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Monthly Archives: May 2021
California’s 2011-2013 Hunger Strikers ‘rocked the nation,’ but their Five Core Demands are still...
An update of this 10th anniversary of the California Prisoner Hunger Strikes from PHSS shows that the Five Core Demands are yet unmet by CDCr as prescribed by the Asker v. Governor of California settlement agreement thereby adding another year of court supervision.
Reparations are here!
Honoring Charles Eugene “Gino” Armstrong and fellow New Ancestors, still suffering Political Prisoners, Reparations and S. 40 are the center of Baba Jahahara’s offering.
Ella Hill Hutch holds community up during the COVID pandemic
James Spingola and Dr. Catherine James successfully brought love, health care and other necessities to the Fillmore and Bayview Hunters Point communities during the COVID pandemic, and the future looks even brighter.
Living within a lie
Countering the lying propaganda Americans have been fed about the U.S. not being a racist country, critical race theory could be an opportunity to learn the truth about American racism and inspire to make the changes necessary.
Moving out of the virtual world, the Digital Divide and lessons from the pandemic
Come and get 'em while they're hot – virtual, hybrid and actual – all events happening in your SF Bay Area neighborhood.
Juneteenth 2021! The struggle for freedom continues
Juneteenth is a celebration of resilience, strength and beauty of Black people – and – a focus on our history and strengthening the momentum towards gaining freedom and dismantling new forms of slavery and anti-Black racism.
Scaling the walls: Contact visit with Mumia
Mumia Abu-Jamal acknowledges that he lives because the strength of love organized.
Rep. Barbara Lee marks 100th anniversary of Tulsa Greenwood Massacre, calling for reparations and...
Past Due. Immediate material reparations to survivors and descendants of the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre are essential to begin healing and repair for the intentional death and destruction caused.
Organizing to win Guaranteed Health Care
How bad do we want it? The combined efforts of a coalition could be successful in identifying enough votes to get Guaranteed Health Care for All on the ballot in 2022.
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Positive Directions Equals Change explores the issues around substance addiction and changes like committed funding and humanity-based vision towards alternative equity-based solutions to serve the underserved in the African American community.
The struggle of our California Hunger Strike heroes is not over!
The historical prisoner Hunger Strikes of 2011-2013 by agreement ended indefinite/indeterminate solitary confinement (SHU) mostly in name only as CDCr merely morphed the practice to sustain comparable affects on their captives.
San Quentin on trial for 29 COVID-19 deaths under its watch
Over 300 habeas corpus petitions put San Quentin and CDCr on trial charged with 'cruel and unusual punishment' by deliberate indifference resulting in 29 preventable COVID-19 deaths, record infections, unbearable fear and anxiety, with grave and unnecessary risk to staff and community.
Curtis Family C-notes hits big stage!
With ongoing love transfusions for humanity the Curtis Family C-notes brings their unifying musical activism to feed the soul, and from Day One of the pandemic, accompanied by food for the body from Mother Brown’s.
SFUSD lost touch with 8,800 students during the pandemic
Harmfully affecting the education and well-being of students of color and many others over the past school year, COVID-19 has revealed the San Francisco Unified School District’s critical failures during the pandemic.
Juneteenth Kickoff Rally and the ongoing fight for justice for Black San Franciscans
Juneteenth: Is it a celebration? Or is it a continuous fight for our freedom? Are we really free?
Accountability and the immorality of qualified immunity
How many times do you let the dog bite before you muzzle it? Public servants have been biting the people, and disproportionately Black, Brown and poor people, way beyond the buzzer. Organize to muzzle the biters.
‘Art Against Imprisonment – From Palestine to the U.S.’
Virtual though it may be, this art exhibit featuring a broad spectrum of mediums from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people from Palestine to the U.S., has the potential to touch, amaze, engage, inform and transform more people than prior to the COVID pandemic.
Liberate the Caged Voices
This second part of Editor Nube Brown’s interview with Jalil Muntaqim reveals the many ways genocide is utilized by our government and uplifts building the unified movement to end it.
Genocide at Lane Murray Unit in Texas
Lane Murray Unit in Texas tends its plantation of New Jim Crow with purpose.
A narrative of two American slaves
Slavery by any other name . . .