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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.
A collection of recent news stories featuring Anti Police-Terror Project.
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ABC7 helped set up the conversation in which [Samuel] Getachew delves into topics affecting his hometown of Oakland with [Cat] Brooks, to learn and gain insight about specific ways that the community can get involved to create sustainable change.
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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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With widespread public demand to remove abusive police from our streets, elected officials turned their backs on California communities. By refusing to bring SB 731 up for a vote, Assembly leadership failed Californians, and they failed justice.
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Today, the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) launched MH First Oakland (Mental Health First), a new model for non-police response to mental health crises. The service will provide a police-free emergency support service to folks in Oakland experiencing a mental health crisis.
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Collective liberation is a long, hard-fought, ongoing dream that we’re now starting to realize, thanks to the sea of voices and righteous anger of thousands of people, from Oakland and beyond, that is washing over our entrenched institutions and saying “enough is enough, defund, reallocate, reimagine and dream.”
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