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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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...
View ArticleLiberate 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...
View ArticleLiberate 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...
View ArticleAgreement 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...
View ArticleHunger 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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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...
View ArticleCalipatria 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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePelican 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...
View ArticleSurvivors 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...
View ArticlePrisoner 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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