Thursday, December 20, 2012

WHY THE LANEY BLACK STUDENT UNION SUPPORTS THE BLUEFORD FAMILY IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE FOR ALAN BLUEFORD



The Laney Black Student Union is a strong supporter in the struggle to receive justice for Alan Blueford, Raheem Brown, Oscar Grant and all other brothers and sisters who have been unjustly executed by police.
We call on the city of Oakland, the Oakland District Attorney, and the soon to be appointed Compliance Director, to fire and press criminal charges against Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford.
The Laney Black Student Union supports the Blueford family in their struggle to receive justice because we fully understand how hard it is to get public officials, investigators, lawyers, judges, police chiefs, and even community members to look past the same standard, tired, cover-up story that some pig felt threatened by an unarmed citizen, as a justification for murder.
We support the Blueford family in their struggle for justice because we fully understand that if we do nothing, a murder, on paid leave, will walk free, unchecked, with no consequences, able to murder another member of our community at will.
We support the Bluefords in their struggle for justice because we are more than just a student organization at Laney College.  We are deeply concerned members of the Oakland community.  Communities where black, brown, and poor people are under direct attack from a neo liberal state.
  50% of black youth are unemployed in Oakland, a concentration of wealth in Oakland is drastically changing the demographics through urban removal, biological warfare has destroyed the black community through the cocaine trade and the war on drugs, public school closures, mass incarceration, racial discrimination, and homelessness are just a few of the attacks our community faces.
The Laney B.S.U. not only recognizes these attacks on our community, we also refuse to lie down silently as it takes place.  We seek to organize with all those who are willing to actively combat and resist these attacks.
The Laney B.S.U. fully understands that police are not here to defend our communities against these injustices.  On the contrary, they are here to keep this system running, and in doing so have declared themselves enemies of our community.
This is the reason why Alan Blueford was murdered.  He was murdered to send the message to the rest of our community that resistance is useless, change is impossible, and we should just submit to the unjust conditions of our community.
But we refuse to accept this passive fate, and refuse to continue to look to a corrupt city government, which is incapable of holding a corrupt police force responsible for a clear murder and cover-up.
When Oakland does nothing but charge the Bluefords for a coroner’s report, makes them beg for a police report, while locking the doors to a public meeting, and giving an estimated time of two years for a complete investigation, they have exposed their true nature and intentions.
So no matter what they come out and say, no matter how hard the try to convince the community that they are on our side, we know that they are liars, and the B.S.U. strongly stresses the need for direct action.
Direct action, such as port shutdowns, city hall takeovers, and D.A. sit-ins are proven tactics that produce much desired results.  These are tactics that are gonna take sacrifice, nevertheless direct action is the way forward.
Why should we play by the city’s rules when they have already shown their unwillingness to seek truth and justice?
To get justice for our brothers and sisters some rules are gonna have to be broken.  To hold these murdering police accountable, some laws are gonna have to be broken.
Out of all the police murders in Oakland, from Lil Bobby Hutton to Alan Blueford, Johannes Meshelie is the only one ever charged.  And a few squad cars had to get burnt, and a few windows had to get busted. The people had to take direct action.
So why the city of Oakland was telling the People that “Violence is not Justice” and how wrong we were, and how brainwashed we had been by outside agitators, a jury was being convinced that Mesherlie was just reaching for his taser, a judge was giving Mesherlie  a two year sentence,  Marysol Domenici was receiving her job back, Mesherlie tried to get his job back, all officers involved in Oscar Grants murder are currently seeking immunity from any civil liability, and the city of Oakland has allowed every police officer who has murdered someone since then to walk away free.
This is why we support the Bluefords in their struggle for Justice for Alan Blueford, and believe that we should do whatever is necessary to receive justice for all of our fallen brothers and sisters. 

No comments:

Post a Comment