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Bay View benefit at the Black Rep is Saturday 4/21 3pm: The play ‘Solitary Man’ plus a panel
A Saturday matinee we’ll never forget
The curtain rises on “Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison” tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, at 3 p.m. The performers, Charlie Hinton and Fred Johnson, are ready to bring you the play they’ve toured around the country to their biggest venue yet, the Black Repertory Group Theater, 3201 Adeline, Berkeley. It’s on the Berkeley-Oakland border a half block from Ashby BART. And the panelists, José Villarreal, Marie Levin and Anne Weills, who each know solitary confinement intimately from their different perspectives, are all set to tell you why we all need to push harder to end solitary confinement. It tortures and kills people, just like lynching, and we CAN end it!
Tickets and more info about this great fundraiser that will keep the Bay View alive and kicking are at Brown Paper Tickets, https://solitaryman.
Honoring revolutionary journalist Kiilu Nyasha
In our last alert, conveying the sad news of Kiilu’s transition only two days after she passed, I mentioned getting a call from Pam Africa, who heads the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and was a close friend of Kiilu’s, saying she’d be in town May 4-7 and would love to speak at a memorial for Kiilu while she’s here. Unable to reach Nedzada, Kiilu’s longtime caregiver, or her son and daughter, Michael and Lalia, so not knowing their plans, we hurried to make plans, as the time was short. (Lalia, however, wrote a lovely comment to JR Valrey’s tribute to Kiilu, saying, “I look forward to seeing you at her memorial.”) Meanwhile, not knowing of our progress, Nedzada also began to plan for a memorial, hers on May 20. When she announced it, we canceled our plans for May 4. Contact Nedzada at Kiilu’s email, Kiilu2@sbcglobal.net, to be notified when she determines the time and place.
On the fundraising front, a miracle occurred just now
About an hour ago, the phone rang to report a miracle: The call came from the San Francisco Foundation – an offer to grant the Bay View $35,000! It’s not final, lots of paperwork first, but what a godsend! Please consider volunteering for a Development Committee to chart a course forward – work out the details for this grant and envision the ways we can raise enough more to hire a new editor, who can hire a staff to make the Bay View a powerhouse that can win enough hearts to move mountains. All I can say is, HALLELUJAH!
If it was you who put a bug in the foundation’s ear, you have our undying gratitude. And thank you all who have made countless donations – many a big sacrifice, I know – to keep the Bay View alive. Feel the arms of tens of thousands of readers around you giving you a huge bear hug!
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The highest salute to the late Black Panther veteran Kiilu Nyasha!
Our beloved Kiilu, 78, passed peacefully into the welcoming arms of the ancestors in the early morning of April 10, 2018. Kiilu was a serious political animal. She didn’t just debate or go to meetings; she was on the frontlines of political struggle. Kiilu personified the spirit of a Black Panther and a dragon breaking free from a dungeon rolled into one, with the resiliency of a Haitian freedom fighter in their revolution and the resolve of a Palestinian resisting the settler colonial Zionist. Kiilu Nyasha, we love you, and we will never forget what you gave.
In remembrance: Kiilu Nyasha
It is with great sadness we say good-bye to a truly remarkable revolutionary, Kiilu Nyasha. I first met Kiilu in New Haven, Connecticut, around 1969. She was serving as a coordinator, advocate and cook for the Black Panther Party Breakfast for School Children program there. My comrade, Kiilu Nyasha, was an uncompromising, revolutionary force. We will forever miss her courage and strength of character, her determination, her talents and her absolute devotion and love for her comrades and the people. Kiilu Nyasha, rest in peace.
Emergency action alert: The men who wrote the historic Agreement to End Hostilities are back in solitary – release them!
In October 2017, the two-year period expired for the court to monitor the Ashker v. Governor settlement to limit solitary confinement in California. Since then, the four drafters of the Agreement to End Hostilities and lead hunger strike negotiators – Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Arturo Castellanos, George Franco and Todd Ashker – have all been removed from general population and put in solitary in administrative segregation units, based on fabricated information created by staff and/or collaborating “inmate informants.”
Do NOT privatize San Francisco’s public health clinics
Thousands of San Francisco families and residents rely on the services facilitated by the City’s Department of Public Health (DPH). We expect this important city to live up to our shared values of fairness, collaboration and respect. Our city’s health and well-being depend on it. STOP the privatization of the Potrero Hill Health Clinic. Rally Friday, April 20, 3-4 p.m., at Potrero Hill Health Clinic, 1050 Wisconsin St.
A call for justice for the real victims in the Tetra Tech scandal: taxpayers and sick Treasure Island and Hunters Point residents
Hunters Point and Treasure Island are historical Siamese twins, inextricably linked by Navy nuclear activity and toxic dumping. As Tetra Tech’s fakery and malfeasance is exposed, Hunters Point is receiving massive attention, but Treasure Island victims continue to be poisoned and evicted, attracting scant notice and no help. Taxpayers are footing the bill to the tune of billions for massive Navy remediation, botched cleanups and two redeveloped, but toxic, Naval bases, where, in the end, no one can safely live.
The City of Arcata receives notice for damages in David Josiah Lawson’s death after police chief resigns
This Sunday, April 15, will mark one year since David Josiah Lawson, who was a sophomore at Humboldt State University (HSU), died after suffering multiple stab wounds at an off-campus party. Currently, no one is in custody for his death. Shelley Mack is an attorney in Arcata and is currently working with Kyndra Miller, a lawyer based in San Francisco, to assist Ms. Lawson with litigation. On April 13, Mack delivered a notice of claim to the City of Arcata in Lawson’s death.
Winnie Madikizela Mandela (1936-2018)
She was born in 1936 and named Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela, but the world would come to know this South African beauty as Winnie Mandela, the wife of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela. And when, after Nelson’s freedom, the marriage ended, she remained a powerful presence in South African life, loved by the nation’s poor and dispossessed. For they knew, in their heart of hearts, that their struggle was her struggle.
Response to ‘the real story of Midtown’ from tenants who also live there
The Midtown Tenants’ Association would like an opportunity to respond to the op-ed published in the BayView that discredits the struggle for equity and self-management that Midtown tenants have been engaged in over the past four years. We have experienced broad support from the wider community concerned with gentrification and the displacement of Black and working class people from San Francisco. Contrary to what the op-ed claimed, living at Midtown under Mercy Housing is not “much better now.”
Melonie and Melorra Green speak on the economic and medical benefits of marijuana
BlockReportRadio returns in 2018 with an interview wit’ medical marijuana activists, curators, entrepreneurs, hosts of the KPOO show Ibeji Lounge (broadcast 8-10 p.m. Tuesdays) and renaissance women Melonie and Melorra Green as they talk about the Marijuana Revolution: its economic, political, and medical benefits and more.
Find the root of the rot: ‘Follow the Money: Flashpoints Radio Voices for Peace and Justice’ released on Tax Day
On April 15, tax day, we think about money. If we follow the money, we find the root of the rot. That is the unifying theme of 66 incisive interviews with Dennis J. Bernstein on his Pacifica Radio Network KPFA Flashpoints program, in a just-released book, “Follow the Money: Radio Voices for Peace and Justice,” selected, transcribed and edited by Riva Enteen. The interviews, all during the Obama administration, are the writing on the wall that foreshadowed a Trump presidency.
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