Federal judges tentatively order release of 37,000 to 58,000 California...
by Mary Ratcliff Senior Judge Thelton Henderson A federal three-judge panel ruled today, Feb. 9, that overcrowding in California prisons is indeed the root cause of health care inadequacy so severe...
View ArticleCorcoran SHU staff told to ignore legal mandate to protect lives of hunger...
by J. Heshima Denham, Zaharibu Dorrough, Kambui Robinson and Jabari Scott, NCTT-Cor-SHU On Monday, April 8, they ran no yard on the 4B Facility in the Corcoran SHU (Security Housing Unit). We of course...
View ArticleMandela, pacifist or rebel?
by Diana Cariboni Montevideo (IPS) – Perhaps it’s a false contradiction. But today there are many who stress the pacifist message with which South Africa’s Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) emerged from...
View ArticleWhy we won’t wait: Resisting the war against the Black and Brown underclass
by Robin D.G. Kelley Wait. Patience. Stay Calm. “This is a country that allows everybody to express their views,” said the first Black president, “allows them to peacefully assemble, to protest actions...
View ArticleStand with the defiant ones in Baltimore
News and analysis by Abayomi Azikiwe follows by Carl Dix Baltimore, April 27, 2015 – The uprising in Baltimore has delivered an unmistakable and powerful message that the time is over when people will...
View ArticleFerguson police intensify abuse, but no amount of tear gas, hatred and...
by The Organization for Black Struggle Ferguson takes to the streets again Tuesday, Aug. 11, during more than a week of protests around the first anniversary of the Aug. 9, 2014, murder of Michael...
View ArticleUn-arm the paid killers and child molesters: The people call for a national...
by Tiny Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network “A 90-day moratorium on use of force is actually the norm in certain places,” said Lisa Marie Alatorre of the Coalition on Homelessness. “Even asking SFPD...
View ArticleFast and fatal: Car plows into crowd protesting Unite the Right rally to save...
by SF Bay View staff Aug. 12, 2017 – It happened today in downtown Charlottesville, Va., the city that invites tourists to visit Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s slave plantation. In Emancipation Park,...
View ArticleThe July expiration of the COVID-19 eviction ban and unemployment bonus leads...
Oakland rising: “Millions are going to join the ranks of the permanently unemployed and we have to step up our game in organizing them and turn them into power, building forces like the unemployed...
View ArticleWe keep us safe: Tenderloin streets belong to the people, not cops or mayors
Mayor London Breed announced Friday, Dec. 17, that she would pursue an “aggressive” crackdown on criminality in the Tenderloin. In “a sharp break with the liberal conventions that have guided her city...
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