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Bill Quigley
The Importance of Election Day 2008
29 Oct 2008
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Shannon Prince vs. Tim Wise: Rebuttal and Response
29 Oct 2008
Normal 0 Anti-racist writer and activist Tim Wise responded to last week's harsh critique from Shannon Joyce Prince, a frequent contributor to BAR. Ms. Prince accused Mr. Wise of "intolerably ugly hatefulness" in his treatment of "poor and/or religious and/or rural white people," whom Wise "…
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Support Obama, Vote McKinney? Not a contradiction.
29 Oct 2008
Normal 0 by Amee Chew "There is not a contradiction between supporting Obama's victory over McCain, and spreading the word on [Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia] McKinney." So says the author Amee Chew, who thinks it's quite alright to "campaign for Obama in key swing states…
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Somalia After the Ethiopian Occupation
29 Oct 2008
Normal 0 by Abukar Arman All signs point to Ethiopia soon ending its nearly two-year occupation of Somalia, a U.S.-instigated aggression that led to "Africa's worst humanitarian crisis." Once the Ethiopians are gone, the author believes it is inevitable that Islamist forces will be part of the…
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60 Years Ago: The System Is Still the Crisis
29 Oct 2008
Normal 0 by Brother Bede Vincent Six decades ago, the United Nations adopted its Declaration of Universal Human Rights, a watershed moment in the evolution of civilization. Today, every carefully delineated human right is under assault by militarism and corporate barbarism. Bullies rule…
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Northcom, Africom and Other Threats
29 Oct 2008
Normal 0 by Chioma Oruh The U.S. military constantly expands in size, budget and mission. Two new U.S. military "commands" have recently been activated or augmented, with ominous implications for global peace and domestic civil liberties. Africom now casts a shadow over the last continent for…
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Racketeering Laws Still Threaten Worker Speech Rights
05 Nov 2008
Normal 0 A recent settlement between Smithfield ham producers and the union leaves a question unanswered: can RICO racketeering laws be used to prevent publicity campaigns against anti-union companies? To hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the flash player below. {mp3}…
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Dear “Brother President”: Embrace Liberation Theology
12 Nov 2008
Normal 0 by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr. The author congratulates the president-elect on his having run a "great...eloquent, dignified, and clean race," but then admonishes: "You blew a tremendous teaching opportunity in teaching America about Liberation Theology when you put some distance…
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Here's How It Works. Or Doesn't. You Donate, BAR Survives. You Don't and We Won't
21 Nov 2008
Back in the fall we arranged a deal with a progressive ad broker, which gets us less than a penny per visitor. That's better than nothing, but it is only a fraction of what Black Agenda Report needs to keep the content and level of consistent quality you see here coming. We need to…
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African Americans, Peace and the Plight of Palestinians
26 Nov 2008
Normal 0 by Cynthia McKinney The former congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate charges that "Israel's lockdown of Gaza is keeping food, fuel, and medicine from civilians." But that's just the most recent atrocity in a human rights catastrophe that began 60 years ago, in…