Monthly Archives: May 2026

Cuba has always defended the need for international relations based on sovereign equality, dialogue and cooperation, rather than hegemonic doctrines or threats of force. The peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean have the right to freely determine their own destiny, without external interference.

The Oakland Police Department has been receiving federal oversight since the conclusion of the Oakland Riders trial in 2003 because of its accountability issues and the fact that it has been run like a mafia that is above the law.

“Enough is enough. The Congressional Black Caucus will not stand by and allow this administration to continue this barbaric policy that generates unimaginable human suffering in Cuba. We are demanding that you end the oil blockade and lift the sanctions on Cuba.” - CBC Chair Yvette Clarke

As San Francisco leaders move to hand control of Ella Hill Hutch Community Center programming to Shakirah Simley through a 13-month lease pushed by Bilal Mahmood and Daniel Lurie, many longtime Fillmore residents say the process has ignored the very community the center was built to serve. Against the backdrop of youth violence, public corruption scandals and growing distrust of City Hall, residents and neighborhood leaders are calling not just for summer programming, but for transparency, accountability and a genuine community voice in deciding the future of one of the Fillmore’s most historic institutions.

For more than 60 years, the U.S. government has economically targeted Cuba while mainstream corporate media often repeats official narratives without fully examining the human cost of sanctions and blockades on everyday Cuban people. In this conversation, Havana-based journalist Liz Oliva Fernández offers a perspective rarely heard in U.S. media — one rooted not in politics from afar, but in the lived reality of surviving, reporting and resisting from inside Cuba itself.

The Y encourages people to recognize their value as individuals, have a sense of belonging, and to become the best version of themselves. The YMCA of Bayview Hunters Point is no exception to this motto of growth.

The film centers around humanizing the lives of boosters, people who steal clothes from corporate stores to resell at a discount on the streets, in contrast to US media's normalization of humanizing corporate and government war criminals and environmental and ecological terrorists. 

Although two previous universal healthcare bills (CalCare) had failed to advance out of the California State Assembly during the last four years, I had hopes that the 2026 version, AB 1900, would fare better.

"Voters have a right to choose between every candidate the Constitution makes eligible. The Secretary of State does not get to thin that field through arbitrary procedural traps." Dr. Butch Ware, Candidate for Governor

"California is home to one of the largest Black populations in the country, and yet cycle after cycle, Democrats spend millions on everything but Black-owned media, " - Rep. Lateefah Simon

Bayview Hunters Point is being asked to endure a bridge demolition and radiological shipyard teardown at the same time, in a toxic corridor where families have already carried the health costs for generations.