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Safiya Bukhari: The War Before

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:05:16 -0500

Safiya Bukhari died in 2003. She was just 53 years old. It saddens me to know this courageous woman no longer walks this Earth, and that I didn’t know of her or her work while she was physically here. I began reading her collection of essays The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind, published by The Feminist Press and edited by political activist, Laura Whitehorn, just after a 7.3 earthquake struck Haiti.

Police checkpoint this weekend in Schuylkill County

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:02:22 -0500

Como siempre cuando hay un gran evento o día festivo, agencias de orden público usan el pretexto para aumentar la aplicación de leyes racistas, clasistas, y antimigrantes. Habrá varios retenes, y muchas agencias reportan que van a monitorear con mayor vigilancia las vías públicas. Checkpoint response les avisa de los retenes previstos, no sólo en California, sino en el resto del país también. As with other holidays and large events, law enforcement agencies use the pretext to heighten enforcement of classist, racist, and anti-immigrant laws. This weekend will see numerous checkpoints, as well as non-checkpoint traffic enforcement. Checkpoint response brings you this warning of the foreseeable checkpoints, and urges the utmost caution on the road.

North, West, Point Breeze residents feel effects of gentrification

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:22:46 -0500

Obama's stimulus money not getting to the inner city home owners. The white flight to the suburbs, left decaying properties that were relined by banks. Residents were unable to receive standard loans, when the loans did come in the predatory and helped to cause the housing crisis nationally. And gentrification isn’t something that’s taking place just in Point Breeze. Residents of West, North and Southwest Philadelphia have equal cause for concern.

Port Richmond Philadelphia Community Rallies Against Police Officer in Fatal Shooting

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:49:03 -0500

The community of Port Richmond has come together and rallied against police officer Frank Tepper after he killed Billy Panas Jr, this past November in Northeast Philadelphia. Report by John Kalwaic

Ojore Lutalo Arrested -- Needs Bail Money

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:25:49 -0500

Recently released BLA PW & New Afrikan Anarchist Ojore Lutalo was arrested and needs money for bail. Lutalo was on his way home to New Jersey from speaking at the LA Anarchist bookfair.

UPDATES: Jan28 – Update from Denver Anarchist Black Cross | Jan29 – Ojore is out and amongst friends | | | From LA IMC: LA Anarchist Book Fair Panelist, Ojore Lutalo, Arrested | VIDEO: Ojore Speaks about his Arrest on Amtrak | | AUDIO from the Book Fair: 1, 2

Make War No More! Martin Luther King Day of Nonviolent Resistance

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:18:53 -0500

Make War No More! Martin Luther King Day of Nonviolent Resistance at Lockheed Martin on Monday, January 18, 2010 in Valley Forge, PA. About 50 people stood before the Valley Forge, PA complex of Lockheeed Martin in the bright sun and warmish air (compared to the days of recent frigid weather) holding signs and banners, and listening to excerpts from Dr. King's sermons and speeches. During a period of silence for the devastated people of Haiti, a bell tolled for all the victims. Photos

Pam Africa on the Supreme Court ruling against Mumia

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:43:40 -0500

Brewing right here is another example of what it is we’re talking about. Mumia cannot get any fairness in this court system, so we’re calling on the U.S. attorney general to do a civil rights investigation into this case, because Mumia’s civil rights from the beginning to the end, and our civil rights as citizens of this United States who have pointed out the evidence very clearly (are threatened). That nobody can get around: Mumia is innocent. He is factually innocent. Read More | Photos of Jan.20 Emergency Demo | Supreme Court opens door to Mumia’s execution | Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity with Mumia

BLASTING HALTED: Tree Sit on Coal River Mtn, West Virginia

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:54:01 -0500

Tree sitters halt blasting on Coal River Mountain as protest against the immensely destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining - and the extremely detrimental effects of the method on nearby environments and communities.

The Voices of Participatory Democracy in Venezuela — A review of Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:18:12 -0500

There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Many critics of this biased media coverage have directly challenged the demonization of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but very few critics, if any, have exposed the media’s virtual erasure of the vibrant and growing participatory democracy in Venezuela.

Venezuela Speaks Book Event at Wooden Shoe Books, January 22, 7PM

Special election in Massachusetts lost

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:45:05 -0500

Why did the Democratic Party lose what seemed a sure thing? Simple. President Obama was too far off to the right-wing side of the national debate. He needed to run things closer to the way his base thought about things.