The People’s National Party of Belize organized a Kayak for Haiti Kayakathon to raise funds for the victims of the quake. Despite the inclement weather, Kayak for Haiti was a success because the target was met and surpassed. The total amount raised was $1,404. The money will go to the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund.
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environmental justice,
George and Candy Gonzalez,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
Haiti Emergency Relief Fund,
human rights,
Jean Bertrand Aristide,
Kayak for Haiti Kayakathon,
Lavalas Party,
People’s National Party (PNP),
Playa Blanca Guatemala,
Punta Gorda Belize,
San Ignacio,
Sarstoon River,
TIDE Tours,
Wil Maheia
Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten is quoted at a State Department briefing on Feb. 12, saying: “In terms of humanitarian aid delivery … frankly, it’s working really well. And I believe that this will be something that people will be able to look back on in the future as a model for how we’ve been able to sort ourselves out as donors on the ground and responding to an earthquake.”
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Bill Quigley,
Carrefour,
Center for Constitutional Rights,
Delmas,
densely populated camps,
Etienne Bruny,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
Haitian government,
homeless,
human rights,
humanitarian response,
internally displaced people,
Léogane,
Partners in Health Director Dr. Louise Ivers,
Petionville,
Port au Prince,
Red Cross,
relocation,
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten,
“spontaneous settlements”
This statement reflects the position of an international community of adoptees of color who wish to pose a critical intervention in the discourse and actions affecting the child victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti and who feel compelled to voice our opinion about what it means to be “saved” or “rescued” through adoption.
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abuse,
adoptees of color,
aid dependency,
anti-African sentiment,
caring for children in their own communities,
Charter of the United Nations,
child trafficking,
Convention on the Rights of the Child,
corruption,
cultural sovereignty,
deprivation of human rights,
desire for ownership of Haitian children,
domestic and international adoptees,
family reunification,
family reunification efforts,
forced removal through intercountry adoption,
fraud,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
human rights,
intercountry adoption industry,
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights,
long-term sustainability and self-determination of the Haitian people,
misrepresenting the social histories of children,
negligence,
neo-liberal structural adjustment policies,
population control policies,
Port au Prince,
self-determination,
sense of loss and abandonment,
solidarity with the people of Haiti,
sovereignty,
suffering,
U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
unsustainable development,
“available for adoption”,
“disaster orphans”,
“orphaned children”
Hundreds of thousands of people in Haiti have had no access to clean water since the quake hit. Have you ever felt the raw fear in the gut when you are not sure where your next drink of water is going to come from? People can die within hours if they are exposed to heat without water.
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access to clean water,
Bill Quigley,
Center for Constitutional Rights,
decaying bodies,
drinking bad water,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
human rights,
humanitarian aid,
Pere Jean-Juste,
Port au Prince,
President Obama,
Richard Dubin,
richest nation in the history of the world
Allow all Haitians in the U.S. to work and send money home. Do not allow U.S. military in Haiti to point their guns at Haitians. Do not allow the victims to be cast as criminals. Give Haiti grants as help, not loans. Enact Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Release all Haitians in U.S. jails who are not accused of any crimes. And more.
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Bill Quigley,
Center for Constitutional Rights,
deportation,
Guiding Principles for Internally Displaced People,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
human dignity,
human rights,
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti,
Katrina survivor,
Martin Luther King Day,
militarized humanitarian relief,
non-governmental organizations,
Pat Roberts,
Port au Prince,
President Obama,
public services,
Rush Limbaugh,
Temporary Protected Status,
U.S. military
Historic Wesley United Methodist Church, the second oldest African American church in New Orleans, the eighth oldest in the United States and a symbol of the struggle for emancipation and human rights in the state of Louisiana, is in jeopardy. Unless those who are trying to save it acquire financial support soon, the church may be torn down due to hurricane damage and replaced with a parking lot.
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abolitionist movement to end slavery,
Ashley Gibson,
Common Ground Relief,
emancipation,
George Francis,
human rights,
New Orleans,
Rebuild Green,
Sakura Kone,
United Saints,
Wesley United Methodist Church
Communities from up and down the West Coast that had planned to converge in San Francisco to demonstrate our immense energy and BE THE CHANGE this administration needs to do what is right have been denied a previously approved permit to gather – why? on the grounds that the rally will be too large. Is this a re-run of the rise and fall of the Poor People’s Campaign’s Resurrection City on the Washington Mall in 1968?
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affordable housing,
anti-homeless laws,
Civil Rights,
deep poverty,
food insecurity,
free speech,
homelessness,
Homelessness Ends With a Home,
Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing funds,
human rights,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Obama administration,
Organize or die!,
Paul Boden,
Poor News Network,
Poor People’s Campaign,
Resurrection City,
social justice,
Washington Mall,
Western Regional Advocacy Project
Recently the cold war against Cuba was ratcheted up when an acrimonious debate broke out over the issue of racism in Cuba and for the first time the issue of Brazil was thrown into the mix. The brouhaha began when scores of prominent African Americans, many of whom should have known better, put their names to a petition calling upon the Cuban government to release a dissident from prison.
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affirmative action,
Afro Brazilians,
Afro-Cubans,
Afrogringoism,
Black Civil Rights Movement,
Brazil,
Brazil’s Black Movement,
capitalism,
Carlos Moore,
Clarence Thomas,
Cuba,
Cuban President Fidel Castro,
Cuban revolution,
Dr. Abdias Nascimento,
Dr. Darsi Ferrer,
fiction of racial democracy,
Fidel Castro,
human rights,
Jean Damu,
Johnetta Cole,
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael),
Latin American School of Medicine in Havana,
laws that criminalize racism,
Maya Angelou,
medical technicians,
National Endowment for Democracy,
political progressiveness,
racial profiling,
racial solidarity,
racism,
Randall Robinson,
remittances,
rights of Africa and Black people,
socialism,
solidarity between Black America and Cuba,
Spelman College,
training African American youths as doctors,
TransAfrica,
U.S. Interest Section,
Ward Connerly,
“Lusotropicalism”,
“one drop rule”
Paul Robeson was an extraordinary and versatile individual, world famous during his lifetime, who has been deliberately erased from the dominant myth of U.S. history for speaking the truth about conditions both domestic and abroad – his opposition to racism, fascism and colonialism and his support for civil and human rights, democracy, national liberation, socialism and the day-to-day resistance of working people of all lands to oppression, knowing that his fame would allow these messages to be more widely heard.
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Africa and the World,
Albania,
America,
anti-Communists,
Black liberation movements,
Black man,
Black manhood,
Black Panther Party,
Candy Gonzalez,
China,
CIA,
CIA-developed drug,
civil,
colonialism,
Columbia Law School,
Cuba,
democracy,
enslaved,
Eslanda Cardozo Goode,
fascism,
FBI,
Frederick Douglass,
freed,
Freedom,
George,
Harriet Tubman,
Henry Lloyd Garrison,
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC),
human rights,
John Brown,
John Henrik Clarke,
Jomo Kenyatta,
Korea,
Kwame Nkrumah,
Lincoln University,
lynching,
Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King,
national liberation,
New Jersey,
newly enslaved,
niggers,
Paul Robeson,
Pennsylvania,
People’s Republic of China,
Plessey v. Ferguson,
Princeton,
principled African-American unity,
racism,
racist society,
radical Black churches,
Radio & Audio,
Renaissance man,
resistance,
Russian director Sergei Eisenstein,
Rutgers University,
screen,
segregated theatres,
slave,
socialism,
Sojourner Truth,
Spain,
stage,
the American Crusade to End Lynching,
the civil rights movement,
the Haitian Revolution,
the Russian Constitution,
the Soviet Union,
the Spanish Civil War,
the Supreme Court,
the United Nations,
the United States,
theatre,
U.S. history,
Viet-Nam,
Wales,
white America,
William Drew Robeson,
William Patterson,
working people,
World War II,
“The Proud Valley”,
“We Charge Genocide”
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) predicts a 16-inch mid-century sea level rise, covering Bay Area coastal lands and eventually swamping downtown San Francisco up to Market Street. The primary global warming gas is carbon dioxide. Methane gas, heavily implicated in global warming, has been emitted for years from the Bayview Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Sea level rise will release methane gas from wetlands and landfill, of which much of Hunters Point is composed.
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anti-corruption,
anti-discrimination,
Antioch,
atomic bomb “Little Boy”,
Bay Area Air Quality Control Management,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bayview Hunters Point Naval Shipyard,
Biochemist Dr. Raymond Tompkins,
breast cancer rates,
British Petroleum (BP),
carbon dioxide,
Carol Harvey,
Chevron,
China,
collective bargaining,
dropping property values,
East Palo Alto,
EPA,
Francisco Da Costa,
green technologies,
human rights,
Hunters Point,
insurance rates,
ittle Hollywood,
Jaron Browne,
John Upton,
Lennar Corp.,
Marie Harrison,
Mark Leno’s Senate Bill 792,
methane gas,
Navy,
Pittsburg,
Potrero Hill,
POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights),
radiated materials,
radiation-contaminated by depleted uranium,
radioactive materials,
Sacramento,
San Francisco Bay,
San Francisco Bayview,
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,
San Jose,
Stockton,
Sunnydale,
the Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
the Central Valley,
the Kyoto Treaty,
the precautionary principle in approaching environmental challenges,
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight,
the San Francisco Department of Public Health,
the San Francisco Examiner,
the Stop Lennar Action Movement,
the U.S.,
the U.S. Navy,
toxic exposure,
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan,
U.S. Naval Shipyard,
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen,
Visitacion Valley,
“United Nations Global Compact Center”
Welcome M1 of dead prez to East and West Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Sonoma, San Jose, Santa Cruz – 7 events in 7 cities on 7 days, Sept. 23-29, comparing his experiences in Gaza, Cairo and Europe with ghetto life in the U.S., benefiting SF Bay View and Block Report Radio. Check out new M1 interviews, with Min. of Info JR and KPFA Morning Show.
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Africa and the World,
Arab,
Arafat,
Black Panther,
Cairo,
capitalism,
Charles Barron,
Chrystania,
Copenhagen,
Cynthia McKinney,
dead prez.com,
Denmark,
depleted uranium,
Europe,
F-16 Expander Missiles,
Fatah,
Finland,
Gaza,
George Galloway,
Gottenberg,
Helsinki,
Henry Kissinger,
human rights,
Immortal Technique,
imperialism,
M1 of dead prez,
Minister of Information JR,
Mutulu Olugbala,
Nancy Mansour,
Nazi,
Palestine,
Rafa,
Rebel Diaz,
Scandinavia,
Shadia Mansour,
Stockholm,
Sweden,
the Aryan Brotherhood,
the genocide,
the government of Hamas,
the West Bank
Welcome M-1 of dead prez to the Bay Area – East and West Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Sonoma, San Jose, Santa Cruz – for seven days, Sept. 23-29, of sharing his recent experiences in Gaza, Cairo and Europe and comparing them with ghetto life in the U.S., benefiting the SF Bay View and Block Report Radio. Read his own words and hear a KPFA interview.
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adventurous,
African Liberation Movement,
Anwar Sadat Memorial,
Asian,
Ayman,
Black,
Britain,
British Parliamentarian George Galloway,
Charles Barron,
Chicago,
Cuba,
Cynthia McKinney,
Existence is Resistance organization,
human rights,
Jew,
Kasbah,
LowKey,
Manhattan,
Mazzi,
New York,
non-political,
northern Africa,
old,
Palestinian,
Palestinian land,
police planted agents,
political,
poor,
rich,
S.O.U.L. Purpose,
The Egyptian government,
the Gaza Strip,
The Israeli government,
the Nile River,
the Rafah border,
the Suez Canal,
the U.S.,
The Viva Palestina group,
tired,
U.S. backed embargo,
U.S. President Barak Obama,
uninformed,
white,
young,
“Let’s Get Free”,
“Psychology”,
“Pulse of the People”
Here at the Bay View, we’ve been debating how to best commemorate Black August and celebrate George Jackson this year. Prisoners around the country often ask us for stories about them, and we have more stories than space to publish them.
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Black August,
Black History Month,
Corcoran State Prison,
education not incarceration,
Edward Furnace,
gang activity,
George Jackson,
George Jackson’s ‘Blood in My Eye’,
human rights,
Juneteenth,
law enforcement,
Mao,
Marxism-Leninism,
Mary Ratcliff,
New Afrikans,
Oakland,
San Quentin State Prison,
SHU sentence,
solitary confinement,
Sonoma County,
The Department of Corrections,
the Revolutionary Communist Party,
Virgil Wilkins,
‘BGF,
‘Soledad Brother’,
’ Black Guerrilla Family
Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have raised our concern about the security of citizens’rights and the impact of the situation on people of African descent.
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Afro-Honduran organizations,
Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubí Ávila,
Central America,
civil liberties,
Dr. Castillo,
Dr. Luther Castillo,
Enrique Ortez Colindres,
flagrant violation of the Constitution of the Republic,
Garifuna,
Honduras,
Hugo Llorens,
human rights,
La Ceiba,
military coup,
ODECO President Celeo Alvarez Casildo,
ONECA (Central American Black Organization),
Patricia Rodas,
people of African descent,
President Manuel Zelaya,
racism and discrimination,
The Afro-Honduran NGO ODECO (Organization of Ethnic Community Development),
the Honduran army,
the Luaga Hatuadi Waduheñu Foundation,
the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,
the United States,
TransAfrica Forum,
U.S. President Barack Obama,
‘Chancellor’Ortez Colindres,
“negrito”,
“nigger”,
“We Condemn the Honduran Coup”
Recently Cynthia McKinney has been traveling to Gaza on human rights missions challenging the illegal Israeli military blockade. She, along with a number of others who were bringing humanitarian aid to the area, were confronted by the Israeli military on two occasions. The first time the Israelis rammed their ship and nearly sank it. The second time, People’s Advocate Cynthia and the rest of the Free Gaza 21 had their boat commandeered and were kidnapped by the Israelis and taken to prison. Check out the People’s Advocate in her own words.
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Biggie Smallz,
Bob Marley,
building supplies,
Cointelpro files,
Congo,
Congress,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Egypt,
food,
Gaza,
human rights,
humanitarian aid,
Hurricane America,
international waters,
Israeli military blockade,
Jimi Hendrix,
Katrina,
medical supplies,
Minister of Information JR,
natural gas deposits,
Paul Robeson,
People’s Advocate Cynthia McKinney,
President Obama,
the Ethiopians,
the Free Gaza 21,
the Lebanese military,
the special interest media,
three tons of medical supplies,
Tupac Shakur
“Look at what Haiti’s tyrants did to me!” said the priest who could have been president: The Haitian oligarchy jailed him, the Catholic church denied him health coverage, the hospital denied him care, the Miami Herald denigrated his memory. The Bay Area memorial for Father Jean-Juste is Saturday, June 27, 7 p.m., at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison, Berkeley.
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"wet foot/dry foot" policy,
2004 coup d'etat,
300 years of enslavement,
Ambassador Renaud Bernadin,
Angelina St. Phar,
Archbishop Edward McCarthy of Miami,
Catholic church,
Cayo Lobos,
Claude Pierre,
de facto government,
death squads,
Ertha Noel,
Fabius Rodieu,
Farah Juste,
Father Jyeri,
FreeHaitiMovement,
Haiti's ruling oligarchy,
Haiti's tyrants,
Haitian Diaspora,
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN),
Haitian oligarchy,
Haitian Perspectives,
Haitian Refugee Center (HRC),
Haitian refugees,
human rights,
Hyppolite Pierre,
Jack Lieberman,
Jacqueline Charles,
Kapwa Lamò,
Kreyol,
Krome,
Lavarice Gaudin,
Leader Fenfen,
Little Haiti,
Lucie Tondreau,
Marguerite ‘Ezili Dantò' Laurent,
Miami Archbishop John Clement Favalora,
Miami Herald,
Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Center,
Papa Doc's U.S.-supported Tonton Macoute dictatorship,
Père Renaud François,
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
President Obama,
Professor Bell Angelot,
Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste,
Rev. Reginald Jean-Mary of Notre Dame,
rule by force,
shipwrecked Haitians,
St. Claire Haiti,
Thony Jean-Thenor,
transnational corporations,
Trenton Daniel,
U.N. occupation,
U.S.-imposed Boca Raton regime,
Veronique Fleurime,
Veye Yo (Watch them!),
Yannick Jolicoeur,
Yeye Boul (Andre E. Joseph)
San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar announced June 8 to 300 people rallying at 850 Bryant that he would introduce a resolution to the Board of Supervisors calling on California Attorney General Jerry Brown to drop the charges against the San Francisco 8. “San Francisco does not tolerate torture,” he said, braving the wrath of the Police Officers Association, who evidently tolerate torture in defense of one of their own.
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"Drop the charges",
Betty Williams of the Community of Peace People,
California Attorney General Jerry Brown,
Chris Daly,
Cisco Torres,
Cynthia McKinney,
Danny Glover,
Darryl Jordan,
deputy director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School,
director of the American Friends Service Committee Third World Coalition,
Esq.,
Hank Jones,
Harold Taylor,
Herman Bell,
human rights,
Jalil Muntaqim,
Kamala Harris,
Mairead Corrigan Maguire,
Marjorie Cohn,
Nobel Peace Laureates Rev. Dr. Desmond Tutu,
Northern Ireland,
president of the National Lawyers Guild,
Ray Boudreaux,
resolution,
Richard Brown,
Ross Mirkarimi,
San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar,
San Francisco taxpayers,
SFPD officers,
Sgt. John Young,
Soffiyah Elijah,
Supervisors Sophie Maxwell,
the Black Panther Party,
the Board of Supervisors,
The Brass Liberation Orchestra,
the courthouse at 850 Bryant,
the FBI counter-intelligence program,
the Government Audit and Oversight Committee,
the Ingleside Station,
The San Francisco 8,
the San Francisco District Attorney,
the U.S. Constitution,
the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights,
torture,
William Wardlaw of the Executive Director's Leadership Council of Amnesty International
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
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) co-founder Chokwe Lumumba, in his run for City Council in Jackson, Miss., led eight candidates to win 43 percent of the vote. The runoff is May 19, Malcolm X’ birthday, and your help is needed one more time.
Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was once Minister of Justice of the Black Panther Party – always a servant of the people. We must come to his rescue just as he struggled to rescue us.
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Black liberation,
Colia Clark,
crossing state lines to incite a riot,
Free all political prisoners!,
Free Jamil Al-Amin!,
Free Mumia!,
H. Rap Brown,
human rights,
Imam Jamil Al-Amin,
Kiilu Nyasha,
maximum security section,
Minister of Justice of the Black Panther Party,
police riots,
Power to the people!,
Rap Brown Law,
the hole,
USP Florence ADMAX,
Warden Ron Wiley
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