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DESCRIPTION:March and Rally on January 1st in memory of Oscar Grant and All Victims and 
 Survivors of Police Violence\n\n\nJanuary 1st, 2012: Oscar Grant 3rd 
 Anniversary Memorial March and Rally\n \nStand Up to the Watchdogs of the 
 1%--Your Local Police Department!\n\n1pm March from Oscar Grant Plaza at 
 14th & Broadway to Rally at Fruitvale BART\n\nA major political movement 
 was launched on January 1st 2009. Its catalyst was the police killing of 
 Oscar Grant, a young, unarmed Black father executed by the BART police. 
 This murder awakened a sleeping giant—Bay Area residents angry and 
 frustrated at the continued abuse of power perpetrated by law enforcement. 
 Oscar and all the young people that were attacked and terrorized by the 
 BART police that night, in addition to the many victims of police brutality 
 in the greater Bay Area, have become ingrained in our collective memory. 
 Their lives are the unspeakable price we pay to live in a society based on 
 racial injustice.\n\nNot only do police serve the needs of the 1%, they 
 have always existed to put down resistance in communities of color.  But 
 when other BART riders posted their video recordings of the murder of Oscar 
 by BART officer Johannes Mehserle, the internationally-viewed footage led 
 to a new form of resistance: Community Copwatching. Cellphones, cameras and 
 a popular upsurge brought the first arrest, trial and conviction of a white 
 officer for killing a Black man.\n\nThe movement that touched ground in 
 January 2009--the organizing to address police terrorism--laid the ground 
 work for the movement against the 1% here in Oakland. The polarizing 
 disparity of wealth and the numerous police killings in our communities are 
 inextricably linked. To unravel a system that forecloses homes, pushes our 
 families into poverty and criminalizes our youth while gentrifying our 
 neighborhoods, we need to not only address a system based on greed but a 
 system that needs police brutality to survive and thrive through state 
 terror.\n\nOn this 3rd anniversary of Oscar’s murder, lets take to the 
 streets to show that Oscar Grant is gone but not forgotten. Oscar lives on 
 in the memories of his family and friends and in our resistance to the 
 police.\n \nFor more information or to speak contact: 
 oscargrantcommittee@gmail.com\n\nSponsors: \n\nOscar Grant 
 Committee\nOccupy Oakland\nBring the Ruckus\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/21/18703182.php
SUMMARY:Oscar Grant 3rd Anniversary Memorial March and Rally
LOCATION:March from Oscar Grant Plaza at 14th & Broadway to Rally at Fruitvale BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/21/18703182.php
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