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‘Guitar Man’ opens SF Black Film Fest, featuring Rappin 4-Tay and hosted by...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR The opening film for the San Francisco Black Film Festival this year is the much anticipated award winning “Guitar Man,” which will screen Thursday, June 13,...
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Kumasi speaks: What is Black August?
Listen to this historic recording of Kumasi (using the player above), the official historian of the Black August Organizing Committee, speaking about the origins of the California prison movement and...
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‘The Prison Within,’ filmed at San Quentin, to premiere at 35th annual Santa...
by Erin Kenway The upcoming feature-length documentary film, “The Prison Within,” will make its world premiere at the 35th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), one of the leading...
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Death penalty on the verge of extinction
by Timothy James Young Tim Young Prison abolition will not happen overnight, nor will it happen all at once. If we, the people, are to imagine a landscape without prisons, then we must begin to chip...
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Prisons in a time of pandemic: Protect our loved ones inside
It’s time to Free ‘Em All – or as many prisoners as we can! For loved ones coming home to the Bay Area, this should be one of their first stops. Dorsey Nunn of Legal Services for Prisoners With...
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Bomani Shakur’s life matters
The campaign to stop the execution of Bomani Shakur must not end there but continue until he can return to his real home. Meanwhile, he’s forced to live in this bathroom-sized solitary cell. by...
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California prisoners seek federal court action to lower population levels
Representing California prisoners, the Prison Law Office, Michael Bien and other attorneys are calling for immediate reduction of the prison population. In this photo, guards line up to hear the...
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Coronavirus: The invisible enemy behind enemy lines
Guards escorting prisoners on San Quentin’s death row is very hands-on, not wise during the pandemic. – Photo: Gary Coronado, Los Angeles Times by Timothy James Young There are 2.3 million people...
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Soledad uncensored: Racism and the hyper-policing of Black bodies, Part 1
by Talib Williams The Bay View is serializing the introduction to “Annotated Tears, Vol. 2,” by Talib Williams, who is currently incarcerated in Soledad, California, and has written the history of...
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Asymmetrical tactics for surviving the pandemic at the Q
San Quentin State Prison, located on San Francisco Bay just across the Golden Gate Bridge from the city, is California’s oldest prison. – Photo: Lucy Nicholson, Reuters by Malik Ali Dealing with human...
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Soledad uncensored: Racism and the hyper-policing of Black bodies, Part 2
Jonathan Jackson, 17, planned what’s come to be called the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion to free the Soledad Brothers, including his brother, George, by taking the judge hostage. But George was not...
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10,000 tell Newsom to release prisoners to halt COVID-19 disaster
Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods tweeted today: “Today @GavinNewsom heard us. Was fortunate to speak during public comment at Senate hearing about COVID in prisons. Delivered petition with...
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San Quentin prisoners go on hunger strike amid massive COVID-19 outbreak
San Quentin State Prison by Kira Lerner, The Appeal About 20 people in the prison’s Badger section have been on hunger strike for the past few days, three people incarcerated there say. July 1, 2020 –...
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The situation at San Quentin: Give prisoners access to phones NOW!
Unlike newer prisons that are deliberately located in small towns far from the homes of most of the prisoners so as to further isolate them and disrupt family solidarity, San Quentin, built in 1852,...
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Kevin Cooper: Surviving Death Row and COVID-19 in San Quentin
Kevin Cooper on Death Row in a photo dated Oct. 23, 2013 An exclusive interview by Dennis J. Bernstein I interviewed longtime Death Row prisoner Kevin Cooper in San Quentin on Aug. 18. Cooper is now...
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A long pattern of institutional abuse and neglect is now putting thousands at...
This photo of SATF-10 Facility A, Building 2 Dorm, Section A was taken on July 28, 2008, when the prison was even more overcrowded than it is now and used as evidence in a lawsuit. – Photo: Rosen Bien...
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Release – don’t transfer – 50,000 medically vulnerable people from California...
The design and overcrowding of San Quentin facilitate the spread of the coronavirus, making it one of the worst hotspots in the country. On Oct. 7, California’s First Appellate District Court ordered...
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View from Treblinka Dungeon Pelican Bay
Being imprisoned means you are nameless, you are silenced, you are disregarded and stripped of all your human and civil rights. Medical neglect is a pervasive dehumanizing tactic used by guards and...
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Liberate the Caged Voices
Pelican Bay Prison Guard George Sherman, perched in his “control booth,” carries his assault rifle whenever a guard enters an eight-cell pod. Pelican Bay, the world’s first “supermax” prison, is...
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Commemorating Revolutionary Black August
Our revolutionary and new Ancestor Baba TERRY COLLINS with Sister Sharon Martinas of Challenging White Supremacy Workshop at the October 2011 Victory Party for the SF-8 – elder Black Panther Party...
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