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DESCRIPTION:Full 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\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/2009/01/19/18564778.php
SUMMARY:MARCH to Win Justice for Oscar Grant!
LOCATION:2:30PM Rally at UC-Berkeley, Sproul Plaza (Bancroft + Telegraph), 3PM March 
 to Berkeley BART\n3:30PM Rally at Berkeley BART Station (Center + 
 Shattuck), March to Ashby BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/19/18564778.php
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