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DESCRIPTION:This meeting is organized for the community to come together to continue to 
 strategize around actions regarding the BART police murder of 22 year old 
 Oscar Grant.\n\nGrant, of Hayward, was gunned down by a BART police officer 
 on the morning of New Year's Day.\n\nNumerous videos taken by witnesses 
 from their cell phones show that Grant was face down on the ground in 
 handcuffs when he was shot in the back at close range on the Fruitvale BART 
 station  platform at 2am following a New Year's Eve outing with his 
 friends.  \n\nIn this new year, it is the same old story. Police killings 
 of African men like Oscar Grant have reached epidemic proportions. In fact, 
 the number of police killings outnumber the killings of U.S. soldiers in 
 Iraq in a war that is clear for anyone to see who has been paying attention 
 against the African community in the U.S.  This war usurps the budgets of 
 cities like Oakland which pays out the majority of its monies to "public 
 safety" justifying the war in the eyes of the outside world by the "war on 
 crime" and "war on drugs." This has been the reality for decades since the 
 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements of the 1960's and 70's.\n\nLast year 
 in Oakland, the Oakland police killed Casper Banjo, Jose Luis Buenrostro, 
 Jody Woodfox and at least four others. The previous year the OPD killed 
 Gary King Jr. and Andrew Moppin on New Year's Eve. The heavy handed 
 policing in East and West Oakland is justified by the economic reality that 
 these communities face that make them "high crime" areas, code word for the 
 conditions faced by African and Mexican communities because of the legacy 
 of slavery and colonialism.  \n\nOscar Grant III's young life was brutally 
 taken away by the police. In this case, there were many witnesses making 
 the police unable to fabricate a story and say that Grant had a weapon. 
 Grant's family members and friends have come out to express their grief in 
 losing their son, nephew and friend making the press unable to slander 
 Grant's character like they normally do. His four year old daughter is left 
 without a father to raise her and a family and community mourns the loss of 
 this well loved young man who worked as a butcher at the Farmer Joe's 
 Market in the Dimond District of Oakland.\n\nIn this time of hope and 
 change, we have to take a stand against the policies in place that 
 systematically ends young black lives.\n \nStop the war the African 
 community! Justice and reparations for the family of Oscar Grant III! Jail 
 the killer cop!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/07/18559399.php
SUMMARY:Uhuru Movement Organizing Meeting for Justice for Oscar Grant
LOCATION:Uhuru House\n7911 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94605
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/07/18559399.php
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