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Center for Constitutional Rights,
deportation,
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Haiti earthquake,
human dignity,
human rights,
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti,
Katrina survivor,
Martin Luther King Day,
militarized humanitarian relief,
non-governmental organizations,
Pat Roberts,
Port au Prince,
President Obama,
public services,
Rush Limbaugh,
Temporary Protected Status,
U.S. military
As African American members of Congress, we are keenly aware of the extreme economic crisis in our communities, and we are responsible for confronting the issues threatening the survival of the people and institutions we represent. We are here to reaffirm our commitment to be forceful advocates for the voiceless, and insist that all of the resources of the government, whether they be through financial assistance programs or federal contracting, exhibit a basic fairness and equality that historically has not existed.
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access to credit for small business,
African American-owned automobile dealers,
African American-owned newspapers,
African-American broadcasters,
Black banks,
CBC Economic Security Task Force,
Chairman Barney Frank,
community banks,
Congressional Black Caucus,
declining ad revenues,
economic development,
expansion of small and minority businesses,
federal contracting,
financial assistance programs,
Financial Services Committee,
Foreclosures,
job creation,
loans for unemployed homeowners,
mandatory loss mitigation,
Office of Minority and Women Inclusion,
parity and access in government contracting,
parity in the federal hiring and contracting process,
predatory lenders,
President Obama,
principal write down,
Rep. Al Green,
Rep. Andre Carson,
Rep. David Scott,
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver,
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks,
Rep. Gwen Moore,
Rep. Keith Ellison,
Rep. Maxine Waters,
Rep. Melvin L. Watt,
Rep. William Lacy Clay,
Ryan Grim,
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African-American joblessness – nearly twice the national rate – is quickly becoming the first showdown between Black leaders and the nation’s first Black president as national Black and civil right leaders raise their voices telling the Obama administration it’s time to end the jobs crisis in the Black community.
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NNPA News Service,
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poverty,
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
Small Business Administration’s Community Express Loan Program,
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi,
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Wade Henderson,
Youth Summer Jobs Program
On Thursday, Dec. 3, while President Obama holds a national summit on jobs and unemployment, unemployed workers will picket at 11:30 a.m. in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in the SF Federal Building, 90 7th St., calling for Congress to take immediate action to put people back to work.
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community jobs program,
distressed communities,
economic insecurity,
Ernest Stokes,
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Great Recession,
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Jaron Browne of POWER,
jobs,
out-of-school youth,
President Obama,
Shaw San Liu of the Chinese Progressive Association,
small businesses,
stimulate the economy,
underemployed,
unemployment,
unemployment benefits,
upgrade physical infrastructure,
Wall Street CEOs
Americans await the decision President Obama will make relative to Gen. McCrystal’s proposal to send more troops to Afghanistan. Obama and McCrystal are locked in a test of power that will have monumental effects on America for decades to come. There are definite indications that Obama does not favor sending more troops, but the general may have cleverly maneuvered Mr. Obama into a no-win situation.
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson,
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Gen. McCrystal,
Korea,
Michael Payne,
President Harry S. Truman,
President Obama,
the military,
the national media,
the United Nations forces,
the Washington Post,
World War II
The universal condemnation of the military coup in Honduras by Latin American governments is unprecedented. If this dictatorship is allowed to stay in power, no democratically elected government is safe. Just as President Obama promised a more respectful relationship between the U.S. and the rest of America – we are faced with another coup with U.S. military complicity.
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Beatriz Souviron,
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Canada,
Caricom,
Chile,
Cuba,
Ecuador,
Esther Morales Ayma,
Fanmi Lavalas,
France,
Global Women’s Strike,
Honduras,
Lovinsky Pierre Antoine,
Paraguay,
President Evo Morales,
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
President Manuel Zelaya,
President Obama,
the Caribbean,
Uruguay,
Venezuela
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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CNN,
Democracy Now,
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GritTV,
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Judge Leander Perez,
Lance Hill,
Liz McCartney,
Lynn Dean,
MayDay NOLA,
Moving Forward Gulf Coast,
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative,
New Orleans,
Oprah Winfrey,
President Obama,
racial discrimination,
Salvation Army,
St. Bernard Parish,
TeleSur,
the 1968 Fair Housing Act,
the Fair Housing Act,
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center,
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
Blacks and Latinos in the United States have long complained of police harassment and racial profiling, but no one paid much attention until July 16 this year, when the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates at his home on a “disorderly conduct” charge – read for being an uppity Negro or forgetting his place.
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Black,
Cambridge,
Colfax,
FBI’s covert counter-intelligence program known as Cointelpro,
Guantanamo Bay,
Harold Phillips,
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates,
Kenny Zulu Whitmore,
Latino people,
Louisiana,
Louisiana State Prison,
Massachusetts,
President Obama,
Professor Gates,
racial profiling,
Sgt. James Crowley,
sleep deprivation,
“disorderly conduct”
Cynthia McKinney, former member of Congress and presidential candidate, supported her long time friend, Bay View associate editor and Minister of Information JR, at his last hearing. We need YOU to pack the courtroom for his TRIAL on Thursday, Sept. 3, 9 a.m., Courtroom 11, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland. Don’t let the police silence their severest critic! Free JR!
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California,
Cynthia McKinney,
Davey D,
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Marlon Monroe,
Oakland,
Officer Ruiz,
Oscar Grant,
Philip V. Sarkisian,
police terrorism and misconduct,
President Obama,
prosecutor,
recklessness,
reporting while Black,
the judicial system,
the police,
the police report,
trumped up charges
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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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
Los Angeles – In the tradition of the Black Press working as an opponent of racial injustice, we as chairmen of the California Black Media, West Coast Black Publishers Association and National Newspaper Publishers Association stand with President Obama in his original assessment of the arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates.
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Danny Bakewell,
Donovan Jackson,
Dr. Henry Louis Gates,
National Newspaper Publishers' Association,
Oscar Grant,
President Obama,
Rodney King,
Sgt. James Crowley,
the Black Press,
the California Black Media,
the Los Angeles Sentinel,
the National Newspaper Publishers Association,
Tyisha Miller,
West Coast Black Publishers Association
Members of President Obama’s Green Cabinet and the community engagement campaign, Green the Block, met in Washington today, Aug. 4, to discuss ways to ensure that opportunities from the new green economy are available to a broad cross section of the American people. In response to the president’s call to service through the United We Serve campaign, Green the Block also presented a birthday gift to President Obama in the form of a call to action for green community service projects in underserved communities on Sept. 11, the National Day of Service and Remembrance.
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Green For All,
Green the Block,
New Orleans’ 9th Ward,
President Obama,
President Obama’s Green Cabinet,
Rev. Yearwood,
The Department of Energy,
the Hip Hop Caucus,
the National Day of Service and Remembrance,
the United We Serve campaign
Black August begins with a campaign for the acquittal of Francisco Torres, the only member of the San Francisco 8 still charged. Go to www.freethesf8.org for messages to phone or fax to Attorney General Jerry Brown, urging him to drop the charges. Cisco’s hearing is Aug. 10 if the charges aren’t dropped.
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AfroSolo Arts Festival,
AfroSolo Theatre Company,
Alice Walker,
Alicia Jrapko,
Angola 3,
Antonio Guerrero,
Attorney General Jerry Brown,
Banyamulenge Tutsi,
Bernard C. Parks,
Best of the Bay 2009,
Black August,
Black August Organizing Committee,
Black Panther Party,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brian Freeman,
Brother Hodari,
Brother Rafiki,
Cal Tjader,
Chai Vasarhelyi,
Chairman Fred Hampton,
Chip Fitzgerald,
COINTELPRO,
Congo,
Cuban 5,
Dale Wasserman,
Deborah Johnson,
Desley Brooks,
Destiny Muhammad,
E. Lynn Harris,
Eric Reed Trio,
Ernestine Anderson,
Francisco Torres,
Frank Jackson,
Frankye Kelly,
Frederick Douglass,
Gayle McLaughlin,
George and Jonathan Jackson,
George Jackson,
Gerald Wright,
Great Flood of New Orleans,
Gregory Isaacs with Native Elements,
Hansford Prince,
Honorable Elijah Muhammad,
Hurricane Katrina,
James Baldwin,
James McClain,
Janine Africa,
Jewelle Gomez,
Judith Offer,
Kai Hazelwood,
Karla Brundage,
Kelda Muzik aka “Diva”,
Ken Kesey,
Khatari Gaulden,
Kheven LaGrone,
Kiilu Nyasha,
Lance McGee,
Lauren Whitehead,
Leela James and Bilal,
Les McCann,
Loretta Devine,
Malcolm X,
Malonga Casquelord Center for the Arts,
Marcus Garvey,
Mark Clark,
Martin King,
Melvin Atkins,
Michael Jackson,
Michael Torres,
Milt Jackson,
Morrie Turner,
Nicolas Bearde,
Oliver Chin,
President Obama,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
Rahim Sabir,
Raja Rahim,
Ramona Africa,
Ramsey Lewis,
Rev. Liza Rankow,
Robert King,
San Francisco 8,
Sean Davis,
Sekouba Bambino Diabate,
Shaka At-Thinnin,
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi,
Susi Damilano,
Ted Pontiflet,
Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor,
Tia Boyd,
Timothy James,
Tracey Chapman,
W. Kamau Bell,
Wanda Sabir,
Wanda’s Picks Radio,
William Kunstler,
Williams Christmas,
www.sfbg.com/bobparty,
Yancie Taylor,
Youssou N’Dour
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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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”
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