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Bill Quigley
The Struggle to Free the Jena Six
22 Aug 2007
by Jordan Flaherty Barack Obama claims African Americans have come "90 percent of the way" in the struggle for justice. Tell that to six Black high school students from Jena, Louisiana, facing life in prison for a schoolyard fight with white kids who admitted hanging three nooses from a campus…
Bill Quigley
Forming a Human Levee for Human Rights in New Orleans
08 Aug 2007
by BAR contributing editor Jeffrey Buchanan There is no more graphic place to understand institutional racism than New Orleans. On one side of the Monticello Canal, which separates Black and white communities, there is a levee. On the Black side, there is no levee at all. It is only a matter of…
Bill Quigley
America’s Shame: 2 years after Hurricane Katrina
08 Aug 2007
by the Sacramento Area Black Caucus Two years have gone by, and Black America has failed to respond in any coherent fashion to the catastrophe that we call Katrina: the death of a Black city. It was in that place that the United States proved, once and for all time, that Black life had no value…
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Staying Alive for the New Struggle
15 Aug 2007
by BAR contributing editor Rudolph Lewis There is a general feeling among whites, says the author, that they have won the racial battle and can now "do and say almost anything they please." No more need to pay careful attention to Black complaints and arguments. African Americans were lulled…
Bill Quigley
Fighting Transit Racism: Building the Environmental Movement on the Buses of L.A.
15 Aug 2007
by Eric Mann Since the early days of environmentalism, Blacks have correctly viewed the movement as a "rich white folks" affair that did not address urban and poor rural environments. What's a "tree-hugger" going to do for me? In recent years, however, there has sprung up a movement against…
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Media Consolidation and the Black Grass Roots: Why the Search for Radio Airtime is Full of Static
15 Aug 2007
by Eric Easter Media consolidation has moved so quickly to place Black radio in the hands of news-hating corporations and faraway headquarters management, politicians can no longer communicate directly with the African American public. In the space of just a few decades, a vibrant…
Bill Quigley
Staying Alive for the New Struggle
15 Aug 2007
by BAR contributing editor Rudolph Lewis There is a general feeling among whites, says the author, that they have won the racial battle and can now "do and say almost anything they please." No more need to pay careful attention to Black complaints and arguments. African Americans were lulled…
Bill Quigley
Venezuela’s President Chavez: U.S. Target for Regime Change
22 Aug 2007
by John Pilger
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Ghettonation: A Journey Into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless
22 Aug 2007
by Leah Samuel Journalist Leah Samuel's review of Cora Daniels's above-named book reveals a kind of vacillating confusion on the part of the book's author that is particular to the Black professional classes in their critique of the lower economic spectrum. Daniels' Ghettonation, in which "she…
Bill Quigley
U.S. Targets Venezuela’s President Chavez for Regime Change
22 Aug 2007
by John Pilger The U.S. is attempting to replicate its 1973 overthrow of socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende - this time in Venezuela. Just as in Chile, a reactionary professional and business class "whose houses are full of food, bang pots in the streets in protest as though they don'…