Activism and Recognition

Hunger and homelessness plague America's veterans, President Biden is set to sign the infrastructure bill Monday, and Florida's governor considers legal action over migrant flights.

11.11.21 / Hunger and Homelessness Plague America's Veterans

Biden says he'll fight for the filibuster; McConnell seeks an eighth term; and Fauci fires back at GOP senators.

01.12.22 / Biden Says He'll Fight for the Filibuster

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was resoundingly boo'ed at a Somali singer's concert on July 2nd in Minneapolis, and media outlets are still abuzz about it. 

Many Somali American residents of Congresswoman Omar’s district feel she has pursued an aggressive interventionist policy in Somalia and helped to engineer the defeat of their hugely popular president Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, aka Farmaajo.

Ilhan Omar Booed Onstage in Minneapolis

Marcelline Nduwamungu, from the Women's International Network for Democracy and Peace, on how Paul Kagame is Behind M23 Terror in East Congo.

Taylor Report

Kagame must withdraw his M-23 gang from Congo

Taylor Report Facebook

UK nurses go on strike, African refugees accuse Europe of racist immigration policies, and Steven Were Omamo, former World Food Program Director in Ethiopia, reports that the Tigray famine story was a false, politicized narrative during the Ethiopian civil war.

KPFK Non-NATO News

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza prize for peace and democracy goes to John Williams Ntwali(journalist, deceased) and Kambale Musavuli, who has exposed the crimes of M-23 in East Congo.

Victoire Ingabire Prize for Peace and Democracy

Pacifica reporter and host Ann Garrison spoke to Michelle Witte of Sputnik Radio's "Political Misfits" about the US in Somalia, the drought and famine narrative, and South Africa's dilemma regarding Putin's visit for the BRICS conference while under indictment by the ICC.

Sputnik's "Political Misfits" on the US in Somalia and the Horn, and South Africa's ICC dilemma

Scholar, author, and activist Dr. Cornel West recently announced his 2024 presidential campaign. He discussed his platform and decision to be a candidate for the Green Party nomination.

Cornel West Discusses His Presidential Campaign

Black Agenda Report co-founder Glen Ford transitioned on July 28, 2021. This week I’m reporting from Caracas, Venezuela where I’m part of an International Peoples Tribunal on US Imperialism and fact finding mission which will hold a hearing on the issue of US economic coercive measures, commonly known as sanctions, which have been waged against Venezuela by the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. In honor of Glen’s memory, I will read from a 2019 article he wrote when Donald Trump began his maximum pressure campaign against Venezuela. He titled this piece, “The Racist, Imperialist War Against Venezuela.”

Glen Ford on the U.S. War Against Venezuela

Despite warnings, the Toronto Eritrean Festival was attacked by thugs.

Police came late, did little, and the media jump all over the victims. 

Eritrean events were attacked by the same organization in US, Germany, and Sweden. 

In Toronto the police decision to cancel the rest of the festival, which has been a traditional and popular even for more that 20 years, has handed the attackers a victory on a platter. Be aware, the neo-colonialists have blood in their eyes.

Attack on Eritrean Festival was a classic pogrom

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    Read General's Letter To The Detroit Draft BoardMichael Ratner Resigns From Brandeis University
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Remembering Dr. Vincent Harding

Last month pioneering historian, theologian and civil rights activist Dr. Vincent Harding had died at the age of 82.  Harding was a close adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and wrote King   s famous antiwar speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence." King delivered the address at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967.

After King was assassinated, Harding became the first director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center and of the Institute of the Black World.  He later became  Professor of Religion and Social Transformation at Iliff School of Theology in Denver.  After serving in the Army for several years Harding became a pacifist and later served as co-chairperson of the social unity group the Veterans of Hope Project.  He's the author numerous books including There Is A River and Wade in the Water: The Wisdom of the Spirituals.

Dr. George Tinker:

    Vincent was sometimes called by black activists across the continent, the gentle giant.
    Giant, not because of his physical size but because of intellectual stature.
    Last summer we did a conference together speaking to a national conference of Quakers.
    He was an incredibly soft-spoken and gentle person, yet could be so absolutely incisive in his quiet comments.
    He was so persuasive that everyone had to pay attention to him.
    On campus he was either in the midst of a student group trying to quietly cajole them into activism themselves or once the students became activists, he was one of the few faculty that was right there with students walking them through that activism.
    Every thing in that speech (Beyond Vietnam) is a part of what Vincent lived every day.
    He was in the Army during the Korean War and became a convert to Gandhi and non-violence theory.
    His participation to bringing me to Iliff was a clear signal that he was one of those civil rights warriors who was not satisfied with interpreting the civil rights struggle as a black and white issue.
    When we engaged in protest on the streets of Denver, beginning around 1989, getting ready for the 1992  Columbian Quinscentenary, we had Iliff students who would come out with the American Indian Movement of Colorado to help us protest what we always framed as state supported hate speech.
    We were never against Italians celebrating their heritage but its the fact that Columbus Day is a federal holiday. It's a federal celebration then, of the genocide of Indian people.
    About a year and a half ago he joined Jewish activists and African American activists on a trip to Palestine, the West Bank. He came back deeply affected.
    He immediately began to see the deep deep connection between the Palestinian struggle for freedom and American Indians on this continent.
    We're seeing it still today, US foreign policy is characterized by violence and the threat of violence and if not military violence, economic violence.
    Vincent and Dr. King were men of conscience who once they understood the truth in Vietnam could not help but speak to it.
    18 year old kids don't have the clear reading of history to fall back on their decision making. (military)
    His passing is a passing of an era marked by the passing of Maya Angelou. It deeply deeply saddened me because I was hoping this next month to have lunch with him.

Guest - Dr. George Tinker, a colleague of Dr. Vincent Harding at the IIliff School of Theology.  Dr. Tinker. He teaches courses in American Indian cultures, history, and religious traditions; cross-cultural and Third-World theologies; and justice and peace studies and is a frequent speaker on these topics both in the U.S. and internationally. teaches courses in American Indian cultures, history, and religious traditions; cross-cultural and Third-World theologies; and justice and peace studies and is a frequent speaker on these topics both in the U.S. and internationally. His publications include American Indian Liberation: A Theology of Sovereignty (2008); Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation (2004); and Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Genocide (1993). He co-authored A Native American Theology (2001); and he is co-editor of Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance (2003), and Fortress Press    Peoples    Bible (2008).

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Law & Disorder: Law and Disorder June 2, 2014

Recorded during the Authors' Forum at the 2015 Austrian Economics Research Conference, Jason Jewell discusses a recent book in which his writing is featured: 'Christian Faith and Social Justice: Five Views' edited by Vic McCracken.

Christian Faith and Social Justice: Five Views | Jason Jewell

Religion and Social Justice - An Evening With His Holiness Bhakti Vasudeva Swami (Vasudev Das)
Sunday, April 17, 2011 - Columbia University in the City of New York

Religion and Social Justice - An Evening With His Holiness Bhakti Vasudeva Swami

Perspectives on Global Food Security and Social Justice - V

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