Broken coalition, resistance and dwindling recruitment mark two-year anniversary of U.S. invasion of Iraq
George W. Bush; A dangerous president (FCN, 02-01-2005)Al Jazeera Special Report: Iraq Under Occupation (Al Jazeera)Neo-Cons and the Motives of the Iraq War (Minister Louis Farrakhan, 05-03-2004) NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - Hundreds gathered in Marcus Garvey Park on the morning of March 19 to begin a day of outrage and protest against the two-year war and occupation of Iraq. While listening...
Military recruitment down: Blacks silently protest war
Army recruiters: No Latino left behind (FCN, 11-24-2004)Conscientious objector status 101 (FCN, 07-21-2004)‘Hell no, we won't go!' (FCN/George Curry, 04-05-2005) WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq has had an unintended affect on military recruitment. Two years after the invasion of that country, the number of young American men and women volunteering to serve in the U.S. military is declining,...
Unity: Charged for revolutionary change
RICHMOND, Va. (FinalCall.com) - The electricity in the air at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church Mar. 26 must have been the same charge as when Nat Turner was preaching to our foreparents to rise up and take their freedom from their slavemasters. Nearly 250 residents packed the church pews and lined the walls to participate in a town hall meeting...
Congressional Black Caucus budget wins support
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as the Republican juggernaut continues to roll over all other Democratic opposition in Congress, decisive leadership by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) earned unprecedented support–in defeat–for the CBC budget alternative in a floor-vote March 17. A record number of votes, including bipartisan support, were cast for the CBC effort to “close the disparities that exist...
Atlanta leadership endorses the March
Washington leaders mobilize for March (FCN, 01-26-2005) ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - The Black Mecca of political, spiritual and educational leadership joined other national organizations and local groups around the country by endorsing the 10th anniversary commemoration of the Million Man MarchTM in a weekend of events March 18-21. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan traversed the city speaking to business, civic, clergy...
The heart of his visit
ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - ”It was the heart of my visit to Atlanta,” shared the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, with The Final Call, as he described his March 20 address to Muhammad's Mosque No. 15. In the city to promote the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March and keynote the mass meeting of the NDABA V reparations conference, Minister...
Reparations Movement continues to grow
Reparations Summit - NDABA IV comes to Baltimore (FCN, 11-13-2005)The Movement for Reparations (FCN, 08-16-2002) ATLANTA (FinalCall.com) - The Reparations Movement, spearheaded by Dr. Conrad Worrill, chairman of the National Black United Front, and the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), came to this city March 19 with NDABA V, a South African word meaning “a...
Jackson’s Africa amendment adds $250 million
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - As various budget amendments snaked their way through the complicated legislative process, Congress agreed by voice-vote to include an additional $250 million for Africa in the $82 billion Supplemental Wartime Appropriations Act (HR 1268). The amendment, which was sponsored by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), included $150 million for food aid to the Sudan and increased...
Pentagon workers challenge new personnel system
Steady Drop in Black Army Recruits (Washington Post, 03-09-2005) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as the Pentagon watches Black recruitment into the uniform services decline, morale among civilian employees has been strained by a controversial new personnel system. A coalition of 10 Department of Defense unions even filed suit in federal court in late February to stop the new “National Security...
Police brutality: Alive and well in America
(FinalCall.com) - Juanita Young is legally blind and suffers from asthma. But that did not stop the New York Police Department from arresting her in June 2003, charging her with trespassing, holding her for 35 hours and refusing her medical attention. According to Ms. Young, she was asleep in her bed when officers from the 40th Precinct in the Bronx...