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Generational incarceration
by L.C. DeVine “One picture,” Fred R. Bernard once aptly remarked, “is worth a thousand words.” But, we need only a few words to describe an unsettling truth vividly depicted in the drawing shown here....
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Greg Curry on Lucasville Uprising and 20th anniversary hunger strike...
by Annabelle Parker Greg Curry, 48, is a prisoner in the Ohio State Penitentiary, the supermax facility in that state, serving a life sentence following a major disturbance in the Southern Ohio...
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Bomani Shakur and Staughton Lynd speak to the Re-Examining the Lucasville...
The Re-Examining the Lucasville Uprising Conference, held April 19-21 in Columbus, Ohio, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Lucasville Uprising, was a resounding success by all reports. “A strong and...
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Wanda Sabir and the Bay View save lives
by S. Muhammad Hyland Bay View arts editor Wanda Sabir I could tell that the guard at my cell door was uptight about something, and when he slid the mail to me, I immediately noticed why: My Bay View...
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Prison visits: They still actin’ like Hoover
by Keelo Jenkins California Code of Regulations Title 15, as well as the Departmental Operations Manual, CDCR’s rules – or self-governing laws – states: “These regulations are made in recognition and...
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Mexico City hunger strikers demanding justice for Malcolm Shabazz attacked by...
Video at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201650340243778\ “We present the video in which (Mexico City Mayor) Mancera sent over 1,000 cops to greet us with blows, trampling the displays where...
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Hunger strikers write to the Bay View: ‘I don’t know how much more my body...
by Mary Ratcliff Randall Sondai Ellis Mail to the Bay View from the hunger strikers has been very sparse since the strike began with 30,000 participants on July 8. Prison officials may be holding their...
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Injustice runs deep
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa I am a 55-year-old New Afrikan man. I came to prison in 1980 for a first degree murder that I did not commit. The prosecutor, judge, victim’s family and my family know that I...
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Corcoran hunger strike negotiations: an extreme form of political discourse
by the NARN Collective Think Tank (NCTT), Corcoran SHU Greetings, sisters and brothers. To those of you familiar with the domestic torture program of the California Department of Corrections and...
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Cat’s cries
by Mumia Abu-Jamal Several days ago, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Philadelphia, delivered a shocking decision in the continuing case of Lorenzo Johnson, the New Yorker recently...
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We’re not all snitches
by Tony White This letter is written in response to a letter Zaharibu Michael Dorrough wrote to a friend that was published in the August Bay View. Zharibu wrote, on July 11, three days into the 2013...
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A circus of injustice: a wrongful conviction drug war horror story
by Roderick O. Williams Too often people wrongly convicted are thought to simply be suffering from the prison sentence itself. Well, I am a father; my son had straight A pluses in 2005, when I was...
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Oakland’s native daughter: an interview wit’ thespian and playwright Anita...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Anita Woodley is a very talented and self-taught North Carolina-based thespian and playwright who was brought up in Oakland, California, and is returning to...
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Fire destroys Michael Brown memorial, some residents cry arson
by April V. Taylor The world famous memorial for Mike Brown, before and after the Sept. 23 fire. This memorial is at the curb; another remains in the middle of the street, where Mike was murdered by...
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‘Why the U.S. Government Assassinated Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.’
Review by Roger Hollander of the book by Roland Sheppard, just published by ReMarx Publishing The question of who ordered the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is a vital one, and...
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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...
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No justice, no peace: National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area chapter...
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) calls for an immediate end to police violence, the taking of Black lives and the terrorizing of Black communities. As huge crowds...
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Five years later: Haitians step up their fight for independence and democracy
by Ezili Dantò In this Charles Boylan radio interview from Vancouver, Canada, conducted on Jan. 7, 2015, Ezili Dantò discusses the 11-year U.S. occupation of Haiti that’s outsourced to the U.N....
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Does the disability community need a documentary on police brutality from a...
by Emmitt H Thrower Police brutality is at epidemic levels nationwide. Every day a new report of someone brutalized or killed by the police is blasted about on social networks and in mainstream media....
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Solitary confinement tricknology at Menard Concentration Slave Camp
by Muntu Sun Ra Okito (Percell Dansberry) In the spirits of Denmark Vesey and Red Cloud, revolutionary greetings are sent to the Bay View family and all prisoners of consciousness from the captives...
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