On Monday, January 21, 2013, at approximately 4:30 p.m.,Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., son of slain deputy chairman Fred Hampton Sr. of the Illinois Black Panther Party, as well as three additional passengers, fell victim to the abuse and harassment many Black and Brown Oaklanders experience on a regular basis. After leaving the Berkeley marina, the group noticed a police car following them in route to the Emeryville Target shopping store. [...]
It’s Friday night. Elected public servants at this coming Tuesday’s Oakland City Council meeting will be discussing a drastic rewriting of legislation regarding graffiti. In an admitted attempt to control protestors, the authors of this legislation have effectively designed a new method of imprisoning residents and visitors to Oakland, especially youth, for what has been until now legally defined as an infraction. At twenty three pages long, there is much [...]
© in only a moment hot turns to cold what once was a body harboring a soul now empty, depleted all energy drains whisper of spirit is all that remains hovering remnants of energy pure as a wish for tomorrow bringing no cure wish turns to vapor body to dust crumbling emotion like metal to rust where once were ideas plans, hopes, and dreams departed in panic [...]
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 [...]
Grief takes many forms. When young Alan Blueford was murdered by Miguel Masso in May 2012, his family, stunned by their loss, tried valiantly to follow protocol, politely asking for answers from what they would learn the hard way is one of, if not the most corrupt and violent police organizations in the country. Initial rallies, marches, and protests in reaction to this killing were tamed by pleas from the [...]
By William West As the family of Alan Blueford continues to struggle for justice after he was killed by police on May 6, new information is coming to light about Oakland, Calif., police officer Miguel Masso, who pulled the trigger that ended Blueford’s life. While pursuing Blueford, Masso passed a Cinco de Mayo party at a house where children were playing in the yard. It was in this yard that [...]
News from: City of Oakland FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2012 Independent Report: Flawed Response by Oakland Police to October 25 “Occupy Oakland” Protest Oakland Police, Mayor, Administrator Say Reforms Already in Progress, Pledge Continued Improvements Oakland— An independent report commissioned by the City Administration has confirmed that the Oakland Police Department’s response to the Occupy Oakland protest on October 25 last year was flawed by inadequate staffing, insufficient planning, [...]
An Occupant of Oakland talked with photographer and reporter Wendy Kenin @greendoula outside Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland after a hundred supporters attended court again today for yet another episode of the same old OPD abduction, DA no real charges, fight for release and justice story. About a hundred people gathered at First Acts Church last Wednesday in hopes of hearing the truth about the recent shooting and killing by [...]
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 [...]
9 May 2012 Uhuru! It is currently 11PM and the OPD has had the block on which the Uhuru House is located on lock down for the past 4 hours. While we were in the middle of our Oakland Freedom Summer Project political action meeting the pigs vamped on the community. Myself and comrade Bakari went out to find out what was going on. The pigs had the entire [...]
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