Marvin X speaks on The History of the Black Arts Movement, Yakety-Yak Radio, Laney College

Marvin X interviewed by Chris Stroffolino, reads his poetry, some of Baraka's, talks about the founding of the Black Arts Movement, introducing Eldridge Cleaver to Bobby Seale, and the forthcoming Oakland Black Arts District on 14th St. http://www.9thfloorradio.com/…/1/22/yakety-yak-with-marvin-x

 Marvin X sporting Borsalino Fedora

photo Kamau Amen Ra

Black Bird Press News & Review: BAM update: San Quentin Prison Art arrives at Laney College for Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration, Feb. 7

Black Bird Press News & Review: BAM update: San Quentin Prison Art arrives at Laney College for Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration, Feb. 7

New Poem by Marvin X: Abortion

Abortion

Men need to stay out of women's pussy

unless invited

but you still can't own it boss it control it

in that sick patriarchal mentality

makes you want to beat it kill it then say you love it so much

just shut up unless invited

don't say nothing bout her bizness

you don't bleed five days a month motherfucker 

you can't bleed for five minutes sucker

control yo shit and shut up

get out the women's rest room pervert

the men's room is over there see the sign

why you put yo penis in her pussy if you know how she is

now you coming after the fact with some man shit

just shut the fuck up

all you want to do is raise the baby so he/she can be a killer in your eternal wars for white supremacy

don't kill the baby now, let it grow up so it can die in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia for the 1% Club who supply guns to both sides just to make a dollar, ain't no ideology except money, greed lust lechery

white day is done dude get over it

don't you see all your guns ain't shit

yo drones planes bombs missles

ain't won shit since Viet Nam

Korean War still goin on I hear

so drink yo beer Billy Bob

stay out of other people's bizness

unless invited.

--Marvin X

1/23/15

Black Arts Movement West at Laney College, Saturday, February 7, all day, free/donations accepted

BAM update: San Quentin Prison Art arrives at Laney College for Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration, Feb. 7

Left to Right: Carol Newborg of the William James Prison Art Project, Black Arts Movement co-founder, poet/playwright Marvin X and Dr. Leslee Stradford, Laney College Professor of Art and curator of the exhibit produced by the BAM/Post News Group Isaiah 61 Art and Literature Project.
photo Nicole

Cornel West in Oakland, Jan. 31, First Congregational Church, 7:30

 

Cornel West supports Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour. Save the date: Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration, Saturday, Feb. 7, 10AM thru 8pm, Laney College.

GAME by Augusta Lee Collins

Augusta Lee Collins will perform at the Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration at Laney College, Feb. 7, 2015, 10am thru 8pm Free Admission/donations accepted

Marvin X's fable of the Black Bird

The Black Bird—A Fable By 

Marvin X

1968

The cage door was always open, but the little bird wouldn't come out. He loved the cage, he had been in it so long. Other birds would fly into the white house and beg the little bird to come out, but he wouldn't. Sad, the other birds would fly away home to paradise, their hearts white with anger and sorrow for their lost brother who loved the cage. "He is so hard-headed, "the other birds said on their way home, "but we will get him out, we will get him out...." He was a smart bird. Nobody could tell him anything—except his master.

He could sing too. When the master sang, the little bird sang. He knew all of the master's songs by heart. He didn't like to sing bird songs. From all around, people came to see him do tricks. The little bird knew a lot of tricks the master had trained him to do when visitors came to the white house. He was a good house pet. The little bird was so good his master always left his cage door open; he knew the little bird had forgotten what freedom was. "Come, fly away to freedom with us," the other birds would say. But the little bird didn't want to go for self!  "I like being in a cage," he said. "You birds are the crazy ones—get away from me!!!"

For days and days, the black bird would sit in the cage looking at himself in the mirror. "He is such a beautiful black bird," all the visitors said. "Yes," the master said, "I have a good bird." To himself, the master said, "This little black fool has made me rich doing tricks and he's too dumb to fly away to freedom—what a stupid bird!"

The master would feed the bird crumbs from his table. The little bird loved the crumbs so much he wouldn't eat anything else, not even when the other birds sneaked into the master's house and offered the little bird some righteous soulfood.

One day the master's house caught on fire. Nobody knew how the fire started, not even the little black bird. The master fought hard to put the fire out, but there were too many flames, so he ran outside, leaving the little black bird behind. The flames grew bigger and bigger, but the little black bird just sat in his cage. Maybe he was waiting for his master to return....

Then, suddenly, a friendly bird flew into the burning white house, "Black bird!" he yelled, "don't you know the house is on fire??? Hurry—come fly away with me!" "But I love my cage," the black bird cried, "I want to stay!"

"You want to burn," said the friendly bird. The friendly bird went into the cage, grabbed the black bird and flew away from the burning house. "Bye, master," the black bird yelled as he passed his master who was crying in the yard. "Bye, master," the little bird called out again—he was on his way home.

from The Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables, by Marvin X, Black Bird Press, Berkeley.

(c)1968, 2007 

The Black Bird is Marvin X's classic fable written in 1968. Many children were taught this story by conscious parents, including the parents of  journalist Wanda Sabir of the San Francisco Bayview newspaper.

Marvin X speaks at the Black Caucus of California Community Colleges Conference, Merritt College

Marvin X will speak on the Origins of the Black Arts Movement at the BCCCC Conference, February 13-15, 2015, Merritt College, Oakland. 

BAM bandleader/poet Marvin X performing with David Murray, Earl Davis and the BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra at the Malcolm X Jazz/Art Festival, May 17, 2014. On February 6, Marvin X will read at San Francisco City Hall's Black History Event. Feb. 7, BAM will celebrate its 50th Anniversary at Laney College. Call 510-200-4164 for more information.

Linguist Chomsky on Obama's Drone Program: The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times!

Published on

Monday, January 19, 2015

by

Common Dreams

Noam Chomsky: Obama's Drone Program 'The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times'

Famed linguist takes aim at western hypocrisy on terrorism.

by

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Noam Chomsky speaking in May, 2014.  (Photo:  Chatham House/fickr/cc)

World-renowned linguist and scholar Noam Chomsky has criticized what he sees as Western hypocrisy following the recent terror attacks in Paris and the idea that there are two kinds of terrorism: "theirs versus ours."
In an op-ed published Monday at CNN.com, Chomsky notes how the deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a supermarket last week sparked millions to demonstrate under the banner "I am Charlie" and prompted inquiries "into the roots of these shocking assaults in Islamic culture and exploring ways to counter the murderous wave of Islamic terrorism without sacrificing our values."

No such inquiry into western culture and Christianity came from Anders Breivik's 2011 attack in Norway that killed scores of people.

Nor did NATO's 1999 missile strike on Serbian state television headquarters that killed 16 journalists spark "Je Suis Charlie"-like demonstrations. In fact, Chomsky writes, that attack was lauded by U.S. officials.

That civil rights lawyer Floyd Abrams described the Charlie Hebdo attack as "the most threatening assault on journalism in living memory," is not surprising, Chomsky writes, when one understands "'living memory,' a category carefully constructed to include Their crimes against us while scrupulously excluding Our crimes against them—the latter not crimes but noble defense of the highest values, sometimes inadvertently flawed."

Other omissions of attacks on journalists noted by Chomsky: Israel's assault on Gaza this summer whose casualties included many journalists, and the dozens of journalists in Honduras that have been killed since the coup in 2009.

Offering further proof of what he describes as western hypocrisy towards terrorism, Chomsky takes at aim at Obama's drone program, which he describes as "the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times."

It "target[s] people suspected of perhaps intending to harm us some day, and any unfortunates who happen to be nearby," he writes.

Dr. Julia Hare tells it how it is...

Our
thoughts go out to Julia and Nathan Hare tonight, my adopted aunt and
uncle; far right, my middle daughter, Attorney Amira Jackmon. Dr. Nathan
Hare is the father of Black and Ethnic Studies; he is founding
publisher of the Black Scholar Magazine and a clinical psychologist in
San Francisco. He will participate in the Black Arts Movement 50th
Anniversary Celebration at Oakland's Laney College, Feb. 7, 2015. Dr.
Nathan Hare has doctorates in sociology and clinical psychology. Along
with Suzzette Celeste, MSW, he will facilitate the mental wellness peer
group: How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy, based on
the manual by Marvin X, aka Dr. M. Dr. Julia Hare will not be able to
attend due to health reasons.

MLK, Jr. Day in San Francisco at Yerba Buena Center

2015 MLK Jr. Celebration & Free Museum Day | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Monday, January 19, 2015 - All Day | Cost: FREE
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA

SoMaSan Francisco

Every year on the third Monday in January, over 15,000 attendees come to San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Gardens to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.

2015 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration
Monday, January 19, 2015 | 11 am to 5 pm
YBCA, 701 Mission St., San Francisco
FREE
The 2015 celebration will host events for all ages including:

• The Annual MLK March
• Commemorative programs and conversations with civil rights luminaries and national personalities
• Inaugural 2015 Black Comix Arts Festival
• 2015 MLK Health and Wellness Festival (held in the Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Doors open at 11 am)
• 2015 Liberation Film Festival Screenings
• 2015 Children’s Discovery Hunt

2015 Black Comix Arts Festival
This is the inaugural year for the Black Comix Arts Festival at MLK2015. BCAF’s mission is to celebrate the creativity and subjectivity of African Americans in the comic arts and popular visual culture, and it includes a grand exposition, kids activities, special guest artist presentations, a film screening, cosplay events and much more.
BCAF begins on Sunday, January 18 at 2 pm at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Library and continues on Monday, January 19, with screenings beginning at 10 am and the BCAF Expo at noon at City View at Metreon.
2015 MLK Jr. Conversations | 11 am start
All conversations are free, with limited seating.
The 2015 MLK Conversations are scheduled to feature reflections from civic and political luminaries and conversations with noted authors, film makers, and commentators. This year features a great schedule of conversations for celebrants.

2015 Liberation Film Festival | 10 am to 6 pm
All screenings are free, with limited theater seating on a first-come first-serve basis.
2015 marks the fourth annual Liberation Film Festival (LFF) and will feature human interest and civil rights documentaries and conversations. LFF runs is scheduled for screening in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater and Screening Room, the Freedom Theater at the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Creativity Theater. LFF is dedicated to bringing short-format cinema and human interest documentaries to the public through innovative programs designed to engage new and diverse audiences.

Marvin X and special assistant Samantha Akwei at MLK, Jr. b day in SF. She is a Spelman graduate and poet who grew up in Harlem. Ms Akwei, part Ghanaian, she works in Oakland. 
photo South Park Kenny Johnson

Black Bird Press News & Review: Race in America--the Grand Denial!

Black Bird Press News & Review: Race in America--the Grand Denial!

BAM Arkestra and Poet's Choir Member please know the lyrics and chorus to Space is the place by Sun Ra

 The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra will perform Sun Ra's Space is the Place at Laney College Theatre, February 7, 2015, a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of BAM

Space is the Place by Sun Ra

And when you kiss your other lover I will try to understand and just because you're loving him it doesn't mean you don't love me do what you want, be what you want to be Space is the place where I will go when I'm all alone Nobody calls me on the phone and I feel alone Meditating in the zone, all alone Space is the place where I will go And just because you kiss your Brother It doesn't mean to say you're gay And just because you're loving him it doesn't mean you don't love me Do what you want, be what you want to be CHORUS Space is the place, in your face Space is the place

Dr. Leonard Jeffries earth day celebration in Harlem today

The Black Arts Movement Celebrating Amiri Baraka

BAM poet Marvin X will perform with the BAM Arkestra and Poet's Choir on Feb 7 at Oakand's Laney College in the day long event celebrating the 50th anniversary of BAM. Oakland's new Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Council President Lynette McElhaney will participate. Dr. Nathan Hare will facilitate the How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy Peer Group, along with Suzzette Celeste, MSW. The Physical Wellness Team from HP/Bay View WMCA will conduct a Wellness Boot Camp. Musicians performing include violinist Tarika Lewis, Harpist Destiny, percussionists Tacuma King and John Santos, trumpet master Earl Davis, pianist Muzuki Roberson, vocalists Mechelle LaChaux, Rasheedah Sabreen Shakir, poets Avotcja, Genny Lim, Kalamu Chache', Likiba Pitmann, Tureada Mikell, PhavioaKujichagulia, Paradise The Poet, Marvin X, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Javier Reyes and Hip Hop Poets. The event will exhibit the works of visual artists from San Quentin Prison, along with painters Emory Douglas, Renaldo Ricketts, Duane Deterville, Malik Seneferu, Refa One, Claude Clark; the Black Panther Archives of Billy X. Jennings: the archives of Dr. Nathan Hare and Marvin X. A panel on BAM and Black Women Writers facilitated by Elaine Brown; BAM/Black Power Babies, a panel moderated by Davey D, and more, including music by Fantastic Negrito. The evening includes a performance of Marvin X's BAM classic play Flowers for the Trashman. In the 60s. the Oakland Police Department threatened Black Arts West Theatre with arrest if they performed at Laney College. Two young males in the play go to jail for jaywalking (Hands Up, Don't Shoot). They play is produced and directed by Dr. Ayodele Nzinga who was a student of Marvin X when he taught theatre at Laney College, 1981. As a student she helped direct his play In the Name of Love, a Laney College production. Years later she directed his docudrama One Day in the Life, about his life on Crack, including a scene of his last meeting with Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton in a West Oakland Crack House. Ishmael Reed says, "Marvin X's One Day in the Life is the most powerful drama I've seen."

BAM Tasks at Laney

BAM Tasks for Laney College

1. Visual artists exhibit, team leader Dr. Leslee Stradford
2. Dramatic performance, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga
3. Wellness, Empress Diamond, Suzzette Celeste, Dr. Nathan Hare, Michael Bennett
4. BAM and Women writers, Elaine Brown, moderator
5. Open Mike, MC Aries Jordan
6. Music, Tarika Lewis
7. Poet's Choir, Mechelle LaChaux
8. Donations, Mrs. and Mr. Carolyn and Leon Teasley
9. Reception, host, Paul Cobb
10. Food, Pat Brown
11. Reception Welcome, Laney President
12. Assistant to Producer, Samantha
13. Volunteer leader, Delores Nochi
14. Reception music, Fantastic Negro, Earl Davis
15. Sound and lights, Bud
16. Set Design
17. Program
18. Vendor tables
19. Security: Che'
20.  Archives of Dr. Nathan Hare and Marvin X
21. Book salves/givieaway
22. Children's Story house
23. Banners, Muhammad Al Kareem
24. Clean up: all
25. Transportation
26. Stage manager
27. ushers
28. Words of inspiration: Suzzette Celeste
29. Proclamation: Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland
30. On the Black Arts District, Lynette McElhaney, President, Oakland City Council
31. Video/photographers, Doug Guy, Khalid Wajeeb, Kamau Amen Ra, Malika Kambon, Gene Hazzard, Adam Turner, Ken Johnson
32. Cloth for costumes for Poet's Choir and Arkestra
33. lodging for guests and seniors
34. Cards for everyone willing to pass out to promote event.
35. If you are willing to do something to make this event a success, hit me: 510-200-4164. jmarvinx@yahoo.com. Share articles about BAM on www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com with your friends.

Houston, Texas: Join SHAPE Community Center

JOIN SHAPE Community Center and Operation Outreach—OG1 Saturday, January 17, 2015 9:45 am—1:45 pm 3815 Live Oak • Houston, Texas 77004 Powerful Documentary: Children’s Freedom Fighters Topics: Learning The Importance Of Self Awareness Facing Reality • Overcoming Adversity Presentations by:  Reginald Gordon—OGI, Operation Outreach BaBatunbe—Elder, Reggie’s Mentor Deloyd T. Parker, Jr.—Activist 50 Years, Exe. Director SHAPE Community Center Marc Bazaldua—Book Author “Thank Prison” Preacher Poet, Black Male Experience Reggie Johnson—3 Time World Boxing Champ Omowale Luthuli-Allen—Activist 47 Years Lunch Will Be Served For More Information Please Call Reginald Gordon 832-657-2513

NIKKI GIOVANNI DONATES $100.00 TO BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AT LANEY COLLEGE, FEB 7 ALL DAY FREE

Paul Cobb donated $100.00 for the BAM Fest. He suggests 100 people donate between $100.00 and $500.00 for BAM so we can do for self. He will put the pic of all who donate in the Oakland Post. We are looking for 99 people of good will who believe in BAM. FYI, Paul Cobb is a Garveyite, his father and grandfather were Garveyites. I am a Garveyite! As they say in Houston, TX, "You better ax somebody!"


If you are willing to donate any amount, please call Marvin X, 510-200-4164. BAM must be a community supported project. The original Black Arts Repertory Theatre failed in Harlem when grant funds were cut off. BAM must be independent although we will accept funds but will not compromise our revolutionary values and goals, the freedom of our people. 

Thank you for your $100.00: Paul Cobb, Elnora T. Webb, Delores Nochi, Leon and Carolyn Teasley, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Emanuel and Doris Easley, Nikki Giovanni.
Sincerely,
Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour

 

Graphics by BAM poet Kalamu Chache'

Nikki's BAM Classic: Nikki-Rosa

By Nikki Giovanni

childhood remembrances are always a drag   

if you’re Black

you always remember things like living in Woodlawn   

with no inside toilet

and if you become famous or something

they never talk about how happy you were to have   

your mother

all to yourself and

how good the water felt when you got your bath   

from one of those

big tubs that folk in chicago barbecue in   

and somehow when you talk about home   

it never gets across how much you

understood their feelings

as the whole family attended meetings about Hollydale

and even though you remember

your biographers never understand

your father’s pain as he sells his stock   

and another dream goes

And though you’re poor it isn’t poverty that

concerns you

and though they fought a lot

it isn’t your father’s drinking that makes any difference   

but only that everybody is together and you

and your sister have happy birthdays and very good   

Christmases

and I really hope no white person ever has cause   

to write about me

because they never understand

Black love is Black wealth and they’ll

probably talk about my hard childhood

and never understand that

all the while I was quite happy

Nikki Giovanni, “Nikki-Rosa” from Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment. Copyright © 1968, 1970 by Nikki Giovanni. Used with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers.


Source: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (2003)

 REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVISTS ANGELA DAVIS, MARVIN X AND SONIA SANCHEZ

 

BAM Poet Nikki Giovanni sent a $100.00 donation to help the Black Arts Movement Celebration at Oakland's Laney College, February 7, 2015. Marvin X wants to produce a concert at the Paramount Theatre featuring Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubutiu, Askia Toure, Danny Glover, Marvin X and the Last Poets. It will be a benefit for the Black Arts Movement 27 City Tour. Nikki says her first published poem appeared in the West Coast Bible of BAM, The Journal of Black Poetry, published by Jose Goncalves. Other key BAM journals were published in the Bay Area: Black Dialogue, Soulbook and the Black Scholar Magazine. 510-200-4164;EMAIL: jmarvinx@yahoo.com.

[TheBlackList] FW: Pambazuka News 709: Charlie Hebdo and the hypocrisy of selective rage

 

PAMBAZUKA NEWS 709: CHARLIE HEBDO AND THE HYPOCRISY OF SELECTIVE RAGE

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CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements


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1 Features< br>'FREE SPEECH' HYPOCRISY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE ATTACK ON CHARLIE HEBDO
David North

How have the great capitalist democracies demonstrated their commitment to free speech? The US military has killed journalists in the Middle East. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still being pursued... And are Charlie Hebdo's crude and vulgar cartoons really about free speech?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93702
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CHARLIE HEBDO: SOME TOUGH QUANDARIES
Boaventura de Sousa Santos

The absolute, unconditional revulsion experienced by Europeans in the face of these deaths should make us wonder why they do not feel the same kind of revulsion in the face of a similar, if not much higher, number of innocent deaths caused by conflicts that, at bottom, may have something to do with the Charlie Hebdo tragedy.
http://www .pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93711
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PARIS ATTACKS: LET'S TALK ABOUT THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Hamza Hamouchene

How can one pretend to fight against terrorism while continuing to hold strong ties with nations that sponsor different Jihadist groups, and that export a reactionary and obscurantist ideology? Different fundamentalist groups have been backed, trained and financed by the West (including France) for decades.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93714
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JE SUIS BAGA!
Ian Taylor

Why is Abuja not 'the capital of the world' today? Why is it that African leaders will fly to Paris to express camaraderie and unity after seventeen Europeans are murdered, but are entirely absent if and when 2,000 Africans are butchered?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93717
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I AM PROFOUNDLY BAGA!
Carlos Sanvee

Where are the marches in Africa for the Baga massacre, where 2,000 mainly women, children and the elderly were killed by Boko Haram? Where are the public condemnations and editorials of outrage for Baga?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93713
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THE CHARLIE HEBDO WHITE POWER RALLY IN PARIS
A celebration of Western hypocrisy
Ajamu Baraka

"Je Suis Charlie" has become a sound bite to justify the erasure of non-Europeans, and for ignoring the sentiments, values and views of the racialized "other." In short, Je Suis Charlie has become an arrogant rallying cry for white supremacy that was echoed at the white power march on Sunday in Paris and in the popularity of the new issue of Charlie Hebdo.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/fe atures/93715
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CHARLIE HEBDO: "JESUIS WHITE PEOPLE"
Margaret Kimberley

Murder is wrong when committed by individual gunmen with grudges and it is still wrong when it comes from a drone strike. A unity march should denounce human rights abuses, of which warfare is the worst.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93720
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CHARLIE HEBDO: UNENDING MUSLIM ANGER AT THE WEST
Abdulrazaq Magaji

In the wake of the attacks on Paris, hypocrisy has won and the world is basking in a warped victory. Bigots have been celebrated and their right to offend defended, without any critical view of the excesses of Charlie Hebdo magazine. It is such attitudes that fuel Muslim anger.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93705
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PARIS TERROR CAN BE TRACED BACK TO ALG ERIA IN 1954
Algeria is the post-colonial wound that still bleeds in France
Robert Fisk

Perhaps five million of France's six-and-half million Muslims are Algerian. Most are poor, regarding themselves as second-class citizens in the land of equality. There is a critical historical context to this and the Paris attack that needs to be appreciated.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93706
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THE FUNNIES
Shailja Patel

Rape cartoons are funny if it's inconceivable to you that you could ever be raped. If you live in a bubble of gender privilege that insulates you from all consequences of rape culture.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93716
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CENSORS MARCH FOR FREE EXPRESSION
PEN International

In the wake of the brutal murders of journalists at Charlie Hebdo, PE N calls on Governments to implement their commitments to free expression and to desist from further curtailing free expression through the expansion of surveillance.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93710
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SOUTH AFRICA: ISLAMIC UNITY CONVENTION`S COMMENT ON FRENCH TERROR ATTACKS
Islamic Unity Convention

Muslims are almost always expected to apologise for any terror attacks in the name of their religion. How can this be justified? On the other hand, there is no global outrage whenever people are killed and maimed in senseless wars waged by Western powers. Why?
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93708
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YES, NIGERIA NEEDS THE SAME SUPPORT AS FRANCE
Frank Lekaba

The Catholic Archbishop of Jos Ignatius Kaigama has raise a timely and profound issue: There should be globa l mobilisation not just when terrorism rears its ugly head in Europe but also when Africans fall victim in their homelands.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/93718
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2 Announcements
AFRICAN JOURNALIST STUDY PROGRAMME: WORKSHOP IN NAIROBI 2015
A call for applications

The Fahamu Emerging Powers in Africa project will be conducting a three-day Journalist capacity building workshop in Nairobi. The workshop seeks to strengthen the voice of African media on investigating and reporting the impact that emerging actors (including China, India, Brazil, South Korea and Turkey) have on Africa's external engagements and development landscape.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/announce/93721
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CALL FOR APPLICATION AS RESEA RCHER/RESEARCH TEAM
Monitoring of Compliance and Implementation of African Union Policy Standards and Legal Instruments by Kenya

Fahamu, on behalf of the SOTU coalition, is seeking to engage a consultant researcher or team of researchers to conduct an assessment in Kenya to determine the level of compliance with and implementation of key AU legal instruments and policy standards and the impact of their implementation on citizens' quality of life.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/announce/93722
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Christian Terrorism

Ever heard of WWI, WWII, WWIII, yeah, the eternal war on terrorism good for business as usual
Ask Africans was the Good Ship Jesus a nice ride to Mississippi,
Jamaica, Brazil, Cuba
How did Mali music turn into Blues in the Mississippi Delta
Ever heard of the Cross & Lynching Tree
Billi called it Strange Fruit nothin' to eat
Native Americans just love the teachings of Jesus
the small pox syphilis alcoholism wife beating
oh how we love Jesus in the concentration camps
called reservations
Now wasn't Hitler a Christian pure Christian 100%
Wasn't the KKK Christian burning crosses in the name of Jesus
the Blue eyed blond hanging on the cross looking like a hippie
How did blue eyed blonds get to Palestine, Jerusalem
was it on the Ra boat did they come from the river Hapi
Christians sliced Africa at the Berlin Conference
just split the pie Germany took a piece, France, England
Holland, Spain, took Arabia too, Egypt, Iran
did they practice human rights
administer justice kind to women
europeans cry bout Muuuuuuuuuuslims in their midst
how long did they stay in Muuuuuuuuuuuuuslim lands
did they treat Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuslims with tender loving kindness
did they not hang them, beat them, cut off arms legs lips hands
these Christian saviors of the savages saved them from nakedness
saved them from no heart attacks no high blood pressure no AIDS no Ebola
Do they not have 800 Christian army bases around the world today
occupying lands for the rights of corporations who are people too we heard the court say
corporations are people who murder in the name of Jesus rob in the name of Jesus exploit
plunder pollute like Shell in Nigeria India Peru
steal the forests for IKEDA furniture you want
Gold  and diamond mines so Negroes can have bling bling
extract African minerals so Negroes can talk on cell phones
Where you at, where you at, where you at
Is you outside Jesus you ain't back yet
been two thousand years
where you at, where you at, where you at.
Is you ISIS they look like Jesus
Is you Taliban they look like Jesus
Is you Hamas, Hezbollah, they look more like Jesus than Jesus we know
Is Al Quida Jesus
Who is Al Quida anyway
Ain't Al Quida America
Ain't Al Quida who America helped in Afghanistan then left them naked after the Russians ran home
Ain't the Bin Laden family and the Bush family lovers and friends
Bin Laden family flew out of American when nobody else could fly, remember 9/11
Baldwin said these people ain't Christians
your condition proves it
yes, Baldwin said
your condition proves it.
Where you at Jesus with your pretty blond hair pretty blue eyes
drone in the sky
poison water air food poison men women and children
Where you at, where you at, where you at
Oh, you love Native Americans so much
Your good Christian police love Negroes so much, ok they love Africans so
Ask Diallo how much they love Africans or did they think he was a Negro
we all look alike don't we
What's the difference between a Negro and African they both Black ain't they
You made them Christian didn't you
you gave them both the Cross and Lynching Tree
Messed up their minds for the next four hundred years
Dumping bleaching cream by the tons on Africa
Bleaching still in America, look at Sammy Sousa
Remember poor Michael
My grandson said he wanna be white like Michael Jackson
So why you good loving Christians crying bout Muuuuuuuuuuslims in your midst
didn't you make them devils like you
didn't they go to your good Christian colonial schools
didn't they study the Bible while you stole the land
little bait and switch here uh
Oh, now you morn in Europe
Muuuuuuuuuuuslim terrorists Muuuuuuuuuslim terrorists
all Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuslims are terrorists
All Christians are what good guys in white hats
Onward Christian soldiers kill the infidels heathens
drive them from Europe and America like Spain did in 1492
Put them on the Good Ship Muuuuuuuhammad
America is a Christian land Europe is good Christian land
let the world be a good Christian land let Jesus return in a space ship
to save us all, save us all.
where you at, where you at, where you at
--Marvin X
1/15/15
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Marvin X in Hunters Point/Bay View Free Healthy Community Event

FREE HEALTHY
COMMUNITY EVENT

MLK Jr. Celebration Day
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Joe Lee Recreation Center
1395 Mendell Street, San Francisco
10:00 am - 3 pm

BOOT CAMP, 9:30 am & COMMUNITY WALK, 10:00 am, at MLK Park and Playground at 5701 Third Street (x-cross street Carroll Avenue), with Walk ending
at Joe Lee Recreation Center

• Youngblood Coleman Monarchs Youth Baseball Team demonstration at MLK Park
FEATURED ACTIVITIES AT Joe Lee Recreation Center, starting at 11:00 am:
Marvin X speaks: Black Arts Movement Poet/Producer/activist will speak & sign his books on mental wellness

• YMCA Move to Improve Chair Exercise
• Village Dancers
• YMCA Youth Fundraiser
• Nutritional Lunch
• Raffle
*Also, on January 19, 2015, everyone is invited to Attend BINGO, BBQ and BASEBALL at Youngblood Coleman Park, 2 - 6 pm, sponsored by the Youngblood Coleman Monarchs Youth Baseball Team
Please contact Michael Bennett, Bayview Y Director of Physical Activity and Nutrition, at 415-794-9274 for more information.

Poem for Empress Diamond on her earth day

 
You are the one did not grow up
you had parents
they raised you up
womanhood rites of passage
implanting dignity pride
dad was a Zulu King
New Orleans style
president three terms
no mean feat
in the Zulu Nation
he said read and travel
so you did
in search of self
divine royal self
found it
loved it
lost love regained
healer woman supreme
knowledge of herbs
plants leaves flowers roots
healer of all things
there is no problem without solution
and so it is
becoming wiser by the day and the night
you have allowed me into your world
as you come into mine
may there be peace and love between us
medicine man to medicine woman.
--Marvin X
1/13/15