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Barack Obama signed HR 347 into law on Thursday, March 8th, 2012, representing a staggering rollback of your basic constitutional right to free speech and peaceful protest. And three months ago, he signed NDAA into law, which allows his administration to detain protesters for life without charges or trial — and using military force to do so (authorized on U.S. soil for the first time since the American Civil War).

Black in Latin America
Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet
In Mexico and Peru Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of two significant black population. Do you know when Mexico had its first Black President?
Brazil: A Racial Paradise?
In Brazil, Professor Gates delves behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this ‘rainbow nation’ is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.
Cuba: The Next Revolution
In Black in Latin America’s second episode, Professor Gates explores race and identity in Cuba.
Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided
The first episode of the Black in Latin America series explores race and identity in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Black in Latin America. WATCH the full episodes here.

On this eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, we host a wide-ranging discussion with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson and author Michelle Alexander about the mass incarceration of African Americans that has rolled back many achievements of the civil rights movement. Today there are more African Americans under correctional control, whether in prison or jail, on probation or on parole, than there were enslaved in 1850.
Watch the video on Democracy Now.

List of parades, festivals and other FREE events in the boroughs Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island of New York City.
Lista de desfiles, festivals y otros eventos GRATIS en los condados Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island de la Ciudad de Nueva York.

New York Metro Progressives
New York Metro Progressives is a network of progressive activists based in the New York City metropolitan region who share a commitment to good government, peace and social justice.

NYCLU – Stop and Frisk
Under the Bloomberg administration, the NYPD has conducted more than 4.3 million street stops. About 88 percent of those stops resulted in no arrest or summons. And just because somebody was arrested or got a ticket it doesn’t mean he/she is a criminal. The police can arrest you or give you a ticket just for being in a park after dark or for any other reason.
In 2010, NYPD cop Adil Polanco said that the 41st precinct in New York pressures cops to write at least 20 summons and make 1 arrest each month.
In 2010, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded NYPD top brass giving orders that tickets must be written and arrests must be made.
On February 23, 2012, The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit challenging the repeated retaliation against veteran police officer Craig Matthews who has disclosed the use of an illegal quota system for arrests, summonses and stop-and-frisk encounters in the 42nd Precinct in the Bronx.
On March 2012, Sergeant Robert Borrelli Said that cops systematically downgraded and misclassified serious crimes in Queens’ 100th Precinct to pad crime stats, then transferred him to a graveyard shift in retaliation.

Slavery Full Program
“I caught a great documentary on PBS last night called “Slavery by Another Name” which told the story of the thousands of Blacks who long after Slavery was abolished in the US were treated like slaves and worse under the ruse of “Convict Leasing” and “Peonage”. Locking up blacks and immigrants has been big business in this country for many years and though we aren’t sending convicts to work to death in coal mines anymore, we are still feeding the prison industrial complex human lives day after day.”_Sinchy

Eating in Public – Pleasure or peril by Annia Ciezadlo.
New York Senator Bill Perkins, a Democrat, has introduced legislation that would ban eating in the New York City subway trains, platforms and stations and fine first-time violators $250 (twice that for repeat offenders).
If you don’t agree, tell Perkins you oppose the bill.

Who Do You Think You Are? – Reba McEntire
Country superstar Reba McEntire embarks on an ancestral journey to discover how her family came to North America.
The singer discovered things that pained her greatly, such as the fact that one of her great grandfathers was a slave owner and slave trader while another was an indentured servant and traveled alone from England when he was 10 years old.

EL DERECHO DE MATAR INOCENTES.
“La preservación del imperio Estadounidense depende de la ignorancia y de la opresión de su propio pueblo.”

7 Rules for Recording Police
“Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble.”

Big Brother ‘legal’ in US: Mumia Abu-Jamal exclusive to RT
National Lawyers Guild: “World-famous political prisoner and NLG Jailhouse Lawyer Vice President Mumia Abu-Jamal gives his first interview since being moved off death row late last year.”

Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention. Fault Lines investigates the business of immigrant detention in the US.
Center for Constitutional Rights: “Under the Obama administration, the detention and deportation of immigrants has reached an all-time high. Here is an investigation into the growing private prison industry in the US and how these companies have influenced our immigration laws.”

Transgender Basics is a 20 minute educational film on the concepts of gender and transgender people. Two providers from the Center’s Gender Identity Project (GIP) discuss basic concepts of gender, sexual orientation, identity and gender roles. Three transgender community members share their personal experiences of being trans and genderqueer. The film targets service providers and others working with the LGBT community, but it also provides a fascinating glimpse into gender and identity for the general public. “Our culture likes to make things simple, and gender isn’t.” Carrie Davis, Transgender Community Organizer, in Transgender Basics. For more information contact the Gender Identity Project at 212-620-7310 or at www.genderidentityproject.org .

“‘Inside Job’ provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.”

How to take group photos outdoors: “Ah, the great outdoors! Soccer in the park, a garden party, or a day at the beach can be great opportunities to take frame-worthy photos of family and friends. Photographer Nigel Barker shares great tips for shooting outdoor group photos.”

Court rules granting class certification in CCR’s lawsuit challenging NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices as unconstitutional.
As a result of today’s ruling, all those for whom stop and frisk has become a daily reality will now have an opportunity to challenge it as a violation of their fundamental constitutional rights and ask the Court to order real changes in NYPD stop-and-frisk policy. Judge Scheindlin noted: “Suspicionless stops should never occur. Defendants’ cavalier attitude towards the prospect of a ‘widespread practice of suspicionless stops’ displays a deeply troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental constitutional rights.” To learn more about this case visit the website of the Center for Constitutional Rights.