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America's Prisons Hold More Than 1.5 Million Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 : WASHINGTON - “Unlocking America: The Why and How to Reduce America’s Prison Population,” a report by the JFA Institute, found increased incarcerations did little to reduce crime. "In the United States, every year since 1970, when only 196,429 persons were in state and federal prisons, the prison population has grown....
Posted: Wed, Dec 19, 2007 7:16am PST
Winnemem Wintu Tribe and CSPA Respond to Governor's Statement on Delta Vision Report 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used the release of the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force's final report on Monday, December 17 as yet another opportunity to campaign for his water bond proposal for new dams and a peripheral canal. Schwarzenegger's proposal would result in increased water exports from the California Delta to subsidized agribusiness and southern California, further imperiling an estuary already in steep decline. Delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad, juvenile striped bas...
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 5:15pm PST
The Tale of Two Cities 
Community activists are demanding justice in the Lilly Mae Harmon Homicide case. They are outraged that the Fresno Police Department did not investigate her death and made the family pay for a private investigator to look into the homicide. Reverend Floyd D Harris, Jr, National President of the National Network in Action, a Civil and Human Rights Organization, said Lilly Mae Harmon’s family was discriminated against because they are poor people of color....
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 3:11pm PST
Police Accused of Racial Profiling in Alameda Murder Investigation Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 : The Halloween night murder of Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan in Alameda led to a serious investigation by Alameda police. Eight people were detained and two Southeast Asian boys were charged with the murder and their names were leaked to the media -- they were later released....
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 6:56am PST
Amazing Grace, 2007 Farm Bill Debate: Legacy of the Trans~Atlantic Slave Trade 
The World Trade Organization will watch closely today's Congressional Hearings on the Ongoing Legacy of the Trans~Atlantic Slave Trade. U.S. Senate and House Conference Committee on the 2007 Farm Bill will reflect on the 1862 creation of the United States Department of Agriculture, the people's department. President Lincoln gave his life, establishing a way forward, while preserving agribusiness without enslavement, today our nation begins an adult conversation on the ongoing impact of the...
Posted: Tue, Dec 18, 2007 3:54am PST
Interview with San Francisco 8 Defendant Richard Brown: A Case of Injustice & Torture Eight former Black Panthers were arrested January 23, 2007 and charged with murder and conspiracy related to the killing 35 years ago of a San Francisco police officer. This is not the first time these same charges have been brought against some of these defendants. Similar charges were thrown out in the 1970s after it was revealed that police used torture to extract confessions in New Orleans in 1973. It appears that the government plans to introduce the same torture-tainted evidence in 2007...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 12:17pm PST
White Supremacist Suffers Humiliating Defeat in Run for Comanche Nation Vice President White Supremacist Suffers Humiliating Defeat in Run for Comanche Nation Vice President...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 12:05pm PST
Justice for Gary King Jr. 
Community mural unveiling Demands Justice for Gary King Jr.,
and for an end to racist police killings in Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 11:56am PST
Teaching False History (And Its Consequences) (audio/mpeg 1.7MB) In the century following Columbus' landing, millions of Native Americans died from a
combination of European diseases, harsh treatment, and murder. Africans took their
places in the mines and fields of the New World. The 80 million Native Americans alive
in 1492 became only 10 million left alive a century later. But the 10,000 Africans working in
the Americas in 1527, had by the end of the century become 90...
Posted: Mon, Dec 17, 2007 8:28am PST
Slated Combustion Turbines nearer to the Bayview Hunters Point Community - shot down. The slated Combustion Turbines - also known as small power plants that will use fossil fuel have been shot down by the Regulatory Agencies. One determining factor - the San Francisco Public Utilities Staff - were NOT honest - in other words they LIED. They lied about data linked to the emissions from the Mirant Power Plant and they lied about the precise location of the proposed Combustion Turbines (CTs). In short they tried to pull a fast one, with the Regulatory Agencies - and in doing so h...
Posted: Sun, Dec 16, 2007 6:03pm PST
"Little B" Endorses Elaine Brown For President: Audio From Behind Bars (audio/mpeg 980.5KB) Audio from behind bars of Little B. Little B was put into adult prison at the age of 14 for a crime he did not commit. Elaine Brown has written a book about Michael Lewis aka, "Little B" and continues aggressively advocate for his release. She is running for President in the California and Massachusetts primary election on February 5, 2008. Register Green...VOTE BROWN!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 15, 2007 10:21pm PST
Mychal Bell pleads guilty to reduced charge Jena Six defendant sentenced to 18 months in prison Saturday, December 15, 2007 :On Monday, December 3, Mychal Bell, one of the group of Louisiana students known as the Jena Six, entered a guilty plea under the direction of his attorneys. Bell and five other black high school students were charged with the beating of a white student after a series of provocations at the school, including nooses being displayed as a racial taunt....
Posted: Sat, Dec 15, 2007 2:32pm PST
Australia: Police attack African youth at public housing estate Saturday, December 15, 2007 :An incident in inner-Melbourne last month, within days of the federal election, indicates that police attacks on young people and the whipping up of racism will continue unabated with Labor in office at both state and federal levels. At 11 p.m. on November 28, in an apparent show of strength, more than 20 police officers assaulted and arrested young African-born residents, some as young as 14, in front of horrified parents and other people in the Flemington high-r...
Posted: Sat, Dec 15, 2007 2:31pm PST
Italy. Hand off the Rrom children EveryOne Group has reason to believe, after listening to the testimony of many Rrom families and Italian citizens who are in contact with Rrom families, that a further violation of the rights of the Rroms is about to take place....
Posted: Sat, Dec 15, 2007 11:50am PST
New Development in Jena Case: Capitalist “Just-Us” and the Case of the Jena 6 On December 3, 2007 Mychal Bell of the Jena 6 accepted a plea bargain (called an “admission” in juvenile court) and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile prison. Bell pled guilty to second-degree battery, and the second charge of conspiracy to commit second-degree battery was thrown out. He will be forced to undergo counseling, pay court costs, and pay $935 to Justin Barker (the white student the Jena 6 are accused of beating up) and his family. The deal stipulates that Bell must “testify ...
Posted: Sat, Dec 15, 2007 9:23am PST
BANISHED Free Oakland Screening Oakland Museum of California, James Moore Theatre
1000 Oak at 10th Street. One block from Lake Merritt BART
Free parking in museum garage, entrance on Oak Street...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 8, 2008 6:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 4:24pm PST
BANISHED Free SF Screening San Francisco Main Public Library, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street
Near Civic Center Bart Station...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2008 6:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 4:15pm PST
Help Reverend Pinkney 
In this repost of an e-mail that just arrived Cynthia McKinney asks for your support....
Posted: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 1:19pm PST
December 14, 1793: Mission Santa Cruz Burns An inspiring story of local resistance to colonialism! Of course, this was just one of the earliest battles in a long and brutal war that is still ongoing today, 314 years later, as luxury condominiums are built in the shadow of the Mission that colonized those lands, the redwood and chaparral forests of "upper campus" are threatened by the University of California, and the City continues to exist, a cancerous entity living off the labor of (wage) slaves and resources extracted from the land....
Posted: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 11:46am PST
"I Wish I'd Been Stronger" - Richardson Admits Some Errors in Handling of Wen Ho Lee Case Friday, December 14, 2007 :The final Democratic Presidential debate of the year was held in Iowa on Thursday. We play highlights of the debate, including Governor Bill Richardson's admission that he made some mistakes in the handling of the case of Wen Ho Lee while serving as President Clinton?s energy secretary. Lee is the nuclear scientist who was falsely accused by the Clinton administration of spying for the Chinese government....
Posted: Fri, Dec 14, 2007 8:29am PST
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