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SF Bay View: Great stories stacking up like hotcakes – come ‘n get ‘em!
 
Now that Minister of Information JR is posting new stories as fast as I can edit them, great stories are stacking up like hotcakes at www.sfbayview.com. You’re sure to find plenty of food for thought that suits your taste.
 
Please, though, don’t just read Bay View stories. Pass your favorites along to friends, Digg ‘em, put ‘em out on Facebook, Twitter or Black Planet. The 2 million+ hits a month sfbayview.com used to get before it was hacked came from folks who haven’t found a substitute because there isn’t one. Love us or hate us, the Bay View is one of a kind. So help us tell the world we’re back at it with all our old passion and then some.
 
Before I list the latest stories, here’s an event you don’t want to miss: Block Report Radio and the Black Dot Cafe present Apartheid radio: A look at the current state of KPFA on Sunday, June 14, 3 p.m., at the Black Dot Café, 1195 Pine St. in West Oakland. Come hear live testimony from Nadra Foster, the long-time volunteer broadcaster senselessly beat up in the station by police called by management; Miguel Gavilan Molina, producer of KPFA’s La Onda Bajita and Flashpoints in Espanol; our own Minister of Information JR, of Block Report Radio; … and you. This is a fundraiser to replace MOI JR’s camera, which was stolen by Oakland police.
 
And save the date – Sunday, June 28, 2 p.m. – for And Still I Rise: A Day of Advocacy and Tribute to Congolese Women, keynoted by the young Congolese student leader who’s taking the U.S. by storm, Kambale Musavuli, spokesperson for Friends of the Congo.
 
Here’s one to tickle your funny bone: SF Bay View stories that relate to police attract a lot of nasty comments, no doubt mostly written by cops – see War of words: Police invade the comments at SFBayView.com – so we know they’re keeping an eye on the site. This morning, no more than an hour after it was posted, a story about the San Francisco 8, Supervisors’ resolution urges AG Jerry Brown to drop charges against SF 8 , prompted a call from the spokesperson for SF District Attorney Kamala Harris, asking that we not say she had declined to prosecute the case – the first positive thing we’d said about her in ages – but instead that it had bypassed her altogether. I chuckled and said we don’t want the head of the Police Officers Association to beat up on Kamala. The caller chuckled too – no comment. (If this makes no sense, please read the story.)
 
Here are the rest of the stories. I dare you not to find something to love:
 
Revolutionary Haitian priest Gerard Jean-Juste, presente! Be sure to watch the video. And come to the memorial Saturday, June 27, 7 p.m., St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison, Berkeley.
 
82-year-old Black farmer arrested, charged with making terrorist threats The threats against the farmer are intensifying; please spread the word on this one.
 
Environmental justice advocates win major victory over Chevron in Richmond
 
Shell agrees to pay for Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death but denies complicity
 
A Japanese Rosa Parks at King Garvey Co-Op?
 
Rev. Pinkney denied right to attend his own hearing
 
Unfair trade! Sen. Leno aims to give our clean parkland to Lennar, toxic land to the people
 
Live from the Mehserle courtroom: an interview with Uncle Bobby, Oscar Grant’s uncle
 
Family of Oscar Grant celebrates victory, Mehserle to face murder charge
 
Oscar Grant’s family thanks supporters as killer cop’s hearing begins
 
A badge is not a license to murder: Make sure the murderer Mehserle is charged with murder
 
In that attic, I saw my brother’s blood covering the floor and walls
 
Village Bottoms Farms: Growing our food, owning our future
 
A Good Food Manifesto for America
 
Marcel Diallo harassed and detained by Oakland PD in front of his home
 
Caravan for Justice III brings the heat to the lawmakers
 
Support Three Strikes reform
 
No evictions: Gulf Coast residents can keep their FEMA trailers
 
As hurricane season begins, pressure builds on Congress to pass Gulf Coast Civic Works Act
 
Government goes on trial for Katrina flooding
 
Wanda’s Picks for June
 
Single payer health care: big breakthroughs, interview with Rep. John Conyers
 
Small, 'second chance' high schools, Robeson and BEST, face phase out in Oakland
 
Tutoring program brings youth and seniors together
 
Brain matter: an innerview into the life of rapper T-Kash
 
WBOK purchased by Danny Bakewell, champion of Black economic self-determination
 
Media as a weapon: New Orleans’ 2-Cent
 
Block Report: Richard Brown on SF 8 preliminary hearing to begin June 8
 
Bus riders at the back of the stimulus bus
 
The highs of 2009 and how to know if your teen is doing them
 
Documenting present-day history: an interview with filmmaker Adimu
 
Something left for the people?
 
Madagascar: Troops defy orders to put down opposition protests
 
Is Black radio in jeopardy?
 
Action: an interview wit’ film-maker Damon Jamal of In Yo Face Films
 
Study confirms that Public Defender Reentry Program saves money and lives
 
Real Deal or No Deal: San Franciscans to march Wednesday against budget cuts
 
Activist protests lack of Blacks working on historic Hampton House project
 
The Pac work ethic: an interview wit’ Umi of Prisoners of War
 
In loving memory of Mother Wright
 
Section 8 landlords sue cops for civil rights violations
 
Min. Farrakhan rallies support for Rev. Pinkney
 
Transforming philanthropy into revolutionary giving
 
Grown up music: an interview with rapper Jahi
 
‘Jail Mehserle, the killer cop!’
 
To the son I never raised
 
Global day of action May 19: Stop the execution of Troy Davis! Innocence matters!
 
Madagascar: Troops defy orders to put down opposition protests
 
Before nation
 
Words of wisdom: an interview wit’ legendary Frisco rapper Black C of RBL and The Malitia
 
Transforming philanthropy into revolutionary giving
 
Niger Delta v. Shell Oil case postponed as government burns, loots villages
 
Victory for Afrikan Diaspora Reparations Movement at Durban Review Conference
 
‘Help us heal our nation’: Confronting rape and other forms of violence against women in conflict zones
 
Dreams can come true: an interview with Oakland rapper Acktup
 
The facts: How Israel orchestrated the real Geneva ‘hate fest’ against Black and Brown people
 
Hundreds rally to protest planned deportation of 30,000 Haitians
 
Native Youth Movement warrior arrested and held on 7-year-old charges for defending the land
 
Exploring www.sfbayview.com is fun – and don’t skip the Classifieds. Just yesterday I posted under Opportunities a list of dozens of Oakland schools serving breakfast and lunch FREE every day for all children up to age 18 in Oakland. A lot of kids will otherwise be hungry this summer. Please spread the good word!
 
If you have or know some of those hungry kids, they may also be hungry for a Bay View story or two or more that could open their minds to whole new worlds. Introduce them. Happy reading!
 
Mary Ratcliff, editor@sfbayview.com
 
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