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As California’s financial crisis worsens, lawmakers are still polarized on the state’s budget. The treasury has been depleted, and the state’s controller has begun withholding payments and, instead, is issuing IOUs, which are leaving many Californians in dire circumstances. Some 2.7 million Californians won’t receive their income tax refunds this month. College aid has also been placed …

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Even as it seems that we, as a humanity, have become even more violent over the past few decades, there’s evidence that people are not violent by nature. This we discussed last week in the first part of this series, “The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflict.” The twentieth century has been the bloodiest of all, but we …

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The story of the struggle for the fourteen-acre community garden on the corner of 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is now an Oscar nominated documentary. Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, “The Garden,” traces the fate of the South Central Garden when bulldozers razed the farming plots of immigrant families as the land was upheld …

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The last several years have been marked by a failure to pass federal immigration reform legislation and an alarming expansion of enforcement operations, including border militarization, raids, detentions and deportations – fomenting the false notion of immigrants as threats to national security. Yet over the last few years, particularly in 2006, we saw unprecedented numbers of communities pouring out to the streets demanding …

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Former Vice President Al Gore addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday to strongly urge congressional action on global warming this year. Ahead of an international conference in Copenhagen, Denmark later on this year in December, Gore warned that “We have arrived at a moment of decision.” Indeed, a new report on global warming concluded that …

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In Seattle, Washington community members gathered on Wednesday as lawmakers announced hopes to expand the state’s domestic partnership law. The 110 page bill would extend state laws that currently only apply to married couples to same-sex unions. Meanwhile, in New England, marriage equality is being actively pursued. In New Haven Connecticut, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders …

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On Jan. 21st, a day after the presidential inauguration, The Southern Poverty Law Center published an article on their website titled “Hatemongers Poised to Exploit Obama Elections and Tough Economic Times.” The article highlights how racist extremists have been energized by Obama’s election, hoping to exploit an Obama backlash among whites who resent having a black …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the crime of walking while black.

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The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Sixty-one years ago on this day in people’s history, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi, India. On January 30th, 1948, the pacifist proponent of non-violence was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist named Nathuram Godse. The assassin was motivated by Gandhi’s last hunger …

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Yesterday, the Democratic controlled House of Representatives voted to pass President Barack Obama’s $816 billion dollar economic stimulus plan, one of the largest in history. The bill passed by 244-188 vote. Although Democrats had accommodated some of the Republican concerns, all of the House Republicans voted against the bill, as well as eleven Democrats. In …

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