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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Afghanistan,
Amadou Diallo,
André Shepherd,
Aryan Nations,
Atlanta Police Department (APD),
bachelor party,
Black and Latino communities,
conspiracy to violate civil rights resulting in death,
Cynthia McKinney,
Dr. Justine McCabe,
Eighth Munich International Peace Conference,
FBI Special Agent Andrew Arena,
Filiberto Ojeda Rios,
Free Gaza activists,
Gaza,
Georgia congresswoman,
Green Party,
Green Party of the United States,
Green Party presidential candidate,
hate crime,
Kathryn Johnston,
Kevin Harris,
killer cops,
manslaughter,
Marijuana,
Munich American Peace Committee (MAPC),
Munich Peace Conference,
narcotics officers,
NATO,
New York Police Department (NYPD),
Nobel Peace Committee,
Obama Justice Department,
Oscar Grant,
Oscar Grant New Year’s Day murder,
peace prize,
Peace through Conscience award,
perjury,
police terrorism,
President Obama,
Puerto Rican Independentista,
racial profiling,
Randy Weaver,
Ruby Ridge,
Sammy Weaver,
Sean Bell,
shot in back,
shot in genitals,
troop surge,
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
violation of civil rights,
white supremacist organization,
wrongful death,
“no-knock” warrant
Recently the cold war against Cuba was ratcheted up when an acrimonious debate broke out over the issue of racism in Cuba and for the first time the issue of Brazil was thrown into the mix. The brouhaha began when scores of prominent African Americans, many of whom should have known better, put their names to a petition calling upon the Cuban government to release a dissident from prison.
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affirmative action,
Afro Brazilians,
Afro-Cubans,
Afrogringoism,
Black Civil Rights Movement,
Brazil,
Brazil’s Black Movement,
capitalism,
Carlos Moore,
Clarence Thomas,
Cuba,
Cuban President Fidel Castro,
Cuban revolution,
Dr. Abdias Nascimento,
Dr. Darsi Ferrer,
fiction of racial democracy,
Fidel Castro,
human rights,
Jean Damu,
Johnetta Cole,
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael),
Latin American School of Medicine in Havana,
laws that criminalize racism,
Maya Angelou,
medical technicians,
National Endowment for Democracy,
political progressiveness,
racial profiling,
racial solidarity,
racism,
Randall Robinson,
remittances,
rights of Africa and Black people,
socialism,
solidarity between Black America and Cuba,
Spelman College,
training African American youths as doctors,
TransAfrica,
U.S. Interest Section,
Ward Connerly,
“Lusotropicalism”,
“one drop rule”
Ishmael Reed is one of the most read writers of his generation, along with Toni Morrison and Amiri Baraka, living in America. In 1962, Reed co-founded “East Village Other,” a well known underground publication at the time, and was a member of the Umbra Writers Workshop, which helped to give rise to the Black Arts Movement. He has published nine novels, four collections of poetry, six plays, four collections of essays and a libretto. He currently lives in Oakland, and I approached him one day while he was visiting KPFA’s studios to ask him what he thought about the state of affairs between the police and Oakland’s Black community, with the backdrop of the police murder of Oscar Grant and, in a separate incident, the police murder of Lovelle Mixon, after Mixon allegedly killed four Oakland police officers.
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African Americans,
Amiri Baraka,
anti-Chinese riots,
BART police officers,
California,
Chinese Exclusion Act,
Enoch Pardee,
Gaelic,
Gitmo,
Hispanics,
Japanese Exclusion Act,
Jerry Brown,
Lovelle Mixon,
Minister of Information JR,
non-violent crime,
Oakland,
Oscar Grant,
Police Chief Parker,
police state,
prison hospitals,
prisoners,
racial profiling,
Ramsey State Penitentiary,
rape,
Spanish,
Texas,
the Black Amazon Queen,
the Black Arts Movement,
the Bush administration,
the ghetto,
the Native American,
the Pell grants,
the public schools,
the Umbra Writers Workshop,
the Wall Street Journal,
Three Strikes,
Toni Morrison,
torture,
traffic profiling,
“Blues City: A Walk in Oakland”,
“Califia”,
“East Village Other”
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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African Americans,
Angola,
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”
“It’s a civil war, us against the authorities – if you get pulled over, you’re so afraid for your life that you’re going to react as someone would react in war. A random traffic stop is life or death now.” – Mistah F.A.B., interviewed by Davey D
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432 year sentence,
Adolph Grimes,
Annette Garcia,
Davey D,
Dead Prez,
four Oakland police officers,
inhuman,
injustice,
Johannes Mehserle,
long hot summer,
Lovelle Mixon,
Mistah F.A.B.,
Oscar Grant,
racial profiling,
random traffic stop,
rapper,
Sean Bell,
self defense,
slaves revolted and killed a slave owner,
South by Southwest Music Conference
Many TV channels broadcast live the entire funeral for four Oakland police officers killed March 21, news anchors calling them “heroes” and “angels.” Police funerals are intended to legitimize past and future police violence and tell the public to shut up. The spineless left complies – no mention of Oscar Grant … or Lovelle Mixon.
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Angela Davis,
armed resistance,
Attorney General Jerry Brown,
BART Officer Johannes Mehserle,
BART police,
Bill O'Reilly,
Black and Brown community,
Black Panthers,
cop killer,
DNA evidence,
East Oakland,
Enjoli Mixon,
extermination campaign,
Gary King,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Jan. 7 rebellion,
liberal hypocrisy,
Lovelle Mixon,
lynching,
male supremacy,
myth of the Black rapist,
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums,
Oakland police officers' funeral,
Oakland's Citizens' Police Review Board,
occupying army,
Officer Daniel Sakai,
Officer Ervin Romans,
Officer John Hege,
Officer Mark Dunakin,
Officer Patrick Gonzalez,
Oscar Grant,
pacifism,
parole officer,
police sympathizers,
police violence,
prison industry businessmen,
racial profiling,
rape accusations,
Reynete Mixon,
routine stops,
Sen. Barbara Boxer,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
surgical termination,
Three Strikes,
Uhuru House
New data from the New York City Police Department shows the final total of stop-and-frisks for 2008 to be a record 531,159. Over 80 percent of them were of Black and Latino New Yorkers.
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14th Amendment,
Amadou Diallo,
CCR attorney Darius Charney,
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR),
Civil Rights Act of 1964,
Floyd v. City of New York,
Fourth Amendment,
NYPD,
racial profiling,
stop-and-frisks,
suspicion-less stops-and-frisks
From 2005 to 2008, approximately 80 percent of NYPD’s total stops made were of Blacks and Latinos, who are more likely to have physical force used against them than Whites.
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14th Amendment,
Blacks,
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR),
Civil Rights Act of 1964,
class action,
David Floyd,
David Ourlicht,
Deion Dennis,
Floyd v. City of New York,
Fourth Amendment,
Lalit Clarkson,
Latinos,
New Yorkers,
NYPD,
racial disparity,
racial profiling,
stop-and-frisk,
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin
On Wednesday, Oct. 31, a coalition of Black and Brown groups and individuals gathered at City Hall to express their opposition to San Francisco’s gang injunctions. Several themes emerged from those who addressed the crowd, including gentrification, racial profiling and the misuse of city money. During the course of the rally, it became clear that City Attorney Dennis Herrera, the political force behind the injunctions, has become an extremely unpopular figure in Bayview Hunters Point, the Mission and the Western Addition – neighborhoods in which the gang injunctions are now in place.
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Bayview Hunters Point,
City Attorney Dennis Herrera,
City Hall,
Ethnic cleansing,
Fairmont,
gentrification,
Joe Robles,
lack of after-school programs that provide a safe space for young people,
lack of jobs,
Minister Christopher Muhammad of the Nation of Islam,
Nancy Hernandez of HOMEY (Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth),
poverty,
racial profiling,
Renee Saucedo of La Raza Centro Legal,
San Francisco’s gang injunctions,
the Bank of America Building,
the Gang Task Force,
the Mark Hopkins,
the Mission,
the Mission Community Response Network,
the misuse of city money,
the Western Addition
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