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Malik Rhasaan: Expanding occupation to the hood
by Amity Paye Occupy the Hood founder Malik Rhasaan, left, United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas and Preach are pictured after a meeting with public housing residents to discuss coordinating...
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Bringing stop and frisk to SF?
by Alex Schmaus and Sid Patel A rainbow of San Franciscans packed the steps of City Hall July 17 to protest Mayor Ed Lee’s proposal to bring stop and frisk to the City. Yet that same afternoon, Lee...
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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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Roy Clay, Black Godfather of Silicon Valley
by Andrew Bozeman Many accomplishments of African Americans tend to be erased or buried by mainstream historians. On one hand, successful sports and entertainment figures are idolized as we celebrate...
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The rich ride for free, the po’ get po’liced: Mayor Lee orders Muni sweeps
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia “People are evading their fares. We are only here because the mayor wants to cut down on all the crime,” Officer Carrasco barked at me, while issuing a citation for alleged...
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What is happening in Venezuela?
by Miguel Tinker Salas On Feb. 12, Venezuelan Youth Day and the commemoration of the independence battle of La Victoria, some university students and traditional conservative opposition groups took to...
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Rainbow PUSH Coalition launches new Digital Inclusion initiative in Silicon...
by Pastor Joseph Bryant and Butch Wing Rev. Jesse Jackson led a delegation to the Hewlett Packard annual shareholder meeting on March 19, calling attention to the lack of minority inclusion in Silicon...
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Using Twitter to challenge Twitter on workforce inclusion-diversity data
UPDATE: Twitter releases workforce data “Creative social media mass action matters. Our campaign with Color of Change has resulted in Twitter’s decision to release their data,” Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr....
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Fire destroys Michael Brown memorial, some residents cry arson
by April V. Taylor The world famous memorial for Mike Brown, before and after the Sept. 23 fire. This memorial is at the curb; another remains in the middle of the street, where Mike was murdered by...
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Tech jobs for Blacks? Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow PUSH convene tech companies...
by Kia Croom Intel hosted Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s “Next Steps for Technology Forum” Wednesday, Dec. 10, at the Intel Campus in Santa Clara. The forum, which was sponsored by...
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Hundreds of South Carolina prisoners sent to solitary confinement over Facebook
See update below by Dave Maass In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking. According to the Associated Press,...
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Rhetoric vs. reality: SFPD’s investment in police brutality
by Jeremy Miller The day was balmy but chilled, slightly windy but still. The street was bustling but with people that were displaced, tourists perhaps or residents bewildered. We were all pulled in...
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3 days away: Eviction fighter Iris Canada marches toward her 100th birthday
by Tony Robles Iris Canada turns 100 in three days. Iris Canada, eviction fighter who has lived in San Francisco’s Black community on Page Street since the ‘40s. Iris, with history in her skin and...
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FBI gives green light to crack down on Black Lives Matter protesters – BLM...
Following this story is a Black Lives Matter statement on the murder of police and escalating protests to end state-sponsored violence against Black people by Mara Verheyden-Hilliard The violent events...
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Why we’re about the see the largest prison strike in history
by Jeremy Galloway, The Influence On Sept. 9, a series of coordinated work stoppages and hunger strikes will take place at prisons across the country. Organized by a coalition of prisoner rights, labor...
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From media cutoffs to lockdown, tracing the fallout from the U.S. prison strike
by Kamala Kelkar Prisoners in a walkway at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, are being processed for release at the completion of their sentences. – Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein, Corbis Dec. 18, 2016...
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Congolese youth look to chart a new path in the heart of Africa
by Kambale Musavuli One year ago. on Dec. 15, 2015, in the capital city of Kinshasa, President Joseph Kabila’s security forces kidnapped youth activist Jean-Marie Kalonji, coordinator of Quatrième Voie...
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Net neutrality: Protecting your right to free speech in the 21st century
by Linda Kennedy Along with the phrases “alternate truth” and “fake news,” another phrase, even more ominous, is being bandied about, “net neutrality.” Net neutrality means internet freedom. It means...
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Which side are you on, Mayor Breed?
by the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign The number of unhoused people dying on the street in San Francisco is triple the number who died last year at this time. During this pandemic Mayor Breed...
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Professional athletes are showing America just how powerful labor really is
Citi Field was as devoid of real people as the stands on Aug. 27 after the New York Mets and Miami Marlins walked off prior to the start of the game. by Dave Zirin The wave of strikes by athletes...
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