2021
Yearly Archives: 2021
Breaking historical silence to heal from historical wounds: Remembering the 1966 Hunters Point Uprising
During the fall of 1966, racial and economic disparity exploded into a violent three-day conflict between local and state law enforcement, the National Guard and the Black community of Bayview Hunters Point.
Guards steal from a California death row artist and he gets the hole
CDCr fine tunes and perpetuates slave holder, racist dehumanization culture in the spirit of Empire.
Abuse of refugees exposes the White House’s long-standing policy towards Haiti
Revenge is an ugly look on the face of slave-holder U.S. policy against Haitian refugees.
On Sunday, Rosie the Riveter Trust will celebrate ‘We Can Do It!’ spirit and...
Rosie the Riveter Trust celebrates in respect and honor the 100th birthday and contributions to community and planet of icon and can do woman, Betty Reid Soskin.
Help the family of 10-year-old Sammy Johnson, who died in his mother’s arms of...
Rest in Power 10-year-old Sammy Johnson, precious human being.
Haitian refugee crisis made in the USA, border patrol agents whip migrants
U.S. Empire imperils with impunity the continued trauma and terror on the Haitian people seeking asylum “offered” by the Empire.
Sierra Bourne, community journalist!
Bayview Hunters Point – Meet Sierra Bourne, the Bay View's new community journalist, HP born and raised!
Beacons of hope: Humboldt State’s Project Rebound builds a prison-to-college pipeline
Project Rebound at HSU breathes life support into possibilities for life successes to people returning from incarceration and at-risk youth.
People over profits: California bill pushes Amazon, Walmart and other big e-retailers
Warehouse Workers Protection Act, AB 701, intends to reign in the profits over people culture causing pain, injury, suffering and job loss to employees, predominantly Black and Brown people.
LWOP is a death sentence: Give Stanley Bernard Davis a chance for parole!
California still has the death penalty in place, renamed to make the act of State Murder more comfortable for the citizenry.
US and UN treachery in the African Great Lakes Region: Why Rwandan refugees refuse...
Rwandan bodies and lives continue to feed the bottomless pit of U.S. capitalist, imperialist greed in partnership with Rwanda’s criminal President Paul Kagame while the United Nations agencies are exposed as complicit in silence.
City Hall political corruption reaches community-based institutions
“Black community organizations require mission-aligned leadership to implement their purpose. Instead, Booker T. Washington Community Service Center VP Farah Makras informed me that many of her friends voted for Donald Trump.” - Former Board President Julian Davis
God bless you for helping Sam!
Sam Johnson is fighting for his young life and with hope laced with anguish, friends are asking for prayers and community offerings to help Sam’s family and save this precious human life.
Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson: In answer to pig harassment, keep the heat on ‘em!
Bold, courageous and brilliant freedom fighter Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson finds the humor in the deadly chess game of holding pigs’ feet to the fire.
Hurricane Ida: On the 16th anniversary of Katrina, we get hit again
Both extremely destructive, hurricanes Katrina and Ida were very different, and communities organizing with strategic plans for disaster response would be far more efficient at weathering future storms.
Urgent! Call the governor! Jalil Muntaqim demands the immediate transfer of Kevin Rashid Johnson...
Jalil Muntaqim’s URGENT appeal to call Ohio Gov. DeWine and demand Kevin Rashid Johnson’s immediate transfer out of Lucasville – notorious white supremacist Lucasville Prison hell-bent on murdering Kevin Rashid Johnson.
Building up women for careers in construction
Bay Area Black women are unapologetically moving into construction, training with Mission Rock Academy and partners, to learn trade skills including running equipment like tower cranes, pile-drivers, forklifts, backhoes, boom trucks and Bobcat excavators.
On the unspeakable history of animal cruelty at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
In the protracted work of Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai to research, educate and eradicate the harms of the deadly dumping of killer contaminants at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Sumchai exposes the additional history of animal radiation experiments compounding the suffering.