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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.

Black is Back National Conference in D.C. calls for anti-imperialist stance and victory to the oppressed of the world

WASHINGTON, DC--They came from all over–from Florida, South Carolina, DC, New Jersey, New York, California and Maryland. They also came from Congo, via England. They...

Political prisoner Leonard Peltier medical alert!

LEONARD PELTIER MEDICAL ALERT Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was wrongfully convicted in connection with the shooting deaths of two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1977, and has been imprisoned for 35 years, is in dire need of medical attention and needs your help.
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