Author Archives: Jack Stephens

Happy Birthday Oscar Grant

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Jack Stephens

xMabaitx blogs about race, racial identity, skin color, and Oscar Grant: I have determined that my former desire to ”fit into” a certain racial or ethnic distinction has very little bearing on my own sense of personal self-worth. The greater issue rather is how the white man’s ideas of race and ethnicity consequently force unwanted […] Continue reading →

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With Judges Like These

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Jack Stephens

Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. First read this on the e-mail list serve I’m on for the website Community Labor News. In an article by Mumia Abu-Jamal, he writes: In Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County, there are 9 judges of the Court … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Prisons and Justice and Police | 1 Comment

Rights of Nasty People

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Jack Stephens

Ettina blogs: Minna Mettinen-Kekalainen, a woman with Asperger Syndrome and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, has finally been given the care she needs, after much protest. She is severely disabled and was cut off from home assistance, only managing to stay alive because her friends were willing to feed her (she needs tube-feeding). In protest, she started […] Continue reading →

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Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Jack Stephens

This fantastic documentary (which I can’t speak of highly enough!) is now offered, in full, on YouTube. If your are in a rush just watch the first 2 minutes and 14 seconds to get a feel for it. Through a … Continue reading →

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Lani Silver, Oral Historian, Passes Away

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Jack Stephens

Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. Lani Silver, a native of San Francisco and an anti-racist teacher and activist, who founded the Bay Area Holocuast Oral History Project, passed away, just found out through San Francisco supervisor Eric Mar on his … Continue reading →

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Wow…

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Jack Stephens

A great little didy about the history of the internet in neat little animated form.

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Recent Article: U.S. Media Bias Toward Israel

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Jack Stephens

For anyone who is interested I wrote an article recently in where I interviewed Dr. As’ad AbuKhalil and FAIR representative Peter Hart.  The article was about U.S. media bias on the coverage of Israel.  This is my original article which … Continue reading →

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Cultural Resistance and Revolution in Palestine

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Jack Stephens

In a recent Crossing the Line podcast, Seth Porcello interviewed Juliano Mer–Khamis, a director of the Freedom Theater in the Jenin refugee camp, a theater for children. Mer–Khamis gives us these solemn words of wisdom: The Palestinian people are going … Continue reading →

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Was left to bleed to death

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Jack Stephens

Please take 10 minutes out of your time to watch this short interview clip of Amer Shurrab, who lost two of his brothers in the same day during the recent war on Gaza. I’m not sure why the person who … Continue reading →

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What Does Tyler Perry Really Want?

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Jack Stephens

I enjoy his plays and movies but I’ve always felt the same as Nichole here about his portrayal of women, which is not all that great: There is little to dispute that [Tyler Perry’s] target audience is Black women, so let’s look at the message we’ve received so far from the play. A beautiful, ambitious […] Continue reading →

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