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Black.Seed Shuts Down Bay Bridge to Reclaim MLK's Radical Legacy 
Twenty-four people were arrested standing up for justice in the Bay Area today....
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 6:29pm PST
Black Queer Liberation Collective Black.Seed Shuts Down Bay Bridge For Immediate Release
January 19, 2016 — 4pm...
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 6:03pm PST
Good Morning, Police Chief Greg Suhr! (video/mp4 126.2MB) 96 Hours to Reclaim King's Radical Legacy: Good Morning, Chief Greg Suhr! 6:39...
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 4:37pm PST
96 Hours to Reclaim King's Radical Legacy: Friday in the Fillmore 
On day one of 96 Hours to Reclaim King's Radical Legacy, activists took over the intersection of Geary and Fillmore....
Posted: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 2:24am PST
First Annual March to Reclaim King's Radical Legacy | Oakland 2015 (video/mp4 280.0MB) Video file - 3 minutes 49 seconds...
Posted: Thu, Jan 14, 2016 7:42pm PST
Bay Area plans 96 hours of action as part of national call to “Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy” 
Hundreds of people from more than two dozen groupings will respond to the Anti Police-Terror Project’s (APTP) call to come together for 96 hours of direct action over the Martin Luther King Day weekend, January 15 – 18, 2016. This weekend’s events will culminate in a Reclaiming King’s Radical Legacy March on Monday, Jan. 18, beginning at 11 a.m. at Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland....
Posted: Mon, Jan 11, 2016 1:59pm PST
Fundraiser in Support of Monterey 8 Old Capitol Books, 559 Tyler Street, downtown Monterey...
Event Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2016 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 10, 2016 2:52pm PST
Second Annual March to Reclaim King's Radical Legacy / Culmination of #96Hours of Direct Action Weekend Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th And Broadway, Oakland, CA....
Event Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 11:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 10, 2016 10:11am PST
Justice for Richard Perkins Jr and all lives stolen by police 
Rally at 90th and International at 12 noon
March to 90th and Bancroft at the site of Richard's murder...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 9, 2016 12:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 8, 2016 4:44pm PST
Protestors Disrupt SF Mayor Ed Lee's 2016 Inauguration (video/mp4 171.1MB) San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s 2016 inauguration was disrupted by protesters. Video and Photos from the scene inside San Francisco's City Hall during the inauguration ceremony....
Posted: Fri, Jan 8, 2016 4:08pm PST
Hundreds Defend 'Afrika Town' Community Garden in Oakland (April 2015) 
This article originally appeared in the Onyx Express and Oakland Post in April 2015. Community members came out to defend the Afrika Town Community Garden near Qilombo....
Posted: Thu, Jan 7, 2016 2:44pm PST
Statement of Clarity on Police Commissioner Speaking at Oscar Grant Vigil Although we stand in total support and solidarity with the Oscar Foundation, Wanda Johnson and the Grant family, we stand in strong opposition to ANY representative from the BART Police Department being given a platform to propagate a perspective that they are in compliance and/or in support of the people's interests....
Posted: Sat, Jan 2, 2016 10:01pm PST
Justice for Tamir Rice...1-2-16 Oakland Rally (audio/mpeg 36.9MB) Today's rally at Oscar Grant Plaza in solidarity Tamir Rice,, Mario Woods, Richard Perkins, Veronza Bowers and all others murdered, falsley imprisoned or victimized by racist state repression....
Posted: Sat, Jan 2, 2016 7:31pm PST
Oscar Grant remembered at seventh anniversary vigil 
Over 100 family members, friends and supports marked the seventh anniversary of the murder of Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART Station. Speakers included family members and friends of Grant, as well as activists involved in the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement. BART Police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Grant on January 1, 2009. The death, caught on cell phone video, sparked widespread civil unrest and surveillance, and lead the first arrest and conviction of an on-duty police officer fo...
Posted: Sat, Jan 2, 2016 7:11pm PST
No Business As Usual: Black Xmas Action Blocks Highway 101 at SFO 
Black Lives Matter Bay Area held a local demonstration in solidarity with Black Xmas actions across the country on December 23. Nine activists blocked the San Francisco International Airport exit at Highway 101 until they were arrested by the California Highway Patrol. All of those arrested were released from jail later that evening....
Posted: Wed, Dec 30, 2015 10:08pm PST
ACLU Joins Black Lives Matter in Calling for Transparency after Shooting of Adriene Ludd 
Statement by Micaela Davis, Criminal Justice & Drug Policy Attorney with the ACLU of Northern California...
Posted: Wed, Dec 30, 2015 1:24pm PST
WW12-29-15 UAW 2865 & Palestine Labor and SF Unionists Calls For Action For Mario Woods 
WorkWeek radio looks at the recent action of the UAW International Executive Board to nullify a resolution passed by UAW 2865 UC Graduate students to support BDS against Israel. It also hears from trade unionists who spoke at a protest rally at San Francisco City Hall on December 24, 2015 to protest the murder of Mario Woods in Bayview Hunters Point....
Posted: Wed, Dec 30, 2015 1:06pm PST
New Years Eve Noise Demo and Street Party: Against Prisons and Racist Policing 
Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland, CA, 8pm...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2015 8:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 29, 2015 4:17pm PST
Victory for the Black Friday 14 
On Black Friday 2014, following the police murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 14 Black activists chained themselves together on a BART transit platform “to prevent trains from moving at the West Oakland station, in response to the seemingly unending war against Black communities.” The 14, a majority of them women, faced criminal charges....
Posted: Sun, Dec 27, 2015 7:29pm PST
Charges Against Black Friday 14 Dropped. Collected Community Statements. 
On December 4, Alameda County district attorney Nancy O'Malley dropped all charges against the Black Friday 14. The following statements were first collected at the Occupy Oakland website....
Posted: Sat, Dec 26, 2015 10:45pm PST
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