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May Day 2014
As May Day rolls around in the year 2014, there is little reason to celebrate. May Day, historically a holiday for workers, today finds workers under siege like seldom seen before. Under the reign of… Full Transcript
Racists in Robes and Boardrooms
A billionaire basketball owner blurts out words in anger to his girlfriend about her suspected dalliances with Black athletes, and the world goes wild. It becomes Top Story on the national newsfeed, and, surprisingly, even… Full Transcript
Leaders of Whom?
In every capital, in city halls, in the offices of police chiefs, in courts common and supreme, dark faces sit, bearing titles of apparent power. Their presence suggests the rise of an abandoned class, the… Full Transcript
To Our Supporters
Celebration and Resistance Message to All Cities
Events are happening World Wide and in Philadelhia. here are the Philadephia events. The kick-off event on April 24 will be special program dedicated to Amiri and Amina Baraka and the Black arts movement. The… Full Transcript
Neo Con = Neo Liberal
It is with amazement that we witness the faces and voices of wars past as they re-occupy the channels of the corporate media to crow for a more muscular foreign policy in light of events… Full Transcript
Hurricane: Rubin Carter
He was born in New Jersey 76 years ago as Rubin Carter, but most people knew him as “The Hurricane”, his ring name earned after a dizzying career as a ferocious middleweight boxer, with a… Full Transcript
Message: Celebration of Resistance May 2nd-6th
Celebration and Resistance NYC
Children Don’t Matter
Pennsylvania don’t care about the human rights of children. There, I’ve said it. Many people are fearful of making such a straight-forward yet truthful statement. But the numbers don’t lie: · PA has 540 children… Full Transcript
Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice
Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Act is antiquated law that now must be reformed to reflect the body of neuropsychological and sociological studies on the adolescent brain and behavior development proving that children have underdeveloped brains and behavior,… Full Transcript
America Stands Alone
In most countries, sentencing children to life imprisonment without parole is prohibited by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 37, which states in pertinent part, that “State parties shall ensure that:….… Full Transcript
Celebrating Civil Rights at Fifty
If the national (corporate) media is to be believed, we are now at the 50 year mark of Black civil rights, marked by the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights Act, signed into law by… Full Transcript
Message for National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
Sisters and Brothers of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union and, of your guests — the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (NUMSA), I greet you all as militant, historic labor unions who… Full Transcript
DeSean Dismissed
Stanford Alternative Spring Break Students Speak With Mumia Abu-Jamal
We Who Are Oppressed
Fighting the Oppressor
Death Row Record (Egypt)
In a trial that may be unprecedented anywhere in the world, an Egyptian court recently returned 528 death sentences to many supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. In what is seen as the latest attempt to… Full Transcript