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textBANG4CHANGE 2006 ! by Idriss Stelley Foundation
EVENT / Announcement / Pleas join our website, building momentum for BANG4CHANGE 2006, Ciivil Rights Fest , SAT 2-25-06, in front of SF City Hall !...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:26pm PST
textThe Boondocks is On: Pryor's Comedic Legacy Lives On by New America Media (reposted)
Aaron McGruder’s groundbreaking and controversial animated series The Boondocks has sparked outrage from some African Americans that take issue with the show's use of the N Word. Fans of the show are drawn to the humor that was pioneered by black comics like Richard Pryor. PNS contributor Charles Jones is an editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia (www.youthoutlook.org) a project of Pacific News Service....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:14pm PST
textJohn Brown and Tookie WIlliams: Bard's Call for Abolition by Geof Bard
Ballade of the Abolitionists Dedicated to John Brown, for the Abolition of Slavery, and to Tookie Williams, for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. By Geoffery Bard California, USA December 11, 2005...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 7:53pm PST
textFountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany by Fountainhead
Overview of an international, intercultural group based in Berlin Germany producing: annual film festival, cinema distribution, publications, weekly television program & dance theatre....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 2:23pm PST
textBalboa High School and Lincoln High in the final by Francisco Da Costa
Balboa High School and Lincoln High School reached the finals on Turkey Day and played a good football game. The score was 21-20 in favor of Lincoln High School. There was a very decent turn out at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco to watch a really good game with the High School students, parents, teachers, former students, friends, coaches, principals - all having a good time....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 8:23am PST
imageBay Area Adventure Club
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by ac
People need a lot more meaning and freedom in their lives. More connection, more intrigue, and more adventure. Adventure Club is part of our effort to create more joy and more resistance. Adventure Club may not change the world, but for those who commit to try, it will make their world more interesting, exciting, and engaged....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 12:46pm PST
textTONIGHT! Eye of the Storm Art/Music Event for Racial Justice by Bay Area PoliceWatch
Come celebrate the release of a new recording honoring survivors of Hurricane Katrina and calling for racial justice from Oakland to New Orleans. Enjoy art, music and spoken word....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 12:03pm PST
textCanada v. George W. Bush - Trial of the Millennium by J. Wizard
I again, near the end of your free time here, am asking for Americans to help me protect our freedom as it pertains to the false allegations that have been leveled against myself as a true living god by your seriously criminal demon leader dictator, the truly evil, Mr. bush Jr.....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 7:23pm PST
textBritish Muslim Author's Anti-War Speech in Oakland Cites Bay Area bands as Inspiration!! by Suhayl Saadi
Here is the anti-war acceptance speech sent on CD to PEN Oakland by award-winning, UK-based author, Suhayl Saadi who won a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award on December 2nd. For financial reasons, Saadi was unable to travel to the US himself to collect his prize....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 7:58am PST
imageIsfahan to become cultural capital of Islamic world
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by al-masakin
ISFAHAN, Dec. 13 (IRNA)--Isfahan mayor, Seyed Morteza Saqaiyan-nejad here Tuesday said that on January 1, 2006, the flag-hoisting ceremony marking the official announcement of the city of Isfahan as the cultural capital of the Islamic world will be attended by representatives from 57 Islamic countries....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 7:12pm PST
imagePlutocracy's Tool: Television
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by Charles Sullivan (repost and link)
"Contrary to public opinion, the purpose of commercial television is not to inform the people with information that is relevant to their lives. It is to substitute fantasy for reality, lies for truth; entertainment for knowledge. The programming that most of us watch is not the primary purpose of television. Commercials—capitalism—are the primary reason for the existence of television. Even public television is not immune from heavy-handed manipulation from the Whitehouse and corporation...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 3:04pm PST
textRichard Pryor 1940-2005: Revealed Reality of African-American Experience to Wide Audience by Democracy Now (reposted)
Groundbreaking comedian, Richard Pryor, died in Los Angeles Saturday at the age of 65 of a heart attack. Pryor's body of work set the standard for American comedy while penetrating and revealing the African-American experience to a wide audience. We speak with journalist and author Mel Watkins....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:13am PST
textFountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany by Fountainhead
Overview of an international, intercultural group producing: annual film festival, cinema distribution, weekly television program, publications & dance theatre....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 11:19am PST
textSAVE INCA CULTURAL CENTER TIMISOARA - ROMANIA by anonymous
INCA Center is a non-profit, all-voluntary place dedicated to the alternative culture. The place has hosted in the past 3 and half years over 150 events: concerts, art exhibitions, projections & movie nights, performance, festivals, etc. also for next year already we have planned many workshops, conferences, concerts and others. If city will evict us, and there is huge chance for this to happen, one of the few alternative places in the region will disappear and will leave us with no pl...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 8:59am PST
textBob Avakian on Richard Pryor by duko
Recently I was reading reports of police assaults on Black people and of Black people fighting against the police in Memphis and Miami. This called to mind a story I was told a while back. A rookie cop was riding in his police car with his veteran partner when a report came in that there was a Black man in the vicinity with a gun. As their car screeched around the corner, a young Black man suddenly appeared sprinting up an alley--into a dead end. "Shoot him!", the older cop screamed...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 10:02pm PST
audioFRSC show with Steady D, Con, TA and Yay (audio/mpeg 42.1MB) by Steady D
This is one crazzy show hosted by SteadyD and Ian. Ian talked about meeting John Kerry and then SteadyD took over with his cousin and his crew. Con, TA, and Yay blew the bass out da speakers. This show is crazy, listen up!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 6:24pm PST
imageAmerican Does Us Proud Here and Abroad
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by Rachel Gluck, Air America Phoenix
Utada Hikaru is a name not all Americans are familiar with, but we should be. She is one of the smartest music producers in the game, not to mention a terrific singer with one intelligent husband, Kaz Kiriya, directing her latest video....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 1:42pm PST
audioBill Mandel Loses Show on KPFA (audio/mpeg 6.1MB) by David Grace
Long-time Eastern-European Scholar, Commentator and Educator Expelled by Paid Staff...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 6:14pm PST
textNabolom Art Opening & Film Screening by house of jaguar
Free screening of "We Interrupt This Empire..." plus short films, live music, art, refreshments...etc....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:39pm PST
text'Tis the season: hold a peace vigil at your Congressperson's house by Peacemonger
Before the Iraq war gets any worse--or spreads to other countries--let's take a stand for peace, in the spirit of Cindy Sheehan, in front of our Congresspersons' and Senators' homes throughout the holiday season....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 1:09pm PST
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