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Keeping the Struggle for Justice for Oscar Grant Alive!
Over 100 people protested at the Fruitvale BART today keeping the murder of Oscar Grant in the news. The demonstration blocked all the pay gates and kept the focus on the Fruitvale BART station where Oscar Grant was murdered execution style on New Year's Eve....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 9:25pm PST
Oscar Grant III Graffiti, Murals, Stickers, Stencils, and Wheatpaste in Oakland
"Oscar Can't Bail Out!" as seen on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland [photo by dave id]...
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 11:30am PST
Paul Robeson Remembered in Bay Area Black History During Feb 2009-Visits San Francisco San
Nigerian British Actor Tayo Aluko performed throughout the bay area during Black history month...
Posted: Tue, Mar 3, 2009 5:09pm PST
NO JUSTICE NO BART NEEDS YOU!
Plug into the nojusticenobart campaign! DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 5:49pm PST
No More "Business As Usual" at BART! Shut It Down To Demand Justice For Oscar Grant!
Fruitvale BART Station
3401 East 12th Street
Oakland, CA 94601...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 4:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 4:19pm PST
Derogatory message covered by Antifa Hooligan
The word "Nigger" was painted in mud under the footbridge leading into the Humboldt State University campus....
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 3:22pm PST
Justice for Oscar Grant: Fighting Racism in Obama's America
110 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Mar 25, 2009 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 2:43pm PST
Never Will Be Forgotten -- Oscar Grant Documentary (video/mp4 31.0MB)
February 16, 2009: This new documentary produced by Youth Movement Records in Oakland, CA explores the issues surrounding the murder of Oscar Grant by BART police and the effects it's had on youth in the community. (8:30)...
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 11:32am PST
Rally for Oscar Grant on his 23rd birthday
Over a hundred people marched through Hayward on what would of been Oscar Grant's 23rd birthday on Friday. A rally in front of the Hayward City Hall followed with a large outpouring of friends and family. Grant was shot in the back and killed execution style by BART police officer Johannes Mesherle on New Years Eve is free on bail....
Posted: Sat, Feb 28, 2009 6:26pm PST
Oakland Town Halls to Recall DA Orloff
Olivet Institutional Missionary Baptist Church
807 27th Ave, Oakland...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 4:30pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2009 2:53pm PST
Oscar Grant III's Birthday
A life cut short by a colonial system. Time to build a new world!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2009 2:32pm PST
Sacred Heritage
The Native Californian Protest Against Tribal Disenrollment...
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2009 11:04am PST
Caravan for Justice 1 - Justice for Oscar Grant - Video from event (video/mp4 28.6MB)
All roads lead to Sacramento - a Caravan for Justice that took place on Feb. 19, 2009
This first video is Archbishop King speaking:...
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 9:28am PST
Stop The Political Persecution of a Young Revolutionary!!!
Juvenile Hall - 2500 Fairmont Dr San Leandro, CA:
1. Take the 580 towards Hayward.
2. Take the 150TH AVENUE exit toward FAIRMONT DRIVE.
3. Turn LEFT onto 150TH AVE.
4. Turn RIGHT onto FOOTHILL BLVD.
5. Turn LEFT onto FAIRMONT DR.
-OR-
Take Bart to BAYFAIR Station and then take AC transit Bus #93 to the Juvenile Justice Center....
Event Date: Fri, Feb 27, 2009 8:45am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 5:40pm PST
Black Panthers History "Honoring Huey P. Newton", Berkeley, 2/22/09: photos & audio (audio/mpeg 2.2MB)
In celebration of the birthday of Huey Newton, the Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party presented the "Black History Program: Honoring Huey P. Newton" at the Black Repertory Theater in Berkeley. Huey Newton co-founded, along with Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland in 1966. Huey Newton was born on February 17, 1942.
Speakers taking the event through the history of Huey and the Black Panther Party included, amongst others, Melvin Dickson of the ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 7:13pm PST
Thoughts Provoked by the Comments of Preachers at the Funeral of Oscar Grant
At the funeral for Oscar Grant one preacher got up and said: “I thought Oscar was going to be a preacher but god had other plans.” Think about that: “…but god had other plans.”
Another preacher got up and said: “We must respond with prudence. I understand that the youngsters are upset, but nonetheless we have to trust in god. This is not your fight.”
Think about that: “…with prudence…trust in God…this is not your fight.”
In other words with “sound and reasonable thinking”…don’t be reckless...
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 4:40pm PST
A Conversation with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Berkeley, 2/22/09: photos and audio (audio/mpeg 3.5MB)
Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) sponsored "A Conversation with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn: Building a Movement for Peace in our Time" at King Middle School in Berkeley on Sunday, February 22nd, 2009. Much of the conversation dealt with the topic of their new book, "Against White Supremacy."
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Weather Underground. Both continue to be social justice activists; Bill is an educa...
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 4:07am PST
Justice for Anita Gay, Justice for All!
Daughters and grand daughters of Anita Gay, shot in the back and killed by a Berkeley police officer, protest on the year anniversary of her death.
officer. The bullets passed through her into her apartment, grazing her daughter’s face and narrowly missing her grandchild. The police claim the shooting was justified. The media demonized the family and blame the shooting on Anita.
Photo caption: Daughters and grand daughters of Anita Gay, shot and killed by a Berkeley poli...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2009 5:51pm PST
*Forty One Shots and Nineteen Hits* for Oscar Grant & Richard Lua
Raul "Curly" Estremera is a former political prisoner, a member of the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Coordinator of the Committee in Solidarity with Cuba and Latin America....
Posted: Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:22pm PST
Gathered Together for Richard Lua, Victim of San Jose Police
On February 20th, Silicon Valley DeBug, a collective of writers, artists, organizers, and workers for justice, opened their space in downtown San Jose to remember a victim felled by taser at the hands of San Jose police....
Posted: Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:50am PST