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Beyond protest: Rethinkers’ music conveys solutions
by Benny Amon Rethinkers work on musicianship, discuss issues in their schools and write lyrics conveying their ideas. At right are Angelamia Bachemin and Ginger Tanner, directors of Jazz Hip Hop...
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Gang injunctions, unfettered police power gentrify Oakland
Two critical hearings: 1) Pack the Council meeting Tuesday, May 3, 5 p.m., City Hall, 14th & Broadway, Oakland, for a hearing on gang injunctions – and what the next city attorney should do; 2)...
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California’s Prop 34: Yes or no, the death penalty remains
by Susan E. Lawrence, M.D. A young prisoner sentenced to life without the possibility of parole has no hope of ever a taste of life outside a cage. An excruciatingly slow but certain death in prison,...
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Bayview Foundation wins 2014 SF Peacemaker Award
San Francisco – Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement Executive Director Jacob Moody recently accepted this year’s Community Boards Leadership Peacemaker Award on behalf of the...
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Kev Epps talkin’ about his new film ‘Solutions Not Suspensions’
by JR Valrey Frisco filmmaker Kevin Epps is at it again with his weapon of choice, his camera. This time, the “Straight Outta Hunters Point” filmmaker just released his new film, “Solutions Not...
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Wanda’s Picks for May-June 2016
by Wanda Sabir Outstanding women leaders of the Black Panther era Elaine Brown’s “A Taste of Power,” a memoir which chronicles her leadership of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense when co-founder...
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New Afrikan Community Parole, Pardon and Clemency Review Board – Mission...
U.S. policies of mass incarceration have devastated New Afrikan and poor communities across Amerika. They have fractured family units, exacerbated generational poverty, facilitated the school to prison...
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Props 62 and 66: Death penalty debate behind enemy lines
Read the perspectives of Spoon Jackson, serving a sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole (LWOP), “the other death penalty,” at Lancaster State Prison near Los Angeles, and Tim Young, on San...
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Join Decarcerate Louisiana in resistance and solidarity
by Ronald Brooks Decarcerate Louisiana is an interstate network of social change organizations of people inside and outside the prison system taking action against the re-emergence of slavery and Jim...
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Why isn’t ‘prison reform’ seeking an effective demand for change?
by Anthony Robinson “A criminal justice system is a mirror in which a whole society sees the darker outlines of its face. Our ideas of justice and evil take on visible form in it, and thus we see...
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Welcoming Troy Williams, new Bay View editor
Editorial by Troy Williams Dear Bay View, Troy Williams – Photo: Uncommon Law My name is Troy Williams. On Monday, Juneteenth, Black Liberation Day, I agreed to be the editor for the Bay View...
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Statement of the Libyan National Popular Movement on the Seventh Anniversary...
Libyans remember the glory days under the man many called Brother Leader Muammar Qaddafi. Today comes the seventh year of the international conspiracy, in which obscurantist forces and Libyan agents...
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‘One life is worth all the guns in America’: Students demand end to violence...
by Democracy Now! These young people – no adults were allowed – spoke to a crowd of 800,000 on the mall in Washington, D.C., on March 24 at the main March for Our Lives. The little one in front beside...
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‘The Prison Within,’ filmed at San Quentin, to premiere at 35th annual Santa...
by Erin Kenway The upcoming feature-length documentary film, “The Prison Within,” will make its world premiere at the 35th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), one of the leading...
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We condemn capitalism!
WE applaud the powerful ILWU for defending residents of west Oakland and protesting the removal of hazardous waste through east bay communities, while the Grand Princess cruise ship was docked at our...
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Destroying the master’s tools: Soledad State Prison’s anti-Black racism and...
Talib Williams performs an original spoken word poem at his graduation from the Defy Ventures program inside the walls of Soledad State Prison. Read his original account of the July 20, 2020, raid in...
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