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Monthly Archives: October 2019
Master Plan for Aging: San Francisco speaks
Fourteen percent of San Francisco seniors live in poverty, and over 50 percent of the homeless are seniors, 44 percent of whom have become homeless in their 50s.
Resistance to the idea of reparations may be simply psychological
by Wade Nobles, PhD
The newly wide-ranging discussion of reparations is being
stimulated by the recognition of the 400th anniversary of the introduction of
kidnapped captive Africans...
Rally Tuesday at City Hall to demand justice for Mario Woods and an end...
On Tuesday at noon, join the rally and press conference on the steps of City Hall to demand justice for Mario Woods and an end to war on Black and Brown people in San Francisco, and attend the hearing on the US Department of Justice’s 272 recommendations at 3 p.m.
Suit filed against Sacramento PD for restraining 12-year-old boy with bag over his head
The law firm of renowned attorney Ben Crump filed suit today against the Sacramento PD and a private security firm for restraining a 12-year-old of small stature with a bag over his head to “shut him up” after arresting him at a neighborhood carnival.
Aramark: Multibillion dollar food vendor starves and exploits prisoners
"In Ohio prisons, maggots were also found in Aramark’s foods." | Corporate profit and Aramark's starvation diets
Expanding space for women to heal: Grand opening of the Hope Center in the...
We are thrilled to announce the grand opening of the Hope Center drop in services, an expansion of the San Francisco SafeHouse transitional program.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
The Charlotte Maxwell Clinic (CMC) has been providing free integrative cancer care to low-income Bay Area women since 1991. The clinic recently moved from its previous location to an historic bank building located on “Pill Hill” across from Sutter Hospital in Oakland.
30 days after release, prisoner holds fundraiser
Prisons are not the place for the promotion of peace, especially in their maximum security and solitary confinement housing units.
#StokersSoWhite: 2016-2018, the fall of tokenism at the HWA
Black voices in speculative fiction aren’t new, but awareness of our participation in sci-fi, horror and fantasy is on the rise. This is partially due to the scandals and also to the increase in Black audiences in the sci-fi, fantasy and horror television and motion picture industries.
Solidarity never? The fight for WBAI
WBAI, the listener-supported New York City radio station with a 60-year history of radical political dissidence, was seized on Oct. 7 by the interim executive director and a minority of the Pacifica National Board, which owns the five stations in the Pacifica Radio Network.
Power concedes nothing without a demand: Community demands reinstatement of Hunters Point Shipyard RAB
The Navy appears to be in violation of the regulatory requirement to “reassess community interest at least every 24 months.” It has been over a decade since Laura Duchnak signed the Navy’s Letter of Intent to Dissolve the RAB.
Impeachment folly
Ukraine buys American oil despite being next door to Russia, with its 80,000 million barrels of oil reserves, the eighth greatest in the world?
When our ancestors speak, LISTEN! Part 2
With the crises growing on each and every day, WE again appeal to our youth and adults to utilize every means to stop the wealthy and foolish fossil fuel industries and challenge every candidate for elected office to produce serious climate reparations proposals and practices.
Black student athletes in California can now say, ‘Show me the money’
“For decades, college sports have generated billions for all involved except the very people most responsible for creating the wealth. That’s wrong.”
KPFA’s ‘Rescue Pacifica’ candidates stand with WBAI against takeover
The Rescue Pacifica candidates for the KPFA Local Station Board believe that KPFA and its sister stations should uphold the values of democracy, transparency and community-based decision making. We oppose undemocratic power grabs, including the attempt to close WBAI.
The Lasalin Massacre and the human rights crisis in Haiti
On Nov. 13, 2018, police and other paramilitary personnel entered the neighborhood of Lasalin in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. What followed was a massacre of the civilian population.
Play and kids with ACEs: ‘That’s where everything is worked out’
When children are deprived of plentiful self-directed opportunities to experience all of the play types, they lose potential pathways to fully grow, develop and heal.
Black Panther veteran Dr. Regina Jennings publishes ‘Poetry and the Black Panther Party’ with...
Along with the Panthers visionary activism, they wrote and performed poetry. Panther poets “(un)consciously” recited language with body gestures to influence and inspire social change.
Poverty in America a literal ‘death sentence,’ says Sanders, following devastating GAO report
“Poverty is a life-threatening issue for millions of people in this country, and this report confirms it,” Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement. “We are in a crisis never before seen in a rich, industrialized democracy.”
Radical politics
Radicals and revolutionaries fought for freedom from all forms of oppression. And the last I looked, that was a good thing.