Bay Area political events: Swing Left, campus policing
April 19, 2021
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Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted:
MONDAY
Pandemic economic recovery: How California government and private efforts will affect the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Participants include Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence of PolicyLink; Julian Canete, president and CEO of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce; and Till Von Wachter, economics professor at UCLA. Hosted by KQED. 6 p.m. More information is here.
Earth Day: A look at climate initiatives in the state Legislature. Participants include Laura Deehan, state director of Environment California; Girish Balachandran, CEO of Silicon Valley Clean Energy; and members of Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action. 7 p.m. More information is here.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal is scheduled for open-heart surgery
April 16, 2021
Look what 39 years of prison have done to Mumia Abu Jamal! The first photo, of a healthy and handsome Mumia, was taken while he was still on death row. The second shows him in 2012, shortly after his release to general population, and in the third, we see the steep decline in his health in the nine years since then. Medical neglect is a torturer and a killer.
Racism remains the greatest medical threat to Mumia’s health
by Dr. Ricardo Alvarez, consulting physician for Mumia Abu-Jamal
(A new Medical Professionals for Mumia petition co-written by Dr. Alvarez is reprinted at the bottom of this article. Read the February 1982 article “A Christmas Cage,“ Mumia Abu-Jamal’s personal account of his arrest, hospitalization, and imprisonment.)
Mr. Krasner, who this year failed to win the endorsement of the Philadelphia Democratic Party, is one of a handful of top prosecutors pursuing a left-wing criminal justice agenda. They took office with campaigns bankrolled by political action committees backed by billionaire liberal activist George Soros.
These prosecutors, all of whom POP PAC seeks to unseat, argue that the criminal justice system is suffused with racism and, to make amends, pledge to limit charging and sentencing of offenders.
Mr. Krasner, 60, has warned voters not to return to the “injustices of the past.”
His campaign did not respond to a request for comment about crime victims speaking out in the TV ads.
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