Racism.

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women (Part 2 of 2)

    This is the second tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to most women. Spring 1981. Produced by…

  • Democracy Now! June 17, 2003

    Former Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Gives his First Major Address on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. It s a severe criticism of our policy that our government has never allied itself with the very, very sizable peace movement in Israel; Judge Frees 12 Residents of Tulia, Texas Who Served Years in Prison Based on the…

  • Democracy Now! May 27, 2003

    Democracy Now! interviews Kadiatou Diallo, author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son; As another innocent African immigrant is gunned down by New York police, we interview Kadiatou Diallo, mother of Amadou Diallo who was shot to death on February 4, 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06…

  • Democracy Now! May 19, 2003

    Hour 1: The U.S. faces wave of media mergers and unprecedented consolidation if FCC relaxes media ownership rules; Dissident FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein speaks out against media ownership deregulation; Indonesian military launches a massive attack on separatist movement in Aceh. Hour 2: Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid; The Ballot or the…

  • Democracy Now! May 19, 2003

    Harlem Woman Dies After Botched Police Drug Raid; The Ballot or the Bullet. It s Liberty or Death. It s Freedom for Everybody or Freedom for Nobody : Malcolm X would have been 78 years old today. |9:00-9:01 Billboard 9:01-9:06 Headlines 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:20: Alberta Spruill, 57, became the fifth New Yorker…

  • Democracy Now! May 27, 2003

    Hour 1:Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Calls Israeli Presence in Palestine Occupation, Stunning Lawmakers; Now, the Foreign Ministry is Weighing Lifting a Ban on the Word; Africa s World War One Fueled in Part by Western Countries and Corporations Hour 2: Democracy Now! interviews Kadiatou Diallo, author of My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My…

  • Democracy Now! May 8, 2003

    Hour 1: Looks like news, sounds like news but paid for by drug companies: Morley Safer of 60 Minutes introduced hundreds of fake news breaks broadcast on public television; CNN s Aaron Brown and CBS Walter Cronkite may back out after a news expose revealed the scheme; Global AIDS, TB and Malaria Fund facing massive…

  • Democracy Now! May 8, 2003

    Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz secretly create new Pentagon-based intelligence unit: Seymour Hersh examines the role the Office of Special Plans in the lead-up to invading Iraq; Harsh New York Rockefeller drug laws turn 30: Hip hop pioneer Russell Simmons & Anthony Papa who served 12 years for a first-time offense call for repeal of the laws;…

  • Democracy Now! May 14, 2003

    Hour 1: UN Security Council to discuss US proposal that would lift the sanctions on Iraq and give US forces full control of Iraq s oil; Apartheid Victims Are Still Suffering: Study Finds Blacks are Getting Poorer and Whites are Getting Richer, and an Activist Who Lost Both His Arms in a Government Assassination Attempt…

  • Democracy Now! May 14, 2003

    UN Security Council to discuss US proposal that would lift the sanctions on Iraq and give US forces full control of Iraq s oil; Apartheid Victims Are Still Suffering: Study Finds Blacks are Getting Poorer and Whites are Getting Richer, and an Activist Who Lost Both His Arms in a Government Assassination Attempt Says a…