Racism

During the spring legislative session, three bills were passed which support immigrant communities and a set of deeply problematic bills failed to pass. Bold text from the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota's update; additional information from Indymedia:

Cross post from Examiner.com. 

Video, Our World In Depth MOVE: Ramona Africa (part 1) on May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia police department massacred 11 members of Ramona Africa’s family, including 5 children, by dropping a bomb on their home. Ramona was the sole adult survivor of the incident. Ramona speaks of the MOVE organization, the legal system and the prison industrial complex. filmed at Hamline University in April.

In the time of Moses, Egypt was a dictatorship ruled by an absolute ruler: The Pharaoh.  Over the course of time, before the time of Moses, many tribes had been drawn to Egypt.  It was a thriving Kingdom.  Like the Egyptians themselves, many of those who came to settle in Egypt became slaves.  Slave or not, all were subject to the Pharaoh.  It was the Pharaoh who made the laws.

The Fox News patriots are angry. They say they are upset about rising taxes, growing government control of the economy, and stimulus plans ostensibly designed to revive an economy wrecked by Fox News styled capitalism. I'm not a proponent of Obama's approach to the economic collapse. As far as I'm concerned, Obama is just Bush II. He's the good-cop in the Bush bad-cop/good-cop fascist takeover of the United States. Nevertheless, I can't help but to notice the hypocrisy of these arm-chair patriots who are now planning on getting off of their over-sized asses and onto their feet.

Pennsylvania teachers' union ads and other ads have sparked the thought that racism is a tool used by
war profiteers and unionbusters to divide the labor movement.

The McCain campaign this year has rivaled G H W Bush's Willie Horton ads, produced with the
help of Roger Ailes, news director of Rupert Murdoch's Fox.
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With pictures McCain's campaign
has focused on Raines as an African American
but not the many white profiteers of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac.
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McCain's campaign has in hundeds of ways tried to suppress the black vote..

DNC Protest, Split, and the Principled Stand of Cynthia McKinney

By Steven Argue

Protest plans have been in the works against the Democratic National Convention (DNC) for some time now, with organizers opposing the Democrat Party’s policies of war and occupation, backing of continued corporate policies that cause global warming, and their attacks on immigrants.