Terri Kay

Six years later, justice for Oscar Grant

Jan. 1 — On the sixth anniversary of the murder of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old African American, by Johannes Mehserle…

January 6, 2015

UAW local backs BDS

Berkeley, Calif., Dec. 10 — United Auto Workers Local 2865, a statewide University of California student-worker union local, became, according…

December 28, 2014

Justice for O’Shaine Evans, killed by SFPD

Oakland, Calif. -- Yet another vigil was held Dec. 7, this one by the family of O’Shaine Evans, who was…

December 10, 2014

Oakland, Calif., vigil for police brutality victims

An event entitled “Ferguson Response: Vigil for Fallen Angels” was attended by about 200 people at Oakland’s Lake Merritt on…

December 3, 2014

BlackOut Collective shuts down BART for Michael Brown

Cat Brooks, one of the arrestees in the BlackOut Collective’s civil disobedience action, which shut down transbay traffic at the West…

December 1, 2014

Chained protesters say: ‘Freedom for Rasmea Odeh’

Outraged by the guilty verdict and immediate jailing of 67-year-old Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh on Nov. 10, her supporters rallied…

November 15, 2014

Block the Boat Oakland keeps ship away

Oakland, Calif. — More than 200 pro-Palestinian protesters marched from the West Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit station to the…

October 30, 2014

Hannibal Shakur, Trayvon Two activist, tells WW about charges being dropped

Hannibal Abdul Shakur and Tanzeen Doha were arrested during protests during the summer of 2013 in downtown Oakland, Calif., after…

October 20, 2014

Jeralynn Blueford: ‘The community is grieving’

Oakland, Calif. -- Two and a half years after the death of her son by the gun of Oakland Police…

October 16, 2014

Mexico killings protested

Dozens of people picketed the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco on Oct. 8 and spoke angrily about the Sept. 26…

October 16, 2014