Salute to Sitawa: âThat Brotha still stands strong, unbroken!â July 16, 2021 Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, center, enjoys a visit from his sister, Marie Levin, left, and Nube Brown at Salinas Valley State Prison in September 2019. This was Bay View Editor Nube Brownâs first and only visit with revered Elder Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa. Nube and Sitawa sat for hours strategizing the Free Sitawa campaign â a dream Marie, his sister, helped inspire. True to form, Sitawa agreed to be the spearhead freeing the way for all the other Elder Hunger Strikers to come home. Sitawa represents a core group of men who would commit to Hunger Strike to their death to end the torture by CDCr of themselves, the Elders and the youth coming after them. Sitawa survived 32 years in Pelican Bayâs torture chambers, meant to break him but didnât, yet still remains unfree in a prison medical facility after suffering a stroke less than a week after this photo. The parole board has denied Sitawa six times, causing further harm to his health, humanity and the community that wants him home. â Photo: Prisoner at SVSP
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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 order to achieve it, the organization is spreading its ideas through educational programs and use of visual arts and music. While using the Garvey colors in original horizontal pattern, FROLINAN differentiates itself with use of a vertical red-black-green flag. Introduction by Nube Brown, a budding New Afrikan This is Part 1 of a two-part series of my interview with Jalil Muntaqim on Prison Focus Radio (KPOO San Francisco 89.5FM or KPOO.com) April 22, 2021. I made specific excerpts and edits to align with this month’s theme, Mother Africa – a place called home but that so many of us have been conditioned to forget and abandon, our connective tissue and roots ripped out and torn asunder by racialized capitalism, imperialism and white pathology, leaving us bereft and shrunken if we don’t find our way back together in shared humanity. Ubuntu
Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor Judge upholds gag order on SF Bay View editor March 13, 2021 Banners bold and brave ringed the street in front of private prison profiteer GEO Group’s so-called 111 Taylor St. Apartments, actually a halfway house for returning federal and state prisoners, on Sunday, March 7, for the Free Malik rally that brought 200 supporters to the tough Tenderloin in downtown San Francisco. Malik Washington is the SF Bay View’s new editor, who risked a return to prison to publicly expose a covered-up COVID outbreak at the center. – Photo: Terry Scussel, ProBonoPhoto.org Malik Washington now faces sanctions – and maybe a return to prison – for telling the press and public about a COVID outbreak at a private halfway house.
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Screenshot of Keith “Malik” Washington from an October 2020 interview with the group Defending Rights & Dissent. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Private prison officials seized a newspaper editor’s phone and delayed his release from a halfway house after he shared information about a Covid-19 outbreak at the facility, the journalist claims in a lawsuit filed Monday. Keith “Malik” Washington became an advocate for prison reform and exposing civil rights abuses behind bars when he served time at a Texas penitentiary, he said in a recent video interview. Last year, Washington became editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Bay View, one of the most prominent Black community newspapers in the nation, after its longtime editor, Mary Ratcliff, retired after 44 years in that role.
Nube Brown at the Inauguration Day Rally Against Fascism Nube Brown at the Inauguration Day Rally Against Fascism January 30, 2021 “All power to the people. It is US, the people. It’s US, period. We’re in the fight for our humanity. Are we really seeing each other? Are we hearing each other? There’s no proving to them that we are worthy of being seen. Prisoners are the most entrenched example of what that means – to try and feel worthy of being given a second chance; of being heard; of being seen; of being viewed as another human being.” – Nube Brown, Bay View managing editor, Jan. 20, 2021, United Front Rally Against Fascism, Racism and for a General Strike in front of San Francisco City Hall.
The battle to free San Francisco Bayview Editor Malik Washington The battle to free San Francisco Bayview Editor Malik Washington January 28, 2021 On June 17, The Intercept published an article titled “GEO Group’s Blundering Response to the Pandemic Helped Spread Coronavirus in Halfway Houses.” Immediately, GEO Group’s share price dropped 7 percent. Bowing to public pressure, Wall Street banks have agreed to stop financing private prisons. Transcript from Flashpoints Radio Jan. 14 Dennis Bernstein: From Pacific Radio in San Francisco, this is Flashpoints. I’m Dennis Bernstein. Today on the show … the battle to free Malik Washington, the newly minted editor of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper from a GEO Group halfway house infested with COVID-19 while there’s a lawsuit on the way. All this coming up straight ahead on Flashpoints. Stay tuned.
The United Council for Human Services and the Curtis Family: Serving BVHP in a time of need December 25, 2020 Gwendolyn Westbrook and the Curtis Family have formed an unbreakable bond of solidarity and love when it comes to serving the Bayview Hunters Point community. Here we have Gwendolyn with Zahara, Mama Nola, Isis, Maestro Curtis, Khaira, Niles and Phoenix out front on COVID testing day, Dec. 22, 2020. – Photo: Johnnie Burrell by Malik Washington “The Curtis Family is nourishing our souls, while Mother Brown’s is nourishing our bodies.” – Nube Brown, managing editor of the Bay View. All this week, Gwendolyn Westbrook, the chief executive officer of the United Council for Human Services has been ramping up efforts in order to make sure services and resources are available to all those in need during one of the toughest holiday seasons I have seen in decades.