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Candlelight Vigil for Durrell Feaster & Deon Whitfield: Oakland. Part 3 (video/quicktime 22.7MB)
Nancy Nadell, Jenny Milarin, and Rev. Richard Rubio-Bowley spoke. Sharon Henderson sang "Hold On" and Siaira Harris sang "Amazing Grace." Five minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Candlelight Vigil for Durrell Feaster & Deon Whitfield: Oakland. Part 2 (video/quicktime 18.8MB)
Karey Saeliew, Lateefah Simon, Will Roy, Lourdes, Darryl Stewart, Dorsey Nunn, and Tshaka Barrows spoke. Four minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 2:21pm PDT
Candlelight Vigil for Durrell Feaster & Deon Whitfield: Oakland. Part 1 (video/quicktime 19.8MB)
Shut down the California Youth Authority! Venus Rodriguez, Allen Feaster, and Minister Louis Muhammed spoke. Four minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 1:44pm PDT
US general suspended over Iraq prison abuse (video/x-pn-realvideo-meta 0.1KB)
The general in charge of the US-run prison system in Iraq has been suspended and put under investigation over the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers.
A senior US military spokesman says Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was suspended from her duties in late January after six US soldiers were indicted for mistreating prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
Gen Karpinski and another six officers are under administrative investigation that could result in letters of reprimand.
The...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 7:43am PDT
Chris Daly tells why the CYA must be shut down: BOOKS NOT BARS April 6th demo in SF (video/quicktime 15.7MB)
Our government's violence in both Iraq and the California Youth Authority arouse indignation, horror and frustration. Four minute QT movie. 16MB....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 4:35am PDT
Malaika Parker spoke at the April 6th BOOKS NOT BARS demonstration in San Francisco (video/quicktime 13.8MB)
She explores the whole spectrum of brutality our children face culminating in the CYA. Two+ minute QT movie. 14MB....
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 9:54pm PDT
March and Rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal Video (video/x-ms-wmv 7.1MB)
2:00 minute Windows Movie. About 300 supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal rallied yesterday April 24 at 16th and Mission in San Francisco for his release. After a spirited march down Mission Street, another rally and speak out followed at 24th and Mission....
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 3:56pm PDT
Video (video/quicktime 1.0MB)
Press conference to help PeaceFresno & ACLU stop cop spying.
1 min....
Posted: Sun, Dec 9, 2012 10:16am PST
"Enemy Combatants" at Guantanamo. Pt. 1. SF Press Conf. April 20th (video/quicktime 15.5MB)
Bob Kearney of the ACLU and Stacy Tolchin of the National Lawyers Guild tell how the Bush administration has prevented incarcerated persons from ever having a judge look at their case. Three minute QT movie. 16MB....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:58pm PDT
Deputy Chief Suhr Appears before Committee hearing to Defend Police Crackdowns on Protests (video/x-pn-realvideo-meta 0.1KB)
Video from hearing at SF City Hall....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 4:37pm PDT
NO! to Enemy Combatant Status; SF Fed Bldg Press Conf Video (video/x-ms-wmv 10.1MB)
2:51 minutes. A dozen speakers representing as many local and national progressive organizations spoke out against the government’s actions that have eliminated due process for individuals based entirely on the government’s declaration of them as “enemy combatants.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:09pm PDT
Dorsey Nunn commits to the BOOKS NOT BARS campaign to abolish CYA (video/quicktime 15.1MB)
Nunn, a founder of All of Us Or None, questions whether the California Youth Authority did anything at all positive for his nephew in the ten years the State of California held him.
Four minute QT movie. 15MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 16, 2004 10:04am PDT
Jeff Adachi spoke at the BOOKS NOT BARS demonstration in San Francisco on April 6th (video/quicktime 16.8MB)
Adachi, SF Public Defender, has a team now visiting all 50 SF youth in the CYA; soon they will file papers asking the court to order the youth sent back here. Four minute QT movie. 17MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 9:52am PDT
Allen Feaster spoke at the BOOKS NOT BARS demonstration in San Francisco on April 6th (video/quicktime 14.0MB)
Mr. Feaster's son, Durrell, will be memorialized at candlelight vigils on April 28th throughout California. In January, Durrell, 18, and Deon Whitfield, 17, were found hanged in the cell they shared in the California Youth Authority.
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=36&contentid=103
Three+ minute QT movie. 14MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 7:46am PDT
One of the people arrested by the police in Union Square (video/mpeg 25.4MB)
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Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 12:23pm PDT
DAVID ROVICS: REICHSTAG FIRE (video/x-ms-wmv 1.1MB)
DAVID ROVICS: REICHSTAG FIRE One of America’s great troubadours, Rovics sings at the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco (March 27, 2004): “I am left to wonder as the flames are rising higher -- Is this our latest Lusitania or another Reichstag Fire?.." 4min -1meg winmedia file...
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 1:54pm PDT
Mike Molina presented a poem at the BOOKS NOT BARS rally (video/quicktime 21.8MB)
Mike Molina is an organizer for BOOKS NOT BARS now in its April Offensive demanding that Attorney General Bill Lockyer clean up the scandal ridden California Youth Authority.
Five minute QT movie. 22MB....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 11:58am PDT
BOOKS NOT BARS demands Atty. General Lockyer act in CYA scandal. (video/quicktime 9.9MB)
Rally at State Building in San Francisco on April 6th kicks off the BOOKS NOT BARS' April Offensive and demands that Bill Lockyer prosecute guards shown in the infamous "CYA Beating" video.
Two+ minute QT video. 10MB....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 10:59pm PDT