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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
SF Live TV - Jahahara Alkebulan: Blacks for Reparations (video/mp4 22.7MB)
Oakland resident Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma'at is a proud Baba (father), son, veteran justice, community, labor, international and environmental rights organizer, author, journalist and musician. He is the past elected National Co-Chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) and was editor/publisher of REPARATIONS NOW! for nearly a decade....
Posted: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 12:00pm PST
DQ University
The purpose of displaying archivial DQ Student Occupational Material will enhance the communities awareness of the individuals representing many different tribes and their committed efforts to the cleansing, purifying and rebuilding stages of DQ University. This is an account from an outside observational standpoint. It does not represent the views of the student occupiers but gives an arial flashpoint of some of the larger events that have transpired because of the students committment to th...
Posted: Fri, Jan 22, 2010 10:43pm PST
Occupation in Stockton a Success - Eviction Halted
California Valley Miwok Tribe Occupation Success - Eviction Called off for 30 Days...
Posted: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 10:07am PST
Dr. Martin Luther King was more than just a Dreamer
Speech delivered at a celebration of the 81st birth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San José on 14 January 2010....
Posted: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 4:32pm PST
Killer Cop Update from First Los Angeles Status Hearing
report from inside (and outside) court room Oscar Grant Report...
Posted: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 2:33pm PST
Idealist.org advertising racist organization
Idealist.org, founded by Action without Borders, has allowed a job advertisement for the racist Jewish National Fund on their page....
Posted: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 3:15pm PST
Coastal Voices Guest Opinion: Native sovereignty and the MLPA
I encourage everybody who supports environmental justice to read this excellent article in the Daily Triplicate about the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative and Native American sovereignty by Kenson Hensel at http://www.triplicate.com/20100113107931/Opinion/Editorials/Coastal-Voices-Guest-Opinion-Native-sovereignty-and-the-MLPA. Environmentalists and fishermen must support tribal seaweed and gathering rights to traditional areas on the North Coast - and not let the state of Californ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 9:27am PST
Economic Impact of the word 'Negro' and a little worse...
The U.S. Government changed the name of Historic Negro Hill to an even far worse word than ‘Negro’ in Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery in El Dorado Hills, CA. Today, no public process to correct the mistake has been considered by regional Sacramento Area Council of Governments those continue to benefit economically. Black, African American and Negro community leaders seem not to care much about the earliest Black California pioneers....
Posted: Tue, Jan 12, 2010 11:00pm PST