Summertime Unemployment Blues
Summer usually brings the expectation of good times – when people can look forward to vacations, have time to spend with family and friends, time to kick back and relax. We try to use the summer to take a little more time to enjoy life. But, for many it isn’t happening like it should. Without […]
The News: Their Reality Not Ours
The news is giving us a distorted picture of reality. It is a picture which plays on fear, with a constant message behind every word – you are powerless. This couldn’t be clearer after the coverage of Johannes Mehserle’s trial and the demonstration in Oakland following the verdict. In the weeks leading up to the […]
The Corporate Media: Guilty Of Lying
The distorted news coverage of the trial of Johannes Mehserle is just one example of what the corporate media does on a regular basis: present us with a distorted picture of reality that helps serve the interests of those who run this society. Let’s look at the evidence: Exhibit A: The Iraq War – Sold […]
It WAS Murder!
The shocking verdict in the case of Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who killed Oscar Grant, finally came down on Thursday, July 8. The jury decided to call the killing involuntary manslaughter, claiming Mehserle unintentionally killed Oscar Grant. Involuntary manslaughter is what a drunk driver would get if they accidentally killed somebody in a car […]
The Trial of Oscar Grant’s Killer – Justice Will Not Be Served
The verdict is about to come down in the case of Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who killed Oscar Grant, as he was riding home on BART the morning of January 1, 2009. This is more than a murder trial. The system of police violence that rules the streets is being put on trial. This […]
Oscar Grant: What The Cameras Captured
Oscar Grant was just one of many young Black men shot by police officers in the US in 2008. The thing that makes his story different is that it was caught on camera and witnessed by hundreds of people. On December 31, 2008, the same night Grant was killed, 23 year-old Robbie Tolan was shot […]