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Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV Show, August 7, 2009. Elbert “Big Man” Howard, author, lecturer and activist, is one of the six founding members of the BPP who was Deputy Minister of Information and Editor of the Black Panther Newspaper. Billy X Jennings, Black Panther Party Historian, is one of the original Oakland Panthers who joined the Party in 1968 at age 17....

On January 13th, 2010, the one-year anniversary of Johannes Mehserle's arrest for the murder of Oscar Grant, the Black Dot Cafe hosted a benefit for the legal defense of the last two of the "Oakland 100", JR Valrey and Holly Works, both of whom face felony charges resulting from Oscar Grant protests and rebellions in January 2009. Speakers included JR Valrey, Duane Adee Deterville, Jackie & Jack Bryson, Erika Walker, Holly Works, Cynthia McKinney, Adimu Madyun, Minister Keith Muhammad, and M...

JR Valrey and Holly Works, the last two of the Oakland 100 – the people arrested during the rebellions following the police murder of Oscar Grant last year – are still facing charges, and must raise legal defense funds for their imminent trials. JR’s trial starts next Monday, Feb. 22, and Holly’s starts the following Monday, March 1. Both will be held in department 11, 8:30am, 1225 Fallon St (@12th), Oakland. Supporters are organizing to make sure there is a community presence in the courtroo...

Oakland City Councilperson Larry Reid had requested that OPD and the City Attorney's office craft a proposal to implement gang injunctions in Oakland. At this City Council Public Safety Committee meeting, the proposal was presented to committee members Patricia Kernighan, Jean Quan, Larry Reid, and Nancy Nadel. Numerous community members spoke against bringing gang injunctions to Oakland, one spoke in favor. When it became apparent that committee members were cool to the idea, committee ch...

Three Bay Area independent journalists are traveling up to Vancouver for the first week of the Olympic games to cover the demonstrations and will be blogging daily about their experiences....

In this week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Minister Keith Muhammad follows up on the John Burris and Oscar Grant family press conference. Judy Bias announces six locations in Oakland that are or will soon be donation centers for the people of Haiti. Nehanda Imara announces a series of hearings on the Bay Area's Toxic Triangle (San Francisco to Oakland to Richmond) with the first on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 in East Oakland....

City Hall – Hearing Room 1 Oakland...

KTVU has obtained exclusive new information: Sources told KTVU, KTVU learned, Sources also told KTVU, KTVU has learned, KTVU has since obtained a Hayward police report, Sources said, According to sources... And so it goes. Yesterday's report by KTVU was the final straw and Oscar Grant family attorney John Burris called a press conference today to confront the attacks on Oscar Grant's family and friends by BART via anonymous sources. [full video below]...

Everyone knows that the State of California negotiates with sovereign California Native Nations about casinos, including how to divide the profits. The MLPAI, to do justice, must also recognize the sovereignty of First Nations and tribal peoples, whose cultural health and survival depends on access to traditional ocean and intertidal food-gathering....

Mendocino College in Ukiah...