Protest rally at the Oakland Police Headquarters

Globalize Justice,
Not War!
On April 7, 2004
people of the
San Francisco Bay Area
protested Oakland police violence
and war profiteering by SSA

Pictures and commentary by
Joseph Woodard
See Coverage of other SF Bay Area protests
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People rallied at the headquarters of the Oakland Police, demanding accountability and an end to routine brutalization. Then they marched to the port and picketed SSA, a war profiteer. The date was one year after police attacked peaceful demonstrators picketing SSA because the company profits from the US invasion of Iraq. The police injured 50 people, including 9 longshoremen waiting to go to work.

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Please use these descriptions and images to inform others that the citizens of the United States and the people of the world oppose the war on Iraq, the aggressive expansion of the U.S. empire, and the immoral destruction created by the military-industrial complex.

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Antiwar rally floods the plaza around Oakland Police Headquarters. Click on a picture to hear the speaker.

Counter-clockwise from top left: Andrea Pritchett of Rebecca Riots; Gwen Hardy of Pueblo; Jamie Kent of Pueblo; Clarence Thomas of ILWU Local 10; Walter Riley, Labor Lawyer; Jack Hayman, Business Agent for ILWU Local 10; and Venus Noble, mother, social worker, community activist and teacher. They explain the injustice of Oakland police actions and how such violence is a part of the corporate brutalization of workers by SSA.

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