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Friday, January 16, 2015
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
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
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
Source: The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (2003)
REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVISTS ANGELA DAVIS, MARVIN X AND SONIA SANCHEZ
[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
******
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
******
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
******
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
** ****
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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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Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
** ****
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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
******
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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Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd.
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Pambazuka news can be viewed online: English language edition ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en )
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Order cutting-edge climate titles from Pambazuka Press:
'Earth Grab: Geopiracy, the New Biomassters and Capturing Climate Genes ( http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100969040 ) ' - OUT NOW
To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa ( http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100628980 ) - OUT NOW
* Pambazuka News is on Twitter. By following '@pambazuka' on
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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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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
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
The Black Arts Movement Kindly asks you to make a generous donation to the BAM Fest at Laney College, Feb 7
President of Laney College, Dr. Elnora T. Webb donated $100.00 for the BAM Fest.
Marvin X
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.
Marvin X at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland.
photo Adam Turner
Here’s an update for you from the ‘Black Arts Movement 27 City National Tour’ team:
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. We need funds for food at the Laney College gala; we need money for artists, sound equipment, transportation,book give away, costumes, speaker fees. Thanking you in advance for your support.
Sincerely,
Marvin X, Project Director
BAM 27 City Tour
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Black Arts Movement chief architect LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka, on the set of his play The Toilet
Amiri and Maya, RIP
The Black Arts Movement Arkestra and Poet's Choir will perform at Laney College, Feb. 7, 2015
photo Adam Turner
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