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Mumia Rally in Philly

Posted on 10 November 2010.

Sights and sounds from the November 9th hearing and rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal in Philadelphia, PA.
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Africa and Pan-Africanism in this Hemisphere: Fighting Neo-Colonialism, Racism, Class, and Gender Oppression

Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: African-centered, afrikan liberation, black power media, cuba, Haitian revolution, jared ball, politics, Upcoming Events, voxunion

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As we continue to press issues raised during this past summer’s U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, Netfa Freeman of Washington, D.C.’s Social Action and Leadership School for Activists, offers the following: ‘Africa and Pan-Africanism in this Hemisphere: Fighting Neo-Colonialism, Racism, Class, and Gender Oppression.’ The panel looked at the role of revolutionary pan-Africanism in confronting imperialism and nation/class/gender oppression in this hemisphere, with emphasis on the Haitian Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and the attacks on African peoples in the Americas.

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Defining our Reality & Continuing the Legacy: Fred Hampton Jr.

Posted on 17 October 2010.

-Revolutionary son from a revolutionary lineage, Chairman of the P.O.C.C. Fred Hampton Jr. Stops through Tubman City as apart of “The Legacy Tour” lecture series…”Thats one thing I respect so much about the Black Panther Party” says Hampton, “They fought on their own terms…” Do you?- Continue Reading

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The Enduring Myth of Black “Buying Power” Part 1

Posted on 05 October 2010.

From www.voxunion.com

-Jared Ball

What is there to say when gaps between demonstrable reality and people’s perceptions are as wide as the ever-widening gaps in wealth? 2010 begins with another promotional round of the popular mythology of Black “buying power.” But this economic Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy comes at great material consequence. This “great disconnect between our people’s wishful mis-perceptions… and the objective reality that actually shapes our lives,” as Glen Ford has said recently, is in part due to misinformation and the conclusions reached by so many prominent thinkers in our world. Precisely at a time when Black unemployment is worsening and predicted to reach even further epidemic levels we also hear of research which suggests that Black Americans think their lot is actually improving. Continue Reading

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Beware Of Invisible Negroes!

Posted on 07 August 2010.

Beware of Invisible Negros!

Jared Ball

August 4th, 2010

Dust off your Ellison; because when it comes to news and politics Black people remain invisible. According to the recent PEW Research Center study on “Media, Race and Obama’s First Year,” “African Americans attracted relatively little attention in the U.S. mainstream news media during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency.” Now, Obama’s presence is causing simultaneous new highs in levels of delusion and equally high levels of absence and it is a perfect storm of annihilation. At precisely the time when there is no mass movement, as conditions worsen and fewer Black people are more famous than ever there is dwindling coverage of actual Black issues in news or politics. It is more than a potentially dangerous situation. This kind of inattention matched with a specific kind of public policy had already, in the years prior to Obama’s arrival on the scene, led famed legal scholar Derrick Bell to conclude that we have already reached the equivalent in public policy of randomly shooting hundreds of Black people every week with no one caring. Or as Anthony Hamilton sings, “Aint Nobody Worrying.” Continue Reading

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