The Bay View's Back, On the Web and in Print!
 

The Return of the People's Newspaper!!
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The Bay View’s back, on the web & in print -- San Francisco Bay View Home

Editor’s note: In Hunters Point, people were literally dancing in the street last Friday, Oct. 24, shouting, “The Bay View’s back!” Similar scenes were reported on both sides of the Bay and, within hours, 20,000 copies of the first printed Bay View since July 2 had been snatched up by eager hands. I’m dying to hear how the hundreds of prisoners on our mailing list feel to be reading the Bay View once more.

The cost of printing the paper – $4,000 just for printing and distribution – is far too high for us now that we’ve lost title to our little building in a foreclosure auction and have no reserves and very little advertising to pay for it. What made printing that paper possible was the miraculous sacrifice of some readers determined to put the Bay View in print before the election.

In these hard times, sacrifice is something we can learn to love doing. Keeping what we care about the most may mean sacrificing other things.

Everyone who wants the Bay View to continue in print as a monthly paper needs to pitch in to make it possible. You can
· Encourage all the folks you meet who would benefit from advertising their businesses, services or events to call the Bay View at (415) 671-0789 to talk about placing an ad, either in print or online;
· Donate directly to the Bay View by mail or at San Francisco Bay View Home – your gift can be tax deductible;
· Better yet, donate to your favorite worthy cause and “earmark” your donation to be spent only for advertising in the Bay View.

As an example of that last option, you could make a donation to KPFA to advertise an invitation every month to Bay View readers to tune in. Think how many new listeners KPFA could recruit with a big quarter page ad in the Bay View! The cost at our nonprofit rate is $393.75. Perhaps you could donate part of that and find friends to put up the rest – each of you reminding KPFA to spend your donation only on advertising in the Bay View.

Relaunching SFBayView.com

Another miraculous sacrifice has produced a fine, functioning new Bay View website. Two generous young men, recent graduates of UC Berkeley grad school, volunteered weeks of their time to design the new site and teach me how to post stories and photos and videos – what fun! They are Jed Horne and Brendan Nee, co-founders of Horne Nee Inc. Call them at (415) 373-6442 or visit HorneNee.com whenever you need a new or improved website.

Our plan is to build the traffic to SFBayView.com way up and beyond the 2 million hits we used to get. That’s the way to attract advertising that can help pay to print the Bay View monthly. You can help by forwarding this message far and wide and by sending stories you like to your friends and posting them to sites like Digg and Delicious and Facebook. Read the fascinating comments left by readers from all over the world – and add some of your own.

Before I go ahead and list the stories waiting on our new website for you to enjoy, let me pledge our deepest love and gratitude to all our readers and to all who have made the many miraculous sacrifices that have carried us through these hard times. We are deeply indebted and we won’t let you down. – Mary Ratcliff, editor@sfbayview.com

New stories, videos, photos – oh my!

Visit SFBayView.com often; we’re posting new stories daily. For the burning issues covered by several stories, I’ll group them together.

The most important election of our lifetimes: Bay View Voters Guide, Bringing democracy to Amerikkka, Please don’t feed the PiGE!, Cindy Sheehan speaks at Bayview Hunters Point Town Hall Meeting, What our country desperately needs is a leader who loves us, Vote Yes on Prop H: Don’t believe PG&E’s fossil fuel-powered lies, Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: ‘Steal Back Your Vote!’, Vote Hip Hop Contest taking entries until Nov. 1, Prop H for Clean Energy, Obama for President, Prop H: PG&E vs. Clean Energy in San Francisco, Bridges for Obama, Voting as addition and subtraction, Pre-election militarization of the North American homeland, Can’t vote because you’re in jail? Yes you can!, Millions of African Americans will be disenfranchised on Election Day and, coming tomorrow, Obama song for West Papua.

Revolutionary foment inside KPFA: The need for a Black public affairs show at KPFA, KPFA staffers release no-confidence statement, Lame-duck appointment of embattled KPFA manager, From Amy Goodman to Nadra Foster: Implementing alternatives to police terror, On the question of Pacifica and racism, KPFA’s Nadra Foster, Nadra Foster and the mission of KPFA, Pacifica patrones reject peace, use police to sustain their power,Open letter to the KPFA staff, paid and unpaid, KPFA’s racist hypocrisy: Once again it has come to pass …, What really happened to Nadra Foster: an eyewitness account and Police terrorize Black KPFA programmer in the station. Watch Arrest of KPFA programmer Nadra Foster by KPFA/Pacifica management.

The related controversy around the Chauncey Bailey Project: A journalistic critique of the Chauncey Bailey Project; My two cents on the engineering of media around the murder of Chauncey Bailey; Investigating the assassination of Post Editor Chauncey Bailey, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3; and One on one with Yusuf Bey IV: Part 1 and Part 2.

More great stories and other goodies:
Jasper-style lynching in Paris, Texas
Congolese children work, fight and die for our cell phones and diamonds
In Focus: Congo’s Bloody Coltan
‘Repair the damage of destroying the Black presence in this city!’
Displaced poor still arriving in New Orleans as Saints go marching in
U.N. weighs in against demolishing public housing
New Orleans News Briefs
Katrina Pain Index: New Orleans three years later
All Power to the People!
Aaron Patterson’s torturer Jon Burge arrested
SF County Jail’s cruel and unusual punishment of Herman Bell of the San Francisco 8
Save the life of Nevada prisoner Marritte Funches
Free Troy Davis!
Imprisoned Rev. Pinkney runs for U.S. Congress
Three men crammed into a 6x12 cell
Mumia speaks to the youth
The New Jersey 4: Correcting the injustice
Wanda’s Picks for Oct. 24, 2008 (Her new Picks will be posted tomorrow.)
One on one wit’ Malik Yusef the Wordsmith
Disappearing voices in Black radio
Chairman Fred Hampton Streetz Party ‘08
Money, Black Power and radio
Haiti: Racism and poverty
When Ike hit Haiti
U.N. out of Haiti, Brazil out of Haiti
The struggle for the safe release of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, Haitian human rights activist
Haiti’s food crisis: Imposing hunger on the people of Haiti
The nationalization of Banco de Venezuela
Live from the streets of San Salvador
Child care families, providers abandoned by state government
From Death Row, Mumia Abu Jamal - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Africans reject U.S. Africa Command
Reflections on Zimbabwe 40 years later
‘Black in America’ misses the ‘why’
Pen Pals: Find a friend behind enemy lines
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