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Monthly Archives: April 2019

Advancing environmental public health through implementation of a Biomonitoring Program at the Hunters Point...

The medical necessity for the Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program for residents living within a one mile radius of the federal Superfund site at the Hunters Point Shipyard is met by understanding the scope of contamination of this property placed on the National Priorities List in 1989 and assigned Hazard Ranking Scores of 80-100 percent based on risk of exposure, number of toxins and proximity to sensitive receptors, including over 20 schools and daycare centers, vulnerable neighborhoods and San Francisco Bay.

City College of San Francisco’s Free City available for Summer Session 2019

SAN FRANCISCO -- City College of San Francisco (CCSF) has kicked off registration for Summer Session 2019.  Early registration for continuing students began April...

Mayor London Breed appoints Dr. Anton Nigusse Bland San Francisco’s first director of mental...

Mayor London N. Breed has appointed Dr. Anton Nigusse Bland to serve as director of mental health reform. In this new role created by Mayor Breed, Dr. Nigusse Bland will be responsible for reviewing how San Francisco provides mental health and substance use services to homeless individuals and making recommendations on how to reform the system.

SFCTA seeks technical and communications services for Downtown Congestion Pricing Study

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR TECHNICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES FOR THE DOWNTOWN CONGESTION PRICING STUDY (RFP 18/19-10) Notice is hereby given that the San Francisco County Transportation Authority...

Mayor London Breed orders T-Trains to run their entire route, no more switchbacks!

Today, Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Shamann Walton and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced an end to “switchbacks” on the T Third Line that cause the train not to finish the route and leave entire communities of color stuck without a way home, a way to work, a way to pick up their children from daycare.

At his first District 6 townhall meeting, constituents of newly elected Supervisor Matt Haney...

Treasure Island residents’ subsidized and market rate rents have been used by the Treasure Island Development Authority (TIDA) and developers Lennar and Wilson-Meany to maintain and ultimately convert the toxic former Navy base into an exclusive community of wealthy condo owners. In a recent townhall meeting, middle and low-income residents expressed their suspicion that they are being “encouraged” by various means – the most recent of which is a toll tax – to depart from the island to make way for the rich.

Mumia Abu-Jamal: An Evening for Justice and Freedom unites movement leaders

Mumia Abu-Jamal: An Evening for Justice and Freedom was presented to a full house at St. John’s Presbyterian Church in Oakland on April 6. Pam Africa, minister of information for MOVE and chair of Friends and Family of Mumia Abu Jamal, who has dedicated decades to spreading support for Mumia worldwide, inspired the crowd. Alice Walker asked, Why isn’t Mumia free?

JUNETEENTH: June 14-17 4th annual Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence and June 19 2nd annual...

“By anarchist spirit, I mean that deeply human sentiment which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love among the people, which is not an exclusive characteristic only of self-declared anarchists, but inspires all people who have a generous heart and an open mind.” – Errico Malatesta, Umanita Nova, April 13, 1922

Rwanda: 25 years on, U.S. taxpayers paying millions for Homeland Security’s sham ‘Genocide Fugitive’...

While Kagame and the Rwanda genocide industry commemorate the 25th anniversary of the so-called 100 days of genocide, U.S. taxpayers continue to pay millions of dollars for yet another bogus asylum show trial targeting another genocide survivor and fugitive from the terrorist Kagame regime.

Case involving unreasonable force upon a disabled man by police won by defense

“It cannot be that an elderly, disabled man attempting to take Paratransit to a doctor’s appointment can end up being thrown to the ground by police and arrested for resisting,” said public defender Semuteh Freeman.

US court struggles with the case of Jean Leonard Teganya 25 years after the...

In 1994, Jean Leonard Teganya was a 22-year-old Rwandan medical student in his third year at the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Rwanda in Butare. Now he is in Boston’s Federal District Court, nearing the end of his trial for immigration fraud and perjury about his role in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

One year before Census Day, California calls on ethnic media and CBOs to ensure...

The U.S. Census has always undercounted African Americans and the reasons are mostly economic. Correctly counting all the individuals in households with multiple or multigenerational families called “sub families” is a major factor. Other variables like families without permanent housing or affected by incarceration or homelessness, homes without broadband subscriptions and low literacy can all come into play.

Video confirms Vallejo police shot and killed rapper Willie McCoy while asleep in his...

Police in Vallejo, California, have released body cam footage of the fatal February shooting of African-American rapper Willie McCoy while he was sleeping in his car outside a Taco Bell. Police said at the time McCoy made a sudden move, but the footage shows he simply moved his hand to scratch his shoulder and clearly posed no threat, yet all six officers present opened fire on him.

‘The Urban Retreat,’ a play by A. Zell Williams directed by Darryl V. Jones...

At its core, “The Urban Retreat,” a play by A. Zell Williams directed by Darryl V. Jones at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre through April 6, is a father’s redemption story; however, it is also the story of a son who strays from his creative roots. Actor Lenard Jackson’s Trench Deep finds himself caught and entangled looking for answers as does his reluctant mentor and teacher, Chaucer Mosley (Adrian Roberts), who is also running from demons.

Commemorating the Rwandan Genocide: A Senate resolution in praise of blood

“Kagame did not stop the genocide, because at the same time that ethnic Tutsis were being killed in Hutu-controlled zones, his Tutsi troops were killing with equal zeal and organization. And in every zone that Kagame’s army entered and controlled, they killed Hutus massively.” - Judi Rever

The Lackawanna County 7: Guards charged with sexual assault on women prisoners

The Lackawanna County 7, local prison guards of the Northeastern County Pennsylvania lockup charged with sexual assaults upon several women, are, after all, charged with sexually assaulting prisoners. That fact is never lost on either judges or juries, who see guards as the good guys.

It’s true: As San Francisco mayor, Dianne Feinstein did repeatedly fly a Confederate flag...

Supporters of Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein are determined to write out of history the fact that, as mayor of San Francisco at the time, she infamously fought to keep the flag of slavery and KKK race terror flying in front of City Hall.

Alabama prison hunger strike spreads to Limestone Correctional Facility

Upon arrival at Limestone CF, Traywick began a hunger strike in protest of his unwarranted solitary confinement. This follows multiple waves of recent hunger strikes by prisoners in Alabama, all protesting the same issue, and all exposing the ADOC’s patterns of retaliation and abuse.