by Judy Helfand Attending the conference Geography of Hope: Women and the Land at Pt. Reyes Station, I received another lesson in how the system of white supremacy is simultaneously harming all of us and blocking out the remedies to the problems created. I signed up for the conference lured …
Our legal system was designed to promote fairness and work for justice. However, people of color, especially black men, are arrested and tried at higher rates than whites. Once they are arrested, blacks are disproportionately more likely to go to jail for the same crime whites commit. According to the …
By Chad Bolla Skip Freeman: This just in from America’s number one news source, Justice News: Middle-aged white man shot in the face and died on the spot after threatening police officer with a hug. Witnesses say that Johnny Whiteness approached a police officer with arms out in full hugging …
This article first appeared on the East Bay Solidarity Network site. Thanks to Solidarity members for permission to republish. Young service workers on the sanctity of small business. It was the first Friday of December, which in Oakland usually means hoards of people descending onto Telegraph Avenue for the monthly …
Speak Out has put together a resource page to help folks better understand this historic moment for racial justice and and to get involved. Asking, “Have you wondered what you might have done if you’d been around during the Civil Rights movement? Or if you had been active, what is …
by David Christopher A few weeks ago I went to return a can of food at the store (I had gotten the wrong kind of sauce than I’d intended for holiday party preparations). I went right up to the one of the checkers after walking in, since I didn’t want …
Nomy Lamm, from the S.F. Performance Group, Sins Invalid, will offer a workshop Friday January 30 6:30-8:30 pm Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, Board Rm 547 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa No scents please Nomy Lamm presents a workshop on applying social justice principles to analysis and action around disability, race, gender, …
“All I can say is that I have never seen anything remotely like this. It has been exciting, scary, challenging, but most of all empowering. And things are only growing from here.” Report by Carl Patrick The most important thing to remember when analyzing the protests that have erupted in …
by Judy Helfand In Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger, Kelly Cogswell whirls the reader into her life as a cofounder of Lesbian Avengers in New York City, 1992. The book’s title comes from one of their first actions where several Avengers learned how to eat fire as …
by Bianca Licata First in a five-part series. With only three weeks left in the school year, and two weeks left of my student teaching, my mentor teacher—“Ms. Jones”—had just finished organizing all of her students’ files, making notes about their proclivity toward one subject or another, and their general …