This video shows a Demonstration in Philadelphia in the USA for Mumia Abu-Jamal and counter demonstration by bikers.
From British daily The Guardian:
‘I spend my days preparing for life, not for death’
The former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal has spent 25 years on death row in the United States – despite strong evidence that he is innocent. In his first British interview, he talks to Laura Smith about life in solitary, how he has remained politically active, and why the Panthers are still relevant today.
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The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
By Jonathan Kozol
The Shame of the Nation – The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, By Jonathan Kozol
“Segregation is back, and only a writer of Jonathan Kozol’s wisdom and passion can assess its terrible price, one child at a time. It isn’t easy, but before we can craft a solution, we have to feel the shame.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
“Shines a spotlight on poor, minority children, sabotaged and isolated by an educational system tilted to slight them … His outrage ought to infect us.” —Los Angeles Times
Since the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of Black children has reverted to its highest level since 1968. In many inner-city schools, a stick-and-carrot method of behavioral control traditionally used in prisons is now used with students. Meanwhile, as high-stakes testing takes on pathological and punitive dimensions, liberal education has been increasingly replaced by culturally barren and robotic methods of instruction that would be rejected out of hand by schools that serve the mainstream of society.
Filled with the passionate voices of children, principals, and teachers, and some of the most revered leaders in the Black community, The Shame of the Nation directly challenges the chilling practices now being forced upon our urban systems by the Bush administration. In their place, Kozol offers a humane, dramatic challenge to our nation to fulfill at last the promise made some 50 years ago to all our youngest citizens.
The Revolution
Will Not be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Edited By INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence learned the hard way that the revolution would not be funded. They got an email from the Ford Foundation that INCITE! was awarded a $100,000 grant, soon after they received another email from the Ford Foundation that they had reversed their grant decision because of INCITE!’s support for Palestinian liberation.
The chapters in this book tell the history of Foundations, the origins, who really benefits. Where does the money in Foundations come from, who does the money really belongs to? Do Foundations protect the status quo, do they really help those most in need, who gets the grants? What strings are attached?
Section heads are:
1. The Rise of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
2. Non-profits and Global Organizing
3. Rethinking Non-Profits, Reimagining Resistance
“The Revolution Will Not Be Funded gives us valuable insight into what these activists call “the non-profit industrial complex,” an unseen web of money and power that tries to undermine people’s struggles for racial, class, economic, gender and environmental justice. It deserves the closest study.” —Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of We Want Freedom
Paperback, 239pp, index
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