by Richard Mellor

Tuesday Jun 14th, 2011 1:53 PM
This is where the concessionary policies of
the Union hierarchy have led us. The Bay area Labor movement has the
potential power to turn this tide, but the leadership will not fight
until a movement from below forces them. This is what activists have to
help build.

SACREMENTO BEEPublished Sunday, Jun. 05, 2011

The fearmongering responses to the U.S. Supreme Court declaring
California's prison system "cruel and unusual" in violation of the
Eighth Amendment were predictable. The court ordered the population
thinned so medical services can be effectively delivered to the state's
wards, a necessity given the uncontested fact that "an inmate in
California's prisons needlessly dies every six or seven days." Some
justices, politicians, law enforcement and pundits insist on a coming

By Trey Bundy on June 6, 2011 - 3:50 p.m. PDT

The U.S. Supreme Court decision that California's prisons have caused
"needless suffering and death" is an indictment we can no longer
ignore. Reform of the California prison system is long overdue.

'I would never wish this upon my worst enemy,' freed mother says

L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies Sued by Noel Bender, Palmdale Apartment Manager, for More Alleged Brutality

By Simone Wilson,
Thu., Jun. 2 2011 at 5:55 PM

Click here to see the Photo Essay!

Cointelpro 101 - a new documentary which exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the FBI and other police agencies.

Friday - June 3rd 7pm
Eastside Arts Alliance & Cultural Center

Film screening & program with

Ward Churchill - author and Native American activist
Liz Derias - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Ericka Huggins - activist, former political prisoner & leader in the Black Panther Party
Claude Marks - director of the Freedom Archives

THIS IS BIG NEWS

Prison populations need to be decreased everywhere!

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/05/23/scotus.california.prisons/index.html

High court orders drastic prison population reduction in California

By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer

May 23, 2011 12:24 p.m. EDT



Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has affirmed a federal order