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A Life Redeemed, A Life Destroyed
FCNNEWSSOURCE LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - The midday Dec. 12 announcement that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied clemency to Stanley “Tookie” Williams, a peace activist, who helped to birth the Crips street gang, drew swift, various reactions including anger, disappointment, despair and distrust by activists, residents, and a host of religious organizations, as well as relentless, enduring hope by many of...
Vaccines: A growing concern
(FinalCall.com) - When Stacey Morgan took her new baby to the pediatrician she joined a growing group of parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated. "I've just heard so many negative things about vaccines that I'm skeptical about their effectiveness," she told The Final Call. "I've done research and the very fact that there's a vaccine injury...
We reject mandatory vaccines! Walk for Freedom in Barbados brings thousands into the streets and echoes through the Caribbean
Thousands took to the streets of Bridgetown inBarbados for a Walk for Freedom and rejection of a coercive campaign to force the island nation’s residents to bow down to mandatory vaccinations or face losing their jobs, and possibly other things, like their children’s access to schools. The Saturday action was organized by a coalition of groups who are opposed to...
Activists say it’s time for America to respond to rights violations
ERICTOUREM -Contributing Writer- U.S. defense on human rights record is historic, but how much impact will review have on justice? ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - At The Final Call press time, an American delegation of 33 members–possibly including United States Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice–were en route to Geneva, Switzerland to appear before the United...
Black police group aims to be ‘Conscience of law enforcement’
By Sharon Gibney MINNEAPOLIS (NNPA)–Can Black officers actually change the way police departments interact with the communities they claim to serve? Members of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) say "yes." Over the past 25 years, members of the organization have developed public policy on community policing issues and piloted a host of innovative training programs and conferences....
Public, elite see U.S. power in decline
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON - For the first time since the end of the Vietnam War, both the U.S. public and the foreign policy elite see Washington as playing a less important and powerful role in the world than it did a decade before, according to the latest quadrennial survey released here by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pew...
National Defense Authorization Act lays foundation for targeting political dissenters, activism
(FinalCall.com) - On January 22, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack H. Obama proudly issued his first three executive orders, one of them, a directive requiring the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison facility to be closed within one year. Nearly three years later, Guantanamo Bay remains open with prisoners being held without trial, and a new law enacted with the stroke...
Supporters of Native activist Leonard Peltier hold White House rally, urging Biden to grant clemency
MINNEAPOLIS—Hundreds of activists and Indigenous leaders rallied outside the White House on Sept. 12 to support Leonard Peltier on the imprisoned activist’s 79th birthday, holding signs and chanting slogans urging President Joe Biden to grant clemency to the Native American leader. Mr. Peltier is serving life in prison for the killing of two FBI agents during a 1975 standoff on...
‘We’ll have to deal with this reality’: Military pilots testify of dangers, fear of UFO threats to America’s national security
WASHINGTON—Several Air Force veterans revealed their fears for America’s security during a recent press conference here at the National Press Club. Their anxiety, kept secret for decades, was driven by the existence of and the threat posed by Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) commonly called UFOs, and threats they experienced during their careers or saw with their own eyes. Some shared...
Plots, Deceptions and Lies of a Wicked Enemy U.S. government conspiracy further exposed amid exoneration of innocent men wrongly convicted in murder of Malcolm X
“… even if it be the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, even though it be in a rock, or in the heaven or in the earth, Allah will bring it forth. Surely Allah is Knower of subtilities, Aware.” —Holy Qur’an 31:16 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a...