Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Haitians Shun Senate Elections
22 Apr 2009
by Al Jazeera English When Haiti held its first democratic elections in the 1990s after decades of occupation and US sponsored dictatorship, optimistic voters waited all night to cast their ballots…
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Hope For The Hopesick: A Lexicon
22 Apr 2009
by Naomi Klein Righteous language helps us describe the real world in meaningful ways. For many Obama's supporters, the president's determination to keep “looking forward” without prosecuting or…
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Eshu's Blues: First Black President of the American Empire
15 Apr 2009
by michael hureaux perez The name on the door, and the family in the White House has changed. We have a president who speaks in complete, grammatically correct sentences. But with more than…
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Wired Less: Disconnected in Urban America
15 Apr 2009
by InternetForEveryone.org Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and other telco giants have spent mad public relations money spreading the myth that the digital divide is a thing of the past. Some…
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Congress Nibbles on Edges of Wealth Gap
15 Apr 2009
The normal workings of America's version of the “free market “ have held black family wealth to one eleventh that of white families, on the average, and black family wealth has been much harder hit…
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Politics and the Eighth Book of Moses
15 Apr 2009
by John Maxwell The movement to subjugate women, in the name of religion and the family, is on the march everyplace, including the Caribbean, Jamaica's eminent John Maxwell informs us.…
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Public Broadband Maps Must Expose Digital Redlining To End the Digital Divide
08 Apr 2009
A BA Radio Commentary by Bruce Dixon Click the flash player to hear or the mic below to download a broadcast quality MP3 of this BA Radio commentary…
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Fidel Castro on Black Caucus Trip to Cuba
08 Apr 2009
from Prensa Latina The former leader of Cuba, in his new capacity as journalist, reports on this week’s and previous visits from members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Castro…
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In the Era of Obama, Is There a Need for a Black Agenda?
08 Apr 2009
by Dr. Ron Daniels “The fact that America has progressed to the point that a Black family can occupy the White House has not eradicated the myriad maladies of race and class that continue to…
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Writing the Next Chapter on Race: Enforce the Law
08 Apr 2009
by Judith Browne-Dianis The United States could make great progress towards racial equality if the federal government simply enforced the laws that are already on the books. Environmental racism,…