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Toward racial peace in all prisons
by Spoon Jackson The call for racial peace came from Pelican Bay SHU – the hole – and I read about it in the San Francisco Bay View, where my poem “Go On” was published. I think that was a brave, human...
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Public Safety chairs Ammiano, Hancock announce hearings on hunger strike issues
by Carlos Alcalá, Communications Director, Office of Assemblymember Tom Ammiano Sacramento, Aug. 30, 2013 – Today Sen. Loni Hancock and Assemblymember Tom Ammiano announced that they will hold public...
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Hunger strikers, weak and sick, transported 8 hours by bus: ‘Our strength is...
by Mutope Duguma Written Aug. 25, 2013 – How long must we continue to suffer? On Aug. 23, 2013, early in the morning, Pelican Bay State Prison Ad Seg (Administrative Segregation) was emptied out and...
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Hunger striker considers where we go from here, wonders, ‘Will the...
by Mutope Duguma Written Sept. 8, 2013 – First and foremost we want to give a lot of respect and love to all the human beings who made their voices heard and the countless dedicated supporters and...
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The deadly ‘integrated yard policy’: Commentary on ‘The Pelikkkan Bay factor:...
by Haazim W. Muntaqim (Jeffrey Milo Burks) Jeffrey Burks (Haazim Muntaqim) After reading “The PeliKKKan Bay factor: An indictable offense” in the Februay 2013 edition of the San Francisco Bay View, I...
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris must end the barbaric practice of...
by Bill Blum California Attorney General Kamala Harris is nothing if not ambitious. Not content with being the Golden State’s top law enforcement officer – a position she has held since 2011, after...
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Hell in paradise: Visiting Hugo ‘Yogi’ Pinell at Pelican Bay State Prison
by Charlie Hinton Heavenly views of redwoods and the ocean line the highway to hell at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Del Norte County, 13 miles from the Oregon border on the rugged coast...
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Hugo Lyon Antonio Pinell, aka Daddy
The longest held prisoner in Solitary Confinement: 46 years in Solitary, 51 years in prison by Allegra Taylor Aug. 12, 2015, I sat waiting for the mail to come as I did each day. This day it was...
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Comrades hail hero and martyr Hugo Pinell
Letters continue to pour in to the Bay View from prisoners who remember the great Hugo “Yogi” Pinell as a hero and a martyr and want the world to know and remember him too. Yogi is a martyr, plain and...
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‘How long since you had ice cream, Old Man?’ ’51 years,’ said Yogi and burst...
by Tommy “Lil Jaboe” Williams Respects to you for giving brothas a voice and love. I won’t lie in this letter nor put on extras out of respect and in honor of my brother Hugo “Yogi” Pinell. Allegra...
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Tension at New Folsom between Blacks and guards since assassination of Hugo...
by Corey Sullivan I am currently in solitary confinement for a “Battery on a Peace Officer,” which took place on Sept. 24, 2015, six weeks after the assassination of beloved political prisoner Hugo...
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Hugo Pinell’s daughter Allegra invites you to join in honoring her father on...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey On Aug. 12, 2015, within the walls of New Folsom Prison, freedom fighter and political prisoner Hugo “Yogi” Pinell of the San Quentin 6 was...
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Hugo Pinell, aka Dahariki Kambon: Decades of assassination attempts against...
by Haazim W. Muntaqim (Jeffrey Milo Burks) I want to extend many thanks and appreciation to the San Francisco Bay View for providing us with great memories and genuine farewells from the family,...
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Hugo Antonio Lyon Martinez Pinell, March 10, 1944-Aug. 12, 2015: In your absence
by Allegra Taylor In your absence Hugo “Yogi” Pinell and his daughter, Allegra Taylor, treasure a visit at New Folsom Prison. Their love will forever radiate from this photo and one other, taken 13...
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Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March in Washington, D.C.
by Wanda Sabir Banners were in abundance as marchers made their way from Freedom Square to Lafayette Park, across from the White House. – Photo: Wanda Sabir Saturday morning, Aug. 19, the day dawned...
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Reports back from the first week of the 2018 National Prison Strike
by Amani Sawari Five hundred turned out for a solidarity mobilization at the San Quentin West Gate on Saturday, Aug. 25. Most were young – new freedom fighters! This strike and the publicity around it...
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Folsom Manifesto for the California Statewide Prison Strike, 1970
The Folsom Prisoners’ Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Repression Platform This is Folsom Prison, opened in 1880. In 1970, it was one of only a few prisons in California housing about 20,000 prisoners, a...
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