People's Tribunal: Oscar Grant & the Epidemic of Police Brutality, Oakland, 3/22/09: audio

Great job 'dave id' with this audio set. This is really useful in this form. It was a four hour program with a ton of information and testimony and you got this online in less than six hours. Rock on! The program presented an unprecedented study of the evidence painting a detailed picture of the police riot that led up to the shooting - in the context of the so-called epidemic of police murder and the reality that this system is "thoroughly rotten" with great vision from the families of of the police murder victims and leading national organizers against police murder showed great vision on how to fight this. WOW!

Does anyone-one (or dave id) have a picture (they can post here in the comments) of the event displaying the incredible Stolen Lives wall in the background commemorating the thousands murdered by police in the 1990s?

-spark

"In a world marked by profound class divisions and social inequality, to talk about “democracy”— without talking about the class nature of that democracy and which class it serves—is meaningless, and worse. So long as society is divided into classes, there can be no “democracy for all”: one class or another will rule, and it will uphold and promote that kind of democracy which serves its interests and goals. The question is: which class will rule and whether its rule, and its system of democracy, will serve the continuation, or the eventual abolition, of class divisions and the corresponding relations of exploitation, oppression and inequality." -Bob Avakian

We all remember the irrational wave of pro-militaristic sentiment that swept the nation after 911. Similarly, there will be an irrational wave of sentiment for Oakland police following last weekend's killings. It will be particularly important, therefore, to do what's necessary to keep the Oscar Grant story and similar stories in the forefront. If we don't, we can be certain that the post 911-like sentiment will cause political officials to roll over for anything the Oakland police ask for. We need to remember that it is a substantially corrupted police force, and that doesn't change when cops die in the line of duty: if anything, cop deaths only foster police state mentalities because of the way the corporate medias report them.

"Great job, Rock on, WOW!, Stolen Lives, Chairman Bob, etc."

Just...

Wow.

xD

Seriously, thanks for the info, but I know a planted shill when I see one...I know somewhere, somehow underneath all that indoctrination, you can do better than this. Meanwhile, I'm gonna pull up a lawn chair, grab some popcorn, and wait for you to lay into me for being reactionary. Have fun, I know I'm gonna! :p

I'm sorta fuckin' with you here with the "WOW!" business, but you all do have a trademark way of doing things. :p Nevertheless, thanks for speaking up for Oscar Grant, and giving his fam and the community a chance to speak. Meanwhile, I'm off to enjoy the sun and wait for you to accuse me of whatever it is I happen to be doing at the moment. ;-D

Cops kill people all the time, some armed and fighting back, others unarmed and pressed against the concrete. You look at this like the war it is and these officers are just enemy combatants.