Issue: 454
Jan 12, 2012
The African World
What are we to make of the USA, Israeli, Iranian dance of death?
Editorial Board
In watching the USA/Israeli vs. Iranian tensions play out, I found myself thinking about the similarities with the British/Argentine war in the early 1980s over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Talk about a useless, purposeless war�except for one thing. The ruling elites of both countries needed it. In the early 1980s the Argentine military government was in…
In watching the USA/Israeli vs. Iranian tensions play out, I found myself thinking about the similarities with the British/Argentine war in the early 1980s over the…
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Cartoon
Political Cartoon – Keith Little – Navajo Code Talker
Cartoonist/Artist
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View from the Battlefield
Uplifting Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy: His Challenge to the Labor Movement -A
Editorial Board
Dr. King challenged the Teamsters in his most eloquent but penetrating words. He started off by acknowledging the limited accomplishments of civil rights movements on segregation: �It will not be easy to accomplish this program because white America has had cheap victories up to this point. The limited reforms we won have been obtained at…
Dr. King challenged the Teamsters in his most eloquent but penetrating words. He started off by acknowledging the limited accomplishments of civil rights movements on segregation:…
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Commentary
A Sister Outsider in “Pariah”
Editorial Board
Seldom do I see my image anywhere, especially portrayed in non-stereotypical and non-heterosexist ways on the silver screen. As a matter of fact, if you google �black lesbians� or �black lesbians in film� you�ll get a plethora of porn sites to visit. But writer-director Des Rees�s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama, �Pariah� gives me a glimpse of…
Seldom do I see my image anywhere, especially portrayed in non-stereotypical and non-heterosexist ways on the silver screen. As a matter of fact, if you google…
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Commentary
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Solitary Confinement and Indefinite Detention USA
Editorial Board
“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully from nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so…
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.…
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Guest Commentary
Martin Luther’s Lost Message
Columnist
While listening to Senator Rick Santorum�s Iowa Caucus �victory� speech, I realized that Martin Luther�s message has been lost even among those who define themselves as his followers. I am referring to the person for whom Martin Luther King is the namesake. I am referring to the religious revolutionary who stood up to the immense…
While listening to Senator Rick Santorum�s Iowa Caucus �victory� speech, I realized that Martin Luther�s message has been lost even among those who define themselves as…
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Commentary
Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Riverside Church, New York City, 4 April 1967, (Full Text & audio of Speech)
Guest Commentator
I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. The recent statement of your executive…
I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I…
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Commentary
Later On
Columnist
There has been a flurry of racially insensitive rhetoric swirling around the politisphere. We�ve always known there are racists in the midst, but election time seems to embolden the venom that lies within the fangs of the latent ones. I want to take this opportunity to remind you so that when they come calling for…
There has been a flurry of racially insensitive rhetoric swirling around the politisphere. We�ve always known there are racists in the midst, but election time seems…
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