We cover the Justice for Mario Woods Coalition protest that happened this past Saturday and Asians4BlackLives, a Bay Area group of community organizers of Asian descent, staged a protest to call on East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) to terminate its partnership with luxury developer UrbanCore and support the community proposal for 100% affordable … Continued
We speak with author Kevin Powell about his new book, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood.
Community organizers, outraged over the Dec. 2 death by police “firing squad” of Mario Woods rally at the San Francisco Police Commission meeting amid strong presence from SF Police Officers Association. Hard Knock Radio personalities Davey D and Marie Choi spoke with organizers La Mesha Irizarry, Minister Keith Muhammad and Jeremy Miller. The shooting of … Continued
On today’s program we speak with Alicia one of the protesters from the Bay Area Bridge shut down. And later we hear from organizers gathered at the homes of Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf, Police Chief Sean Whent and San Francisco’s Police Chief Greg Suhr to protest the accelerated expulsion of Black and Brown people from … Continued
We play excerpts from Dr King speeches and intersperse it with protests at SFO.
We talk with Cat Brooks of the Anti-police Terrorism project about upcoming activities for the MLK weekend. Later we speak with Marvin X about the Black Arts Movement and its history and establishing a Black Arts District in Oakland.
We hear accounts from mothers that lost the children to state sanction violence. This audio was recorded at the Black Lives Convening in Cleveland Ohio, 2015. The mother of Oscar Grant Jr., Kendrick Johnson, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner spoke. Also Erica Gordon-Taylor, the cousin of Emmett Till spoke began the discussion.
Thursday, December 24th, at 11am, the Justice For Mario Woods Coalition held a press conference to demand that San Francisco Mayor Lee fire Chief Suhr and hold officers involved in the execution of Mario Woods accountable. Mr. Woods was a 26 year-old Black man executed by SFPD on December 2, 2015 in San Francisco’s Bayview … Continued
We speak with Kali Akuno from the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement who is in Paris for the Great Barrier Reef conference. He provides us details about the various demonstrations taken place in Africa, South America and Asian countries. Daily Kos Reporter Thandi Chimerenga gives an update about Chicago police chief being fired and then talks … Continued
We speak with Black Lives Matter organizer Mica Grimm on the ground about what took place last night when 5 Black Lives Matter protesters were shot by white supremacist. We cover the press conference and do two interviews with Rachel Ledderman of National lawyers guild and journalist rasheed Shabbazz about lawsuit launched against Berkeley police.
