Grading and construction activities by the Florida-based megadeveloper Lennar enter a third year … with asbestos and particulate levels at air monitor HV9 – located adjacent to a residential complex – skyrocketing to over 296,000 structures per cubic meter Dec. 28-30.
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adult and pediatric asthma,
adult congestive heart failure,
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
Amy Brownell,
Angela Alioto,
asthma,
Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Candlestick Point,
chest pain,
chronic bronchitis,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
cough,
Dr. John Balmes,
Dr. Rajiv Bhatia,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
EPA Office of Air and Radiation,
fatigue,
federal Superfund site,
fetal and infant deaths,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board,
irregular heartbeat,
Kofi Bonner,
Lennar,
Lennar president and CEO Stuart Miller,
low birth weight infants,
mesothelioma,
National Center for Environmental Health,
Parcel A,
particle air pollution,
Ph.D.,
pneumoconioses,
pre-term deliveries,
Public Health Director Mitch Katz,
San Francisco Department of Public Health,
shortness of breath,
stadium,
Thomas Sinks,
toxic asbestos,
weight loss,
World Trade Center,
Yosemite Slough
In the first month of 2009, we put a Black man in the White House with our votes and convinced a DA to charge a white cop with the murder of a Black man with our rebellion. Don’t miss MOI JR’s next Town Bizness Townhall Wed., Feb. 11, 7 p.m., Black Dot Cafe, 1195 Pine, West Oakland, featuring Ch. Fred Hampton Jr., Martina Davis, Min. Keith Muhammad and more, and come with me to the BART board meeting Feb. 12, 9 a.m., 344 20th St., Oakland.
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Adolph Grimes III,
BART board,
Bellaire,
Black Power,
Bobby Tolan,
economic discrimination,
economic parity,
felony arson,
Fruitvale BART Station,
Ida B. Wells,
Johannes Mehserle,
Oakland 100,
Oakland youth,
Oscar Grant III,
POCC (Prisoners of Conscience Committee),
POCC Minister of Information JR,
police terrorism,
Robbie Tolan,
Willie Ratciff
Jan. 23 the movement for justice for Oscar Grant III kicked into high gear at the Prisoners of Conscience Committee’s Town Bizness Town Hall Meeting. Follow up by packing the courtroom at Johannes Mehserle’s bail hearing Friday, Jan. 30, 2 p.m., at 1225 Fallon St., Oakland. Don’t let the cops outnumber us.
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African National Congress,
Antoine "Soda Pop" Goff,
Chauncey Bailey,
Coalition Against Police Executions,
Don Wiggins,
Gary King,
Gus Rugley,
Idriss Stelley,
Jack Bryson,
Johannes Mehserle,
John Tennison,
Laronte Studesville,
Oakland Police Department,
Oakland Rebellions,
Oakland Riders,
Oscar Grant III,
Pan African Congress,
POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
police terrorism,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
Willie Ratcliff
Haitian-Americans are working for change on the following priorities and urge President Obama and the new U.S. Congress to incorporate them into a more effective foreign policy that centers on promoting sustainable development, self-sufficiency, and a sovereign, prosperous and stable Haiti.
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Caribbean Basin Initiative Investment Support,
coup d'etat,
Diaspora remittances,
environmental protection,
famine,
foreign NGOs,
free trade,
globalization,
Haiti debt,
Haitian Diaspora,
Haitian refugees,
Haitian sovereignty,
Haitian-Americans,
Hope Act,
human rights,
immigration,
Jatropha,
Marguerite Laurent,
MINUSTAH,
privatization,
reciprocal trade,
reforestation,
Special Export Zones,
sustainable development,
Temporary Protected Status (TPS),
U.N. troops,
U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S.AID),
workers' rights
The torture of prisoners in U.S. custody is not only found in military prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. If President Obama is serious about ending U.S. support for torture, he can start here in Louisiana.
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20th Judicial District Judge George H. Ware Jr.,
A.C. Thompson,
Albert Woodfox,
Angola Prison,
Angola Warden Burl Cain,
Black Panthers,
Eighth Amendment rights,
Fourth Amendment rights,
Herman Wallace,
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Louisiana Attorney General James "Buddy" Caldwell,
Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola,
President Obama,
torture,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Moments before he was killed, Oscar Grant was punched in the face – but not by the BART officer who shot him. A cellphone video released by KTVU Jan. 23 shows another BART officer, identified as Tony Pirone, punching Grant just before he was shot by BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, who was arrested on murder [...]
Forty-eight years ago, the first freely elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Patrice Emery Lumumba, was brutally murdered by the United States, Belgium and certain local elites because he wanted the resources of the Congo to benefit the Congolese people.
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"Break the Silence" movement,
Che Guevara,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Dr. Martin Luther King,
Free South Africa,
humanitarian crisis,
Ishango bones,
Kambale Musavuli,
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students,
Patrice Emery Lumumba,
refugee camp
“Electing Barack Obama president doesn’t mean we have overcome … We could put too much faith in him to deliver us, when we need to be organizing to deliver ourselves.”
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African-American agenda,
Ajuba Joy,
Barack Hussein Obama,
Black America,
Cash Michaels,
First Lady Michelle Obama,
Irving Joyner,
Jarvis Hall,
Marquita McAlpine,
Rev. William Barber II,
Stella Adams
Life-term prisoners – lifers – are beginning to experience the effects of Prop 9, Marsy’s Law. On Jan. 14, when political prisoner Hugo Pinnell appeared before the Parole Board, he was told to come back in 15 years!
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Board of Parole Hearings (BPH),
California Coalition for Women Prisoners,
Central California Women's Facility (CCWF),
Diana Block,
Hugo Pinnell,
life-term prisoners (lifers),
LWOP (Life Without Possibility of Parole),
Marsy’s Law,
Pelican Bay SHU,
Proposition 9,
Sara Olson,
TiPS (Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety)
“Now we, the dark-skinned people, feel even closer to the American people now because Obama is one of us,” says the leader of the Movement of Free Iraqis, the Basra-based organization of Iraqis of African descent, whose ancestors were brought to Iraq as slaves 2,500 years ago. He says there are more than 2 million [...]
Leonard Peltier was severely beaten after being transferred to another prison. Learn how you can help and read a letter from Leonard and commentary – ‘President Obama must free Leonard Peltier’ – written Jan. 23 by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman.
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African-American,
American Indian Movement,
Betty Peltier-Solano,
Canaan Federal Penitentiary,
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
FBI,
Geneva Convention,
Guantanamo,
In the spirit of Crazy Horse,
Indian wars,
Leonard Peltier,
Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee,
model prisoner,
Oglala,
President Barack Obama,
solitary confinement,
Standing Deer,
U.N. Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“This historic occasion is merely the tip of the iceberg. Yet unseen but soon to surface is the debunking of a global culture of supremacy that assumes or guarantees the authority of European principles, practices, preferences and privilege,” said Dr. Tascoe.
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1.8 million people,
African descent,
BART police,
Black family,
Dion Roberts,
Dr. Ramona Tascoe,
inauguration,
Jackie Wright,
Johannes Mehserle,
Mel Washington,
Oscar Grant,
President Barack Obama,
Rev. Greggory Brown,
San Francisco State University student strike,
Solomon Ghile,
Washington Mall
The Gulf Coast Civic Works Act to fund “green” resident-led recovery projects is inspired by Dr. King’s proposal for ending poverty: a public works New Deal-like program assuring full employment.
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Coretta Scott King,
Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton,
economic exploitation,
Gulf Coast Civic Works Act,
HR 4048,
military might,
Mohandas Gandhi,
Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955,
non-violence,
Office of Gulf Coast Recovery and Rebuilding,
poverty in America,
racism,
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lord, help us work for that day when Black will not be asked to get in back, when Brown can stick around, when Yellow will be mellow, when the Red man can get ahead, man; and when White will embrace what is right.
In response to Israel’s horrific attack on the Gaza Strip, Invincible has dropped a new track, “The Emperor’s Clothes,” which ties the attack to the police execution of Oscar Grant in Oakland.
The Israeli government is stepping up efforts to suppress dissent and crush resistance in the streets.
We arrived in Palestine on Jan. 2, the fourth day of the attacks on Gaza and the day after the murder of Oscar Grant III by the subway police in Oakland.
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African National Congress,
American Israeli Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC),
anti-apartheid,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
Black Codes,
Black South Africans,
Gaza,
Israeli Defense Force,
Nelson Mandela,
Oscar Grant III,
police killing,
security wall,
segregation,
West Bank,
Zachary Norris
Who among us – especially those of my generation – ever dared believe that an American of African heritage would ascend to the highest office in the land in our lifetime?
President Barack Obama delivers his Inaugural Address on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009 – see the videos, photos and transcript.
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all are equal,
all are free,
challenges,
courage,
crisis,
honesty,
hope,
Inaugural Address,
jobs,
powerful,
President Barack Obama,
progress,
prosperous,
risk-takers,
unity of purpose,
We the People
‘On behalf of the Chinese people, I hereby express resolute support for the just struggle of the Black people in the United States,’ said Mao, as rebellions following the assassination of Martin Luther King set 100 U.S. cities on fire.
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Afro-American struggle,
common enemy,
emancipation,
Mao Tse-tung,
Martin Luther King,
oppressed people,
progressives,
revolutionary force,
revolutionary intellectuals,
U.S. imperialism,
U.S. monopoly capitalist class,
white working people,
workers
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