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Brooks said activists plan to hold an 11 a.m. news conference in advance of a 3 p.m. march from Oakland police headquarters to Frank Ogawa Plaza as part of nationwide Black Lives Matter protests Thursday.
From The Movement for Black Lives:
Join Black Lives Matter Bay Area, Black Youth Project 100, and community members as we respond to the call from the Movement for Black Lives and demand #FreedomNow! We will be marching to many of the sites responsible for/benefiting from the war on Black people to lift up the names of lives lost to state sanctioned violence. We will also be converging with 2 other actions, one organized by youth & families, the other by the Anti Police Terror Project.
We Demand the immediate defunding of police departments & the immediate divestment from a system that criminalizes & imprisons our people at the local, state and federal level and a direct investment into the education, health and housing of our people. We demand investments that promotes the economic stability of our communities and increased community control over the institutions that are meant to serve us.
We need to divest from the institutions that decimate Black communities and invest in Black futures. #FreedomNow #blacklivesmatter #FundBlackFutures