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Open letter to Mayor Lee about violence in Bayview Hunters Point
Alert: A ‘surge’ of additional police have been patrolling BVHP since the police shooting of Kenneth Harding, targeting outspoken residents – including Fly Benzo (Debray Carpenter), Henry Taylor and...
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SFPD tightens its chokehold on Bayview Hunters Point since killing Kenneth...
Pack the courtroom for Kilo G’s TRO hearing on Friday, Aug. 12, 9 a.m., Room 514, SF Superior Court, 400 McAllister at Polk – come at 8:30 for the press conference by mesha Monge-Irizarry, Idriss...
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Kenneth Harding police murder aftermath: Victory for Kilo G
The messengers – community-controlled media-makers – refuse to be destroyed by Malaika H. Kambon Kilo G Perry, his family and supporters celebrate on Aug. 12 the dropping of charges against him, part...
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Threats or payback?
‘Whoever stands with the police does not stand with the community, period!’ Editor’s note: Pack the courtroom – Dept. 12 at 850 Bryant – at 1:30 p.m. today for the arraignment on bogus charges of...
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Free Fly Benzo! Criminalizing critique, cameras and community in Bayview...
Pack the courtroom for Fly Benzo’s next hearing on Thursday, Oct. 27, 9 a.m., 850 Bryant in Department 12 Message from Fly’s lawyer received Oct. 25; she is Severa Keith, who can be reached at...
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Police critic Fly Benzo keeps catching hell since police murder of Kenneth...
by Minister of Information JR Fly Benzo (DeBray Carpenter), a straight-A student at City College and lifelong resident of Hunters Point, has been beaten and jailed repeatedly since he spoke out against...
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The First Amendment right to record the police
Support Fly Benzo twice on Friday, Jan. 6: 1) Pack the courtroom for the first day of his trial on Friday, Jan. 6, 9 a.m., at 850 Bryant in Department 22 2) Party with Fly at his ‘Conscious Minds at...
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Right outside this stadium, police are killing our children
Interview with Denika Chatman, mother of SFPD murder victim Kenneth Harding, broadcast on KPFA’s Morning Mix/ Block Report on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 8 a.m. The Morning Mix with JR – January 18, 2012 at...
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The rich heritage of Africa in the West
by DeBray Carpenter, aka Fly Benzo These two Xochipala-style figurines at the Metropolitan Museum of Art date from the 13th-10th century B.C. Some historians believe this culture was a predecessor to...
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Dregs One’s ‘Wake Up Report on Police Brutality’ features Fly Benzo
Dregs One delivers in-depth commentary on police brutality and how it is affecting communities of color by Crystal Carter San Francisco – Oscar Grant. Kenneth Harding. Trayvon Martin. These are just a...
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Fly Benzo does not stand alone: Occupy Fly’s hearing!
Pack the courtroom Friday, April 27, 9 a.m., Department 27 or 29 at 850 Bryant, San Francisco by Earl Black Fly Benzo, known for his mentoring of youth, holds Nailah Amari Bey, one of his staunchest...
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Justice for Kevin Clark! Stop racist police brutality!
by the ANSWER Coalition With a banner reading “From the Mission District to the whole Bay Area – Stop Racist Police Brutality,” over 300 community members rallied against the most recent case of police...
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Claude and DeBray (Fly Benzo) Carpenter: We demand work in our own neighborhood
by Bay Area Black Builders Black people have largely been locked out of construction work in San Francisco since 1998. That’s a shame, because construction work is a solution to many of the ills in the...
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RAD public housing privatization: Stealing our last acre and our one...
by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, daughter of Dee, mama of Tiburcio, poverty skola “Can you guarantee there will be housing for low, low income people, ‘cause many of our folks are low, low income?” The...
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Bay View turns 40! Part 2
Editorial by Bay View publisher Dr. Willie Ratcliff Now, as the San Francisco Bay View newspaper’s 40th birthday year comes to a close, is the time to bring up to date the historical sketch of our...
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Tribute to my pops, Kilo G Perry
by Twan Goddi Some people walk into a room and light it up; Kilo G Perry walked the streets of Bayview Hunters Point daily and lit up the neighborhood with love and hope and plenty of militancy. Eight...
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