by Solo Educado, Santa Cruz Indymedia, 29 September 2009

On September 28, M1 from Dead Prez was interviewed by Boots Riley from The Coup about his recent trip to Palestine and Egypt. The event was a fundraiser for the Bayview newspaper and Block Report Radio. The Santa Cruz event was held at Barrios Unidos and was co-sponsored by the POCC, Barrios Unidos and the Watsonville Brown Berets.

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From the Ghetto to Gaza:
an interview with Mutulu Olugbala aka M1 of dead prez
by Minister of Information JR, SF Bay View, 17 September 2009

Mutulu Olugbala, otherwise known to the world as M1 of dead prez, recently got back from a world tour where he touched down in Scandinavia, Cairo and Gaza. This interview is significant because it is important for the Black community specifically and oppressed communities of the world in general to have a world view or political analysis about what is going on around the planet so that we can make the right moves locally that would be in the interest of oppressed people internationally.

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snafupunk / 29 September 2009

A Pittsburgh university student, who now has nerve damage in her thumbs from being ziptied too tightly at the hands of the police, describes her experience of mass arrest at Schenley Plaza on Friday night, September 25, 2009. Interview recorded Monday, September 28.

alMuhalla
28 September 2009

This piece of video was filmed at the Qalandiya Israeli military checkpoint directly before the entrance of the a small ghetto where the so-called Palestinian Authority has their headquarters, where the house and the office of the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas are located.

Qalandiya is a Palestinian refugee camp located to the north of the city of Jerusalem, and about 1 Km south of the city of Ramallah.

From this piece of video which was filmed at the Qalandiya check point, portions which show people collapsing unconscious were edited (censored), for “unknown reasons” the “unknown reasons” likely being that the video was filmed by Israelis worried about the reputation of Israel.

To see more pictures Kawther Salam

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Analysis by Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) – The story line that dominated media coverage of the second Iranian uranium enrichment facility last week was the official assertion that U.S. intelligence had caught Iran trying to conceal a “secret” nuclear facility.

But an analysis of the transcript of that briefing by senior administration officials that was the sole basis for the news stories and other evidence reveals damaging admissions, conflicts with the facts and unanswered questions that undermine its credibility.

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[Part 2]