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DESCRIPTION:Occupy Da Hood SF has the back of the African working class movement when 
 it challenges the state! \n\nJoin court support to free Bakari Olatunji 
 \non Tues, May 8th at 2pm \nat the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland \nat 
 7th and Washington, \nDept 112. \n\n(exerpt from INPDUM Oakland website) 
 \n\n____________________________________________________\n\nOn Friday, May 
 4, 2012, \nComrade Bakari Olatunji aka Rickey Clay, \na 20+ year veteran of 
 the Uhuru Movement, \nwas viciously attacked and arrested by Oakland Police 
 \nas we attempted to serve the people's subpoeana to the Oakland police 
 Chief Jordan. \n\nBakari is currently being held for ransom at the 
 notorious Santa Rita County Jail on $25,000 bail. \nHe has been charged 
 with California Penal Code 69, a felony \nwhich basically means 
 "threatening an officer or resisting arrest with force or violence." 
 \n\nThe struggle began as the Oakland branch of InPDUM held a press 
 conference in front of the police headquarters in Oakland. \n\nThe purpose 
 of the press conference at which we announced the Court for Black Justice 
 and Reparations - scheduled for Sat, May 5 at the Uhuru House. \n\nThrough 
 the Court for Black Justice, the AFrican community, \nunder the leadership 
 of INPDUM, \nwill put the Oakland Police Dept on trial for crimes of 
 colonial genocide against the African community. \n\n\n\nThe press 
 conference was strategically planned to be held at the same time and 
 location as the "police-community relations" meeting, \nat the Oakland 
 Police Headquarters. \nThe plan was to go straight from the press 
 conference and demonstration to the police event, \nwhere InPDUM organizers 
 would physically serve the People’s Subpoeana to Police Chief Howard 
 Jordan, \nwho was expected to be in attendance. \n\n\n\nWhen InPDUM 
 organizers attempted to enter the building where the meeting was being held 
 \nwe were immediately blocked from entering the building \nand told that we 
 were not allowed to go inside. \n\nThis is despite the fact that the police 
 were allowing people to come and go freely before, during and after our 
 press conference. \n\nThis revealed to us that the police were only 
 interested in allowing Africans to the event who were not interested in 
 criticizing the brutal relationship the police have with the African 
 community. \n\n\n\nAfter long, heated debate with the police \n– all in 
 full view of InPDUM supporters and ruling class and independent media, 
 \nthe police had no choice but to allow us to enter the building. \n\nIt 
 was either that or be forced to admit \nthat the police is willing to 
 abrogate our right to free speech \nas a means of avoiding our criticisms 
 of them. \n\nWhen we entered the building \nPolice Chief Jordan was nowhere 
 to be found, \nfurther illustrating our point. \n\nAs we searched the room 
 for Jordan, \nseveral InPDUM organizers, \nincluding President Diop 
 Olugbala \nand local leader Bakari Olatunji, \nwere immediately attacked by 
 the pigs and physically removed from the building. \n\nAfter this blatant 
 attack on our movement and our right to peaceful assembly, \nafter the 
 police succeeding in ousting us from the building, \nBakari Olatunji then 
 sustained another attack. \nHe was targeted by the police, \nplaced in 
 handcuffs and dragged away. \n\n\n\nInPDUM Oakland immediately jumped to 
 action, \nholding another press conference to sum up the attack \nand 
 mobilize onlookers to attend the Court for Black Justice. \n\nLater that 
 evening we held a candlelight vigil \nin honor and memory of all Africans 
 who were killed at the hands of the OPD. \nDuring the candlelight vigil we 
 mobilized even more support \nfor the Free Bakari campaign. \n\n\n\nBy 
 arresting Bakari \nthe police intended to demoralize our forces \nand 
 discourage us from resisting. \n\nHowever, this attack has only served to 
 deepen our resolve and will to resist. \n\nWe are currently moving forward 
 to hold the Court for Black Justice \nand Reparations and struggle for a 
 People’s Sentence which will, among other things, call for the immediate 
 release and exoneration of Rickey Clay \naka Bakari Olatunji. \n\n\n\nWHAT 
 YOU CAN DO : \n\n\n\n1. Fortunately, INPDUM was prepared for the treachery 
 of the state. \nTherefore we were armed to the teeth with video cameras 
 \nthat were used to document every second of our work \nduring the press 
 conference and inside the building. \nWe caught the entire attack and 
 arrest of Bakari on tape, \nand subsequently were able to produce this 
 video . \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxFj1E4lzxU \n\nWe are asking 
 everyone to forward this video as widely as possible \non all social media 
 (ie Facebook, Youtube, etc.) \n\n\n\n2. Bakari’s bail has been set for 
 $25000. \nTherefore we need to raise $2500 to get him out of Santa Rita 
 County Jail. \nWe are calling on all lovers of freedom and social justice 
 \nto make a donation to the bail fund \nby looging onto the link below: 
 \nhttp://www.wepay.com/donations/free-bakari-a.k.a.-rickey-clay \n\n\n3. 
 Call the Oakland Police Dept and Chief of Police \ndemanding the immediate 
 release of Rickey Clay \non the grounds that he is a political prisoner, l 
 \nocked up only because of his beliefs \n– and NOT because he violated 
 some law. \nChief of Police: \n510-238-3131 \nOPD Jail Division: 
 \n510-238-3455 \n\n\nCaption : Bakari means "Hopeful", \nOlatunji means 
 "Honor returns". \nREPARATIONS ! UHURU !\n \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/06/18713041.php
SUMMARY:Join court support to free Comrade Bakari Olatunji
LOCATION:Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland \n7th and Washington, \nDept 112. \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/06/18713041.php
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