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Lennar continues to poison young children and elders - backed by Mayor Gavin Newsom. Should California should VOTE for a baby killer? In the Bayview Hunters Point - Lennar a Rogue Developer continues to poison our children and elders. Lennar is poised to build over 10,500 homes at Hunters Point and Candlestick point. Lennar has failed to abide with the Disposition and Development Agreement - and has failed to meet its time lines. Now, the ailing, rogue, unethical Lennar - is going to the State of California to beg for money? How can the State give Lennar money? Remember LandS...
Posted: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 7:59am PDT
S.F. Public Utilities Commission wastes millions of gallons of water from Hetch Hetchy. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission does not like to be told that it is wasting millions of gallons of water. Sacred water that was stolen from the First People living in and around Hetch Hetchy. Today, the City and County of San Francisco continues to waste millions of gallons of water - while pointing fingers at others. At City Hall in San Francisco - the Rest Rooms are a running like a water fall. While, some conservation gurus - preach about conserving water. Start in your own b...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 5:01pm PDT
Winnemem Wintu Tribe Sues Federal Agencies, Officials The Winnemem Wintu Tribe filed a Complaint in U.S. District Court Monday against six federal agencies and two current federal agency heads alleging their actions have resulted in the destruction or damage to the Tribe’s cultural sites in Shasta County....
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 2:50pm PDT
San Francisco opts for tall buildings with less occupany - vacant and prone to the BIG ONE All over California land was stolen from the First People. Many know our California Tribes as Native Americans. While most of us acknowledge the First People were here for thousands of years - no one really pays attention - that over 60% of these California Tribes are NOT Federally Recognized. Others come here - have stolen the land - and enjoy a better status. California is about LAND - and even in San Francisco it is all about LAND. We have a BIG ONE - a kind of balancing ACT that will brin...
Posted: Sun, Apr 19, 2009 6:40pm PDT
Earth Day and the poisoning of our children in the Bayview Hunters Point in San Francisco. Earth Day will be celebrated all over California. In San Francisco thousands of innocent constituents mostly children and elders have been poisoned for years - NOT one major Environmental Organization in San Francisco has spoken out in defiance. Environmentalists are experts that should address the totality of what makes the Environment - the air, the water, the land, the forests, mountains, hills, creeks, the river - you get the point. so, where are the true Environmentalists?...
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2009 9:31am PDT
Who Polices the Police?
The San Jose Police Department has been featured almost weekly in news reports of six taser deaths since 2005, racial profiling, selective vehicle stops, and drunken arrests. An October Mercury News report that San Jose police arrested 4,600 in one year for public intoxication, and a disproportionate 56% were Latinos, resulted in hundreds attending a public hearing. If Chief Rob Davis cannot restrain aggressive officers quick on the draw with tasers or firearms, arresting non-violent inebri...
Posted: Fri, Apr 17, 2009 4:40pm PDT
San Jose Gets Her First Tea-bagging, Says Leaves Sour Taste Tax Tea party provides platform for open intolerance....
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2009 9:42pm PDT
San Jose Tax Day Tea Party: A perspective from DeBug Silicon Valley DeBug reports on SJ rally...
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2009 5:17pm PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom tries to hoodwink San Franciscans changing Community Development. Mayor Gavin Newsom the slick weasel that he is has decided to change the Mayor' Office of Community Development to Community Investment and enjoin it with the Mayor's Office of Economic Development and Work Force. Both - entities have failed the constituents of San Francisco and are now poised to hoodwink and waste millions - in this very difficult economic times. Community Based Organizations are being told in very clear terms - your funding as you knew it - is no more. Go take a hike and f...
Posted: Wed, Apr 15, 2009 7:32pm PDT
Lovelle Mixon, Police, and the Politics of Race/Rape In short, there are those who are automatically guilty and those who are automatically innocent, those who are automatically heroes and, to use a term frequently applied to Lovelle Mixon in recent days, those who are automatically “monsters.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2009 3:40pm PDT
Huge Racial and Gender Disparity in BART's Contracts; More on 4/9/09 Board Meeting... While African Americans make up 8.01 percent of available construction contractors, they were only awarded 0.28 percent of contract dollars; Asian Americans 10.98 percent availability, 0.30 percent awarded, Hispanic Americans 8.08 percent availability, 0.79 percent awarded, Caucasian Females 6.87 percent availability, 3.11 percent awarded, and Caucasian Males 65.71 availability, 95.32 percent awarded....
BART Director James Fang criticized the study.... Fang said he couldn't endorse the rec...
Posted: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 3:01pm PDT
Caravan for Justice Two and there will be more until the VOICES of the PEOPLE - prevail. For too long, have too many innocent people mostly of color - suffered too many injustices at the hands of the Oppressors. Now, we the PEOPLE demand justice - one of the ways is to STRIKE - unjust laws - like the THREE STRIKES LAW. Let the people sound a CLARION call for better schools and less prisons. Let the people make the Law Makers - truly represent the people and not permit them - not to have the better - interests, of the community at large....
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 7:30pm PDT
SUPREME COURT DENIES MUMIA ABU-JAMAL'S APPEAL BLACK REVOLUTIONARY IS DENIED JUSTICE AGAIN!!!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 6:04pm PDT
Settlers attack West Bank village Wednesday, April 8, 2009 : At least eight people hurt as Bat Ayin settlers rampage through Arab village....
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 7:08am PDT
Cultural Misfits and the Language of the Gun Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 : It's hard to find a cultural explanation as to why Cho Sung-hui, the Virginia Tech shooter, or Jiverly Linh Phat Wong, the Binghamton killer, did what they did. But both immigrants chose to empower themselves, if only for a brief while, with the language of guns, writes NAM editor Andrew Lam....
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 7:05am PDT
Ethnic outlets survive in sinking media market Though these are grim times for major news organizations across the country, a few organizations — often labeled "ethnic media" — are thriving....
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 6:58am PDT
US Supreme Court rejects appeal by Mumia Abu-Jamal for new trial Tuesday, April 7, 2009 :federal appeals court ruling denying Abu-Jamal’s appeal for a new trial. In that same decision, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the death penalty phase of Abu-Jamal’s trial, ruling that the jury had been improperly instructed by the trial judge on how to weigh mitigating factors offered by the defense that might have kept Abu-Jamal off death row....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 8:32am PDT
Florida Student Arrested by Immigration Three Days After Acquittal on Bomb Charges Tuesday, April 7, 2009 :Immigration officials have arrested a twenty-three-year-old Florida student just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. Youssef Megahed was arrested in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store Monday, where he had gone shopping with his father. He had just begun a fast to celebrate his acquittal. Megahed's attorneys say he now faces deportation proceedings, apparently on the same charges for which he was found not guilty....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 8:30am PDT
Supreme Court Denies Appeal for Death Row Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal Tuesday, April 7, 2009 :The Supreme Court has denied an appeal from the journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal. On Monday, the court rejected without comment Abu-Jamal's bid to overturn his conviction for the 1981 killing of a white police officer following a controversial trial before a predominantly white jury. Abu-Jamal contends the case was marred with racial bias, including the deliberate exclusion of blacks from the jury. "It shows you that precedent means nothing, that the...
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 8:28am PDT
INCARCERATION is a TRILLION dollar business and a SCAR on the face of humanity. Incarceration - in the United States is a TRILLION dollar business and SCAR on the face of humanity. The United States incarcerates the largest population in the world. In California we spend more money on jails then schools. Billions of dollars to incarcerate - many innocent victims - that have fallen PREY - to the THREE STRIKES LAW - that is faker then fake. Time to rise up , raise your voices, and take on those that have been riding on a wave of destruction and evil - with no end in sight....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 6:17am PDT
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