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DESCRIPTION:The Second of Two Events with Omali Yeshitela, Leader and Founder of the 
 Uhuru Movement and Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party\n\nThe 
 African community in Oakland is violated on a daily basis by the failed 
 policy of police containment, a policy that brings heavy handed policing 
 and with it the abrogation of the basic rights of the community. This 
 policy has brought decades of police killings of African people from Casper 
 Banjo to the BART transit cop killing of Oscar Grant and ensures that the 
 African community impoverished and powerless. With this pattern of police 
 violence and repression feeding into California's prison system. Africans 
 make up only 5% of state population and yet represent 50% of those who are 
 in prison in California.\n\nOn March 21st, a young African man, Lovelle 
 Mixon, shot and killed two Oakland police officers during a "routine 
 traffic stop." During a SWAT team raid in search of Mixon, two additional 
 officers lost their lives.\n\nThe incidents of March 21st have brought the 
 political and economic crisis in the city of Oakland to a head. We must 
 examine these events within the overall economic and political context and 
 support the right of the African community to organize to resist the brutal 
 policies of police containment and violence they experience on daily 
 basis.\n\nThe Uhuru Movement is building the African Village Survival 
 Initiative in Oakland - a collective response to the economic crisis to 
 ensure the African community can meet is own needs through self-reliant 
 programs and institutions: community gardening, solar energy, rainwater 
 catchment, holistic health practices and economic development.\n\nThe forum 
 will feature the presentation of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African 
 People's Socialist Party, addressing the need for African working class led 
 organization.\n\nPenny Hess, Chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity 
 Committee will present on environmental justice through African Liberation 
 and the necessity of white solidarity with African freedom and 
 justice.\n\nDinner following the event\n$5 to 25 sliding scale\nNo one 
 turned away for lack of funds\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/01/18599795.php
SUMMARY:From Oscar Grant to Lovelle Mixon: Why We Must Organize to Stop Police Terror
LOCATION:Uhuru House, 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/01/18599795.php
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