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Thanks Kyla! “Across the country, many Jewish girls like her will be studying their Torah portions, struggling to master the plaintive singsong of Hebrew liturgy and trying to decide whether to wear Ann Taylor or a traditional Chinese outfit to the after-
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Thanks Kyla! “American Indians say they are being illegally denied care at taxpayer-funded clinics that have long served all people of native ancestry but recently began excluding members of tribes that lack formal recognition by the U.S. government.”
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Thanks teachergirl! “The book – Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America, written by Elliot Jaspin – argues that AJC editors eviscerated an earlier newspaper series he wrote on racial cleansing in 14 American coun
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Thanks Highjive! “Gordon understood something that NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and numerous others in the organization’s breathtakingly huge 64-member board refuse to face: White racism is not the biggest problem holding back the advancement of people of c
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Thx Kyla! “The San Francisco Police Department has stopped analyzing data collected during routine traffic stops, an exercise meant to prevent racial profiling and to comply with a Police Commission mandate from 2002, according to a newspaper report publi
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Thx teachergirl! “According to her research – and contrary to widely accepted societal beliefs – Asian-Americans are closely related to African- and Latino-Americans in their day-to-day experiences of discrimination. Consequently, their health is threaten
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Thx ananser! “Dove’s appeal to righteous sisterhood is just another flavor of marketing. And it’s not particularly grounded in reality. Are we meant to believe that Unilever, the company that makes Dove, is a force for good?”
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“names such as Julia Roberts and Sean Combs arguably have no place acting in plays…Clearly the decision to cast the former group was based more on the celebs’ speculated drawing power…rather than on their abilities as stage performers”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
lb wrote:
Nothing to do with anything, but damn, damn, damn:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-03-08/news/tohono-o-odham-with-love/full
Posted 09 Mar 2007 at 10:32 am ¶
kim wrote:
lb:
(damn)3 is right.
Posted 09 Mar 2007 at 11:45 am ¶
kim wrote:
Interesting and timely article on NAACP and ousted (okay, resigned) leader, Gordon.
Years ago, true to the vision Gordon had for the strategies and tactics possible for the new era of the NAACP, Sonia Sanchez addressed a group of us young activist artists, and scolded us for trying to co-opt the language, attitudes and processes for voice and visibility in the fight against oppression and disfranchisement, in the same manner as she (Sanchez) and her generation.
A new era, a new era of struggle, with new tactics, new vision. Be who you are, and understand that you will displease those who came before you, you will challenge us, and change is uncomfortable. But this struggle, at this time, is yours.
Gordon may yet sound a very public deathknell or warning bell for the mothership.
Posted 09 Mar 2007 at 5:53 pm ¶