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If Black lives really matter, we need the courage to police the police and...
by Andre Reid This is the panoramic view from the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House in the 1990s. Known as The Nabe, generations have grown up here. Is a corrupt criminal justice system responsible for...
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Candlelight vigil marks year since Mario Woods was killed by police
by Meaghan M. Mitchell A Mario Woods candlelight vigil in the Bayview commemorated his death a year ago at the hands of San Francisco police on Dec. 2, 2015. The community response made headlines all...
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Chief William Scott, SF’s new Black police chief, meets the community
by Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods At his first meeting with the Black community, San Francisco’s new Black police chief, William Scott, said his goal is to...
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SF Sounds’ ‘Bring on the Bayview’ by Sarah Burchard greenlights white...
Bayview Hunters Point residents respond with an open letter to writer Sarah Burchard by Tanea Lynx and Juana Teresa Tello The Bay View newspaper pushed hard for the T-train light rail line beginning in...
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San Franciscans push back on Tasers
by Julian Mark The audience of about 100 at the Sept. 12 San Francisco Police Commission meeting raise their hands indicating they are against arming police officers with Tasers. Equipto, wearing a...
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San Francisco’s largest redevelopment project a toxic mix of environmental...
by Nick Pardee Liberation News spoke with Bradley Angel, the executive director of Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, about the news that a U.S. Navy-sponsored review of the radioactive...
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San Francisco Unified School District, CPS and SFPD fail to protect special...
by Michelle Chan, Parents Against CPS Corruption (PACC) Once upon a time, Valentine’s Day was for lovers, for preschoolers to exchange crayoned hearts and stickered up cards, for mommies and boys and...
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California Attorney General Becerra visits Bayview Hunters Point to discuss...
by Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods’ founder Phelicia Jones with whistleblower SFPD officer...
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John Crew: Don’t be fooled by the POA, No on H, more aggressive use of Tasers
by John Crew This June, San Francisco voters will make an important decision on whether to hand over a dangerous power to the San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA). Proposition H, a measure...
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More police, criminalization and gang suppression will not end homelessness...
Upcoming events End gang injunctions! Join the San Francisco No Injunctions Coalition on July 12, City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s last planned court hearing to remove names from the city’s gang...
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#JusticeForMyMy
by Apollonia Jordan Today, Aug. 15, 2018, marks the four year anniversary of the terrible day 2-year-old Mi’Yana “MyMy” was taken away from her family. On this day, four years ago, a speeding driver...
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Mario Woods Remembrance Day 2018: Commemorating and celebrating life
by Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods The highlight of a wonderful day for the children was the chance to ride a horse. The Black Cowboys introduced them to the...
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Premier San Francisco artist Ronnie Goodman arrested, charges dropped, but...
by Claudia Willen Ronnie is a very gifted, creative individual who has struggled with many challenging issues, including poverty, homelessness, racism, hunger and injustice. San Francisco – Ronnie...
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March and vigil for Jeff Adachi honor his ‘warrior spirit’ and fearless...
by Sam Moore Hundreds marched from the Public Defender’s Office on Seventh Street at Bryant to City Hall, resolved to stay the course and intensify the fight for justice for the oppressed that their...
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Rally Tuesday at City Hall to demand justice for Mario Woods and an end to...
Mario Woods, a young man armed only with a small knife in San Francisco’s last Black neighborhood, was executed Dec. 2, 2015, by a firing squad that shot him 21 times. He never threatened the police...
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Holding San Francisco accountable on SFPD’s inadequate DOJ COPS progress and...
Prior to the Board of Supervisors’ Oct. 22 hearing on the DOJ Community Oriented Policing (COPS) process, Phelicia Jones, founder of Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario...
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SF Public Defender Mano Raju calls for major reforms after video surfaces...
by SF Public Defender Mano Raju The country is mourning after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, an unarmed Black man accused of a nonviolent offense. What happened to George Floyd...
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SF DA Chesa Boudin and Supervisor Shamann Walton announce resolution to...
This isn’t the first time DA Chesa Boudin and District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton have teamed up. This photo, taken Feb. 28, 2020, shows Boudin announcing he would stop charging for contraband found...
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San Francisco public defender launches ‘CopWatch SF’ database to ensure...
This still from cellphone footage of Mario Woods’ horrific murder by police officers – the blue arrow points to Mario hidden behind the cop – was posted to https://sfpublicdefender.org/copwatch/,...
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Breaking historical silence to heal from historical wounds: Remembering the...
by Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin A man faces off with police after shots were fired into a crowd of unarmed youth. The police and National Guard began shooting on word of a sniper. Neither a sniper nor a gun...
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