Monthly Archives: July 2025

What the Cuban people endure is not a limited or selective restriction – it’s a full-scale siege. A form of collective punishment aimed at breaking a nation’s spirit.

A growing chorus of legal experts and forensic scientists says DNA evidence in the 1983 Chino Hills murders that convicted Kevin Cooper is plagued by contamination, missing or destroyed items and unexplained foreign DNA, and they contend a 2023 state-commissioned review by Morrison & Foerster functioned more like a prosecution brief than an independent re-examination; critics urge a new, truly independent investigation as Cooper remains on death row amid persistent questions about the integrity of the forensic record.

The Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation and its Keep People Housed — Oakland program are expanding efforts to prevent displacement in East Oakland, offering legal representation, emergency financial aid and in‑person assistance to low‑income tenants as citywide housing pressures and real estate buyouts intensify; organizers say earlier intervention and stronger tenant protections are needed as local politics and development trends threaten long‑term community stability.

Through funding elder healthcare programs, supporting equity-centered healthcare policies and elevating senior citizen’s stories, SCAN serves as a change agent for those who face race and economic discrimination.

The San Francisco Bay View Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp can grow into an event that not only uplifts current leaders, but also empowers the next generation to step into these non-profit leadership roles with confidence and clarity.

What we need is investment in what’s already working — nonprofits that are community-grown, community-led and unapologetically for us.

Tenants and working class people of the world will be familiar with our cause because there is a common thread we are all experiencing: exploitation at the hands of the 1%, who are committed to putting profit over The People!

by JR Valrey, The People's Minister of Information "The Akoma Market was born in September 2020, emerging from the crucible of the COVID-19 pandemic as a...

Land of the free, home of the brave? / With a quarter of the world’s prisoners – modern day slaves? / A declaration of freedom, now as then how you lie / Millions of us still in chains on your Fourth of July.