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DESCRIPTION:Press Conference and Speak-Out at Oakland City Council Meeting to Demand 
 They Vote for Resolution: Justice for Oscar Grant\nOn Tuesday, Jan. 20, 
 come to the demonstration and speakout at the Oakland City Council meeting 
 to demand justice for Oscar Grant. Details in the press release 
 below.\n\nFull information about Oscar Grant and how we can win justice 
 at:\nEnglish: 
 http://www.bamn.com/doc/2009/090110-oscargrant-flyer-english.pdf\nEspanol: 
 http://www.bamn.com/doc/2009/090110-oscargrant-flyer-espanol.pdf\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n- 
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -\n\nOakland students demand justice for Oscar Grant, 
 demand that City Council pass resolution in support of:\nJailing all the 
 cops who were accessories in the murder of Oscar Grant\nDisarming the BART 
 police, and keeping the BART police out of Oakland\nConvening a public 
 hearing to investigate the killing\nPress Conference + Speakout at Oakland 
 City Council\nTuesday, January 20, 2009\n\n5:30PM Press Conference at 
 Oakland City Hall, 14th + Broadway\n6:00PM City Council Meeting 
 begins\n\nOakland high school students and community supporters will hold a 
 press conference and speak out at the Oakland City Council today to demand 
 justice for Oscar Grant. They will call on the Oakland City Council to pass 
 a resolution in support of (1) jailing all the cops who were accessories in 
 the murder of Grant, (2) disarming the BART police, (3) calling on BART 
 police to stay out of Oakland, and (4) for the Council to convene an 
 independent public hearing to investigate the killing and make action 
 recommendations to prevent further killings.\n\n“If the BART police 
 didn't have guns, then Oscar Grant would be alive today. I don't feel safe 
 taking BART now knowing what they did to Oscar Grant,” said Tanisha West, 
 a junior at Oakland Technical High School and organizer with the Coalition 
 to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight 
 for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). "Until the BART police stop 
 carrying guns, I don't think any black student, or anyone for that matter, 
 is safe from them."\n\nAcross Oakland, high school students are gathering 
 thousands of petition signatures calling for the above demands.\n\n“The 
 youth of Oakland want all the cops who were accessories to murder to be 
 arrested immediately," said Brenda Onofre, a student who is circulating the 
 petition at Skyline High School. “If black or Latina/o teenagers had held 
 down a man while he was shot and killed, and then tried to steal people's 
 cell phones afterward to hide the evidence, they would be in jail right now 
 and we all know it.”\n\nStudents will also call on the City Council to 
 convene a public hearing to gather all the evidence available in relation 
 to Grant's killing. \n\n“It is unacceptable that BART and the District 
 Attorney are hiding video footage and letting all those other cops go 
 free,” said Ronald Cruz, Boalt Law School student and BAMN organizer. 
 “The youth of Oakland are in the line of fire, and so we deserve to know 
 the entire truth of what those cops did.”\n\nCoalition to Defend 
 Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, \nand Fight for 
 Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)\n(510) 502-9072  www.bamn.com   
 myspace.com/nationalbamn   california@bamn.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/19/18564777.php
SUMMARY:Justice For Oscar Grant!
LOCATION:5:30PM Press Conference, Oakland City Hall (14th + Broadway, near 12th 
 St.\nDowntown Oakland BART), 6:00PM City Council Meeting
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/19/18564777.php
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