Monday, May 20th, 2013
By Aubrie Johnson – Tower Staff Writer African-American youth filled the first two rows of chairs lining the congregation room of the Acts Full Gospel Church in Oakland on April 27, clad in white T-shirts reading “OAKLAND NAACP Youth Leadership Conference.” Some held slips of paper from an earlier exercise in their hands, with their
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Community activists cheered the Oakland City Council’s move to force a more transparent police reform process from the city administration Tuesday night. The Council voted 8-0 to set a timeline for City Administrator Deanna Santana to complete...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Two waves of protesters hit the port on Monday as part of an Occupy West Coast Port blockage that ranged from Anchorage, Alaska to San Diego. The morning act results in the closure or partial closure of...
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a large number of people who marched through the neighborhood around East 17th and 6th on Friday were “screaming, jumping on cars and smashing windows.” This is the LEAD paragraph. Way...
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
On October 23, the ILWU and many other organizations held a demonstration in Oakland and shut down the port for a day in support of justice for Oscar Grant in the upcoming Nov 5 sentencing of his...
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
About 17 people have been charged over the past three weeks with crimes related to the protests against former BART cop Johannes Mehserle’s involuntary manslaughter verdict on July 8. Some of those recently charged were arrested that...
Monday, July 19th, 2010
About 500 people descended on the parking lot of the Walnut Creek courthouse Monday afternoon to rally in support of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle. But at least half of those in attendance were either on-duty...
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Last night protesters in Oakland, CA rioted after a Los Angeles jury convicted former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle of Involuntary Manslaughter. Mehserle, a whilte police officer, had been on trial for a highly visible shooting of...
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Fourteenth Street was quiet. Almost too quiet. It was about 7 p.m., Thursday, July 1 — one day before the earliest the much-anticipated verdict in the Johannes Mehserle trial would come in. Warm air, blue sky and...
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Note: Sunday, March 21st is the one-year anniversary of this tragic event–OL is making this article more accessible for those still wondering what went down.-SM What went wrong in the March 21, 2009 Lovell Mixon shooting that...
