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Add an EventOakland Rising! All Out for Trayvon and against Police Violence
Six hundred people left Oscar Grant Plaza at 5:00 PM this evening after a rally in the plaza that began at 4:00 PM. Taking over the streets they marched into West Oakland (home of the 60's Black Panther party), gathering people as the march progressed. It is not implausible that over a thousand people returned to Oscar Grant Plaza as the march ended. Yet the day's activity had not.
Hundreds then decided to block downtown Oakland's main intersection at 14th & Broadway (right off Oscar Grant Plaza), lying down in the street in symbolic affinity to the sprawled corpse of Trayvon. The blockade has continued for some three hours.
Here is the Trayvon's legacy as told in Oakland today in tweets and pictures.
Nothing in Oakland starts on time, and therefore no one shows up on time, but by 4:00 PM, the nominal start of the rally, there were already over 200 people in the Plaza by my count, portending a soon-to-be wall-to-wall people gathering.
Crowd growing at #OGP. United Oakland ready to shut down the city. #oakland #JusticeForTrayvon pic.twitter.com/5qixS9V4U1
— OccupythePort (@occupytheport) July 14, 2013
Large crowd in Oakland for #JusticeForTrayvon #HoodiesUp pic.twitter.com/gwqPRAWJda
— Julia Wong (@juliacarriew) July 14, 2013
Six hundred people marched out of the plaza, with some staying behind, so the rally itself had more than six hundred attendees.
Rt @OccupyOakland: Crowd of 600 and growing at #OGP - #JusticeForTrayvon #Oakland pic.twitter.com/QNMPo5IKaX
— Minister Flashes (@Federal_flashes) July 15, 2013
Just starting out down Broadway.
Protect and serve that's a lie! They don't care if black kids die http://t.co/...
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
And then heading towards West Oakland.
Tighten up oaklandnot paying turn down 8th- no justiceno peace Fuck the police http://t.co/...
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
Solid block of people! What do we want? justice! when do we want it? now pic.twitter.com/7mPDV0kcm1
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
waiting for comrades and heading to West Oakland when they catch up pic.twitter.com/MnLKPPT690
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
No justice no peace - http://t.co/...
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
"Welcome to #Oakland" a protestor said to motorist who had to stop as hundreds marched by @insidebayarea pic.twitter.com/18fn2rfdTk
— Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) July 15, 2013
A new and invigorating chant.
Old Jim Crow, New Jim Crow, Whole Damn System's Got to Go"Some observations by marchers and onlookers.
Media is weeping over a broken windshield in #Oakland. Meanwhile, #TravyonMartin is still dead and his murderer walks free.
— Scott Campbell (@angrywhitekid) July 14, 2013
12 #OPD bracketing #trayvon march in w #oakland
— Ali Winston (@awinston) July 15, 2013
this is so awesome it's making me want to cry from joy/ hope
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
Until now I've only heard marchers refer to #TravonMartin & #OscarGrant. Now chanting about #AlanBlueford, who was killed by #OPD last year.
— Joshua Daniels (@HarryElephante) July 15, 2013
Hundreds marching in #Oakland in opposition to not guilty verdict #TravonMartin pic.twitter.com/y1mJ1fV9C9
— Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha) July 15, 2013
Which act of utter disrespect will be the one that gets us all out? pic.twitter.com/LZs01CCKBi
— Strike Debt Bay Area (@StrikeDebtBA) July 15, 2013
Old jimcrow, new jimcrow the whole damn system got to go http://t.co/...
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
Oakland is the most diverse city - and i would bet this is most diverse march- bart train honked as went by. hitting west oakland turned
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
RT @Federal_flashes: Solidarity. RT @occupytheport: Massive march winding through #WestOakland. #JusticeForTrayvon pic.twitter.com/72vUz1FXDt
— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallSt) July 15, 2013
Entire West Oakland community coming out. Chants of "Guilty". People are fired up. Demand justice. #oakland #JusticeForTrayvon
— OccupythePort (@occupytheport) July 15, 2013
Scanner: "march size in increasing...residents from the area joining the crowd" #Oakland #JusticeForTrayvon #HoodiesUp
— Pink Edge (@PinkXEdge) July 15, 2013
I think he's exaggerating some, but the march definitely got significantly bigger over time.
Abt 2k ppl march through #Oakland to protest #Zimmerman ruling. #s are growing as some leave houses & join en route. pic.twitter.com/rOILHT1pRc
— Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) July 15, 2013
whose street Trayvon's street pic.twitter.com/khVPKN0eEh
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
Handful of cops ghosting march are now noticeably winded
— Jaime Omar Yassin (@hyphy_republic) July 15, 2013
opd's main job keep us docile! miserable failures! Ruling class we e coming 4 u the enpire is coning down pic.twitter.com/Y3mrYlfvi2
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
For some inexplicable reason five or six OPD marched right along, practically within, the march. I was off to the side once counting marchers and holding a WANTED poster for one of OPD's finest (Miguel Masso, who shot and killed Alan Blueford) and they trod right past me, within a foot or two, right in the middle of the protesters.
Well, all they got for their trouble was listening to such as this for miles:
Protect & serve that's a lie they don't care when black kids die."no justice no peace, no racist police"
We r all Trayvon Martin-people respond cheering like the did when we marched back from portshutdown first time pic.twitter.com/hMJtgGYsld
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
The march went all the way to the West Oakland Bart Station, then up to Little Bobby Hutton Park, then straight back to Oscar Grant Plaza.
We are marching past little Bobby Hutton park, lots of people happy to see us
— The Spectre of Scott (@OakScott) July 15, 2013
Remarkable 100 % support from streets
— Jaime Omar Yassin (@hyphy_republic) July 15, 2013
they say Jimcrow we say fuck no pic.twitter.com/9kVSP2fOVU
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
Back at the Plaza, and deciding to take the intersection.
. We r shutting pic.twitter.com/IBFskecCsy
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
.Lie in 4 all young black men they r killing- we r holding intersection for them pic.twitter.com/MeDlkH9Mvn
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
We have taken the intersection of 14th and Broadway
— The Spectre of Scott (@OakScott) July 15, 2013
People took over the 14th & Broadway intersection #oo #trayvonmartin pic.twitter.com/mCJXikBGpN
— (@thehoopoe) July 15, 2013
The march is back home now. Trayvon, we're on our minds. pic.twitter.com/Kfq4cRJVky
— Strike Debt Bay Area (@StrikeDebtBA) July 15, 2013
More speakers!
Oakland #trayvon march blocking 14th/Broadway. Chanting: Whose street? Trayvon's street! @SFGate @jeffelder
— Michael Cabanatuan (@ctuan) July 15, 2013
"The blood of #trayvon is on the hands of the entire United States Justice Department" - speaker now at #OGP #JusticeForTrayvon #Oakland
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) July 15, 2013
"We went through the ghetto and people came outside and were embracing the positive message. We can do that every day" Oakland rally speaker
— Yael Chanoff (@Yaelnc) July 15, 2013
i love oakland and most of the eastbay pic.twitter.com/vYerVy1Xob
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
The crowd in Oakland has thinned ablittle but a crowd of around 400 are still entrenched in the intersection #TrayvonMartin
— occupyca (@occupyca) July 15, 2013
Just got back to OGP. Still about 100 people holding the intersection. Talk of a march at 10. #Oakland #JusticeForTrayvon #YAN
— Political Fail Blog (@PFailBlog) July 15, 2013
And let's do it again tomorrow!!!
"This was an overwhelming success. There's going to be another rally tomorrow at Oscar Grant Plaza. 6pm."
— Yael Chanoff (@Yaelnc) July 15, 2013
Now for some things completely different.
#JusticeForTrayvon RT @megmulsy: This is the most eloquent response to the #zimmerman acquittal I've seen so far pic.twitter.com/WZOB5FF9Jk
— Liza Sabater (@blogdiva) July 15, 2013
@OLBLightBrigade: We have a "TRAYVON LIVES ON" #lightbrigade message in Milwaukee tonight. #TrayvonMartin pic.twitter.com/R4cw4Da4dkawesome
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
don't like him but us awesome pic@NicholsUprising: Remarkable image of the huge #JusticeForTrayvon rally in NYC... pic.twitter.com/gsBLCWLioG
— Alyssa (@alyssa011968) July 15, 2013
Since we know that all trials are staged, that all juries by definition favor the police state as the workingclass simply cannot afford to sit on a jury and when they can, are never selected, it was very predictable that AGAIN, we would get a not guilty verdict for a criminally insane murderer. This is only possible because we have not stopped the profit-making of the capitalist class, the cause of all our grief. The police state exists to make sure the workingclass does not organize to end the private profit system.
George Zimmerman, a judge's son, shot Trayvon Martin at point blank range with his gun on Martin's sweatshirt, through the heart, in a gated community. There was absolutely no self-defense. Zimmerman has a history of criminally insane fights. The jury was carefully selected among the property owners as most juries are, all of whom are concerned about protecting their private property.
The predictable NEXT TIME one of these police killers is tried and found not guilty, IN ADVANCE OF THE VERDICT, a GENERAL STRIKE MUST BE ANNOUNCED, if not nationally, than in as many cities as possible, if there is anything but a guilty of murder verdict. The ruling class will then be faced with either ending their police state terrorism or having their system finally disappear from the face of the earth.
The United States always has been Nazi USA, built on the genocide of Native Americans, African slave labor and the vicious exploitation of the labor of all nationalities, including child labor, to this day. There can be no justice in the courts of Nazi USA.
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