“On Sunday, the 15th of July, about noon, we were at Hunters Point and they put on us what we now know was the atomic bomb.” – Capt. Charles B. McVay III, U.S. Navy commanding officer, USS Indianapolis (from the Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center)
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Ahimsa Porter Sumchai,
atomic bombs,
breast cancer,
Capt. Lewis L. Haynes,
Capt. McVay,
Captain James Nolan,
Compensation and Liability Act,
Gun Mole Pier,
Hiroshima,
Japanese Emperor Hirohito,
Lockheed Missiles and Space Division,
low level radiation,
M.D.,
Major Robert Furman,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Nagasaki,
Naval Historical Center,
North Korea,
nuclear Iran,
nuclear weapons,
Operation Skycatch,
Parcel D,
President Barack Obama,
Radiation impacted sites,
skin cancer,
Superfund,
Tadatoshi Akiba,
the 2010 dirty transfer of radiation impacted buildings,
the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
the Historical Radiological Assessment,
the Hunters Point Shipyard,
The Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board (RAB),
the mayor of Hiroshima,
the Naval Historical Center,
The Navy,
The Navy Radiological Affairs Support Office,
the Operational Archives Branch,
the Radiological Subcommittee,
the U.S. Navy,
the USS Indianapolis,
Truman,
Winston Churchill,
World War II,
“Little Boy”
Sadly, over the years, we have lost many of our friends and family members as a direct result of practices and policies that demean and devalue lives within prison walls. This mentality allows atrocities to occur far from the public’s watchful eye. We are sure that if the citizens of this country knew what occurs – not in some distant foreign country – but within our own borders, there would surely be a call for immediate reform.
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24-hour lockdown,
America,
Guantanamo Bay,
H. Rap Brown,
Imam Jamil Al-Amin,
Pelican Bay,
prisoners,
Super Max Prison,
The Black August Organizing Committee,
the Bureau of Prisons,
the Congressional Black Caucus,
the family and friends of Imam al-Amin,
the High Security Unit,
the United Nation’s Human Rights Commissioner,
unwarranted isolation,
“free speech”
Very few things in life make me feel the way I feel when I come in contact with the work of a dope visual artist. It is amazing to me how, from a thought and a few strokes of the hand, a whole new world can be created that has crossed the dimension of the artist’s mind to exist in tangible reality. What is even more striking to me is an artist with a social or political agenda that refuses to make art for art’s sake.
On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina took the lives of more than 1,836 people, displaced more than 1 million residents, and damaged more than 200,000 Gulf Coast homes in a 90,000 square mile area. The damage caused by the flooding, storm surge and high winds destroyed schools, hospitals, roads, community centers, bridges, parks and forestlands. In the end, the Gulf Coast suffered more than $100 billion in damage, making Katrina the costliest and most deadly hurricane in the history of the United States.
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000 civic works jobs for Gulf Coast,
100,
and the California and Missouri Democratic Parties,
bridges,
Cindy Chavez,
ColorOfChange.org,
community centers,
Congressmember Zoe Lofgren,
forestlands,
Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign,
hospitals,
HR 2269,
Hurricane Katrina,
James Rucker,
Jethroe Moore,
living wage work,
NAACP,
NAACP Silicon Valley/San Jose,
parks,
poverty,
Rep. George Miller,
roads,
schools,
Scott Myers-Lipton,
South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
the Bayou Parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne,
the Education and Labor Committee,
the GCCW Act,
The GCCW Project,
the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act,
the Louisiana Republican Party,
the New Orleans City Council,
toxic government issued trailers
A powerful component of 2008 presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s five-day San Francisco Bay View newspaper fundraising tour, Aug. 20-24, is the developing bond between Ms. McKinney and a group of young adults in Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area. Several representatives of these young adults spent every waking and sleeping minute with Cynthia.
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2008 presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney,
authenticity,
Bay View newspaper fundraising tour,
electoral politics,
Gaza,
Georgia,
integrity,
Palestine,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
spirituality,
the Black Dot,
the Green Party,
Willie Thompson
One is hard pressed to find media accounts of what the Congolese people want or how they believe that the United States could best play a constructive role in ending the suffering in the Congo. Considering that the United States has played a significant historical role in the stifling of the democratic aspirations of the Congolese people and the backing of the 1996 and 1998 invasions of the Congo by its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, which unleashed what the United Nations say is the deadliest conflict in the world since World War II, it is important to hear directly from the Congolese people regarding U.S. engagement in the Congo.
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American and Western firms trafficking in mineral resources,
Baraka,
Bibokoboko,
Bijombo,
bilateral cooperation,
Bosco Ntaganda,
Bukavu,
Bunyakiri,
Bwegera,
cassiterite,
Central Africa,
Congolese people,
diamonds,
disease,
evil destruction of property and infrastructure,
famine,
Fizi,
Friends of the Congo,
gold,
Hon. Bapolisi Bahuga Paulin,
Hon. Bashomberwa Martha,
Hon. Birindwa Chanikire Solide,
Hon. Bitakwira Hayi Bihona-Justin,
Hon. Buherwa Lupini Désiré,
Hon. Kanyegere Lwaboshi Samuel,
Hon. Marie-Jeanne Kika Zamud,
Hon. Masumbuko Bashomba Christophe,
Hon. Mpanano Ntamwenge Roger,
Hutus,
international justice (ICC),
Israel,
Kagabwe,
Kakungwe,
Kalambi,
Kalonge,
Kamituga,
Kaniola,
Kasika Katogota,
Katumba Kalehe,
Kaziba,
Kigulube,
Kiliba,
Kinshasa,
Kitutu,
large-scale movements of populations,
Laurent Nkundabatware,
Lemera,
looting of natural resources,
Lubuga,
Lugushwa,
Luhwindja,
Makobola,
Masango Tubimbi,
Minembwe,
MONUC (United Nations Organization Mission in DR Congo),
Mushago,
Mutambala,
Mwenga,
National Members of Parliament of South Kivu,
Ndola,
Ngando,
Nindja,
Palestine,
President Barack Obama,
President Paul Kagame,
rape,
Rwanda,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Shabunda,
Sun City in South Africa,
the Conference of Goma,
the DR Congo,
the geostrategic position,
the Marshall plan,
the National Parliament,
the Obama administration,
the United States of America,
theft and other degrading treatment,
Tutsis,
Uganda,
Uvira,
“blood” coltan
On July 23 the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) kicked off the “You Can Kill a Revolutionary … But You Can’t Kill the Revolution Tour” in Oakland, California, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party.
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"Uncle Bobby",
Akua Njeri,
Defense Captain Mark Clark,
Deondre Brunston,
Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton,
Dominique DiPrima,
Donte Story,
Dr. Margaret Burroughs,
Father Jean-Juste,
Haiti Action Committee,
Illinois,
Jack Bryson,
KJLH’s “Front Page”,
Lavalas,
Leimert Park,
Los Angeles,
Lovelle Mixon,
Melvin Newton,
Minister Huey P. Newton,
Mos Def,
Njumbe,
Oakland,
Oscar Grant,
Parnell Smith,
POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
self-determination,
Shukura Sentwalli,
Stevie Wonder,
Texas,
the 40th anniversary,
the annual Chairman Fred Hampton birthday celebration,
the Black Dot,
the Black Panther Party,
the December 4th Committee,
the Kaos Network,
the Oakland Rebellions,
the POCC’s Code of Culture,
The Prisoners Of Conscience Committee (POCC),
West Oakland,
“Ghetto Manifesto Listening Party”,
“Massacre on Monroe”,
“Operation Small Axe”,
“The Assassination of Chairman Fred”
In their fight against the push to privatize their state park, Bayview Hunters Point activists are fighting the privatization of California as hard as anyone I know. They’re fighting for all of us, so I hope that other Californians who don’t want to see the whole state on the auction block will contact their Assembly representatives and ask them to vote against Senate Bill 792.
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12th District Assembly Member Fiona Ma,
13th District Assembly Member Tom Ammiano,
8th District Sen. Leland Yee,
Ann Garrison,
Arc Ecology,
ARC Ecology Director Saul Bloom,
Audubon Society,
Bayview Hunters Point,
California Native Plant Society,
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area,
Caravan for Justice,
Chinese Progressive Association,
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club,
Idriss Stelley Action and Resource Center,
IMF and World Bank,
KPFA News,
KPFA Weekend News Producer Anthony Fest,
Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles,
Lennar,
Lynn Suter,
Michael Cohen,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
privatization of California,
San Francisco Bay View newspaper,
San Francisco Green Party,
San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly,
San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos,
Sen. Mark Leno,
Senate Bill 792,
Sierra Club,
Sierra Club trustee John Rizzo,
state budget crisis,
Stop Lennar Action Movement (SLAM),
structural readjustment,
Tranquillon Ridge
Walsh Construction Company
A Member of the Walsh Group
Proposal Submittal September 22, 2009
BART Oakland Airport Connector Project
Design-Build Contract No. 01ZK-110
Inviting Expressions of Interest from Other Civil Subcontractors
Walsh Construction Company is preparing a design-build proposal for the above referenced project and is seeking expressions of interest from Subcontractors who might be interested in ultimately providing specific subcontract [...]
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DATE: SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 @ 2:00PM
WE ARE REQUESTING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FROM ALL QUALIFIED
DBE SUBCONTRACTORS AND MATERIAL SUPPLIERS FOR
THE FOLLOWING PROJECT:
OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CONNECTOR PROJECT
DESIGN-BUILD – CONTRACT NO. 01ZK-110
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT
Since the project is a design-build, final “Approved for Construction” contract drawings may not be available until after BART [...]
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sent an email around on Sunday in which she wrote: “[I]t has just now come to my attention that a ‘journalist’ who suggested that I be lynched was actually being paid by our own government to say that. Now, when I reported it to the FBI, how in the world was I to know that he was at that time on the FBI’s payroll?”
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'hate blogger',
agent provocateur,
antisemitism,
AssataShakur.org,
Clay Shaw,
Cynthia McKinney,
FBI,
FBI’s payroll,
First Amendment defense,
Georgia Green Party,
Hal Turner,
Jim Garrison,
John Judge,
Katie Nelson,
lynching,
Matthew R. Potter,
Michael Orozco,
radical right-wing organizations,
Randall Samborn,
San Francisco Bay View newspaper,
sitting Member of Congress,
Special Agent Ross Rice,
Superior Court Judge David Gold,
terrorist organization,
The Hal Turner Show,
‘take up arms’,
‘uppity’ Blacks
The Bush administration holdovers on the U.S. Parole Commission today adopted the position of the FBI that anyone who may be implicated in the killings of its agents should never be paroled and should be left to die in prison. The commission denied Leonard Peltier’s application for parole and set a reconsideration hearing in July 2024.
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Amnesty International,
Attorney General Eric Holder,
Eric Seitz,
FBI,
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Leonard Peltier,
Pine Ridge Reservation,
President Barack Obama,
President Obama,
Reign of Terror on the Pine Ridge Reservation,
the White House,
U.S. Parole Commission
The MAGIC Back-to-School Celebration and Backpack Giveaway, the largest of its kind in San Francisco, will kick off the academic year by distributing 5,000 new backpacks stuffed with school supplies to kids and teens tomorrow, Aug. 22, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at two locations: Bayview Opera House, 4705 Third St., and the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, 1050 McAllister St.
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49ers Owner Dr. John York,
BMAGIC,
BMAGIC’s Annual Children’s Book & Technology Fair,
education,
health programs,
job training,
MAGIC Back-to-School Celebration and Backpack Giveaway,
Mo’ MAGIC,
Mo’ MAGIC Director Sheryl Davis,
Mo’ MAGIC’s yearly Summer Reading program,
Public Defender and MAGIC founder Jeff Adachi,
Public Defender’s Office,
social development,
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
Charles Manson cheerleader Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme walked free last week through the front doors of Fort Worth Federal Prison. Fromme attempted in 1974 to assassinate then President Gerald R. Ford. Native American spiritual leader Leonard Peltier has also served almost 35 years behind bars for a crime that has never been proven. So it would seem to be a no brainer: If you’re going to release Fromme, still a self-proclaimed Manson supporter, it’s time to free this internationally revered indigenous leader who was clearly framed by the government and then ground through the racist prison system.
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi,
American Indian Movement (AIM),
beaten viciously,
Charlie Manson,
Dennis Bernstein,
Flashpoints,
Flashpoints in Espanol,
Folsom Prison,
John Virga,
John Waters,
KPFA,
La Onda,
Leonard Peltier,
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme,
Miguel Gavilan Molina,
Native American spiritual leader Leonard Peltier,
Native Americans,
Nelson Mandela,
Obama administration,
PanAm 103,
President Barack Obama,
President Gerald R. Ford
In many ways, Black August, at least in the West, begins in Haiti. It is the Blackest August possible — revolution and resultant liberation from bondage. From its earliest days, Haiti was declared an asylum for escaped slaves, and a place of refuge for any person of African or American Indian descent.
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American bondage,
Antonio de Herrera,
asylum for escaped slaves,
August 1791,
Black August,
Boukman Rebellion,
Dr. Paul Farmer,
first Black republic,
Frederick Douglass,
French-American Empire,
Grand Army of France,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti Republic,
Haitian anthropologist Ralph Trouillot,
Haitian founding father Jean-Jacques Dessalines,
Haitian Revolution,
imperial occupation,
Kreyol,
liberation from bondage,
Marne Rouge,
Napoleon,
place of refuge for any person of African or American Indian descent,
Rebellion of August 1791,
Simon Bolivar,
slavedrivers,
South Carolina Sen. Robert Hayne,
torturers,
Voudon priest Papaloi Boukman
I remember back in the good ol’ days of 2005 and 2006 when being against the wars was not only politically correct, but it was very popular. Those were the halcyon days of the anti-war movement before the Democrats took over the government – off of the backs of the anti-war movement – and it became anathema to be against the wars and I became unpopular on all sides.
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anti-war movement,
Cindy Sheehan,
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox,
Cynthia McKinney,
Democratic health care plan,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Iraq-Af-Pak,
Martha’s Vineyard,
Obama’s wars,
U.S. Empire,
U.S. military industrial complex,
“Beyond Vietnam” speech
After three years under siege and a recent Israeli-led offensive, Gaza continues to suffer. No materials for rebuilding are allowed in, and education and industry continue to be stifled. Despite a devastating military bombardment last winter and continuing economic blockade, the people of Gaza are still demanding freedom.
This month marks four years since Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. The world saw who was left behind when Katrina hit. The same people have been left behind in the “rebuilding.” In the rebuilding, those with money have done OK. Those without have not. It is the American way. Here is a statistical snapshot illustrating some of the legacy of Katrina and the U.S. response.
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Army Corps of Engineers,
Bill Quigley,
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program,
child care facilities,
David Hammer,
Davida Finger,
emergency food programs,
Emilie Bahr,
FEMA trailers formaldehyde problems,
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center,
Hurricane Katrina,
ICF International,
Katrina cottages,
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal,
Louisiana Health Care Stimulus Funds,
Louisiana homeowners,
Louisiana unemployment compensation funds,
Louisiana Workforce Commission,
Medicaid recipients,
Michelle Millhollon,
New Orleanians displaced by proposed new hospital complex,
New Orleans,
New Orleans Census Population Estimates 2000-2008,
New Orleans Medicaid,
New Orleans mental health problems,
New Orleans murders,
New Orleans public charter schools,
New Orleans public housing,
New Orleans public school population,
New Orleans public schools,
New Orleans rebuilding,
New Orleans renters,
New Orleans St. Bernard public housing,
New Orleans suicides,
New Orleans vacant residences,
Programmatic Environmental Assessment,
Road Home Community Development Block Grant,
Road Home Program,
The New Orleans Index: Tracking the Recovery of New Orleans and the Metro Area
Recently, the Bay View newspaper won the SF Bay Guardian’s 2009 Best of the Bay Award for best local newspaper because we are a “fight-back” publication. While at the party, I ran into my media-making buddies from Distortion 2 Static, a local Hip Hop TV show, who had also won a 2009 Best of the Bay Award, theirs for best local TV show, and I thought about the fact that I had never written anything to expose our readers to what they do.
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Beats Me,
Black media,
Distortion 2 Static,
DJ Haylow,
DJing,
hip hop media,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
R.E.L.,
SF Guardian’s 2009 Best of the Bay,
the Bay,
the Bay View newspaper,
the Minister of Information JR
San Franciscans have a right to be outraged about SB 792, sponsored by state Sen. Mark Leno. SB 792 unnecessarily gives away a valuable California State Park in exchange for high-rise condominiums. If San Franciscans allow parkland that was set aside in trust for Californians to enjoy to be transferred to private developers, we risk opening a Pandora’s box that allows development to go unfettered in state parks already threatened by budget cuts.
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Alicia Garza,
Arc Ecology,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Betty Higgins,
Candlestick Point State Park,
environmental racism,
Golden Gate Park,
health,
irresponsible developers,
Lennar,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
Senate Bill 792,
state parks,
state Sen. Mark Leno,
the Black community,
the Chinese Progressive Association,
the environmental impact,
the Presidio,
the Redevelopment Agency,
the Sierra Club
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