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Prisoners in SHU continued to suffer mental, emotional and physical harm with no remedy made available by CDCr until we were released out to General Population units by the Departmental Review Board (DRB) between 2012 and 2014 and the Ashker v. Brown class action settlement in 2015.

OP-ED: PTSD SC — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Each of California’s governors and CDCr cabinet secretaries from 1977 to 2015 knowingly enhanced their system to become more repressive upon...

Community elders tell many stories about parties held at the once lavish landmark, the California Hotel, which is now affordable housing for 72 residents. The property owner stopped renting out new units last year and is now trying to intimidate those remaining into abandoning their homes even though no other affordable housing can be found in Oakland.

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

California Hotel tenants fight for their human right to housing

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Holding signs saying “Protect our right to stay” and chanting “Housing is a human right,” residents of Oakland’s California Hotel, the...

Jalil Muntaqim (Photo Courtesy: Bryan Shih)

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

Last NY Panther in prison, Jalil Muntaqim draws strong support for 11th parole hearing in 48 years

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — A group of prominent academics, lawyers and activists published an open letter on May 21 calling for the release of political...

Centric and Joc Scholar of Grand Opus in Richmond

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

Hip hop and culture: ‘High Power’ by Grand Opus

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — In the African American community, hip hop serves as a musical culture and an instrument to voice the struggles and hardships...

Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, and Tears Across Mama Earth by Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia.

Books4 years ago

COMMENTARY: ‘Poverty Scholarship,’ THE book to read if you care about poverty

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — As a professor with UC Berkeley’s Global Poverty and Practice Program, this is the book I have been waiting for, and...

A fierce fighter for youth, Public Defender Jeff Adachi rails against gang injunctions, a civil penalty applied mainly in public housing developments that drive from their homes and families young men reputed to be involved in a gang. Here he speaks at a rally in front of City Hall on July 12, 2007. In poor neighborhoods, Jeff Adachi had more credibility than any other public official and would often be sought out to speak on issues too hot for others to handle. – Photo: John Han, Fog City Journal

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

SF Board of Supervisors unanimously passes Jeff Adachi Youth Rights ordinance

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Youths ages 17 and below who are detained by San Francisco police officers will now be guaranteed to have an attorney...

Hundreds marched from the Public Defender’s Office on Seventh Street at Bryant to City Hall, resolved to stay the course and intensify the fight for justice for the oppressed that their hero, Jeff Adachi, has led for decades. The march and vigil were organized by Adachi’s colleagues and the Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods organization based in Bayview Hunters Point. The banner reads, “SF Public Defender’s Office Making Justice Happen.” – Photo: Samuel Albillo

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

March and vigil for Jeff Adachi honor his ‘warrior spirit’ and fearless truth-telling, vow to move forward

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Hundreds gathered last night for a candlelight vigil and march to City Hall in honor of Jeff Adachi.

Demonstrators flee as Haitian police open fire during the clashes in the center of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Feb. 13, 2019, the seventh day of protests against Haitian President Jovenel Moise that continue unabated. – Photo: Hector Retamal, AFP

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Stand with the People’s Uprising in Haiti

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — The current Haitian government has no legitimacy; it is a classic puppet regime.

San Francisco’s pride, five-time elected Public Defender Jeff Adachi, wishes SF Bay View Publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff a happy 82nd birthday at a reception prior to the Bay View’s awards show, Black Media Appreciation Night, on Sept. 13, 2014, at the African American Art & Culture Complex. – Photo: TaSin Sabir

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

IN MEMORIAM: Jeff Adachi, 1959 – 2019: ‘When Jeff had your back, you felt safe’

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Jeff Adachi, a defense attorney of the highest magnitude, legendary for his sharp mind and soft, yet brave, heart, spoke to...

For five decades, people across the U.S. have been traveling to Cuba on Venceremos Brigades. (Photo by: sfbayview.com)

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

An invitation from the Venceremos Brigade: Work and learn in Cuba this summer

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California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Black genius built the pyramids, not slave labor

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — If you want to know how the pyramids were built, ask those who built them

Children in the Living Jazz Children’s Project live the music they love.

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

Living Jazz presents its 17th annual Martin Luther King tribute in support of free music education for Oakland Title One elementary schools

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Over the past 14 years, Living Jazz has provided FREE music education to Oakland public elementary schools serving high percentages of...

Business4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Separate can be equal: OurStory Matters, Black Dollars Matter

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Being forced to go in an unfavorable direction because all other paths are blocked is the worst feeling. Sadly, this has become...

On June 19, 2018 – Juneteenth, Black Freedom Day – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., introduced her bill to permit the use of marijuana in states where it is legal – for medical or recreational purposes – in federally-assisted housing, including public housing and the Section 8 housing program.

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

Public housing and Section 8 Tenants Face Eviction and Homelessness for Medical Marijuana Use

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Across the nation public housing and Section 8 tenants are facing discrimination, eviction and homelessness for medical marijuana use.

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

COMMENTARY: View from the Shipyard

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Black Friday 2018 will be remembered as the day 13 federal agencies released the doomsday fourth installment of the National Climate...

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Retaliation against Ohio prison strikers

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — A plot to kill me and poison my food by an officer was exposed. But I’m hard to kill. Can’t stop,...

Kanye West visits the Oval Office Oct. 11 to meet with President Trump. As he had on Saturday Night Live and other occasions, as dozens of camera rolled, he stressed the need to end prison slavery by removing the slavery exception clause in the 13th Amendment that enslaves prisoners.

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

COMMENTARY: The Kanye conflict over the slavery exception clause: Amending the amendment that ‘abolished’ slavery

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — "While Kanye is a clown in many senses of the word, his buffoonery can be used to our advantage. Right now...

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Radical Black Organization Calls on U.S. Government to Shut Down U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has launched U.S. Out of Africa!: Shut Down AFRICOM, a campaign designed to end the...

#NNPA BlackPress4 years ago

If cannabis is legal in California, why are so many Black-owned cannabis businesses considered illegal?

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Just a few years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union reported that African Americans were nearly four times more likely to...

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COMMENTARY: The deafening drumbeat of the unfree

CALIFORNIA VOICE — Dehumanized by the labels “prisoner,” “inmate” and “convict,” even reduced to serial numbers like Victor Hugo’s Jean Valjean in “Les Misérables,” these men...

Third Street business owners LaWanda Dickerson, owner of U3Fit, Ms. Bernadette, owner of the Jazz Room, April Spears, owner of Cafe Envy and Auntie April’s, Teresa Goins, founder Old Skool Cafe, and Barbara Gratta, owner of Gratta Wines have come together to form a mighty coalition, the Merchants of Butchertown

Business5 years ago

Merchants of Butchertown

CALIFORNIA VOICE/SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Today, a community group of local businesses calls itself the Merchants of Butchertown (MOB). The group is chaired by April...

The tweet accompanying this photo reads: Unending solidarity with the prison rebels around the country participating in the national strike. Here’s a pic of our rowdy demonstration downtown Lansing today. We’re gonna make sure the national demands of the #prisonstrike cannot be ignored.

#NNPA BlackPress5 years ago

Lansing and Chicago on the march as National Prison Strike grows

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Lansing, Michigan – Community members, formerly incarcerated people and anti-prison activists marched today through downtown Lansing to raise awareness about the...

From left, former Nobel peace prize nominee Ellen Barry, founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and an expert witness in this case, listens as former prisoner and plaintiff Christina Zepeda speaks at the press conference. Earlier, Christina had told of losing her baby at Santa Rita.

California Voice - San Francisco Bay View5 years ago

Pregnant prisoners recount horrific jail conditions at Santa Rita in federal lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — In a major class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court here, conditions at the Alameda County Jail at Santa Rita...

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OP-ED: PTSD SC — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement

California Hotel tenants fight for their human right to housing

Last NY Panther in prison, Jalil Muntaqim draws strong support for 11th parole hearing in 48 years

Hip hop and culture: ‘High Power’ by Grand Opus

COMMENTARY: ‘Poverty Scholarship,’ THE book to read if you care about poverty

SF Board of Supervisors unanimously passes Jeff Adachi Youth Rights ordinance

March and vigil for Jeff Adachi honor his ‘warrior spirit’ and fearless truth-telling, vow to move forward

COMMENTARY: Stand with the People’s Uprising in Haiti

IN MEMORIAM: Jeff Adachi, 1959 – 2019: ‘When Jeff had your back, you felt safe’

An invitation from the Venceremos Brigade: Work and learn in Cuba this summer

COMMENTARY: Black genius built the pyramids, not slave labor

Living Jazz presents its 17th annual Martin Luther King tribute in support of free music education for Oakland Title One elementary schools

COMMENTARY: Separate can be equal: OurStory Matters, Black Dollars Matter

Public housing and Section 8 Tenants Face Eviction and Homelessness for Medical Marijuana Use

COMMENTARY: View from the Shipyard

COMMENTARY: Retaliation against Ohio prison strikers

COMMENTARY: The Kanye conflict over the slavery exception clause: Amending the amendment that ‘abolished’ slavery

COMMENTARY: Radical Black Organization Calls on U.S. Government to Shut Down U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)

If cannabis is legal in California, why are so many Black-owned cannabis businesses considered illegal?

COMMENTARY: The deafening drumbeat of the unfree

Merchants of Butchertown

Lansing and Chicago on the march as National Prison Strike grows

Pregnant prisoners recount horrific jail conditions at Santa Rita in federal lawsuit

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OP-ED: PTSD SC — Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Solitary Confinement

California Hotel tenants fight for their human right to housing

Last NY Panther in prison, Jalil Muntaqim draws strong support for 11th parole hearing in 48 years

Hip hop and culture: ‘High Power’ by Grand Opus

COMMENTARY: ‘Poverty Scholarship,’ THE book to read if you care about poverty

SF Board of Supervisors unanimously passes Jeff Adachi Youth Rights ordinance

March and vigil for Jeff Adachi honor his ‘warrior spirit’ and fearless truth-telling, vow to move forward

COMMENTARY: Stand with the People’s Uprising in Haiti

IN MEMORIAM: Jeff Adachi, 1959 – 2019: ‘When Jeff had your back, you felt safe’

An invitation from the Venceremos Brigade: Work and learn in Cuba this summer

COMMENTARY: Black genius built the pyramids, not slave labor

Living Jazz presents its 17th annual Martin Luther King tribute in support of free music education for Oakland Title One elementary schools

COMMENTARY: Separate can be equal: OurStory Matters, Black Dollars Matter

Public housing and Section 8 Tenants Face Eviction and Homelessness for Medical Marijuana Use

COMMENTARY: View from the Shipyard

COMMENTARY: Retaliation against Ohio prison strikers

COMMENTARY: The Kanye conflict over the slavery exception clause: Amending the amendment that ‘abolished’ slavery

COMMENTARY: Radical Black Organization Calls on U.S. Government to Shut Down U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)

If cannabis is legal in California, why are so many Black-owned cannabis businesses considered illegal?

COMMENTARY: The deafening drumbeat of the unfree

Merchants of Butchertown

Lansing and Chicago on the march as National Prison Strike grows

Pregnant prisoners recount horrific jail conditions at Santa Rita in federal lawsuit

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