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imageNo Justic No Peace! Labor Joins Rally At SF City Hall Protesting Execution Of Mario Woods
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by Labor Video Project
On December 24, 2015 community and labor activists rallied st SF City Hall to protest the execution of Bayview Hunters Point resident Mario Woods. Trade unionists demanded the prosecution of the policeman and also calls were made for labor action to stop the racist murders....
Posted: Fri, Dec 25, 2015 12:50pm PST
imageSEIU 1021 Joins SF Community In Supporting Removal Of SF Police Chief Suhr For Murder
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by Labor Video Project
SEIU 1021 members joined San Francisco community activists who rallied for the firing of San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr and the police who murdered Mario Woods. The rally took place on December 17, 2015....
Posted: Sat, Dec 19, 2015 10:41pm PST
textElbo Room Hosts Nazis, Calls Cops On POC by social media
Elbo Room hosted a show for the band "Death In June" on Tuesday night. This is the 2nd time they've hosted this fascist, white supremacist band, despite protests & community outcry. On Tuesday night, the owner came out & called the police on our comrades, LYING that there was a "crowd of people" "wielding knives": NO ONE that night pulled out any weapons. In today's context, calling the pigs on someone & lying that they are armed & dangerous can literally lead to the death of that person, esp...
Posted: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 12:13pm PST
imageJerry Brown grandstands in Paris but fails to protect Latino children from fracking
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by Dan Bacher
“Fracking and other types of unconventional well stimulation threaten every child’s right to a quality education,” said Madeline Stano, attorney for the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment. “Governor Brown and our state regulatory agencies have failed to protect public school students and our state as a whole by adopting regulations that do not address the existing racially disparate impact of well stimulations on Latino students.” Photo of fracking wastewater in Kern County courte...
Posted: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 9:40am PST
calendarMassive Community Protest at SF DA's Office Demanding Justice for Mario Woods by Nguyen
850 Bryant Street San Francisco...
Event Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 11:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 7:14am PST
imageThe Funeral Of Mario Woods & The Execution Of African American Youth
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by Labor Video Project
On December 17, 2105 the funeral was held for Mario Woods. He was killed by San Francisco police and the death was defended by the San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr....
Posted: Thu, Dec 17, 2015 8:59pm PST
imageJohn Burris releases new video of Mario Woods execution showing his arms down at sides
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by FTP
John Burris released the video at a press conference on December 11, when he announced a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the family of Mario Woods. The video clearly shows Mario Woods' arms at his side when the execution began. It proves SFPD chief Greg Suhr lied, as pigs always do, when he claimed at a town hall meeting in the Bayview on December 4 that Mario Woods had raised his arm to threaten one of the pigs before he was executed....
Posted: Mon, Dec 14, 2015 10:48pm PST
calendarJustice for Mario Woods! Shut it down!
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by
Justin Herman Plaza...
Event Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 6:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Dec 12, 2015 1:29pm PST
videoStudents react to police brutality in San Francisco (video/mp4 73.5MB) by D. Boyer
Students in San Francisco react to the shooting of Mario Woods. Video and photos from police brutality protest that occurred in San Francisco on December 11th 2015....
Posted: Fri, Dec 11, 2015 6:03pm PST
imageIndigenous Leaders Slam Jerry Brown, UN for Backing Potentially Genocidal Carbon Trading
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by Dan Bacher
"REDD is a carbon offset mechanism which privatizes the air that we breathe and uses forests, agriculture and water ecosystems in the Global South as sponges for industrialized countries pollution, instead of cutting emissions at source," said Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "REDD brings trees, soil, and nature into a commodity trading system that may result in the largest land grab in history. It steals your future, lets polluters off the hook and i...
Posted: Thu, Dec 10, 2015 5:30pm PST
textThoughts on an Execution: The Death of Mario Woods by JP Massar
What happened or didn't happen in the instant before the first shot was fired is not all there is. What else we saw and heard in the videos is crucial to understanding, on a larger scale, what is going on....
Posted: Wed, Dec 9, 2015 1:54pm PST
textCalifornia school kids on the frontlines by via Sally Neas, for Pesticide Action Network
I live in Santa Cruz, one of the capitals of the sustainable farming movement. It houses an organic-certifying agency, scores of non-profits that support sustainable agriculture, acres of organic production and one of the nation’s foremost organic research centers at the University of California, Santa Cruz....
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 4:44pm PST
textA letter to Chancellor Blumenthal in solidarity with Palestinian and Black Liberation by via UCSC Students for Justice in Palestine
A letter to Chancellor Blumenthal from pro-Palestinian students, Muslim students, and Black students in solidarity with Palestinian and Black liberation....
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 4:34pm PST
imageSFPD executes Mario Woods (slow-motion)
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by IndyRadio/David Roknich
Officer pumps Mario Woods full of bullets at close range while covered by the rest, seen in slow motion....
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 10:23am PST
imageSF Police Execute Again: Community And Labor Speak Out On Mario Woods Murder
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by Labor Video Project
San Francisco community members and trade unionists spoke out against the execution of African American youth Mario Woods at a public hearing on December 4, 2015....
Posted: Sat, Dec 5, 2015 6:35pm PST
imageACLU of Northern California Statement on the SFPD’s Fatal Shooting of Mario Woods
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by ACLU of Northern California
The ACLU of Northern California joins San Francisco community members in demanding justice for 26-year old Mario Woods. Woods died Wednesday after police shot him multiple times in San Francisco’s Bayview district....
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2015 2:46am PST
calendar1 year since Eric Garner's murderers walk & Justice for Richard Perkins by Stop Mass Incarceration Network
90th and Bancroft Ave, Oakland The spot where Oakland Police murdered Richard Perkins Jr. on November 15th, 2015...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2015 4:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2015 5:03pm PST
imageNative Americans Swim Alcatraz to Fight Diabetes
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by Pete Verral
The annual PATHSTAR Alcatraz Swim Week is a component of a year-round program to encourage healthy eating and a stay-active lifestyle among American Indians and Alaska Natives who have the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the United States, according to the Indian Health Service (IHS)....
Posted: Sun, Nov 29, 2015 10:50am PST
calendarRally and March in Berkeley, Support the Homeless & BlackLivesMatter by
Allston Way & MLK Jr Way, Berkeley, CA. March ends at the Longfellow School, Derby & California....
Event Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2015 4:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 28, 2015 6:29pm PST
calendar7th year vigil for Oscar Grant III by Wanda Johnson
Grant Station (Fruitvale Station) in Oakland, Ca....
Event Date: Fri, Jan 1, 2016 12:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 9:53pm PST
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