Zahra Billoo is the Executive Director of the San Francisco/Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR offers know-your-rights sessions to mosques and community members, while also providing legal representation to those facing civil rights violations, including FBI interviews, employment discrimination, airport harassment, school bullying, and hate crimes. Speaking to CODEPINK’s Marcy Winograd, Billoo recounts the successful CAIR campaign to release British journalist Sami Hindi from ICE detention and offers advice on how people can protect their neighborhoods and schools from ICE abductions.
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Sudan is now the greatest humanitarian crisis in the world. According to the International Rescue Committee, it is experiencing the largest recorded and fastest displacement crisis in the world. The health care system has collapsed and famine has set in. The infamous Rapid Support Forces, a descendant of the Janjaweed, are in control of El Fasher where they have been proudly filming themselves committing atrocities.
Sudan’s civil war, which began in April 2023, is, for one, a fight for power and resources between two greedy generals. One is General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan head of the national Sudanese Armed Forces and another is General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti.
However, Ahmed Kaballo, Sudanese Editor of Sovereign Media, says it is important to understand that there are powerful foreign forces acting in the background for their own nefarious motives. He recorded this X post after a sleepless night in Nairobi.
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After more than three years on strike, members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, affiliated with the NewsGuild and Communication Workers of America, returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a recent U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruling. The court found that Post-Gazette management had illegally violated labor law by eliminating the 40-hour week, ending the short-term disability plan, and weakening workers’ healthcare—costing them thousands of dollars. The court ordered the company to restore previous contract terms and compensate employees for the years of violations, and workers spoke out about their victory before heading back to the newsroom.
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Global working class solidarity with Palestine led to a general strike in Italy on November 28 and dockworkers strikes in many European countries. In Norway on November 27th, public workers had a general strike and rallied at the capitol. Unionist Susan Lyden spoke about their action at a panel of trade unionists from around the world who build solidarity and action against the genocide.
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Mother Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, transitioned at 111 years of age on November 24, 2025.
She spoke of the trauma she endured for many years and called for justice, recognition, and reparations, during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on May 19, 1921. She was accompanied by her brother Mr. Hughes Van Ellis who was 100, and survivor Ms. Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106 years young. Collectively, these brave elders shared their horrific stories of the two-day massacre of innocent Black citizens by white vigilante mobs on May 31st to June 1, 1921. The vigilantes attacked in the Greenwood neighborhood, a 35 square block area of thriving businesses, schools, banks and homes, widely known as the “Black Wall Street.”
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The Centers for Disease Control has quietly reversed its position on the potential risk factor that the current childhood vaccine schedule presents as a significant cause of autism spectrum disorder. Dr. Peter McCullough discussed this controversial about-face by the CDC on The Stinchfield Tonight program.
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And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy. We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Steve Zeltzer, Ann Garrison, Thomas O’Rourke, Akua Holt, Marcy Winograd and Polina Vasiliev.
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Music;
Muhammad Wardi, “Ya Nuur al-‘Eyn (Light of the Eyes)”
Sweet Honey In The Rock “When I Die” @ LEAF 10-23-11
Palestinian Struggle Songs, “Kofia”
