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 Women of
Color conference targets issues of life and death
CHICAGO�Hundreds of women of all ages
and ethnicities recently convened here to determine how to stop the global
cycle of violence against the female gender, a problem that impacts the
living condition of women, children and men. Black, Hispanic, Native
American, Asian, Indian, Palestinian, Muslim, Christian and Jewish women
shared their personal stories of bouts with violence to participants at
the March 15-17 �Women of Color Against Violence� conference at the
University of Illinois at Chicago.
See also:
Minister Louis
Farrakhan on: 'The Causes of Domestic Violence'
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 UK still seeks to ban Farrakhan
LONDON�A Court of Appeal sitting in London has reserved judgement in the
UK government�s legal challenge to a High Court decision to overturn a
15-year ban on the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan visiting the United
Kingdom. After two days of complex legal arguments by the attorneys
representing the Sec. of State for the Home Department David Blunkett and
attorneys for Min. Farrakhan, the three Appeal Court judges deferred
ruling until the end of the month.
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 Ex-Panther's only hope lies with unlikely
prospect of a legal appeal
ATLANTA�Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly
known as activist H. Rap Brown, narrowly escaped a sentence of death by
lethal injection as appeals for mercy came from clergy, civil rights
activists, politicians, area residents, and former comrades during his
heyday as chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and
his brief stint with the Black Panther Party.
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 Rebel
leader sees 'opportunity' for peace in Sudan
WASHINGTON�Despite continuing �icy� rhetoric on both sides, the
climate for peace in Sudan may be warming up, even as the calendar
changes from winter to spring. In Khartoum, Sudanese and American
officials signed the fourth and final point of an agreement March
10 that was brokered by President George Bush�s special
envoy�former U.S. Senator John Danforth�to begin a peace process to
end the 19-year-old civil war.
Mexicans 'invade" U.S. 150 years after annexation of Texas
More than a century after the
U.S. invasion of Mexico that resulted in the annexation of Texas,
Mexicans are "reoccupying" the territory, but through less violent
means and for different reasons. According to official figures, 23
million people currently residing in the United States are of
Mexican ancestry, representing 8.2 percent of the country's
population. [TheNewsMexico.com] |
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