Dennis Haywood is the publisher of the Pasadena Black Pages and organizer and founder of the Black August Film Festival, as well as a homeowner whose house survived the Eaton fire that viciously burned Altadena and Pasadena’s Black neighborhoods, among other communities.
Altadena Meadows was originally the land of Owen Brown, the son of abolitionist John Brown, after he fled the Raid on Harper’s Ferry and escaped, and moved to southern California.
Dennis Haywood recently spoke to JR Valrey of Block Report Radio, blockreportradioworld.com.
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Immigrant workers are being attacked by president Trump, who has promised to carry out massive terror raids against them. Nancy Mesa is with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, NDLON. She is based in Pasadena, California and talks about the efforts of these workers in helping to recover from the catastrophic fires. She spoke to Peter Ross of KPFK and WorkWeek.
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As one of his last acts in office, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted Indigenous leader Leonard Peltier’s life sentences to home confinement after nearly 50 years in prison. The decision follows decades of calls for clemency, citing concerns over due process, arbitrary detention, and Peltier’s health.
Despite pleas from supporters, the White House refused to issue a full pardon.
Bill Means is the co-founder of AIM, the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council. Lenny Foster is also with the International Indian Treaty Council, and both are long time friends of Leonard Peltier. Here are Bill Means and Lenny Foster in conversation with host of Flashpoints on KPFA, Dennis Bernstein.
We thank KPFT’s Jacquelyn Battise for the production of this segment.
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Next, we hear a commentary by US political prisoner and prolific journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, recorded by Prison Radio.
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With the recent granting of clemency to Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier, Block Report’s JR Valrey talked with Imam Luqman about the case of political prisoner Imam Jamil al-Amin fka H. Rap Brown. They talked about Imam Jamil’s legendary history in the movement, his declining medical condition, the state of his freedom campaign, and what people can do to help him. To hear more from JR, visit blockreportradioworld.com.
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Music:
Los Jornaleros del Norte – La Cumbia Jornalera (NPR Tiny Desk Submission 2024)
AIM Song – Free Leonard Peltier
Gil-Scott Heron, “Winter in America”
Nina Simone, “Mississippi Goddam”
