What was amazing about the hearing Monday was the prosecution’s admission that it didn’t have enough evidence to convict these men. As attorney Daro Inouye said of Jalil Muntaqim, who pled no contest to the prosecution’s charge of conspiracy, his client picked up a loaded grenade to save his brothers, his friends, his fellow defendants, and he didn’t plead guilty. That language did not pass his lips.
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asha bandele,
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Judge Philip J. Moscone,
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Kevin Cooper,
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Wole Soyinka,
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A Michigan judge ruled this week that the Rev. Edward Pinkney, a Benton Harbor minister and longtime vocal community activist who recently served 13 months in jail, couldn’t attend his own hearing in Grand Rapids before the Michigan Court of Appeals because he is under 24-hour house arrest and probation for quoting the Bible.
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Lake Michigan College,
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National Baptist Convention USA,
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Progressive National Baptist Convention,
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Racist corruption,
religious and civil rights,
Rev. Edward Pinkney,
the National Action Network,
The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference,
the State of the Black World,
the Whirlpool Corp,
voter registration fraud
An all-white Berrien County jury had convicted Rev. Pinkney, the founder of Benton Harbor’s Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizers (BANCO) and an associate pastor of Hopewell Baptist Church, in March 2007 on allegations of voter fraud. He won release from prison on bond in December 2008 only after the Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took an interest in his case and helped with his defense.
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Grand Rapids,
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Tavis Smiley,
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the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights,
the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization,
Warren Ballentine of The Truthfighters,
Whirlpool Corp.
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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Bisola Marignay,
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Dana Blanchard,
Demandamos Justicia Ya,
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,
Families to Amend California's Three Strikes (FACTS),
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graduate of Humboldt State University,
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Leland Yee,
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Modesto,
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Oralia Cortez,
Proposition 66,
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San Francisco,
Sen. Roderick D. Wright,
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Tom Helme,
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The City of San Francisco has applied for a $14.6 million grant to fund the infrastructure for dirty developer Lennar to build 10,000 luxury condominiums and a stadium on the Superfund site of the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point. Tell the state to just say NO!
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Bay Area Air Quality Management District,
Candlestick Point,
dirty development,
environmental protection violations,
environmental racism,
Grace Tabernacle Community Church,
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice,
health and safety violations,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Lennar Corp.,
Nation of Islam,
People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church,
Superfund site,
Tabernacle Development Group,
toxic dust
On the afternoon of Feb. 21, 1965, I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear Malcolm X speak. It was the saddest day of my life.
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Nation of Islam,
Roland Sheppard,
Talmadge Hayer,
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Driven by a hurting mother’s call for justice, nearly 300 protesters from across the state and country converged on the lawn of the Lamar County Courthouse to speak out about the fatal dragging of 24-year-old Brandon McClelland.
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Brenda Cherry,
Carmelita Freeman,
Charles Crostley,
Clarksville,
Daryl Washington,
Derrick Muhammad,
Dr. Joye Carter,
Final Call,
Gary Young,
Hashim Nzinga,
Jacqueline McClelland,
James Byrd Jr.,
Jasper,
Jesse Muhammad,
Jim Blackwell,
Kingdom Harvest Church,
Krystal Muhammad,
Lamar County,
Nation of Islam,
New Black Panther Party,
Red River County,
Rev. Fred Stovall III,
Shannon Finley,
Terry Reed,
Texas 7,
Toby Shook,
Tulia,
Tulia 46,
Val Varley,
Virgil Richardson
I think I’m still in shock. Imagine, 200 years after chattel slavery was legally abolished in the United States, we have a Black man elected to this nation’s highest office: Barack Hussein Obama, president elect, this nation’s 44th president as of Jan. 20, 2009.
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Delroy Lindo,
DJ Smoky,
Flow: For Love of Water,
Geronimo ji jaga,
Joe Turner's Come and Gone,
Joyce Gordon Gallery,
Little Nairobi aka East Palo Alto,
Nation of Islam,
New Orleans,
Oakland Museum of California,
Ousseynou Kouyate,
Robert King,
Runoko Rashidi,
San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival,
Sean San Jose,
Wanda Sabir,
White House,
Winona LaDuke
Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Prescott Joseph Center we honored the legacy of the San Francisco Bay Area’s premiere artists: Berkeley resident Joy Holland and Oaklander by way of St. Louis Casper Banjo, with featured artist Keith Hopkins, another Oaklander. The exhibit is titled “Breath of Our Ancestors.”
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Black Poets with Attitudes,
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Chuck D,
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Flavor Flav,
Joanna Haigood,
Jon Hendricks,
Joy Holland,
Keith Hopkins,
Lathan Hodge,
Living Word Project,
Mary Rudge,
Mos Def,
Museum of the African Diaspora,
Nation of Islam,
Oakland International Film Festival,
Oakland Tech,
Prescott Joseph Center,
Professor Griff,
Public Enemy,
San Francisco Trolley Dances,
Shanique S. Scott,
TheArthur Wright,
Tulare County,
Wanda Sabir,
Zaccho Dance Company
Blacks were very instrumental in San Francisco’s founding, but today in San Francisco you run the risk of losing the entire Black population. It is not only appropriate to call a hearing, there should be emergency hearings because this is an emergency situation. Minister Christopher Muhammad explains that one of the reasons for this emergency is the land grab and poisoning of the Black community by the Lennar Corp.
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2008 Proposition G,
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EPA,
Fred Blackwell,
Grace Tabernacle Community Church,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Lennar,
Minister Christopher Muhammad,
Nation of Islam,
public housing demolition,
Redevelopment Agency,
reparations,
San Francisco's declining African American population,
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Vallejo
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