The other day I put out an article questioning why the FBI and other law enforcement outlets were not classifying the German man accused of setting 50 fires in LA, a terrorist. You can peep that HERE My main objective was to show you the hypocrisy of our government and those in power and how [...]

Harry Burkhart, a German national upset about the immigration status of him and his mother was said to be in court the other week  for his mother’s hearing yelling “F— the United States!” This same Harry Burkhart was just arrested, accused of setting more than 50 arson fires in Los Angeles including one at the [...]

With 2012 upon us, we wanna encourage folks to seriously take some time to invest and make room in the cypher and at the proverbial Hip Hop roundtable table for our sistas who hold it down on the mic. There have been far too many discussions about where are the female emcees and why don’t [...]

Last night’s  City Council where they were scheduled to debate giving the police power to crack down on anyone trying to shut down the Ports of Oakland  was beyond contentious to say the least…There was a lot of frustration a lot of anger and a lot of finger-pointing. On 3 different occasions an angry, bellowing [...]

Many of us recall last January when the Arab Spring broke out in Egypt, we cheered as Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted as many talked about how the army was revered. After Mubarak stepped down, most of us here in the US went about our day-to-day lives thinking that Egypt’s darkest days were over.. [...]

This has been a good week for music, especially on the video tip as we’ve had three stellar offerings to raise your awareness and peak your conscience.  Two of the videos deal directly with police brutality and I’m hoping folks will pay close attention, being that much that is shown happened over the past couple [...]

Today is Monday December 12th 2011 about 4am Oakland California where folks are now gearing up to head on down to the Port of Oakland. Everyone is scheduled to meet 5:30 am at West Oakland BART to begin the early morning march… The plan of action today is to shut down all the ports up [...]

Here’s some thoughts to the debate around the use of term Occupy vs Decolonize that’s been taking place at some of the Occupy sites Most recently here in Oakland. The term ‘Occupy‘ is a loaded word that has long been problematic in many communities of color. To put it simply many have long felt they [...]