Store
2019 November
Monthly Archives: November 2019
Black Alliance for Peace stands in revolutionary solidarity with the people of Bolivia
With the forced resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales and the physical assaults against leaders of the Movement for Socialism, the progress made by indigenous and working-class people of Bolivia is under serious assault.
Modern-day slavery from incarceration to forced adoption
System-impacted women and girls are now leading the criminal law reform ... showing the American public and policymakers that previous beliefs on punitive punishments and “rehabilitation” are wrong.
Parenting with ACEs: How you can support your toddler
"Take care of yourself. If you’re healthy and feeling good, you can better respond to your child in a calm, nurturing way."
2020 political candidates being challenged to spend 12% of their campaign contributions with Black-owned...
For decades, the Black community in America has overwhelmingly given its support to candidates who have made promise to support Black causes, yet there is virtually no tangible way to measure if such support is being granted.
Treasure Island Superfund denial based on misinformation
Treasure Island got the highest or near highest scores for risk of exposure to residents, the human food chain and the environment. But California opposed its designation as a Superfund site. “By failing to make the National Priority List, cleaning up Treasure Island never became a national priority.”
Robert Earl Council enters 11th day of hunger strike to protest Alabama prison abuse
The Alabama Department of Corrections is once again targeting and repressing incarcerated hunger striker Robert Earl Council (aka Kinetik Justice) for exposing the inhumane conditions at Limestone Correctional Facility.
Jonestown: Reflection, healing, history
Join us Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, for a candlelight vigil and open mic to honor our Jonestown ancestors and the Black community still surviving in SF working endlessly to strengthen their lives, families, businesses and neighborhoods.
Sacred condolences … and congratulations!
by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at
6259 AA (November 2019 J-PG)
Africans Deserve Reparations! Cause, Black Lives Truly Matter!
Greetings of IMANI (FAITH) Esteemed G-o-ds and Sister-Brother...
Donald in the Donbass, Biden in the crossfire
“Zelensky is desperate to end the war. His electoral landslide was the result of this promise, and his anti-corruption theme, which is related. His presidency – even his life – depends on it,” says Princeton and NYU Professor Emeritus Stephen F. Cohen. So why did Zelensky want another $400 million worth of military aid that could only escalate the war?
It doesn’t taste like chicken
I am an innocent man in prison – 11 years now – and I still can’t tell you how it feels.
The Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series presents Anna Mwalagho’s ‘Never Thought I...
Immigration can be a form of erasure. The quicker the newcomer sheds her identity, the sooner she is accepted.
Holding San Francisco accountable on SFPD’s inadequate DOJ COPS progress and process
“Despite three reports studying Black People in regard to racism in 55 years, Black San Franciscans are worse off than ever before.”
Diversity talk highlights anti-Blackness and Black erasure within the LGBTQIA+ community
Denial of anti-Blackness is an everyday occupation in the LGBTQIA+ community and in San Francisco specifically, making this conversation long overdue.
Activists across the world deliver South Carolina prisoners’ demands to United Nations
South Carolina’s prison system has reached a breaking point, and right now it is breaking the minds, bodies and spirits of human beings.
Volunteering on the border: Our trip to El Paso and Casa Del Refugiado
One Brazilian family explained that the food they were provided in detention was cookies and chips.
The never-ending earthquake called Homelessness: Preparing for an emergency when your life is an...
We are always getting prepared for the emergency we are already living in, and it’s made so much harder by this ongoing criminalization and violence called “sweeps.”
Sam Jordan’s, San Francisco’s oldest Black-owned bar, to close after 60 years in business
“The spaces the Black community had carved out, the restaurants we’d established, the communities we’d become a part of, were all fading out.”
Government or corporate run healthcare?
Those who profit off illness are very powerful in the U.S. Kaiser is a non-profit that earns massive sums and is also a major opponent of an Improved Medicare for All.
In Texas, environmental racism is in our FACE
“The struggle to restore the soil and the struggle to create a just social order have up to now been carried on mostly as parallel political movements, without much mutual awareness."
Presidential candidates engage with formerly incarcerated organizers at historic forum on criminal justice issues
On Monday, Oct. 28, Democratic presidential candidates fielded questions from formerly incarcerated people for the first time during a nationally-broadcast forum.