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The on-again-off-again presidential candidacy of music star Wyclef Jean is a distraction for Haiti.

Editor’s note: The following is a Press Release submitted to Uhuru News by the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union of a meeting recently held in London, England. The meeting was to highlight the abrogation of worker’s rights to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining, in an attempt to win international solidarity from the trade unions and organizations present.

ATLANTA—For three days, from August 9 to 11, more than thirty thousand Africans suffered through nearly 100 degree scorching hot weather, many of them passing out from heat exhaustion, just to get an application for government subsidized housing.

HOUSTON-During the March 14 “Time to Till” event, members of Houston’s All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) came with shovels, tillers, hoes, rakes, and an assortment of other garden tools. The Fifth Ward Community Garden and Food Co-Op was only an idea of its organizers.

The Black Farmer Land loss is the greatest loss of physical wealth we have had in this country. What most don't realize is that the Politrics/Obama is indeed hustling black farmers again. Truly large amounts of money were handed out white law firms, in the first Pigford case but very little money was deposited to black farmers/black people.

The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations must be given maximum support by African people and especially activists, because it has been a critical development in our movement since the 1960s.

It has been 55 years since so-called Third World nations from Asia and Africa came together in Bandung, Indonesia to promote economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism.

Editors note: As U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama makes war on the poor people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, while drinking with the police, black newspapers and online services, as routine reporting, are telling of more and more incidents where the police all over the US are, increasingly, firing their guns into the small and frail bodies of African children and young people.

Unión del Barrio, a 28 year-old organization that struggles for the self-determination of the Mexicana/o working class communities, will commemorate International Workers Day on this May 1st.