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Contentious and Conversational BART Police Review Committee Public Meeting, 4/20/09: audio (audio/mpeg 62.7MB)
BART's ad hoc Police Department Review Committee held a public meeting on April 20th in the BART Board room without having made a public announcement about it. Those invested in participating in the process of BART's creation of a citizens' police review commission found out about the meeting via word of mouth after it was mentioned in a legislative hearing in Sacramento on April 14th. BART board members and staff claimed that notice had been posted to the www.bart.gov website but no one at...
Posted: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 12:55am PDT
Town Hall for Justice on AB312, BART, Orloff Recall, and Caravan for Justice III, Oakland, 4/18/09: audio (audio/mpeg 6.0MB)
Town Halls for Justice for Oscar Grant continue after the recent Caravan for Justice II in Sacramento on April 8th.
After an opening prayer by Reverend Henry Williams in the first piece of audio here, Minister Keith Muhammad speaks about the ongoing effort to recall Alameda DA Tom Orloff. While registered Alameda County voters in attendance sign the latest version of the petition to recall Orloff, Minister Keith reads the petition which specifies the reasons for the recall and will serve...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 10:17pm PDT
Minister Keith Muhammad (audio/mpeg 20.4MB)
(audio 59:17)
Minister Keith Muhammad notes that representatives from every police union in California made statements against AB312 at the April 14th Publi...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 10:17pm PDT
Diana Davis-Marks - godmother of Oscar Grant (audio/mpeg 2.6MB)
(audio 7:39)
Diana Davis-Marks speaks of the Oscar Grant family's request that as many people as possible write letters to President Obama about the injustic...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 10:17pm PDT
Bobby Johnson - Oscar Grant's uncle (audio/mpeg 1.7MB)
(audio 4:54)
Bobby Johnson speaks of his willingness to actively fight for justice for Oscar Grant and his appreciation for the many people who have been wor...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 10:17pm PDT
Jack Bryson - father of two of Oscar Grant's friends (audio/mpeg 3.7MB)
(audio 10:46)
Jack Bryson reads a letter he recently wrote and read to students at San Jose State....
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 10:17pm PDT
Reverend Daniel Buford - Allen Temple Baptist Church (audio/mpeg 4.2MB)
(audio 12:09)
Reverend Daniel Buford speaks about a meeting with he had with Assemblyperson Sandre Swanson (http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a16/). ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 10:17pm PDT
Oakland Copwatch, By Any Means Necessary, & Dellums media consultant (audio/mpeg 11.3MB)
(audio 32:48)
Kelly from Oakland Copwatch speaks about what they are doing to monitor police activity. There is a training on April 29th at the Intertribal ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 20, 2009 10:17pm PDT
Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Oakland, 4/11/09: photos and audio (audio/mpeg 3.2MB)
Coming on the heels of the Caravan for Justice II on April 8th, the Town Halls for Justice for Oscar Grant gathered again on April 11 to discuss recent events and their ongoing efforts to seek justice for Oscar Grant and other victims of police violence.
Bishop Fanzo King of John Coltrane Church speaks first and welcomes everyone to this week's Town Hall:...
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2009 2:31pm PDT
Reverend Daniel Buford of People’s Institute West (audio/mpeg 4.5MB)
(audio 13:06)...
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2009 2:31pm PDT
No Justice No BART and Public Comment (audio/mpeg 13.7MB)
(audio 39:58)
No Justice No BART speaks about their recent action on April 9th at the BART Board meeting (http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/10/1858756...
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2009 2:31pm PDT
Diana Davis-Marks - godmother of Oscar Grant (audio/mpeg 5.6MB)
(audio 16:23)...
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2009 2:31pm PDT
Reverend Daniel Buford of People’s Institute West (audio/mpeg 851.6KB)
(audio 2:25)...
Posted: Sat, Apr 18, 2009 2:31pm PDT
Simon Sedillo on Neoliberalism and Self-Determination, AK Press, Oakland, 4/16/09: audio (audio/mpeg 15.5MB)
Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker whose work has centered on placing skills, cameras and editing equipment in the hands of communities in resistance so that they may be able to document their own histories and human rights situation. Sedillo has spent the last 6 years documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation in indigenous communities, in immigrant communities and with youth of color across the US and Mexico.
On April 16th, S...
Posted: Fri, Apr 17, 2009 7:27pm PDT
MOI JR Interviews Lovelle Mixon's Family in Aftermath of Him Being Killed by Police (audio/mpeg 10.8MB)
The POCC's Minister of Information JR interviewed the family of Lovell Mixon in the aftermath of Lovelle being murdered by police after reportedly killing four....
Posted: Wed, Apr 15, 2009 12:12am PDT
MOI JR Interviews Andrew Louis About Felony Arrest During Unrest of January 7th in Oakland (audio/mpeg 11.6MB)
The POCC's Minister of Information JR interviews one of the Oakland 100 who is facing a felony charge after being arrested at the first of the Oakland Rebellions in the aftermath of protesting the police murder of Oscar Grant....
Posted: Tue, Apr 14, 2009 11:57am PDT
Lil' Bobby Hutton Day, West Oakland, 4/11/09: audio (audio/mpeg 6.6MB)
On Saturday, April 11th, at the West Oakland Public Library, family, friends, and former Black Panthers celebrated Lil' Bobby Hutton Day in honor of the 17-year-old Black Panther murdered by Oakland police in 1968. Family and Friends of Lil' Bobby Hutton are currently working on fund-raising and finalizing the design for a statue they intend to erect in Lil' Bobby Hutton Park (aka DeFremery Park) across the street from the West Oakland library.
Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of...
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2009 12:59am PDT
Bridgette Goodman, sculptor of the coming Bobby Hutton statue (audio/mpeg 963.3KB)
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Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2009 12:59am PDT