2021 August
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Bayview activist calls for sit-down with District 10 Supervisor
The people are sick, tired and suffering – Bayview Hunters Point activist Dwayne Gaines wants to ‘get it done!’
SFUSD Samoan Bilingual Program at Leola M. Havard Early Education School
Bay View Education Reporter Daphne Young interviews big hitters on the SFUSD Board of Education!
SF’s COVID-19 Clinic at Burton High
San Francisco Unified School District hosts a COVID-19 Clinic at Burton High School!
Black Texas prisoner gassed, brutalized in solitary confinement cell
Jason Renard Walker witnesses and speaks out about the beating of Marquis Kingbury, with humanitarian and defiant disregard for Sgt. Schwartz’s threat that he will beat Walker nearly to death just like Kingbury should he ignore the threat.Â
Who’s making the rules? Time added to sentences for our brothers at the fire...
Slavery is alive and profitable as CDCr dangles sentence-reduction incentives to get agreements with prisoner fire-fighters to risk their lives and then shamefully breaks those agreements for a longer haul of cheap/free labor.
Commemorating Revolutionary Black August
Baba Jahahara uplifts in honor and commemoration our treasured Elders joining the Ancestors and honors also the fallen Freedom Fighters and revolutionary history bringing us into Black August 2021.Â
Unbroken – bury your fear!
Moved to our own educational critical thinking by Joe A’Jene Valentine’s critique of F.M. Shabazz’ story in SFBV’s May 2021 issue, another gift of shared humanity from the inside expands the view.
Liberate the Caged Voices
Sixty-six year old prisoner, Ifoma Modibo Kambon, describes how state prison actors administer their insidious tactics to destroy prisoners' minds, bodies and spirits with torture of decades in solitary confinement and other sadistic implementations of dehumanization.
SF City Hall breaks last year’s promise to divest from policing
The SF Board of Supervisors’ proposed budget, unanimously and shamefully, reneges on promises made to defund the police, refund $24.7 from the 850 Bryant jail closure and meaningfully invest in the Black community.