Oakland calls for nonviolent verdict reaction

San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | Friday, July 2, 2010 | Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer

[thecodont]

For all the worry over the upcoming verdict in the trial of the former BART police officer who killed Oscar Grant, there is just as much determination in Oakland to make sure the reaction remains peaceful.

From youth clubs and churches to City Hall and even groups planning protests, many people are working hard to keep the inevitable demonstrations from getting out of hand the way they did Jan. 7, 2009.

That evening, rioters damaged scores of businesses and torched several cars in the downtown business district in reaction to the shooting of Grant, who was black, six days earlier by former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, who is white.

"We have been trying to let the youth know that in the case of a riot, you are affecting the very same people in your own community that the riot is supposedly for, and that is just senseless," said Chris Logwood, a director at Boys and Girls Clubs of Oakland. "What possible good is that? It's a sign of ignorance. It shouldn't happen."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/02/MN0P1E83RA.DTL#ixzz0sXnP7bMH

[Dallas59]

Lol....love is gonna fly right out the door....

[Revolting cat!]

We know that the peaceful protesters would never vandalize their own neighbourhoods.

[thethirddegree]

I would like to see a strong police presence that will crack some heads the second these thugs start to riot.

[NohSpinZone]

Violence in Oakland? How would anyone be able to tell the difference?

[Brownie63]

Good luck with that!

It’s really pathetic. Another feigned-outrage to mask another mass television-theft opportunity.

[Noumenon]

Oh, that’s going to work so well...

Glad I don’t live in the Bay Area any more.

[thefactor]

I assume if a verdict isn't reached today they'll take the holiday weekend off.

If this guy is found not guilty, the cop-hating wing of FR might do some keyboard-rioting of their own.

[TokuMei]

1. Liquor stores, convenience stores
2. Check cashing outfits
3. Gas stations
4. Banks

They eagerly burn it all. Later, they’re inconvenienced, and wonder why.

Surely the OTHERS must have willed this on us...!

Africa, Caribbean, Europe, here...Transplant them, and it’s the same. If they were on Mars, they’d do the same.

They’ll NEVER change, and there will always be foolish do-gooders who will want YOUR money to satisfy their bizarre spasm —sort of like drugs to satisfy a fix.

[rjones42]

There are many church and para-church groups in Oakland who are sincerely trying to improve the environment and reduce violence. They are offset by the many thugs in the city but they need our prayers and help.

[rjones42]

There are many church and para-church groups in Oakland who are sincerely trying to improve the environment and reduce violence. They are offset by the many thugs in the city but they need our prayers and help.

[ETL]

The 1992 LA/Rodney King riots were instigated by the Revolutionary Communist Party...

From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
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VAN JONES (Obama's former 'Green Jobs Czar'):

Here's the original source for the Van Jones quote about the time he spent in jail following the Rodney King/LA riots (Jones was arrested in "peaceful" protests in San Fran). It was in a 2005 interview he did with East Bay Express. They of course (what else?) claim he "renounced his rowdy Black Nationalist ways" since then (yet he's calling for "complete revolution" in Aug 2009! ...see below):

But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-of-environmentalism/Content?oid=1079539&showFullText=true
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YouTube:
"Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama, speaks [lovingly] about Green Job Czar, Van Jones, at the Netroots Convention on August 12, 2009. Then Van Jones speaks about [a COMMUNIST] transforming [of] the whole society."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnDxzvc0OXk&feature=related
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"Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. That group, together with Jones' Elle Baker Center for Human Rights, led a vigil Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow Park in Oakland, Calif.

STORM's official manifesto, titled, "Reclaiming Revolution," surfaced on the Internet."--via TheObamaFile
http://www.leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
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VAN JONES SHOCK ADMISSION [in his own words]: "Goal is Complete Revolution"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh4Z0V0zNQg
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Here is the transcript of the above YouTube video:

“Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said OK now we want reparations for Slavery, we want redistribution of all the wealth, and we want to legalize mixed marriages. If we’d come out with a maximum program the very next day, they’d been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum. “We just want to integrate these busses…”

But, inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country.

And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages.

Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression all together. But, that’s a process and I think that’s what’s great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the CRISIS is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary.

So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.

SOURCE for this transcript (it matches the video):
http://ironicsurrealism.blogivists.com/2009/09/02/van-jones-obamas-green-czar-%E2%80%98green-jobs%E2%80%99-goal-is-%E2%80%98complete-revolution%E2%80%99-away-from-%E2%80%98gray-capitalism%E2%80%99/

[pappyone]

Yup, you still got the best FR tagline.

[TruthHound]

There's only one verdict the "community" will accept—regardless of the evidence.

I picked up the brick

And I threw it at his head

I kicked him

Then I shot him

The streets was turnin' red

He was a white man

Now he's DEAD...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Since we lack the strength to suppress riots we should use them. Urge the rioters to go to Sacramento for their street party.

[RGSpincich]

There are many church and para-church groups in Oakland who are sincerely trying to improve the environment and reduce violence.

Lip service. They all secretly support violence against the man. Sure as they voted Obama & OJ walked.

Here are some well dressed instigators.

[RGSpincich]

There are many church and para-church groups in Oakland who are sincerely trying to improve the environment and reduce violence.

Lip service. They all secretly support violence against the man. Sure as they voted Obama & OJ walked.

Here are some well dressed instigators.

[rjones42]

I hear you; wolves in sheep’s clothing. That being said, let us support those who are doing the right thing for the right reason.