Just after midnight on Saturday May 6th, Alan Blueford and two of his friends were waiting for friends to pick them up on 90th Ave., in East Oakland, after the Floyd Mayweather fight. Not long after Alan had phoned his parents to check-in with them, a car slowly pulled up to them with its lights off. Alan ran. One officer gave chase. A few blocks later Alan was shot by [...]
August 21, 2012 Derrick Gaines, a 15-year-old of multiracial descent, was shot and killed by a South San Francisco Police Department officer on June 5, just before 9 p.m. According to police, on the night of the shooting, an officer approached two teens who they said appeared to be “acting suspiciously.” Then, the police say, one of the teens–Derrick–ran, drew a gun from his waistband and pointed it–at which point [...]
From UHURUNEWS Published May 31, 2012 The State has launched an attack on the Uhuru Movement and the African working class community through its recent announcement to re-impose the charges against Bakari Olatunji, aka Rickey Clay, a veteran of the Uhuru Movement. Bakari has an arraignment date this Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 9am at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse at 7th and Washington, Department 107 in Oakland, California. The charges [...]
On July 22, 2010, 16 year old James Earl Rivera, Jr. was shot and killed in a hail of 48 bullits fired by two Stockton PD Officers, Gregory Nunn and Eriz Azavard and San Joaquin County Sheriff Deputy John Nesbit. Unarmed James Rivera was driving at a normal speed to his home when he was rammed and turned around by a Stockton police car. A second police car rammed him [...]
Oakland Thursday 24 May People gathered Wednesday outside the Alameda County District Attorney’s office yesterday to speak out against criminal acts being perpetrated against the people of Oakland by the Oakland Police Department, then on to Acts Full Gospel Church for what was planned as a town hall style meeting in which the police chief Coward Jordan and mayor Jean Quan were to address the family of recent OPD shooting [...]
About three hundred people took to the streets from the location where Alan Blueford was recently gunned down by Oakland Police at 90th and Birch Street. The march was joined by those in attendance at the Community Medic training that occurred earlier in the day at Arroyo Viejo Park. People marched in protest against another murder by police, to bring the message to OPD at the Eastmont Mall station. Protestors [...]
By Terri Kay Oakland, Calif. A Court for Black Justice and Reparations was held in East Oakland by the International Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM). The charge against the Oakland Police Department was “Colonial genocide of the African community,” with arguments for the prosecution led by People’s Advocate, Diop Olugbala, Oakland Freedom Summer Project chair and international president of InPDUM. Directly before the May 5 trial, a March for Black [...]
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