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  • Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PFAW will wage massive national effort to defeat nominee who would dramatically shift balance of Court WASHINGTON - October 31 - President Bush put the demands of his far-right political base above Americans’ constitutional rights and legal protections by nominating federal appeals court Judge Samuel Alito to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, said People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas. “Right-wing leaders vetoed Miers because she failed their (…)

  • The Battle for New Orleans : Only a Real Movement Can Win This War
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
    New Orleans represents a challenge to African Americans, unprecedented since the epic struggles of the Fifties and Sixties. The perverse reality, to which African Americans must rise, is that the man-made disaster in the Gulf provides what may be the last chance to build a real Movement, encompassing the broadest sectors of Black America. Cruel history presents the catastrophe as an unwanted opportunity, a test of Black people’s capacity for the operational (…)

  • The Priest Made Me Gay
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    A New York socialite who claims a priest turned him into a sodomite is suing the Catholic Church for $5 million. J. David Enright IV, 51, says Rev. Joseph Romano molested him as a 7-year-old boy at summer camp, and as a result he was unable to live as a suburban heterosexual.
    "Romano bent my life," Enright told the New York Post. "I believe my life would be very different now. I’d probably be married, living in Greenwich, with four children in boarding school. I had a (…)

  • John Conyers On Rosa Parks - ’She Earned the Title as Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We speak with Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), who worked with Parks for over a decade. Conyers remembers Parks’ life and speaks about the possibility of a state funeral and a national ’Rosa Parks day.’
    Rep. John Conyers, (D-Michigan)
    AMY GOODMAN: Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92. It was 50 years ago this December that she refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s (…)

  • For Blacks, a Dream in Decline
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LOUIS UCHITELLE
    THE Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. set forth the goal. Civil rights and union membership were to be intertwined. The labor movement, Dr. King wrote in 1958, "must concentrate its powerful forces on bringing economic emancipation to white and Negro by organizing them together in social equality."
    That happened in the 1960’s and 1970’s. But then unions lost bargaining power and members. And while labor leaders called attention to the overall decline, few took notice (…)

  • A Sociologist Confronts ’the Messy Stuff’
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
    Troy Duster is emphatic: the genomic revolution is moving way too fast.
    In more than a dozen books and articles, Dr. Duster, immediate past president of the American Sociological Association, urges geneticists to slow down and check their methods as they search for links between genes, disease and race.
    A professor of sociology at New York University, Dr. Duster, 69, wrote "Backdoor to Eugenics" and contributed to "Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind (…)

  • Our Employers, Ourselves
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Eric Hellweg
    IBM once set one of its Linux commercials on a basketball court. But other than that, the worlds of Big Blue and professional basketball have rarely crossed lanes. This month, though, they were linked by what promises to become one of the most volatile workplace issues of the next decade: genetic testing.
    After it was revealed that Chicago Bulls star center Eddie Curry had a heart arrhythmia, the Bulls said he’d have to take a DNA test before the organization would tender (…)

  • Randall Robinson Interview
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amitabh Pal
    Randall Robinson is a disillusioned man. So much so that he decided to leave the United States in 2001 and settle down in St. Kitts, where his wife is from. He has written a book, Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land, explaining the reasons for his relocation. Robinson hasn’t completely quit the United States, though. He still maintains a home in Virginia and comes back often for visits.
    A lifelong activist, Robinson is best known as the (…)

  • Death of America’s pre-eminent playwright
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brenda Payton writes for ANG newspapers.
    IT was probably predictable that the obituaries of August Wilson would describe him as the preeminent African-American playwright. It’s not that it’s an incorrect description, it just isn’t broad enough. Given the scope of his body of work and the remarkable accomplishments of his career, he is arguably the preeminent American playwright.
    Paradoxically, one of his major themes was addressing that discrepancy, making the point eloquently that (…)

  • Sibel Edmonds: Translator caught in web
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Sibel Edmonds was a young girl, her father, a physician in Iran, was asked to falsify an autopsy finding. Angrily, he refused, daring the authorities to retaliate.
    At home, he told his family: "Things like this do not happen in truly democratic civil societies - like America."
    Sibel still clings to her father’s words, but her Kafka-esque encounter with the U.S. government is challenging her faith.
    She wanders a wonderland of classified documents and covert hearings, waiting to see (…)