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Yearly Archives: 2023
APEC faceoff: Homeless in Gaza, homeless in Huchuin
They put up 12-foot-tall iron fences and have harassed and removed literally hundreds of houseless, disabled elders and folks holding on by a thread to “prepare” for APEC.
Hundreds of Bay Area Jews arrested in the Oakland Federal Building demanding ceasefire in...
"No matter how enlightened you are, if you don’t do something, if you don’t take action, this genocide will continue," said film director Boots Riley.
Mumia on Gaza: War against the fleas
The Palestinians are the indigenous people of the region. They are thus equivalent to the Navajo, Apache and Seminoles of the West, subjected to the settler colonialism of the invaders. It is they who have a right to exist.
Urban Alchemy, a model for hope in San Francisco’s street team landscape
What sets Urban Alchemy apart is its composition of long-term offenders who have experienced the same conditions they now seek to improve.
City College set to collide with CSM football in the battle for the Bay...
"I think each year, City’s team gets better. We’ve had several excellent players and teams, but these players are stronger and faster.”
Back to Red Onion State Prison, site of entrenched racism and abuse
These super-max prisons – Red Onion and Wallen's Ridge – have never been needed. Every justification concocted for their ongoing operations has been exposed as a lie.
Nancy Cato helps us see ourselves through art
“It’s been a blast creating these images in one of the Blackest parts of San Francisco. It’s an honor."
The death of the Hip Hop legend: How corporate rap is killing the Hip...
In today’s era, where the motive is profit over cultural substance, artists are becoming disposable commodities with careers barely lasting a few years.
Child hands and legs and memory: two poems on Palestine
Not wanting to be one of the missing
or one of the unable-to-be-identified killed, the little girl wrote on the inside of her palm in neat Arabic script, “If my hand survived, this is my name,” before she was slain.
Black contractors and workers are participating in SF’s $3 billion sewage treatment plant upgrade
By breaking down barriers to opportunity, the project helps local businesses to thrive and increases the pool of skilled craftworkers in the City, supporting sustainable, long-term economic growth in the community, the City and the region.
Operation Al Aqsa Flood: Palestine, Israel and Resistance
It is no secret that the U.S. is doing everything in its power to thwart the emerging multipolar world order where the vision is less wealth inequality globally and locally inside countries and less big power interference in the domestic affairs of smaller countries.
Dr. Clayborne Carson receives 2023 Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum
Dr. Carson, the Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor, emeritus, is a distinguished scholar, historian and activist, recognized for his lifelong commitment to civil and human rights, especially in preserving the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Homefulness is HEALing
Houseless leaders propose an innovative rent-free housing-healing model for one of San Francisco’s vacant office buildings – City Hall rally Tuesday, Nov. 7, 10:30 a.m. Be there!
Rashid: Prison officials plant a street weapon in a vacant cell, then move me...
After I was moved to solitary, numerous officials admitted this incident was a premeditated set up. I was also told that the entire ploy was to create a pretext to have me emergency transferred to the notoriously abusive and racist Virginia prisons Red Onion or Wallens Ridge.
In Loving Memory of Jo Ann Jones
Rest in peace, Jo Ann Jones. Her community advocacy will be sorely missed.
Medicare (Dis)Advantage
The Medicare Advantage mailers in your mailbox may look appealing, but beware: They are a disadvantage that endangers the solvency of the entire Medicare program.
LoveLife Foundation is putting love back in our communities
“Our annual Oakland’s Finest Black Tie Gala and College Scholarship Drive raises funds to give college scholarships to deserving Black youth to attend four-year colleges,” says Lacy.
Guard slams cell door, amputating prisoner’s fingertip
The officers involved exhibited a flagrant disregard for the wellbeing and rights of inmates, demonstrating a deeply entrenched culture of corruption and abuse at Men Central Jail.
‘DA Jenkins is enabling hate in our backyard’
Jenkins’ incitement comes as heightened anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim rhetoric has reached a fever pitch in reaction to violence and war in Israel and Palestine.
Remembering MOVE on film
For here were MOVE people, not just in brief sound bites, but in extended discussions, giving their ideas, insights, and arguments.