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"WE ARE STILL HERE " mural at SF State University honors the First People, related issues. The last permanent MURAL to adorn the walls of the Cesar Chavez Center saw light yesterday, November 20, 2009. Commissioned in October 2005 with great effort and sacrifices - this MURAL that means a lot to the First People, the American Indian Studies Department, connects the dots to the Alcatraz Movement, the very survival of the First People, Genocide, going through the FIRE so that the wishes of the GREAT SPIRIT may be fulfilled. Kudos of Jacqueline Mendez and the Native American Mural Com...
Posted: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 12:54am PST
PROTEST: Boycott Emeryville's Bay Street Mall - Respect Sacred Ohlone Site 
Meet at the corner of Shellmound and Ohlone Way in Emeryville....
Event Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 11:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 20, 2009 6:56pm PST
40th Alcatraz Occupation Anniversary Events! 
Events from Friday Nov. 20-Thurs Nov 26th...
Posted: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 11:54am PST
Southern California: First Cop on Trial for Murder in the History of the State Is Headed Your Way 
In the words of the late great Harvey Milk*, I'm here to recruit you. The trial of Johannes Mehserle is about to head your way and the time is now for Southern California social justice and media activists to start getting ready....
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 12:03pm PST
The 40th Anniversary of the Creation of the College of Ethnic Studies 
N MY LIFE OF ACTIVISM AND JOURNEY FOR THE TRUITH I FIND THE MOST EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE, WHO ARE ON THE SAME JOURNEY,, AMAZING THE LIFES WE LEAD!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 1:35am PST
LA Indymedia 10-Year Anniversary: "Troublemaking: The Worst and Best of Indybay" 
On Saturday, November 14th, 2009, Los Angeles Indymedia celebrated 10 years since the first Independent Media Center (IMC) opened its doors in Seattle to cover and support the demonstrations against the meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). While the entirety of 10 years of media activism can hardly be presented in an hour, Indybay discussed some of the highlights of stories covered, technologies developed, legal threats battled and lessons learned over the past 9+ years of Indymedi...
Posted: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 10:18pm PST
Despite lack of Watsonville City support, concert takes place at the Brown Beret's Space. (audio/mpeg 42.3MB) Quilombo Arte Presents OTHERGROUND all stars showcase
Bocafloja, Para la Gente (PLG), Guerrilla Queenz, Poetic S, and Machetero at the Watsonville Brown Beret's Art Space....
Posted: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 2:19am PST
Hoods Unite, Bang for Freedom!: Immortal Technique, Cesar Cruz, and the Brown Berets. (audio/mpeg 16.3MB) Hoods Unite, Bang for Freedom!: Immortal Technique, Cesar A. Cruz, and the Watsonville Brown Berets at O'Connell High School in San Francisco's Mission District....
Posted: Fri, Nov 13, 2009 11:00am PST
VIDEO: Rebecca Doran speaks about Kevin Copper 
Rebecca Doran spoke on behalf of the Kevin Cooper Defense Committee, and explained that San Quentin death row prisoner Kevin Cooper has filed his last appeal to the US Supreme Court. Last week, the state responded with their filings, arguing that Kevin should be executed. A decision is expected from the US Supreme Court as early as the end of November....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 10:42pm PST
MLPA Task Force Chair Appointed President of Petroleum Association The Board of Directors of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) on October 16 announced that Catherine Reheis-Boyd, chair of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Blue Ribbon Task Force, will assume the role of President of the oil and natural gas industry trade association January 1, 2010....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 7:49pm PST
VIDEOS: SF Demands A Civil Rights Investigation For Mumia Abu-Jamal (video/x-ms-wmv 87.8MB) We have just released new videos from the Nov. 8 event in San Francisco held in solidarity with the Nov. 12 press conference at the Justice Dept in Washington DC that will feature Amnesty International, the NAACP and more. Please help spread the word!
For the latest on the campaign seeking a civil rights investigation for Mumia, and the Nov. 12 press conference, please visit here....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 12:12am PST
"Operation Small Axe" Highlights Resistance in Oakland's Occupied Territories: Review & Trailer 
"If you are a big tree, let me tell you that we are the small axe, sharp and ready to cut you down." - Bob Marley...
Posted: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 1:25pm PST
Bay Area Air Quality Management District, yet to place more Asbestos monitors after 1 year The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has yet to place more ASBESTOS monitors after agreeing to do so - one year ago. One year ago the Bay Area Air Quality Management District fined Lennar $515,000. Since that time the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been sitting on the money - while actively permitting Lennar , a Rogue Developer to do as this Rogue Developer wishes. October 15, 2009 - there was an exceedance of over 400,700 structures per cubic meter. The cap set by the B...
Posted: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 8:32am PST
Town Hall on BART Police, DA Failing in Mehserle Change of Venue, and Rape of Women, 10/31/09: audio (audio/mpeg 31.4MB) This week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant III covers BART's militarized police and PR since january 1st, Mehserle's change of venue, a Raider Nation meeting intended to refocus the justice movement, and rape of women from Richmond, California to the Congo. Pastor Gordon Humphreys of Olivet Baptist opens the Town Hall....
Posted: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 11:40pm PST
Town Hall on Venue Change, State BART Hearing, and Oakland Merchant Credit, 10/24/09: audio (audio/mpeg 31.2MB) Topics covered in this week's Town Hall include the many fallacies behind the decision by Judge Jacobson to move Mehserle's trial for the murder of Oscar Grant III outside of Alameda County; the California Assembly hearing on BART's dysfunctional police force; a merchant credit system being set up in Oakland to keep city taxpayer dollars in Oakland; and environmental justice in the Bay Area. Reverend Henry Williams opens the Town Hall....
Posted: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 10:34pm PST
Video Interview With Emory Douglas: The Black Panther Party and Revolutionary Art (video/x-ms-wmv 62.2MB) Longtime San Francisco resident Emory Douglas first served as the art director for the Black Panther Party’s newspaper, and later served as Minister of Culture until 1980. Throughout these years, Douglas’ iconic artwork was published in the BPP newspaper and beyond. His artwork is featured in the new book entitled “Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas.” Douglas was interviewed in San Francisco by Angola 3 News in October 2009. This is the second segment of our interview to be...
Posted: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 8:35pm PST
Mural to commemorate Gary King Jr. is reborn 
On the heels of the murder of Oscar Grant by BART police earlier this year, we respond to the desecration of the memory of Gary King Jr. by marking the site of his murder with a new mural....
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 3:40pm PST
Mumia Abu-Jamal faces new execution threat -- SF Event Nov. 8 
Pennsylvania prosecutors, twice rejected in their efforts to impose the death penalty on Mumia (in 2001 and 2008), may have found new support in the U.S. Supreme Court.
SF EVENT FOR MUMIA, KEVIN COOPER, AND TROY DAVIS -- Sunday, NOVEMBER 8TH AT 2PM: Centro Del Pueblo, 474 Valencia Street (between 15th and 16th Streets) San Francisco (read more at bottom of article)...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 12:03pm PST
Who leaked information about Mehserle's change of venue? Los Angeles or San Diego? Next hearing Nov 19th 
Who leaked inside information to the corporate media about the latest reported development regarding the change of venue decision? At Johannes Mehserle's bail hearing in January, Judge Morris Jacobson issued an unambiguous gag order on the case that applied to the defense team as well as the DA, yet information keeps leaking out. Defense attorney Michael Rains has vociferously protested the gag order at every opportunity because he would love nothing more than to freely release whatever he ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 8:56pm PST
Rainbow Theatre 16th season programs A&B 
RAINBOW THEATRE, the only multicultural theatre arts troupe in the UC system will be kicking off there 16th season this thursday and continuing through the following weekend. In the tradition of Teatro Campesino, the San Francisco Mime troupe, and Theatre of the Opressed, Rainbow strives to bring the untold stories of people of color to light. This year Rainbow's plays are feminist oriented, focusing on issues of queer identity, domestic violence, rape, Abortion, interracial relationships, a...
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 4:41pm PST
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