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Bill Quigley
WBAIX Launches Daily Programming on the Net
02 Jul 2010
by The Editors More than a year after a new board majority assumed control of WBAI-FM, Pacifica’s New York radio station, the losing side in what they called “the coup” has set up shop on the Internet. Within two months, the “exiles” of WBAIX hope to offer “a 24-7 broadcast grid of…
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Billions in Fish Stolen From African Waters Annually, Says Environmental Justice Foundation
10 May 2009
Billions of dollars worth of fish stocks are illegally taken from African waters by European corporate commercial fishing operations Who are the real pirates in African waters? If you cannot see the video above, click here.
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US Troops In Obama's Afghan War Are Executing Prisoners: Seymour Hersh
16 May 2010
If you cannot see the video above, click here. Seymour Hersh knows what he's talking about. He's the award winning reporter who first reported the My Lai massacre to the American people back in the 1960s, after an official US Army coverup in which Colin Powell, then a young staff officer…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
An Anti-War Movement That Won’t Cave to Obama or Israel
28 Jul 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford For at least two years, there has been no anti-war “movement” worthy of the term – one that calls the aggressor by his name (starts with “O”) and gives no pass to apartheid Israel. There’s good reason to believe a corner has been turned, with last weekend’s…
Bill Quigley
Breaking the Obama Spell, at the United National Peace Conference
28 Jul 2010
Despite what their elected officials say and do, and despite the unceasing pro-war propaganda of corporate media, most Americans still favor a winding down and withdrawal from Iraq, Afghanistan and lots of other places. Addressing that disconnect between the will of the American people and…
Bill Quigley
From Peace Conference: Attorney General Must Open Investigation into Case of Mumia Abu Jamal
28 Jul 2010
US political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal is not far from the last stop on the death bus... that is, from execution. Recently some US participants in an international death penalty conferences have tried to carve out an exception that would allow death penalty opponents to let them fry just…
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Shirley Sherrod's Bizarre Week in the Sacrifice Zone
28 Jul 2010
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo In the wake of the Sherrod Affair, “one is obliged to ask: Does this administration have a moral center?” The Obama administration has a hair-trigger instinct to fire – to relegate to the “Sacrifice Zone” – anyone targeted by the Right. But the truly bad…
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Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the U.S. Criminal Justice System
28 Jul 2010
by Bill Quigley The author enumerates the ways American “justice” is used as a weapon to beat down Black people. “The criminal justice system,’ he writes, ”from start to finish, is seriously racist.“ Mere reform won’t do. “We are not called to only trim the leaves or prune the branches, but rip…
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Old Wounds and New Pain: The Oscar Grant Tragedy
28 Jul 2010
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad With maddening repetition, we are taught and re-taught the same lesson: Black life is cheap in America. “The burden of blackness is to prove one’s innocence, to justify one’s humanity; the privilege of whiteness is to take both for granted.”
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Lynne Stewart Gets Ten Years – The Progressive Movement Gets Lethal Injection
21 Jul 2010
by U-Savior It’s time to regroup, rethink, and possibly re-boot the “movement,” which has been gravely damaged from inside and out. “The back biting and murmuring amongst the agenda-less, corrupted, dysfunctional and disheveled ‘grass root progressives’ has led us to exactly where we are…