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Angela Davis tours the nation calling for the abolition of prisons: reports...
by Anne Bromley Angela Davis came to KPFA recently to record an interview with Block Report Radio. – Photo: Adalia Charlottesville, Va. – Walking around the University of Virginia’s Academical Village,...
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The Ghetto to Gaza Speaking Tour featuring Mutulu Olugbala aka M1 of dead prez
Review by Minister of Information JR M1 of dead prez was interviewed by Boots of the Coup and Street Sweepers Social Club on the Santa Cruz stop of his Ghetto to Gaza Speaking Tour. People can still...
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Hustlin in the City: an interview wit Frisco rapper Sellassie
by Minister of Information JR Sellassie The Frisco native and conscious rapper Sellassie has to be one of the hardest working men in independent Bay Area rap music. I have run into bruh on East Oakland...
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Ted Pontiflet says farewell to Oakland
by Wanda Sabir It’s easy to see in this photo of Ted Pontiflet and Wanda Sabir the joy generated at Ted’s art sale and party Nov. 20. – Photo: Wanda Sabir Ted Pontiflet is an Oakland icon. He is East...
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Wanda’s picks for March 2011
by Wanda Sabir Refa One with Malik, a youth artist exhibiting in AeroSoul 2 at the Satellite Exhibit – Photo: Wanda Sabir Women’s History Month and the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day...
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Coming home: Revelations from former prisoners
by Sis. Marpessa Kupendua “I want to live every day, because I’m afraid I might lose it all again!” – Former DOC No. A27963 What happens when the gate finally swings open … for you or your loved one? –...
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Battling the fear of ‘our’ kids
by Shadi Rahimi It’s hard to shock me. But it happened when I saw a poll yesterday. After all the reports of physical and sexual abuse and suicide, the fact that detention is used as a first response...
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Mass arrests at Capitol rotunda
by Dave Welsh Capitol Rotunda, Sacramento, Calif. – A crowd took over the state Capitol rotunda on May 9 to kick off a week of protest against looming draconian cuts to the California education budget....
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Is the increase in baby deaths in the northwest U.S. due to Fukushima...
Janette D. Sherman, MD, Joseph Mangano, MPH, MBA “Greenpeace called on Japan on Thursday to evacuate children and pregnant women from a town about 60 kilometres (40 miles) from the stricken Fukushima...
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Malcolm X Revisited Tour
by Natasha Reid The SF Bay View is holding a fundraiser! Come and meet the grandson of Malcolm X, Hajj Malcolm Shabazz, on his speaking tour hosted by the Minister of Information JR. The tour is...
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Family and friends demand justice at memorial for Derrick Gaines
by Alex Darocy Family and friends of Derrick Gaines, 15, let South San Francisco know that police profiling and murdering Black and Brown youth will not be tolerated. – Photo: Alex Darocy On June 12,...
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Don’t let the torturer define torture
by Michael Zaharibu Dorrough This banner led a march in Santa Cruz in support of hunger striking prisoners on July 23, 2011. – Photo: Bradley@riseup.net. In the Crawford case (In re Crawford, 206...
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Stand with us in the upcoming peaceful struggle
by Arturo Castellanos Greetings to all those men and women of like minds and spirits who are going to volunteer and stand with us in solidarity in the upcoming peaceful struggle to force positive...
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Amid a week of rallies in support of prison hunger strikers, California...
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland – California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano issued a statement Thursday urging the California Department of Corrections and...
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To celebrate the movement: The California prisoner hunger strike one year later
by Donna Willmott At a noontime rally marking the first anniversary of last year’s largest-ever hunger strike, held in Oakland on July 8 at Oscar Grant Plaza, Marie Levin speaks out about her love for...
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Cages Kill-Freedom Rally in Santa Cruz
by Courtney Hanson and Willow Katz of Sin Barras, Santa Cruz Sin Barras organized the Cages Kill-Freedom Rally to save lives after six people locked up in the Santa Cruz County Jail have died since...
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The value of Black life in America, Part 1
by Anthony Robinson Jr. The Black man “had no rights that a white man was bound to respect.” – U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Dred Scott Dred Scott is buried about a mile down the same road from where...
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The first monthly Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement...
Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) began March 23, 2015. Actions were held in California from San Diego to Arcata (Arcata-Eureka, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, San...
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On the 23rd of every month, Californians demand, ‘End solitary confinement!’...
Compiled by Willow Katz and Verbena Lea from reports of actions statewide Phyllis Greenleaf holds a story board, created by Michael Smith of the California Peace and Freedom Party, which thanks Peter...
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