We Live In A Climate Of Fear,

The Second Amendment Comes From The Right To Protect Themselves From Slave Revolts, And From Uprisings By Native Americans. A Revolt From People Who Were Stolen From Their Land Or Revolt From People Whose Land Was Stolen From, That's What The Genesis Of The Second Amendment Is.

The Progressive Movement Against The War Of Occupation In Iraq Is A Reason For Hope, As Is Resistance To Free Trade Agreements In Latin America. Those Are Moments That We Have To Celebrate: That People Still Find The Resolve And Energy To Resist

My Toussaint [louverture] Film Is In Limbo. We Still Hope After All This Time That We Can Find Another Way To Get This Film Done.

In 1967, The Students At San Francisco State Invited The Poet Amiri Baraka To The Campus For A Semester. He Attracted Other Influential Black Writers Such As Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What Emerged Was Something We Called The Community Communications Program. That's How I Got Involved; I Got Involved In A Little Play

The Black Power Movement Was Not A Separation From The Civil Rights Movement, But A Continuation Of This Whole Process Of Democratization.