2021 May
Monthly Archives: May 2021
Haiti Revolution, sparks for freedom
The Haitian people, in self-determination and the arms of the sacrifices of the ancestors, seek the next step in their protracted fight for freedom.
Slavery, historic trauma and the critical need for reparations
The U.S. Reparations Debt to Afrikan, New Afrikan and Black People is past due and should be tendered immediately in all forms requested and known by humans to be essential to live a full, safe and healthy life.
Meet a poor righteous teacher
The only justice to be found is organized, educated and self-determined from within all power to the people.
The show trial and verdict in the case of Derek Chauvin: Another page from...
Offering up one low-level pig, whose bad day at the office ignited a firestorm of mass rebellion … is just collateral damage, as far as the pigs are concerned, so long as the status quo is maintained.
RACISM-1619; The real killer virus
Society, like every other organism, is equipped with what it needs to fight infection.
My Black Mamma
Breaking the slave tradition, she announced she wasn’t going to pick no damn cotton.
Ultimate injustice: The wrongful conviction of Donald Ray Young
Innocent, wrongfully convicted and purposefully sentenced to death at San Quentin, Donald Ray Young awaits his appeal currently pending in the Supreme Court of California, which can begin only after the trial record is certified as correct – by the trial court.
From poverty tows to Palestine: The violence of settler colonial evictions across Mama Earth
In crimes against humanity, politriksters and crapitalism execute evictions, sweeps, removals and disposals in the project of gentrification that are violent, traumatic and deadly on the increasing number of houseless people.
SF Supervisors have failed to act on SFPD failure to complete DOJ COPS by...
The SF BOS and SFPD will be scrutinized at a hearing on May 25, 2021 to expose the lack of attention in the past 5 years to the DOJ mandate of 2016, as the SFPD continues its relentless racist reign of terror on Black San Franciscans.
Allegations of mismanagement hit Booker T. Washington Community Center
Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, a beloved landmark in the Fillmore community since 1920, was named for a civil rights leader who promoted Black self-sufficiency. “It is this legacy that a community center in his name ought to honor and champion,” says longtime board member Julian Davis.
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s spiritual advisor confronts DA Krasner and the FOP
If Krasner does not challenge the FOP on Mumia Abu-Jamal, then he really has not challenged the FOP fundamentally. He may achieve some short-term gains for “progressive” prosecuting, and indeed he has, but he has not really challenged the police power of the state that wants to kill Mumia and defeat the revolutionary and more humane form of the state for which Mumia fights.
The national ban on Newport, Kool and other menthol ‘squares’ has political roots in...
Biden administration’s FDA makes a recovery out of the rough with new rules intended to ban mentholated tobacco products, which cause smoking-related illnesses, the number one killer of Black Americans.
Rome is Burning
Mistahi Corkill, a carpenter based in Ottowa, Canada, put together this video to an original song he wrote! Viva la revolución!
We can do this! A PSA from Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama says: We can do this!
California’s historic Hunger Strikers’ Jan. 14 letter to Gov. Newsom’s legal advisor Kelli Evans
The four Prisoner Hunger Strike Movement representatives won their case against CDCR’s torturous solitary confinement only to have it replaced with Level 4 enhanced SHU and refusal of approved tablets during the pandemic.
CDCR’s genocidal disregard for life-saving measures
CDCr effectively blocked SB 1419 to enable prisoners live organ donations saving lives of immediate family members, but prisoner Michael Flinner looks to build conversation and re-pilot the initiative.
Liberate the Caged Voices
Building the revolution. Jalil Muntaqim speaks with SF Bay View Editor Nube Brown and informs, inspires and enlightens about New Afrikan identity, (r)evolution and humanity.
Black truckers shut down multi-million-dollar UCSF job site for 4.5 hours
San Francisco continues its systematic assault on our second and third-generation Black and Brown families. We love San Francisco, but we will no longer stand for these human rights abuses.
March madness: McCarthyism at KPFA?
History records that the infamous Sen. Joe McCarthy died in 1957, but did his ghost haunt the March meeting of KPFA’s Local Station Board?
An interview with Oromo American human rights activist Seenaa Jimjimo on genocide in Ethiopia
Four hundred Oromos refugees burned alive, Sen. Kuhn just in Ethiopia talking about genocide in Tigray, but never mentioned Oromia.