Oakland is currently leading the nation in the Divest conversation. This is not the time to turn back.
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The Anti Police-Terror Project doesn’t just stand in solidarity with Palestine. We stand in solidarity with Palestinian resistance!
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Today Mayor Libby Schaaf released her proposed Oakland city budget for 2021-2023. Unfortunately, after tens of thousands of Oaklanders demanded the mayor reduce police spending and instead invest in community services, Mayor Schaaf has chosen to increase the police budget yet again.
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George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin on 03/25/2020. Despite great effort on the part of Chauvin’s attorney to assassinate George’s character and blame him for his own murder, Chauvin was rightfully found GUILTY.
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A bloated police budget has not made the streets any safer; it's time for real alternatives.
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We are not going to just sit idly by while Black folks are pushed out of yet one more PUBLIC Oakland space nor wait for the inevitable harm that will come as a result of the increased policing of our bodies and culture.
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Police are violence responders. Not violence interrupters. We need to invest in root cause preventive strategies. We need to get to the gun before the bullet flies, not watch yet another mother put her child in the ground. We need to Refund, Restore, and Reimagine.
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At Friday’s press conference, organizers will unveil a new campaign to win reparations for Oakland’s Black students. This demand is part of the Black New Deal platform to uplift Oakland Black residents. Other key demands of this platform include making housing a human right and reimagining public safety by refunding the community with half of OPD’s bloated budget.
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It will culminate on January 18, MLK Day, with a mass car caravan from the Port of Oakland to Eastmont Mall, demanding that we reinvest 50% of the Oakland Police Department’s dollars to community supports and services that actually keep us safe.
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The Defund Police Coalition delivered a statement to the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce Monday evening calling on the Taskforce to reground itself in principles that center those directly impacted by budget inequality and over-policing.
The tragic death of George Floyd had just occurred and protests were being held all over the U.S in support of BLM, including our city of San Francisco. Since racial justice is such an important matter, we felt as though we needed to do something. No matter how little that something was, we needed to take action. We brainstormed lots of ideas. We chose to walk a marathon because we thought it would be an effective way to raise money.
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In the wake of renewed international attention to the murders of Black men, woman, children, and most notably the recent tortuous killing of George Floyd — who was killed beneath the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, using the same technique that was used on Oscar Grant minutes before he was shot to death by BART Officer Johannes Mehserle — the family of Oscar Grant and the community that supports them demand that the District Attorney of Alameda County, Nancy O’Malley, reopen the case of the murder of Oscar Grant.
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Published on The Appeal on September 29, 2020
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The Anti Police-Terror Project sends our deepest condolences to the family of Breonna Taylor. And we send our love and hearts to the millions of Black people who were once again told today that their lives do not matter.
Breonna Taylor was murdered and yet her neighbor’s walls got more justice than Breonna Taylor herself. The Grand Jury returned with an indictment of one single officer with three counts of wanton endangerment for shooting into neighboring apartments -- and no charges for the murder of Breonna Taylor.
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The same police unions who defended their rank and file members responsible for the killings of Mario Woods, Jessica Williams, Anthony Nuñez, Ezell Ford, Kenney Watkins, and Grechario Mack now claim they have a quick fix for the protests that have swept that nation after George Floyd’s murder — “Invest in Better Policing”.
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