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There are many ways that you can view Arundhati Roy's new video "We" which is distributed freely, anonymously throughout the web. We is a visual and musical essay, featuring the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she addressed the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest. We is a completely free documentary. CLICK HERE to download, watch it, or purchase the We DVD for a small donation
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arundhati roy - deep in thoughtfulness |
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| HIP HOP WAR REPORT: Interview with Mumia Abu Jamal |
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Please check out this very special interview with Black Panther political prisoner and world renowned writer, Mumia Abu Jamal. Mumia discusses "the importance of independent media and maintaining a voice for the people. Mumia also explains the purpose and power of corporate media's influence on the public." The interview is brought to you by JR from "The Block Report," a feature on HIPHOPWARREPORT.COM
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For more information on Mumia and his case check:
www.mumia.org
www.freemumia.org
www.terrybisson.com/mumia.html
www.freemumia.com
www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm
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Lamenting Tookie Williams
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Stanley "Tookie" Williams started and ended his life with good intentions. It's the part in the middle that got him all jammed up. It is too late to mourn his death - his execution on December 13, 2005. Despite his remarkable transformation, the State of California - Governor, Arnold Schwarzeneger - felt Tookie was better off dead. Having known very little about him until the final moments of his life, I didn't understand it then. I understand it now.
December, 2005. Tookie Williams was going to be executed in a few days. Up until that point, I had heard only faint whisperings about his case. I knew he had been the Crips gang leader, and that there was some discrepancy over the crimes he was said to have committed. I knew he had done some measure of work to assuage gang violence since his incarceration. I knew that a handful of people on the West Coast were up in arms about his pending execution. And then he was silently dead.
Now that I know a bit more, it is plain to see that he was too powerful, too influential - even from Death Row - ever to have let live.
Tookie was admittedly a gangster, and co-founder of the Los Angeles Crips street gang. But, never could there have been a more atoned criminal. Bloody-thirsty serial murderers are ticking their time away in prison cells, while Tookie - who had dedicated every fiber of his being to saving "our" youth - was put to death. In watching Redemption (a stellar portrayal of Tookie by Jamie Foxx, btw), Tookie appears at the end, delivering a message to the children. His statements call for misdirected young people to organize themselves, not against one another, but against the powers, the influences, that opress them. A multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his writings and anti-violence resolutions, Tookie was proven influential. He was reaching people. This alone - not the crimes he allegedly committed - was enough to ensure his execution.
WHAT IF he could have actually mobilized the youth toward a revolution. Who, in government, could really take that chance?
www.tookie.com
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Obama for President? |
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October 22, 2006, State of Illinois Senator, Barack Obama, announces that he might take a stab at the 2008 presidential election:
"Given the responses that I've been getting over the last several months, I have thought about the possibility, but I have not thought about it with the seriousness and depth that I think is required," Obama said on NBC's Meet the Press."After November 7th, I'll sit down and consider it, and if at some point, I change my mind, I will make a public announcement and everybody will be able to go at me." Read the full story HERE.
Obama, one of the Democratic party's most sought after speakers, is currently on a nationwide tour promoting his second memoir: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream |
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The Audacity of Hope is part history, part memoir, part political platform. I was going to write a little about the book but, I could not improve on the synopsis provided by Margaret Talev HERE. |
For more information on U.S. Senator Barack Obama visit: barackobama.com or obama.senate.gov |
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THE DEBT: What America Owes To Blacks
This has, perhaps, been my favorite read of the entire year! Randall Robinson, admittedly, has no answers to the enigma, but he lays out the issue of reparations with utmost sensitivity and precision: What Blacks have lost and continue to lose as a result of the institution of slavery - the tangible and the intangible, the effects of a lost history and a perpetually ungrounded culture on the African-American psyche, political implications, and more. For anyone who thinks we should just forget about slavery, or that Blacks are responsible for their overall plight, Robinson weaves statistics, history, and imagery so intricately that one would have to be brain-dead to miss the point. Moreover, he had fun doing it - evident in numerous fictional accounts that he uses to amuse himself in getting grave political points across. This was one of the most interesting and informational little reads that I've had in a long time. Definitely won't put you to sleep. I have to thank Evy Kennenwood for the loan! (And, NO Ms. K, I am not going to return the book, but I WILL buy you a new one as, I guarantee, you won't want this copy back - it's been on many trips, in many purses, and taken many baths. It is well loved :-) |
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