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Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org) - Convergence Funding Requests, Baba Bob Shipman

The IMC-Africa Working Group is convening next month at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal. Please DONATE to help fund DELEGATE TRAVEL EXPENSES. Deadline: Sunday, Jan 23, 2011

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I want to take this time to pause and thank each of you for your prayers and good wishes, your efforts and support has helped me get to this point. I love you all!

Bob

If you are receiving this email , it is because you are important in my life. Today, I got great news, I was asked at a mee

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Yoshi's San Francisco: The Black Arts Movement

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The Black Arts Movement at Yoshi's, San Francisco

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The Black Arts Movement at Yoshi's, San Francisco

Last night at Yoshi's in the Fillmore, Amiri Baraka and Roscoe Mitchell performed a concert partially devoted to the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Baraka is godfather of the Black Arts Movement or BAM, and Roscoe Mitchell of the Chicago Arts Ensemble is a BAM Master as well. TheMX%2Bpic.jpgy were joined by poet Marvin X who opened both sets with
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Because of Martin, Barack.

Because of Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and all the other freedom and civil rights leaders, President Barack Obama, the legacy of Dr King's hopes and dreams. 
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"Young, Gifted and Black". Brilliant, handsome, compassionate, visionaries. How lucky are our people to behold such genius!
 
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 Delayed Ratification 
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Having seen, touched and lived the dream, let the new generations now continue to fulfill even bigger and better dreams.
 
HAPPY REV. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY!










 

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Chicago-Midwest

Another Year That The Substance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's Lifes Work And Legacy Weakened With Commercialism and Symbolism

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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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I wanted to read a poem on the theme of love dedicated to Dr. King

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I wanted to read a poem on the theme of love dedicated to Dr. King



I wanted to read a poem on the theme of love dedicated to Dr. King
but I listened to the news all night talking about a new event in Haiti

We thought Haiti was in bad shape
poverty ignorance disease
after defeating the Spanish English French
including Napoleon
don't ever do that
beat the white man
you will suffer forever
in the deepest corner of hell
like Haiti
a freedom neve
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Letter to Dr. King

Originally Published: Jan. 31, 2005

January 17, 2011

Raynard Jackson


You didn't know me when you were here,
But through your words I feel you are near.

I was too young for the demonstration,
But I learned about you in my education.

You said we all were created equal,
But maybe now we need a new sequel.

Because I don't know what happened to the dream,
Nor the members of your team.

Yeah, Andy's made a name,

Jesse got some fame.

But what happened to the vision?
Seems it's been lost to indecisio

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Georgia

“Instead of Waiting On The World To Change just open your eyes and see the truth"
 Educate yourselves about what is really going on, and avoid the trap that so many have fallen so deeply into.

During the 1960’s Black revolutionaries such as Malcolm X and Stokley Carmichael were most often revered as heroes of the black community.  Today we often find that such like minded Blacks that are culturally conscious (Afro-centric/ Black Revolutionary types) are often misunderstood or underappreciated by t

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COALITION MET WITH ILLINOIS' GOVERNOR QUINN'S REPRESENTIVES A FINAL EXTENSION FOR THE REMAINING WORKERS UNDER THE "PUT ILLINOIS TO WORK" PROGRAM

REV. DR. KING
HALL OF SHAME AWARDS OR HALL OF CELEBRATION ??

UPDATE

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Contact 773-392-0165

 

This past Thursday and Friday, a coalition of over 200 ministers, community activists, small business owners, social service organizations, and "Put Illinois To Work" workers facing January 15th job layoffs participated in two public demonstrat

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Joyce Gordon Reading

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Journal of Pan African Studies
Poetry Reading

Bay Area Poets Read their Entries

Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin, downtown Oakland
Saturday, February 19, 3-6pm



Al Young




Alona Clifton, Reader

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Phavia Kujichagulia

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Ayodele Nzingha
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J. Vern Cromartie

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Ishmael Reed





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not pictured: Kwan Booth, Renaldo Manuel Ricketts, Charles Blackwell, Niyah X, Maisha, Nykimbe, Ramal Lamar
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3828522441?profile=originalLast night, an interfaith citywide coalition was joined by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., New York City Comptroller John C. Liu, numerous City Council members, and upwards of 2,000 labor and community activists at a spirited service in Harlem to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and demand passage of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act. The service, led by the Faith Caucus of the Living Wage NYC campaign, highlighted the growing citywide movement for economic justice, which
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Dare to Pursue Dr. King’s Dream

RODNEY COATES:


Americas’ response to the senseless violence that claimed the lives of 6 and injured another 14 in Arizona once again demonstrates the power of hope over despair, peace over violence, and love over hate.  These tragedies coming on the heels of our celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also reminds us of his dream for a better America.  Martin Luther King’s August 28, 1963 speech “I have a Dream” galvanized the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans regardless o

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horoscope readings

Indian Vedic Astrology is based on date, time & place of birth of a person. So all the horoscopes are generated on these supplied information. In general cases information like date & place of birth of a person is correct, but as you move to time of birth of the person, there may be some chances of error. Accurate and Correct forcasts/predictions done depending upon on accuracy of the natal chart provided to an astrologer. In some cases the difference of one second in someone's birth time may cr

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horoscope matching

Indian Vedic Astrology is based on date, time & place of birth of a person. So all the horoscopes are generated on these supplied information. In general cases information like date & place of birth of a person is correct, but as you move to time of birth of the person, there may be some chances of error. Accurate and Correct forcasts/predictions done depending upon on accuracy of the natal chart provided to an astrologer. In some cases the difference of one second in someone's birth time may cr

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Asia

indian astrologer-vedic astrologers

Every person have desire for rewarding career which brings them most satisfaction. When I will get a new job? Is the overseas job good for me? Is it good time to change job? What will be my earning potential? These types of questions come to job seeker's mind.

Career Astrology helps you for understanding of your capabilities, your challenges, your talents, and your dreams. It helps you to know an insight information for your potential, talents, communication abilities, challenges and relationship

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indian horoscope

 

Planets exert their good as well as adverse effects on each person on the earth. The Indian Horoscope malefic effects of bad planetary combinations can leave a person in abnormal mental stress, giving dangerous ailments or push a person to the brink of bankruptcy. But we love to have only good effects of the planets. Astrological remedies are the solutions provided to overcome such complicated situations. In Indian Vedic Astrology the main remedies include - Mantra, Tantra, and Yantra. However

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MUBARAK INTER-PRIZES - RIDE AND DIE

MANY BLACK BUSINESS OWNERS WILL DIVERSIFY OR ABANDON THEIR BUSINESS BASE TO AVOID DEPENDENCY ON BLACK SUPPORT...BUT NOT US

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DEAR BLACK AMERICA 2011
I ALONG WITH EMANUEL ANGARICA AND LEE GREEN AGREE WITH THE DEFINITION OF A REAL BUSINESS DEFINITION

A real business to me is a system that continually generates revenue whether your there or not. Also a system of generating revenue through a product or service that can be successfully duplicated (think franchise). :) 

EMANUEL ANGARICA

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From Savagery to Civility

Thursday, January 13, 2011

From Savagery to Civility

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From Savagery to Civility

Unity, Criticism, Unity! We must be able to criticize each other constructively, to engage in debate and dialogue. This is how civilize people conduct their affairs. Now savages want to kill, no debate, no dialogue, no comment. Man, I wanna smoke dat nigguh!
--from Soulful Musings on Unity, Marvin X
12/10/10



It is imbecilic to think a nation steeped in the blood of global violence and permanent war can attain civility at h

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Is Visiting Africa A Stretch?

January 13, 2011 

Raynard Jackson

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (father of the former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court with the same name) once stated, “A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.”

I think the sooner African leaders come to understand this, the better off the continent will be.  Everytime I meet with African leaders, they always complain about how Africa is portrayed in the U.S. media.  But yet, they never seem to understand the need to have

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January 12,2011, Philadelphia, PA– The People’s Tribunal Against Police Brutality and Misconduct will be convened amidst a whirlwind of public debate, legal battles and community protest sparked by the upsurge in police brutality.This independent community legal proceeding is being initiated by the Askia Coalition Against Police Brutality (ACAPB) and will be convenedon Saturday, January 15that 11:00 am. Its organizers insist that it is not a “mock trial,” the tribunal will gather testimony from
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The political economics of Dr. King’s legacy

  

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The Martin Luther King holiday is 25 years old this month. Not bad for a true product of American democracy at its ugliest and its best.

Remembering the loud, raucous, and sometimes racially vicious political war fought to get the holiday established, one is doubly honored to watch one of Dr. King’s movement progeny work his POTUS magic through a relentlessly dangerous minefield of negativity.

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