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The Killing of a Journalist Voice reporter Chris Thompson recalls a fallen colleague and his own days on the run
by Chris Thompson
August 7th, 2007 6:43 PM
Last week, a man in a ski mask confronted Oakland, California, journalist Chauncey Bailey as he was walking to the downtown offices of the Oakland Post. The man raised a sawed-off shotgun and fired a round into Bailey's torso, then stood over him and fired a second round into his head....
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 9:18pm PDT
Pleasanton looks to join medical pot needs survey Tasked with determining the community's need for medical
marijuana, and whether that need is being met, the Pleasanton Human Services
Commission has asked city staff to approach Alameda County about being part
of a blind survey of medical marijuana ID card holders....
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 2:34pm PDT
CAFE NIGHT TO BENEFIT ANTI I-69 EFFORTS the Long Haul, 3124 Shattuck Ave at Woolsey...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 12, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 10:35am PDT
FEINSTEIN: STOP HER BEFORE SHE KILLS AGAIN Trent Lott, George Bush & Mitch McConnell : 1 The American Public: 0...
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 12:03am PDT
Int’l Latino Film Festival – CINE365 screening La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley
(510) 849-2568...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2007 1:13pm PDT
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Town Hall Piedmont Community Center
711 Highland Avenue
Piedmont, CA...
Event Date: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2007 12:48pm PDT
The Danger Signs Were There For Chauncey Bailey Originally From New America Media
Sunday, August 5, 2007 : The execution of Bay Area editor Chauncey Bailey was forwarned by a history of Black radical groups using violence against detractors -- the most notable case being the murder of Malcolm X. There were two frightening and glaring danger signs that veteran black news reporter and editor Chauncey Bailey was in mortal peril....
Posted: Sun, Aug 5, 2007 10:35pm PDT
White Supremacists Turn Bailey’s Murder into a Call for Attacks Bailey's murder and police attacks on black community don't jibe....
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 10:04pm PDT
Update: Suspect confesses to killing Chauncey Bailey [[[Devaughndre Broussard, 19, confessed to the killing after he was one of seven people arrested Friday during a raid on Your Black Muslim Bakery and several homes, The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune reported Saturday.]]]...
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 12:38pm PDT
Medical Marijuana Supporters Rally After Raid Friday, August 3, 2007 : Some 50 people, including four Berkeley city councilmembers, rallied Tuesday at the Maudelle Shirek Building, demanding that federal drug enforcement agents and the Los Angeles Police Department stay out of Berkeley and that the city become a sanctuary for medical marijuana distribution. On July 30, the Los Angeles Police Department ordered the Bank of America to freeze the account of the Berkeley Patients Group, BPG Community Liaison Becky DeKeuster told the Daily Pl...
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 10:45am PDT
Keeping the Beserkeley in Berkeley Friday, August 3, 2007 : If we don’t watch out, pretty soon there’ll no Beserkely left in Berkeley—nothing quirky, funky, artsy or even anything useful. Stories coming out of West Berkeley in the last few weeks strongly suggest that there’s a determined campaign underway to turn Berkeley’s last non-suburban bastion into a poor imitation of a cross between Emeryville and Walnut Creek, with the worst aspects of both....
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 10:44am PDT
Tributes on the Life of Chauncey Bailey Friday, August 3, 2007 : Tributes to slain Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey poured in today from prominent politicians as well as from his colleagues in the news business. Oakland police say Bailey, 58, who was a reporter for the Oakland Tribune for more than 10 years and recently served as editor of the Oakland Post, was shot multiple times on the 250 block of 14th St. shortly before 7:30 a.m. Thursday in what appears to have been a targeted shooting....
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 10:43am PDT
Breaking Story: OHA Settles With 19 Families In Wrongful Oakland Mass Eviction Case Earlier today on August 3, 2007 the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) settled with 19 families in a case of wrongful evictions occurring at Oakland's Lockwood Gardens public housing units! During April 2006, 34 families were originally accused of being unlawful occupants (squatters) at Lockwood Gardens by the OHA, and faced eviction. Since then the OHA has backed off from the year long eviction process after Alameda County Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith repeatedly ruled against the OHA's a...
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 10:32pm PDT
Screening of When I Came Home Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 5:28pm PDT
Sutter Delta RNs Vote to Strike: Safe Staffing, Health Plan Reductions At Issue In 10 Northern California Sutter Hospitals Thursday, August 2, 2007 : Registered nurses at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to authorize the RN negotiating team to call a strike if an agreement with the giant Sutter Health chain is not reached, the California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee announced today. The vote comes after hospital officials walked out of negotiations after presenting a "last, best and final" proposal that is inferior to Northern California sta...
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 7:21am PDT
Hiroshima Memorial: Reflection and Action - 8/6 No Nukes! No Wars! No Profiteers! -- 'In the Shadow of the Bomb', a memorial ceremony and nonviolent direct action at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab will mark the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima....
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 9:13pm PDT
In Memory of Chauncey Bailey: We'll Miss You Chauncey! The cold blooded murder of Chauncey Bailey in downtown Oakland is shocking beyond belief! Chauncey was a beautiful soul!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 8:23pm PDT
RIP Chauncey Bailey -- Fierce Advocate for the Black Community Originally From New America Media
Thursday, August 2, 2007 : The New America Media family would like to extend our personal condolences to the family of Chauncey Bailey -- a consummate professional , friend, mentor and Black Media pioneer. Mr. Bailey was gunned down this morning in Oakland, California....
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 6:19pm PDT
Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Boot Camp UC Berkeley, MLK Student Union, 3rd Floor
2475 Bancroft St
Berkeley, CA 94704
http://emergency.berkeley.edu/map/maps/DE34.html...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 18, 2007 8:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 5:23pm PDT
LAPD Attacks Berkeley Medical Marijuana Club LAPD Freezes Bank Account of Berkeley Patients' Group in Rogue
Medical Marijuana Bust
Cal NORML Release - Aug 1st...
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 12:36pm PDT
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