The Bay-Area-based Black newspaper SF Bay View is in desperate need of funds -- see below:
>From: SF Bay View <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The truth will set you free, the Black revolutionary Jesus of Nazareth >told the multitudes in the temple at Jerusalem. For speaking truth to >power, he paid the ultimate price. Yet the struggle continues. > >Truthtelling costs & at the Bay View too. Getting this next paper out will >take a miracle, as every issue has for over 14 years a big miracle this time. > >$3,000 challenge grant: Our beloved readers are stepping up. An anonymous >supporter called yesterday to offer $3,000 challenging others to match it. >She ll call back this Friday, July 7, and if others have pledged a total >of $3,000 by then, their donations will be doubled, and the Bay View will >have $6,000 to keep the truth rolling off the presses and onto the world >wide web. To make a pledge, call us at (415) 671-0789 or email ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you need to make it >tax-deductible, we ll tell you how. > >Looking for a loan: To keep the Bay View alive and kicking longterm, we >need to kick redlining to the curb and borrow against the equity in our >property, the lovingly restored, prettiest buildings on Third Street, >located at Third & Palou, the hub of San Francisco s Black heartland. With >at least $750,000 in equity, a weekly newspaper that s picked up the >minute we put it out and a website that draws over 2 million hits a month, >the Bay View should not be in jeopardy. > >Fundraiser needed: The old adage, it takes money to make money, is true. >Having cut expenses beyond the bone, we must raise revenue and we know we >can. While we look for a loan, we re looking too for that special someone >who s passionate, politically attuned and skilled in sales and >fundraising. Are you that person? Do you know that person? Please call us >at (415) 671-0789 before it s too late. > >Stop Redevelopment petition going to beat the band: Right this minute, at >the Fillmore Jazz Festival and at the SF Mime Troupe s season premiere, >San Franciscans are adding their signatures to the 12,000 already gathered >to stop the Redevelopment Agency from grabbing and repeopling Bayview >Hunters Point, a community that s 91% people of color. We re thrilled to >report that in the past week, ACORN, POWER (People Organized to Win >Employment Rights) and SFPO (San Francisco People s Organization) have >voted to support the referendum. Still, right now, we need more signature >gatherers (call and we ll tell you where) and contributions to pay the bills. > >As you read this week s Bay View stories more are about to be posted as >web exclusives please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. We have faith >that the truth will set the whole world free, and we re determined to keep >telling it, no matter the cost. > >Grassroots fight for Gulf Coast justice by CC Campbell-Rock, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/gulfcoastjustcie062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/gulfcoastjustcie062806.shtml > > > >For whom are Newsom and Maxwell developing the Hunters Point Shoreline? >The 10,000 people who have signed the Stop Redevelopment petition so far >don t intend to give it up by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D., ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/forwhom062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/forwhom062806.shtml > > > >Shot through the heart: Why are Black youth dying? Part 1: Post-traumatic >stress by Carol Harvey, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/blackyouthdying062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/blackyouthdying062806.shtml > > > >Palestinian demand for release of child prisoners answered with bombs by >Catherine Hunter, The Electronic Intifada, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/palestiniandemand062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/palestiniandemand062806.shtml > > > >Stop selling us out! Exposing those who are assisting the genocide of >Afrikan people via rap musik by Tutaonana, Kwabena Sakidi Jijaga Rasuli >D.J. Precious Pau, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/sellingusout062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/sellingusout062806.shtml > > > >Rap, revolution and ridin dirty: The politics of white paranoia by Min. >Paul Scott, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/raprevolution062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/raprevolution062806.shtml > > > >Voting Rights Act nailed to burning cross: Behind the delay in renewing >law is scheme for theft of 08, white sheets changed for spreadsheets by >Greg Palast, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/votingrights062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/votingrights062806.shtml > > > >The fashion side of hip hop: An interview with Zimbabwe Davis of All Tyme >Clothing, Part 1 by Apollonia Jordan, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/thefashionside062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/thefashionside062806.shtml > > > >It s our turn! Contract audits, union cards for the jobless, billboard >tax, buying back the schools and other ideas for Mayor-elect Dellums by >Joe Debro, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/itsourturn062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/itsourturn062806.shtml > > > >Oakland s Black Economic Agenda input by Eddie Dillard, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/economicagenda062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/economicagenda062806.shtml > > > >Diabetes and depleted uranium: Italian embassy refuses visa by Bob >Nichols, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/dd062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/dd062806.shtml > > > >What to Black people is the Fourth of July? by Brother Salim Adofo, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/fourthofjuly062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/fourthofjuly062806.shtml > > > >Prisons strangle us economically too by Kalima Aswad, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/prisonsstrangle062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/prisonsstrangle062806.shtml > > > >Why is the SFHA evicting the Hunters Point Boys and Girls Club? Shoutout >to Mayor Newsom Thursday noon City Hall by LaVonne Barnes, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/sfhaevicting062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/sfhaevicting062806.shtml > > > >Schwarzenegger wants to build new prisons with bonds that bypass voter >approval, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/newprisons062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/newprisons062806.shtml > > > >Dirty Cops: Amerikkka s Nightmare Review by Apollonia Jordan, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/dirtycops062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/dirtycops062806.shtml > > > >Community speaks out for Sup. Ammiano s health care bill, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/healthcarebill062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/healthcarebill062806.shtml > > > >Immaculate Conception graduates Marlena Davis and Casandra Parada will go >to college as Gates Millennium Scholars, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/immaculate062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/immaculate062806.shtml > > > >In loving memory of Roy Tellis, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/roytellis062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/roytellis062806.shtml > > > >Wanda s picks by Wanda Sabir, ><http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/wandaspicks062806.shtml>http://www.sfbayview.com/062806/wandaspicks062806.shtml > > > >To subscribe, email ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe, email ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. 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