Today when I walked out of the Fruitvale BART station, a few young people were asking people to boycott BART tomorrow to honor the killing of Oscar Grant, a 22 year old man BART police shot and killed in the early hours of January 1st, on the platform of the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland. I have been following the story since New Year's Day when I learned of the fatal shooting just hours earlier on the platform just a few hundred meters from where I live.
make-shift vigil at Fruitvale BART station
Video footage supported by eyewitnesses reports of this incident shows that Grant was "lying on his stomach with his hands out in a non-threatening position when he was shot". Police have confirmed Grant was unarmed and have suggested the shooting was an accident. Grant lived in Hayward and leaves behind a 4-year-old daughter.
There will be a rally to protest the shooting from 3pm till 8pm on Wednesday January 7th at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland after a public funeral in Hayward.
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06 January 2009
04 January 2009
Israeli Anarchists block entrance to Israeli Air Force base in protest of Gaza strikes
By Ofri Ilani
Original piece published in Ha'aretz
Twenty-one members of the "Anarchists Against the Wall" group were arrested Friday morning after they blocked the entrance to the Sde Dov Israel Air Force base in North Tel Aviv.
The protestors, wearing white masks and covered in fake blood, laid on the street and played dead.
They said they were arrested after they left the road and were on the sidewalk.
The sign reads: "blood of children on your hands"
Ayala, one of the protestors, said that the protest was meant to "show IAF pilots the results of their actions in Gaza. From thousands of feet in the air, a pilot who aims and presses a button can ignore, forget, or be unable to fathom that at that moment he killed innocent people. We came here to remind them of this."
