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BP hires prison labor to clean up spill while coastal residents struggle
by Abe Louise Young In the first few days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet...
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Obama’s drug war
by Michelle Alexander Michelle Alexander – Photo: zocalopublicsquare.org Among the very few people celebrating our country’s fiscal crisis are criminal justice reformers. Bill Piper, national affairs...
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Judge hands out tough sentences in post-Katrina killing by police
by A.C. Thompson This is the burnt car in which the remains of Henry Glover were found. – Photo: ProPublica On March 31, a federal judge sentenced two former New Orleans police officers for killing...
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California SHU prisoners begin hunger strike July 1
Minister of Information JR’s Morning Mix show on the hunger strike broadcast on KPFA 94.1 FM June 29 at 8-9 a.m. http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20110629-Wed0800.mp3 Note from revolutionary journalist...
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From heroes to villains: NOPD verdict reveals post-Katrina history
by Jordan Flaherty Illustration of the Danziger Bridge tragedy - Photo: Jordan Flaherty In an historic verdict with national implications, five New Orleans police officers were convicted on Friday of...
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The power of Gabby Douglas
by Dave Zirin There are two kinds of political athletes. The first, and most memorable, are athletes who engage in the explicit politics of protest. This tradition is marked by Muhammad Ali saying, “I...
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California leaders call on Gov. Brown to grant demands of prisoners in...
by Geri Silva, Families to Amend California’s Three Strikes (FACTS) More than 3,000 prisoners in California are held in high security isolation units known as Security Housing Units (SHUs), where they...
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Guantanamo Bay is hell on earth: an interview wit’ journalist Adam Hudson
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Unjustified imprisonment and torturous living conditions have prisoners hunger striking all over the world. Many people who read the Bay View on the regular...
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Racist attack at San Jose State, the holy ground of the Black athlete’s revolt
by Dave Zirin There are times when the line between shock, rage and sadness become so blurred it is impossible to know when the flow of emotion ends or begins. The shock and rage come from hearing...
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Ten points about college hoops All-American Marcus Smart pushing a ‘fan’
by Dave Zirin 1 – Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart, a 19-year-old top NBA draft prospect, shoved 40-year-old Texas Tech fan Jeff Orr. He has told coaches that he did so after being called “the...
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Donald Sterling’s willing enablers
by Dave Zirin Michael Jordan, as an NBA player, owner and cultural force, has always been proudly apolitical. Most famously, he refused to oppose segregationist Jesse Helms in his home state of North...
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Attorney Anne Butterfield Weills: ‘Obscenity’ regs show ‘CDCR views many of...
by Anne Butterfield Weills To: Timothy M. Lockwood, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Regulation and Policy Management Branch, on June 17, 2014 Re: CDCR Notice of Change to...
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The Clintons’ $93 million romance with Wall Street: a catastrophe for working...
by Richard W. Behan For 24 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have courted Wall Street money with notable success. During that time, the New York banks contributed: $11.17 million to Bill Clinton’s...
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America, we have a problem: Homelessness is out of control
by Dr. Cynthia McKinney It’s hard to imagine that the country that controls so much nuclear firepower and drops so many bombs every day is unwilling to educate its children and house its own people. In...
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Protest prison censorship of the Bay View: Use this sample letter
“Censorship in Solitary Confinement is Psychological Torture” – Art: Michael D. Russell, C-90473, HDSP D3-20, P.O. Box 3030, Susanville CA 96127 by Bay View Publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff Nearly a...
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Rashid attacked: Texas prison officials are punishing us for exposing their...
by Jason Renard Walker This photo of Jason Walker holding his GED certificate illustrates a story he wrote on the very popular website TruthOut. It’s headlined “Unpaid Labor in Texas Prisons Is...
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The Black Panther Party and Black anti-fascism in the United States
by Robyn C. Spencer The Black Panther Party, the International Liberation School and the National Committees to Combat Fascism were the sponsors of the National Conference for a United Front Against...
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Mercury in retrograde: Las Vegas cops assault NFL star Michael Bennett
by Ann Garrison The stars were in the bars and Mercury was in retrograde when Las Vegas cops jumped NFL star Michael Bennett, held a gun to his head and threatened to blow it off. How else could they...
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Newsflash: Alabama has been torturing poor people for a long time
by Stephen Cooper If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you’re tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in the nation not only knows about it – overwhelmingly, especially...
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Amerika uses military grade chemical weapons on prisoners that it bombs Syria...
by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson Photos of tear gas use in prisons are extremely rare. Here, in a juvenile prison in Australia in 2016, Jack Roper, 14, who had walked out of his cell when the door was left...
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