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This message is from the Oscar Grant family written by Cephus "Uncle Bobby" Johnson....

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 :Events are being held across the country today to demand a new trial for the Georgia death row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis. Davis, an African-American, was convicted for the 1989 killing of a white police officer. Since the trial, seven of the nine non-police witnesses have recanted their testimony. There is also no direct physical evidence tying Davis to the crime scene. A 30-day stay of execution expired on Saturday following last month's decision by a federal appeals...

CAIRO -- Cover sheets for Iraq war intelligence reports written for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and presented to the White House were adorned with biblical quotations, according to pictures posted by the GQ magazine on its website....

Brothers and sisters, I am an ஈழம் தமிழர் -- For those of you who don't know, that means that I am Tamil by ethnicity; and that my roots are unshakably and unmistakably planted in the Northern land of the country called Sri Lanka. I have to say this -- over and over -- because like in Palestine, there are droves of people who claim that I do not exist, that my people are not indigenous to the land that we have lived on for centuries, that they have a legitimate claim -- moreover, a religious...

The Filipino American community in the United States and the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) militantly salutes all Filipino and Americans veterans, living or departed for the 67th Anniversary of the fall of Corregidor, May 6, 1942. With the fall of the island bastion of Corregidor, it paved the way of the total surrender of the whole Philippines to the Japanese invaders in May 9, 1942. For their heroism in Bataan, Corregidor and other battlefields in the Philippines, the brave ...

NAACP President Benjamin Jealous spoke to a packed audience April 25 at the Oakland Museum about the future of the nation's oldest civil rights organization. Jealous, 36, was one of the youngest in attendance, as the majority of those in attendance were in their 40s to late 60s....

Amos Brown claims to be the President of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) - the San Francisco Chapter. The question posed many many intelligent people is - does he really think so and more does he truly represent? In the past 10 years of so - again and again - this man has opened his mouth and shoved his dirty foot - inside his mouth. Recently, he chose to take on Minister Christopher Muhammad without cause - who was really instrumental he helping h...

Fran Pavley may have met her match for the first time when she failed to recognize the First People of San Francisco the Muwekma Ohlone. Chair, of a dubious, inept, and powerless Natural Resources and Water little committee in Sacramento. Sitting aloft - these crooked so called legislators are a disgrace to California. Fran Pavley led the charge to over-look over 1.5 million tons of very toxic radiological soil that should be removed from Hunters Point and neighboring areas. Endorses a plan t...

Court documents: BART had a racial profiling problem back in 2001. We are looking forward to the updated numbers from NOBLE, but like we've been saying, we don't need a new investigation to know how ****ed up BART is....

State of California - Senator Mark Leno has NOT had one single meeting in the community linked to Tidelands and Public Lands - or for that matter any one single issue of importance - ever - in the Bayview Hunters Point. The man has NOT helped us with Safety Issues, Education, Health, Housing - nothing. Some years ago he tried to hoodwink the constituents of Bayview Hunters Point introducing AB1187 - some of us went to Sacramento and SHOT it down. Now, in broad daylight - he wants to cheat, st...