‘Operation Small Axe’: Organizing LA for the trial of cop who killed Oscar Grant
An organizing meeting has been scheduled for Jan. 3 at 5 p.m. at Chuco’s Justice Center in Inglewood for people interested in monitoring the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer who shot Oscar Grant, an unarmed 22-year-old Black man, in the back on an Oakland BART platform on Jan. 1, 2009. Mehserle is the first police officer in California ever to be charged with murder.
BART lynches Blacks with the gun and the law
Since the inception of BART, this transportation system has excluded Black contractors, Black construction workers and Black riders. Charlie Walker drove a truck into a San Francisco BART excavation site before we could get contracts.
'Operation Small Axe' trailer
‘Operation Small Axe’ takes a raw and unflinching look at life under police terrorism in Oakland through the stories of Oscar Grant and Lovelle Mixon. Now that the trial of killer cop Johannes Mehserle has been moved out of Oakland to LA, ‘Operation Small Axe’ is also ona move. MOI JR says, ‘We will bring the resistance to LA, starting on Saturday, Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m., at the Kaos Network, 4343 Leimert Blvd, Los Angeles’ for a screening and political education class. Spread the word.
Oscar Grant murder: Double standard of justice in Oakland
The murder of a 22-year-old unarmed Black man, Oscar Grant, by a transit cop in Oakland during the early hours of New Year’s Day sparked national indignation. Onlookers captured the shooting on cell phones, and their video footage was transmitted to millions via the Internet and TV.
Three poems for Oscar Grant
Submit your creative expression – poem, photo, artwork, music, graffiti etc. – to the Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project. Details follow the poems. Deadline is March 21
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