2021
Yearly Archives: 2021
Judge rules California Department of Corrections inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on incarcerated people...
Genocide – CDCr and San Quentin State Prison found guilty of deliberate indifference causing the deaths of 29 people, with no consequences.
Gratitude during pandemic holiday times
Love service in community is the fabric Positive Directions Equals Change weaves.
Berkeley City Council receives alarming data on racial and gender disparities in city contracting
City of Berkeley feels a painful poke in the ribs about its biased and discriminating policies in awarding city contracts.
Quest to detect plutonium
In the footprints of Dr. Janette Sherman, Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai continues to uncover the deadly poisons left by the US Navy on the killing fields of Bayview Hunters Point.
California Coalition for Women Prisoners celebrates 25+ years
Twenty-five years uplifting and working alongside criminalized and incarcerated women is celebrated by CCWP.
Jazz fusion band TBA will rock the Compound’s ‘Last Saturday’ TODAY 5-9pm
It's a fundraiser, accent on FUN! Amazing music-makers coming out to support Black media, SF Bay View and Black New World Media. Be there!
Bypassing CDCr’s promotion of death towards giving life
Responding to CDCr ‘s practice of crushing lives, prisoner Vincent Callender is creating his dream of prisoners giving life to those in need.
Survivors of mass incarceration speak truth to power at Spirit of Mandela Tribunal
The International Jurists listened to testimonies from 30 witnesses including these six icons at the International Tribunal in New York Oct. 22-25, 2021 finding the US government Guilty of Human Rights Violations constituting Genocide.
The Lucasville gas chamber: Torturing Ohio prisoners with war crimes chemical weapons
The genocidal slave masters, oppressors, capitalists, imperialists, colonists, racists and white pathologists continue to use any tool imaginable to attempt to sustain the imploding system of inhumanity.
Another fascist acquitted: Rittenhouse verdict sparks outrage
The stench of rot will continue to emit from the genocidal acts of racist, capitalist, white pathology and President Biden’s apology, until we say “NO”!
GIRLFLY in the Gardens
Finding their way and their place through poetry and sharing the fruit.
Leonard Peltier is one of America’s longest-serving Political Prisoners, and Biden may be his...
Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier was wrongfully imprisoned now 44 years by the system's people who can’t let him go without exposing the racist corruption of the FBI who can, and will, hurt you.
Everything you need to know about Oakland mayoral candidate Allyssa Victory
JR Valrey’s interview is a deep dive into learning about Oakland mayoral candidate, Allyssa Victory, and reminds that self-education is also required to get what we need from those whom we elect.
A father and grandfather loves up on the children after decades of being unjustly...
Richard Johnson’s Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back brings holiday love and joy to children and families impacted by the prison system.
California Reparations Task Force looks at long history of racism in American agriculture
Ongoing corrupt and genocidal USDA policies, denials of land, wealth and constitutional rights for California Black farmers is being scrutinized by the California Reparations Task Force.
Abdul-Haqq Khalifah turns sadness from the passing of his teenage daughter into fundraising for...
Abdul-Haqq Khalifa shares his ongoing journey of response and healing at the death of beloved 15-year-old daughter Najiyya.
The news from the Venezuela election? Victory for the people of Venezuela and defeat...
Venezuela votes to shed imperialist gangsterism.
Bay Area personalities and musicians come out for the Dec. 4 Black media fundraiser!
Ghana becomes a bridge of rediscovery, reclamation and celebration of Black lives weaving the threads back together where they have been frayed.
Alameda County fails to pay settlement to woman forced to give birth on jail...
Santa Rita Jail exhibits behavior and policy as clear evidence of barbarians working in jails and prisons committing genocidal acts against Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor people.
Homefulness the world
With Indigenous leadership, solutions have been seeded, planted and launched in Homefulness No. 3 with world-view in so-called Bellingham, WA.