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Industry Ears, Parents Television Council making it hard for media execs
Sunday, June 22nd 2008, 5:15 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/06/22/2008-06-22_industry_ears_parents_television_council.html

Direct action has its benefits and its irritation.

Paul Porter knows this well. A former programmer for Black Entertainment Television, the infamous BET, he is now a member of Industry Ears, a nonprofit watchdog agency that he co-founded with Lisa Fager in 2004. It is dedicated to cleani… Continue

OPENINGS AND POSSIBILITIES: The Meaning of Obama

By KAZEMBE BALAGUN and HANK WILLIAMS
Published on: June 14, 2008


How does the Black left engage and understand the historic presidential campaign of Barack Obama? This question is in the hearts and minds of African-American radicals around the country.

With the nomination of Barack Obama increasingly likely, there seems to be a significant block forming within the Black left community agreeing to lend a kind of “critical support” to his campai… Continue

The great immigration panic
June 3, 2008 - lead New York Times editorial
The Great Immigration Panic


Someday, the country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration. We don't mean dollars, though those are being squandered by the billions. The true cost is to the national identity: the sense of who we are and what we value. It will hit us once the enforcement fever breaks, when we look at what has been done and no longer recognize the country that did it.
A nation of immigr… Continue