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Politics makes strange bedfellows
by Minister of Information JR Oakland police practice brutal crowd suppression techniques on June 18 in preparation for what they call “Operation Verdict.” Watch the full video below. – Video: ABC7...
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Looking at the Mehserle trial from New York
by Minister of Information JR These supporters of justice for Oscar Grant and the police evidently assigned to watch them were outside the Los Angeles courthouse July 1 as the trial of triggerman...
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The coming Mehserle sentencing: Redrawing the line on ‘outside agitators’
by Mike King In Oakland’s Black youth, the fightback legacy of the Black Panther Party is in the blood. – Photo: Jay Finneburgh, IndyBay As the sentencing for convicted Bay Area Rapid Transit police...
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Thousands attend funeral of Michael Brown
Police killing of African American youth galvanized the struggle against racism in the United States by Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire These photos were taken at Michael Brown’s funeral, held...
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Mumia on the meaning of Ferguson
by Mumia Abu-Jamal Written Aug. 31, 2014 – Before recent days, who among us had ever heard of Ferguson, Missouri? Soldiers and riot cops aim all their fire power at one lone protester in Ferguson. –...
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50th anniversary of the Watts Rebellion, a turning point in the struggle for...
by Abayomi Azikiwe Police, bolstered by the California National Guard, showed the Watts rebels no mercy, but the people were determined to be heard. It took 14,000 National Guard troops, 3,000 arrests,...
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Dignity and rage, dignity and freedom
by Malaika Kambon Just as in Haiti, what is in the streets when the people march or take political action is dignity and rage – and dignity and freedom. This was so true when just days ago, on the 8th...
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Oakland criminalized by its own mayor, after slap-on-the-wrist verdict for a...
by Dennis Bernstein Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums had a chance to shine last Thursday, after the verdict was announced in the murder trial of transit cop Johannes Mehserle for the Jan. 1, 2009, killing of...
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