I will be doing a reading of my new book "Block Reportin'", this Sat. at Marcus Books in SF, at 4pm. Come thru.....

Double issue 16.12/13 is now available for download (free as always) on our site! www.thebeatwithin.org

Another terrific piece by @KALWinormant: How a California prison became the tear gas capital of America http://bit.ly/gFqy1X

how fitting that same company that made Mafia Wars is making Frontierville

deep Inside the Bay Area Oakland woman and friends shell out $76,000 to sing a protest song at Obama breakfast http://bit.ly/eoHKkW Josh Richman

"East 14th is where lost souls roam/Girls and women act like its home" Don't miss "The Street", p. 16 of our new issue http://bit.ly/bVDbbY

RT IF ANY ONE KNOWS A KID IN LA THATS A SERIOUS YOUNG SAX PLAYER BUT CANT AFFORD A SAX OF THEIR OWN GET AT ME [email protected]

special thanks to Chief David Muhammad for inspiring our young writers at the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center!

Amen RT Ella Baker Center Books not bars says close prisons not schools. http://twitpic.com/4vy814

How Do We Break the Pattern of Poor Teaching for Poor Children? su.pr/29YFE6 (GOOD stuff)

Must Listen: Youth Radio 's Peabody award sinning 6-month investigation into child sex trafficking http://bit.ly/e57cow

The price of standing up for your beliefs: East Bay Professor Arrested in Nigeria baycitizen.org/international/… via The Bay Citizen

RT CSUEB News Our thoughts are w/ CSUEB Profs Ugbah & Evuleocha. Ugbah will stay in Nigeria to contest election results http://ow.ly/52XW8

Issue 16.20/21 now up for grabs (and for free!) at our website: http://bit.ly/4ypaoM

NEWS: Young Prisoners in 24 Hr Confinement, Classes in Closets http://bit.ly/jmkF0W (Via @ TreyBundy The Bay Citizen)

My parents & I just spoke at the Alameda county juvenile detention center. Hope to have inspired some. Was inspired myself by Cooley M poem

Sad to see young men in there. It's just wrong because most of them R good kids just products of their circumstance. Count ur blessings yall

special thanks to Bishy Belichick and his wonderful family for their inspiring visit to AlaCo Juvenile Hall. A great day for the young people!

#FF Dale Tafoya Daniel Hernandez ✍🏽🌞 Baba Brinkman New America Media Youth Radio

Victor M. Rios: Sociologist Returns to the Mean Streets of His Youth chronicle.com/article/A-Soci…