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Mehserle's Defense Moves to Prevent Jurors Knowing Pirone Yelled "Bitch Ass Nigger" at Oscar Grant 
Consider this. What if the situation on New Year's Day 2009 was reversed? What if Oscar Grant and his friends detained unarmed police officers with threat of deadly force? What if one of Grant's friends yelled "bitch ass peckerwood" twice right before Oscar Grant pushed Johannes Mehserle to the ground and proceeded to kill him? Would there be broad consensus that the inflammatory statement was relevant to the shooting, perhaps even motivating the hostility shown by shooting an unarmed man i...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 2:13am PDT
Jury Set with No African American Jurors, Defense Seeks to Exclude Video in Oscar Grant Trial 
Report on jury selection today...
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:34am PDT
Potential Jurors in Mehserle Murder Trial Questioned on Oakland, Race, Tasers, Police, and BART 
The questioning of the first two batches of potential jurors based on their answers to a juror questionnaire begins Tuesday, June 8th in Los Angeles Superior Court. If Johannes Mehserle's defense attorney Michael Rains follows through on his threat to treat potential African American jurors aggressively remains to be seen. Certainly, the answers provided for the questionnaire on topics such as racial discrimination, police abuses, and the political environments in Oakland and Los Angeles c...
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2010 9:12am PDT
White Supremacists at Gaza March Watch out for these white supremacists at upcoming Gaza events....
Posted: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 10:55pm PDT
Sunset Vigil for Oscar Grant and All Police Victims Warns that Justice Is in Danger, 6/1/10: Photos 
On the eve of the beginning of the trial of Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant in Los Angeles County, family, friends, and community activists gathered for a vigil for Oscar Grant and all victims of police violence. Those gathered solemnly recognized that the Judge overseeing the trial, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry, has granted a number of requests from Mehserle's defense attorney Michael Rains intended to shift the blame to Oscar Grant for his own ...
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 9:28am PDT
One more gimmick before Mayor Gavin Newsom makes his drab exit - good riddance. 
Yesterday, the Mayor decided to give his Annual Budget Speech that was drab and full of holes - at a Luggage Store on Market Street. Gavin Newsom, wants us to feel comfortable that he will pack up soon and leave town - good riddance of very bad rubbish. This Mayor does not leave a sound legacy. The best thing he can do is leave town and go to Sacramento - to sweat it out in that heat and fade away for this great City and County of San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 7:10am PDT
Don't think Israel and its supporters have a genocidal program? just look at their signs 
Anyone who doesn't think that Israel and its supporters have a genocidal program toward the Palestinian people should check out the signs these people carried at the demonstration on 6-1-2010 in front of the Israeli Consulate. One sign proudly displayed throughout their small counter-protest read "Until Gaza Is Destroyed the Job Is Not Done" The word destroyed is in read letters for emphasis. What other explanation is there than these people want the destruction of an entire territory wher...
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:31pm PDT
Black Agriculture Summit ~ Save Black Farmers Campaign 
Buried inside the Mission Delores, San Francisco is the African Cuban, Danish Jewish, Founding Father of California, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. It was on the veranda of his San Francisco home that the U.S. Declaration of Independence was first read in California. His cosmopolitan elegance provided Official U.S. diplomacy and hospitality while he served as the first elected Treasurer in San Francisco, President of the School Board and builder of the first public school in California....
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2010 6:24pm PDT
Tribes Faced With MLPA Closures Walk Traditional Route for Food Gathering For thousands of years, tribes have gathered seaweed, mussels, abalone and fish from the inter-tidal zone for subsistence and ceremonial purposes. However, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process has shown no respect for the religious, subsistence and ceremonial rights of coastal tribes....
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2010 2:17pm PDT
Lennar has decimated the Bayview Community pushing its Phase II conceptual plans. 
LENNAR is a Rogue Developer who with the support of the Pacific Heights Mafia has decimated the Bayview Hunters Point community and is now pushing for a dubious Phase II conceptual plan - that defies Quality of Life issues. The U.S. Navy in its presentation continues to address Radiological issues and cannot address it fully to satisfy the community a large. The U.S. Navy cannot stand the community questioning its matter of way of doing things. Worse then the U.S. Navy is the dubious Bayview...
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2010 8:00am PDT
Justice 4 Oscar Grant with Dead Prez ten years since Let's Get Free, SF, 5/22/10: photos and audio 
Dead Prez performed in San Francisco on Saturday, May 22nd, 2010, to mark the tenth anniversary since the release of their first album, Let's Get Free. Opening artists at the show included the evening's MC Ras Ceylon, who also performed, DJ Sean G spinning throughout, Sellassie, Unity, Tahir, and more. Before the show a Justice 4 Oscar Grant panel discussion was held featuring Jack Bryson, activist and father of two of Oscar Grant's friends on the platform with him when he was murdered; Ras...
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2010 10:47pm PDT
Bitter Harvest ~ Legacy of Black Farmers in America 
Save Black Farmers is a growing paradigm shift to consider the possibility of growing the fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices that provide Healthy Solutions to adverse diet related disease. This Memorial day weekend is the final chance to view display of the Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. at the Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco and learn about the efforts to share the legacy of his 35,000 acre Rancho Rio De Los Americanos and Black Pioneers in Sacramento, California pr...
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2010 3:26pm PDT
Tony Pirone Might Require Extradition to Compel His Testimony at Mehserle's Murder Trial 
Is Tony Pirone attempting to avoid testifying in Johannes Mehserle's trial for the murder of Oscar Grant? The Alameda County District Attorney's office has filed papers to force former BART police officer Tony Pirone (fired April 22nd) to testify in the murder trial of Johannes Mehserle, set to begin with jury selection next week. Apparently, Tony Pirone is no longer a California resident, and it appears from the court document that he currently resides in North Carolina as a hearing will b...
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2010 12:15pm PDT
Dead Prez show calls out for justice for Oscar Grant, San Francisco, 5/22/10: video (video/mp4 9.5MB) Just a short teaser from the finalé of the Dead Prez set shortly before 2am on May 23rd. The show marked the tenth anniversary since the release of their first album. Handbills promoting the Saturday, May 22nd, show at the Rockit Room in San Francisco read: 10 years after Let's Get Free ...it's still No Justice, No Peace....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 11:05pm PDT
10th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival, Oakland, 5/22/10: photos 
On Saturday, May 22nd, the Eastside Arts Alliance sponsored the 10th Annual Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival in San Antonio Park on Foothill Blvd in East Oakland. There were three stages with jazz, hip hop, and other musical artists. Also featured was dancing, poets, and a community platform for grassroots organizations. Numerous local artists and food vendors offered their crafts and flavors....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 10:41pm PDT
Justice for Oscar Grant Sunset Altar and Candlelight Vigil Alameda County District Attorney's office
1225 Fallon Street
12th & Oak Streets, Oakland...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 8:54pm PDT
MLPA Initiative Violates American Indian Religious Freedom Act, UN Declaration “I don’t think the Fish and Game Commission would be allowed to close down a Catholic Church, would they?” said Violet Chappell, Kashia Pomo Tribe Elder....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 4:33pm PDT
Senator Dutton Asks DFG Director to Justify Support for MLPA Fiasco In a May 19 letter, Senator Bob Dutton asked John McCamman, Director of the California Department of Fish and Game, how he can justify the implementation of Schwarzenegger's MLPA Initiative at a time when the state is in dire economic crisis....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 3:26pm PDT
PSA and Radio Show about "Operation Small Axe" film 5-26-10 (audio/mpeg 1.1MB) The small file is a 70 second PSA about the Film showing on Wednesday 5-26-10 at Stevenson Classroom 175 and Barrios Unidos at 3 and 5:30 pm respectively. The larger file is a MP3 of "The Global Local" from 5-24-10 with Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo interviewing JR Valrey, the Minister of Information in the Prisoners of Consciousness Committee....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 12:43am PDT
Gang Injunction Part of Larger Set of Failed Policing Policies Helia Rasti and Stacie Szmonko from Critical Resistance write about the proposed "gang" injunction targeting North Oakland. On Thursday, May 27th at 2:00 p.m., attorneys representing both sides of the gang injunction will appear before Judge Robert B. Freedman, in Dept. 20, at the Superior Court, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA. A rally will be held outside the courthouse starting at 12:30 p.m....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2010 4:54pm PDT
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