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BART Inches Toward True Civilian Oversight But Don't Hold Your Breath, 6/8/09: pdf & audio (audio/mpeg 44.5MB) At the BART police oversight committee meeting on Monday, June 8th, members took a straw poll and voted for the strongest of three police oversight models, the only one presented that represents true civilian oversight regarding citizen complaints against the BART Police Department (BPD). It was a non-binding 5-4 vote for option number III in the PDF file below. This is a positive sign that BART appears to be moving more toward a civilian police commission model with the power to recommend ...
Posted: Thu, Jun 11, 2009 12:14am PDT
BART Police Oversight Subcommittee Stacked Against Real Civilian Oversight, 6/1/09: audio (audio/mpeg 44.8MB) BART still just doesn't seem to be getting it, despite clear pleas from the public for five months now since the murder of Oscar Grant. The public has demanded accountability and to date BART has not taken any action against a single police officer present on the Fruitvale BART platform that night, including Tony Pirone who physically assaulted Oscar Grant and his friends nor Marysol Domenici who threatened many of them with a taser (as well as the two of them lying all over the witness stan...
Posted: Sat, Jun 6, 2009 10:35am PDT
Town Hall Reports from Inside Mehserle Hearing & Orloff Recall, Oakland, 5/30/09: audio (audio/mpeg 10.7MB) At this week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Minister Keith Muhammad, Reverend Ramona Tascoe, and Oscar Grant's uncle Cephus Johnson all offer direct reports from inside the court room during Johannes Mehserle's ongoing preliminary hearing in his trial for the murder of Oscar Grant. They point out that the BART police involved in the murder of Oscar Grant have been exposed repeatedly by the prosecutor as they tell lie after lie in the court room and yet the corporate media has faile...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 12:17am PDT
Rev. Ramona Tascoe discusses in-depth details of testimony heard in preliminary hearing (audio/mpeg 14.3MB) (audio 41:31)
She starts by noting the racial profiling that was done by a paranoid "citizen cop" Dennis Zafiratos, who initially set off the chain of events...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 12:17am PDT
Keith Muhammad, Ramona Toscoe, & Cephus Johnson continue to discuss details of hearing (audio/mpeg 7.3MB) (audio 21:24)...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 12:17am PDT
Keith Muhammad speaks about the Alameda DA Orloff recall effort which just kicked off (audio/mpeg 5.6MB) (audio 16:21)
Minister Keith reads the recently posted public notice that appeared in Alameda county newspapers to announce the intent to recall District Att...
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 12:17am PDT
Town Hall for Justice on Mehserle Hearing, BART Review, & Caravan, Oakland, 5/23/09: audio (audio/mpeg 3.7MB) The Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant met on Saturday, May 23rd and dealt with revelations from the first week of the preliminary hearing in the trial of Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant, BART police review, the Caravan for Justice III scheduled for three days after this Town Hall, and the recall of Alameda DA Tom Orloff.
Reverend Daniel Buford of Allen Temple Baptist Church speaks first regarding BART police review:...
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 10:49pm PDT
Minister Keith Muhammad - Nation of Islam (audio/mpeg 21.5MB) (audio 1:02:31)
Minister Keith Muhammad speaks about developments in the first week of the preliminary hearing in the trial of Johannes Mehserle....
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 10:49pm PDT
Tony Coleman - OneFam (audio/mpeg 1.8MB) (audio 5:10)
Tony Coleman speaks about the rallies taking place outside the Alameda County court house in Oakland every day of the Mehserle preliminary heari...
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 10:49pm PDT
Cephus Johnson - Uncle of Oscar Grant (audio/mpeg 1.8MB) (audio 5:17)
Cephus Johnson extends thanks from the family for the sacrifices made by the community and the importance of public support in achieving justice...
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 10:49pm PDT
Minister Keith Muhammad speaks about the Caravan for Justice III set for May 26th (audio/mpeg 8.5MB) (audio 24:48)
Caravans for Justice are a series of trips to Sacramento to demand changes in laws and policies that disproportionately and negatively effect p...
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 10:49pm PDT
Minister Keith Muhammad & Reverend Daniel Buford (audio/mpeg 2.2MB) (audio 6:28)
Minister Keith Muhammad speaks about toxics in the neighborhood surrounding Olivet church and an oportunity for local residents to join in a cit...
Posted: Sat, May 30, 2009 10:49pm PDT
Confronting the Police State and Imagining Alternatives, Oakland, 5/22/09: audio (audio/mpeg 30.2MB) The Friendly Fire Collective held a panel discussion titled "Confronting the Police State and Imagining Alternatives" at AK Press in Oakland on May 22nd. The panel consisted of members of San Jose Copwatch, Silicon Valley De-Bug, the Watsonville Brown Berets, Petaluma Copwatch, O22, Cop/Migra Busters, and Critical Resistance....
Posted: Sun, May 24, 2009 12:35am PDT
T4CW 5.18.09: Jenn from the Teachers Union & JR on Oakland's Upcoming Court Hearings (audio/mpeg 32.6MB) Two guests called in on Free Radio Santa Cruz's Monday night Teacher show, Teachers 4 Class War: Jenn & JR, giving us updates from the trenches of teachers union negotiations, and from the fight for freedom and justice in the courts....
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2009 7:28pm PDT
The People Vs. Mehserle Teach-In, Oakland, 5/17/09: photos and audio (audio/mpeg 27.4MB) On Sunday, May 17th, one day before the preliminary hearing of Johannes Mehserle is set to begin, the group New Year's Movement for Justice held a teach-in at the Humanist Hall in Oakland. A panel of four attorney's discussed what to expect in the coming trial and took related questions from those assembled. The second half of the teach-in was an open discussion and speak-out that looked at the wider issues of activism related to the the trial and seeking justice for Oscar Grant III.
Th...
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2009 7:41am PDT
Open Discussion on seeking justice for Oscar Grant beyond the trial (audio/mpeg 27.6MB) (audio 1:20:18)
Nearly everyone at the Humanist Hall took turns contributing to the discussion....
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2009 7:41am PDT
Town Hall for Justice on BART Review, Mehserle Hearing, & Recall, Oakland, 5/16/09: audio (audio/mpeg 24.2MB) The Town Hall for Justice on May 16th addressed the second public BART meeting on police oversight, the pre-trial hearing in the murder case of Johannes Mehserle set to begin on Monday April 18th, the coming Caravan for Justice III to be held on May 26th, and the recall effort to remove Alameda District Attorney Tom Orloff for his failures in demanding equal justice for all.
Special note was made that Saturday was the 5th birthday of Tatiana, the daughter of Oscar Grant. It was her first ...
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2009 12:08am PDT
Reverend Daniel Buford of Allen Temple Baptist Church (audio/mpeg 3.9MB) (audio 11:29)
Reverend Daniel Buford addresses the BART police oversight meeting the day before and public comment made. He scolds those who spoke against B...
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2009 12:08am PDT
Update on Orloff recall, Reverend Henry Williams, and related announcements (audio/mpeg 7.1MB) (audio 20:49)
Minister Keith Muhammad gives an update on the recall of DA Orloff. Reverend Henry Williams speaks about the importance of cop watching. Othe...
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2009 12:08am PDT
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