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Monthly Archives: December 2019
Jim ‘Cannabis’ Crow: an interview wit’ a prisoner from the War on [Drugs] the...
Now that people are allowed to profit from the herb, will the people who were involved in the illegal commerce be released? Who is benefitting from the new U.S. Green Rush?
The People’s Conservatory presents ‘KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of the Nutcracker,’ a different...
Crossing bridges made from bones, Nzingah dances through Bahia, is wrapped in literal rainbows as she alights in New York at the African Burial Grounds (Wall Street), dances into Congo Square in New Orleans then heads back to Oakland where the enchantment continues in Oscar Grant Plaza.
Lockdowns and violence persist at USP Beaumont
In the year 2020, support our incarcerated journalists, activists and freedom fighters. Send a resounding message to the Federal Bureau of Prisons that free speech rights of all prisoners must be respected.
Pachamama and the Pope
The American TFP describes its three values – tradition, family and property – as a protective wall against socialism and called the Amazon “a huge ‘green slum’ divided into tribal ghettos.”
Navy removes an estimated 163+ new radiation deposits from two toxic dumps and dangerously...
The Navy’s announcement of an estimated 163+ radioactive waste excavations, 41 neighborhood chemical removals, and a large clump of elevated radioactivity from under an occupied home raises doubts that Treasure Island can ever be completely cleaned.
Crime, punishment and quality of life
This is the story of the enduring and ineffable bond between a homeless mother and her homeless child and of their noble struggle to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Should UN peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?
The UN troops in DRC are called “peacekeepers,” but MONUSCO’s real mission is managing the “silent violence” in which perpetrators cannot be readily identified, atrocities go unreported, and resources are smuggled out of DRC through Rwanda and Uganda.
Restrictions on First Amendment speech rights warrant congressional investigation – later for impeachment
False convictions leading to imprisonment prove to be a transportation of slavery. Left uncorrected while mouthing off about insignificant facts takes the country into the direction of barbarism.
Wanda’s Picks for December 2019
Within the craziness, artists like Cherie Hill, Gabriel Christian and Chibueze Crouch have opened with their work windows into spaces where Blackness – just everyday Blackfolkness – is a ticket or key or pass code into rooms others seated behind us out of sight and mind/full/ness cannot enter.
To solve multiple crises at once, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez unveil ‘Green New Deal for...
The 54-page Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, which Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduced at a press conference, was co-sponsored in the Senate by Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and endorsed by more than 50 climate and affordable housing organizations.
Janette Sherman: Scientist, colleague, friend
The world, not just the current one but the future version, owes much to Janette’s brilliance, integrity and dedication to her fellow human beings.
California prison authorities are punishing hunger strike veterans by starving them
James Baridi Williamson, then buried alive in the dreaded Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU), is one of those who fought back and is now being punished for his participation in the 2011 and 2013 California mass hunger strikes, including the largest one in history with 30,000 participants.
HP Biomonitoring awarded Packard Foundation grant
There has been no independent community-wide human biomonitoring program implemented in the United States designed to screen residents living adjacent to a federal Superfund site for toxic chemicals and radionuclides … until HP Biomonitoring! The new clinic, at 5021 Third St., next to the library, will be open soon.
Support cultural icon Kevin Epps in court Tuesday, Dec. 17
“Since my release, I only hope to continue living my life in this way: raising my kids, building and making contributions to my community and keeping a positive outlook on life.” – Kevin Epps, Hunters Point filmmaker
Comrade Malik: Environmental disasters in Texas are not a hoax
Prisoners who, like me, are trapped in federal and state prisons in close proximity to these toxic chemical plants rely on free world people to confront these violators of the public’s trust. Don’t be silent.
City College’s disrespectful relationship with African American administrators and the Black community
“City College used me to develop relationships with the Black community,” says one administrator.
‘Harriet,’ the film – a review
If a viewer is looking to see a story where white people are not cast as saviors and Africans as beasts, then this is not the film for you.
Talking with kids about the dangers of e-cigarettes
Some e-cigarette users have had seizures after a few puffs or a day of vaping, according to an alert by the Food and Drug Administration.
Michael ‘Zaharibu’ Dorrough, universally loved, locked up for 34 years, is innocent!
"I am incarcerated for a crime that I had nothing to do with. And I am serving a sentence of life without possible parole as a result."
Congo: Millions die while the UN keeps the peace
“There’s been killed 8 million people and you say you’re making fictitious peace and you’re telling us that this is peace when aggressors are not named!” – Congolese Swiss historian Bénédicte Kumbi Njoko