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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
San Francisco 8 court appearances August 6 & 7 & Maybe the 8th Bail hearings for the San Francisco 8 will continue next week -
Monday and Tuesday, August 6th and 7th for Ray Boudreaux, Richard
O'Neal & Richard Brown. There is a strong possibility of an additional hearing on Wednesday, August 8th...
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2007 2:10pm PDT
Eric McDavid Update - Fundraising, Trial Dates, and Eric Says... Matching funds, trial dates, Eric says, and more......
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 9:23am PDT
Raging Grannies Against Torture at the Grand Prix 
Why demonstrate at the Grand Prix? The entrance happened to be directly across the street from Jeppesen Dataplan....read on.......
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 10:40pm PDT
Oakland to Transform Red Light Cameras Into Spy Cameras 
Oakland, California to lobby legislature to allow 24-hour video surveillance with red light camera system. Redflex has been lobbying for Homeland Security Contracts (see link below article). If we want any privacy rights we must fight this one. Please contact city hall and demand that these cameras not be used for spying on citizens.
Time for some activism work Oakland. Please call...
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 11:46am PDT
Camp-Out Against the Coonerty Crackdown: 5th Sunday on the Sidewalk With new stats revealing SCPD tickets for "illegal sleeping" have doubled from a year ago, homeless activists and their housed supporters will be back in front of Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz Sunday at 2 PM to build support for a Tent City at City Hall on August 12th. Come on down to 1520 Pacific to sign up and sing out!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2007 4:52pm PDT
15-Year-Old Shot By Oakland Police Officer The parents of a teenager who was shot by an Oakland Police Officer in early July believe he was hit in the back. JR Valrey is a writer, filmmaker, radio producer and a contributing editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 8:36pm PDT
Golden Gulag - Book Review 
This is a book review by Sara Olson of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's book - Golden Gulag; Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California...
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 7:55pm PDT
8/16: Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Summit in San Pablo 
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Posted: Fri, Jul 20, 2007 10:02am PDT
Protestas frente a consulados mexicanos por la represión en Oaxaca (7/20) 
PROTESTS at the MEXICAN CONSULATES in San Diego, Oxnard, Los Ángeles, Fresno and SAN FRANCISCO on July 20th starting at 6pm.
18 de Julio de 2007 - Bertha R. Santos escribe: Diversas comunidades oaxaqueñas, integrantes del Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), realizarán manifestaciones simultáneas en cinco ciudades de California para protestar por la violenta represión en contra de las celebraciones populares de la Guelaguetza, el movimiento de la Asamblea Popular de los P...
Posted: Thu, Jul 19, 2007 4:35pm PDT
Take a rare look inside California's youth prisons Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back and think about what keeps us motivated
to do this work. For us, it's the kids inside California's oppressive youth prison
system. Until now, we haven't been able to talk to them directly. We've talked to
their families and their loved ones, but we haven't been allowed inside the youth
prisons themselves......
Posted: Thu, Jul 19, 2007 1:19pm PDT
Black Street Hawker Busted for Badmouthing Business Downtown Jason Paschal, an African-American street tarot-card reader, called police after he was called a "nigger" and spat on by a man seen conferring with O'Neill's workers. Instead of the spitter behing apprehended, 5-6 SCPD officers handcuffed and jailed Paschal for "disturbing the peace" because of his outspoken criticism of O'Neill's....
Posted: Wed, Jul 18, 2007 12:11am PDT
Unethical charity: California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS) 
After months of getting calls from the California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS) insisting that I need to send them money for a pledge I never made, I finally looked up information about the group at the charities database run by the California state Attorney General's office. Commercial charities have recently been required by law to file general accounting documentation, stating their total revenue and the fraction that goes towards the charitable purpose....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 11:48am PDT
Chinese Community Troubled by FBI Ad Thursday, July 12, 2007: The FBI recently advertised in Chinese-language newspapers asking readers to report on potential Chinese spies. The ads created a stir among Chinese Americans, reports NAM editor Eugenia Chien. Chien monitors Chinese-language papers for New America Media....
Posted: Thu, Jul 12, 2007 7:55am PDT
Raising Issues at CoonertyLand: Sleeping Ban Protest/Tabling Sunday July 8 2 PM The Human Rights Organization, Housing Now! in Santa Cruz, Humanity for Homeless, and HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) will be tabling, trolling, and taking names in preparation for an Injunction allowing homeless people to sleep legally somewhere in Santa Cruz--as is currently the case by court order in Los Angeles, by settlement in San Diego, and by legislation in Richmond....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 4:27pm PDT
DPF Newsletter and Upcoming Events The latest issue of Death Penalty Focus's newsletter, The Sentry, is now availabale...
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 6:34pm PDT
SF Police Commissioner David Campos Speaks Candidly About Need for Police Reform Host Glenn Davis of 'The Twenty Two', a weekly talk show on San Francisco cable access Channel 76. in an interview with San Francisco Police Commissioner David Campos about Police Reform and Campos' candidacy for the Board of Supervisors vacancy in District Nine in 2008....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 4:16am PDT
Police Secrecy Met with Legislator Silence Friday, June 29, 2007 : On June 26th, the State Assembly Public Safety Committee, on which San Francisco member Fiona Ma serves, remained silent in the face of police union pressure to keep secret information regarding officer misconduct....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 7:43am PDT
Eric McDavid Update - Fundraising, Website Updated, and More We still have quite a way to go before we reach our goal of $15,000......
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 2:00pm PDT
SF: Only Supe Daly voted against police terror; for social services Only Supervisor Daly voted correctly: No on the 25% police wage increase on 6/26/07, the other 10 including the Green Sup. Mirkarimi voted Yes. To all the supervisors: We cannot have guns and butter; either you pay for social services or you pay for a police state. Police are not social workers; they are the thugs of the capitalist class....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 7:38pm PDT
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