The Bay Area Black Builders and friends shut down a pre-bid conference for a library in the heart of Hunters Point. This action was designed to send the mayor of San Francisco a message: If Black people do not work in Hunters Point, no one works here.
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Bayview,
Bayview Library,
Black architects,
Black workers and Black contractors,
Charlie Walker,
Chinatown,
Civil Rights,
employment laws,
Fillmore,
Hunters Point,
Joseph Debro,
large white contractors,
minority employment,
Nedir Bey,
public works projects,
San Francisco,
San Francisco Human Rights Commission,
surety bond,
terror of unemployment,
unemployed veterans,
Visitacion Valley,
Willie Ratcliff
Tonight is a night of rejoicing in San Francisco’s Black heartland, Bayview Hunters Point. After more than a decade of fighting the land-grabbing Lennar cabal – Florida-based mega-homebuilder Lennar and its sponsors, Mayor Gavin Newsom, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, richest member of the U.S. Senate Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Lennar partner Richard Blum – we the people of the poorest neighborhood in filthy rich Frisco finally won one.
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Alice Griffith public housing,
asbestos-laden toxic dust,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bayview Hunters Point Project Area Committee (PAC),
Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan,
Candlestick Point‐Hunters Point Shipyard Phase 2,
Double Rock,
eminent domain,
Espanola Jackson,
federal stimulus-funded work,
Gretchen Morgenson,
Hunters View (West Point),
KPOO,
Lennar,
Leon Muhammad,
Mary Ratcliff,
Mayor Gavin Newsom,
mixed-income housing,
retaliatory eviction,
Richard Blum,
San Francisco Bay View,
San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
San Francisco Housing Authority,
San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Willie Ratcliff
“We should own and operate and control the economy of our community,” said Malcolm X. To make that happen, businesses in the hood should grab the new ARC loans: no-interest loans with no payments due for a year, offered beginning June 15 by the U.S. Small Business Administration, revitalized by President Obama. Merchants and residents who hire and trade with each other build peace and prosperity in the hood.
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America's Recovery Capital,
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),
Bayview Hunters Point,
Black Wall Street,
Buy Black,
East 14th in East Oakland,
Fillmore Street in San Francisco,
Harry Alford,
Inglewood Today,
Jim Clingman,
Muhammad Nassardeen,
National Black Chamber of Commerce,
predatory sub-prime loans,
President Obama,
redlined Black neighborhoods,
SBA ARC loans,
Seventh Street in West Oakland,
small business,
stimulus bill,
U.S. Small Business Administration,
Willie Ratcliff
The San Francisco Housing Authority is spending $5 million to create hundreds of jobs where many of us live. But Blacks will be excluded unless Black contractors can borrow from a loan fund so they can hire Black workers. Pack the Housing Commission meeting Thursday, May 14, 4 p.m., at 440 Turk St. to demand our fair share.
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA),
Black contractors,
Black workers,
disadvantaged contractors,
fair share,
Housing Executive Director Henry Alvarez,
loan funds,
minority and women business (MBE/WBE) participation,
public housing,
redline,
revolving loan fund,
San Francisco Housing Authority,
San Francisco Housing Authority Commission,
stimulus funds,
Willie Ratcliff
A time bomb is ticking, waiting to explode in communities of color across the nation. Law enforcement officers have become an occupation force. If we are to have peace, we first must place economic justice at the top of our agenda. The day Lovelle Mixon died, those close to him mentioned two explanations: He dreaded being sent back to prison yet he couldn’t find a job.
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14th Amendment,
Abdur-Rahim Hameed,
affirmative action,
African American Contractors of San Francisco,
airborne asbestos,
Bayview Hunters Point,
beating,
Black business owners,
Black businesses,
Brazilian President Lula da Silva,
Caravan for Justice,
Congressional Black Caucus,
Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
criminal justice,
discrimination,
disrespect of citizens,
Earl Ofari Hutchison,
economic justice,
environmental justice,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,
HOPE SF,
Judge Thelton Henderson,
Kim Rohrbach,
Lennar,
Liberty Builders,
Local Hire Ordinance,
Lovelle Mixon,
minority- and women-owned business enterprises,
National Black Contractors of America,
occupation force,
Oscar Grant,
Peace Officers' Bill of Rights,
planting evidence,
police execution,
police misconduct,
political justice,
Proposition F,
Proposition G land grab,
public housing privatization,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Second Chance Act,
Sierra Club,
Superfund site,
The John Stewart Co.,
white supremacists,
Willie Ratcliff
Jan. 23 the movement for justice for Oscar Grant III kicked into high gear at the Prisoners of Conscience Committee’s Town Bizness Town Hall Meeting. Follow up by packing the courtroom at Johannes Mehserle’s bail hearing Friday, Jan. 30, 2 p.m., at 1225 Fallon St., Oakland. Don’t let the cops outnumber us.
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African National Congress,
Antoine "Soda Pop" Goff,
Chauncey Bailey,
Coalition Against Police Executions,
Don Wiggins,
Gary King,
Gus Rugley,
Idriss Stelley,
Jack Bryson,
Johannes Mehserle,
John Tennison,
Laronte Studesville,
Oakland Police Department,
Oakland Rebellions,
Oakland Riders,
Oscar Grant III,
Pan African Congress,
POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
POCC Minister of Information JR,
police terrorism,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
Willie Ratcliff
My call last month for an end to the lockout of Blacks from construction is catching fire. This month, let’s get some work! Everyone who wants to work construction, pack the BART board meeting Thursday, Jan. 8, 9 a.m., Kaiser Center, Third Floor, 344 20th St., Oakland. Dr. King taught us, “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.”
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14th Amendment,
affirmative action,
after-school activities,
BART,
BART board,
Bay View,
Black construction workers,
Black unemployment,
construction,
Dr. Martin Luther King,
early childhood education,
employment opportunities,
equal opportunity,
ex-offenders,
Harlem Children's Zone,
inauguration,
job training,
kidnapping oil tankers,
lockout,
minority contractors,
Organization of Asian- and African-Americans in Construction,
President Barack Obama,
prison-to-work incentive program,
Promise Neighborhoods,
Proposition 209,
Public works construction,
race discrimination,
SFPUC,
Somalis,
Ward Connerly,
Willie Ratcliff,
youth violence prevention
This week the National Urban League submitted its “Economic Recovery Plan for Job Creation in Urban Communities” to both President-elect Barack Obama and Congress.
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$700 billion bailout,
CETA,
Community Development Block Grant,
construction industry jobs,
disadvantaged workers,
Dr. Bernard Anderson,
dropouts,
Economic Policy Institute,
Economic Recovery Plan,
ex-offenders,
fiscal stimulus job creation,
green jobs,
infrastructure improvements,
inner city communities,
Marc Morial,
Minority Business Entrepreneurs,
National Urban League,
National Urban League Policy Institute,
pre-apprenticeship programs,
President-elect Barack Obama,
Public Service Employment,
Stephanie Jones,
Summer Youth Employment Program,
unemployment rate,
Valerie Rawlston Wilson,
Willie Ratcliff,
Women-owned Business Enterprises
We elected a Black president. Now tell me what we can’t do. I want to see us use that muscle to prove to ourselves and the world once again that Black people are master builders. We built the White House. We built the South and much of the North. And nobody’s going to lock us out of construction any longer. We’re demanding our piece of the pie. Will you back me up on that?
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African American Contractors of San Francisco,
Alaska State Commission for Human Rights,
Black contractors and workers,
Black president,
Black troublemakers,
clean energy economy,
construction jobs,
construction lockout,
East Liberty,
founder of the Congressional Black Caucus,
green jobs,
Liberty Builders,
New Deal,
noose,
President-elect Barack Obama,
segregated jobsites,
Trans-Alaska Pipeline,
underground economy,
Willie Ratcliff
With Black youth on the front lines this election season, along with all youth plus older Blacks and other people of color, the struggle for real democracy can finally claim victory in the U.S. Masses of new voters have registered and are already lining up to vote wherever early voting is available, as it is here in the Bay Area.
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affordable housing,
And Marriage for All,
ANSWER Coalition,
Barack Obama,
Bay View Prisoners' Subscription Fund,
Bayview Hunters Point,
Bishop Yvette Flunder,
Black and Latino youths,
California Federation of Teachers,
Cindy Sheehan,
Clean Energy Act,
Criminal Justice Center,
Dortell Williams,
Dr. Amos Brown,
Drug Policy Institute,
equal rights,
Eric Mar,
federal housing assistance,
free and independent press,
George W. Bush,
homelessness,
Hunters Point Shipyard,
Jones United Methodist Church,
JROTC,
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps,
Lennar,
Marian Wright Edelman,
Marty Hittelman,
military recruiters,
Minister Christopher Muhammad,
NAACP,
Nancy Pelosi,
National Black Justice Coalition,
new prison construction,
Non-Violent Offender Rehabilitation Act of 2008,
Peace Mom,
POOR Magazine,
privatization,
Prop 36,
Prop F,
Prop G,
Rev. Kenneth Samuels,
Rev. Phillip Lawson,
San Francisco Bay View,
San Francisco Proposition B,
San Francisco Proposition H,
San Francisco Proposition L,
San Francisco Proposition V,
San Francisco's Black heartland,
socio-economically disadvantaged communities,
State Proposition 5,
State Proposition 6,
State Proposition 8,
State Proposition 9,
stop criminalizing children,
Superfund site,
United for Peace and Justice,
Willie Ratcliff
On Election Day, after you’ve voted and made sure your loved ones have voted, hit the streets and the phones to push the candidates and ballot measures you believe in into the winners’ column. And don’t stop after Nov. 4. That’s when our organizing, our pushing, our demands will win liberty and justice for us and our precious children.
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ballot measures,
Barack Obama,
candidates,
Cindy Sheehan,
Proposition 5,
Proposition 6,
Proposition 9,
Proposition B,
Proposition H,
Proposition K,
Proposition L,
Proposition V,
register to vote,
Voters guide,
Willie Ratcliff
On the murky day of Aug. 8, Black Oakland remembered the life of career journalist Chauncey Bailey, who had been murdered the week before on a downtown Oakland street. Hundreds of people filled every place imaginable in the East Oakland Catholic Church of St. Benedict.
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Black community,
Chauncey Bailey,
corporate media,
Gail Berkley,
Harrison Chastang,
KPOO News,
Malcolm Marshall,
Maleena Lawrence,
Oakland Post,
Paul Cobb,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
San Francisco Bay View,
Street Soldiers,
Sun Reporter,
Willie Ratcliff,
Your Black Muslim Bakery,
Yusef Bey IV
Folks were lovin’ Sen. Barack Obama Saturday afternoon in Oakland when they finally got inside the enclosed Frank Ogawa Plaza area.
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