Photos from "Hip Hop Against Police Brutality"

Oakland,CA. On Saturday, September 2 , 2006 over 150 people came together in Oakland to raise consciousness and funds to combat police brutality through hip-hop, dance and spoken word. The event, hosted at the International Capoeira Foundation-Oakland (http://www.ficaoakland.org)was organized by the "Doe Family" a group of activists that were illegally arrested and are suing the San Francisco Sheriff's Dept. for the abuse they suffered while in police custody. The money raised will go toward the astronomical legal costs of the lawsuit.

The line-up of the event included:
Emcee Lynx & Beltaine’s Fire, Inspector Double Negative and the Equal Positives, Newspeak1,
Orukusaki of Forensic Science, Shilo of Urban Monks, Mr Ericksen, Frugal Farmacy ft. members
of Greans, Senica of Giving Tree, D.Labrie, Inkwell, and Contajus & friends doing spoken word.


The Doe Family describes the background of the case:
"On June 8th 2004, at the end of a week-long series of demonstrations against a Biotechnology conference being held in San Francisco California, over one hundred people participating in a march were surrounded, unlawfully detained for over 4 hours, and then arrested. Thirty-eight of those arrested chose to protest this violation of their rights by refusing to give their names or identifying information to prison officials in order to make it difficult to proccess them through the system,instead referring to each other as John & Jane Doe's, (ie the Doe Family). In its effort to crack the protesters solidarity, the Sherrifs department employed lies, deception, violent "cell extraction", pain complience techniques, and physical torture which left several of the protesters with lasting and perhaps permanent injuries including broken bones, torn ligaments,nerve damage, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). All against non-violent protesters who had broken no laws. In order to oppose these blatent violations of our, and our friends and families, civil and human rights the "Friends of the Doe Family" is organizing a legal defense fund in order to raise money to support a class-action lawsuit against the San Francisco Sherrifs Department."

For more info: http://www.doefamily.info e-mail:doefamily [at] resist.ca