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Sun Nov 22 2015 (Updated 12/31/15)
Labor and BLM Demand: “Drop the Charges Against the Black Friday 14!”
Black Friday 14 Action a Prelude to Huge Rally to Raise Oakland Minimum Wage to $15/Hr
In a show of solidarity, labor unions and Black Lives Matter activists staged a protest on November 10 which targeted Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley. Some two hundred protesters gathered outside D.A. O'Malley's offices at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, demanding that she “Drop the charges against the Black Friday 14!” They declared that the struggles for economic justice and racial justice were two sides of the same struggle. Meanwhile, inside the courthouse, a delegation of labor leaders occupied O'Malley's office to further press the demand to drop the charges. Despite disrupting the D.A.'s office for an hour, no arrests were made.

The "Black Friday 14” refers to activists who engaged in a civil disobedience action on November 28, 2014. The activists locked themselves together and shut down the West Oakland Bart Station. Their protest was part a wave of Black Lives Matter protests which swept the nation.

The coordinated action was a prelude to a larger rally that evening to raise Oakland's Minimum Wage to $15 dollars an hour. Well over a thousand workers, including fast food workers who had walked off the job, assembled at Oscar Grant Plaza for a rally that started at 4:30pm.

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See Also: photo Drop the charges against the Black Friday 14! | calendar Defend Black Friday 14 Rally and court support | NLG Urges Alameda County DA and BART to Immediately Drop the Charges Against the #BlackFriday14 | photo Support the Black Friday 14! Ask BART: "Which side are they on?"

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