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(An Urgent Communique from AMIRI BARAKA) The date the time of the Newark Rebellion, Detroit had gone up a few minutes before, Watts two years before that. These were the most explosive, deadly and expensive outbursts of the Afro-American People for Self Determination and Democracy! THEY WERE NOT "RIOTS," THEY WERE REBELLIONS! (Just a few dance steps from REVOLUTION!) What Black People have gained since those times of outright Racist Repression (e.g., the Mob directed corruption of the vicious Addonizio regime here in Newark) We thought had ended not only with the Rebellion as the downbeat of real change, but...

Contact: (US) 212-591-0073, (Israel) 011-972-8-973-3336 FIVE ISRAELIS DETAINED AFTER 9/11 TO SUE NEW JERSEY POET AND STATE OVER "BLOOD LIBEL" POEM Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has written to New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey demanding that he fire the State's poet laureate, Amiri Bakara, or she will initiate legal proceedings against his office. The Tel-Aviv lawyer, who heads Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, represents five young Israelis who were detained by Federal authorities for visa violations after the 9/11 attack. The five allege that the New Jersey poet's controversial poem, "Somebody Blew Up America" implies that they knew...