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Katrina housing crisis still hinders recovery, report says
Three years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered the homes of hundreds thousands of Louisianans, too many residents are still unable to afford to rebuild their homes or find an affordable place to rent.
Proposition F: A fight for the heart and soul of San Francisco
Lennar has used its multi-million dollar profits to buy off community groups, pay community residents as “consultants” and sell a set of wolf tickets that would have shamed even the wolf himself.
Another world is possible: Boots of the Coup interviews Mumia Abu Jamal
"There is a very thin line between those of us who are political and those of us who are not ... that is why I say that there are millions of Malcolms. They just don’t know it yet."
‘Banished,’ the Bay View fundraiser
We have all heard the tales about how racist Amerikkka is, but it is nothing like seeing it in interviews with the white beneficiaries.
Hunters Point is yours! Claim it!
A man who lives near the Shipyard called to say he’s been sick ever since the Navy’s 46-acre toxic landfill caught fire last August and to ask if a lawsuit is in the works.
Silenced Mamas: Prominent Family Court judge consistently rules against mothers
Sandra was extremely shocked and devastated by Judge Slabach’s order that placed her 7-year-old son’s life in danger.
The Shipyard can uplift the people
The Hunters Point Shipyard is our front yard. Let's act like we own it!
Update on the San Francisco 8
“The same people who tried to kill me in 1973 are the same people who are here today, in 2005, trying to destroy me.”
Who will stop the Navy?
Who will stop the “dirty transfer” of Parcel A of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard to the City? It’s on Parcel A that the notorious developer Lennar – the same Lennar that built a whole subdivision in Florida on its own dump – can’t wait to build hundreds of new homes.
The Liars’ Club, Pt. II
It would be a liability to accelerate the transfer of a federal Superfund site from the National Priority List with the data gaps that exist in the characterization of this property. The city admits it cannot clean up the Shipyard’s radiation-contaminated sites, which comprise the bulk of Parcels D and E. Parcel F, the Shipyard’s underwater region, has not been adequately studied.
Did CDC conceal toxic dust threat in Hunters Point as it did in Ohio?
Short term exposures to particles can, within hours or days, aggravate lung disease, cause asthma attacks and acute bronchitis and increase susceptibility to respiratory infections.
Police make life hell for youth of color
Statistics cannot convey the intimidation, anxiety and anger that Black and Latin@ youth must live with on a daily basis, nor the effect this can have on them and their families.
Dirty development vs. environmental protection
Under the dirty development policies advanced by the Newsom administration, Parcel D can be surreptitiously transferred to the City and County of San Francisco for industrial development next year and housing built on radiation-contaminated soils.
Support and defend the MOVE 9!
A rally to mark the anniversary of the brutal 1985 bombing of the MOVE Organization will be held Saturday, May 10, 12-3 p.m., at 11th and Market in Philadelphia.
Sean Bell’s killers acquitted
The police murdering Black people is not a phenomenon unique to New York. This is just a small drop in the bucket of police executions in Black communities around the nation and the world.
Will Lennar’s lies decimate Bayview Hunters Point?
Due to the toxicity of the land, Lennar is able to acquire land in poor areas, such as the Bayview, for next to nothing. Lennar then develops the area, building market value homes that current residents cannot afford, driving them out of their neighborhood.
Up and coming: an interview wit’ the rap group Hairdoo
We make soul music coming directly from the spirit. We combine styles of the diaspora and hit it with the Juju stick, to make it hit.
POCC speaks before the United Nations: an update wit’ POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
This is terrorism. (We should) not wait for some white left producer to later come out with some movie when it is safe to say, “OK, this is wrong."
UN holds racism hearings in US
What’s different is you’re going to hear the voices of the people. You don’t usually hear the voice of the people.