Podcast appearances and mentions of oscar grant iii

Send us a Text Message.Rev. Dereca Blackmon is the new Senior Minister at the East Bay Church of Religious Science a Center for Spiritual Living (ebcrs.org) in Oakland, CA where she has dedicated over 25 years of service to the spiritual transformation of the entire planet. Her sermons, lectures and workshops have provided over 100,000 participants in 20 countries with opportunities to expand their consciousness around issues of inclusion, forgiveness, self-love and radical healing. She has taught the Science of Mind philosophy in a wide variety of settings ranging from teen church to Holmes Institute. She has delivered over 75 talks at spiritual centers in Oakland, Sacramento, Dallas, Detroit and many others, including serving as the Fall Opening Lecture at Stanford University's Memorial Church.Her work is rooted in a tradition of sacred activism that seamlessly blends spiritual and cultural principles that foster personal and social liberation. Whether her ministry is in juvenile hall or corporate conference rooms, she is committed to providing loving comfort to those facing oppression and “constructive discomfort” to those resting in their societal privilege. Rev. Dereca served as a lead architect in the effort to organize the Bay Area community response to the murder of Oscar Grant III. After working with the community to mobilize thousands of protestors and holding countless meetings and rallies she began to question the strategy of organizing “against” rather than “for.” She entered ministerial school at Holmes Institute, Santa Rosa campus and has never looked back, becoming one of the nation's leading speakers on Sacred activism.She served as a nonprofit executive for 20 years, developing nationally-adopted experiential curriculum and raising over $5 million dollars for Bay Area youth. She also served for six years as the Assistant Vice Provost and Executive Director of the Diversity and First-Generation Office at her alma mater, Stanford University, where she introduced groundbreaking work allowing participants to engage in deep, authentic and meaningful dialogues.She currently serves as President and Co-Founder of Inclusion Design Group (https://inclusiondesign.com/) where she has consulted with a wide variety of corporate, educational, nonprofit and community-based groups to facilitate “uncommon conversations” on issues of race, gender, class and social justice.  She and her team have supported industry leaders, including LinkedIn, Harvard University, YouTube and many others in activating their vision for diversity and inclusion in their organizations and in the world. She is the mother of four bold and beautiful daughters who she raised in the spiritual principles of New Thought and who continue to be her life's best teachers.Support the Show.Donate – CelesteFrazier.com

Henry Lake talks with  Reverend Wanda Johnson about her son Oscar Grant III being killed by a local officer back in 2009, being a voice for others, holding officers accountable,hiring practices of officers, speaking at Be The Change and more. For more information on the event or the foundation visit https://www.bethechangemn.com/speaker-series and https://oscargrantfoundation.org/.

Fruitvale Station (2013) is based on the real-life events leading to the death of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer on New Year's Day 2009 at the Fruitvale district station in Oakland, California. The film depicts the final day in Oscar Grant's life, interspersed with flashbacks from his past, which together provide a richly layered picture a young man whose life was tragically cut short. The film was written and directed by Ryan Coogler  (in his first feature film), and stars Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant, Melonia Diaz as his girlfriend, and Octavia Spencer as Oscar's mother. Fruitvale Station not only provides a moving account of Oscar Grant's final day, but also presents a chilling indictment of police violence and the role that race still plays in perpetuating it. I am joined by Professor Michael Pinard of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Professor Pinard is a nationally recognized expert on criminal law, race and the criminal justice system, and the challenges faced by individuals with criminal convictions when reintegrating into society. Timestamps:0:00   Introduction4:18    Impressions of the film when it came out and today7:23    Living in the shadow of the criminal justice system9:25    Bystander recordings and their impact13:14  The challenges of prosecuting police violence17:17  The humanity of Oscar Grant18:53  How white and black people perceive law enforcement differently21:40  The fleeting nature of life for many black and brown Americans24:58  “The talk”26:45  What's changed since Oscar Grant's death, and what hasn't33:44  The need for a film about the school to prison pipeline37:09  The parents of the incarcerated Further reading:Cummings, André Douglas Pond, “Reforming Police,” 10 Drexel L. Rev. 573 (2018)Fan, Mary D., Camera Power: Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data (Univ. Cambridge Press 2018)Pinard, Michael, “Poor Black and ‘Wanted': Criminal Justice in Ferguson and Baltimore,” 58 Howard L.J. 857 (2015)Schwartz, Joanna, Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (Viking 2023)Simonson, Jocelyn, “Beyond Body Cameras: Defending a Robust Right to Record the Police,” 104 Geo. L.J. 1559 (2016)Law on Film is created and produced by Jonathan Hafetz. Jonathan is a professor at Seton Hall Law School. He has written many books and articles about the law. He has litigated important cases to protect civil liberties and human rights while working at the ACLU and other organizations. Jonathan is a huge film buff and has been watching, studying, and talking about movies for as long as he can remember. For more information about Jonathan, here's a link to his bio: https://law.shu.edu/faculty/full-time/jonathan-hafetz.cfmYou can contact him at jonathanhafetz@gmail.comYou can follow him on X (Twitter) @jonathanhafetz You can follow the podcast on X (Twitter) @LawOnFilm

We spent two weeks praising Ryan Coogler for his Black Panther films and it has led us to finally go back to where it all began. This 2013 debut film from Coogler chronicles the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22 year old man who was shot and killed on New Years Eve by a BART Police officer in Oakland. Our proximity to the the real life event and the location make this one of the most unique episodes of this podcast ever.

Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station. BART officer Anthony Pirone kneed Grant in the head and forced Grant to lie face down on the platform. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland and pronounced dead later that day. The events were captured on multiple official and private digital video and privately owned cell phone cameras. Owners disseminated their footage to media outlets and to various websites where it went viral. Both peaceful and violent protests took place in the following days.

Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station. BART officer Anthony Pirone kneed Grant in the head and forced Grant to lie face down on the platform. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland and pronounced dead later that day. The events were captured on multiple official and private digital video and privately owned cell phone cameras. Owners disseminated their footage to media outlets and to various websites where it went viral. Both peaceful and violent protests took place in the following days.

Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco, BART Police officers detained Grant and several other passengers on the platform at the Fruitvale BART Station. BART officer Anthony Pirone kneed Grant in the head and forced Grant to lie face down on the platform. Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland and pronounced dead later that day. The events were captured on multiple official and private digital video and privately owned cell phone cameras. Owners disseminated their footage to media outlets and to various websites where it went viral. Both peaceful and violent protests took place in the following days.

Débora Souza Silva is a Black Afro-Brazilian journalist and filmmaker. Her work has been featured on PBS, BBC, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of the Les Payne Founder's Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, the 2021 Creative Capital Award, and a New York Times Institute fellowship. Her work examines systemic racism and inequality. Don't miss this online discussion of her feature-length film Black Mothers Love and Resist. It examines the Mothers of the Movement, a growing national network of Black mothers whose children have been attacked by police. The film follows two mothers—Angela Williams and Wanda Johnson—and the cycle of courage and care that Black mothers have cultivated to protect themselves and their families. Also joining us will be Wanda Johnson, a mother, activist and speaker, with a long history of community organizing and speaking to equity. When her son Oscar Grant III was killed by an Oakland BART transit officer on January 1, 2009, she embarked on a journey to turn that pain into purpose. Since then, Wanda has become an amplified voice for mothers and organizers. Wanda is also CEO of the Oscar Grant Foundation and licensed and ordained as a minister. Note: This program is an interview about the film and its subjects; it is not a film screening. NOTES See more  Michelle Meow Show programs at The Commonwealth Club of California. SPEAKERS Wanda Johnson CEO, The Oscar Grant Foundation; Activist; Ordained Minister Débora Souza Silva Director and Producer, Black Mothers Love and Resist Michelle Meow Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show," KBCW TV and Podcast; Member, Commonwealth Club Board of Governors—Co-host John Zipperer Producer and Host, Week to Week Political Roundtable; Vice President of Media & Editorial, The Commonwealth Club of California—Co-host In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on April 21st, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode: We take a look at the story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008 We welcome Welsh rockers, Junior, as their track 'Maria' officially becomes our new theme song And, we take a look at Rob's cycle challenge, as heard on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Rob is cycling 300 miles in April to raise money for Cancer Research UK, The British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK.

This week's episode is a very important one. The boys discuss the masterful storytelling of Ryan Coogler and the extraordinary acting of Micheal B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station. It tells the story of Oscar Grant III, a black man who was murdered by Bart Police in Oakland in 2009 - it's an important story to experience, and one that has echoes 11 years after these true events took place. Watch this film.

Photo: Wanda Johnson, with photos of her son Oscar Grant, who was murdered by BART police in 2009.   Interview with Wanda Johnson https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Oscar-Grant_4.03.mp3 jQuery(document).ready(function($) { var media = $('#audio-342049-61'); media.on('canplay', function (ev) { this.currentTime = 0; }); }); ThisIsLucyKang · “Eleven years later, and I'm still fighting”: Remembering Oscar Grant   On New Year's Day 2009, then-BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant III at Fruitvale BART Station. The murder was captured on video by several bystanders and quickly went viral on social media, prompting mass protests in Oakland.  The family's protracted three-year struggle for justice resulted in the first officer in history in California to be convicted for a shooting in the so-called “line of duty.” Oscar is survived by his 16-year-old daughter Tatiana Grant, his fiancée Sophina Mesa, his sister Chantay Moore, and his mother Wanda Johnson. The following is an edited excerpt from a longer interview with Wanda Johnson, Oscar's mother: ______ He loved life. He loved to be around friends. He loved to be the one who is known the best, friends with multiple people, multiple nationalities. Didn't matter. He just loved life and loved people. He played basketball. He played baseball. He played football. He was a child who loved to do multiple, multiple things. So he had a lot of stuff going on in his life. He had plans. He had goals. He had visions. He had dreams. He would be at church doing the prayers in front of two or three thousand people. He would say scripture. He would sing. He just was full of life. He had a personality where if you needed help and he could help you, he would help you. He was just that type of young man. And so every time I think about Oscar, I think about all the times that he has tried to help others. The night that he was shot and killed, he was trying to help his friend. He didn't like how his friend was being treated by the officer. And Oscar ended up losing his life that night. Had that officer who hit Oscar and who did his takedown move and who was pointing his taser at everybody and cussing everybody out – had he had some self-control, maybe Oscar would still be alive. Justice has not been served. And I'm sure that it will not be served on this side of the earth because our judicial system is not set up for people of color. “Justice has not been served. And I'm sure that it will not be served on this side of the earth because our judicial system is not set up for people of color.” So I just look at that and I look at Oscar's life, how even with him being gone, he's still making an impact on society [in] many different ways. And what happened with Oscar was really a start of a movement showing the injustices that African-Americans face as a people of color. There was I think seven different videos from seven different nationalities. It was amazing, let me tell you. From that point on, when those people saw Oscar lying on that ground, and they saw that officer stand up and shoot and kill him, they became like our families. It's not easier to deal with the loss, but it's easier to deal with the system because you have that support from outside. And so I would say that to families who have lost a loved one, number one, that you're not alone, that the community supports you. And when they're dealing with what has happened, to make sure they continue to say their child's name. Because sometimes, if the name doesn't get in the media, the parents have to be the one to insist that it get there. Don't give up. Eleven years later, and I'm still fighting. You can't give up no matter what it seems like. No matter how hard it may be. There'll be days when you don't even feel like getting out of the bed. But keep pressing because if you don't, they'll just let it all die out. And your son will just be another name that nobody knows. ______ This story is part of the series TAKEN FROM US: Remembering lives lost to police violence. This piece was reported and recorded by Chris Lee and edited and produced by Lucy Kang. First aired on UpFront on August 11, 2020. The post “Eleven years later, and I'm still fighting”: Remembering Oscar Grant appeared first on KPFA.

The gang decided it was time to mix up the PFR Weekly template a touch, and to do so they are embarking on a three-part series dissecting and discussing the films of director Ryan Coogler. Coogler has directed three feature films, and so this episode and the next two will each focus on one of those directorial efforts to allow a deep dive on one of the most exciting directors working today. This episode starts the arc with a look at Coogler's devastatingly beautiful directorial debut, Fruitvale Station (2013). Fruitvale Station focuses on Oscar Grant III's (Michael B. Jordan) last day alive before his murder at the hands of BART Police Officers on New Year's Day 2009. In depicting this real life tragedy, Coogler pulls no punches in displaying the monstrous actions of those officers, but he also spends the majority of the film outlining Grant's humanity and what he meant to the people around him. Jane, Nathan, and Devin start by considering how Coogler's early life and education led him to this project, and then analyze the fully-formed directorial style on display in Fruitvale, and the many heartbreaking parallels between Grant's story and the stories of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the countless other Black Americans killed by police. If you have a suggestion for a film or topic for the show, get in touch! Follow and message us on Instagram at @portland_film_review or FaceBook at Portland Film Review, or send us an email at pfrweekly@gmail.com. Plus, if you like what you hear, make sure to follow and review us wherever you get your podcasts.

Oscar Grant III was returning home on New Year's Eve in 2009 when he was shot dead by Officer Mehserle on the BART Fruitvale Station platform. This was one of the first times since the televised Rodney King beating (1991) that police brutality was filmed by witnesses. Oscar's death sparked protests, riots, and questioned police brutality. Oscar's death was portrayed by Michael B. Jordan in the 2013 movie "Fruitvale Station" written and directed by Ryan Coogler. Join us as we tell the history of two people that crossed paths on New Year's Eve that would leave one dead and the country shocked. Video of the incident from multiple perspectives. *Warning: Graphic* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LDw5l_yMI Resources for this episode include the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_IjfZp1io https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/10-years-since-Oscar-Grant-s-death-What-13489585.php https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Oscar_Grant http://www.lovenotbloodcampaign.com/case-file https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/grant-oscar-juliuss-iii-1986-2009/ https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Oscar-Grant-s-character-shooter-both-on-trial-3186791.php https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/unsealed-report-reveals-oscar-grants-murder-by-bart-police-was-no-accident/ https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/unsealed-report-reveals-oscar-grants-murder-by-bart-police-was-no-accident/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0141854#sec005 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/modernmurders/support

Like a Shakespearean tragedy, ‘Fruitvale Station’ (2013) unfolds toward an inexorable conclusion that is presented to us at the beginning of the movie in the form of the actual cellphone footage captured on that fateful night in the first hours of 2009. Horrifying in its stark presentation and enraging in the blatant malice it captures, the footage is the only glimpse most people got of Oscar Grant III, the victim of a police shooting at the Fruitvale Station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) network. The movie, director Ryan Coogler’s debut feature film, follows Oscar through his last day alive and shows us the smallest sliver of his challenges, his circumstances, and his world. Michael B. Jordan puts in a career-catapulting performance that balances incredible sensitivity and subtlety with pain and back-against-the-wall-aggression. Next stop: Fruitvale Station. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/framesandfools/message

This one is all over the place. We start off with an unscheduled discussion of racism in Edmonton, Canada, and around the world. Indy suggests you listen to Run The Jewels and watch Trigger Warning with Killer Mike. Samantha’s escapist pick is the Netflix original Dangerous Lies. Then Indy does a last minute swap for Ghostbusters, and introduces next week’s movie, the Ryan Coogler / Michael B. Jordan collaboration about the murder of Oscar Grant III, Fruitvale Station.   Run The Jewels: RunTheJewels.com Run The Jewels Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfuCLp8VEng Killer Mike's pre-show Ferguson Grand Jury speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Bpp5nnKCU Clip From Trigger Warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M29zcdSGb54 Dangerous Lies Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJJo0whbJ4 Cineplex- Understanding Black Stories (watch Fruitvale Station for free!): https://store.cineplex.com/promo/understandingblackstories.aspxFruitvale Station Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crMTGCCui5c

The Dudes discuss 2013's "Fruitvale Station", directed by Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan. This artistic biopic follows Oscar Grant III through the events of his last day alive, leading up to his wrongful murder by the BART police. An emotional masterwork which also happens to be the director's debut. A sure sign of things to come. Other Movies Discussed Assault on Precinct 13 - (1976) – Directed by John Carpenter Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die - (1996 TV) – Directed by Ron Oliver QUESTION OF THE WEEK What is your favorite depiction of police abusing their power in film? And don't forget to tell us what YOU'VE been watching! www.dudesonmovies.com www.facebook.com/dudesonmovies www.twitter.com/dudesonmovies www.instagram.com/dudesonmovies www.soundcloud.com/dudesonmovies dudesonmovies@gmail.com

This week the guys discuss Fruitvale Station, a film chronicling the last days of police brutality victim Oscar Grant III. An exploratory episode into race relations in America.

Guests: Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor: "The Love Project," plus their Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women in the Diaspora--South Africa...; "Mrs. Streeter" playwright, Merrill D. Jones, and members of cast: Kimberly Smith as "Mrs. Streeter," Jeffery Tyler Moon as "Jeffery Streeter," and Clint Cartridge as "Charles Streeter"; Buford Powers, singer/composer, and India Cooke, musician, educator at Mills College featuring artists in her 10th year of the “PATTERNS: MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADITION” Apr. 14, 16 & 21. The lectures are at 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. in the Music Building Ensemble Room, on the Mills College Campus, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland. Oh, it's free too. Two of the artists are with her today in the studio: Eddie Gale, Trumpeter, and San José's Ambassador of Jazz (4/14), Brenda Schuman-Post, Oboist, documentarian (4/21)--not in that order. Folks should get up to Juvenile Hall this morning to support David who has an arraignment at 8:30 this morning. He is the only child being tried on felony charges in the Oscar Grant III protests 1/7/09. (There are three people being charged, the rest of those arrested have had charges dropped or reduced). David has two felony convictions. I had him on the air, Wednesday, April 8.

Today we will celebrate the legacy of Paul Robeson, born April 9, 1898. He was the youngest son of five children born to Presbyterian minister Reverend William Drew Robeson (1845-1918) and former schoolteacher Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (1853-1904). He was the grandson of slaves and the son of a minister who escaped slavery and became one of Rutgers University's most famous and accomplished alumni. He is probably best known as an orator and baritone singer, actor and champion for justice, whether that was labor rights or just laws(http://prcc.rutgers.edu/Robeson/biography.htm) For siding with the poor and disenfranchised workers and for his activism Robeson was stripped of his passport during the McCarthy Era (1950s) and was unable to travel abroad. This limited his ability to work, especially his acting career, but the US government sanction did not stop or stifle his ability and willingness to speak out for justice for his people, for all people. We will featured a few selections from "Words Like Freedom: Paul Robeson," a collection of some of Robeson's lesser known speeches. Visit www.freedomarchives.org We are joined this morning by Bill Doggett, curator of an exhibit on Robeson and other African American Concert Singers in the early 20th Century at the San Francisco Main Library, 3rd level, on Larkin Street: "The African American Concert Singer 1900-1960 - The history of African Americans in the vocal arts in the world of classical music and opera." The closing program, April 9, 5:30-7:30 will have a birthday cake for Robeson, on what would have been his 111 birthday. All will be invited to share cake in his honor. The free event is in the Latino/Hispanic Community Room. Wanda's Picks will close with an interview with one of three people still being prosecuted in the aftermath of the Oscar Grant III killing (1/09). David is the only juvenile being prosecuted on felony charges. 16 years old and an Oakland high school student,he has an arraignment on 4/10.

Like you, I've seen the searing phone-camera tape of the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, of Oakland, California. And although it's truly a terrible thing to see, it's almost exceeded by something just as shocking. That's been how the media has responded to this police killing, by creating a defense of error. This defense, that the killer cop who murdered Grant somehow mistook his pistol for his Taser, has been offered by both local and national news reporters -- even though they haven't heard word one from Johannes Mehserle, the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) cop who wasn't even interviewed for weeks after shooting an unarmed man! If you've ever wondered about the role of the media, let this be a lesson to you. You can see here that the claim that the corporate media is objective is but a cruel illusion. Imagine this: if the roles were reversed, that is, if bystanders had footage of Grant shooting Mehserle, would the media be suggesting a defense for him? Would Grant have been free to roam, to leave the state a week later? Would he have made bail? The shooting of Oscar Grant III is but the latest, West Coast version of Amadou Diallo, of Sean Bell, and of hundreds of other Black men -- and like them, don't be surprised if there is an acquittal -- again. Oscar Grant is you -- and you are him, because you know in the pit of your stomach that it could've been you, and the same thing could've happened. You know this. And what's worse is this: you pay for this every time you pay taxes, and you endorse this every time you vote for politicians who sell out in a heartbeat. You pay for your killers to kill you, in the name of a bogus, twisted law, and then pay for the State that defends him. Something is terribly wrong here--and it's the system itself. Until that is changed, nothing is changed, for we'll be out here again (in the streets) -- chanting a different name. -- 1/17/09 (c) '09 Mumia Abu-Jamal

We will feature artist John Barnes, Jr., one of the artists included in Prospect 1 New Orleans, the US Biennial closing Sunday, January 18, 2009. Barnes new body of work, shown for the first time in this exhibit, is he says, "a testament to survival and resilience." The work which is mixed media, and includes text, consists of wooden sculptures which looked like masks to me, however, to Barnes they are "canoe-home hybrid structures." These beached canoes stand verically, an unlikely position for a sea worthy structure, but then this adds to the absurdity of the sights one still sees almost four years after the Great Flood," or the day the levees broke. John and I will speak for most of the show. We will close with an update on Oscar Grant III, murdered two weeks ago by a BART policeman, still at large. There is a peace vigil at 4 p.m. January 14, 2009 in front of Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza. People are encouraged to wear white for peace. It is also the color of the ancestors. The Coalition Against Police Execution (CAPE) will hold the Praying for Peace-Working for Justice March & Rally as the Oakland community continues to demand justice in the senseless murder of Oscar Grant III by Bart Police in the early hours of January 1, 2009. An estimated 1,000 people will converge upon Oakland's City Hall to demand that those responsible for the murder of Oscar Grant be brought to justice. High profile names expected to attend include E-40, Beeda Weeda, Jennifer Johns, Kev Choice, Zion I and others. The community is also calling for an immediate end to police brutality and terrorism in communities of color across America. Following the rally, demonstrators will peacefully march from City Hall to District Attorney Tom Orlov's office.