Category Archive: HUMAN RIGHTS

National Conference of Black Lawyers online petition to Remove Assata Shakur from the Most Wanted Terrorist List

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*Thank you to Álvaro d’Escoto for the petition link. Remove Assata Shakur from the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” List Sign Here >> Related: Assata Shakur Radicalized = Weaponized = Kill at Will Support Assata… Read More

Libyan Rebels and International Criminal Court (ICC) Battle Over Seif al-Islam

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Son and heir-apparent to Gaddafi still held by militias after nearly two years By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° A disagreement between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the current Libyan government has highlighted… Read More

René González Speaks at News Conference for the Cuban Five

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René González speaks via Skype at May 30 press conference in Washington, D.C. WW photo: Berta Joubert-Ceci By Berta Joubert-Ceci René González, the first of the Cuban Five to be released from U.S.… Read More

Lakota to file UN Genocide Charges Against US, South Dakota

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Reblogged from Earth Warriors Rising: Human Rights Abuses on Native Lands By Jeff Armstrong In April, a grassroots movement led by Lakota grandmothers toured the country to build support for a formal complaint… Read More

Oscar López Rivera’s 32 Years of Resistance to Torture

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Reblogged from Earth Warriors Rising: Will President Obama pardon the longest held Independentista? By Hans Bennett (First published by Upside Down World on May 29, 2013. Permission is granted to reprint in full… Read More

The Rape Unheard

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By Gaida Kambon Secretary-General of the African People’s Socialist Party The discussion of rape for African people does not begin where the feminist movement, women’s rights groups or where even scholars choose to… Read More

Black is Back Coalition Storms Harlem in Defense of Assata Shakur!

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InPDUM InPDUM International President, Diop Olugbala On Thursday, May 9, 2013 the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice Peace and Reparations (BIBC) held a demonstration in front of the Harlem State Office… Read More

We Charge Genocide Again! Companion Curriculum for “Operation Ghetto Storm”

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MXGM Download the Fully Illustrated Version of the Report Contact: Kali Akuno 404.567.5938 kaliakuno@mxgm.org For Immediate Release: New Curriculum, We Charge Genocide Again, notes the importance of Operation Ghetto Storm findings for younger… Read More

Latin American Countries Propose IACHR Reforms

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Cancilleres latinoamericanos exigen un cambio de sede para la CIDH Los cancilleres de Ecuador y Bolivia, dieron a conocer un documento con las cinco conclusiones de la reunión llevada a cabo en Bolivia… Read More

Proposals Aimed at Cutting Social Security and Medicaid to Negatively Impact African Americans

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Obama administration set to abolish CPI, Cola and slash medical coverage for poor and elderly By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Massive cuts are being proposed which will impact the way in which Social… Read More

Cuban Five: Gerardo, Antonio and Ramón send messages to René

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René González has been given permission to remain in Cuba! National Committee to Free the Cuban Five May 3, 2013 In a huge development in the case of the Cuban Five, the court… Read More

Did Obama FBI re-image bombers into face of Black woman to counter smiling, white-boy-next-door-look of the Boston bombers?

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By Ezili Dantò HLLN On Thursday, May 2, 2013, Assata Shakur became the first woman added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list. The reward for her capture was doubled to $2 million.… Read More

The Struggle Of African Americans Against Corporate Racism & Oppression In The USA, & The Case Of Assata Shakur

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The Struggle Of African Americans Against Corporate Racism & Oppression In The USA, & The Case Of Assata Shakur With Abayomi Azikiwe & Bernard White Heart Of Africa The Struggle Of African Americans… Read More

Assata Shakur: FBI Declares War on the Black Liberation Movement

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Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In doing so, they have declared open war on the… Read More

What’s Behind the Renewed Attacks on African American Freedom Fighter Assata Shakur?

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Exiled Black Panther Party veteran has lived in Cuba for three decades By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° On the 40th anniversary of the shooting and capture of Assata Shakur, the FBI and the… Read More

Cuba remains committed to advance its national, original, democratic and freely participative socialist development

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Cuba submits report to UN Human Rights Council Granma Internacional The Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry submitted, on April 23, its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to the United Nations Human Rights Council, to be… Read More

Hundreds Gather in Philadelphia to Celebrate Mumia’s 59th Birthday, Launch New Petition

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By Ethan Jury Hundreds of people gathered in Philadelphia on April 24 to celebrate the 59th birthday of the “world’s most famous prisoner,” Mumia Abu Jamal. Events began early in the afternoon with… Read More

Reaction to the World Social Forum in Tunis

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Above photo: Indians at the World Social Forum in Belem Brazil, January 28, 2009, discus the rights of indigenous peoples. Photo by Andre Penner / AP. Wrong Kind of Green By Tomaso Ferando… Read More