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Richard Perkins: 1,000th Person Killed by Cops in the US This Year; OPD Mum on Video (video/mp4 16.5MB) Thirty-nine year-old Richard Perkins, father of two, was the 1,000th person killed by police in the United States this year according to the Guardians's The Counted Project....
Posted: Thu, Nov 26, 2015 11:11pm PST
Help us lay our loved-one Richard Perkins to rest! 
On Sunday, November 15th, 2015, our beloved Richard was taken from us far too soon! He was a victim of the same Police Violence that has been impacting all of our communities across the Nation. Although we do not yet know the full extent of the details, we do know that there are conflicting eye-witness reports that contradict initial police reports as to what happened that tragic day. Regardless of the circumstances, victim of crime resources are not available to the family as this incident w...
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 10:25pm PST
Block 27 ~ Stockton Rural Cemetery: Our Emancipation Journey Toward Freedom 
Together, local, statewide, national and international stakeholders will come together to identify, document and preserve the salient contributions of those interred within Block 27-Stockton Rural Cemetery....
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 2:50pm PST
NLG Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Over Berkeley Police Brutality Against Black Lives Matter Protesters and Journalists 
Eleven people who were clubbed, teargassed, slammed to the ground, shot with impact munitions or groundlessly arrested by the police during a December 6, 2014, Berkeley demonstration sued the City of Berkeley, then-City Manager Christine Daniel, Chief Michael Meehan, the City of Hayward, and Berkeley and Hayward officers in federal court today. The plaintiffs include journalists who were covering the demonstration, as well as demonstrators. They are seeking to revamp how Berkeley polices demo...
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 9:42am PST
March for Richard Perkins — Man Slain by Oakland Police 
On November 20th, 2015, several dozen people met up at the Fruitvale BART station to protest the recent killing of Richard Perkins by Oakland Police....
Posted: Sun, Nov 22, 2015 9:43pm PST
The Malonga Center windows: A tale about Oakland city priorities Public records requests reveal that the city of Oakland prioritized the noise complaint of one individual over an entire decades-old arts community....
Posted: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 2:56pm PST
Labor and BLM Demand: “Drop the Charges Against the Black Friday 14!” 
Marching around the Courthouse
Photo credit: Jonathan Nack
Drop the Charges Against the Black Friday 14
Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, 661 Washington Street, Oakland, CA.
November 10, 2015
Some two hundred energized protesters gathered at 1:30 PM outside D. A. O'Malley's offices, which are located in the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, 661 Washington Street, Oakland, CA. Meanwhile, inside the courthouse, a delegation of top labor leaders occupied D.A. O'Malley's office to press the demand to...
Posted: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 5:28pm PST
Oakland Rising In 2006, Jerry Brown was Mayor of Oakland, Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor of California, and grassroots politics in Oakland was losing its voice. Local communities felt locked out of City Hall, their voices not being heard. From this landscape came Oakland Rising (OR)....
Posted: Sun, Nov 15, 2015 9:58pm PST
Andy Lopez and Youth Empowerment Santa Rosa youth, who marched in protest of the shooting of Andy Lopez, have returned to call for EMPOWERMENT as the theme of the new park being built in Santa Rosa in memory of Andy Lopez....
Posted: Fri, Nov 13, 2015 3:29pm PST
Condo attack SF (video/mp4 11.1MB) Windows smashed out of gentrifier condo on Mission Street in the City....
Posted: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 1:58pm PST
Drop the charges against the Black Friday 14! 
A new petition has already reached nearly 1000 signatures. Add your name to demand justice for the Black Friday 14....
Posted: Tue, Nov 10, 2015 9:55pm PST
PROTEST November 22 Anniversary of the Murder of 12 year old Tamir Rice 
Powell and Market Streets, San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 22, 2015 1:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 11:17am PST
Alleged public safety advocate misrepresents herself and her organizations 
On October 22nd, 2015, Take Back Santa Cruz held a so called “Public Safety Forum” headlining "well known Public Safety Advocate” Lynne Brown. Looking into Ms. Brown and her organizations indicate she is profiting off misrepresentations....
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 11:10pm PST
Nice try, Pope Francis, but to many, Junipero Serra is no saint 
“On all the 21 missions along the coast here our people were enslaved, they were beaten, they were tortured, our women were raped. It was forced labor and a forced religion. There’s nothing saintly about the… atrocities on our culture, on our people.” - Anthony Morales, Chief Redblood of the Gabrielino Tongva Band of Mission Indians...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2015 1:17pm PST
Analysis: California's Poorest Counties Hit Hardest by Spraying of Glyphosate 
OAKLAND, Calif.— A new report finds that more than half of the glyphosate sprayed in California is applied in the state’s eight most impoverished counties. Glyphosate, commonly known as Roundup, is classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization and may get a similar designation from the state of California in the coming weeks....
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 2:11pm PST
Análisis:Condados Mas Pobres de California Lo Más Afectados Por La Fumigación de Glifosato 
OAKLAND, Calif.— Un informe nuevo concluye que más que la mitad del glifosato rociado en California se aplica en los ocho condados más pobres del estado. Glifosato, conocido como Roundup, está clasificado como un cancerígeno probable por la Organización Mundial de la Salud y puede obtener una designación similar por el estado de California en las próximas semanas....
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 2:04pm PST
Coalition Submits 30,000 Comments Opposing Jerry Brown's Delta Tunnels 
Robert Wright, Senior Counsel for Friends of the River, emphasized the extreme ecological crisis that the San Francisco Bay-Delta is in now, with winter Run Chinook salmon, Delta and longfin smelt, Central Valley steelhead, green sturgeon and other species nearing extinction.
“This is an emergency," said Wright. "The San Francisco Bay-Delta is in peril. Extinction is forever. This Tunnels project must either be dropped, or the ‘Water Fix’ agencies must issue new, honest documents under the...
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2015 10:06am PST
Calls for Removal of Salinas Police Chief Continue at Police Brutality Day Protest 
To mark the National Day of Protest Against Brutality, community members in Salinas rallied in front of city hall on October 22, where the family members of Jose Velasco, Frank Alvarado, and Angel Ruiz all spoke. Ruiz and Alvarado were among five unarmed Latino men killed in separate incidents in 2014 during encounters with the Salinas Police Department. Velasco was severley beaten by a group of Salinas police officers in 2015. Individuals held signs in front of city hall and joined in severa...
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 6:58pm PDT
Calif. Indian Tribes Sue Transportation Agencies Over Destruction of Cultural Sites 
Calif. Indian Tribes Sue Transportation Agencies Over Destruction of Cultural Sites and Call for Halt of Construction After Ancient Village Bulldozed in the Dead of Night. Sacred Sites destroyed in the course of construction of Caltrans' Willits Bypass highway expansion in Mendocino County on Hwy. 101...
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 12:08pm PDT
Yuvette Henderson Federal Lawsuit Announced — Press Conference (video/mp4 80.6MB) On October 29 in front of the Oakland federal building, attorney Dan Siegel, Yuvette Henderson's family, and the Anti Police-Terror Project announced a new civil suit filed in federal court on Yuvette's behalf....
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2015 12:04am PDT
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