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This episode features: A protest by Lumbee Indians of a ClearChannel Radio DJ and racist speach on the radioThe 25th annual Black Workers for Justice MLK, Jr. Support for Labor banquetA talk by Dr. Ronald Glasser on his new book, "A War of Disabilities

Simba Kenyatta is a member of the Coalition for a County Wide Community Dialogue on Race, Poverty, Equality, and Justice, and a political and social activist with decades of work in Santa Cruz. We talked about the Coalition's Listening Sessions that are documenting the experience and reality of racism in the community. 43 Minutes & 42 Seconds, MP3 format.

When he was housed at the state prison in Pittsburgh, he participated in the Scared Straight program, and spoke to young people coming into the prison, deeply impressing upon them the emptiness and loss of imprisonment. He did all he could to convince them to avoid this fate. Bushead was 50 years old. He lived from the streets to the prison, a high octane, high energy, high volume life. His illness, which led to his long and tortuous suffering, was utterly debilitating. Hi memory among many prisoners, will evoke smiles, and hearty laughter, despite the manner of his passing.

Residents in West Fresno are concerned that the city wants to convert the Frank Ball Community Center into a Police Activity League (PAL) facility. A community meeting, which many people were only given hours notice of, erupted into a "lively" dialog as residents confronted city staff.

At the beginning of the primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton was the inevitable candidate, and even her staunchest opponents all but conceded her victory in November, given the Clinton name, the aura of an ex-president, a wealth of funding, and a ready organization at the highest levels of the Democratic Party.

The heat and light of politics does not reflect well on the inner sanctums of the Black Church, which, since its inception during the hellish depths of American slavery, had to speak in voices of pain, bitterness, truth and hope, in order to have any relevance to a people drowning in a sea of hopelessness.

With the nation's manufacturing base also a thing of history, amidst the socioeconomic wreckage of globalization, with foreign affairs in shambles, the rulers reach for a pretty, brown face to front for the Empire. 'Real change that you could believe in' would be an end to Empire, and an end to wars for corporate greed, not just a change of the shade of the political managers. That change, I'm afraid, is still to come.

Neither Sen. Clinton nor many of her supporters made that demand in the 2000 presidential campaign, nor did a single U.S. Senator stand with members of the Congressional Black Caucus when they, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, needed one senatorial vote to formally investigate the thousands of stolen votes, especially among Black Floridians. Not one senator. Not Sen. Clinton; not Sen, John Kerry, not Sen. John Edwards; not then Sen. Albert Gore....not one.

Conclusion: Three-minute QT movie. 49MB.

The Oakland City Attorney's Office has engaged in acts to coverup these unlawful tactics, failed and refused to disclose to the court, nor inform the Judge of their improper and illegal transgressions regarding the fact of the defendants removing and taking custody of the City of Oakland files for several months and allowed the trial to proceed knowing their liability and the legal impact of their spoliation of evidence of the documents therein and their unpardonable breach in the chain of custody of the City of Oakland files.

Four-minute QT movie. 62MB. The SF Board of Supervisors votes on the peakers Tuesday, May 13, 2008.

Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier lays out her plan. Part Two is in two parts, A & B A: Four-minute QT movie. 60MB. B is down below.

Bay Area environmental and social justice organizations, including San Francisco Green Party, Sierra Club, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Huntersview Mothers Committee, Ella Baker Center For Human Rights, SPUR, Our City, and Brightline Defense demanded a halt to San Francisco's proposed highly polluting Peaker Power Plant Project -- aka the Combustion Turbine Project -- proposed to be built in Southeast San Francisco, right next to the Bayview Hunters Point community that is already overburdened with pollution. Four-minute QT movie. 60MB.

The defense utilized the "bad company" argument: that Bell was shot and killed because he was among "the wrong crowd." That such an argument swayed Supreme Court justice Arthur Cooperman (in New York state, unlike most other states, the trial court is termed the Supreme Court, and the state's highest court is their Court of Appeals.) is a measure of how devalued Black life is, and how easy Black men are to demonize and disparage.

On May 1, the day of his book's release, author J. Patrick O'Connor was interviewed at Philadelphia City Hall about "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal."

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George Cadman Of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Jason Ewart, Troy Davis's attorney, about his case and the recent 4-3 decision by the Georgia Supreme Court to deny him an evidentiary hearing that may have led to a new trial. Troy Davis has been on death row in Georgia for 16 years. He was sentenced to death for the murder of an off duty police officer, Mark MacPhail. There was no physical evidence and no weapon ever found. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even during the trial. Seven of the nine witnesses that testified at trial have since recanted their testimony and say that Troy was not the killer. Of the other two witnesses, one was not close enough to the scene to identify the killer, and the other is the principal alternative suspect in the crime. One witness signed a police statement declaring that Davis was the assailant then later said I did not read it because I cannot read. In another case a witness stated that the police were telling me that I was an accessory to murder and that I would...go to jail for a long time and I would be lucky if I ever got out, especially because a police officer got killed...I was only sixteen and was so scared of going to jail. There are also several witnesses who have implicated another man in the crime but the police focused their efforts on convicting Troy. Despite mounting evidence that Davis may in fact be innocent of the crime, appeals to the courts to consider this evidence have been repeatedly denied for procedural reasons.

George Cadman Of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Martina Correa, Troy Davis's sister, about his case and the recent 4-3 decision by the Georgia Supreme Court to deny him an evidentiary hearing that may have led to a new trial.

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Robert Bryan, Mumia's lead attorney, about recent developments in his case, including the long awaited ruling by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals released on March 27, 2008.

Listen Up Northwest is a collaboratively produced radio magazine featuring stories of communities in action throughout the Northwest. Each broadcast highlights the work of skilled community radio producers and artists from our region, including Alaska, British Columbia, Washingon, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.

Presentations from the 1st annual nyc bookfair held on 14-15 April 2007

In this new interview (03/08), Ramona Africa talks about observing the MOVE 9 trial, before she actually became a member of MOVE. The video also features archival footage from the documentary "MOVE," made by Cohort Media, and narrated by Howard Zinn. The intro spotlights the public beating of Delbert Africa, while the conclusion features the illegal destruction of MOVE's house and the fraudulent "conspiracy" charge used to convict the MOVE 9.

Rhonda Erwin gave a very moving presentation at the program, following the African American march for justice in Fresno on March 1. Erwin is the National Field Marshall for Sacramento, CA for the National Network In Action. 4:26 minute video

Native American activists and their supporters began the Longest Walk 2 today from Alcatraz Island to Washington DC - trekking across the country to raise awareness about global warming and the movement to protect sacred sites. The five month-long coast-to-coast journey commemorates the 30 year anniversary of the original Longest Walk in 1978.

For several years in the '80's and '90's, stories raced through communities of people being seduced, drugged, and when they awakened, to their horror, an internal organ, like a kidney, had been removed.... Recently, it has been reported that there is a brisk and bustling business in a country touted as 'the world's largest democracy', where the illicit sale of kidneys has become a kind of cottage industry!

I speak, of course, of Cynthia McKinney, the bold, outspoken former congresswoman from Georgia, who spoke out against the Iraq War when it wasn't popular. She is running on the Green Party, according to published reports, but the media has virtually ignored this fact.

Whenever I've heard the phrase 'first Black president' with regards to former U.S. President William J. Clinton, it's always disturbed me.... This sense of nonchalance seems to suggest that being 'black' is synonymous with dillydallying with women (not one's wife), or playing a musical instrument that has been closely identified with Black music (jazz).

In Houston, Texas, those who were the staunchest supporters of the now embattled D.A. there, Harris County's Chuck Rosenthal, are now calling for his resignation.