San Francisco: UN Torture Czar Juan Mendez tonight, shuttle to the Presidio Saturday, Black Panther Reunion all weekend *** Feel free to spread far and wide *** UN Torture Czar Juan Mendez tonight, shuttle to the Presidio Saturday, Black Panther Reunion all weekend Juan Mendez: The largest hunger strike in history, involving 30,000 prisoners at its peak, is suspended after 60 days – 40 prisoners having starved themselves every one of those long, lonely days despite incessant harassment, which has since escalated to cruel, brutal retaliation against the strikers. The Bay View’s first-person accounts are listed below, and more are on the way. What can we do to help? We can show with our bodies and our words that we care. Major media prioritize coverage of issues by the numbers of supporters who turn out. Tonight, for starters, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez is speaking at UC Berkeley. Let’s pack the house: Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB) Room 2060 on the UC Berkeley campus. If you’d normally take BART, it’s time to pick up the phone and create a carpool alternative. Presidio Shuttle: The Presidio, the old, 1,500-acre army base now part of San Francisco that pre-dates the city to 1776, when it was founded by the Spanish, was home to the Buffalo Soldiers, and 400 are buried there. But the current generation of Black San Franciscans rarely visits the base, now a national park, with its 300 acres of forest, miles of beaches, 24 hiking trails and 14 biking routes. So an enlightened administration at the Presidio Trust is running free shuttles from San Francisco’s Black heartland, Bayview Hunters Point, to the Presidio all day every Saturday in October. Please spread the word so everyone knows to get on the bus tomorrow, Oct. 19, and next Saturday, Oct. 26, and bring the family for a wonderful day exploring the wilderness inside the City. Shuttles run every half hour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., leaving from Alice Griffith Opportunity Center, Willie Mays Boys and Girls Club and the Bayview YMCA. All the info is at parksconservancy.org/assets/visit-your-parks/bayview-hunters-point.pdf. Tomorrow’s special events at the Presidio include the International Sand Castle Building Competition 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and a Buffalo Soldiers presentation 2-3:30 p.m. Black Panther Party 47th Anniversary Celebration: Black Panther Party co-founder Elbert “Big Man” Howard is the host for this year’s reunion, so you know it’s going to be good! All the events are being held at the Arlene Francis Center, 99 Sixth St., Santa Rosa. The full schedule is posted to the Bay View Calendar of Events. Today at 3 p.m., a Political Prisoner Workshop will be led by Claude Marks and Manuel LaFontaine, followed by two films, “Fallen Comrades” and “In the Land of the Free” on the Angola 3. Tomorrow’s packed agenda features a workshop at noon on Women in the Black Panther Party with Sister Sheba Haven, the classic film “Eyes of a Rainbow” on Assata Shakur, spoken word by Meres-Sia Gabri El, “Urban Warrior in the African Bush,” a film on Charlotte “Mama C” O’Neal, and a keynote address at 4:30 p.m. by Minister of Culture Emory Douglas. Here’s your chance to meet and mingle with some of the folks labeled by J. Edgar Hoover “the greatest threat to internal security of the country.” More events: Check the Bay View Calendar of Events often. On Monday at 10 a.m., the legislature is holding a hearing on prison overcrowding. And on Tuesday, Oct. 22, also in Sacramento, people fed up with police brutality and murder are demonstrating together on the Capitol steps from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the National Day against Police Brutality. LATEST STORIES on sfbayview (It’s been way too long since I’ve sent you a list of stories, so I’ll leave out the older ones while encouraging you to explore the site for your favorite topics.) Behind Enemy Lines Pelican Bay hunger strike reps to legislators and supporters: Tell California Corrections Dept. ‘Torture will not be tolerated here’ Hunger striker reports: In our brokenness we can be made whole Lawyers for Russell Maroon Shoatz submit request to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez A strategy meant to break me fuels my passion for human rights Albert Woodfox bids farewell to his Angola 3 brother, Herman Wallace, fights on for freedom UN torture expert Juan Mendez on Albert Woodfox: ‘Four decades in solitary confinement can only be described as torture’ Herman ‘Hooks’ Wallace a legendary hero in Louisiana prisons ‘Somebody tried to poison me’: Pelican Bay prisoner suspects hunger strike retaliation California legislative hearings take on solitary confinement, address hunger strike demands; 100 rally in support Herman Wallace, the ‘Muhammad Ali of the criminal justice system,’ joins the ancestors Gov. Brown commits crimes against prisoners’ humanity for guards’ campaign contributions Corcoran hunger strike negotiations: an extreme form of political discourse Calipatria shows the way: ASU prisoners win their demands while on hunger strike Zulu’s tribute to Herman ‘Hooks’ Wallace: Freedom ain’t never been free Free Herman Wallace, purveyor of ‘Black Pantherism,’ fighting to the death Hundreds of California prisoners in isolation should be covered by class action, attorneys argue in court Political prisoner Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald writes to Assembly Public Safety Chair Tom Ammiano Injustice runs deep The Omaha Two: How long is life? Hunger striker considers where we go from here, wonders, ‘Will the Legislature dupe us too’? The ‘compassion’ of empire: Herman and Lynne await Miracles still happen: A huge law firm is representing the Bay View on censorship at Pelican Bay Testimony of Everett D. Allen, M.D., former chief physician and surgeon at Pelican Bay State Prison, to US Senate Judiciary hearing Pelican Bay hunger strikers denied newspapers, even denied food when they asked for it Fighting spirit: a message from Herman Wallace LA advocates decry governor’s prison expansion compromise, moving prisoners to private prisons out of state Holding Brown accountable: 60-hour fast held outside Gov. Brown’s condo in solidarity with prison hunger strikers The Texas Department of Cowboy Justice: A case of lawless law enforcement News & Views Revitalizing the demand for reparations Free shuttle service to the Presidio from Bayview Hunters Point throughout October Berkeley City Council votes tonight on leasing University Avenue Cooperative Homes for $1 a year US takes one more step toward isolating Rwandan warlord Paul Kagame South African Shack Dwellers’ leader Bandile Mdlalose arrested, denied bail, 17-year-old supporter shot dead by police Protest at Candlestick: 49ers’ scorecard – Black players YES, Black contractors NO Pacifica board member Tracy Rosenberg weighs in on JR’s unjustifiable ban from KPFA Inspired to BMOER Oklahoma police chief apologizes for 1921 attack on Black Wall Street Democrats cave in to another round of sequestration budget cuts Malcolm’s 29th birthday commemorated: an interview wit’ Shaykh Hashim Alauddeen Using city power to prevent foreclosure Linda Brooks Burton, pride of Bayview Hunters Point, passes My Marcus Books love story Police are more dangerous to the public than criminals Dr. Willie Ratcliff on Black San Francisco African Americans and the Gypsies: a cultural relationship formed through hardships Disabled and riding a wheelbarrow: a father’s love Cynthia McKinney: The world needs peace – but not a Pax Americana 10 steps to dictatorship: Why the grassroots movement in Haiti is taking to the streets against President Michel Martelly RAD public housing privatization: Stealing our last acre and our one remaining mule America’s Cup action on the waters and in the courts To serve the people: Black Riders Liberation Party, new generation Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Heightened security: White Citizens Council bans popular KPFA host JR Valrey from Pacifica radio network Richmond homeowners beat Wall Street bullies 4-3 Marcus Garvey Building – Liberty Hall: National Historic West Oakland Landmark saved by community organizations Hunters Point residents and their kids call on officials to fix up park Cop who murdered Kenneth Harding arrested for molesting teenage boy Amos Brown reflects on the 50th Anniversary March on Washington Operation Green Future: Chokwe Lumumba’s vision for Jackson, Mississippi The homeless to jail pipeline – from South Carolina to Santa Clara, the criminalization continues Michelle Alexander: I can no longer just stay in my lane Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglas Haynes III: No. 1 for me is economic equality Opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda tortured in Rwandan prison Museveni as mediator between M23 and DR Congo? Culture Currents ‘Collect Call’: an interview wit’ spoken word artist Chas Jackson ‘The Art and Rhymes of Ghetto Girl Blue’: an interview wit’ Jessica Holter, founder of the Punany Poets Wanda’s Picks for October 2013 Reggae legend Rankin Scroo speaks on his life and his music M1 of dead prez speaks on Young Malcolm Shabazz Kev Choice produces Jennifer Johns’ ‘The Chronicles of the Aquarian Mind’ Internet radio is on the rise: an interview wit’ Streets Is Talking founder Leon Dynastee Split parenting: Making it work Deja Bryson will be at Yoshi’s in Oakland: an interview wit’ songstress Deja Bryson The body paint artist of the Bay Zaccho opens Center for Dance and Aerial Arts in Bayview Oakland’s Indie Film Night: an interview wit’ director and organizer Diaunte Thompson * * * * * Mary Ratcliff, editor
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:57:10 +0000
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