In Defiance of Oakland’s Curfew, Community Sits Out For Our Youth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
When: Wednesday, June 3, at 8.05pm
Where: Downtown Oakland, at the intersection of 14th and Broadway
Contact: info@antipoliceterrorproject.org
On Monday, thousands of youth took to the streets to peacefully protest the murder of George Floyd, Steven Taylor, Miles Hall, Breonna Taylor and so many more.
At 7:57 pm on Monday evening, Oakland Police Department threw flashbang grenades and teargas into the gathered crowd and proceeded to make 100+ arrests into the night -- rounding up protestors and non-protesters alike, including many of our unhoused neighbors and essential workers. This was a peaceful action and it was met with violence by the Oakland Police Department as they tear gassed our children.
The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and our allies and accomplices around the Bay, dissent to the steadily encroaching fascism of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department’s 8pm curfew order.
Everywhere we turn there are reminders to fight for each other’s freedom. Yesterday, 6/2, was Miles Hall’s Angelversary, a young Black man murdered by Walnut Creek Police Department last year. We defy the sheriff’s orders in honor and memory of him, as well as Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Steven Taylor, and countless others murdered by so-called civil servants.
The curfews here and nationwide are racist policing measures that serve the militant suppression of we, the people. These measures are in clear, direct response to us rising up in defense of Black Lives. We will not submit to Trump's "Law and Order State".
Our call for tomorrow night in response to the curfew is for ADULTS to come and sit in for our youth. We highly encourage our young people to stay home or go to youth centered events. We have no interest in funneling more of our young people into the system.
APTP remains committed to offering to post bail for Black & Brown folks arrested while protesting. We ask members of the public to contact us if they know of anybody arrested and held who needs this support.
We are organizing this action in the midst of a pandemic. We encourage everyone who attends to wear a mask, to hold 6 feet of distance as much as possible, and to bring sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer.
The sit in for the youth will be live streamed on our Facebook page.
This action is organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project. Our coalition includes Community Ready Corps, Oakland Rising, Bay Rising, CURYJ, the Black Organizing Project, the Ella Baker Center, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Causa Justa Just Cause, Rising Tide North America, Bay Resistance, and Peoples Alliance Bay Area.
#SitInForOurYouth #GeorgeFloyd #ICantBreathe #BreonnaTaylor #StevenTaylor #MilesHall
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing. APTP began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee.
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