An Invitation to all of you!

Forgotten Voters Step Forward to Fight Discrimination
Ex-Prisoners Band Together in SF’s New Civil Rights Movement
WHAT: Peace & Justice Community Summit
WHEN: Saturday, October 23, 10am-4pm
WHERE: City of Refuge Community Church,
1025 Howard Street, San Francisco
CONTACT: Linda Evans, All of Us Or None,
510-219-0297
Dorsey Nunn, All of Us Or None,
415-516-9599 Read More...

Tags: Saswat, Racism, Capitalism, USA

NYT has a story on the political bloggers by Matthew Klam. Just for the record, the entire text follows.

Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail:
Nine blocks north of Madison Square Garden, next door to
the Emerging Artists Theater, where posters
advertised ''The Gay Naked Play'' (''Now With More
Nudity''), the bloggers were up and running. It was
Republican National Convention week in New York City, and
they had taken over a performance space called the Tank. A
homeless guy sat at the entrance with a bag of cans at his
feet, a crocheted cap on his head and his chin in his
hand. To reach the Tank, you had to cross a crummy little
courtyard with white plastic patio furniture and half a
motorcycle strung with lights and strewn with flowers,
beneath a plywood sign that said, ''Ronald Reagan Memorial
Fountain.''
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Tags: Saswat, Technology, Media

What happens when Oprah Winfrey declares free Pontiac G6 sedans as free giveaways?
comScore Networks, which tracks site traffic, reported that visits to oprah.com jumped 800 percent from Monday to Tuesday as over 600,000 people logged on after seeing 'Oprah.' Plus, visits to pontiac.com jumped 600 percent in the same period as over 140,000 people viewed the site.

What else happens? Pontiac gets huge advertisement base since the news appears in all national media. The return is much more than the investment of Pontiac.

What else? Oprah is the angel once again, her television program gets ratings, more and more emulate her wealth (of course, what else did you think?).

Last, but certainly not the least. The “free” sedans are not so free after all. Lucio Guerrero in Chicago Sun Times reports that each of the 276 recipients of the sedans will have to cough up over thousands of dollars in taxes. Since Pontiac paid for the local charges, the recipients have to report the cars as income once tax time comes.

Tags: Saswat, Capitalism, Media

The Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington finally saw light. Not just long due, but also long suppressed, the idea is a great relief in its materialized form.

What least can one afford to pay as a tribute to the peoples who were forced to convert to the Jesusland? For peoples who were perished so that the corporate American Dream can be established? A museum?

Well, it appears some talks will surely take place between intersections of minorities in this country. Hopefully it will not be played on the same cards of favoritism that strives to attract attention of the Whites.

Tags: Saswat, Indigenous, USA, Imperialism

Chicago Defender Editorial on why Journalism needs more Palmers and Jarretts for the 21st
century:

In the last four months, the Black journalism world, and
Chicago in particular, lost two esteemed colleagues in
Vernon Jarrett and Lu Palmer. The latter died Sunday night
of pneumonia, and it was cancer that took the life of the
former in May. Read More...

Tags: Saswat, Media, Black Power, Racism, History, USA

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Get On The Bus Oct. 17 For The Million Worker March declaration is here:

The call for a Million Worker March came from one of the most well-known labor organizations in the country, famous for its long history of militancy, boldness and courage in defense of working people—Local 10 of the International Longshore Workers Union in San Francisco. Over the past few months this call has rolled across the country, picking up the support of scores of labor unions, labor activists and leaders including: Read More...

Tags: Saswat, News

Gil Scott-Heron's poem on Peace is a deep resonant voice during times of war. Peace is not just absence of war, but also absence of preparation for war....

Work For Peace---
Introduction:
Back when Eisenhower was the President
Golf courses was where most of his time was spent.
So I never paid much attention to what the President said
Because in general, I believed the General was politically dead,
But he always seemed to know how muscles were going to be

flexed
He kept mumbling something about a military-industrial complex.

The military and the monetary
The military and the monetary
The military and the monetary Read More...

Tags: Saswat, Literature, Black Power, USA

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