Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Toussaint Louverture: A Free Man
04 Apr 2007
by Laurent Dubois How does a freed man become truly free - fully emancipated from the master? It's not so simple, even for a gifted leader such as Toussaint Louverture, the hero who led the…
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War on Drugs = War on Minorities
28 Mar 2007
by Arianna Huffington The author excoriates Democrats, especially "frontrunners" Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, for failing to even mention on their campaign websites the so-called War on…
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The Black Seminole Revolt: A Website Documents the Most Successful U.S. Slave Rebellion
28 Mar 2007
by Amy Sturgis Five years after Nat Turner's slave revolt was crushed in Virginia, Blacks allied with Florida Seminoles mounted a largely successful resistance to massive assaults by the United…
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Racism and the Cherokee Nation
21 Mar 2007
by William Loren Katz A majority of Cherokee Nation voters recently turned their backs on centuries of collaboration, cohabitation and struggle alongside Blacks, endorsing a move to revoke the…
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Bush’s Broken AIDS Promise to Africa?
21 Mar 2007
by Aaron Sussman The Bush administration undermines its vaunted AIDS efforts in Africa by tying aid dollars to contracts for American firms, and barring funds to groups that deal with sex workers…
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Letter from New Orleans: Unstable Foundations
21 Mar 2007
by Rebecca Solnit New Orleans represents what Republicans promise when they call for shrinking down government. Residents struggling to remain in the stricken city or return home find little…
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How Barack Obama Learned to Love Israel
14 Mar 2007
by Ali Abunimah A decade ago the author, a Palestinian activist based in Chicago, thought wishfully of then State Senator Barack Obama: "If only a man of this calibre could become president one…
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Belafonte Protects the Soul of Struggle
14 Mar 2007
by Amy Goodman Entertainer/producer/activist Harry Belafonte turned 80 this month, "a living library of not only the civil rights movement, but of liberation struggles around the world." Friend,…
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Commerce is Killing the Spirit of Hip-Hop
07 Mar 2007
by Davey D Most young African Americans are dissatisfied with the daily menu of anti-social hip-hop music force-fed to the culture by huge corporations. Yet the "ultimate minstrel show," a…
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Pentagon High Crimes: A Retired Lt. Colonel Speaks Out
07 Mar 2007
by David Swanson George Bush "seems like the Paris Hilton of politics," but Dick Cheney appears to take "world domination seriously." So seriously, according to a retired officer who…