2019
Yearly Archives: 2019
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.
Contamination, de-contamination and the dilemma of distrust at the Hunters Point shipyard
“The EPA has expressed to the Navy that they no longer have confidence in the work performed by Tt EC at HPNS, as well as at other Navy radiological sites including those located at Treasure Island and Alameda in the San Francisco Bay Area.”
How the patriarchy oppresses men
“Patriarchy,” the zine stated further, “is a system of entitlement that rewards behavior that is anti-woman.”
Santa Rita Jail prisoners stage hunger strike and work stoppage to protest filthy conditions,...
Homeless detainees are sent to filthy holding cells to sit and lie down in vomit, urine, feces, semen, on food- and dirt-stained floors. Rather than caring for the heroin addict in the infirmary, the detainees are made to tend to the addict, clean up the addict and his messes, and suffer the indignity, smell and infectious disease risks.
Rec & Park breaks ground on Shoreview Park overhaul
“This renovation has been a long time coming and we continue to be elated about the improvements to our park. Open space and parks represent so much for community and we will continue to improve our parks in the Bayview.”
Census Bureau embarks on a hiring blitz
Every “Area Census Office” will need 600-800 enumerators. The pay scale can range up to $30 per hour in some areas, such as the Northern California counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco.
San Francisco ‘Fiber to Housing’ program provides internet for low-income families
Mayor London N. Breed, along with City Administrator Naomi M. Kelly, have announced the San Francisco Department of Technology’s Fiber to Housing program has received national recognition for its service to low-income San Franciscans.
A key reparation to descendants of slaves wouldn’t cost a dime
There should be no talk of reparations in the United States unless it includes the ending of the historic and horrific crime against humanity: the death penalty.
Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire endures relentless interrogation
The powerful and wealthy nations who send foreign aid to Rwanda need to understand that they are supporting an unstable, unsustainable government because there is no space for people to speak freely and peacefully and engage in real democratic process in Rwanda. Shutting down political space risks the return of mass violence to Rwanda sooner or later. I have devoted my life to preventing its return.
Join the phone zap to move Comrade Malik, badly beaten, out of USP Beaumont
Comrade Malik, currently in solitary confinement after being attacked at USP Beaumont, urgently needs to get out of there and into an institution in California. Prison officials need to know that many, many people are watching out for him and they can’t get away with any more dirty tricks.
BABJA to host Q&A with San Francisco District Attorney Candidates – Davey D to...
The outcome of the San Francisco DA race could change the criminal justice landscape in San Francisco. This open forum is the last chance for undecided voters to hear each candidate address issues that matter to them and their community.
Scapegoating the judge: Tetra Tech deflects the blame for Hunters Point Shipyard eco-fraud
Judge James Donato: “It just doesn’t make any sense to me, that a guy rolls out of bed and says, ‘Hey, today is the day I’m going to swap out the test samples.’”
Bay View Voters Guide endorses Jeremiah’s Social Justice Voter Guide for San Francisco’s Nov....
The San Francisco Bay View newspaper so thoroughly and heartily agrees with the choices and the reasoning for making them laid out here by Jeremiah Jeffries that we present them in place of the Bay View Voters Guide.