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Created by dipity on Jan 8, 2009
Last updated: 10/06/10 at 05:10 AM
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...me. Grant: I am pretty sure excitement is an emotion buddy. I was jumping in my seat watching this trailer. I mean sure some video games have moments like this movie but they don't last for two hours and they are not filmed by an Oscar winning director. Woodward:...
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2085771/grant_and_woodwards_daily_film_musings.html
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...up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=54392
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...living up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=52007
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...living up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=51237
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...living up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=50818
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...living up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=50438
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...up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=50147
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...living up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=49583
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...attorney Michael Rains, standing, questions BART police officer Tony Pirone about the video of the night that Oscar Grant III was killed as Johannes Mehserle, right, and Prosecutor David Stein, left, listen to his testimony during the preliminary trial of...
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Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_12512834?source=rss
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...video that BART passengers recorded. Stein appeared stunned and questioned whether such footage existed. "You never pushed Oscar Grant up against the wall, did you?" Stein asked. Outside court, Grant's mother, Wanda Johnson, said she was disturbed by Domenici's...
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San Francisco Chronicle
http://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=e3b93a727897ed2efe41d00cfe1a1323
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...Fruitvale BART Station platform contradicted statements given by a BART police officer about what happened the night Oscar Grant III was killed. The video was shown this morning during an ongoing preliminary hearing for Johannes Mehserle, the former BART officer...
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The San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_12459785?source=rss
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...first into a wall, the women testified. Even though Oscar Grant III's family knew it was coming, the sound of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle's gun firing made them jump in their courtroom seats Monday and sparked tears as they watched two videos...
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The San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_12398850?source=rss
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...up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=45041
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...living up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=44015
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...the organization is currently working on a major investigation of Bay Area police forces. "There was a young man named Oscar Grant who was shot by (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police officers and it was caught on video," he said. "The investigation of the police...
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Macleans.ca
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n0828352023
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...living up to a smash single... MIMS pulls a Mike Jones and gives fans his number... F.A.B. speaks on the aftermath of the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland... Mista F.A.B admits to chain snatching clips being pranks... Akon shares his recipe for sure shot hits... Jeezy's...
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XXL
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=43130
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...running toward me and the police charging toward them with their batons out." This is another case similar to the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland that we have been following where citizens' video and photographic evidence has played an immediate and instrumental...
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The Hub
http://hub.witness.org/en/node/12535
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...the position that somehow Oscar Grant caused his own demise, Burris said. I have witnesses and multiple videos that support my position. Oscar Grant did nothing on that night where he deserved to lose his life. Pirone and Domenici remain on paid leave....
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Reno Gazette-Journal
http://www.rgj.com/article/20090403/NEWS18/90403076/1321/NEWS
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...by Mehserle.. "It's offensive to take the position that somehow Oscar Grant caused his own demise," Burris said. "I have witnesses and multiple videos that support my position. Oscar Grant did nothing on that night where he deserved to lose his life."...
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Fresno Bee
http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/1308490.html
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...station in Oakland. Photos: 1 | 2 | Video | No More "Business As Usual" at BART! Shut It Down To Demand Justice For Oscar Grant! | NO JUSTICE NO BART NEEDS YOU! | No Justice No BART announces series of BART shutdowns | Oscar Grant Rebellion Declares...
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SF Bay Area Indymedia
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/08/18575598.php
http://oaklandfocus.blogspot.com - This week I posted a vlog on Oscar Grant and what my source claims is an autopsy where crack cocaine was found in his body. Here is an update and what happened when SF Chronicle's Phil Bronstein picked up the story. Distributed by Tubemogul.
http://oaklandfocus.blogspot.com/2009/02/oscar-grant-source-autopsy-shows-crack.html -- A well-placed source reported to me that BART Shooting victim Oscar Grant was found to have Crack Cocaine in his body, and planted through his buttocks. My source also accuses KTVU TV News of delaying video release.
BAMN Forum: "Winning Justice for Oscar Grant" Part 9 of 12 At the University of California, Berkeley, February 9, 2009 Chaired by Shanta Driver
BAMN Forum: "Winning Justice for Oscar Grant" Part 6 of 12 At the University of California, Berkeley, February 9, 2009 Chaired by Shanta Driver
Oscar Grant was taken from us on January 1st 2009 just a few hours into the new year. A young man trying to make it in life and was doing well his life was cut short by a Bart Police bullet in the back. in my oppinion 25mill is not enough there is no price on life but $250 million would seem about right. His funeral was at the Palma Ceia Baptist Church In Hayward Ca. And he was Laid to Rest at the LONE TREE CEMETERY also In Hayward Ca. My Funeral Home did not do this service But it was a ...
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...inexplicably removed as soon as Mehserle was arrested. Local news reported on the video that shows Pirone assaulting Oscar Grant late last month, but it has been on the Internet for weeks. As with the shooting, the video doesn't leave a lot of room for explaining...
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Firedoglake
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/3542
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...newly-obtained video of Oscar Grant’s murder on New Year’s day reveals that he was assaulted by BART officer Tony Pirone prior to the shooting. The grainy footage shows the officer lunging at Grant and punching him in the face until he falls to the ground. Everyone...
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AlterNet.org
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/ganeva/124217/oscar_grant_beaten_by_police_prior_to_murder/
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...released video adds another important development to the murder of Oscar Grant, the young, unarmed and restrained man that was shot in the back on a subway platform in Oakland by police officers in the early hours of New Year's Day. As I originally reported,...
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The Hub
http://hub.witness.org/en/Oscar-Grant-New-Video
Zumbi of Zion-I talks with Youth Radio's Leon Sykes about hip-hop's organizing around the killing of Oscar Grant, and the opportunity for change that the tragedy offers the African-American community.
In memory of all the brothers and sisters, victims of police terrorism. Two brothers brought up on a strict diet of Malcolm, Assata (for protein), Ella, and the Black Panther Party, just to name a few, come together to fill a void: independent Black media that actually serves the needs and interests of Black Liberation. Some may call us old fashioned. Some may say were stuck in the past. To this we respond that the past has gone nowhere. White supremacy is alive and well. Black suffering is alive and well. The generational mission Fanon warned us of is calling. Unabashed Black Power is the response. We dont bite tongues, nor mince we words. We about Black Liberation. We about Black Power. Thats right, Black Power! Nothing more, nothing less. And as our commander-in-chief, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, tells us, we dont care who likes it or not, as long as we know its the truthIf youre afraid to tell the truth, why, you dont even deserve Freedom. Welcome to Make It Plain. This is Black Power Media Brothers Samori and amari sonsofmalcolm@yahoo.com
Footage taken after rally and march from Fruitvale B.A.R.T. station. Youth spoke very passionately. Emotions run high cop car set a blaze. This is the 1st report
For educational purposes a documentary by jameswashingtonjr
Please excuse the "scattered" nature of this video; this is one of those topics I tend to rant on and on about. The ticker I have playing throughout the vid is just a fraction of cases involving police misconduct and/or brutality. They represent a small proportion of reported misconduct/brutality cases that were brought into the media spotlight. Police misconduct and police brutality are very real concepts and occur at an ever-increasingly alarming rate. Step-in-line or educate yourself, you ...
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...lived and died. First, there was the grainy video footage by phone cameras that shows the horrific New Year's Day death of Oscar Grant. Second, there was the court of public opinion reaching a guilty verdict as if due process of law is not applicable to this...
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Inside Bay Area
http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/opinion/ci_11472104?source=rss
History Lessons I am Oscar Grant They chant, I cried when I spied KTVU news cell telecasting Johannes Seabass blasting Knee on his neck Taking last breaths Hit the lung Now among other Whos brother unknown Not yet grown Fighting devils of their own Devon Brown gunned down at thirteen Timothy Thomas, nineteen Neither made it out their teens Police killed men unarmed Just alarmed but they harmed Gary King is why I sing Sean Bell is why I tell Nathaniel Jones moans Life gone from skin and bones Police violence grim tombstone I still cry as I write But it doesnt dim my sight Everyday brothers fight Mothers light the candles Trite Caucasian National News scandals Late in Stations rating win Debatin the merit of their statements Abetments of their faith Media wraith with no taste Wasted place to tell the truth About murdered youth Hayward and Fruitvale Are not for sale Bay Area writes endings to this tale John Vitti http://ionnes.wordpress.com/
YO!TV and New America Media head out to document what the San Francisco Bay Area has to say about the murder of 22-year-old Oscar Grant who was shot and killed January 1, 2009 by former BART policeman, Johannes Mehserle, who is currently in custody. www.youthoutlook.org www.newamericamedia.org
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...rights are at risk when we don't lift our voices against this type of injustice." Related: * CA: BART cop who executed Oscar Grant arrested in Nevada * Clearer video of sadistic BART police execution of Oscar Grant Speaking at this vigil, held in Leimert...
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Pam's House Blend
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PamsHouseBlend/~3/513089013/showDiary.do
Dereeca Blackmon who heads up CAPE reads a message from Valerie Bell that was addressed to oscar Grants mother
Former Black panther & Fredom Fighter Angela Davis talks about the Oscar Grant case and why she is still fighting the police after 30 years
A rally and protest was held in downtown Oakland on Jan. 14, 2009 to protest the shooting death of Oscar Grant III by a BART transit police officer.
A rally and protest was held in downtown Oakland on Jan. 14, 2009 to protest the shooting death of Oscar Grant III by a BART transit police officer.
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...those structural changes will be a much longer fight, but Oscar Grant's tragic death is a wake-up call that should give us a real chance to help prevent this from happening again. And you can watch the horrific video of Oscar Grant's murder below:...
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Firedoglake
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/2989
oscar grant shooting video real talk
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Boots Riley of the Coup weighs in on the horrific Oscar Grant Killing. We also talk w/ former Black panther Emory Douglass about the DA-Thomas Orloff
Reporting live from Oakland, Ca. Jasiri X pours his heart out for Oscar Grant III, the victim of a Police Execution on New Years Eve while riding the B.A.R.T. public transportation system. Written from the perspective of Oscar Grant, A person who witnessed and filmed the lynching and a participant of the rebellion (after a peaceful rally that turned violent). The results is another lyrically potent, creative masterpiece by your Hip-hop anchorman Jasiri X. Featuring another flaming hot beat by up and coming beatmaster, King Sym and a cameo by legendary Hip-hop journalist Davey D. The Struggle Continues..............
Mistah FAB speaks more about the Oscar Grant killing - the young man that was shot by police on the BART station early New Years Day
The restraint and shooting of Oscar Grant at 2:14am on January 1st 2009. Also contains photos of the riots and protests that have occurred since then in Oakland.
The State of the World in turmoil, unrest and damn near anarchy, and the Peoples passion is at an all time high! Green Lantern has Produced Yet Another Banger!!! And Uncle Murda Has Something He has to say and damn it....It need to be said!!! Avery Storm Showing his Talent Starting to Shine!!! We are Tired of Black Men being gunned down by police, We dont need anybody else shooting us...shit we are trying to stop from shooting each other....Protect & Serve does not mean Eradicate Buddy!!! And that cop in particular needs to go to jail for murder....there is no justification.....it doesn't mater what he "said" while he was HANDCUFFED laying on the floor....You were in no danger Fuck Face.....see there goes that passion......R.I.P. Oscar Grant
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