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When:
April 27, 2015 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2015-04-27T18:00:00-07:00
2015-04-27T20:30:00-07:00
Where:
Oakland Federal Building
1301 Clay Street
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
1301 Clay Street
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
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Oakland will be holding a solidarity action with the community of Baltimore, that will start at the Ron V. Dellums Federal Building at 1301 Clay St. and march to the Port of Oakland. Oakland demands that all officers involved in Freddie Gray’s murder be charged with 1st Degree murder immediately.
Freddie Gray was murdered from a severed spine caused by Baltimore PD on April 12th, 2015, after being arrested for having a switch blade. Six officers have been suspended with pay pending an investigation. The Baltimore community has been demonstrating nightly demanding answers and accountability for the murder. Oakland is all to familiar with the epidemic of police killing unarmed Africans across the country.
From Gary King, Oscar Grant, Derrick Jones, Alan Blueford, Anita Gay, Raheem Brown, and many, many more. Oakland knows that the City Goverment of Baltimore is not going to provide any form of justice for Freddie Gray. The city officials are going to call for calm and patience, while they carry out anon-transparent and bias investigation that is going to clear all the officers and label Freddie Grays death a justifiable homicide. Anthony Batts, the current police chief of Baltimore, used to be Oaklands police chief but left because he did not have the backbone or capability to stop the corruption inside OPD. Therefore, Oakland has no faith in him doing a better job in Baltimore.
If we want justice for all of our brothers and sisters murdered by the police, it’s gonna take a national movement of grassroots organizing of the people from the ground up. Baltimore and Oakland are port cities. The Black community needs to bring the capitalist system to a halt by organizing to shutdown every port across the nation until our people our guaranteed liberation from every form of White Supremacy, including police murder.
Oakland will be holding a solidarity action with the community of Baltimore, that will start at the Ron V. Dellums Federal Building at 1301 Clay St. and march to the Port of Oakland. Oakland demands that all officers involved in Freddie Gray’s murder be charged with 1st Degree murder immediately. This demonstration is to send a message to all those on the ground in Baltimore that they are not alone, this is one nationwide fight, and Oakland is in this struggle with them. We call on the community of Baltimore to shut their ports down until the officers involved in Freddie Gray’s murder are arrested and charged.
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