Israel lobby challenged during AIPAC conference
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - A small band of determined women raised their voices against America's most powerful political lobby–the Israel lobby–and they got their point across. When Israeli Pres. Shimon Peres began speaking to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference at the Washington Convention Center May 4 six members of CODEPINK Women for Peace raised banners saying...
Cincinnati’s At Promise Summits
“Incarceration is becoming the new American apartheid and poor children of color are the fodder. It is time to sound a loud alarm about this threat to American unity and community, act to stop the growing criminalization of children at younger and younger ages, and tackle the unjust treatment of minority youths and adults in the juvenile and...
Questions remain after shooting at military center
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - A U.S. Army sergeant, on his third tour of duty in Iraq has been charged in the May 11 killing of five other American service members at a military treatment center near Baghdad. Sgt. John Russell faces fi ve murder counts and one count of aggravated assault. Sgt. Russell may have been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress...
Activists report to community after UN gathering against racism
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The flyer announcing the April 30 forum said it would be a “Report back from the Durban II conference” by the December 12th Movement, but an added and much appreciated ingredient that evening was also the historic significance of where the forum was held. In the 1960s, Nation of Islam Minister Malcolm X and Muhammad Mosque No....
Pharmaceutical companies stand to make profit from ‘swine flu’
(FinalCall.com) - A Boston-based company, Emerging Portfolio Fund Research Global, Inc. (EPFR), a provider of fund flows and asset allocation data to financial institutions around the world, reported on May 1 that health-care and biotechnical companies recorded their first week of stock price increases since February. According to market watchers, the biotech industries stock section was one of the few...
The ‘limitless’ value, beauty of women
By Richard Muhammad Divine essence in women must be respected and developed says Min. Farrakhan CHICAGO, Mosque Maryam (FinalCall.com) - Speaking from the flagship mosque of the Nation of Islam, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan delivered an inspiring, insightful message that urged women to have a greater regard for themselves and their divine nature to help produce the kingdom of...
The Los Angeles Uprisings: 17 years later
CHARLENEM LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Seventeen years ago the streets of Los Angeles erupted in pain, tears and violence after an all-White jury acquitted four White police officers of the brutal beating of Black motorist Rodney King. Analysts believe the causes that undergirded the unrest are a long way from being resolved, though some have been addressed. When Mr. King was...
ACLU sues Mississippi police, school officials
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent ACLU sues Mississippi police and school officials for excessive force WASHINGTON - Call it a replay of the Jena Six case. The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi calls it, “an egregious example of excessive and unwarranted use of force by police against students in a school setting.” The incident–captured on a surveillance videotape–occurred when two Southaven, Mississippi, police...
Leonard Peltier nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
(FinalCall.com) - The North Dakota-based Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee circulated a release on April 28 stating that the imprisoned Native American activist had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for a sixth year. Mr. Peltier was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in 1977 for the shooting of two FBI agents during an altercation on the Pine Ridge...
Friendly criticism and a call for dialogue on U.S.-Africa policy
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Panelists at a recent two-day forum at Brooklyn's Medgar Evers College sponsored by the Boston University African Presidential Archives and Research Center said the Obama administration has been sending “mixed” signals about Africa. Ambassador Patrick R. D. Heyford, director of the Office of the UN Special Adviser on Africa, moderated “The Way Forward: U.S.-Africa Policy in...