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My two cents on the engineering of media around the murder...
On the murky day of Aug. 8, Black Oakland remembered the life of career journalist Chauncey Bailey, who had been murdered the week before on a downtown Oakland street. Hundreds of people filled every place imaginable in the East Oakland Catholic Church of St. Benedict.
Why build stadium on Shipyard powder keg?
“Bayview residents have been living with asthma way longer than the 49ers have been living with a third-rate stadium.”
Obama meets Oakland
Folks were lovin' Sen. Barack Obama Saturday afternoon in Oakland when they finally got inside the enclosed Frank Ogawa Plaza area.
33,000 San Franciscans
Supervisors, your constituents are furious. They call and email me constantly wondering what we're going to do, what they can do and, most of all, what you're going to do. Your constituents, 33,000 of them, demand justice. It's yours to give.
‘Sophie, you sold us out again!’
Allowing 604 Hunters Point families to become homeowners is not in Newsom's ethnic cleansing game plan.
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.
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.
The Shipyard can uplift the people
The Hunters Point Shipyard is our front yard. Let's act like we own it!
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.
Why privatize the Shipyard?
I say stop the privatization of the Hunters Point Shipyard before we have more corruption to clean up than toxics.