OPEN LETTER BY RUPA MARYA, MD OF THE DO NO HARM COALITION Dear Colin Kaepernick, I am writing to you to express deep respect, as a person born and raised in the Bay Area and a physician on faculty at UCSF who has been caring for the people of SF since 2002. I am also writing on […]
Month: September 2016
Dear friend: Many of us will come together this weekend to celebrate Labor Day. Gathering with family and friends, we’ll fire up the grill and lay out spreads of fruits and vegetables. Yet, ironically, the workers who harvest the food we will eat lack basic labor rights in New York state. Our 60,000 farmworkers drive […]
http://iscenter.or.kr/english/2016/08/31/letters-home-connecting-with-korean-american-families-on-black-lives-matter/ “Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk.” So begins an open letter that was drafted by hundreds of Asian Americans and addressed to their families to explain the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was a crowd-sourced effort that took place in July completely online through a Google document, […]
From Prison Radio, http://www.prisonradio.org/ Federal Judge Robert Mariani has denied the preliminary injunction motion in “Abu-Jamal vs. Kerestes” that demanded life-saving hepatitis C treatment for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The reason Mariani gave is this: “The persons against whom injunctive relief may be granted are not parties to this lawsuit”. He stated that because the specific members of the […]
COUP AGAINST DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL
International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity COUP AGAINST DEMOCRACY IN BRAZIL Statement about the Coup d’État in Brazil August 31, 2016 will be forever marked as a day of shame against the Constitution of the Republic of Brazil. This day the sovereign will of 54 million Brazilians, who only 2 years ago endorsed with […]

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