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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
Arnold's Legacy: Polluted Beaches and Fake Marine 'Protection'
"Our hope is that Governor Brown will take heed of what Tribal people and recreational anglers are saying about the MLPA and other water issues," said Georgiana Myers, organizer for the Klamath Justice Coalition and Yurok Tribe member. "I encourage the Governor-elect to have not just big oil and corporate interests at heart, but to listen to the real Californians who use the ocean."
Members of North Coast Indian Tribes and their allies peacefully took control of the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task F...
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 6:20pm PST
Kwanzaa ~ Freedom's Eve ~ United Nations Year of People of African Descent
Globally, many are celebrating Kuumba, the sixth day of Kwanzaa unaware of the connection to Freedom's Eve and the International Year of People of African Descent. Many people of African Descent, well over 1/4th of the earth's population of Black folks did not eat last night on our "Agriculture First Fruits Holiday." In California, birth home of Kwanzaa, the elevated conversation by elders suggests that agriculture is beyond the capacity of the originators of the sacred science. Freedom's ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 3:45pm PST
Community Dialogues in four US Cities - Mothers & other caregivers speak out
Community Dialogues in four US Cities
Mothers & other caregivers speak out against child welfare injustices, budget cuts, criminalization and war
Community Dialogues in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Santa Cruz in December brought together mothers, other caregivers and activists against poverty and war. Together they planned joint actions to demand that child “protection”, welfare and other government policies recognize the value of caregiving work. Pointing out that bil...
Posted: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 8:39pm PST
Kwanzaa Comes to San Francisco
Created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966, Kwanzaa is celebrated annually by more than 30 million people worldwide over seven days, from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. The values of Kwanzaa, Nguzo Saba, are critical tools for addressing the issues facing the African American community....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2010 9:48pm PST
WikiLeaks reveals U.S., British use marine reserves as tool of imperialism
This is an updated version of an article that I published on December 8. On December 21, the nation of Mauritius announced its plans to contest the legality of the Chagros Islands marine protected area. The use of a marine reserve to deny the Chagossians their human rights has a direct parallel in efforts to deny indigenous people their rights in controversial "marine protected areas" being implemented under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative in Cali...
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2010 8:40am PST
Mirant Plant closer to Bayview Hunters Point and operated by fossil fuel to be deactivated
The Mirant Power Plant once owned by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and run on natural gas NOT coal - will be shut down in the months to come. For over 45 years the Mirant Power Plant has spewed the worst particulates affecting the health of thousands. In past years, thousands of innocent workers - many who worked in the canning factories linked to our herrings and sardines. The steel factories linked to Ship Building. The many industries that were humming thirty and forty years ago. Now...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2010 8:58am PST
Trans Bay Cable online and Mirant Power Plant off line - plans are afoot to power on TBC.
At long last Tuesday, December 21, 2010 - on a special one hundred year Winter Solstice Day - the Mirant Power Plant will fade operations - and the Trans Bay Cable will be on line. Way back in April of 2010 a premature celebration was in order but then canceled at Moshi's Restaurant. The wanabees will be there to switch on the Siemen's Switch - the one that gave most trouble - but, now at last the Trans Bay Cable (TBC) will be free to bring in the DC power from Pittsburg and convert it to AC ...
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 7:02am PST
MLPA Motion to Terminate Tribal Rights on North Coast Fails
After an hour’s worth of discussion, the task force decided to leave their motions from the October 26, 2010 meeting as they stand, with no additional alternatives or changes proposed....
Posted: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 10:21am PST