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Drum circle area by Lake Merritt in Oakland...
Event Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2020 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2020 12:05pm PDT
An e-mail sent to Councilmember Sandy Brown will likely result in no action at City Council. More seriously, the Council, which has ultimately control of the police through the City Manager, needs to be forced to confront long-standing SCPD issues that are of a piece with demands on departments across the nation....
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2020 11:57am PDT
ILWU 10 president Trent Willis & ILWU 34 president Keith Shanklin talk about the murder of George Floyd and the systemic racist attacks on longshore workers and their families. They also discuss the shutdown of West Coast docks on Juneteenth June 19th to commemorate the emancipation of Blacks and the fight today....
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2020 9:32am PDT
Speakers called for major structural change in policing policies, with some protesters demanding defunding of the Palo Alto Police Department at a rally of thousands on June 6. Photos here are of the rally at King Plaza.
Pt. II will feature photos of the 4 mile march through downtown streets and Palo Alto neighborhoods....
Posted: Tue, Jun 9, 2020 6:00am PDT
On May 30th, 2020 Riot cops with the University of California, Berkeley facilitated UCB worker ground crew with weed wackers and a bobcat to destroy roughly 2/3s of the HISTORIC garden @ People's Park....
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 11:00pm PDT
Protest blocks thoroughfare and rallies in front of Police Department...
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 10:44pm PDT
Meeting at Grand Oriente Filipino Hotel in SOMA and marching all the way to I-Hotel in Kearny. San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 5:49pm PDT
San Francisco City Hall, Polk Street Side...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2020 11:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 4:44pm PDT
Meet at Walgreens on Fruitvale and Foothill to march to Mayor Libby Schaaf's house....
Event Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 4:04pm PDT
ILWU Local 10, 34 and all west coast locals will be stopping work on June 9,2020 to remember George Floyd who was murdered by the police in Minneapolis. Also there will be a West Coast shutdown of all Ports on Juneteenth June 19, 2020. CWA AFA President Sara Nelson supported the action...
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 2:35pm PDT
African Americans are used as prison labor a.k.a. slave labor in prisons....
Posted: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 4:43am PDT
George Floyd’s Murderer, Derek Chauvin:...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 6:52pm PDT
On June 7, 2020, around 3 p.m., a march of a few thousand young people was seen on Bay Street, coming from the Marina, turning onto Columbus and filled the entire length of Columbus to Stockton, where it turned for a block to Vallejo, the heart of the working class Chinese immigrant community, where they stood and chanted "Black Lives Matter" outside a police station....
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 5:38pm PDT
This past Wednesday's "The Town Sits OUT the Curfew" event (see: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/06/02/18833634.php ) had something like 8,000 people there, defying the curfew. So wasn't that the "largest Bay Area civil disobedience action" since at least the 1960's?...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 1:37pm PDT
Several hundred marched through West Fresno to protest police killings....
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 1:10pm PDT
A Black Lives Matter Protest at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fresno...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 1:05pm PDT
Announcement of the Anarchist Federation (Greece) on the uprising in US...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 1:00pm PDT
Fillmore & Bay Street...
Event Date: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 9:33am PDT
Willow Park
Oakland, CA 94607...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2020 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 8:36am PDT
A June 2nd, Black Lives Matter protest in Prescott, Arizona, against police brutality and killer cops! - Photo by Richard Bailey...
Posted: Sat, Jun 6, 2020 11:41pm PDT













