Sunday, May 19th, 2013
East Bay native Ryan Coogler’s feature film on Oscar Grant, “Fruitvale Station” – which is opening in the U.S. July 12 and getting broader national distribution July 26 – continues to get rave reviews around the world. According to Jamilah King at Colorlines, “Fruitvale Station” got a two-minute standing ovation after its premiere at the
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...
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
The fifth day of testimony in the murder trial of Johannes Mehserle resumes Thursday, June 17, after a state-mandated furlough day on Wednesday, June 16, with former BART Officer Anthony “Tony” Pirone scheduled to take the stand....
