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Philadelphia—On October 13 the movement for social justice throughout the world won a critical victory for the democratic rights of African people, oppressed and freedom loving people everywhere when Diop Olugbala, International President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), walked out of his sentencing hearing in a Philadelphia courtroom with two years probation. He could have been sentenced to up to ten years in
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Preview #14, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
Preview #14,
Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
Guest Editor, Marvin X
Deadline for submissions November 15
Send submission to jmarvinx@yahoo.com,
Include bio, pic, MS Word attachment
Neil Callender, Boston MA
The Maroon is Dead! Long Live the Maroon!
On the night Malcolm died, tough men, hewn from
Louisiana's woodlands and paper mills, and from
the battlefields of Europe and Korea gathered in their
town of Bogalus
October 14, 2010 -
As participants from the U.S. at the 25th National Gathering of Women (XXV Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres) in Paraná, Argentina we denounce the attacks by rightwing Catholics on feminists at the workshops on
"Women, Contraception and Abortion" which resulted in a number of injuries and the hospitalization of one activist.
This gathering is an historic victory by Argentine women and is a crucial place for the sharing of experiences as well as for strategizing on how to advance
October 14, 2010
Raynard Jackson
With the mid-term elections fast approaching, I thought this would be a good time to give my views on the state of the political landscape.
Let me start by saying publically what I have been telling friends all year—if you are an incumbent, you will not be getting my vote!
Politicians from both parties have made a mockery of our political process. I was taught as a child that in a democracy—the majority rules. But, no one notified our U.S. Senate because in order t
Now Available from Black Bird Press:Mythology of Pussy and Dick
This book empowered me. I didn’t know I had that much power!—Young sister
It helped me step up my game!—Young brother
Thank you, thank you, for writing this. I am going to make my son and daughter read it.—A Mother
Mythology
of Pussy and Dick
toward
Healthy Psychosocial
Sexuality
Marvin X
Warning: Contains explicit language
And youth who otherwise don't read, do read this book and even squabble over ownership, as if it were black gold!
--Paradi
Preview #12, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
Preview #12, Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue
Deadline for submissions extended to November 12, 2010
We especially want to hear from hip hop poets, spoken word artists, conscious rappers
Send your submission to Guest Editor, Marvin X, jmarvinx@yahoo.com, include brief bio, pic, MS Word attachment
Submissions received from the following:
Askia Toure
Amiri Baraka
Rudolph Lewis
Al Young
Ishmael Reed
Mona Lisa Saloy
Gwendolyn Mitchell
Haki Mad
This is fast running life. People have everything except time. They have potential to earn money and own properties in bulk but don’t have sufficient time to manage their properties. Especially life of people of American State is too fast. People in Maryland –one of the American states have lots of properties but they are unable to draw profit out of them. Managing property is not only function of time but also of contact. People do not have good social association to rent properties at lucrativ
HOW THE MASS MEDIA IS BEING USED AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN WHITE DOMINANCE
Many African Americans now holds the opinion that in the face of greater gained opportunities that many within their race became their own worst enemies. It is not uncommon to hear these negative sentiments about their own race now echoed by many African Americans themselves—they that consider themselves as being exceptions to this norm. This perception often engenders profound feelings of immense humiliati
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Senator Barbara Boxer--In Search of My Soul Sister
In Search of My Soul Sister
After a lifetime of fears, doubts, ambivalence and general paranoia (myessential mental state) about the feminine gender, I recently concluded,based on six decades of interaction, that the black woman was, afterall is said and done, my friend, and that she has never wanted to beanything other than my friend, helper, lover and mate, really, foreternity, if I could have ever been shackled to her t
By BOB HERBERT
You have to believe that somebody really had it in for the Scott sisters, Jamie and Gladys. They have always insisted that they had nothing to do with a robbery that occurred near the small town of Forest, Miss., on Christmas Eve in 1993. It was not the kind of crime to cause a stir. No one was hurt and perhaps $11 was taken.
Jamie was 21 at the time and Gladys just 19. But what has happened to them takes your breath away.
They were convicted by a jury and hande
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Parable of the Return of Gov. Moonbeam
Brown’s records are “under lock and key” at the University of Southern CaliforniaA task force was created in 2007 to investigate the disappearance ordestruction of documents related to Brown’s time as mayor of Oakland.
In Oakland, a computer hard drive was found at City Hall and someinconsequential documents were located in a dumpster, but nothing muchof substance was ever recovered.
Parable of the Return of Gov. Moonbeam
California is
California is
Monday, October 11, 2010
Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq's Minister of Oil, Marvin X's Teacher
Iraq's oil windfall
"Iraq Proven Oil Reserves Rise Significantly " declares the Wall Street Journal, echoing a number of other news sources.
But are they "proven"?
So far, we have only assurances from the Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani*:
These aren't random figures, rather they were the results of deep surveyscarried out by the ministry's oil reservoir company
Since the age of 9, Sara has suffered from severe depression for which she has been hospitalized several times. She has attempted suicide on multiple occasions
Mostly invisible to the hoards of walkers and runners around the lake who never swerve to avoid a collision or e
Concerned Catholics and clergy sex abuse victims will disclose and discuss a new study Monday, October 11th
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To all Civic: Social: Political: Religious
Community: and Cultural Editors
From Wanda Carter 773-899-8237
Press Conference
Monday, October 11, 2010 at 1:00pm
Hotel Palomar 505 North State Street Exhibition Room
6th floor next to elevators
Archdiocese of Chicago Priest Accused of Sexual Abuse Assignment Patterns
More than 250 Chicago parishes had accused prie
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