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No to Cop CampusStop Cop Campus Coalition Protests Planned Police Facility in San Pablo2023-10-17T07:10:08Z2023-10-17T07:10:08Zen-US
The Stop Cop Campus Coalition intends to prevent the new facility from being constructed, arguing such huge amounts of money would be better spent meeting the needs of city residents rather than policing them. On August 10, a protest was held on what was scheduled to be the ground breaking day for the new police building, but the city got cold feet and cancelled the event. No groundbreaking has been scheduled since, and activists are hoping it never happens. On September 30, another protest was held which was large enough to march down the middle of San Pablo Avenue from Kennedy Plaza to the site of the proposed "Cop Campus."
After the demonstration, the fence enclosing the building site was down and the estimated completion date had been corrected to "never."
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Institute for Study of Zionism to Hold Inaugural ConferenceConference on Speech-Chilling “IHRA definition” of Antisemitism Launches New InstituteBattling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies.]]>2023-10-12T19:53:51Z2023-10-12T19:53:51Zen-USBattling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies.
This is the first research conference focusing on IHRA campaigns, which have been a feature of conservative strategy since 2016 and are linked to anti-Critical Race Theory campaigns. IHRA campaigns have been widely criticized as efforts to chill academic freedom, and to exclude groups from funding and civic life including human rights, peace, racial justice, and legal advocates, and Palestinian and progressive Jewish organizations. Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism is also the first conference under the banner of Critical Zionism Studies. Critical Zionism Studies studies Zionist politics and ideas in relation to forces including states, capital, race, and culture, and it examines power from the perspective of people experiencing its effects. The Institute supports the “research from below” that is central to Critical Zionism Studies.
The conference is sponsored by numerous academic centers and departments spanning critical race and ethnic studies, Near East studies, Arab and Muslim studies, culture, creative practice, and environment at New York University, the University of California Santa Cruz, and San Francisco State University. It is additionally sponsored by student groups at NYU and CUNY, academic freedom groups in the United States and Europe, and grassroots organizations. Panels and events will take place in New York City (at NYU and The People’s Forum) and Santa Cruz (at the Resource Center for Nonviolence).
See Also: Civil Rights Groups Warn UCSC Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestine Scholarship May Violate Federal Laws]]>Education & Student ActivismFront PageInternationalPalestineRacial JusticeSanta Cruz / Monterey Bay AreaU.S.image/jpeg
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Community Demands Justice for Banko BrownSecurity Guard Tackles, Punches, Shoots, and Kills Banko Brown Over Alleged Shoplifting2023-06-01T05:19:54Z2023-06-01T05:19:54Zen-US
The following day, San Francisco police arrested Anthony on suspicion of murder, but, on May 2, San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that she would not be filing any charges against Anthony. Jenkins refused to release surveillance footage of the killing, yet said in a statement that the security video "clearly" showed Anthony acted "in self-defense." The community was outraged. On May 9, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to demand that Jenkins make the video public. Finally, on May 15, the DA released the video footage and other files related to the case. The video does not show Anthony acting in self-defense.
Banko's friends, family, co-workers, and concerned community members have protested ever since to demand accountability for the killing, marching and rallying at City Hall, the DA's office, and at the Walgreens on Market Street where Banko was shot. On May 26, Banko's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Walgreens, its parent company, a security firm, and the guard who shot him, seeking $25 million in damages.
Related Feature: "Fentalyfe" Poster Campaign Redecorated
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UC Berkeley Continues to Retain Thousands of Native RemainsThe University of California Berkeley Leads in Grave Robbing of Native Americans2023-03-01T06:00:56Z2023-03-01T06:00:56Zen-US
The name of anthropologist Alfred Louis Kroeber was recently stripped from the University of California Berkeley buildings because of the massive collections of Native remains, and his unethical use of Ishi as a living Native example at the university. Kroeber's pronouncement that the Ohlone people were culturally extinct contributed to the federal government not recognizing the Ohlone and "leading to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe having no land and no political power," according to the university's Building Name Review Committee.
Yet, the majority of Native remains and other cultural artifacts have yet to be returned.
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Justice for Tyre Nichols: Solidarity from the Bay to TennesseeBay Area Stands Up for Tyre Nichols After Video of Viscous Murder Released2023-02-22T06:29:58Z2023-02-22T06:29:58Zen-US
The first Bay Area demonstrations for Tyre Nichols were called in both San Francisco and Oakland on the day Memphis Police released video of the killing, January 27. Two days later, another rally and march were held in Oakland. On February 4, a skate session and healing village were held in Oakland. Tyre was an avid and talented skateboarder.
In the early morning hours of February 11, an Oakland police cruiser was set on fire in their police administration building parking lot. Later that day, a rally was held in Menlo Park. On February 16, ILWU Local 10 shut down the port of Oakland and marched in San Francisco to demand the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Tyre Nichols' brother and sisters joined the rally to free Mumia.
See Also: Police Terror — Racist Arrow Tip Launched Against All Workers |
Video releases of the murder of Tyre Nichols by murderous cops]]>City of San FranciscoEast Bay AreaFront PagePeninsulaPolice StateRacial JusticeU.S.image/jpeg
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Time to Close Guantanamo PrisonCodePink U.C. Law School Action Demands Closure of Guantamamo, Prosecution of John Yoo2023-01-14T20:20:49Z2023-01-14T20:20:49Zen-US
Dean Chemerinsky, the co-directors of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the law school, Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission members, and law school students were invited to speak at the press conference. Professor Yoo was asked to contribute to the newly established Guantanamo Survivors Fund. They did not appear, but letters were left for them at the school's office of the dean.
After being gentrified out of San Francisco, Tony made his mark in West Oakland supporting arts and community. Tony fought against gang injunctions and was a key organizer in the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement. Tony built up unused storefronts by the BART tracks on 7th Street and founded One Fam, Bikes 4 Life, and the 7th Street Rev Cafe.
Tony passed away on September 23 after a battle with cancer. He leaves behind his son Tony Jr and a long list of friends and comrades.
Read more about Tony and view photos below. Hear him in his own words in video and audio in this collection of posts on Indybay:
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No Quarry on Mutsun Sacred GroundsHundreds Rally for Protection of Sacred Tribal Land from Mining Project2022-09-24T19:48:53Z2022-09-24T19:48:53Zen-US
The proposed sand and gravel mine in the county would significantly damage the sacred Native American site and historic artifacts. Speakers said the mining which would extract minerals for 30 years on a 300-acre site destroying indigenous history. Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun tribal chairman, said that the tribe went through three periods of brutal colonization and that destroying the sacred site would bring further devastation. Lopez called the rally "a call for cultural survival."
The Environmental Impact Report for the project states that, if approved, ceremonial areas used for healing and harvesting, burial sites, and sacred live oak trees, could be destroyed. In addition, the mining would eliminate precious grassland and oak woodland habitat, and disrupt a critical wildlife movement corridor.
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Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Fight to Protect One of Their Few Remaining Sacred Lands (2018)
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Parker Community School Perseveres in Defiance of ClosureSecurity Guards Sent by OUSD to End Occupation Assault Community Members2022-08-18T00:10:12Z2022-08-18T00:10:12Zen-US
Families and community supporters created an unofficial Parker Community School on the premises, offering a variety of classes and other opportunities for local students throughout the summer. Without warning, on August 4, OUSD sent a team of private security guards into the school. Organizer and community member Max Orozco, parent of a child at La Escuelita, another school affected by OUSD’s budget cuts, was detained inside the building. Concerned community members tried to get into the school to make sure he was safe and several were assaulted by the security guards. At least 11 were injured. When Orozco was escorted by Oakland police into a squad car, he was in handcuffs and his face was bloodied.
Despite the attack, the occupation at "Parker Liberation School" has continued and supporters continue to protest the closures.
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Bay Area Organizing to Stop Line 3Construction of Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Violates Treaty Rights of Minnesota Tribes2021-07-28T23:12:16Z2021-07-28T23:12:16Zen-US
Enbridge is more than 60% done constructing their proposed Line 3 project, and on July 15 the last restrictions keeping them from drilling under waterways where wild rice grows were lifted. The Anishinaabe women of the RISE Coalition are now calling on people to join them in northern Minnesota to protect the wild rice waters July 19-31. Since June, hundreds of Water Protectors in Minnesota have been participating in lockdowns and blockades to stop the advancement of construction.
Climate and Indigenous rights activists in the Bay Area again stood up in solidarity with a National Day of Action on August 13 to stop the construction of Line 3.
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Bay Area Pays Tribute to George FloydGeorge Floyd Actions Nationwide Mark the Anniversary of 2020 Uprisings2021-06-04T06:40:17Z2021-06-04T06:40:17Zen-US
Los Altos youth group Justice Vanguard organized a mile march from their high school to a busy intersection where students and community members spilled into the street, blocked traffic and rallied on the busy El Camino Real. At this San Francisco Peninsula location, passersby chorused back their solidarity and drivers got on their horns. The response on the street was similar at a rally in San Francisco’s Fillmore District with added honks from the #22 buses, which passed frequently in two directions. In Santa Cruz the NAACP organized an evening vigil on the city’s courthouse steps.
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Rising Up Against Anti-Asian HateAAPI Peoples and Allies Demonstrate Throughout Bay Area and California2021-04-02T05:37:37Z2021-04-02T05:37:37Zen-US
On March 26, over a thousand people marched from Union Square to a rally at the Embarcadero. Themed "Rise Up With Asians," the march included Black, Latino, and other allies who carried signs denouncing the continuing U.S. history of crimes against ethnic and racial minorities, particularly Asian women. Sponsored by twenty different organizations, the Embarcadero rally featured performers and fiery speeches.
In Redwood City on March 27, Corrie Peñafort and her family organized a small event to support human and equal rights, and to call for a Stop to Violence against Asian-Americans.
On April 2, over 400 youths rallied in front of Oakland's City Hall at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Led by amplified slogans from the back of a truck, they danced and marched. The march detoured through part of Chinatown, paused at the Asian Cultural Center and proceeded to rally at Lake Merritt.
Related Feature: San Francisco Marches to Protect Women's Rights
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After Health Scare, Call Remains to Free Abu-JamalFlooding Prison and "Progressive" DA with Calls Gets Mumia Emergency Care He Needed2021-03-25T06:59:54Z2021-03-25T06:59:54Zen-US
As Mumia has aged behind bars, inadequate medical care has led to several scares when his health deteriorated rapidly. In 2015, Mumia suffered diabetic shock and was diagnosed with active Hepatitis C. In late February, believing Mumia was infected with COVID-19 and suffering skin lesions, his supporters demanded proper medical care for him once again. After an outpouring of public pressure, authorities transferred Mumia to a hospital outside of the prison for emergency treatment, and he was indeed diagnosed as having contracted coronavirus as well as congestive heart disease. While Mumia's health issues still remain a concern, he is stable now and has been returned to general population at the Mahanoy State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.
Separately, all appeals filed by Mumia's attorneys between 1998 and 2012 were reopened by a new judge in 2018 and are currently being litigated.
The founder of Voices of VV, a Black woman, was specifically targeted. An officer can be heard pointing to her and saying, "Yes, her, grab her!" Police tackled her, put all their weight on her, with their knee in her back and neck. They twisted her arm and held it so tight that she sustained bruises on her arms and wrists.
Two others attempting to protect her were tackled and assaulted to the point of sustaining injuries, and were arrested immediately after. Remaining observers were able to get away without being arrested, but not unharmed. Vacaville Police confiscated the phones of all those arrested as "evidence," despite the arresting charge being "failure to leave the scene of a riot" and has yet to return them.
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Three Nights of Bay Area Attacks Against the Police StateWindows Broken, Graffiti Attack on South San Francisco CourthouseAn "anonymous autonomist" writes: On January 19, on Ramaytush Ohlone land occupied under the name "South San Francisco", the county courthouse was vandalized with anti-police, anti-State, anti-colonization slogans and the windows of the front entrance were smashed in.]]>2021-01-27T07:58:12Z2021-01-27T07:58:12Zen-US An "anonymous autonomist" writes: On January 19, on Ramaytush Ohlone land occupied under the name "South San Francisco", the county courthouse was vandalized with anti-police, anti-State, anti-colonization slogans and the windows of the front entrance were smashed in.
Comrades have continued the barrage of attacks to this government's human bondage infrastructure. Inspired by successful attacks in Vacaville and San Francisco, a group of individuals successfully attacked the county courthouse. The face was used as a canvas for political slogans, and the glass of the front entrance was entirely shattered.
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Solidarity Means AttackAnti-Racists Send a Message at San Francisco CIS HeadquartersAn anonymous communiqué reads: On January 18, as strong winds raged, 30+ anti-racists attacked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco. We thoroughly painted the walls, smashed the windows, and breached the building to wreak havoc inside.... We join all prisoners and ICE detainees who continue to fight by way of hunger strikes, escapes, and riots against repression and neglect from the State. We see you, we hear you, until every prison door and border wall is open. Solidarity means attack!]]>2021-01-26T07:08:25Z2021-01-26T07:08:25Zen-USAn anonymous communiqué reads: On January 18, as strong winds raged, 30+ anti-racists attacked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco. We thoroughly painted the walls, smashed the windows, and breached the building to wreak havoc inside. We did this to initiate what will hopefully be the first in a series of breaks into and out of prisons and detention centers throughout the country. Like the tremors presaging last summer's uprising, we are responding to a generalized call to liberate all those locked within the modern plantation system....
We join all prisoners and ICE detainees who continue to fight by way of hunger strikes, escapes, and riots against repression and neglect from the State. We see you, we hear you, until every prison door and border wall is open. Solidarity means attack!
Related Feature: Windows Broken, Graffiti Attack on South San Francisco Courthouse]]>AmericasCaliforniaCity of San FranciscoFront PageImmigrant RightsInternationalPolice StateRacial JusticeU.S.image/jpeg
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Moms for Housing Rack Up VictoriesBig Year for Moms Includes Reclamation of Home and Co-founders Winning Elected Office2020-12-01T05:26:37Z2020-12-01T05:26:37Zen-USACCE Action reclaimed possession of a vacant investor-owned property in West Oakland on November 18, 2019. They made it a home for themselves and their children, but it wasn't an easy go. Following legal and public relations battles with real estate speculator Wedgewood LLC and the courts to remain, and despite multiple community solidarity home defense actions, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office arrived heavily armed before dawn on January 14 and evicted the moms.
After nearly a year of struggle, Moms for Housing announced on October 9 that their house on Magnolia Street in West Oakland had been purchased by the Oakland Community Land Trust and will never again sit empty for the sole purpose of increasing the profits of real estate speculators. Moms4Housing co-founder Dominique Walker declared, "This is officially Moms' House."
In November, Dominique Walker and her allies running as the "Right to Housing" slate were elected to the Berkeley rent board. Weeks later, ACCE Director and Moms4Housing co-founder Carroll Fife claimed victory as the councilmember-elect for Oakland's third district.
Related Features: Moms 4 Housing Resist Eviction in Court and Confront Public Relations Attacks by Wedgewood |
Unhoused Mothers Make Vacant House a Home]]>East Bay AreaFront PageGlobal Justice and Anti-CapitalismHealth, Housing, and Public ServicesRacial JusticeWomynimage/jpeg
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Poor People's Caravan Targets Senators Feinstein and HarrisGlide Memorial's Ongoing Work on Behalf of Economic Justice2020-10-09T05:33:09Z2020-10-09T05:33:09Zen-US
Glide Memorial, though nominally a United Methodist Church has forged its own moral mission, engendering much friction with the United Methodist establishment. Dispensing with almost almost all traditional Christian narrative and ritual, it has recast its mission as a celebration with art and music of all of humanity in all of its diversity.
Glide Memorial, with its many years as a unique San Francisco institution, has taken up the cause of society's impoverished and ignored. Declaring poverty a sin and those who inflict or ignore it sinners, the Poor People's Campaign embodies this activism.
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Poor People’s Campaign In Night March From City Hall (Dec 2019) |
Poor People's Campaign Santa Cruz CA. 6-23-2018 |
Glide Memorial: Annual Asian Lunch and Dinner to Feed Needy and Homeless for Holidays (Dec 2009)A Traditional Worshipper Discovers Glide
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Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Decision ProtestedDemonstrators in Cities Across the Country Demand Justice for Breonna Taylor2020-10-03T20:22:05Z2020-10-03T20:22:05Zen-US Anti Police-Terror Project writes:
Breonna Taylor was murdered and yet her neighbor’s walls got more justice than Breonna Taylor herself. [On September 23], The Grand Jury returned with an indictment of one single officer with three counts of wanton endangerment for shooting into neighboring apartments — and no charges for the murder of Breonna Taylor.
Apparently being Black, educated, employed and asleep in your own home is justified causation for being shot to death by law enforcement. Breonna Taylor’s story is not unique in America. Since 2015, Black women, who are 13 percent of the female population, account for 20 percent of the women shot and killed by police and 28 percent of the unarmed deaths.
Announcement of the grand jury's decision led to national outrage and multiple protests in the San Francisco Bay Area's larger cities of Oakland and San Francisco, but also in smaller cities including Menlo Park on the Peninsula. In the Central Valley city of Fresno, protesters gathered in front of the Unitarian Universalist Church, a frequent venue for protests, for a vigil in Breonna Taylor's honor.
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Facebook Blocks Wet’suwet’en DefendersFacebook Suspends Accounts Over Online Event Targeting Coastal GasLink Pipeline2020-09-25T02:15:22Z2020-09-25T02:15:22Zen-US
Facebook blocked the accounts days before another online event on September 21 targeting KKR’s involvement. The pipeline is set to cut through sovereign Wet’suwet’en land, defiantly ignoring assertions from hereditary chiefs of their rights, title, and consent for the project. The project would lock in decades of increased fracked gas, impacting the climate, air, water, and pose risks to Indigenous camps built along the route.
Related Feature:Facebook Bans Multiple Anarchist and Antifascist Pages]]>Environment & Forest DefenseFront PageHealth, Housing, and Public ServicesIndependent MediaInternationalPeninsulaRacial JusticeU.S.image/jpeg
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Hunger Strike Antioch Demands Justice and AccountabilityAntioch Strikers Call for Immediate Termination of Officer Michael Mellone2020-09-07T00:48:06Z2020-09-07T00:48:06Zen-US
Their number one demand is the immediate termination of Officer Michael Mellone from Antioch Police Department for his known record of illegally using lethal force in the killing of Luis Góngora-Pat in San Francisco, and new surfacing allegations of abuse of force in Antioch. They are also demanding the immediate resignation of Steve Aiello as President of Antioch Police Officers’ Association for promoting violence against peaceful protesters.
Ofc. Mellone is known to have moved back and forth, at least 7 times, between police departments in Oakland, Richmond, Antioch and San Francisco since 2002, with prior complaints of excessive use of force from a prior period of employment in Antioch. This year it became known that he left the San Francisco Police Department on August 18th—a day before SFPD’s Internal Affairs was set to hand down a historic suspension for violating almost every SFPD rule in the book when he fired two different lethal weapons that resulted in the killing of Luis Góngora Pat—and began working days later with the Antioch Police Department.
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Defunding Towards a New Vision of Health and SafetyMovement to Defund the Police Takes Off in Santa Cruz2020-09-05T03:11:13Z2020-09-05T03:11:13Zen-US
In contrast, the Santa Cruz City Council recently approved a new budget which includes an increase in police funding. The budget includes $31,098,835 for police, an increase of almost 1.5% from last year, and 27.8% of the city’s general fund budget. Ironically, in a prior meeting, the council declared July as Black Lives Matter month. They voted to display the Black Lives Matter and Pan-African flags outside of council chambers every July. The newly approved police budget begs the question of how serious the city council is about making Black lives matter. Are their recent July gestures just superficial? That said, the council also voted to ban predictive policing and facial recognition software, which are positive developments.
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March for the Dead, Fight for the Living at the Golden GateBridge Demo Organizers Call Confrontation with Police a Rehearsal for November 42020-08-29T21:26:32Z2020-08-29T21:26:32Zen-US
Just ahead of the rally protesters drew the names of victims of police violence on bright yellow umbrellas. After speeches by relatives of victims of COVID-19 and police brutality, they walked out on a long pier adjacent to the bridge for a colorful display. They continued their action with a march to the pedestrian walkway of the bridge and were halfway there when police, who had responded in dozens of vehicles, intervened. The marchers pushed on and faced off with police in a physical confrontation at the gate to the pedestrian walkway.
Organizers said that Trump will declare victory on election night no matter what actually happens. One stated in an email to allies, "How we react will determine if American democracy survives. Everything we do now is an effort to plan, train and act, so that we can protest safely, effectively and non-violently starting November 4, 2020." The next day, another organizer said, that "If the goal was to mourn on our bridge, we failed. If we wanted a rehearsal for the show that’ll open November 4, we succeeded. We can’t open after just one rehearsal, though."
Relatives of prisoners, long time advocates of justice for incarcerated persons, and people newly inspired by the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement are among those calling for prisoner releases. Organizers are also demanding the immediate provision of hygiene supplies and COVID testing for 100% of the prison population and employees.
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Oakland Marches in Solidarity with Portland's Resistance Against FedsTrump’s Order to Send Federal Agents into U.S. Cities Protested Nationwide2020-08-01T08:42:54Z2020-08-01T08:42:54Zen-US
The march was boisterous, with call and response chants and amplified music. By about ten o'clock, most marchers were back at Oscar Grant Plaza. Oakland police tweeted and corporate media glommed onto reports that some demonstrators set a fire inside the Alameda County courthouse, damaged police station windows, spray-painted graffiti, shot fireworks, and pointed lasers at officers. According to the San Francisco chapter of the National Lawyers Guild’s Demonstration Committee, shortly after midnight police charged the crowd for several blocks from Oakland police headquarters. Approximately four arrests were made.
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Oakland Creates "Reimagining Public Safety Task Force"People of Oakland Move Closer to Defunding Police, Refunding the CommunityAPTP writes: The people of Oakland moved one step closer to realizing the goal of refunding resources to the community. After weeks of sustained protest and direct action, City Council unanimously approved a resolution to create an official task force to determine how to cut the Oakland Police Department’s budget by 50% next year. In recent weeks, thousands of Oakland residents have joined what has become an international call to invest in services that truly keep people safe by divesting from police.]]>2020-07-31T21:39:37Z2020-07-31T21:39:37Zen-USAPTP writes: The people of Oakland moved one step closer to realizing the goal of refunding resources to the community. After weeks of sustained protest and direct action, City Council unanimously approved a resolution to create an official task force to determine how to cut the Oakland Police Department’s budget by 50% next year.
The 19-person “Reimagining Public Safety Task Force” will have four advisory boards and a five-month timeline to develop draft recommendations. It will meet once or twice per month to make final recommendations to the City Council to defund OPD by 50% by March 31, 2021.
In recent weeks, thousands of Oakland residents have joined what has become an international call to invest in services that truly keep people safe by divesting from police — building on the Anti Police-Terror Project’s five-year campaign to #DefundOPD and the Black Organizing Project’s 10-year campaign to dismantle the OUSD police department.
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Native American Resilience During the PandemicKumeyaay Defend Sacred Land from California Border Wall Construction2020-07-26T01:20:13Z2020-07-26T01:20:13Zen-US
San Carlos Apache ran from Oak Flat to Mount Graham in Arizona this week, praying for the protection of their sacred land from copper mining. "As we lay our prayers down for everyone in this world, continue to keep us all in prayer," said Vanessa Nosie as family members made the annual run this year.
Kumeyaay are protecting their sacred, ancestral land, at the so-called border in California, from the destruction of the border wall construction.
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Strike for Black Lives and Working People at McDonald'sProtesters Shut Down Drive-Thru at Oakland McDonald's2020-07-22T05:09:09Z2020-07-22T05:09:09Zen-US
Protesters marched up Telegraph Avenue and into the parking lot at the McDonald's at Telegraph and 45th Street. They proceeded to block off the drive through with big signs that read that the restaurant was closed due to Covid health hazards. Demonstrators also kneeled for eight minutes and forty-six seconds in remembrance of George Floyd, murdered by police.
The combined rooftop and ground demonstration was emphasizing not only the Black Lives Matter movement but demands by McDonald's workers for respect, dignity and, specifically, for adequate on the job protective equipment. The action was part of an evolving movement reaffirming rights and respect for working people and demanding that genuine racial equality be finally achieved.
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