Top stories in this week's Bay View drive home the urgency of organizing our
communities to prevent the grabbing of our land, our livelihood and our lives.
New Orleans stays in the spotlight as the people struggle - with our beloved
Malik Rahim leading the way - to take control of reuniting, healing and
rebuilding. The clinic he founded, called Common Ground and housed in the
local mosque, is staffed, stocked and serving 500-600 patients a day, thanks
to volunteer medical professionals from coast to coast who heeded his call.
You can now contact and donate to the clinic direct:
Common Ground,
P.O. Box 3216,
Gretna LA 70054,
(504) 361-9659,
www.commongroundrelief.org
And yes, more volunteers are needed.
Gentrification by genocide describes the crisis in many Black neighborhoods,
including Hunters Point, where on Friday morning a youngster considered a
success story, Tyrell Taylor, 18, was shot multiple times in the back by the
SFPD gangsters in blue who clearly intended to kill him. Tyrell, then 14, was
one of the five children, age 13-15, beaten and molested by police as the
whole neighborhood watched in horror on Martin Luther King Day, 2002, when the
lead officer explained, "As long as you people are here, we will act like
this."
Here are just a few of the stories waiting for you at www.sfbayview.com:
New Orleans: covert operations underway?
www.sfbayview.com/091405/covertoperations091405.shtml
‘Sister, I can’t run no more’: 'They're trying to kill me,' says youth shot in
the back by SFPD
www.sfbayview.com/091405/cantrun091405.shtml
'They never once said freeze' by Apollonia Jordan
www.sfbayview.com/091405/neveronce091405.shtml
Katrina’s lesson: Self-determination by Amadi Ajamu
www.sfbayview.com/091405/katrinaslesson091405.shtml
Holy rollers: The church van is hero of Katrina recovery by Kevin Weston
www.sfbayview.com/091405/holyrollers091405.shtml
Black leadership run amock by William Reed
www.sfbayview.com/091405/blackleadership091405.shtml
These are the people the government abandoned by Tiny
www.sfbayview.com/091405/abandoned091405.shtml
Witness: a New Orleans survivor’s story
www.sfbayview.com/091405/survivorsstory091405.shtml
A conscious voice: an interview with Erykah Badu by JR (check out the gorgeous
photo, also by JR)
www.sfbayview.com/091405/conciousvoice091405.shtml
Superintendent, just say yes by Kim-Shree Maufas
www.sfbayview.com/091405/justsayyes091405.shtml
Jose Padilla and the death of personal liberty
www.sfbayview.com/091405/josepadilla091405.shtml
Back inside New Orleans by Jordan Flaherty (with a beautiful photo of Malik
Rahim)
www.sfbayview.com/neworleans/backinside091405.shtml
Help reunite New Orleans prisoners with their families
www.sfbayview.com/neworleans/reunite091405.shtml
Malik Rahim and medics from SF to DC set up health clinic in New Orleans
www.sfbayview.com/neworleans/healthclinic091405.shtml
National Conference of Black Lawyers blasts Bush regime, calls for Black
community self-reliance in assisting displaced persons
www.sfbayview.com/neworleans/nationalconference091405.shtml
And don't forget these perennial favorites - check 'em every week:
Wanda's picks by Wanda Sabir
www.sfbayview.com/091405/wandaspicks091405.shtml
What’s Going On Calendar
www.sfbayview.com/091405/calendar091405.shtml
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