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BART Loses $175M from Fed for Airport Connector Due to Civil Rights Act Title VI Failure 
FTA to BART re Oakland Airport Connector: No way!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 12:01am PST
Oakland Public Safety Committee Cool to Gang Injunction Proposal, 2/9/10: photos and audio 
Oakland City Councilperson Larry Reid had requested that OPD and the City Attorney's office craft a proposal to implement gang injunctions in Oakland. At this City Council Public Safety Committee meeting, the proposal was presented to committee members Patricia Kernighan, Jean Quan, Larry Reid, and Nancy Nadel. Numerous community members spoke against bringing gang injunctions to Oakland, one spoke in favor. When it became apparent that committee members were cool to the idea, committee ch...
Posted: Sat, Feb 13, 2010 10:35pm PST
Community Speaks Out Against BART 
A few pictures from the press conference at the Fruitvale station....
Posted: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 1:25am PST
Bay Area independent journalists to cover demonstrations at 2010 Olympic games 
Three Bay Area independent journalists are traveling up to Vancouver for the first week of the Olympic games to cover the demonstrations and will be blogging daily about their experiences....
Posted: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 7:12pm PST
Community Speaks Out Against BART Efforts Reduce the Value of Oscar Grant's Friends' Lives, 2/10/10: audio (audio/mpeg 6.0MB) At a community and family press conference held at the Fruitvale BART Station in Oakland on February 10th, 2010, Minister Keith Muhammad; Cephus Johnson, Oscar Grant's uncle; Wilson Riles, former Oakland City Councilperson; Jack Bryson, father of two of Oscar Grant's friends; and community activists Tony Coleman and Rachel Jackson speak out against BART's recent efforts to publicly demean Oscar Grant's friends and blame them for his murder....
Posted: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 2:34pm PST
Town Hall on BART Settlement, Haiti Donations, and Bay Area's Toxic Triangle, 2/6/10: audio (audio/mpeg 28.4MB) In this week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Minister Keith Muhammad follows up on the John Burris and Oscar Grant family press conference. Judy Bias announces six locations in Oakland that are or will soon be donation centers for the people of Haiti. Nehanda Imara announces a series of hearings on the Bay Area's Toxic Triangle (San Francisco to Oakland to Richmond) with the first on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 in East Oakland....
Posted: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 9:15am PST
Toxic Triangle Hearings Allen Temple Baptist Church
J. Alfred Smith Sr. Fellowship Hall
8501 International Blvd in Oakland....
Event Date: Sat, Feb 13, 2010 9:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 2:15pm PST
Speak Out Against Oakland Gang Injunctions at Public Safety Committee Meeting Today!! City Hall – Hearing Room 1
Oakland...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 5:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 12:22pm PST
Town Hall on BART Settlement with Oscar Grant's Daughter and Haiti Relief, 1/30/10: audio (audio/mpeg 34.7MB) At this week's Town Hall, Minister Keith Muhammad is joined by Walter Riley of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund and Pierre Labossiere of the Haiti Action Committee....
Posted: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 3:29pm PST
Oscar Grant Family Attorney John Burris Confronts BART's Bad Faith Attacks, 2/5/10: video 
KTVU has obtained exclusive new information: Sources told KTVU, KTVU learned, Sources also told KTVU, KTVU has learned, KTVU has since obtained a Hayward police report, Sources said, According to sources...
And so it goes. Yesterday's report by KTVU was the final straw and Oscar Grant family attorney John Burris called a press conference today to confront the attacks on Oscar Grant's family and friends by BART via anonymous sources. [full video below]...
Posted: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 10:10pm PST
The MLPAi "Cultural Takings" Online Community Zero-Sum Game As Point Arena to Albion (40 miles as the pelican flies) continues to be excluded in the biggest game of the centuries, the Marine Life "Protection" Act (MLPA) Initiative, the line up of the stars of political timelines shift in anticipation, waiting and wanting to intersect, but the words echoed through the mist sound garbled - drill, maybe, drill....
Posted: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 8:35am PST
MLPA Initiative: California Native Sovereignty for Casinos, Not for Cultural Survival 
Everyone knows that the State of California negotiates with sovereign California Native Nations about casinos, including how to divide the profits. The MLPAI, to do justice, must also recognize the sovereignty of First Nations and tribal peoples, whose cultural health and survival depends on access to traditional ocean and intertidal food-gathering....
Posted: Wed, Feb 3, 2010 1:55pm PST
Clean Air for Kettleman City! (video/quicktime 63.3MB) Kettleman City is half-way between SF and Los Angeles in Kings County. It has the largest toxic waste dump west of the Mississippi. Waste Management of Houston, Texas, runs the dump and takes in carcinogenic PCBs from old transformers.
Eleven-minute QT movie. 63MB....
Posted: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 4:36pm PST
Cultural Genocide Conference With Ward Churchill in Ukiah 
Mendocino College in Ukiah...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 13, 2010 12:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 7:23am PST
Let BART know: Blaming Oscar's friends for his death is shameful & will not be tolerated Kaiser Center
20th Street Mall, Third Floor
344 20th St., Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 9:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 8:20am PST
Town Hall on Anniversary Vigil, Mehserle Trial, and Gang Injunctions in Oakland, 1/9/10: audio (audio/mpeg 32.1MB) In this week's Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Minister Keith Muhammad reflects on the one-year anniversary vigil held January 1st, the first hearing in Los Angeles in the trial of Johannes Mehserle, BART police oversight, and the gang injunctions that the city of Oakland is looking to implement early this year....
Posted: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 11:39pm PST
Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Oakland, 12/19/09: audio (audio/mpeg 38.7MB) This audio was recorded as a favor, so there are no notes on it at this point. Surprise yourself and listen....
Posted: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 11:38pm PST
Town Hall for Justice on Mehserle Case and West Oakland Gentrification, 12/5/09: audio (audio/mpeg 21.0MB) In this Town Hall, Minister Keith Muhammad spoke about upcoming December events related to justice for Oscar Grant and the trial of Johannes Mehserle. Marcel Diallo and San Francisco Minister Christopher Muhammad spoke about the ongoing gentrification in West Oakland....
Posted: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 11:37pm PST
Hunters View plans at HP target SENIORS and treat them like dirt - time for accountability 
The SENIORS at Hunters View have been tossed and shuffled just like some stale salad leaves. Seniors have been removed from Public Housing targeted for Development at Hunters Point (HP) - and forced to live in nearby interim housing without any American of Disabilities Act accommodations - that is their right but they are denied them. Hunters View Tenant Association cannot do nothing much - as long as the leader of the Tenant Association is on the take and a Sell Out. Now, I ask if this is wh...
Posted: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 9:46am PST
Rosa Parks Day in California 
Alice Huffman, President of the California Conference of the NAACP and Willis Edwards, Executive Producer of the Rosa Parks Story continue the journey to challenge and remove legal systemic institutional racism, sexism and xenophobic belief from our California State Constitution and California State Laws today. We are developing a statewide Rosa Parks Day in California Planning Committee to share the "Spirit in Water... Tribute to Dear Rosa."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 11:13am PST
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