Reparations

Ten Steps for Radical Revolution USA

Bill Quigley | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Direct Democracy, US Military, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, Property Rights, USA, Keystone XL Pipeline, Revolution, Privatization, Decriminalization, Corporate Personhood, Reparations, Impact News

If those in government and those in power do not help the people do what is right, people seeking change must together exercise our human rights and bring about these changes directly.

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God's Economic Justice: Year of Jubilee Deuteronomy 15:1-11

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Deuteronomy, Social Justice, God's Economy, Reparations, Jubilation, Black Voices News

It is no secret that many persons and families are going through hard times. The rise of unemployment is alarming. Despite these economic realities, I believe that God is calling us this year to be one of Jubilee for our nation, world and global marketplace.

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Cholera Petition Suggests UN Caused "Involuntary Genocide" in Haiti

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Alexander Pope, Mirebalais, Social Justice, Oas, St. Marc, Water, United Nations, Ijdh, Haiti, Hispaniola, Cholera, Morality, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Reparations, Fadisma, Kosovo Gypsy, Roma, Video, Impact News

The United Nations is faced with two substantial legal petitions on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The actions could not be more different in their demands, tone, jurisdictions and venues.

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N.C. Tries To Make Amends For Sterilizations

AP | By RENEE ELDER and TOM BREEN | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Sterilization, Forced Sterilization, Sterilization Programs, North Carolina Sterilization, Post-War Sterilization, Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, World War II, Eugenics, Reparations, North Carolina, Healthy Living News

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Nearly 35 years after ending the country's most active post-war sterilization program, North Carolina is the only state trying to mak...

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Meeting the Needs of Crime Victims

Pat Nolan | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Restorative Justice, Restitution, Victims, Justice, Crime, Victims Rights, Reparations, Politics News

Crime harms people, and it should be our goal to repair that damage. The needs of victims of crime are often ignored in our justice system. Most offen...

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WATCH: Heated Moment After Rahm Talks Reparations

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayoral Debate, Chicago Mayoral Race, Rahm Emanuel Reparations, Reparations, Chicago, Chicago News

For the first time in the Chicago mayoral race, all six candidates were gathered under one roof Wednesday night for a debate. The event, which was s...

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Sorry, Ladies

Katie Engelhart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Apologies, Formal Apologies, Holocaust, Residential Schools, Feminism, Comfort Women, Reparations, Joint Economic Committee, World News

While it's hard for people to sorry, it's even harder for countries to do it. Harder still when countries have to say they're sorry to women.

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Rush Limbaugh: Proof That Fear Makes You Stupid

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homophobes, Mass Murder, Fear, Liberals, Fundamentalist Christians, Native Americans, Social Animals, Indians, Reparations, White People, Tribe, Muslims, Conservatives, Atheists, Tobacco, Gays, Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Politics News

Rush Limbaugh recently compared the murder of Native Americans to European deaths via tobacco. Pretty stupid. Not ideological or right wing or politically incorrect. Just third-grade dumb.

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Prosthetic Aesthetics in Catherine Wagner's 'Reparations'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Medical Anthropology, Prosthetics, Prosthesis, Slidefullscreen, San Francisco, Reparations, Catherine Wagner, Arts News

WHO: Catherine Wagner WHAT: Reparations WHERE:Stephen Wirtz Gallery 49 Geary Street San Francisco, U.S.A. WHEN: October 18-November 27, 2010 WHY: ...

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Reparations: Is President Obama Duping the African-American Community?

Dexter Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Slavery, Stimulus Bill, President Obama, Native Americans, Henry Louis Gates, Reparations, Politics News

If President Obama can quietly provide Filipino soldiers and Native Americans back pay for their mistreatment why can't he produce dollars for African-Americans?

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Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

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Pardon You: Racism, Reparations and the Politics of Blame (as Explained by Henry Louis Gates Jr.)

Tim Wise | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Racism, History, Henry Louis Gates, Reparations, Slavery, Politics News

The claim for reparations is not merely rooted in assigning blame for an injustice. It is rooted in the belief that enslavement of African peoples led to the unjust enrichment of the West.

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Africville apology is a start, not an end

Mike Barber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restorative Justice, Environmental Racism, Halifax, Institutional Racism, Slavery, Racism, Housing, Nova Scotia, Reparations, Black Loyalists, Canada, Systemic Racism, Reconciliation, African-Canadian, Africville, World News

Last week's apology by city of Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly, for the evictions and razing of the African-Canadian community of Africville in Nova Scotia ...

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The Real Risk For Europe is Social

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will European Governments have the leadership, the ability and the political will to restore a sensible balance between social contribution and costs?

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Belinda's Petition a Perfect Primer on the Subject of Reparations

Mike Barber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raymond A. Winbush, History, Restorative Justice, Culture, Books, Slavery, Book, Reparations, Reviews, Books News

Belinda's Petition is exactly what it describes itself to be: a concise overview of the long history of struggle to repair the damage wrought by the transatlantic slave trade.

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Haiti: Act of Nature or Act of Man?

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Yankees, Haiti Earthquake, Brooklyn, Citibank, Aid, Imperialism, Frantz Fanon, Reparations, Reverend Al Sharpton, Charles Barron, Duvalier, New York News

This is not a good time to assign responsibility for what happened and is happening in Haiti. People are too upset. But there is never a good time to assign responsibility.

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Why the US Owes Haiti Billions -- The Briefest History

Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Rice, Haiti Earthquake, USA, Paul Farmer, Dictators, Reparations, Foreign Policy, World News

The current crisis is an opportunity for people in the US to own up to our country's history of dominating Haiti and to make a truly just response.

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Haiti Is Cursed -- By Our Ignorance

Farai Chideya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cursed, Haiti Earthquake, France, Toussaint, Tracy Kidder, Haiti, New York Times, Gold, Reparations, Pat Robertson, World News

We have to realize that the meme of the "curse" has its own racial baggage. It's a way of disengaging Western history from the literal rubble of Haiti.

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Naomi Klein Calls for Ecological Reparations

Aaron Lake Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Reparations, Naomi Klein, Green News

The COP15, nearly everyone has agreed, is likely to be a big COP-OUT.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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The Uninsured Has a Black Face -- White Ambivalence Is Obama's Struggle

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yale professor, John Dovidio, does not feel the ongoing protests, name calling and Hitler labels by white protesters are hate, but a fight by whites struggling to defend and maintain their position and status.

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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President Obama Confronts Holocaust Evil, Now Confront Slavery Evil

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buchenwald, Holocaust, Slavery Reparations, Oprah, Colin Powell, President Obama, Slavery, Eric Holder, US Government, Tiger Woods, Reparations, Politics News

The U.S. government, not just a handful of evil Southern planters, encoded slavery in the Constitution, and protected and nourished it for a century. The government should apologize.

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A Queen for Today!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Still reigning, still smiling, after 56 years! The Glorious Queen Elizabeth Rose Who has worked harder or better, and so long, at a tiresomely t...

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Did John Hope Franklin Want $100 Trillion for Blacks?

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Poverty, John Franklin, Black Reparations, John-Hope-Franklin, Reparations, Jim Crow, Black Poverty, African-American-Reparations, Stimulus Package, John Hope Franklin, Slavery, Civil-Rights-Moevment, American Slaves, African American Reparations, Reparations for Blacks, African-American Reparations, African American Poverty, Politics News

Dr. John Hope Franklin, the wildly accomplished historian who documented Blacks' place in the great American story, firmly believed in reparations.

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