Earth Amplified & United Roots launch SOS JUICE 4 YOUTH!!!
Blog entry by AshEL Eldridge.
Last updated at Thu, 19 Jan at 11:52am.

 

~A live juice, nutritional education, and urban healing series 

FRIDAY JANUARY 27th, 
 3-6pm 
United Roots - Oakland's Green Youth Arts & Media Center: 2781 Telegraph, Oakland, CA.
 

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Police violence in the crosshairs: Town Hall meeting urges accountability, community involvement
Article by Eric K Arnold.
Last updated at Mon, 16 Aug at 6:51am.

The use of force by law enforcement has long been a catalyzing topic, out of which much activism and community organizing has emerged.  That’s the good news. The bad news is, it’s still going on

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Come watch documentary on Black Panther Richard Aoki on March 13th
Article by Emily Wilson.
Last updated at Sat, 20 Mar at 6:33pm.

 Aoki will screen at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival on Saturday, March 13, Wednesday, March 17 and Saturday, March 20. For more information and to get tickets, visit this site.

 

In 2002, when Mike Cheng and his friend Ben Wang were students at UC Davis majoring in Asian American history, they went to interview Richard Aoki for a student newspaper, Third World Forum.

Cheng said meeting Aoki, a Japanese American who was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party, made such an impression on him that although he’d never made a film before, he told Aoki he wanted to make a documentary about him.  

“I had a big mouth,” Cheng said. “He said something about how from his perspective he had yet to see a documentary that accurately reflected his perspective, and I just blurted out, ‘Let us make a documentary on you.’”  

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