On Monday, January 1, 2018, at 12 noon, Oscar’s family will hold the 9th Annual Memorial for him outside the Fruitvale BART station. The Oscar Grant Committee will set up a table, bring signs, and distribute literature. Join Us!
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Three Years After His Death, the investigation of Pedie’s killing continues
By Abené Clayton, Richmond Confidential, December 20, 2017
Pat Perez sat in the back row of the Richmond Citizen’s Police Review Commission’s November meeting, which she’s done every month since 2015. It’s a small conference room, on this night holding all eight review commissioners, and just 10 others, including city officials and representatives talking about police policy and crime rates. Pat Perez was joined by her husband, Richard, and their son Rick Perez Jr. She wore a sign around her neck, with her grandson’s face printed on it. His eyes looked upward…
Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Forums in San Francisco and Oakland, October 2017
View or download the flyer of this event as a PDF document
The Fight to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
A Fight Against Racist U.S. Capitalism
Mumia Abu-Jamal, former Black Panther, MOVE supporter and journalist known as the “voice of the voiceless,” is an innocent and framed political prisoner.
A new legal action against judicial bias in his appeals opens the door to Mumia’s freedom. The judge ordered the DA to release evidence from its files, but the prosecution continues its cover-up.
For 35 years, Mumia has challenged his racially biased and politically motivated conviction. Winning Mumia’s freedom would be a victory not only for him, but an inspiration and support to all those battling the injustices of U.S. imperialism. This struggle requires a mass movement with international labor support.
Join Us! Free Mumia!
Public Forums
Rachel Wolkenstein, Lawyer for Mumia from the beginning of his case.
ALSO: Other speakers, and a special segment: solidarity with anti-fascist fighters.
San Francisco: 6:30 PM, 27th October 2017
Hastings Law School, 198 McAllister St, Room A
Co-sponsors for the SF forum: San Francisco Law School Chapter, and UC Hastings Chapter, National Lawyers Guild
Oakland: 7 PM, 28th October 2017
Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave.
ENDORSERS: Workers World Party, Justice for Palestinians, Leonard Peltier Support Group, Donna Wallach, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party, Taking Aim, Socialist Viewpoint, Bay Area National Lawyers Guild, Mobilization To Free Mumia, Kiilu Nyasha, Freedom Socialist Party, International Bolshevik Tendency, Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality, Revolutionary Workers Group/Speak Out Now, Critical Resistance Oakland, Haiti Action.
Oscar Grant Committee statement to Richmond City Council
At the October 3, 2017 Richmond City Council meeting, Gerald Smith delivered the following statement on behalf of the Oscar Grant Commitee:
In February 2016 the Richmond City Council passed an important piece of local legislation. Basically it stated that hence forward if a citizen of Richmond is shot by the Richmond police there will be an independent investigation not controlled by the Richmond Police Department or the city attorney’s office.
Why? Because there was a serious cover-up of the actual circumstances surrounding Pedie’s death. People that have read the relevant documentation know this.
Now the Richmond police union and the assistant city attorney have revealed at the August and September meetings of the Richmond Citizens Police Review Commission that they are dead set against a transparent independent investigation.
Time does not permit me to share more details. But the situation is crystal clear: Who runs this city? The people of Richmond through their elected representatives or corrupted individuals and organizations that have a direct conflict of interest in the public of this investigation. Thank you.
