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Artivists in Action and Solidarity: Rattle the KAGE Dec. 7, 4-7pm

Whether you know him as Min. King, the rapper Pyeface or William E. Brown Jr., this young man, the principal organizer of the Artivists show, “met” the Bay View in December 2011, when he was in the...

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Liberate our elders! California Prison Focus demands Gov. Newsom protect...

On Feb. 19, activists, organizers and supporters, many formerly incarcerated, gathered under the banner of Liberate the Caged Voices at the Freedom and Movement Center, 4400 Market St. in West...

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Liberate the Caged Voices: Where’s the humanity?

Bay View Managing Editor Nube Brown, from the Bay View office-kitchen-dining room, calls on you to join the Liberate Our Caged Elders campaign by calling Gov. Newsom, 916-445-2841. Demand he release...

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Liberate the Caged Voices

Front for the Liberation of the New Afrikan Nation (FROLINAN) is a political organization whose ultimate goal is the creation of an independent country for New Afrikans – Republic of New Afrika. In...

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Agreement to End Hostilities

“Support the Agreement to End Hostilities” – Art: Michael D. Russell. Russell, one of the Bay View’s favorite artists, is apparently free, as he can no longer be found in the California Inmate...

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Hunger striking for true freedom – statement for a political musical

Min. King X aka Pyeface, artivist, co-director of California Prison Focus and founder of KAGE Universal, was born in Oakland, Calif., in the mid-‘70s. He came of age during the crack era and did hard...

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California prisoners make historic call to end hostilities between racial...

Full original text of Agreement to End Hostilities posted below by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Oakland – Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have...

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Open letter to Gov. Jerry Brown: Stop the torture now

Dear Gov. Brown: We oppose the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR’s) policies and practices relating to our subjection to decades of “status”-based indefinite isolation...

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California prisoners suspend 60-day hunger strike – families, legislators...

Isaac Ontiveros and Claude Marks, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Oakland – After 60 days on hunger strike, prisoners at Pelican Bay have suspended their peaceful protest. Representatives...

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Calipatria riots need to cease and unity needs to spread

by Kendra Castaneda “Power of Unity” – Graphic: Soundthings Over the last few months, there has been an excessive amount of fighting between different races at Calipatria State Prison within the...

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California prisoner representatives: All people have the right to humane...

Main reps mark the first anniversary of suspension of the 2013 Hunger Strike and the second anniversary of the Agreement to End Hostilities by Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos and George Franco We...

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The Agreement to End Hostilities must be re-implemented in all California...

by Raymond “Chavo” Perez and Kendra Castaneda-Perez “Stronger Together: Black Brown Unity in Prison” – Art: Jose Villarreal, H-84098, SHU C11-106, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City CA 95532 It has been two...

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Pelican Bay Hunger Strike: Four years and still fighting

by Claude Marks and Isaac Ontiveros Four years ago prisoners in California – led by those in the control units of Pelican Bay – organized a hunger strike to demand an end to the torturous conditions of...

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Survivors of solitary join menticide survivor ‘grandsons’ with one love, one...

by Louis Powell Revolutionary greetings, For decades while under solitary confinement, I was one of numerous New Afrikan subjects who was trapped in oblivion, while the world outside of solitary...

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Prisoner Human Rights Movement Blue Print

Overview by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation (CDCr) has systemic and dysfunctional problems that run rampant statewide within California’s prisons for both...

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