January 22 is the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the historic Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion throughout the United States. This was a huge victory. Access to safe, legal abortion and freedom from forced sterilization are as fundamen |
Stop charter takeovers
Defend public education Say no to privatization Mayor Bloomberg's Department of Education plans to close 26 more schools this year. Despite the DOE's claim that these school closings are aimed at reforming schools, they have
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In case you missed it, there was some outrageous news yesterday:
J.P. Morgan Chase, who just had the most profitable year in its entire history, admitted to overcharging thousands of active military service members, some of whom were illegally thrown
January 17, 2011-Port-au-Prince and Boston- Today, the Institute for Jus tice & Democ racy in Haiti (IJDH) and the Bureau des Avo cats Inter na tionaux (BAI) call on the Government of the Republic of Haiti to comply with Haitian law and arrest ex-Pre
New Report Finds Conservative Policies Worsen Racial Economic Gap,
Hit Black And Latino Communities the Hardest
State of the Dream 2011: Austerity for Whom?
Atlanta, Ga – Conservative attacks on government, public sector workers, social safety
Since the initial formation of Take Back the Land Movement in September of 2009, Local Action Groups (LAG) affiliated with the Take Back the Land Movement (TBLM) have made significant headway in setting the groundwork for a substantial fight-back aga
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The Advocates for Human Rights and the US Human Rights Network today announce the release of a new resource for advocates seeking to monitor, document and advance human rights in the United States. A Practitioner’s Guide to Human Rights Monitoring,
Read more…Operation Shoestring and Kuumba Promos has collaborated to facilitate a bi
Read more…Statement of the President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, Rubén Berríos Martínez, in response to the Hearing examiner’s recommendation to deny parole to Oscar López
San Juan, Puerto Rico. January 7, 2011.- “If the U.S. Parole Commission acce
Rachel Kibblesmith, M.S.W. --
I am writing to wish you a year of Peace in 2011. I also wanted to pass on the C.R.I.M.E. Project's (Compassion, Respect, Inspiration, Motivation, Empathy) January newsletter. The C.R.I.M.E. Project is a youth led, vio
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Wednesday January 12th, 2011 Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30pm Place: 441 Convent Ave, #6E, Harlem, NY 10031, between W149th st and W150th St. Take trains A, B, C or D to "145th S |
2010's been quite a year! There have been many assaults from government and the right, but the year has also been marked by female stalwarts leading serious and creative efforts to repel these attacks.
Radical Women has been in the thick of these st
THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY
T R A V E L N O T E S
IN EGYPT WITH YOSEF A.A. BEN-JOCHANNAN (BORN DECEMBER 31, 1917)
ICON OF AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
By RUNOKO RASHIDI
COMPILED IN 1997
"This is but a mere feeble effort in saying: Without you, African/Black
On Saturday, January 15th, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee will host its annual dinner tribute to Black political prisoners and their families.
This special event, cohosted by the SEIU Activists, will take place at the Martin Luther
Read more…| According to this yesterday Jerusalem POST article, the US-based ADL and the Geneva-based UN Watch call on countries to boycott 'Durban III'. Earlier the same day, the UN general assembly voted and approved a resolution to hold a summit commemorating |
Dear Friend of West Papua,
As 2010 draws to a close, I wanted to send
through an update on current
developments with West Papua and the work of the
Free West Papua Campaign.
Last week, I travelled to Senegal in Africa,
where I met the Senegalese
Preside
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