Mahmoud Darwish gave a voice to the Palestinians through his writings and was able to define a country's collective spirit through his work. The Palestinians and the entire world revered Mr. Darwish as a literary icon, and as an artist whose voice will be forever missed.

The PLO Mission will open a book of condolences to be signed beginning Monday August 18th thru Friday August 22nd from 12:30 - 4:00 pm. PLO Mission, 1320 18th Street, NW, Suite 200

For the past several weeks, cops have totally saturated the Dupont Circle area on Friday and Saturday nights. Homeless folks are reporting that cops in the circle itself had made it a point to wake up and drive off anyone who dares to sleep in the park at night!

"The January 2005 Inauguration was marred by the exclusion of thousands of people who were denied access because the National Park Service had attempted to turn Pennsylvania Avenue into the private domain of the Bush-Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee. As a result of our lawsuit, people may have additional opportunities to access the Inaugural Parade, including those who hold an anti-war view. But this is an unfinished struggle and the litigation is still ongoing," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Partnership for Civil Justice

Editorial cartoon by Carlos Latuff regarding the Georgia-Russia conflict: a previously-unknown country of strategic importance to Uncle is encouraged to rise up against those mean old Russians by Uncle and left to twist in the wind. Can you say "Hungary"? "Bay of Pigs"?

Seems those who fail to learn from history are not only doomed to repeat it, but to repeat it as a multi-part miniseries.

Cops in Fairfax, Arlingrton, and PG Counties are using GPS bugs to track cars of interest. As activists, this directly affects our security.

On Friday, August 1st I led a contingent of the Uhuru Movement into Barack Obama’s town hall meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida to raise the question, “what about the black community, Obama?” Without the benefit of a big media budget, our organization attempted to bring the serious issues experienced by African working class people across this country into the national political debate.

Diop Olugbala event in DC
SAT AUGUST 16th • 4-8pm
People’s Media Center • 4132 Georgia Ave NW,
Washington DC • Upshur & Taylor Sts • 3 blocks north of Petworth green line metro • #70, 71, 60 buses

Naji Mujahid of the DC Radio Co-op interviewed Muhammad Ahmad, formerly known as Max Stanford, in Jackson, Mississippi 3-30-08, while attending the reunion of members of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. He has recently authored a book, 'We Will Return in the Whirlwind', which is a history and critique of several of the most influential Black Liberation groups from the period of 1960-1975. He was also a member of SNCC, SDS, Black Panther Party, in the 60's.

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