Kenneth Harding, Raheim Brown, Oscar Grant: Can you believe the police?
Minister of Information JR devotes KPFA show to police terrorism by Phil Horne, Esq. On the heels of the San Francisco Police Department killing of alleged bus-fare-evader Kenneth Harding, KPFA devoted...
View ArticleThey circle like vultures
by Alfred Sandoval Imagine your life encased in a 7-by-11-foot cage with no window, the light on 24/7 and no privacy, under the watchful eyes of people paid to break your spirit – and your body – all...
View ArticleCleveland PD murders unarmed Black couple, firing 137 shots
by Amir Khalid A. Samad, Peace in the Hood Tim Russell’s car was surrounded by dozens of police evidence markers indicating bullets, shells or other pieces of evidence. – Photo: Marvin Fong, Cleveland...
View ArticleCorcoran 2011 hunger strike petitioner needs legal help re retaliation,...
by Juan Jaimes My name is Juan Jaimes. I was a petitioner during the Dec. 28, 2011, hunger strike here at Corcoran State Prison. I’m sure you recall after I and the other two petitioners were...
View ArticleRetaliation against hunger strikers at Menard – windows blocked, strikers...
The following consists of excerpts, lightly edited by Alice Lynd, from letters by eight men in Administrative Detention at the Menard Correctional Center in Illinois, dated April 12-14, 2014. Windows...
View ArticleJustice sought for Black woman savagely beaten by CHP officer
by Kenneth D. Miller More than 23 years after the videotape release of White uniformed LAPD officers beating unarmed Black motorist Rodney King in 1991 – which sparked civil unrest in Los Angeles and...
View ArticleJoin the #HandsUp mass mobilization in Ferguson Oct. 9-13
by Hands Up Core A Ferguson protester defies militarized police, his hands up showing fearlessness in the face of their mighty firepower. The photo was taken Aug. 18 by a photographer with a Chinese...
View ArticleProtesters shut down Oakland Police Department for almost 4.5 hours today,...
by Samantha Liapes, Chinyere Tutashinda and Alex Tom Oakland, Dec. 15, 2014 – At approximately 7:30 this morning, the Oakland Police Department Headquarters was blockaded by protesters demanding an...
View ArticleProud of my sisters
by Donald Moss This view that I’m seeing is beautiful and inspirational. I’m sitting here in my cell watching these protesters around the country for equal justice for all – no exception – and also...
View ArticleCages Kill-Freedom Rally in Santa Cruz
by Courtney Hanson and Willow Katz of Sin Barras, Santa Cruz Sin Barras organized the Cages Kill-Freedom Rally to save lives after six people locked up in the Santa Cruz County Jail have died since...
View Article22 months after Oscar Grant: OPD ‘justifiably’ murder unarmed Black...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Twenty-two months after the police murdered Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland Jan. 1, 2009, local barbershop owner Derrick Jones was killed...
View ArticleImprisoned people facing medical neglect and violence: Family members and...
by Dolores Canales, Family Unity Network, and Hannah McFaull, Justice Now Sacramento – On Nov. 11, an imprisoned person at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) faced extreme violence at the hands...
View ArticleBlack Rifles Matter in Berkeley
by Ann Garrison On Tuesday evening, Dec. 15, 2015, the Berkeley City Council voted to keep sending officers to the annual Urban Shield war games and weapons expo, even after one vocal citizen held up...
View ArticleI am fighting for women in Texas prisons
by Britney Gulley I am a walking, living proof of a life that has been pulverized, destroyed and abandoned by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I have been housed in Ad-Seg going on four years...
View ArticleHelp prisoners break the ban on Bay View
It’s time to make a way out of no way. Censorship of the Bay View around the country – originally because prison authorities fear the widespread prison strikes to end slavery – appears to have become a...
View ArticleWomen in Texas prison decry abuse, banning of Bay View: ‘There’s no...
by Britney Gulley A few months ago, I exposed the corruption of this particular unit and others across Gatesville, Texas,* striving for justice, peace and respect to no avail. (See “I am fighting for...
View ArticleFrederick Douglass Haynes: Open letter to Trump’s preachers
by Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes, Pastor, Friendship West Church Dear Colleagues in Christ, With heartbreak, yet hope, we reach out to you in the Name of our Lord and Liberator, Jesus, the Christ. It...
View ArticleHealthy prisoners launch hunger strike on MLK Day to support tortured mental...
by Atlanta IWOC (Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee) Sixteen folks incarcerated at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., are going on a hunger strike starting Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, as an act of...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about Oakland mayoral candidate Allyssa Victory
Allyssa Victory is running to become the first Black woman mayor of Oakland. Part 1 by the People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey, SF Bay View Oakland Bureau Allyssa Victory is a human rights and...
View ArticleKenneth Harding, Raheim Brown, Oscar Grant: Can you believe the police?
Minister of Information JR devotes KPFA show to police terrorism by Phil Horne, Esq. On the heels of the San Francisco Police Department killing of alleged bus-fare-evader Kenneth Harding, KPFA devoted...
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