Today at the Alameda County Courthouse, made famous by the “Free Huey!” rallies held on the steps by the Black Panther Party, all charges were dismissed against POCC Minister of Information JR Valrey! Join POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and Pam and Ramona Africa for a Power to the People Victory Celebration tonight, Monday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m., Black Dot Cafe, 1195 Pine St., West Oakland – YOU are invited!
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Ramona Africa of the MOVE organization
These short but moving statements of solidarity with the family of Oscar Grant come from parents whose children were also murdered by police. Let’s spread the word to every mayor, city council and police department in the country that the days when police could murder young Black men – or anyone – with impunity are over!
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The U.S. Justice Dept. refuses to charge the NYPD officers who murdered Sean Bell on his wedding day in 2006. We can’t let this happen again; it’s ON US to get Oscar Grant’s killer cops convicted of murder! Minister of Information JR is hosting two events on two days, tonight in West Oakland and tomorrow in Los Angeles.
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Cynthia McKinney sets the theme for Black Resistance to Police Terrorism Month, marked by five events in two weeks – four in Oakland, on Feb. 7, 17, 21 and 22, and one on Oscar Grant in Los Angeles, on Feb. 18, the eve of killer cop Mehserle’s Feb. 19 hearing – featuring your favorite speakers coming to Cali from around the country. And pack the courtroom Feb. 22, 8:30 a.m., 1225 Fallon, Oakland, for Minister of Information JR’s trial. Free JR!
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On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal and granted the Philadelphia DA’s petition for a writ of certiorari. We are now at the highest level of Code Red in the case of Mumia Abu Jamal. The people must come to this tireless souljah’s defense.
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Skip Gates,
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White House,
“Free Mumia” movement
It has been one year since Oscar Grant was brutally murdered by BART policeman Johannes Mehserle. The power of the people of Oakland and the Bay Area has ensured that he is standing trial for murder and not getting away unscathed as is the normal practice in police killings and brutality of our community members.
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Aidge Patterson,
Anita Gay,
Black Dot,
Cynthia McKinney,
Gary King,
Holly Works,
Johannes Mehserle,
Judge Jacobson,
Judge Robert Perry,
LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant,
Lesley Tiyesha Phillips,
Minister of Information JR,
Oakland Assembly for Justice for Oscar Grant,
Oakland Cop Watch,
Oakland Rebellions,
Oscar Grant,
Pan African Film Festival,
police brutality,
police killings,
police sweep,
“Operation Small Axe”
More than 40 people representing a diverse cross section of Los Angeles communities met at Chuco’s Justice Center Jan. 3 to plan for the press conference and protest on Jan. 8. Coming together as the Los Angeles Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, they were united by at least two common threads: outrage at the slaying of Grant and a belief that Mehserle should be convicted of murder.
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Aidge Patterson,
Alameda Superior Court Judge C. Don Clay,
Anakbayan L.A.,
Chuco’s Justice Center,
Deandre Brunston,
Johannes Mehserle,
John Burris,
Joshua and Jedi Jimenez,
Kayla De Los Reyes,
Keishia Brunston,
L.A. County Superior Court Judge Robert Perry,
Los Angeles Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant,
Michael Rains,
Michelle Lolles,
Oscar Grant,
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
On Friday’s Hard Knock Radio and Flashpoints shows on KPFA at 4 and 5 p.m., Minister of Information JR reported straight out of Los Angeles on the first pre-trial hearing since the murder case of Johannes Mehserle, the BART police officer who executed Oscar Grant, was moved there from Oakland.
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KTLA News reporter Lynette Romero,
Mary Ratcliff,
Minister of Information JR,
Oakland Tribune columnist Tammerlin Drummond,
Oscar Grant,
police terrorism,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
Rodney King,
San Francisco Bay View,
Simi Valley,
Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson
Meet former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and see a screening of ‘Operation Small Axe’ Wednesday, Jan. 13, 7 p.m., Black Dot Café, 1195 Pine St. West Oakland. Come and support Minister of Information JR and Holly Works, who still face charges from the Oakland Rebellions that secured the indictment of Johannes Mehserle, the triggerman who executed Oscar Grant.
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Jack Bryson,
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Los Angeles Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant,
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Oscar Grant Trial Committee,
Pan African Film Festival,
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police terrorism,
Rodney King,
“Operation Small Axe”
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.
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JR Valrey,
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Thandisizwe Chimurenga,
“Operation Small Axe”
Universities all over the state of California have erupted into protest over the raising of student fees. In the Bay Area, rebellions have been going down at UC Berkeley and at San Francisco State University regularly; students actually have brought their feelings right to the front door of the chancellor’s house.
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Since last year, former presidential candidate and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, the most progressive person to ever be a member of Congress or a presidential candidate, has been on a roll internationally – traveling through different parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe telling the truth about what is happening with the regular everyday people who live in the United States.
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Oscar Grant,
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Robben Island,
South African apartheid,
Thabo Mbeki,
Winnie Mandela,
“Operation Small Axe”
The Black Panther Party educated people, fed children, provided health care and resisted armed police aggression and other forms of government sanctioned aggression. Two of the martyrs of this movement were Chairman Fred Hampton and Defense Captain Mark Clark of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, who were both assassinated by the government on Dec. 4, 1969.
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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.
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A leader in the movement for justice for Oscar Grant, Minister of Information JR is headed to Los Angeles for a screening of his new film, “Operation Small Axe,” focusing on resistance to police terror in occupied communities, and a discussion of the Oscar Grant case and its implications. It’s this Saturday, Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m., at Leimert Park’s Kaos Network, 4343 Leimert Blvd. Let’s support this brotha!
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Dec. 9 will mark the 28th year that former Black Panther and present day political prisoner and prolific journalist Mumia Abu Jamal has been locked up for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer, although the evidence points to his innocence. After nearly three decades, many of Mumia’s supporters around the planet believe that he is closer than ever to being assassinated by lethal injection on Pennsylvania’s death row. We are asking everyone who reads this piece to get involved in freeing this man.
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The Bay Area is rallying around Minister of Information JR, facing three years in prison for covering the Oakland Rebellion that demanded justice for Oscar Grant and for his courageous coverage of police terrorism known throughout the country. Influential organizations are calling an 8 a.m. rally on Monday, Dec. 7, then to pack Courtroom 11, 1225 Fallon St., Oakland, the courthouse made famous by the many rallies the Black Panther Party held there.
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393 Films,
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Black Panther Party,
Block Report Radio,
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Critical Resistance,
Holly Works,
Johannes Mehserle,
Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Lovelle Mixon,
Manuel La Fontaine,
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Minister of Information JR,
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Oscar Grant,
Plan for a Safer Oakland,
POCC Minister of Information JR Valrey,
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“Operation Small Axe”
KCBS calls it “Another Viral BART Police Confrontation,” referring to the now world famous video of a BART officer shooting passenger Oscar Grant in the back as he lay face down on a BART platform at 2 a.m. New Year’s Day. The new video, shot Saturday night, shows another BART officer assaulting a passenger almost as viciously. STORY UPDATED TUESDAY, NOV. 24.
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John Burris,
Joseph Gibson,
Meyers Nave report,
Michael Gibson,
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) report,
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West Oakland Station
‘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.
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Adimu Madyun,
Angela N. Carroll,
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART),
Block Report Radio,
BlockReportRadio.com,
Hooker Boy,
Johannes Mehserle,
Lovelle Mixon,
militarized police,
Operation Small Axe,
Oscar Grant,
police terrorism,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee Minister of Information JR,
SF Bay View,
Siraj Fowler
POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. will be hitting Northern Cali Nov. 7-13 for the 40th anniversary of the assassination of his father, Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton of the Illinois Black Panther Party, and Defense Captain Mark Clark. Come out to support Chairman Fred, Block Report Radio and the SF Bay View – 7 events in 7 days, in Oakland, Sonoma, Stanford, Pleasant Hill, Santa Cruz, San Francisco.
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Akua Njeri,
Annette Garcia,
Black Panther Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton,
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
Daryl Hamiliton,
Deondre Brunston,
Donte Story,
Kathryn Johnston,
Kwan Booth,
Lovelle Mixon,
Mos Def,
Oscar Grant,
Oscar Grant III,
Sean Bell,
the Black Panthers,
the Chicago police,
the POCC,
the Prisoners of Conscious Committee
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