Derrick Gaines: They treated him like a statistic
Join the Justice for Derrick Speakout and March Thursday, Sept. 20, 4 p.m., at the Arco station, 2300 Westborough Blvd, South San Francisco by Clayton Plake and Sid Patel, Socialist Worker Derrick...
View ArticleLook who’s punishing violent cops now!
Discipline for anti-Occupy violence, but Blueford’s killer walks by William Trey West Once again on Oct. 2, the Blueford family demands justice for Alan from the Oakland City Council. “District...
View ArticleCop who murdered Kenneth Harding arrested for molesting teenage boy
by Denika Chatman When you think of an officer of the law, you tend to think of a public servant to protect and serve, not a murderer, child molester or pedophile. We know that all officers aren’t bad,...
View ArticleThe killing of Andy Lopez: a manifestation of a corrupt and soulless system
by Elbert ‘Big Man’ Howard As I write this, because of Andy Lopez’ killing, the main focus of many people I know is on youth executions at the hands of law enforcement, and that is as it should be. I...
View ArticleHouston needs a civilian review board – but Texas needs much more!
by Keith H. Washington, bka Comrade Malik, NABPP Prison Chapter For the past four years, community activists and civil rights leaders in the Houston area have been fighting hard to establish a civilian...
View ArticleWho will protect and defend Black life? The Black Panthers had the right idea
by Thandisizwe Chimurenga It’s kind of fitting that police officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo, murderers of Mike Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York, were cleared of criminal...
View ArticleNo matter what they say or do, we die
by Kevin Cooper They elect the first African American president of the United States, and we still die. They say that we now live in a post-racial America, yet we still die. President Obama says to the...
View ArticleRepression and a green light for murder: The government ‘shout out to the...
by Ajamu Baraka Marshawn Lynch – Photo: Otto Greule Jr. Obscured by the white noise of the run-up to the Super Bowl, U.S. culture’s 21st century version of the Roman circus, reports began to circulate...
View ArticleGerman Solidarity Address for the May 13, 2015, MOVE Commemoration
by The German Network against the Death Penalty and to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal Frankfurt, Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal Heidelberg, Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal Nuremberg,...
View ArticleCongresswoman Maxine Waters’ twist of fate
She and other leaders honor mothers of children lost to violence with ‘Standing in the Gap’ program in LA nine months after Ferguson by Larry Buford It had been just over nine months since unarmed...
View ArticleRhetoric 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...
View ArticleThe psyche of a sexually abused child: Why children may protect the cops who...
Family therapist Phyllis Haugabook talks about the effects of sexual abuse on children by Apollonia Jordan A disgusting underage sex scandal involving Bay Area police officers has caused embarrassment...
View ArticlePolice run feel-good PR campaign while criminalizing Black August
by Davey D Last week I was alerted to an inflammatory story from Bay Area ABC news reporter Dan Noyes that basically sought to disparage the Black August commemorations. The story noted that “police...
View ArticleAre California prisoners the property of prison staff?
by Carl F. Harrison This friendly fellow welcomes you to become one of HIS prisoners in HIS prison. I frequently hear correctional officers make statements such as, “Inmate, get off my table,” “Inmate,...
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