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A New Fortune ~ Education A Civil Right in California 
Black History Month ~ United Nations International Year for People of African Descent began with a milestone decion by the Sacramento County Office of Education to embrace change. A regional climate of environmental challenges remains an open festering sore... imagine visiting the California State Capitol and being penalized for coming by local government. This is the ongoing notion seen on 36 gravemarkers of the earliest people of African Descent to the State of California. Civil Rights i...
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 11:38pm PST
Rally & Vigil for Martin Flenaugh Frank Ogawa Plaza, 14th & Broadway in Oakland...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 6:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 7:00pm PST
What we can learn from the MLPA Initiative 
The initiative, overseen by oil industry, real estate, marina development and other corporate representatives, took water pollution, oil drilling and spills, wave energy development, corporate aquaculture, military testing, habitat destruction and all other human impacts on the ocean other than fishing and gathering off the table in its perverse concept of marine "protection."
Photo: David Gensaw, Yurok Tribal Council Member, speaks during a protest at the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force meeti...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 2:26pm PST
Legislators request time for testimony at North Coast MLPA hearing 
"The Committee heard compelling testimony from North Coast Tribes that were unified in their concerns to protect their inherent rights to traditionally gather along the North Coast shoreline," they stated. "We ask for the Commission to respect Tribal interests and provide for adequate testimony from the Tribal perspective. We encourage you to work with the Tribes to develop a workable format for their full participation at your hearing by providing a block of time for tribal testimony."...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 11:30am PST
MLPA Eureka hearing video now available The hearing, held in the Board of Supervisors’ Chambers in Eureka, focused on the North Coast Study Area of the MLPA Initiative and included testimony from MLPA Initiative staff, regional stakeholder groups, tribal representatives, environmentalists and local resource users....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 5:58pm PST
Benefit for antiracist activist facing bogus charges! 
Radio Bar
435 13th St. (at Broadway)
Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 4:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 10:44am PST
Brown Appoints John Laird Secretary of Natural Resources 
“I hope that Mr. Laird remembers to listen to all of the ’stakeholders’ and those to whom the last Secretary failed to hear,” said Mark Franco, headman of the Winnemem Wintu (McCloud River) Tribe. “No matter the politics around him, I hope he sees the resources that he is now over seeing as the precious gifts they are and not items of commodity to be abused and sold.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 6:58pm PST
Citywide Convergence- Rally & Picket Russo's Office!!! Oakland City Hall (14th & Broadway)...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 3:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 2:02pm PST
Press bulletin: People's Hearing on Racism and Police Brutality The People's Tribunal will hear testimony from the victims of human rights abuses throughout the Bay Area and the country, including members of Oscar Grants family; targeted immigrant, Arab, and Muslim individuals and communities; victims of racial profiling, police brutality, and gang injunctions, and victims of FBI infiltration and disruption via COINTELPRO and present day operations....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 1:49pm PST
Time to break silence about things that matter In a packed auditorium of Santa Rosa High School on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, hundreds of members of North Bay community celebrated the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 11:10pm PST
Fresno MLK Day 2011 
About 650 people marched to honor Martin Luther King in downtown Fresno on Monday, January 17, 2011. The photo below shows the front of the march....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 5:39pm PST
SF Redevelopment Agency hurting as all new housing and other plans will come to a halt. 
The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency has been riding a HIGH horse for the last forty years. It decimated the Black community in the Western Addition. Did the same in the Mission with the Latinos and others. In recent years it has done the same in the Southeast Sector with corrupt, gusto. Its attitude towards the minority community has been to treat them with disdain. The SF Redevelopment Commission consists of corrupt folks that are pushing the agenda of Big Developers. It mantra that it p...
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 6:49am PST
DEE & KELSEY; SUPPORT THOSE WHO OPPOSE WHITE SUPREMACY 850 BRYANT ST. between 6th and 7th ST. Nearest BART station is CIVIC Center....
Event Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2011 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2011 8:41pm PST
MLPA Official Greenwashes Oil Industry's Record on 'Renewable' Energy 
It would be insane to continue the MLPA fiasco when Brown is calling for the slashing of virtually all state programs and California has the lowest ratio of game wardens to residents of any state in the nation to enforce these fake "marine protected areas."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2011 7:17pm PST
New Year's Vigil held in memory of Oscar Grant A vigil for Oscar Grant was held on New Year’s Day at Fruitvale BART, two years after he was shot and killed by former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle.
A crowd of 100, including Grant’s family and friends, gathered in a barricaded sidewalk area outside the station, holding candles in the cold afternoon. The crowd was smaller than a vigil held last year that included elected officials, poetry and music with a stage blocking off a street....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2011 9:26am PST
Lennar is seeking to DUMP their plans to build anything on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. 
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is a Superfund Site. Having said that - LENNAR, the Rogue Developer may try to hoodwink the Main Media - but, the fact remains, that no one in their right mind will buy a home, in this economy at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Now, the U.S. Navy has an obligation to clean up the entire Shipyard. The U.S. Navy is dragging its legs. Lennar is seeking to dump the Shipyard, cut its losses - and deal with reality....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2011 6:35am PST
Journey to Justice: Benefit for the Winnemem Wintu Tribe David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 7:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 8:50pm PST
Will Jerry Brown Continue Arnold's MLPA Initiative? 
Governor Brown has a chance now to do the right thing - cancel or suspend the MLPA Initiative and conduct an investigation of the conflicts of interest, corruption and violations of state, federal and international laws that have occurred under the MLPA Initiative.
Photo header of Brown courtesy of the Governor's Office....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 12:12pm PST
California Inauguration Day 2011 ~ International Year People of African Descent 
Governor Jerry Brown, Attorney General Kamala Harris and Treasurer Bill Lockyear host modest public and elegant inauguration celebrations and receptions in Sacramento, California. The 2011 Bicentennial Civil War battle of the 112th Congress has already begun as a start to the United States celebration of the International Year of People of African Descent....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 10:38am PST
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