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| by Minister of Information JR | |
| Tuesday, 11 March 2008 | |
 Minister of Information JR "Banished" is a great movie. But the more important thing about this fundraiser for the SF Bay View newspaper is that it is being shown at Grace Tabernacle Community Church in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, a community that is fighting land grabbing corporations Lennar, AIMCO and the John Stewart Co. as well as the U.S. Navy, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, the police, PG&E and some more. This is a community where a $650 million light rail project was built on the main thoroughfare, Third Street, and the residents got jobs for kibbles and bits, like holding up stop signs while white people and others from outside the community did the work with the heavy machinery and equipment and made the real money.In this same neighborhood, a youngsta, Tyrelle Taylor, was shot in the back three times, then the holice charged him wit' assault on police officers, among other trumped up charges, and now he is in court fighting for his life. This is four years after the police beat him up as a teenager and fondled his female neighbors right here in Hunter's Point - the cop in charge telling their parents that they would keep acting "like this" so long as Black people refused to leave Hunters Point. It's a community that is under San Francisco's first gang injunction, which is basically a modern day slave code or apartheid law "to protect the ‘new' residents from the criminals," which really means the Black youngstas that populate the neighborhood currently. So to make a long story short, this event will be a political education class and community rally session where a panel will follow the movie, and many of the leading activists in the city will come to discuss the land grab going on in San Francisco, including Espanola Jackson, Daniel Landry, Alicia Swartz and Valerie Tulier. Minister Christopher Muhammad of the Nation of Islam will keynote the event, along with Willie Ratcliff of the Bay View newspaper, who will be celebrating its 16th anniversary as publisher, and they will be discussing the same topic as the panel. I will be hosting the panel, and we hope everybody who can comes to this historic event. KPFA forum on self-determination in the media On Friday, March 21, on the other side of the Bay, in East Oakland at the Eastside Arts Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, the SF Bay View and POCC: Block Report Radio will be a part of a town hall meeting discussing how grassroots people could better use and access the media and the media organs around them in their local vicinity, especially KPFA, the SF Bay View newspaper and VJTV. The program will be broadcast live on the radio on the 94.1FM KPFA show Full Circle from 7-8 p.m., but the event goes on until 9 p.m. and will include people and commentary from Media Alliance, the Eastside Cultural Center, First Voice Apprenticeship, Poor News Network, VJTV, the SF Bay View newspaper, POCC: Block Report Radio, APEX Express, Youth Radio and more. Having access to the media in a highly industrialized country like Amerikkka should be a human right, because it can determine how people perceive you and your community and deal with you. Everybody should be able to define for themselves who they are and not have it done for them. Both of these events are historic, and they are happening back to back, so be a part of the momentum for revolutionary change that is taking place around you. Get informed and involved.
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