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Rashidah Grinage - PUEBLO - wife of Raphael, mother of Luke, murdered by OPD in 1993 (audio/mpeg 4.6MB) (audio 13:26)
http://peopleunited.org...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 2:45am PDT
Teresa Tims - mother of Richard Tims, killed by SFPD in 2002 (audio/mpeg 1.7MB) (audio 4:53)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 2:45am PDT
Gene Pepi - retired BART station agent, union VP (audio/mpeg 4.5MB) (audio 13:05)
Gene Pepi speaks about BART's long-time racial profiling and the lessons learned from the BART police murder of Jerrold Hall.
https://www.in...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 2:45am PDT
Meesha Irizarry - mother of Idriss Stelley, killed by SFPD in 2001 (audio/mpeg 4.4MB) (audio 12:46)
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/idrissstelleyfoundation/...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 2:45am PDT
Karen Saari - author of the Stolen Lives book and director of the Stolen Lives Project (audio/mpeg 5.0MB) (audio 14:40)
http://stolenlives.org...
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 2:45am PDT
Opie Santos - Bay Area Revolution Club (audio/mpeg 1.4MB) (audio 4:05)
Opie Santos closes out the event with a statement on America in 2009....
Posted: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 2:45am PDT
Town Hall Covers Mehserle Case and Recall of Orloff, Oakland, 3/21/09: photos and audio (audio/mpeg 1.3MB) In this week's Town Hall for Justice, speakers included Tony Coleman of CAPE and OneFam.org; Krystof of No Justice No BART; Yvette Felarca & Shanta Driver of BAMN, who covered in detail many of issues involved in the upcoming Johannes Mehserle trial; Reverend Zachary Carey, who presented the petition to begin the recall of Alameda DA Tom Orloff; and Diana Davis-Marks, godmother of Oscar Grant.
Unrelated to the Town Hall, five Oakland police officers were shot by a single gunman in the are...
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2009 3:56am PDT
Tony Coleman (audio/mpeg 2.1MB) (audio 6:10)
Tony Coleman discusses the need to involve youth in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant....
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2009 3:56am PDT
Krystof - No Justice No BART (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) (audio 9:09)
Krystof discusses the objectives of the NJNB campaign and encourages the community to get involved in the next demonstration at MacArthur BART ...
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2009 3:56am PDT
Shanta Driver, introduced by Yvette Felarca of BAMN (audio/mpeg 27.4MB) (audio 1:19:49)
Shanta Driver discusses the legal issues surrounding the upcoming murder trial of Johannes Mehserle, which begins this Monday, March 23rd, at...
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2009 3:56am PDT
Keith Muhammad - Nation of Islam (audio/mpeg 8.1MB) (audio 23:36)
Keith Muhammad talks about the rarity of successful murder and abuse prosecutions of police officers nationwide, which leads into the specific...
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2009 3:56am PDT
Pastor Zachary Carey and Keith Muhammad (audio/mpeg 6.5MB) (audio 18:55)
Discusses the early technical difficulties with the campaign to recall Tom Orloff and proceeds to officially initiate the effort by asking atte...
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2009 3:56am PDT
Diana Davis-Marks and Pastor Gordon Humphreys (audio/mpeg 1.6MB) (audio 4:39)
Diana Davis-Marks extends gratitude from Oscar Grant's mother to supporters and activists for their work in seeking justice. She also addresses...
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2009 3:56am PDT
Town Hall Invites and Questions BART Cops, Oakland, 3/14/09: photos and audio (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) BART Board Director Bob Franklin and five BART police officers were invited to speak at this week's Town Hall. The visit was described by Bob Franklin as BART's attempt to open lines of communication and begin to repair relations with the community, especially Oakland's African American community. They took questions from attendees for about an hour and forty minutes.
The BART police largely defended the Police Bill of Rights, as well as their existence as the police agency for the tra...
Posted: Sun, Mar 15, 2009 7:33am PDT
Bob Franklin and five BART police officers (audio/mpeg 39.2MB) (audio 1:54:14)
After handing out blue, pocket-sized, abridged versions of the Police Bill of Rights, and full-length print-out copies, the BART police offer...
Posted: Sun, Mar 15, 2009 7:33am PDT
Minister Keith Muhammad & Reverend Daniel Buford (audio/mpeg 1.2MB) (audio 3:35)...
Posted: Sun, Mar 15, 2009 7:33am PDT
Town Hall Prepares to Recall Alameda DA Tom Orloff, Oakland, 3/7/09: photos and audio (audio/mpeg 2.5MB) Interfaith Town Hall meetings organized for justice for Oscar Grant and other victims of violence have been meeting weekly since January 10th. This ongoing effort has included the recent appearance by Minister Louis Farrakhan on February 17th and the first Caravan for Justice to Sacramento on February 19th to demand changes in unjust state laws. On March 7th, Town Hall organizers began to lay out the steps that will be involved in their next move, recalling Alameda County District Attorney ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:28pm PDT
Diana Davis-Marks, godmother of Oscar Grant (audio/mpeg 2.9MB) (audio 8:20)...
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:28pm PDT
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