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  • Pictured above:  Jorge Hernadez holds Ernesto Martinez on his shoulders, as they pose for a portrait during an immigration rally in Homestead, Fla. Monday, April 10, 2006. [more]
  • Hundreds of thousands of supporters assembled in cities across the United States Monday for a National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice, urging lawmakers to make it easier for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to live in the country legally.[more] and  [more] and [more]
  • Former FEMA chief Michael Brown said yesterday that "he will not serve as a paid consultant to St. Bernard Parish, a New Orleans suburb hit hard by Hurricane Katrina.
  • ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH [more]
  • Gangster Government: IMPEACH this Motherfucker Now [more]
  • WEAK Democrats Afraid to Impeach Bush Inc. [more]
  • Darfur Two Hundred Thousand People Dead, and Two Million  Displaced. [more]
  • the Shelby County Register of Deeds posted on its Web site a chilling collection of historical documents and sound recordings that provide vivid insight into the horrible events surrounding his murder on April 4, 1968. [more]
  • FBI targets youth facility: Reports of violence at Cook County juvenile center fuel civil rights inquiry [more]
  • According to statistics, one in every six children in America is a victim of poverty. Of those, one in three is a child of color who lives void of quality health care, education and housing [more]
  • 5th Anniversary Of Cincinnati Police-Involved Shooting, Riots. Friday marks the fifth anniversary of another Cincinnati Police-involved shooting that sparked unrest in the city. African American Timothy Thomas was shot to death by then-Cincinnati officer Stephen Roach. Roach is white. The shooting prompted several days of violence and rioting in Cincinnati. [more]
  • Timothy Thomas remembered [more]
  • Activists Protest to mark the birthday of the late farmworker union leader Cesar Chavez and to demand better treatment and pay for the farmworkers who supply McDonald's with produce.  [more]

  • Acquitted 'Riders' officer sues Oakland for $5 million  Hornung's lawsuit claims officers Keith Batt and Steve Hewison, who were rookies at the time, Sgt. Jon Madarang, who worked in internal affairs, lied on the stand in hopes of convicting Hornung and officers Clarence "Chuck" Mabanag and Jude Siapno. [more] "Batt, Hewison and Madarang engaged in intentionally and deliberately making false and misleading statements, destroying or hiding exculpatory evidence, intentionally creating false documentary evidence and then providing further false testimony to cover up the creation of the false documentary evidence," said the suit filed April 3 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

  • NYPD say "Nigger" while arresting Jewish man. Arthur Schick, 75, leveled serious charges against the NYPD - saying he was arrested without cause in heavily Hasidic Borough Park Tuesday night and roughly placed inside an NYPD van by cops who used the N word. "The van had a high step and I asked for help getting into it. Instead, they pushed me down into the van," he said. "And as I was getting pushed into the van, I fell forward."  It was at that moment, Schick charged, that a cop made a shocking statement: "This is the way we treat a n----r."
  • Watching the Detectives: The NYPD wants to take your picture—but beware of turning your lens on the cops [more]
  • Warren cops might want to occasionally beat a white guy. [more]
  • Did 308,000 cancelled Ohio voter registrations put Bush back in the White House? [more]
  • Whitewashed reality TV [more]
  • Migrants Find a Gold Rush in New Orleans; Word spread to Latino laborers as Katrina's floodwaters ebbed: There is work with good money and no questions about papers.
  • US Census Data on Race and Ethnicity [more]
  • Speaking of Racial Profiling: Black Professor Arrested by Cops [more]
  • City officer accused of stealing tire rims [more]

  • Chuck D behind new mobile music effort [more] "To see a black person on TV now is commonplace, you take it for granted," he said. "But do you see yourself? As a black person trying to go to school, trying to get a job and make a difference you don't see that on TV." The draw of money makes it easy for the media and artists to put out stereotypes and derogatory images, he said. Hip-hop once challenged those stereotypes, but money has changed the situation, he added. [more]

  • Sidebar: Prepackaged News Straight From the Source, No Journalism Required [more]
  • Katie Couric: the Pretty Face of Corporate Propaganda CBS is owned by the “entertainment” leviathan Viacom and was previously owned by Westinghouse, manufacturer of military and nuclear hardware. Frank Carlucci of Carlyle Group fame was director of Westinghouse from 1989 until it merged with CBS in 1997. Entertainment and sex appeal are paramount in corporate news and Couric, known for wearing short skirts and showing off her legs, is an ideal choice to feed America its daily dose of transnational corporate and governmental propaganda. [more]
  • Congress Approves Bill To Honor Tuskegee Airmen With Congressional Gold Medal [more]
  • Bill introduced to Congress refers to damage of 'target populations' with climate, weather or ' tectonic system ' exotic weapons [more]
  • A Full-Time Worker Earning Minimum Wage Cannot afford a One-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere in America [more]
  • Good News! The Rich Get Richer: Bullshit Media Lies about the Bush Economy [more]
  •  PRESIDENT'S RUMINATIONS ON THE THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA'S SUPER-SUCCESSFUL FREEDOMIZATIONIZING OF VIETRAQ [more]
  • The Top Ten Whitest Law Schools [more]
  • fagchurch.jpgStoopid Fucking White Man Worried about what Gays are doing [more]