Immigration activists organize for May Day
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent On May 1, immigrants reclaimed their voice (FCN, 05-16-2006) Millions More in Los Angeles (FCN, 03-28-2006) Millóns Más en Los Ãngeles (FCN Español, 03-28-2006) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - In the Spring of 2006, millions of immigrant workers, along with their families, waged a campaign for immigration reform that literally halted repressive legislation in its tracks. This year, momentum is building...
Return of sentencing power to federal judges a boost
SB 40 Worsens the Prison Crisis (U.N.I.O.N., 03-2007)Justice Dept. reports alarming incarceration rates: Blacks tripled, Latinos grew tenfold (FCN, 09-03-2003)Black incarceration rates tripled during Clinton era (FCN, 03-06-2001) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Prison activists have marked Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return of sentencing discretion to federal judges a measure of hope in the battle against lengthy, mandatory prison sentences. SB-40,...
Democratic presidential hopefuls say no to FOX News presidential debate
Video Compilation Of Fox Attacks On Black America (Colorofchange.org)Contact The Congressional Black Caucus Institute (CBCI) (CBCInstitute.org)Misreading The Congressional Black Caucus' Fox Deal? (Chicago Defender, 04-18-2007) (FinalCall.com) - Democratic presidential hopefuls, Senators Barack Obama (D-IL), Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and former Senator John Edwards (D-NC), announced Apr. 9 that they would all pull out of the presidential debate scheduled for Sept. 23...
Millions More Movement to the Rescue
When Bryan Muhammad, co-chair of the Ft. Worth Millions More Movement, heard the story of how Shaquanda Cotton, a 14-year-old Black girl in Paris, Texas., was being tried for pushing a teacher's aide while a young White girl had burned down her home and only received probation, he knew the group had to step in. “My friend, Darwin Campbell,...
Homeless women speak out
CHARLENEM Economic hard times for Blacks (FCN, 04-01-2007) LOS ANGELES (FinalCall.com) - Los Angeles is home to some of the world's wealthiest human beings, corporations and organizations, yet underneath its towering skyscrapers and city lights dwell a massive homeless population which includes approximately 3,000 women who sleep on the streets each night. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, there are...
D.C. Residents pool resources and do for self
Housing Market: Boom To Bust To Economic Blueprint (FCN, 04-05-2007)A program for self-development (Honorable Elijah Muhammad, 1965) WASHINGTON, D.C. (FinalCall.com) - When the residents of the 12 unit building at 16th and Monroe Street NW got the letter that the owner was selling the building, they were frightened with the prospects of being homeless. “My family was like, where are...
Neturei Karta synagogue destroyed in ‘suspicious’ fire
, Staff Writer NEW YORK–A synagogue belonging to the Monsey, NY-based Neuturei Karta International, Jews United Against Zionism, a community of Orthodox Jews, was destroyed by fire on the eve of Passover. Fire officials report that no one occupying the three-story building was injured. The senior rabbi and his family that occupied the top floor were not home at the...
The War of Armageddon has begun
ASKIAMStaff Writer The War of Armageddon (FCN/Minister Louis Farrakhan, 04-08-2007) MOSQUE MARYAM (FinalCall.com) - The War of Armageddon has already begun. The hottest part of it is yet to come, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan warned in an Easter Sunday address delivered April 8 and broadcast live via the Internet, to more than 120 Nation of Islam Mosques and Study Groups...
Global climate report bears witness to prophetic warning
ASKIAMStaff Writer WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Drought. Famine. Pestilence. Apocalypse. The extinction of millions of entire species; one-third of known life forms. The unthinkable: Three billion people without adequate water supplies, while melted glaciers and ice sheets will leave other major global regions ravaged by floods, violent storms and storm surges. Not a futuristic science-fiction fantasy. Rather, it is a plague right...
Expelled Black Cherokee descendants fight back
Racism and the Cherokee Nation (FCN, 04-08-2007)The Cherokee Nation pulls Blacks out of tribe–Have we gone backwards? (FCN, 03-21-2007) The Cherokee Nation’s recent vote to revoke tribal citizenship of approximately 2,800 Black Cherokee descendants, or Freedmen, in Oklahoma drew widespread publicity and incited anger, sympathy and curiosity: Why did this happen? How did this happen? What are the...