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THE CHICAGO DEFENDER

We endorse Carol Moseley Braun for Mayor Feb. 22

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For the first time in more than five decades, there won't be a Daley on the ballot for mayor of Chicago.

That alone would make the Feb. 22 election historic, but it also happens to fall on the same day that Harold Washington was elected to his first term in 1983. There is also the promise that this election will produce a city council that actually serves its constituents, instead of doing the bidding of Mayor Richard M

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The Revolution?

By Rodney D. Coates*

Currently, progressive listservs, facebooks, blogs, and twitters are all a twitter (sorry I could not help my self J) with the buzz coming out of first Tunisia and now Egypt.  It seems that the winds of change are being whipped by a revolutionary rejection of capitalism.  We are informed by these ideologues that these activities are not only predictable, but the normal outpouring of a mass public that has gotten tired of the excesses of capital.  Such ideological posturing a

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What do Pres. Herbert Hoover, Pres. Regan, Pres. Bush II and

Pres. Barack Obama have in common?

The reason I am asking the above question, is if you was born during the Hoover’s crash of 29’ or you lived through Reganomics, or Bush II Crash of 2008. Then you can have a sense of the PAIN that is about to be dropped on Black and Brown as well as poor folks in America in the coming years and months.

          Now just like the Crash of 29’ or Reaganomics or the 2008’ Crash of Bush II some people is go

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Men Who Read in Prison and transformed their lives

 
 

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Men Who Read Books in Prison

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Men Who Read Books in Prison and transformed their lives

This Saturday, the Journal of Pan African Studies and Chauncey Bailey Book Fair will have Bay Area Black Authors selling books that will be donated to juvenile hall, county jail and prisons, also after school programs. The public is invited to attend to help decrease illiteracy and promote literature as a tool of transformation in the lives of incarcerated men and women.

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With 70% home foreclosures in the African American Community, why is 3rd Ward Ald. Pat Dowell The only One speaking out about the 2,500 Home Foreclosure on with 17 other Aldermen RUNNING!

 

WOW! As I drive around the 18 African American Alderman Wards I saw hundreds of homes boarded–up properties, but I never really paid attention to it until I listen to 3rd Ward Alderman Pat Dowell raise the issue a few days ago. Now I don’t know if she is raising this issue because she feels the foot steps of Yo

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Upcoming Fundraisers For Carol Moseley Braun and these fundraisers are so important to keeping our grassroots message out during these final days. Please support in any financial shape that you can for every dollar counts. And anyone on my personal lists that want to attend should contact me even if you cannot afford the full costs for the events. We need your support !!  (Mark Allen)
  
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17th
STEPPERS FOR CAROL FUNDRAISER WITH LEGENDARY DJ SAM CHATMAN
Mr. G's Entertainment Center
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Black History and Vindicationalism

 
By EZRAH AHARONE 2/2011

As we celebrate another Black History Month during these political times of world turmoil and uprise, it's important for America to project a world image that it has "turned the page" of racism in its own blood-stained history. And while the relevance of this month has even been called into question since the advent of a Black president, I'm reminded of the African proverb that: "Until the lion has his historian, the hunter will always be the hero."

As such, when it c
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Congressman Rush says Rahm Emanuel TV Ads Insult Black Community During Black History Month

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Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago. 312-624-8351 or 773-392-0165

While the  media has made hea
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Egypt: Surely After Difficulty Comes Ease

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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Egypt: Surely after difficulty comes ease!

We congratulate our brothers and sisters, but most especially the youth of Egypt who advanced the Egyptian Revolution to end forever neo-colonialism or the modern slave system. There is no doubt the role American imperialism played in the thirty year oppression of the Egyptian Nation. Down to President Obama, American imperialism would have been more than satisfied to prolong Egyptian oppression. The hypocrisy of American imper
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Major Media Not Reporting The Mobilization For Carol Moseley Braun !!

Dr. Cornel West today led a Black History Month Rally For
Carol Moseley Braun
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Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago. 312-624-8351 or 773-392-0165

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By Doctor Sapphire:

 

Americans can seek forgiveness from the Egyptians whom our taxes suppressed for 30 years by visiting there in mass over the coming years to tour and help the economy recover.

As people to people who work for our living versus those who just profit off the sweat of the masses, we should try to help the Egyptian revolution by planning tours and vacations there over the next 5 years. This will help recover some of their financially loses.

 

Also, we do not want to see them wit

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          Dant'e Cottingham # 259241
Juvenile Defendant



Afraid, Angry, Confused, Dazed, Denial, Depressed, Lost.........................,  
These words describe what I consistently see within the eyes of the nearly  two hundred teenagers that share this maximum security prison with me. I see the contents of these words trapped behind their eyes and yearning for a resolution that cruelly never arrives. They are the words that their experiences with the judicial and penal systems has tatto
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Let's give young black men a second Chance

Dennis Levy(Chairman), Rev. Al Sharpton, Victor Pate (Co-Chairman)
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LET’S GIVE OUR YOUNG BLACK MEN A SECOND CHANCE!
-Dennis Levy
The ‘Sentencing Project’ found that 1 out of 3 Black men born today are expected to go to prison.  It’s a cradle to prison pipeline for young Black men. And, the majority of black men will be released from prison into the community unskilled, undereducated, and highly likely to become re-involved in criminal activity. Nearly two-thirds of black men r
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Pharoah Mubarak Falls,
All Power to the People
Long Live the Pan African Revolution!
Al Humdulilah!!!!!!!


Revolution
from Egypt to the Americas

Marvin X
























Parable of the Parrot



for Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and the Pan African Revolution


The king wanted parrots around him. He wants his ministers to wear parrot masks. He said he had to do the same for the previous king. He only said what the king wanted to hear, nothing more, so he advised his ministers to do the same. In fact, they must encourage the people to bec

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Visiting on a Lumbini Buddhist Tour

Lumbini has the greatest significance in Buddhism for it being the birth place of Lord Buddha. Located in the foothills of Himalayas in Nepal, this world-renowned Buddhist pilgrimage site is quite close to the Indian border. Lumbini is among the four main Buddha holy sites, the other three being Bodhgaya, Sarnath and Kushinagar. Tourists usually plan a combined tour to Lumbini and Bodhgaya, the respective places of Buddha’s birth and Buddha enlightenment.

There are a number of places in and aroun

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Nigguh, Please!

"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."3828519281?profile=original
-Richard Pryor

The Midwest is flat. And it's hard to think in a flat place, where life is two dimensional, where people have width and length and no depth, where when you fly in from the 3-D world you tend to feel a moment of panic above the runway gazing out of the cabin porthole at surrounding fields, roads, and distant horizon beneat

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Reactionaries Will Never Put Down Their Butcher Knives

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Reactionaries will never
put down their butcher knives

We have heard the defiance of Pharaoh Mubarak. It is the arrogance of the king who refuses to leave his throne when his time has come, who is blind to the fact that his divinity arises from the consent of the governed. Such hardheadedness is one of those classic tragic flaws so well delineated repeatedly in the plays of William Shakespeare. And yet Diop
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With All Thy Getting

February 10, 2011 

 

Raynard Jackson

 

King Solomon, of the Bible fame, states in Proverbs 4:7, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding.”

 

I assume that it’s still legal in the U.S. to mention or quote from the Bible?  I am not too sure; this can cause me to be accused of being insensitive to other religions—but, I digress.

 

As I reflect upon the current state of affairs in the world, I am seeking to get some understanding of a few things.

 

Blac

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Huffington, ABC Latest To Mislead Voters On Carol Moseley Braun's Campaign - They Did It to Harold, now on Carol

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Marksallen

One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago. 312-624-8351 or 773-392-0165

The Huff
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Black History: Obama's Fake Speech to Muslims in Cairo, Egypt

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Black History: Obama's Fake Speech to Muslims in Cairo, Egypt
 

In his Cairo speech, President Obama's called upon the Muslim world to reach out and touch him, don't keep a clinched fist, and yet when the Egyptian revolution exploded, it was he who clinched his fist in refusing to champion the cause of the Egyptian masses for democracy. It was he who was exposed as a collaborator with oppression. It was he who called for stability rathe
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