Black.Seed Activists Shut Down Bay Bridge.

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Just minutes before 4:00 PM on Martin Luther King Jr. Day DaveyD broke the news.

bay-bridge-protesterFive cars moving in tandem westward on the Bay Bridge halted side by side before Treasure Island and people came out, cabling themselves and the cars together. CHP acted quite quickly. About thirty minutes after the first reports of what happened were tweeted news flashed that the protesters had been cut from their chains, arrested, and that some lanes had been opened.

All this happened as a large #ReclaimMLK, BlackLivesMatter protest march was finishing up in Emeryville, having begun at Oscar Grant Plaza with thousands in the streets at about noon.

See more as to how the story developed in this “Breaking” account. One tweet claimed that there had been 45 people arrested, but there has been no confirmation of the number.

An APTPAction tweet said 20-25 people had been arrested. Some twenty different people are seen in various pictures (not all shown here) sitting in handcuffs off to the side of the bridge.

 

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Black.Seed Statement

Over the last few years, we have seen San Francisco and Oakland destroyed by police murders, rising housing costs, rapid gentrification, and apathetic city officials. Last year, we saw dozens of police murders throughout the Bay Area; since June of 2015 in Oakland alone there have been eight Black men murdered by police.

Today Black.Seed celebrates and honors the radical legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Historically, our people have had to take drastic and dramatic measures to highlight the systemic abuses that harm our communities. 51 years ago, those who came before us participated in direct action in Selma, Alabama, to speak out against the harms of racism and oppression. It is this very spirit of resistance that flows through our lives and actions, in the Black Out Friday, Black Brunches, and highway shutdowns of today.

We are here to move towards an increase in the health and wellbeing of all Black people in Oakland & San Francisco. We stand in solidarity with APTP and demand:

  • The immediate divestment of city funds for policing and investment in sustainable, affordable housing so Black, Brown and Indigenous people can remain in their hometowns of Oakland and San Francisco
  • The resignation of Mayor Libby Schaaf
  • The immediate termination of Chief Greg Suhr
  • The immediate termination of Chief Sean Whent
  • The immediate termination of the officers involved in the murders of Richard Perkins, Mario Woods, Yuvette Henderson, Amilcar Lopez, Alex Nieto, Demouriah Hogg, Richard Linyard, O’Shaine Evans

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