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Haitians demand food
Supposedly, the UN occupation and the 2006 election had allowed Haitians to forget that its democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, had been overthrown in a violent coup. The massive protest over food prices has shattered this facade.
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.
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.
Too poor to parent?
In 2004, Black children were twice as likely to enter foster care as white children. Even among other groups of color, Black mothers are more likely to lose their children to the state than Hispanics or Asians.
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.
Environmental organizations and residents warn against consequences of Lennar’s ‘Prop Greed’
Despite Lennar's promises to clean up toxics at this site, environmentalists point to the text of Propsition G, which states that “the final development plan for this Project Site may be materially different from the Project."
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass: Our society will be judged on the way it cares...
People are scared about the future in a state that should be all about hope for the future. We represent California – the eighth largest economy on the planet.
Cuba: If change is in the air, does prosperity lie ahead?
35 percent of the National Assembly members are Black, up from 33 percent in 2003 and 28 percent in 1998. Forty-three percent of the National Assembly members are women, making Cuba one of the worlds’ leaders in the percentage of women in representative government.
Biggest land grab since Manhattan
Lennar intends to grab it all for nothing and take every perk the City and the feds can offer to boot.
The Shipyard can uplift the people
The Hunters Point Shipyard is our front yard. Let's act like we own it!
Toxic terror in San Francisco
“What Mayor Newsom, Lennar and its surrogates wanted me to do was leave the community exposed, and they hoped that this whole issue of their poisoning our babies and community would go with me.”
Federal court shuts down major Hunters Point Shipyard polluter
“The Navy allowed its last tenant, the Triple A Shipyard, to willfully
pollute Dry Dock 4 and the Hunters Point Shipyard for 10 years.”
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.
Navy said to be conducting background checks on activists
More than once, the Navy has been charged with dishonesty and concealment in an effort to minimize the hazards it has created — and not just in Hunters Point.
Navy, City still blocking Black truckers
While the Navy has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on cleaning up the Shipyard, Blacks have been excluded — denied the trucking and other contracts needed to put bread on their tables.
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 landfill in our living room
The industrial landfill located on Parcel E of the Hunters Point Shipyard is known to contain potentially flammable petroleum products, construction debris, irradiated animal carcasses, human feces and lead based paint, pesticides and solvents.
Stop Shipyard land grab
Residents of Bayview Hunters Point, as victims of some of the most deadly military base pollution in the country, demand instead that the community control development of the Shipyard, once it is completely cleaned up by the Navy.
Redevelopment planning land grab of Shipyard and all BVHP
This new annexation amendment of the Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area appears intended to clear away the low-income Black population that has lived alongside the Shipyard for 60 years.