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PNC Bank Sponsorship Allows "Every Day Women" To Attend
"Take Back Your Life" Event

PNC Bank Sponsorship Allows "Every Day Women" To Attend
"Take Back Your Life" Event

PNC Bank provided the Monroe Foundation with tickets to distribute to low-income"everyday" women to attend WVON's "Take Back Your Life" event, held onSaturday, October 30th in Tinley Park.

What makes this important is that the event, priced at $ 60 per person, andwas focused on issues of empowerment for women, are being held often toen
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The Art of Deception in the Middle East

Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Art of Deception in the Middle East











The Art of Deception in the Middle East


The Middle East is the prime area on the planet for the play out of deception in the political arena.

Ofcourse, it is original home of the the Assassins, those Medievalhashish smoking Muslims who killed Christians during the Crusades. Andsince we are in the midst of the neo-Crusades, including the Jewishoccupation of Palestine, the US occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan andPakistan, we should look f
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Friday, October 29, 2010

The Politics of War and Tricknology














The Politics of War

and Tricknology


Isn'tit absolutely amazing we are in three wars: Iraq, Afghanistan andPakistan, yet the elected politicians, the media magicians, the left,are in total silence about the wars, blood and bones on both sides, thebillions missing from reconstruction funds in Iraq and Afghanistan.Surely such terror and looting should be the subject of politicaldiscussion. But the Americans are such deaf, dumb and blind dupes
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NYMetro

Finding a suitable renter to put property on rent is big issue. It is very difficult to find good renter on whom you can trust and put your property on rent. But with the assistance of property managers you can easily find a renter and rent your properties. People who are engaged in managing properties remain regularly in contact with the tenants. They have ideas regarding their background and financial status. They will accordingly put your properties on rent to the suitable person.

They deal w

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Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball (2)

by Kwesi Kwaa Prah

Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)

Cape Town

Dear Gen. Williams*,

The flurry of emails, I have so far seen, have maintained the pace and heat of the discussions that were initiated and aired during our Johannesburg meeting of early January this year. This is enormously encouraging, because the free exchange of views is crucial to the identification and elaboration of a platform for ideas which could eventually feed into the 8th Congress. As originators

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Black Theatre at Eastside Arts Alliance

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Black Plays at Eastside Arts





playwrights
Marvin X
Opal Palmer Adisa

Ayodele
Nzingha,
producer,
director,
actress



















Two Black Plays at Eastside Arts Alliance


We are happy to announce two black plays will be performed at EastsideArts Alliance: Opal Palmer Adisa's Bathroom Graffiti Queen and MarvinX's classic Flowers for the Trashman. The plays are produced anddirected by Ayodele Nzingha, founder of the Lower Bottom Playaz of WestOakland. Ayodele portrays the Queen in this one-woman p
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Culture, Constitution, and Religious Conformity

By Ezrah Aharone


The Juan Williams incident and the rhetoric of Bill O'Reilly that caused Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to walkoff the set of The View, fan the flames of an unbroken theme in history where no other "belief" has arguably been as unifying yet divisive, peaceful yet violent as religion.

Although the proposed Mosque at Ground Zero is widening the gap of intolerance between some Christians and Muslims, the tragedy of 9-11 (which involved extremist Muslims) is no more a window into Is

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The Man in the Mirror

October 28, 2010

Raynard Jackson

Earlier this week I received a phone call from a good friend and he relayed the following story from a liberal, Democratic friend of his in California.

She is a retired worker with a college degree and worked for many years in the court system. She wanted to get back in the work force on a part-time basis and had several interviews. She had all the necessary skills except one---she didn’t speak Spanish! Therefore, she didn’t get any of the jobs she sought.

According

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Europe

Dear Supporters,Mrs. Rasco received a call from Jamie Scott this morning complaining of excruciating head pain that she has suffered with all night long and that the prison refuses to take her to the hospital.Jamie has been dealing with severe headaches this entire month and has only been given Tylenol, which has not helped and which she is worried may cause liver and other types of damage.Please contact everyone below for Jamie Scott, #19197, and urge that she be taken to the hospital immediate
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NOTICE OF MEETING OF UN RAPPORTEUR IN HARLEM

BUILD THE HUMAN RIGHTS TO HOUSING MOVEMENT
A community forum and strategy session with Raquel Rolnik, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing one year of her historic UN mission.

An opportunity to share the strength of our movement and collaboration.

Monday,
October 25, 2010

Doors open at 6 PM/Event at 6:30 PM
James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary
121st Street 7 Broadway
FREE & OPEN TO ALL

http://restorehousingrights.org/wp-cont

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Two Poets on Politics in Oakland--the Mayor's Race

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Two Poets on Politics in Oakland

Two Poets on Politics in Oakland:
Ishmael Reed and Marvin X



Below is Ishmael Reed's analysis of Oakland's mayoral race. Ishmael has abrand of optimism that I lack, especially in the political arena. Hischoice for Oakland's next mayor is a formerstudent of his at UC Berkeley, now a professor at San Francisco StateUniversity, Joe Tuman. Ishmael is not alone in his choice of ProfessorTuman. My political advisers who visit Academy of da Corner
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I Think, Therefore I Am Not

October 21, 2010

Raynard Jackson

Am I the only one who has noticed the media’s total irresponsible coverage of the Rutgers’ college student who committed suicide when he became aware that his roommate streamed his gay sexual encounter on the internet? I think, therefore, I am not.

Supposedly, the student jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate broadcast his gay sexual encounter live on the internet. The media portrayed his death as a cause célèbre as to how “gay” bullying has led

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Seeks Visiting Professorship










Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Seeks Visiting Professorship

Seeks Visiting Professorship

Marvin X is author of 25 books.He is one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement and the father of Muslim American literature. Bob Holman calls him the USA's Rumi, Hafez and Saadi.Ishmael Reed calls him Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland.

Marvin X (b. 1944), poet, playwright, essayist, director, and lecturer. Marvin
Ellis Jackmon was born on 29 May 1944 in Fowler, California. He attended high
school in Fresno

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Thinking out da box of pax americana

Monday, October 18, 2010

Thinking Out da Box




Thinking Out of the Box
of Pax Americana


Afree man exercises the divine and human right to self determination inhis thinking and right actions. He thus thinks globally but actslocally, for he must remain grounded in the reality that surrounds him.He cannot get lost in the stars, in the other worldliness of globalevents to the extent he loses focus on events in his daily round.

Forsure, he must, as Baraka urges us, stop thinking like an American,since he is
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Deadline for submissions, Nov. 15
send to jmarvinx@yahoo.com
include bio, pic, MS Word attachment






Monday, October 18, 2010

Tentative Contents, Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies

Tentative Contents of Poetry Issue


Journal of Pan African Studies

Marvin X, Guest Editor


Itibari M. Zulu, Senior Editor


Special thanks:

Louis Reyes Rivera

Eugene Redman

Bruce George

Gwendolyn Mitchell

Askia Toure

Rudolph Lewis

Amiri Baraka




Dedication to Jose Gancalves, Publisher/Editor, Journal of Black Poetry

List of contributo

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Preview #17, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue













DR Congo: Africa's sleeping giant? - Africa... States of Independence - Al Jazeera English




Film Review


Patrice Lumumba


A Film by Raoul Peck

Reviewed By Marvin X
© 2002 by Marvin X


Note: We send out this review on the 50th anniversary of independence in the Congo. Lumumba said he was fifty years aheadof his time, and so it is. But even fifty years later the same problemsof poverty, ignorance and disease remain, the Europea

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JESUIT EXTREME OATH HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW PAGE 4 OF DOCUMENT BELOW

Affidavit Of Jeanette Audrey; [Triplett], agent

( third party witness)

The People Of The United States, ex reI

I, Jeanette Audrey; [Triplett], am one of the people of the united states of America, am of age of majority, over 21 years old, and competent to
testify as a professional witness, having first hand

knowledge of the facts stated herein as true, correct, complete, and not misleading, to the best of my knowledge and belief, an

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By Chief Elder Osiris

There Is Much More Where This Come From

O_akkebala2002@yahoo.com



Imposing your Will through influence of having others to believe in what youclaim to be godly true, such is the action of Religion.



There is more to being A Black Race than appearance, all who appear to be Black is not Black, because being Black is a way you mustact in life and acting is living, and living reveal the way that you makedecisions and allow your self to be treated by your self, and by other than your

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Preview #15, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue

Guest Editor Marvin X


News, Views, Reviews


Reply to Qaddafi, et al.

on Apology for Slavery








WE must appreciate the Arab apology for their role in the slave trade.The French also apologized for slavery and colonialism, although theyinsist on citing the positive aspects of colonialism, indicating aresidue of white supremacy and their need for further recovery.Australia apologized for genocide of the Aboriginal people. America hasyet to apologize

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COUNT DOWN TO MISS-LOU’S THIRD ANNUAL BLACK & BLUE CIVIL WAR LIVING HISTORY EVENT… OCTOBER 29, 30, 2010

This two days equal history commemoration project annually aims to restore the Erase-ism memory of the roles and actions of runaway enslaved who served as Union Military soldiers, sailors, nurses and supporting civilians during the Civil War. They and other African descendants significantly helped preserve the United States Union and gained the freedom of enslaved a

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