On Friday, November 27th at 11am, a protest at Emeryville's Bay Street Mall will call on people to boycott the mall and to respect the sacred Ohlone site. The Bay Street Mall was built on top of an ancient Ohlone burial site after years of protest actions by the local Native American community. The construction of the mall unearthed thousands of human remains, many of which were taken away to a landfill in the name of consumerism, and others are kept in a library at UC Berkeley.

While the construction of the mall couldn't be stopped, the Bay Area Native American community ask the non-Native community to join in protesting this obscene structure. On "Black Friday" every year they remind the public that this is sacred Indian land and that the Bay Street Mall should be boycotted.

The shell mound was once 60 feet high and up to 600+ feet in diameter. It is older than the pyramids in Egypt and held at least four historical levels of burial sites.

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