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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed the community - more the community living in and around Hunters Point Shipyard. In the year 2000 there was a hazardous fire that raged for a month and the EPA failed the community. At Parcel A - Lennar a Rogue Developer to date has continued to bombard the community - backed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, the SF Public Health Department, the Mayor's Office of Economic Development and SF Redevelopment Agency for the last four years - plus....

McClatchy Newspapers based in Sacramento, California had little problem advertising the sale of enslaved human beings, on in the day. California Black Farmers continue to suffer the ongoing impacts from the "Last Plantation" United States Department of Agriculture. Bipartisan California Congressional leadership will weigh in on the proposed settlement of Pigford II. Consideration for ongoing systemic institutional racism in the #1 agriculture region in our nation may be year's away. Blac...

Three Oakland parking enforcement whistleblowers have come forward to reveal that the city has been issuing "courtesy notices" to some of its wealthiest residents in the Montclair and Broadway Terrace neighborhoods while everyone else has been getting actual parking tickets with fines up to $100. This is the result of a July 24th, 2009, directive by Ronald Abernathy, a senior parking enforcement supervisor. The cash-strapped city has been targeting its lower income neighborhoods to make up ...

At Johannes Mehserle's second pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles, the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant again demonstrated against racist police violence in front of the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse. After the hearing, several community activists were individually interviewed by assorted corporate media, family lawyer John Burris gave a public statement and answered questions for the corporate media, and the LA Coalition held a press conference that included Los Angeles victims of p...

At Johannes Mehserle's second pre-trial hearing in Los Angeles, the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant again demonstrated against racist police violence in front of the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse. Mehserle himself was rushed into and out of an underground parking garage in a black SUV with dark-tinted windows. Inside the court room, both of Mehserle's defense motions -- to reduce bail and to remove the Alameda DA's office from the case -- were denied by Judge Perry. After the he...

At the Oakland/Los Angeles Oscar Grant Town Hall held at the Kaos Network the night before Johannes Mehserle's second court hearing in Los Angeles, speakers addressed the murder of Oscar Grant, the broader issue of police violence against African Americans and other people of color across the United States, and the growing alliances for justice being formed amongst community activists in Los Angeles, Oakland, and beyond....

Video of the second hearing for the murder of Oscar Grant in Los Angeles, CA. Johannes Mehserle, a cop for the BART in Oakland, is on trial here in Los Angeles for murdering Oscar Grant. Oscar was shot in the back and murdered by Mehserle on New Year's Day, 2009....

Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV Show, August 7, 2009. Elbert “Big Man” Howard, author, lecturer and activist, is one of the six founding members of the BPP who was Deputy Minister of Information and Editor of the Black Panther Newspaper. Billy X Jennings, Black Panther Party Historian, is one of the original Oakland Panthers who joined the Party in 1968 at age 17....

On January 13th, 2010, the one-year anniversary of Johannes Mehserle's arrest for the murder of Oscar Grant, the Black Dot Cafe hosted a benefit for the legal defense of the last two of the "Oakland 100", JR Valrey and Holly Works, both of whom face felony charges resulting from Oscar Grant protests and rebellions in January 2009. Speakers included JR Valrey, Duane Adee Deterville, Jackie & Jack Bryson, Erika Walker, Holly Works, Cynthia McKinney, Adimu Madyun, Minister Keith Muhammad, and M...

JR Valrey and Holly Works, the last two of the Oakland 100 – the people arrested during the rebellions following the police murder of Oscar Grant last year – are still facing charges, and must raise legal defense funds for their imminent trials. JR’s trial starts next Monday, Feb. 22, and Holly’s starts the following Monday, March 1. Both will be held in department 11, 8:30am, 1225 Fallon St (@12th), Oakland. Supporters are organizing to make sure there is a community presence in the courtroo...