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'Skip', Nadra and the Philadelphia Grand Jury (audio/mpeg 4.6MB) Dr. Gates, a prolific writer, acclaimed academic and PBS broadcaster, was, precisely because of his known identity and status, spared the indignity of being beaten, or worse. Most African-Americans are not so privileged, as shown by the beating administered to Nadra Foster, a KPFA radio producer, who was attacked, kicked in the head, handcuffed and arrested, after a station staffer called police, and told them (incorrectly) that Foster was banned from KPFA. According to witness accounts, Nad...
Posted: Wed, Aug 26, 2009 7:27pm PDT
Town Hall on BART's Lobby of State Legislature for Their Police Oversight Plan, 8/22/09: audio (audio/mpeg 34.9MB) In the August 22nd Town Hall for Justice, the family of Hasanni Campbell spoke first. They pleaded for help in finding 5-year-old Hasanni who is currently missing. Reginald Lyles and Lynette Sweet spoke for most of the rest of the Town Hall regarding BART's recently approved plan for police oversight. They encouraged the community to pressure California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano and other legislators to amend the BART Act before the legislative session ends September 11th so that BART can...
Posted: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 10:55pm PDT
Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Oakland, 8/15/09: audio (audio/mpeg 4.5MB) Minister Keith Muhammad speaks about issues surrounding the murder of Oscar Grant III, including the new police oversight model approved by the BART Board. He talks about the lies police have told regarding the murders of Oscar Grant by BART police and Parnell Smith by Oakland police.
Cephus Johnson, Oscar Grant's uncle, talks about the struggles Oscar Grant's surviving friends are going through now. He also makes some honest and astute comments regarding the prejudices that people too ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 11:04pm PDT
Minister Keith Muhammad (audio/mpeg 25.6MB) (audio 1:14:41)
Minister Keith Muhammad speaks to the similarities between the living conditions of poor people in the San Francisco Bay Area and those in so...
Posted: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 11:04pm PDT
Cephus "Uncle Bobby" Johnson speaks about all-too-common prejudices carried by many people (audio/mpeg 5.1MB) (audio 14:43)
Cephus Johnson closed this week's Town Hall for Justice by discussing the ongoing struggles of Oscar Grant's surviving friends and how their l...
Posted: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 11:04pm PDT
BART Anxious to Wrap Up Police Oversight Plan at Final Subcommittee Meeting, 8/10/09: audio & PDFs (audio/mpeg 41.9MB) The BART police oversight subcommittee held what was likely its last meeting on August 10th to consider the feedback it heard at the July 30th public forum and the comments it gathered via traditional and electronic mail through August 7th. It was obvious that it's members were anxious to close the door on the process and move a draft to the full BART Board for a vote. Despite repeated public feedback against allowing BART police to appoint a member to the so-called civilian review board a...
Posted: Fri, Aug 14, 2009 1:15am PDT
Town Hall on Obama, Parnell Smith, Brownie Polk, BART, & Emeryville Police Racism, 8/8/09: audio (audio/mpeg 5.4MB) Family and friends of Parnell Smith attended this week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant. Parnell Smith was shot and killed by Oakland police on July 15th as he ran away unarmed. Minister Keith Muhammad draws parallels between the recent OPD murders of Parnell Smith and Brownie Polk (on August 1st) and the BART police murder of Oscar Grant III. Minister Keith talks about how police publicly smear the character of their victims and lie about the incidents when they kill. Police would...
Posted: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 9:01am PDT
Minister Keith Muhammad, witness to Emeryville police racism, and Parnell Smith's brother (audio/mpeg 39.3MB) (audio 1:54:20)...
Posted: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 9:01am PDT
MOI JR Interview with Rekia Jabrin on the Trial Of Johannes Mehserle (audio/mpeg 13.0MB) Rekia Mohammed Jabrin is a educator and an activist with the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement in the Bay Area and a co-founder of Copwatch - Oakland. She gives an update on the case of Oscar Grant III, now that the BART police triggerman Johannes Mehserle has been indicted for murder....
Posted: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 5:18pm PDT
BART Public Hearing on Flawed Draft Police Oversight Plan, 7/30/09: audio (audio/mpeg 34.7MB) This audio was taken from BART's video of the meeting posted here. Public comment begins at about 45 minutes into the recording. To read the actual oversight proposal and about how it came to be, see this....
Posted: Mon, Aug 10, 2009 9:25pm PDT
Town Hall on BART Police Oversight, Mehserle, Obama, Racial Disparities, 7/25/09: audio (audio/mpeg 21.5MB) Ramona Tascoe opens the Town Hall with a discussion of BART's latest police oversight plan. She is troubled by the plan and thinks BART needs to go back to the drawing board. She wants people to get the word out to anyone who's been victimized by police, especially BART police, to come to Town Halls. The civil rights complaint currently being drafted for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department must show a pattern of abuse beyond the murder of Oscar Grant.
The Johan...
Posted: Sun, Aug 9, 2009 7:47pm PDT
Town Hall for Justice on Racial Profiling, OPD, BART, Justice Department, 7/18/09: audio (audio/mpeg 33.3MB) Minister Keith Muhammad notes that as of this Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, not a singly policing policy has changed in California, except that maybe police officers might be a little more wary of using force in "routine traffic stops" for fear of a video camera documenting their actions. He then goes on to discuss early known details of the Oakland police killing of Parnell Smith on July 15th and police officers like BART officer Tony Pirone having a sense of ownership of city stre...
Posted: Sun, Aug 9, 2009 12:16pm PDT
KPFA audio segment on Albany police racial profiling and abusing Williams family (audio/mpeg 1.6MB) just the Africa Jones report here...
Posted: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 11:16pm PDT
Berkeley Liberation Radio hits its 10th year anniversary!!! (audio/mpeg 44.6MB) Berekely Liberation Radio hit its 10th anniversary of unlicensed radio broadcasting this month, continuing low-budget, free format activist radio in the Oakland/Berkeley area, 104.1FM, and a new streaming website at berkeleyliberationradio.org. DJ Rubble interviews Captain Fred, who has been with the collective throughout and hosts the Saturday evening show "Captain Fred's World Cruise". (24 minutes)...
Posted: Sun, Jul 26, 2009 12:32pm PDT
Town Hall on Mehserle, BART, Oscar Grant Tribute Video, Reparations March, 7/11/09: audio (audio/mpeg 19.5MB) "As goes California, so goes the nation," Minister Keith Muhammad declares at the July 11th Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant as he discusses the significance of BART cop Johannes Mehserle being the first police officer in California to face murder charges in court. He speaks about the racism shown by Tony Pirone on January 1st as it compares to former L.A. police officer Mark Fuhrman; the unequal delivery of justice between police officers and people of color; and the biggest impending...
Posted: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 7:38pm PDT
Cephus "Uncle Bobby" Johnson introduces Oscar Grant Tribute Video (audio/mpeg 1.8MB) (audio 5:10)
Audio from the video was removed here, and can be noted by the fade out and fade in of the video's intro and ending music. The actual video its...
Posted: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 7:38pm PDT
Jack Bryson, Cephus Johnson, and Anthony Johnson speak (audio/mpeg 3.1MB) (audio 8:59)...
Posted: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 7:38pm PDT
Reverend Henry Williams speaks about upcoming Reparations March in D.C. (audio/mpeg 2.8MB) (audio 8:06)...
Posted: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 7:38pm PDT
Oakland City Council Approves Civilianization of Citizen OPD Complaints, 7/7/09: audio (audio/mpeg 12.0MB) Toward the end of a very long Oakland City Council meeting on July 7th, at ten minutes after midnight to be exact, council members overwhelmingly approved shifting intake of citizen complaints away from the Oakland Police Department Internal Affairs division to the existing Citizen's Police Review Board (CPRB). The Oakland City Council voted 7-1 to direct City Administrator Dan Lindheim to prepare a transition plan and to research funding opportunities by September. The only council dissent...
Posted: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 2:41am PDT
Socialism 2009, Building a New Left for a New Era, San Francisco, 7/2-7/5/09: audio (audio/mpeg 30.9MB) The International Socialist Organization held their first West Coast conference in San Francisco July 2nd through 5th. The "Socialism 2009: Building a New Left for a New Era" conference was split between the Women's Building on 18th and the ISO offices on Capp. Close to 800 people attended attended at least one session over the four-day conference, with most attending numerous. A similar conference has been held annually in Chicago for years. Chicago's 2009 conference was held in June.
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Posted: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 10:04am PDT
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