The People's Hearing is an _expression_ of the outrage over the string of Police murders in Oakland and the Bay Area preceding and following Oscar Grants’ murder.  The aim of the People's Hearing is to eliminate the isolation of the victims of police brutality, unite the peoples and communities targeted by the governments' repressive policies and practices, and to link local struggles for social justice and human rights with national and international struggles.   

 

Confirmed jurists include John Burris, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, David Gespass, Ajamu Baraka, Bill Ong Hing, Alberto Saldamando and others.

Saturday, February 19^th: Keynote by Rachel Jackson

-Session 1 (9:00am):  Racial Profiling

Testimony from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Huaxtec, Youth Together, All of Us or None, Community Youth Center and Arab Resource & Organizing Committee

 

-Session 2 (1:30pm): Police Killings

Testimony from family members of Oscar Grant, Andrew Moppin, Derrick Jones and Raheim Brown.  

 

Sunday, February 20^th: Keynote by Sanyika Bryant

-Session 3 (9:00am): COINTELPRO to Patriot Act

Testimony from San Francisco 8, Freedom Archives, Stop FBI Repression, New Year’s Movement, Haiti Action Committee, Laney Black Student Union and Onyx

 

-Session 4 (1:30pm):  Organized Resistance

Testimony from New Year’s Movement, Mujures Unidas, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Coalition to Stop the Gang Injunctions, SF Legal Immigrant Legal Education Network/AROC

 

For more information on the People's Hearing on Racism and Police Brutality visit www.peopleshearing.wordpress.com

The People's Hearing is co-sponsored by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, EastSide Arts Alliance, New Year's Movement, National Lawyers Guild, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, Collision Course Video Productions, Hard Knock Radio, Onyx, African People's Socialist Party, International Indian Treaty Council, National Conference of Black Lawyers, the National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights, and the US Human Rights Network.

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