Woman shot and killed by police officer in her own home/Another victim of police violence (tags)
So many examples of police brutality in the USA. Racist based [against blacks, but also other people of colour], but also white people are victims. Partly racist, partly just trigger happiness, or a combination. A dirty State in a dirtier State, that is the American police. A criminal organisation! This time about a black woman, who is shot and killed by a white cop in her own home. Time for a 'j'accuse. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!
HIV-Negative AIDS: Is it CFS, GWS, or AIDS? (tags)
Allied NATO Government is hiding millions of infectious NON HIV AIDS cases (like mine) under the "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)" ICD-code.
Outrage against police brutality comes to Wall Street (tags)
Protestors march toward Wall street Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 in New York. Several hundred people demonstrated near Wall Street on Thursday to protest the shooting of an unarmed black man by police officers in Queens. The march in Manhattan's financial district was the latest in a series of protests over the death of Sean Bell, who was killed last month by a fusillade of police bullets as he left a Queens nightclub hours before he was to be married.
Discrimination not illegal immigrants fuels Black job crisis (tags)
Dumping the blame for the chronic job crisis of young, poor Black men on illegal immigration stokes the passions and hysteria of immigration reform opponents, but it also lets employers off the hook for discrimination. And it's easy to see how that could happen.
Respect and Protect the Black Woman-Boycott "Hustle and Flow"! (tags)
What has gotten into John Singleton? Why has he produced a movie that perpetuates White America's stereotypes of both Black Men and Women?
A childish response from the White House (tags)
We pour treasure and blood into Iraq for reasons that are less supportable everyday. And when you ask the White House to explain, out comes the flag and the proclaimation, "Because I said so!"
bell hooks read and discussed The Will to Change, a companion to her earlier We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity. In her new book, she shows how patriarchy plays a role in most social-sexual ills, and she claims that the men who can lead us out of patriarchal chains are “men of color from poor countries, men who live in exile, men who have been victimized by imperialist male violence.”
Indymedia's Favorite Son Calls Bartenders "common". (tags)
Michael Moore, Indymedia's darling, goes on a tirade because he feels underpaid, and makes 'colorful' comments in London.
The Latest New "War on Terrorism" (tags)
The declaration of the Bush administration to wage open-ended "war" against international terrorism will have definite implications for dissent at home. They estimate the campaign will last five to ten years.