2019
Yearly Archives: 2019
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.
Political speech in prison
When I asked, “Will I be released from segregation since I’ve done nothing wrong?” He said, “Well, you wanna be all political, this is what happens.”
Make anti-racist Chesa Boudin our SF DA
Black San Franciscans are over seven times more likely to be arrested than their White counterparts, and they are 11 times more likely to be booked into county jail.
Transmisogynoir: How Black transwoman murders have reached epidemic proportions while America sleeps
Taking place the day before Oakland Pride, Oakland’s First Annual Transmarch highlighted the plight of Black transwomen in the United States and internationally.
Judge Marks and mass incarceration in the Middle District of Alabama
The stories of injustice coming out of the Middle District of Alabama are still replete with nonviolent, disproportionately Black defendants with longstanding drug problems – ones who commit victimless crimes tied to unsuccessfully or untreated addictions – receiving draconian sentences.
Reparations: Racism vs. reality
The basic truth is: If you are unable to understand the roots of slavery – greed, hate and ignorance – then you are more likely to abdicate your responsibility, allowing the branches of slavery to continue growing.
Time for Change Foundation expands award winning model for helping families achieve self-sufficiency to...
In Northern California, Time for Change has opened Brighter Futures, an emergency housing facility located in Hayward, close to schools and transportation.
Homelessness is a real crisis in Oakland, Part I
According to the California Department of Finance, one in five Californians pays more than 50 percent of their income for housing. With the medium home price in the nine Bay Area counties at $810,000 and the current market rate rent for a one-bedroom apartment at $3,000 to $3,500 per month, individuals and families are rapidly being forced to live in unhealthy tent encampments and in their vehicles.
Suicide epidemic and deadly extreme heat continue to be downplayed and ignored inside Texas...
The death toll inside Texas State Prisons continues to rise with no relief in sight. There is such a thing as perception management and “controlling the narrative.”
Welcome to USP Beaumont, where the struggle continues
Make no mistake about it, comrades, I was sent to this high security facility because I continue to speak TRUTH to power and I won’t be silenced – period.
2020 Here we go again
As a 16-year-old kid, given a 30-year sentence for attempted robbery, I used to think that maybe I just fell through the cracks, that I could have been saved as a kid and rehabilitated. Then I was educated, then my consciousness was raised and I realized that it wasn’t meant for me to be saved or rehabilitated.
Bernie’s heart – and ours
From all indications, Bernie will soon be back on the campaign trail. As he has been the first to say, it’s not about him, it’s about us. How much compassion and commitment can we find in our hearts?