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The War Before: Remembering Safiya Bukhari

Born in Harlem, Safiya Bukhari joined the Black Panther Party in 1969. Imprisoned for nine years on a robbery and murder charge, Bukhari was released in 1999 and went on to co-found the New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition and other organizations advocating for the release of political prisoners. She …

The Red Army Faction on the Jeff Farrias Show

Andre Moncourt and J. Smith, co-editors and co-authors of The Red Army Faction A Documentary history Volume 1: Projectiles for the People, were interviewed earlier this week on the Jeff Farrias show about their book, and the RAF and armed struggle in general. You can listen to their interview by …

USSF Panel on the the SF8

A Special broadcast of Hard Knock Radio featuring a panel on the San Francisco 8 – with Cynthia McKinney, Kathleen Cleaver, Soffiyah Elijah and Claude Marks – from the U.S. Social Forum. While there are some funny moments – i.e. Kathleen Cleaver comparing the overthrow of Allende to the “overthrow” …

Criminalization and Violence Against Sex Workers: the Context Behind the Pickton Trial

canada’s disappeared have a gender:pictures of women who have gone missingfrom missingpeople.net On January 26th CKUT’s radio show Off The Hour interviewed Sue Davis of Prostitution Alternatives Counseling and Education Society and Jenn Clamen of the International Union of Sex Workers. Sex trade workers’ struggles against violence and criminalization make …

Opposing the Far-Right in India… in New York City

i just finished listening to this great interview with Biju Mathew, an anti-capitalist and anti-fascist Indian activist living in New York City. Mathew was interviewed by Montreal radical journalist Jaggi Singh about the connection between neo-liberalism, migration and the rise of the Hindu fundamentalist far right within the South Asian …

Buttons, Quirks and Quarks and Women and AIDS

Goddammit it can be difficult to keep up with this blogging thing… Especially as a sense of propriety really makes me feel like i have to mention some things, even things i may have nothing particularly intelligent to say about. And of course, as i may have mentioned earlier, there …