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Thursday, June 3, 2010







Wisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival






Marvin X's Reader's Theatre

presents

Wisdom of Plato Negro at SF Theatre Festival, Sunday, August 8, 2010


Accompanied by Rashidah Sabreen, guitar, vocals, Raynetta Rayzetta and Linda Johnson, choreographers/dancers, andParadise, poet/reader


The Wisdom of Plato Negro,Parables/fables isat once both gutsy and crude, vulgar and righteous, bodaciousand common. Marvin X tares at your heart while piling crapon yourhead. He makes you want to
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Parable of Oakland at the Precipice

Parable of Oakland atthe Precipice



Downtown stores and offices areboarded. Store windows have Oscar Grant posters--something learned fromthe '65 Watts Riot: Me Soul Broder too! The OPD is out in full force,even Homeland Security is on the street. Undercover police areeverywhere, you can smell them. This is the power of a people who havedone nothing yet. They are the victims of violence, yet because theyseek justice, they are now the villain, the police are the good guys inwhite hats.

Youth are on
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Chicago-Midwest

Contact: John E. Davis July 6, 2010
Media Spokesman
Scott Lee Cohen-Independent Candidate for Governor of Illinois
(312) 622-1246

COHEN APPALLED BY QUINN’S RAISES FOR HIS STAFF

Chicago – Scott Lee Cohen, Independent Candidate for Governor of
Illinois
today blasted Governor Quinn for handing out huge pay raises
to his staff. Quinn’s generosity, at the expense of taxpayers, comes
just days after the Governor imposed painful spending cuts to programs
that benefit the State’s most needy.

“How can he just

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Parable of Living in the Last Days

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Parableof Living in the Last Days








Parable ofLiving in the Last Days

The person living in thelast days of the old world must listen to Black Classical Music ifshe/he wishes to maintain high spiritual consciousness. Jazz or BlackClassical Music is therapeutic for the mind traumatized by the onebillion one hundred million illusions of the monkey mind, as HisHoliness Guru Bawataught, peace be upon him.

This is the required music for NorthAmerican Africans seeking the highest level
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South

>MY oldest and youngest SUNS and thier grandfather and i had a long discussion over the weekend. We flew here to Cali to see him. And it was at that time that he shared something that caused me to overstand just who he is..and who he has always been..Beyond the freedom fighter..

So here is a bit about me..What my father shared with us..will be at the end..

Today, as an Elder at aged sixty four..having earthed 8 sons , six still living 16 grands and 6 grt grands,,my life has evolved and i now focus

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Monday, July 5, 2010

BlackTheatre co-founder Stanley Williams dies


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San Francisco Chronicle July 5, 2010 04:00 AMCopyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. Thismaterial may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Monday, July 5, 2010


Stanley E. Williams founded the Lorraine

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Zionists and Crusaders Ready to Attack Iran


Stop War On Iran

Take Action Now!

July 1, 2010

PROVOCATIONSAND WAR THREATS AGAINST IRAN:
ISWAR IMMINENT?


In thefinal two weeks of June we have seen a number of serious developments inthe Middle East involving the United States, Israel, and the IslamicRepublic of Iran. While almost completely ignored
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Parable of the San Francisco Negro

Monday, July 5, 2010

Parableof the San Francisco Negro




Parable ofthe San Francisco Negro

photos by Khalifa Does





PlatoNegro spent the afternoon of July 4, 2010, at the San FranciscoFillmore Jazz Festival. Now we know San Francisco is Plato's favoritecity, known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and Platoloves beauty and truth. But if truth be told, the San Francisco JazzFestival is a classic example of ethnic cleansing or gentrification.Those with a distaste for the term Negro, need t
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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Parableof Oakland: The Death and Resurrection of a City


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Parable of July 4, 1910, Unforgivable Blackness

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Parableof July 4,1910, Jack Johnson, Unforgivable Blackness



Parable ofJuly 4, 1910

As Oakland braces for a possible riotin response to the verdict in the Oscar Grant murder trial, let usrecall another date in American history that shall live in infamy, July4, 1910. On this day a century ago, Jack Johnson whupped a white man'sass to become the first black heavyweight champion of the world. Whatfollowed his victory was one of the bloodiest days in American historyas whites atta
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Parable of a Beautiful Day in the Bay

Friday, July 2, 2010









Parable ofOakland, A Beautiful Day in the Bay

Today, Friday,July 2, 2010, was a beautiful day in the Bay. No matter the siege ofpolice terrorizing the hood, as per usual, but even more so inanticipation of violence when the verdict is announced in the murdertrial of the BART police officer who murdered Oscar Grant in cold bloodwhile he lay handcuffed on his belly, shot in the back by a brute beastin blue uniform.

Today, was a beautiful day in the Bay. The suncame out early, the
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The New "We the People"

By Ezrah Aharone 7/10

This July 4th marks 234 years of US independence. And although America’s ongoing “melting potexperiment” is theoretically unbiased to Blacks, Latinos and Muslims, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that hate groups, like the well-armed Hutaree militia, have increased 200 percent since President Obama’s 2008 election.

Texas, the former rebel republic and current headquarters of the Guardians of the FreeRepublic is now waging new ethnic and ideological battlefronts,

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Parable of Oakland, A City Traumatized

Thursday, July 1, 2010



Parable ofOakland, A City Traumatized


At this hour,Thursday, July 1, 2010, Oakland is a city under siege, the OPD occupyingarmy is everywhere throughout the downtown area and the hood. Thepolice are riding four deep, stopping cars and people in the hood, fromthe west to the east to the north. Downtown stores and businesses wereshuttered today and many workers have been told to take the day offtomorrow, for fear the pitiful verdict shall be rendered basicallyexonerating the B
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Silence Can Be So Loud

July 1, 2010

Raynard Jackson

What is amazing about the confirmation hearing of Elaine Kagan for the Supreme Court is not the loud rancoring coming out of the Republican Party, but the deafening silence coming from the radical left—especially within the Black and Latino communities. Their silence speaks so loud.

When will the Black community become more sophisticated in their approach to politics? If you are on the wrong side of Israel, the Jewish community will withhold their money and vote you out

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More on Oscar Grant

More on Oscar Grant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JUNE 30TH, 2010

Contact: Tony Coleman, Rachel Jackson

(510) 225-4083 or info@oaklandforjustice.org

OAKLAND ORGANIZERS DEFEND RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE AFTER MEHSERLE VERDICT

WHO: Oakland General Assembly for Justice forOscar Grant

WHAT: Press Conference

WHEN: Thursday, July 1st, 11:00 AM

WHERE: 14th & Broadway, Oakland (at the flag poles in Frank Ogawa Plaza )

As the Mehserle murder trial verdict draws near, Oakland community organizers fearthat the Mayor and OaklandP

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Lumumba

FilmReview: Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck



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 ahead of histime, and so it is. But even fifty years later the same problems ofpoverty, ignorance and disease remain, the Europeans are still therestealing the wealth, although the Chinese have entered the drama.Hopefully, with the Chinese, in exchange for pr

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Parable of Oakland Police Riot

Tuesday, June 29, 2010







Parable ofOakland Police Riot


The Oakland Police areplanning to riot. This is the community consensus based on conversationsat the crossroads. They shall be waiting for the crowd to gather infront of City Hall after the verdict is announced in the Oscar Grantmurder trial. The consensus among the people is that the BART policeofficer shall not be found guilty of murder. The prosecution has beenweak as water, with no real effort to convince the jury Oscar Grant wasmurdered in
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