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DESCRIPTION:Stop the Land Grab!  Defend the African Community Against Ethnic Cleansing! 
  Community Speak-Out   In Oakland and in cities across the country, African 
 people are being pushed out of their neighborhoods through heavy-handed 
 police tactics and a policy of police containment where the police are 
 given an open license to kill, harass, intimidate and arrest African people 
 in an effort to keep the African community silenced and docile.  A majority 
 black city at the height of the Black Power Movement, African people now 
 represent less than 35% of Oakland’s population. The city of Oakland is 
 clearing out the community to facilitate a gentrifying land-grab as 
 speculators and regular white people flock to traditionally black 
 neighborhoods to buy up every piece of property they can find.. Much like 
 white people’s historic attack on indigenous peoples to obtain land 
 during the California Gold Rush and the governor’s support for the attack 
 on Mexican people by the Minutemen, police violence and vigilanteeism is 
 being encouraged by the city of Oakland. In this gold rush atmosphere, the 
 public policy of police containment is looking more and more like "ethnic 
 cleansing," With the armed elements of the State being the primary means of 
 carrying out the mission.   Police Containment and Vigilante Violence 
 Encouraged and Rewarded!  The city of Oakland and white homeowners rewarded 
 Patrick McCullough, the North Oakland vigilante, for shooting 17-year old 
 Melvin McHenry, whose family is being forced out of town. The city 
 continues to give McCullough police protection and special treatment while 
 supporters of the McHenry family are treated as criminals and deviants by 
 the city.    Recent reports state that the Oakland Police Department failed 
 to investigate 775 complaints of misconduct to internal affairs while the 
 Oakland Riders, the four Oakland police officers accused of beating and 
 framing African people, were acquitted on more charges.  Support Economic 
 Development and Democratic Rights for a Positive Future!  The Uhuru 
 Movement calls on African people and their allies get to organized for 
 economic investment that will uplift the entire black community of Oakland. 
  If we want peace and unity in our city, we need to support a future for 
 young people like Melvin McHenry. It’s time for all of us in the white 
 community to stop building our lifestyle at the expense of the African 
 community!    \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/02/68233.php
SUMMARY:Uhuru Meeting for Economic Justice!
LOCATION:Temescal Library Community Room, 5205 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/02/68233.php
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