City of Vallejo Releases Video of Police Murder of Willie McCoy (video/mp4 243.1MB) Responding to pressure from community groups and news outlets to release the tapes, the City of Vallejo today posted a compilation video which includes police body camera footage and other media related to the police killing of Willie McCoy on February 9. While it's obviously packaged as a pro-police propaganda piece, lying about what's in the video, the footage is nonetheless disturbing and view discretion is advised....
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:37PM
Stand Up for Stephon Clark After DA Decision and Mass Arrest (video/mp4 23.0MB) On March 2, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Schubert announced that she will not pursue criminal charges against the murderers of Stephon Clark, Sacramento police officers Jared Robinet and Terrence Mercadal. Outraged by the decision, the community protested. On the night of March 4, Sacramento police mass arrested 84 people, including clergy and journalists. Cat Brooks recorded this message of solidarity on March 5: "I'm sending all my love to Sacramento, all my comrades out ther...
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:10PM
Rainy video of Willie McCoy being murdered at Taco Bell (video/mp4 2.8MB) Vallejo Police OverKill Feb 9 2019
Video by Rolly Gabun...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:33PM
Ebele Okobi Speaks at Rally for Truth and Transparency After Her Brother Tased to Death (video/mp4 87.2MB) For non-profit use only, please credit the videographer. Charles Moehle, Probonophoto.
Filmed at rally in front of the Hall of Justice for San Mateo County in Redwood City, CA on February 11, 2019....
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:57PM
Vallejo Police Assaulted Me While I Was Filming Them (video/mp4 4.4MB) I am a Black man born and raised in Oakland, California who was physically attacked by Vallejo PD officer David McLaughlin, last Tuesday, January 22....
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:12PM
Oakland Street Photographers on Art and Gentrification (video/mp4 22.0MB) This 4-minute episode of TalkOakland follows two street photographers in Oakland as they discuss the art of street photography and the changes they've experienced from gentrification....
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 7:09AM
Sights and Sounds from Oakland's 5th Annual Reclaim King's Radical Legacy Events (video/mp4 122.2MB) On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Oakland on January 21, 2019, the Anti Police-Terror Project hosted a powerful and moving day of civil rights speakers, marches, children's activities, drums, music, song, and dance. In tribute to families who have lost loved ones to police violence, guns were melted and cast into into stars, displayed in a pattern recreating the constellations visible in the night sky when Oscar Grant was murdered ten years ago. These video clips capture some of the sights a...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:16PM
Morning children's march: Whose streets? Our streets! (video/mp4 3.3MB) (video :13)...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:16PM
Children's march returns to plaza: How we gonna get it? People power! (video/mp4 7.2MB) (video :28)...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:16PM
Sunset singing, drumming, and dancing in the amphitheater (video/mp4 32.4MB) (video 2:06)
Note that the shovels used in the dance were cast from guns previously melted by the same kiln used on this day to melt at least three more han...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:16PM
Projection on city hall: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere — MLK (video/mp4 629.9KB) (video :02)...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:16PM
Oscar Grant's uncle Cephus Johnson presents a gun to Lead to Life team for melting (video/mp4 46.7MB) (video 3:01)
Cephus hands the gun over for melting with Nellie Jones, the mother of Derrick Jones, who was unarmed and murdered by Oakland police on Novembe...
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:16PM
Chaga kwa Nia speaks about the eviction (video/mp4 43.9MB) (video 2:49)...
Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2019 9:42PM
Video of Oscar Grant's friends (video/mp4 115.0MB) (video length 7:24)...
Posted: Wed Jan 9, 2019 6:59PM
Oakland police chief Anthony Batts' "keep the peace" robocall (2010) (video/mp4 8.4MB) Oaklanders with a landline telephone in 2010 received this "keep the peace" robocall from Oakland police chief Anthony Batts in advance of Mehserle's sentencing....
Posted: Wed Jan 2, 2019 10:13AM
Valentin Lopez Speaks on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (video/mp4 85.4MB) Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, spoke at an event in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, hosted by the United Nations Association: USA Santa Cruz, CA Chapter on December 8 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence....
Posted: Sun Dec 9, 2018 3:00PM
Cat Brooks Takes Her Fight for Justice Inside City Hall, Mounts Radical Bid for Oakland Mayor (video/mp4 15.7MB) Time flies. Today is election day already. On August 8, Cat Brooks wasn't speaking through a bullhorn outside of City Hall, or commenting at a City Council meeting. She was filing the official paperwork required to run for Mayor of Oakland. Since then, she and hundreds of campaign volunteers have poured their hearts into the "People's Campaign," reaching out to Oaklanders throughout the city, fighting hard for a just and equitable future Oakland....
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2018 1:15PM
Supporters speak about their hopes and reasons for backing Cat (video/mp4 90.7MB) (video 5:50)...
Posted: Tue Nov 6, 2018 1:15PM