Mehserle's Change of Venue Motion Exhibits 13 & 14: Local Groups Involved in Protesting

One thing to note is that of the groups included in Exhibit 13, many have been merely peripherally involved in the Justice for Oscar Grant Movement, when other more central groups and community activists are not included in the exhibit at all. Perhaps it has something to do with a defense strategy of trying to include a certain spectrum of supposedly scary and "radical" speech from the chosen groups' About Us web pages (referred to as "What They Believe" in Exhibit 13). Or perhaps those who didn't make the hall of fame attachment here simply didn't come up in web searches done by defense attorney Michael Rains' staff.

While the venue change attachments list identifies those in the exhibit as "some of the most prominent local groups that focused on the incident," amongst those counted in web sites listed below are at least one that appears to be an individual's blog, another one or two that have written apparently just a single article related to Oscar Grant, one that has been defunct for months more or less, and another that was possibly only involved in real organizing for a sole demonstration in January. Three or four of those listed in the attachment are indeed known to have substantially contributed to organizing and/or producing large amounts of related media.

Other organizations listed in the motion for change of venue but not included in the attachments here are the Town Halls for Justice for Oscar Grant, the Revolution Club, Uhuru House, and coverage on Indybay.org.


Opposition Filing Knocks Down Mehserle's Racist Change of Venue Motion Point by Point
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/04/18624372.php

Judge Refuses to Delay Change of Venue Hearing in Murder Trial of Johannes Mehserle, 9/25/09: PDFs
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/01/18624019.php

Mehserle's Racist Change of Venue Motion Cites Indybay and Community Activists
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/16/18622182.php

Johannes Mehserle's 995 Hearing: video, photos, and court documents including ruling
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/16/18622116.php

Murder Charge Sticks for Johannes Mehserle
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/24/18597663.php