‘Rights and Liberties’ Archives
NAACP: Troy Davis’ sister, Martina Davis-Correia has died
Martina Davis-Correia, the sister of late cause celebre death row inmate Troy Davis, has died, NAACP senior communications associate Derek Turner confirmed. [Read More]
Melvin Van Peebles Supports The Occupy Wall Street Movement With His 1971 Song From “Watermelon Man”
via Shadow and Act Famed director Melvin Van Peebles, who knows his share of controversy, decided to lend his support to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. His 1971 song “Love That’s America,” from his first Hollywood film Watermelon Man, has been used with [Read More]
The 99%: a community of resistance – Angela Davis
The Occupy activists and their supporters have brought us together as the 99%. They call upon the majority to stand up against the minority. The old minorities, in effect, are the new majority. There are major responsibilities attached to this decision to forge such an [Read More]
Occupy All the Harlems, to Save Ourselves from the Dictatorship of Wall Street
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The question for Black America is not what’s going on in the heads of young white people in Zuccotti Park, but how WE will organize in our own defense against Wall Street, which has “done more damage to Black people than anyone else” [Read More]
RE:#OccupyWallSt, TO: those of us sitting on the fence….
Let’s support the Occupy Movement by considering ourselves part of it. Which we are because we are the 99%. Eliminate the us and them dynamic I’m hearing. Let’s do what we need to do as individuals or as members of an organization by considering yourself a [Read More]
