December 2011

PART TWO As 2011 draws to a close, we look back in a two-part series at some of the movements, organizations, and moments that made up the year. Occupy Oakland Gen

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When police officers pepper sprayed non-violent student protestors on the campus of University of California, Davis, the whole country reacted. Many of us were outraged, and some were in support of the action. However, few of us can truly understand the physical effects of police-grade pepper spray. On the Scoville scale, pepper spray is ranked at 5.3 million Scoville Units, whereas your every day jalapeno is a mere 5,000 Scoville Units. Take that into account if you ever accidentally touch your eyes after eating a jalapeno.

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I’m a Bay Area native. I’ve lived and/ or worked in Frisco, Berkeley and Oakland pretty much my entire life. I’m also a hip-hop head-artist-rapper-fighter-preserver of culture with a super critical lens for all music coming from the Bay.

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Gene Marks, author of the recent “If I were a Poor Black Kid” article in Forbes, seems to think that all that poor Black kids need to do differently to succeed is “be smart enough to go for it.” But if the only answer for poor youth is to be the exception to the rule, why aren't we then looking at the rules themselves?

TAGS: Economic Justice