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Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey
29 Sep 2010
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Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey

Yeshitela: Obama Was “No Community Organizer”

The First Black President has had a “free ride” in continuing the “war against the African community” because the U.S. government had already “destroyed the revolutionary movement on the ground“ decades ago, said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party. Speaking at a Day of Solidarity with African People, in Oakland, California, Yeshitela derided the notion that Barack Obama was once a community organizer. “The real organizers,” he said, “have been arrested and killed by the U.S. government.”

Plus…

Cynthia McKinney speaks at meeting between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. peace activists.

Harlem celebrates the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting between Fidel Castro and Malcolm X.

Atty. Chockwe Lumumba discusses the plight of his clients, the Scott Sisters, two Mississippi Black women serving double-life sentences for an $11 robbery.

And…

Black Agenda Report’s Bruce Dixon calls the Dream Act a “Trojan Horse” designed to provide immigrant cannon fodder for the U.S. military.

Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour.


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