Living in a world on edge: ‘It might not be safe to be here’
by Marc Sapir, MD, MPH On Monday afternoon, Dec. 8, I was meeting with an African American theater director at a Starbucks in downtown Oakland. Unexpectedly, a woman employee approached our table and...
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 ArticleFormer U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney completes PhD at Antioch...
Cynthia McKinney is among the 2015 graduates of Antioch University’s PhD in Leadership and Change. Graduation was Aug. 1, 2015. Graduating from Antioch University’s PhD program in Leadership and...
View ArticleFormer prisoners are leading the fight against mass incarceration
by Liliana Segura Tina Glasgow will never forget one letter she received from her son, Kenny, when he was in an Alabama prison. It was 1994, the year of the crime bill, and Democrats and Republicans...
View ArticleTelling lies about Fidel
by Marc Norton The death of Fidel Castro, for those of us living in the belly of the beast, has meant being forced to endure non-stop lies and hypocrisy from the mass media about Fidel. According to...
View ArticleLori Nairne, Oct. 23, 1951-Aug. 19, 2017: She leaves love in her wake
A celebration of Lori Nairne’s life will be held at the Omni Collective – Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck in Oakland – on Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 2:30 p.m. Lori Nairne, women’s, queer rights and anti-racist...
View Article‘Follow the Money’: Flashpoints Radio voices on oil wars, drone bombing,...
by Ann Garrison Robert DeNiro recently fired off a few f-bombs at Donald Trump, but where were he and his grandstanding liberal friends when Obama was dropping more drone bombs and “removing” more...
View ArticleChelsea Manning defies secret grand jury, Julian Assange scoops Michael Cohen
by Ann Garrison In 2010, former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning leaked the “Collateral Murder” video and the Iraq and Afghan War Logs, which implicate the Pentagon in war crimes and...
View ArticleVets for Peace to Barbara Lee: Support Manning and Assange
Kathy Kelly wrote in Common Dreams: “One scene of carnage occurred on July 12, 2007, in Iraq. Chelsea Manning made available to the world the black and white grainy footage and audio content which...
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