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The King Garvey Co-op housing crisis
by Chris Brizzard Located back to back, the King Garvey Co-op and the Fillmore Center are like night and day. In one live residents with a vision of cooperation and self-sufficiency who have struggled...
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Adoptees of Color say, ‘Stop all adoptions from Haiti’
Adoptees of Color Statement on Haiti The caption for this photo, illustrating a story about Haitian adoptions by ©The Times News Service, London, reads: “UP FOR GRABS: Children queue for food in...
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Protesters clash with police following rain in Haiti
by Kevin Pina A demonstrator confronts Haitian police as they block the march towards U.N. headquarters. – Photo: HIP Port au Prince, Haiti (HIP) — About one inch of rain fell on the capital of Port au...
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Solidarity and struggle: More on the Jan. 31 riot at Ely State Prison
by Coyote Sheff Because of Ely State Prison’s desolate location four hours from the nearest city, prisoners get little support. Its relative isolation at least partially explains its designation by the...
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KPFA’s working majority gets screwed by CWA job trust
by Isis Feral Hard Knock Radio host Davey D speaks at a positive, harmonious rally outside KPFA on Nov. 11. Organized by JR Valrey (Block Report Radio) of the unpaid staff and Anita Johnson (Hard Knock...
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Learning from shattered Haiti’s year of struggle
by Michelle Chen Jean-Pierre Joseph is being treated for cholera in a treatment facility in Cabaret, Haiti. – Photo: Joe Raedle, Getty Images A year ago this month, Haiti was flattened by a seismic...
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One year after Haiti earthquake, corporations profit while people suffer
by Jordan Flaherty A collapsed school in Port au Prince is marked “HRG - O.K.,” the signal for the Haiti Recovery Group, a joint venture composed of the notorious AshBritt and a member of the Haitian...
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The Black mayor of Waterproof, Louisiana, has spent nearly a year behind bars...
Race and politics in a rural Louisiana town attract national attention by Jordan Flaherty Mayor Bobby Higginbotham A legal dispute in the rural Louisiana town of Waterproof has attracted the attention...
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Hiding Africa’s looted funds: Silence of Western media
by Lord Aikins Adusei A little known news aggregation site called Newser used this photo showing how oil pipelines have taken over and destroyed the economy and environment of the Niger Delta to...
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Paramedic whistleblower alleges Oscar Grant cover-up, system-wide racism
by Phil Horne, Esq. Once the videos of Oscar Grant’s cold-blooded murder went viral, outrage in the Bay Area and beyond was expressed in countless rebellions, protests, meetings and activism of all...
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My husband, my hero: The story of a prisoner labeled ‘worst of the worst’
by Kendra Castaneda Robbie Riva played on the varsity football team at Millikan High School in Long Beach in 2000, one year prior to his false arrest. What if you were a ward of the state of California...
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Outsiders EXPECT burning tires in Haiti … not accurate reporting
by Kevin Pina Friday, Sept. 21, saw yet another in a series of large demonstrations across Haiti. The largest protests were registered in Cap Haitien and La Cayes, Haiti’s second and third largest...
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Generational incarceration
by L.C. DeVine “One picture,” Fred R. Bernard once aptly remarked, “is worth a thousand words.” But, we need only a few words to describe an unsettling truth vividly depicted in the drawing shown here....
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10 steps to dictatorship: Why the grassroots movement in Haiti is taking to...
by Charlie Hinton, Haiti Action Committee According to the Washington Post, one of the largest anti-Martelly protests since he took office in 2011 was held Monday, Nov. 18, a national holiday that...
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Venezuela a threat to US national security?
by Hands off Venezuela On March 9, 2015, U.S. President Obama issued an executive order declaring a “national emergency” affirming that “the situation in Venezuela” poses an “unusual and extraordinary...
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Plan Lanmó – the Death Plan: The Clintons, foreign aid and NGOs in Haiti
by Charlie Hinton When Bill and Hillary Clinton married in 1975, a friend gave them a trip to Haiti for their honeymoon. The Washington Post reported: “Since that honeymoon vacation, the Caribbean...
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SFPD gets away with murder(s); Department of Justice comes to town
by Carl Finamore San Francisco is touted by conservative detractors and liberal boosters alike as the nation’s most progressive city. This is still true in many ways, even amidst towering symbols of...
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10 easy steps to understanding the protests in Brazil from the bottom up
by Agente Z9R This photo of their nanny obliged to march with her employer, Claudio Pracownik, vice president for finance of the football team Flamengo, and his wife against President Rousseff and...
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Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blue Print
Overview by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) has systemic and dysfunctional problems that run rampant statewide within California’s prisons for both...
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Your tax dollars make America a nation of 8 million slaves
by Keith ‘Malik’ Washington Slavery has not been abolished in the United States of America. We call this the land of the free, but it is presently home to 2 million active slaves and approximately 6...
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