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  • ’60s Freedom Riders celebrated at LMU
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By R. W. Dellinger
    "The greatness of our nation was the persistent, steady struggle of people, many unnoticed and invisible, who laid the foundation by which we live today. And the struggle of the ’50s and ’60s was one of the great movements," declared Rev. James Lawson at a Nov. 11 luncheon hosted by Loyola Marymount University to honor civil rights activists.
    The pastor emeritus of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, a legendary figure in the civil rights movement, reported (…)

  • Overcoming Apartheid
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by JONATHAN KOZOL
    Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. Hypersegregated inner-city schools—in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000—are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
    "At the beginning of the twenty-first century," according to Gary (…)

  • Govt to respect gay marriage ruling
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jenni Evans | Johannesburg, South Africa
    The government has noted a ruling by the Constitutional Court on Thursday that same-sex marriages be allowed and will respect the judgement, spokesperson Joel Netshitenze said.
    "The Department of Home Affairs will assess what practical steps will be needed to give effect to the change in the law and make appropriate recommendations to the minister," he said.
    He also noted that the court gave Parliament 12 months to effect the necessary change (…)

  • Female Africans Take Lead in Prize-Winning Fiction
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane Ciabattari
    African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
    PRINCETON, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)—Who will tell the stories of contemporary Africa?
    A new generation has emerged since Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe in 1958 wrote the first "African" novel, "Things Fall Apart," detailing the destruction of the Igbo culture by (…)

  • Georgia’s Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Legislation
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Julian Bond
    WASHINGTON (NNPA) - What is it with some people?
    Why do they persist in believing racial minorities are inveterate cheaters at the polls? What kind of racist criminal profiling takes place in their minds?
    Now comes Georgia State Rep. Sue Burmesiter (R-Augusta) telling the United States Department of Justice that if Black people in her district "are not paid to vote, they don’t go to the polls."
    She predicted that if a restrictive law she proposed was adopted, fewer (…)

  • The masking of a conservative
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    PRIDE MUST go before he falls. This is why Samuel Alito hopped to liberal burrows on Capitol Hill to proclaim the burial of his conservative ideology. In his 1985 application to a senior post in the Reagan administration, Alito wrote:
    ’’I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an (…)

  • What sort of Frenchmen are they?
    25 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dror Mishani and Aurelia Smotriez
    PARIS - The first thing the French-Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut said to us when we met one evening at Paris’ elegant Le Rostand cafe, where the interior is decorated with Oriental-style pictures and the terrace faces the Luxembourg Gardens, was "I heard that even Haaretz published an article identifying with the riots."
    This remark, uttered with some vehemence, pretty much sums up the feelings of Finkielkraut - one of the most prominent (…)

  • The Champ Meets the Chump
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Zirin
    The presidency of George W. Bush is collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence. The polls speak for themselves—only 35 percent of us approve of his job performance. Fifty-six percent—including one in four Republicans—say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, and more than half believe Bush intentionally misled the country to bring the United States into war. The response from the White House has been grimly predictable: Admit no mistakes and spin, slash or burn (…)

  • Blaming Islam Is Dishonest
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Blaming Islam Is Dishonest Michael Coren November 19, 2005 Last week I wrote that the riots in France were more about the culture of 50 Cent than bin Laden and that to blame the violence solely on Islam was a gross misreading of the situation.
    The neo-con web world had a fit, reminding me that when it comes to abuse and stupidity the right and the left are similarly gifted. In fact, neo-conservatives increasingly resemble the left in their simplistic and formulaic analyses and responses (…)

  • Vine Deloria Jr. passes after a life of seminal work
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jim Adams
    TUCSON, Ariz. - Vine Deloria Jr., the intellectual star of the American Indian renaissance, passed on Nov. 13, after struggling for several weeks with declining health. His immeasurable influence became immediately apparent in an outpouring of tributes from all corners of Indian country.
    ’’I cannot think of any words I could possibly say that even begin to capture the significance of this man and his work among Native people and on our behalf for the past half century,’’ (…)