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WE ALL ARE OSCAR!
Many have been beaten & executed in cold blood by local police in the Central Valley, just like Oscar Grant. Here are a few we know about....
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2010 12:43pm PDT
The murder trial of Johannes Mehserle, the now-ex-cop who shot Oscar Grant, has been forced by the actions of the people: those who took the video, and those who protested and rebelled. And the trial is moving very quickly. Great vigilance is needed. No Black people chosen to sit on the jury! After all five African-American people in the first group of 50 potential jurors were removed, the defense and prosecution agreed on a jury. As they exited court, people close to Oscar Grant expressed ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 14, 2010 9:17am PDT
A brief look at various issues of the defense and the prosecution in the trial of Oscar Grant's killer...
Posted: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 11:04am PDT
Everything that has happened so far shows that justice will not be granted by the workings of the system and underscores the need for stepped up resistance outside the courtroom. Protest and resistance is crucial in not letting the system get away with crimes and grind the people down. This battle is at a turning point; it is urgent that many more step forward into the battle right now....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 1:39pm PDT
Results from the Oakland 100 felony cases....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 12:28pm PDT
Watch out for these white supremacists at upcoming Gaza events....
Posted: Fri, Jun 4, 2010 10:55pm PDT
FreeGaza, one of the organizers of the humanitarian aid flotilla, reports that as many as 10 have been killed: http://twitter.com/freegazaorg/statuses/15085385859....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2010 7:02am PDT
For thousands of years, tribes have gathered seaweed, mussels, abalone and fish from the inter-tidal zone for subsistence and ceremonial purposes. However, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process has shown no respect for the religious, subsistence and ceremonial rights of coastal tribes....
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2010 2:17pm PDT
Mike O'Dell is the coordinator of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) North California unit based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Attached is detailed information on this chapter including names, addresses, phone numbers, and backgrounds of main organizers as well as internal communications and meeting notes related to the activities of this chapter. Mike will have a hard time explaining his betrayal to the other NSM members but this is what happens when you join a racist hate group.
¡No Pa...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 4:36pm PDT
“I don’t think the Fish and Game Commission would be allowed to close down a Catholic Church, would they?” said Violet Chappell, Kashia Pomo Tribe Elder....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 4:33pm PDT
In a May 19 letter, Senator Bob Dutton asked John McCamman, Director of the California Department of Fish and Game, how he can justify the implementation of Schwarzenegger's MLPA Initiative at a time when the state is in dire economic crisis....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2010 3:26pm PDT
Helia Rasti and Stacie Szmonko from Critical Resistance write about the proposed "gang" injunction targeting North Oakland. On Thursday, May 27th at 2:00 p.m., attorneys representing both sides of the gang injunction will appear before Judge Robert B. Freedman, in Dept. 20, at the Superior Court, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, CA. A rally will be held outside the courthouse starting at 12:30 p.m....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2010 4:54pm PDT
There were scarcely 20 people at the vigil today at Frank Ogawa Plaza. There should have been hundreds....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2010 11:40pm PDT
East Bay Food Not Bombs volunteers are assembling a kitchen to feed the National Rainbow Gathering...
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2010 9:16pm PDT
A brief look at various issues of the defense and the prosecution in the trial of Oscar Grant's killer...
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2010 11:23pm PDT
A brief look at various issues of the defense and the prosecution in the trial of Oscar Grant's killer...
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2010 11:03pm PDT
A brief look at various issues of the defense and the prosecution in the trial of Oscar Grant's killer...
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2010 10:58pm PDT
A brief look at various aspects of defense and prosecution issues in the trial of Oscar Grant's killer...
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2010 10:53pm PDT
When the gentrifiers come into our streets and neighborhoods and speculate on our rented, leased and owned real estate, we can see our demise coming and we just might have a chance to stop it or slow it down. But when the e-colonizers come into our digital communities or e-estate, we can’t see them. We get spoken for, written about, maybe linked to and referenced, but e-gentrifying is much more subtle, insidious, less clear....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2010 9:34pm PDT
silencing dissent...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2010 9:09am PDT