Court Support: Blackout Collective Arraignment

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When:
December 30, 2014 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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Where:
Wiley Manuel Courthouse room 107
7th Street & Washington Street
Oakland, CA 94607
USA
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Members of the Blackout Collective are being arraigned from the BART shutdown.
Make sure you check back at the Antirepression website and/or Facebook as times and dates change frequently.
  1. Hello everyone!
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  3. I have just received the most outrageous news tonight that I believe requires our immediate attention!
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  5. The young women and young men (including CAL student) who launched the Black Lives Matter movement and led the amazing shut down of the BART for 4.5 hours during Black Friday are being charged with criminal trespassing and restitution for their acts of civil disobedience.  If you missed the impact of this shut down, here is the link:
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  7. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/28/1348086/-Breaking-Black-Lives-Matter-Protesters-Shut-Down-BART-at-West-Oakland-Station
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  9. There initial hearings are Monday and Tuesday morning at the Alameda County Courthouse and we need people to turn out in large numbers.  If there are any clergy, particularly non-black clergy, who can turn out in clergy attire, it would be very helpful.
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  11. Also, we need people to flood BOS President, Supervisor Keith Carson office (510) 272-6695 and the District Attorney Nancy O’Malley office (510) 272-6222 over the next 48 hours to dismiss this case.  There is a growing trend across the country to retaliate and target protest leaders to shame, threaten and deter their/our leadership.  Meanwhile, masked anarchists who appear to be largely non-black cause vandalism, fires, and property damage and are not arrested or charged!!!
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  13. We must stand with them and make this public.  These young women are our generation’s Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, etc.,
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  15. Please let me know if you are with me so we can make plans…be clear things will be very fluid here on out…so, let’s gear up if you are able!
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