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Monthly Archives: May 2021
Fife for what’s right: Oakland City Council votes unanimously to fund community alternatives to...
Bright lights shine on Councilmember Carroll Fife’s resolution reshaping public safety by using tax dollars on the front end for communities.
To City College Trustee Tom Temprano and the Board of Trustees
CCSF students placed at risk of death by riot police while peacefully confronting the oppressions of capitalism, white supremacy, classism and racism by CCFS’s Tom Temprano and the Board of Trustees.
Wanda’s Picks for May 2021
Wanda Sabir’s invitation to feel the perpetual shift and change of the world and it’s people’s stories opens portals for exploration and discovery.
Ed Mead: Prison Lives Matter
The marathon that is a revolution is described by Ed Mead’s advocacy for the new Prison Lives Matter movement.
Black contractors getting few if any more city contracts since new law
“It’s a whole community being left behind,” said Bendu Griffin, president of Tonma, a management consulting firm in Oakland, adding that Black contractors are going extinct.
Kwame Shakur: Letter to the People
Kwame Shakur skillfully documents an unfolding roadmap in revolutionary movement for self-determination, liberation and freedom building substance and solidarity among the people.
Voices are raised against the NBA launching its new African league in Rwanda
“My family and I urge you, on behalf of our husband and father, as well as countless other victims of the Rwandan regime, to please reconsider your choice to host the BAL games in Rwanda," pleads Taciana Rusesabagina, wife of the hero of "Hotel Rwanda," now imprisoned as a "terrorist."
Against the odds, for a worthy cause
Embracing the journey to face his deepest fear, Antwann Johnson enters the realm of deep humanity.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee announces FEMA funeral assistance funding
The COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Act brings a breath of relief to unbearable loss, sorrow and stress.
Green Party of California condemns Democratic Party ‘betrayal’ for shelving of Guaranteed Health Care...
Capitalism again blocks the road to affordable quality healthcare for all people as a human right.
BOS President Shamann Walton leads Reparations plan for Black San Franciscans!
SF BOS takes huge historical step in creating the 15-member African American Reparations Advisory Committee.
Why I am calling for a Local Health Emergency in San Francisco
Absence a response by the local health officer or designee moves Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai to declare a Local Health Emergency under Section 101080 of the California Health and Safety Code at Naval Stations Hunters Point and Treasure Island.
Nekhet ankh, the life force: Kemetic Sciences Studies – an enlightenment
The ancient Egyptian Ankh is a symbol of our unification between human and the divine.
The blame game: Addiction is destroying our communities
Capitalism’s big pharma makes bank on Black and Brown communities while watching them die.
Deputy Public Defender Eric McBurney’s statement on the case for his client Steven Jenkins
Shifting from criminalizing homeless lives requires digging deeper to expose the truth of the reality.
Family justice in an unjust world: A mother’s story of false allegations by doctors,...
Stop snatching babies for federal funds – Families in Resistance is exposing trauma and corruption in the web that is child welfare, police, hospitals and federal legislation.
Trans woman seeks release from CDCR custody after attacks
Transgender Advocacy Group pleads with Gov. Newsom to grant clemency to Syiaah Skylit, who is experiencing retaliation, threats and abuse, and reasons to believe she will be killed while in prison.
California’s deplorable treatment of mentally ill people of color
Keith Baxter is evidence that as a society we must revive the compassion necessary to validate our humanity and leave no one behind. Every heart counts.
Derek Chauvin: This verdict is not about ‘justice’ or ‘accountability’
The “guilty” verdict was a crumb to pacify, to avoid the predictable uprising against a “not guilty” decision. Stay awake and continue to build the movement actualizing abolition.
Prop C funds released! San Francisco takes first step to move dial on homelessness
Birthed in the community, Our City Our Home’s Proposition C recommendations go to the mayor and BOS for final approval.