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Yearly Archives: 2019
Santa Rita Jail retaliates against strikers
This in-custody death would be the 10th this year, and the 43rd in the last five years, a statistic that supports Santa Rita’s reputation as one of the deadliest jails in the state.
Support the Bay View and our righteous movements!
Recently, Elder Bill Russell accepted his “Hall of Fame” ring, which he refused in 1975 because he felt the white-run “HoF” should have honored Charles “Chuck” Cooper, the first person of African ancestry drafted into the then “whites-only” NBA, in 1950.
Artivists in Action and Solidarity: Rattle the KAGE Dec. 7, 4-7pm
Artivists in Action and Solidarity: Rattle the KAGE Dec. 7, 4-7pm! Busting down walls and opening doors through art, culture and education at the first annual Ratcliff Award celebration benefiting SF Bay View and Prison Focus. Y'all come!
Invitation to Bid for Southgate Road Realignment Project on Yerba Buena Island
Invitation to Bid for Southgate Road Realignment Project The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (Transportation Authority) will receive electronic construction bids for...
I will not be silenced!
The Trump administration has an overt and covert campaign of suppression aimed at journalists, activists and servants of the people – including Comrade Malik, who plans to edit the Bay View upon his release.
Swept to death
At thanks-taking time, we are not asking for a friggin’ one day of charity; we are asking for liberated land, de-criminalization and our own self-determiNATION so we can solve our own problems and build movements and long-term solutions like Homefulness. We will not continue to be swept to death.
Alternative community under fire: Wood Street Collective is being threatened with eviction
People are being kicked out of the last place they could park or build shelters. The City of Oakland has not provided alternative places to be and the planned “safe parking lot” is months from completion.
Students host concert to benefit other children experiencing homelessness
The next children-helping-children benefit concert for the Homeless Children’s Network is Sunday, Dec. 1, 5 p.m., at the Mission Dolores Chapel, 16th & Dolores Street, San Francisco. Learn more at https://www.hcnkids.org/post/concert.
A Black perspective on the 77th World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland
I passed out over 200 of my MEGA (Melanin Enhanced Geek Alliance) ribbons during the four days I attended the Con.
Conditions at the Allred Unit Prison are driving some inmates insane, others homicidal or...
Despite a rise in murders at the Allred Unit’s close custody building this year, overall conditions haven’t gotten better; they are getting worse.
30,000 respondents offer a complex picture of race and gender with serious implications for...
“Understanding how to reach and move Black voters in 2020 requires a deeper and more inclusive look at how gender impacts our lives and shapes our participation in politics,” said Black Futures Lab Principal Alicia Garza.
Reflections on Re-Build: New Afrikan People’s Assembly in Terre Haute Aug. 17
With food and a live band, the People’s Assembly was a social-cultural celebration that brought out generations of New Afrikan people in Terre Haute.
On Pan Afrikanism: Interview with Comrade Rashid by JR Valrey of Block Report Radio
We need to concentrate and blend the various strains of the Afrikan experience and our adaptations to the Diaspora and cross-cultural and economic exchange into a Pan Afrikan culture and consciousness and productive relations that are rooted in proletarian intercommunalism, internationalism and humanism.
Is Bernie Sanders electable?
Among the Democratic candidates for president, there is one person who speaks for the vast, long-suffering working class, the beating heart of America: Bernie Sanders.
Victoire Ingabire walks a knife edge in Rwanda
Victoire Ingabire “is a convicted criminal who was never rehabilitated. She is not a politician, an opposition leader, but a criminal.” – New Times of Rwanda, Paul Kagame’s newspaper
Lost in time: Lift up our brother Sitawa and strike down indefinite incarceration
Sorrow is felt among the whole prison population for our brother Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, who, along with countless fearless prisoners, pioneered our Prison Human Rights Movement (PHRM) to the world’s stage leading the largest-in-history California hunger strikes, yet he continues to be held indefinitely. The prison system is covertly executing all of its lifers.
Emergency! Comrade Malik calls for our help: ‘Don’t allow the feds to assassinate me!’
“When I embraced this life as a freedom fighter and whistleblower, I knew there would come a time when the oppressors would place me in harm’s way and then feign ignorance. I think it’s time we all got more serious about protecting our most advanced political elements.” – Comrade Malik
Justice demands Mumia Abu-Jamal’s freedom – not continued imprisonment to appease the Fraternal Order...
Formerly hidden evidence disclosed by current District Attorney Larry Krasner justifies a new trial and Abu-Jamal’s immediate release. “Abu-Jamal should have been released by Krasner,” declares Pam Africa.