Haitian priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste was a Jesus-like revolutionary. In jail and out, he preached liberation of the poor, release of prisoners, human rights for all and a fair distribution of wealth. Though he died May 27, he remains present in the hearts of millions. Watch a video he recorded just for SF Bay View.
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"My rosary is my only weapon!",
Amnesty International,
Bill Quigley,
Cite de Soleil,
deported,
Dignity,
Father Gerard Jean-Juste,
Florida,
Freedom,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haitian priest,
he U.S.-supported coup government,
human rights,
Kreyol,
liberation,
liberation theology,
Miami,
Mon Pere,
Port au Prince,
Prisoner of Conscience,
prisoners,
revolutionary,
St. Claire,
starving children,
the Bible,
the Declaration of Human Rights,
the poor,
trumped up charges,
U.S.,
wrongfully imprisoned
Sen. Mark Leno’s Senate Bill 792 would give clean parkland at Candlestick Point to Lennar and replace it with toxic land. Lennar, the “toxic dust developer,” plans to build 10,000 luxury condos at the Hunters Point Shipyard. This toxic trade bill is now in the California Assembly, so calls opposing SB 792 should be made immediately to Fiona Ma, (916) 319-2012, and Tom Ammiano, (916) 319-2013.
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African American communities,
Alicia Schwartz,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bayview neighborhood,
California,
cancer,
Candlestick Point,
environmental racism,
health,
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Lennar,
multibillion-dollar developer,
parcel,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights,
POWER,
Proposition P,
radioactive elements,
respiratory illnesses,
Sacramento,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
San Francisco's sewage,
SB 792,
Sen. Mark Leno,
Senate Bill 792,
toxic,
toxic dust,
toxic inorganics,
U.S. Navy,
working class communities
I have known Umi for a good half a decade and he has been a major supporter of the POCC’s Code of Culture all around the country, whether it was assisting now political prisoner Aaron Patterson when he was on the streets with the many campaigns that he was involved in, or whether it is him giving comrades moving through New York a place to lay their heads.
Sadly, March 7, 2009, marked the 15th anniversary for California’s draconian Three Strikes and You’re Out law. Fifteen years is one and a half decades, 180 months or 5,475 days. No matter how you calculate it, 15 years is too long for non-violent humans to be “incapacitated” for petty, non-serious and victimless crimes.
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(SJRA),
18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 et seq.,
2008,
Barbara Brooks,
California,
California’s Three Strikes,
Case No. CV08-7591,
Central District of California,
Dec. 8,
Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III,
et al.,
FACTS,
Folsom State Prison,
Keel v. Schwarzenegger,
Kenneth G. Keel,
Los Angeles,
Marsy’s Law,
Matt Gray,
Nicholas’ No on Prop. 66,
Prop. 9,
Proposition 66,
Represa,
RICO,
Sacramento,
Sentencing and Justice Reform Advocacy,
Taxpayers for Improving Public Safety,
The Advocate,
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute,
Third Strikers,
Three Strikes and You’re Out law,
Three Strikes reform,
TiPS,
United States District Court,
www.FACTS1.can,
www.forpublicsafety.com,
“A Note from Barb”
Kathy Hughes, the owner of Radio One, which many in the Black community deem the Black Clear Channel, has issued a clarion call to Black people saying that Conyers’ bill will kill Black radio. But the question remains: Is Black radio now in jeopardy or has true Black radio that is accountable to the community been dead for decades?
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Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets,
Arbitron,
Black Clear Channel,
Black disc jockeys,
Black Music Month,
Black people,
Black radio,
Black radio industry,
Chuck D of Public Enemy,
Congressman John Conyers,
Disappearing Voices: The Decline of Black Radio,
Eddie O'Jay,
Frankie "Hollywood" Crocker,
Gary Byrd,
Hal Jackson,
Iyanna Jones,
Jena 6,
Jocko Henderson,
Kae Thompson,
Kathy Hughes,
M1 of dead prez,
Madison Avenue advertising agencies,
Media,
Melvin Van Peebles,
Michael Baisden,
Minister of Information JR,
noch "The Dixie Drifter" Gregory,
Performance Rights Act,
Radio One,
the House of Representatives,
the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters,
U-Savior Washington,
Wayne Gillman of Air America and WBLS,
www.disappearingvoices.com
Ever since the police murder of Lovelle Mixon, after he allegedly murdered four Oakland police officers in East Oakland on March 21, the SF Bay View newspaper website, sfbayview.com, hundreds of messages have been written in the comment sections at the end of the articles by people who are undercover cyber police and people with strong pro-police sentiments, with some coming right out and saying they are members of police departments.
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"The ambivalent silence of the left: Lovelle Mixon,
Al Jazeera,
Black community,
Black labor,
Blacks,
East Oakland,
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
four Oakland police officers,
independent media,
J. Edgar Hoover,
Lovelle Mixon,
March 21,
Minister of Information JR,
Oakland police,
Oakland residents 4",
Police 2,
police and the politics of race and rape",
sfbayview.com,
terror,
The OPD,
The police in America,
the SF Bay View newspaper
I surveyed a bunch of high-school-aged teens between 15 and 17 to find out what are the new drugs they’re using to get high. As a teen I struggled with some drug addiction, but many of the new drugs teens are getting high off of are crazy and can lead to brain damage and even death. I put together a list of the top five drugs that teens are doing in the year 2009. It’s time to put a stop to this .
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Apollonia Jordan,
Black community,
brain damage,
cocaine,
Crystal meth,
death,
divination,
drugs,
Ecstacy,
grapes,
hallucinogenic herb,
healing,
high,
high-school-aged teens,
ice,
Marijuana,
Ohloff Recovery Program,
pills,
psychoactive herb,
purple,
Sally-D,
Salvia,
smackers,
Smarties,
smoking weed,
thangers,
thee-thee,
trees,
weed
It’s Memorial Day, and I was just harassed and detained with unnecessary force right in front of my house on Pine Street by a Sgt. D. Ming, serial number 8493, for about an hour. He called four additional squad cars to back him up.
Marcel Diallo is a legend in Oakland for having put in over a decade of cultural work with the Black Dot Artist Collective, and now he is the main architect of a Black cultural district, the Village Bottoms Cultural District in the Lower Bottoms of West Oakland, near the old Army base.
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" "under-served",
"food deserts",
10th and Pine Street,
actor Glenn Plummer,
Black cultural district,
Black Dot Artist Collective,
Black Farmers,
Black self-determination,
Clean Air Festival,
community-based farm,
Cornelia Bell's Black Bottoms Gallery,
cultural work,
David Roach,
disenfranchised,
Dr. Burns at the Prescott Joseph Center,
Environmental Indicators Project,
environmental justice,
environmentalists,
ganga Diallo's House of Common Sense aka The Juju Shop,
gentrification,
intense vertical farming,
Lower Bottoms of West Oakland,
MacArthur Genius Awardee Will Allen,
Marcel Diallo,
Margret Gordon,
Milwaukee,
Minister of Information JR,
Mo Better Foods Farmers' Market,
Monsa Nitoto,
non-profits,
Oakland,
OT Jackson's Flophouse,
renewable energy,
Richmond,
the "Green Movement",
The Black Dot Cafe,
The Black New World Social Aid & Pleasure Club,
the Dellums administration,
the Obama administration,
the Schwarzenegger administration,
ustainable communities,
Village Bottoms Community Building and Development Co.,
Village Bottoms Cultural District,
Village Bottoms Farms
“George and I” is Jahi and producer Korise’ Big Tunes’ newest creation where Jahi is rhyming to Korise’s George Benson remake tracks. It’s hot and innovative. I haven’t heard a dedication/concept album like this. It feels good to be hearing these guys push Bay Area hip hop to new limits.
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"Explore",
"George and I",
"Give Me the MYC",
"Give Me the Night",
"Less Is More",
Amoeba,
Cleveland,
George Benson,
Gift of Gab,
Jahi,
Korise' Big Tunes',
Minister of Information JR,
Oakland,
Rasputin,
Speech from Arrested Development
Signs reading “Justice for Oscar Grant,” “Abolish the Three Strikes Law” and “Demandamos Justicia Ya!” floated above a sea of ralliers of different ages, religious beliefs, genders and ethnicities. From Bakersfield up to Sacramento, activists, teachers and family members came together to rally against laws that have failed to serve the betterment of their communities.
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Abolish the Three Strikes Law,
Bay Area Rapid Transit,
Bisola Marignay,
California,
Caravan for Justice,
Cop Watch,
Crystal N. Carter,
Dana Blanchard,
Demandamos Justicia Ya,
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,
Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (FACTS),
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
graduate of Humboldt State University,
Justice for Oscar Grant,
Leland Yee,
Minister Christopher Muhammad,
Modesto,
Nation of Islam,
Oralia Cortez,
Proposition 66,
Sacramento,
San Francisco,
Sen. Roderick D. Wright,
Tom Ammiano,
Tom Helme,
www.caravanforjustice.com
As an African-American farmer, I am calling on the first African-American president of the United States to lead us quickly away from this deepening crisis. Demand, President Obama, that Congress and your own administration begin without delay the process of reforming our farm and food policies. Start now by correcting the omission in your economic stimulus and recovery act that prevented significant spending on creating new and sustainable jobs for the poor in our urban centers as well as rural farm communities.
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African Americans,
agro-chemical conglomerates,
Biosecurity Research Institute,
California,
Centers for Disease Control,
Centers for Urban Agriculture,
corn,
Departments of Agriculture and of Health and Human Services,
economic recession,
farmer,
farmland,
food distribution,
food production,
food system,
foodstuffs,
Growing Power Inc.,
health care,
industrial commodities,
industrialized,
job training,
Kansas State University,
malnourishment,
Michael Pollan,
Milwaukee,
National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility,
national food policy,
National Recovery Act,
President Obama,
preventive care research,
self-reliant,
self-sustaining,
soybeans,
undernourishment,
unsustainable practices,
Will Allen,
Wisconsin
Legendary Frisco rapper Black C has out-survived two of his group mates in Ruthless By Law (R.B.L.), Mr. Cee and Hitman (RIP), who were murdered at different times, and still continues to put out good music and has another powerhouse squad under construction, The Malitia.
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"Bluebird on My Shoulder",
"City of Gods",
"Don't Gimme No Bammer Weed",
"How We Comin",
"Rally Around C",
A.R.,
Bay Area hip hop,
Bay Area rap scene,
Big Hermanata,
Big Lurch,
Black C,
Devious,
Frisco,
Hitman,
KMEL,
Minister of Information JR,
Moe The Hustla,
Mr. Cee,
Mystikal,
RBL,
Ruthless By Law,
San Francisco,
Simon,
Slapadelic,
The Malitia,
Wild 94.9,
Young Shaad
On New Year’s morning BART police officer Johannes Mehserle fired his gun at point blank range into Oscar Grant’s back, killing him as he lay face down on the train platform, hands behind him. A preliminary hearing is now underway to determine whether Mehserle will be charged with murder or whether the charges against him will be lowered.
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Alameda County Courthouse,
Alika Rogers,
BART,
BART Officer Woffinden,
BART police,
California,
Daniel Liu,
Dennis Horowitch,
Dennis Zafiratos,
Fruitvale station,
Jamil Dewar,
Johannes Mehserle,
John Burris,
Karina Vargas,
Margarita Carazo,
Oakland,
Oscar Grant,
police brutality,
police murder,
Rodney King,
Tommy Cross,
Tony Pirone,
Wanda Johnson,
YouTube
T-Kash, the former local television star from KRON’s First Cut turned internationally known rap star on Paris’ political label Guerrilla Funk Recordings, is a very under-rated voice and mind in Bay Area and international hip hop. His international debut, “Turf War Syndrome,” is a classic that not many people in the hood are up on.
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"Acid Reflex",
"American Nightmare",
"Better Days",
"Brains All Over the Streets",
"Don't Stop the Movement",
"Hoodnic",
"Turf War Syndrome",
Davey D,
Guerrilla Funk Recording,
Hard Truth Soldier Tour,
Hilltop Hoodz,
Hip Hop,
KPFA,
KRON's First Cut,
Lovelle Mixon,
Mehserle,
Minister of Information JR,
Oakland,
Oscar Grant,
Paris,
T-Kash,
The Friday Night Vibe,
the Oakland Rebellions
Hardworking is an understatement when you talk about Acktup, who has released a new album every three months since he started releasing music. All of his albums have sold at least a thousand copies a piece, with “1000 Degrees” selling 3,000 copies. “No Competition” and “King Mentality” is currently in stores, while he is still in the lab cookin’ up “Mobbin Like Me,” which is due out in August.
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"1000 Degrees",
"I'm Just a Black Man",
"Mobbin Like Me",
"No Competition",
Acktup,
Bay Area music industry,
Dame,
Hooker Boy Films,
King Mentality",
Lovelle Mixon,
Minister of Information JR,
Oakland,
Oscar Grant,
Vallejo Middle School
Shark is a 27-year-old father of five Secwepemc children, from the Ohlone and Chumash nations. He is currently being held for ransom in the Kamloops Regional Correctional Center (KRCC), facing charges stemming from protecting Secwepemc mountains, Skwelkwek’welt.
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Chumash,
Free Shark,
Halkomelem Territory,
indigenous autonomy,
Kamloops Regional Correctional Center,
land,
Mother Earth,
Native Youth Movement,
Ohlone,
Secwepemc,
Shark,
Skwelkwek'welt,
Sun Peaks Resort Corp.,
Warrior Society
“Our success here to secure justice for Oscar Grant will no doubt be that line in the sand that will say to all police officers, ‘If you kill or break the law, you will go to jail,’” wrote Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby, Cephus Johnson, in a message of thanks to supporters. Watch Davey D’s video on the week’s events. Oscar Grant’s family asks supporters to return to the courthouse next week.
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Dave Id,
Davey D,
Davey D's Hip Hop Corner,
District Attorney Tom Orloff,
Indybay,
Johannes Mehserle,
Los Angeles police,
Lovelle Mixon,
Malcolm X,
Michael Vick,
Oscar Grant,
Rodney King,
Simi Valley,
Tony Coleman,
Uncle Bobby (Cephus) Johnson,
WBAI
During the first 200 years of the theft of indigenous people’s land, destruction of resources and death of peoples and communities known as European colonization in the U.S., the missionary ideals and practices of Christian charity were replaced by the capitalist and patriarchal pattern of philanthropy.
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Andrew Carnegie,
benevolent slave owners,
Christian charity,
economic downturn,
European colonization,
John D. Rockefeller,
Leland Stanford,
Lisa Gray-Garcia aka Tiny,
non-profit industrial complex,
non-profit organizations,
philanthropy,
poor communities of color,
revolutionary giving,
revolutionary organizations,
stewards of the earth,
William F. Shultz
Supporters of justice for Oscar Grant gathered Monday morning outside the Alameda County Courthouse while the preliminary hearing inside dealt with Johannes Mehserle’s defense attorney Michael Rains attempting to reduce charges from murder, to move the venue to a less diverse county, or to otherwise stifle Mehserle being held to account for murdering Oscar Grant.
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"Black Panther steps" of the Alameda County Courthouse,
By Any Means Necessary,
Cefus Johnson,
Copwatch,
Dave Id,
Johannes Mehserle,
Michael Rains,
New Years Movement for Justice,
No Justice No BART,
OneFam,
Oscar Grant,
police execution,
the Nation of Islam,
the Revolution Club
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