Submitted by Kirthi Nath on July 12, 2010 - 6:14pm
Hello SF Network,
You may have heard about the vandalism that occurred last Thursday in Oakland after the involuntary manslaughter verdict of transit officer Johannes Mehserle in the death of Oscar Grant. But that's just one part of the story.
Overall, the city of Oakland did a good job of allowing people to air their feelings in a constructive way, but you wouldn't know it from the news coverage.
Not In Our Town's office is right in the middle of where the vandalism happened, but it is also where constructive, peaceful demonstrations took place.Nearly 1,000 people gathered together in downtown Oakland to call for peace after the verdict was announced.
We thought it was important to set the record straight by filming the encouraging community response taking place right outside our door. Here are the young people of Oakland expressing their love of this city, and their commitment to keeping the peace, no matter their reaction to the verdict.
Hello SF Network,
You may have heard about the vandalism that occurred last Thursday in Oakland after the involuntary manslaughter verdict of transit officer Johannes Mehserle in the death of Oscar Grant. But that's just one part of the story.
Overall, the city of Oakland did a good job of allowing people to air their feelings in a constructive way, but you wouldn't know it from the news coverage.
Not In Our Town's office is right in the middle of where the vandalism happened, but it is also where constructive, peaceful demonstrations took place.Nearly 1,000 people gathered together in downtown Oakland to call for peace after the verdict was announced.
We thought it was important to set the record straight by filming the encouraging community response taking place right outside our door. Here are the young people of Oakland expressing their love of this city, and their commitment to keeping the peace, no matter their reaction to the verdict.
Here's the link to our video on our YouTube channel (you can use the code here to embed the video)
And here's the link to it a blog with the video on NIOT.org
Please share this with others, and help us spread the word.
Most sincerely,
The staff of Not In Our Town