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Open letter to Mayor Lee about violence in Bayview Hunters Point
July 25, 2011
In September 1966, after police killed 16-year-old Matthew Johnson, I stood in the Bayview Opera House as police bullets from Third Street ripped through the building, hitting my childhood friend. This is how the 1966 Hunters Point riots began. Forty-five years later, blood has been spilled by police bullets just feet from where young Mr. Johnson died. Welcome the family of Kenneth Harding on Tuesday, July 26, 6:30 p.m., at the Center for Self Improvement, 5048 Third St. at Revere, San Francisco.
David Henderson is laid to rest
July 2, 2011
“Men are born, champions are made, and legends never die.” David Henderson, who passed away on June 6th after being shot three times in the back, was all three.
Mass arrests at Capitol rotunda
June 9, 2011
Led by students and teachers noisily chanting, “Tax, tax, tax the rich!” a crowd took over the state Capitol rotunda on May 9 to kick off a week of protest against looming draconian cuts to the California education budget.