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Diop Olugbala For Mayor 2011

PHILADELPHIA—The Committee to Elect Diop Olugbala formally announces his candidacy for the City of Philadelphia’s 2011 mayoral election. Olugbala is also known as Wali...

In Memory of Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt

In this video, Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, (1947 – 2011) addresses a forum on police brutality held after his release from prison in 1997. Pratt, a...

African woman faces wrath of International Money after being raped by IMF head Strauss-Kahn

NEW YORK—On May 19, 2011, International Monetary Fund (IMF) head, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was indicted by a New York grand jury to stand trial on...

Prisons: Terror for the poor – Profits for the rich

SAN DIEGO—On July 1, 2011, hundreds of inmates in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay California State Prison, located near the Oregon...

Police murder in mass down in Miami, FL

MIAMI—On May 30 (Memorial Day weekend), an estimated twelve to fourteen white Miami cops surrounded the automobile of a 22-year-old African and committed murder...

Oscar Grant’s killer cop set free!

On Monday, June 13, 2011, the state of California released killer cop Johannes Mehserle from the Los Angeles County Jail. The former Bay Area...

Volunteer and Join! Freedom Summer 2011 – St Petersburg, Florida Summer Project!

The Uhuru Movement is calling on students, artists, legal advisors, computer technicians, health care workers, teachers, young people and workers in general, to come and be part of Freedom Summer 2011: the St. Petersburg, Florida, Summer Project, which is scheduled to take place July 9 to August 9, 2011.

Black Lawyers call on Obama administration to free all US political prisoners

The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) urges the US to apply international human rights standards to protect and ensure the rights of political prisoners currently incarcerated within its own prison system.

World wide movement beats back death penalty in Mumia Abu Jamal case

PHILADELPHIA—On April 26, 2011, Mumia Abu-Jamal was granted a new hearing as to whether he should be sentenced to life or death.
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