From New American Media: Inside Black-Asian Violence – It’s Not About Race

May 7th, 2010

By Amanze Emenike
Via New America Media
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Commentary Posted: Apr 21, 2010

[NAM Editor’s Note: Recent attacks on Asian Americans by Black teenagers in San Francisco have led some to speculate that ethnic tensions in the city are on the rise. But one young black man who was taught by his peers to rob Asians and Latinos in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood says it’s not really about race. Amanze Emenike, 22, is a content producer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia]

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The WORD’s Ashley Carpenter, Tonight, May 7, 9 P.M. – ABC’s What Would You Do?

May 7th, 2010

Ashley Carpenter. Seen here reporting at the campaign headquarters of William C. Thompson, who went down swinging in the 2009 New York City Mayoral Race.

Carpenter – AKA the WORD’s AC 360 for stories, pictures and minidocs – will be appearing in ABC’s What Would You Do? tonight, Friday, May 7 at 9 p.m. EST.

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NYPD Brutality Costs New York City Taxpayers Millions …

May 6th, 2010

… but New Yorkers Not People of Color love the head-bangers soooo that the City’s paramilitary force can get away with – literally and figuratively – mayhem and murder. New York Civil Liberties Racial Justice Project: Hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers of Color stopped and frisked.
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Howard Monath Responding to Reports by BBC America Yesterday Evening

May 5th, 2010

Via facebook [to HM yesterday evening]
BBC America, 15 minutes ago [about 6 p.m., EST], said that the Red Shirts were mulling over an offer but were not enthusiastic about the November elections that the Prime Minister pitched to them.

Monath Replies today:
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Howard Monath in Bangkok, Talking About Bucky

May 5th, 2010

This latest thread started with HM posting this picture and writing, "Somewhere Bucky is smiling." - Picture by Howard Monath

Who’s Bucky?
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Fly in the Ointment [A Few Minutes After the Previous Howard Monath Post]

May 4th, 2010

Via facebook
2 minutes ago [12:25 EST]

Funny, it seems counter intuitive, but the closer you are to a story and the more access you have , like here with the Thai Red Shirts, the more you rely on outside sources for information ( or at least corroboration )

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Another Howard Monath Report from the Front Lines of the Crisis in Bangkok

May 4th, 2010

Picture by Howard Monath

Via facebook
“I’m going to spend wednesday talking to Reds…
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Latest Update About the Show Down in Bangkok

May 3rd, 2010

Howard Monath, Former D:F/M Film Instructor, in the Heart of the Crisis
Via facebook

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Car Bomb Updates/Corrections/Clarifications: NY Times & NY Daily News

May 2nd, 2010

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Car Bomb in Times Square: Which One – NY Times, NY Daily News – Will Run a Correction?

May 2nd, 2010

NY Daily News said two female cops were heroes for discovering a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan in Times Square and stopped the car bomb from detonating. The NY Times said  “explosive materials were discovered by a mounted police officer who saw a “box with smoke pouring from it in the back of the Pathfinder” and called for backup.
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