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SF LIVE!!-District 10 Ambassador Shirley Jones
by Carol McGruder Shirley Jones holds a harvest of health in her hands – mmm, delicious! – picked fresh from the Potrero Community Garden on Potrero Hill in San Francisco’s District 10. Anyone who has...
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From Oakland to Arizona, Black clergy say, ‘Our struggle is one’
A huge crowd marched through Phoenix, Arizona, to the state capitol to protest the racial profiling law, SB 1070, and for immigration reform May 29. Another march is set for Wednesday, July 28, at 5...
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50,000 volts a zap
by Marlon Crump At the hearing, SFPD officers role played how tasers might be used in domestic violence. – Photo: David Elliott Lewis “If, at 50,000 volts a zap, five officers shoot their tasers at the...
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Break the siege on Gaza NOW!
by Donna Wallach Regina Carey, one of three Bay Area residents chosen for the upcoming voyage to break the siege of Gaza, says, “The real victims are children ... yet we’re sacrificing them” when, for...
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Reflections on the victorious resistance at Sogorea Te
by Philip Standing Bear, Indigenous Peoples Media Correspondent Indigenous people from many parts of the world and their supporters came together for the closing ceremonies marking the victory over...
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Just rock, or Black rock? An interview wit’ the rock band Peekaboo Theory
by Minister of Information JR Peekaboo Theory, Houston rock group Although what we call rock began with musicians from the era of Chuck Berry and Little Richard, it has long been associated...
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12,000 California prisoners on hunger strike
Strikers’ families denied visits, attorneys banned by Jay Donahue Oakland – As the renewed prisoner hunger strike enters its second week, the federal receiver’s office released information that at...
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San Francisco Mental Health Board passes ‘no tasers’ resolution 9-2
by Carol Harvey At its Wednesday, Nov. 14, meeting, the San Francisco Mental Health Board welcomed public comment before voting 9 to 2 to pass its resolution against putting Conducted Energy Devices,...
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Wanda’s Picks for January 2013
by Wanda Sabir I remember when I first met Jayne Cortez, I was with Elsie Washington, the late fiction writer who wrote the first Black romance novel, which I owned. A subscriber to the Harlequin...
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Supreme Court hears Voting Rights Act challenge: The legal fight to protect...
by Kevin Alexander Gray The Voting Rights Act (VRA) signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 struck down laws supporting Jim Crow segregation and other measures designed to disenfranchise or...
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Enough already with tasers for San Francisco police!
by Carol Harvey in consultation with Mesha Irizarry Though they couldn’t afford a billboard, anti-taser advocates in San Francisco had educated the public in previous campaigns so well that they once...
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Margaret Winter, ACLU: California can be in the vanguard of the movement to...
Testimony of Margaret Winter, associate director of the ACLU National Prison Project, at the California Senate and Assembly Public Safety Committees’ Joint Informational Hearing on Segregation Policies...
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When it comes to solitary confinement, U.S. fails the mice standard
by Zachary Heiden I learned about a law this week governing the use of solitary confinement, one that I had never heard of before. To be precise, this isn’t really a law – more like a very strongly...
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‘Let’s just shut down’: an interview with Spokesperson Ray of the Free...
by Annabelle Parker Annabelle Parker: How did you come to start the Free Alabama Movement? What was the issue that triggered it? And were you all in general population? You are still in solitary (the...
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Joe Debro on racism in construction, Part 9
A study of the manpower implications of small business financing by Joseph Debro A 1968 book-length report, titled “A Study of the Manpower Implications of Small Business Financing: A Survey of 149...
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Poor people need your help to survive corporate greed’s heat wave and fees
by Tiny, daughter of Dee, Poor News Network The heat rose from the asphalt beneath me like a snake with no head. It circled around my body and landed in my nose and mouth. I began to have choking...
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George Jackson University supports the historic Sept. 9 strike against prison...
by Kilaika Anayejali Kwa Baruti Shakur, Executive Coordinator of George Jackson University Today, Sept. 9, 2016, is the day that many people in America are wholeheartedly organizing, mobilizing, taking...
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It’s not mass incarceration, but slavery
Speech delivered at the Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March Aug. 19, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Max Parthas speaks at the Millions for Prisoners rally in Washington, D.C. We asked, or the...
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Caging poor people: Occupied Land Truth Tour through Southwest Turtle Island
Caged by Lisa ‘Tiny’ Gray-Garcia “I’m not sure where they are taking us, but I am praying it is safe,” said Marta as she sat in the back of the Greyhound bus near the bathroom along with over 20 other...
View ArticleRattling the bars with Eddie Conway: H. Rap Brown, now Jamil Abdullah...
Kairi Al-Amin, the son of H. Rap Brown, now Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, talks about his father’s case and his appeal because of a prosecutor violating his right not to testify him by questioning during...
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