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Monthly Archives: March 2019
Food insecurity increases in the Bayview
37 percent of Bayview residents (27,094 people) live on less than 200 percent of the FPL ($40,840); 19 percent (13,935 residents) live in families with incomes at or below the $20,420.
Chelsea Manning defies secret grand jury, Julian Assange scoops Michael Cohen
by Ann Garrison
In 2010, former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea
Manning leaked the “Collateral
Murder” video and the Iraq and Afghan War Logs, which implicate the
Pentagon...
Shamann Walton hearing on Jeff Adachi’s complaint of abuse in SF Jail
Following a spike in allegations of abuse at the hands of sheriff deputies in San Francisco county jails, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee held a hearing during its meeting on Thursday to examine how these allegations are investigated, and why investigations are conducted within the Sheriff’s Department rather than through an independent oversight body.
Hip hop and culture: ‘High Power’ by Grand Opus
Since the late ‘70s, hip hop culture has been an instrument of empowerment for communities without a voice to fully express themselves via the language of art. Grand Opus’ sophomore album “High Power” contains a perfect blend of thought provoking lyricism and hard hitting beats that make hip hop come alive and communicate a powerful message of empowerment and hope to the Black community.
Gov. Newsom’s executive order halts death penalty. Now let’s drop LWOP!
Our hope is that Gov. Newsom will extend the equity and justice informed lens that brought him to stop the death penalty as he moves forward examining other forms of extreme sentencing in California, including Life Without the Possibility of Parole.
‘We stand with Ilhan’ against Zionism and anti-Semitism
Omar, a Somali immigrant representing her Minnesota community, and Tlaib, a member of Michigan’s Palestinian community, are the first Muslim women elected to Congress. They back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign opposing Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people.
San Francisco Peer-Run Warm Line – here to support the community!
Everyone in the Bay Area is welcome to call and discuss whatever life brings – anxiety, discrimination, housing issues, money concerns, depression, interpersonal conflicts, grief or loss, hearing voices, loneliness, substance use problems or just needing someone to talk to – Warm Line counselors are available via phone and live online chat.
Death after death at Walker County, the worst jail in Alabama
Prisoner abuse and neglect, murders, deaths, suicides, disease, torture, assaults, lack of medical and mental health care, ADA and PREA violations, corrupt officers, extreme overcrowding and a toxic and hazardous environment – please help us and print these deaths in the Bay View. We need media exposure on Walker County!
Black History Celebration at Bayview Access Point
San Francisco is a city full of Black history, which can be seen in the day to day lives of ordinary people, according to world renowned actor Danny Glover, who was the keynote speaker for the one year anniversary ceremony for the Bayview Access Point.
The #MeToo of yesterday: ‘High Voltage Women’ tells the story of groundbreaking tradeswomen
In “High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light,” historian Ellie Belew captures the drama, the events and the personalities of an affirmative action effort that was in the forefront of the national drive toward non-traditional work for women.
Wanda’s Picks for March 2019
Wanda's picks of April 2019's most exciting goings on!
One African American family, half a century of experience in SF public schools
Three generations of one African American family talking about their experiences in traditional San Francisco public schools.
Texas prison officials approve, then rescind contact visit for Miguel and Paulina
After being promised a five minute contact period to hug, Miguel and Paulina were denied this opportunity. Turns out Major Nunez did not have the authority to allow Miguel and Paulina to hug.
Rationalizing the irrational: CDCr’s reactionary defense of its prison industrial slave complex
by Heshima Denham of The Amend the 13th Working Group
Greetings, sisters and brothers. The general security policy
of CDCr states: “The primary objectives of the...
Alabama leader Kinetik Justice in fifth day of hunger strike, refusing all food and...
As a last resort to protest the Alabama Department of Corrections’ unlawful use of solitary confinement, Robert Earl Council, known nationally as Kinetik Justice, that he is on an official hunger strike, refusing all food and liquids. Join the phone zap demanding release for him and 30 other prisoners unjustifiably in solitary.
Eyes wide open at the Hunters Point Shipyard
The Hunters Point Shipyard remediation and development has spawned an environmental justice “engine” that drives media and government transparency. The SF Bay View newspaper remains the source of disinfecting sunlight and the science of community protection.
How can San Francisco support its most vulnerable Black residents? Help them succeed at...
San Francisco’s African American community has shrunk by half since 1970. Of the families that remain, nearly a fifth live in public housing or get a rental subsidy. Now, a city effort is turning public housing into a key front in the battle to improve educational outcomes for African American kids.
How did sweeping humans become the new normal?
I often tell people to imagine if someone came into your home and snatched the roof off your bedroom, dorm room or home, leaving you exposed, over-seen, no longer covered. In other words, no longer “safe” to be messy, unorganized, unclean or just human, because now you no longer were living with what housed people live with every day and take completely for granted, the privilege of privacy.
Parents and children: The power of play
It turns out you gave your child one of the best possible gifts for adulthood: the power of play.
Prisoner found half-dead in bloodbath: Back to TDCJ’s houses of horror and staged gladiator...
During my previous seven years living in environments such as the Clements Unit, it felt like I’d seen more suicide attempts (several successful) and prisoner death cover-ups than I’d seen my own reflection.