Adimu Madyun

Operation Small Axe

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Editorial Note: This video trailer for the film Operation Small Axe is a follow-up to the article last week from Adimu Madyun. Adimu has followed events in Oakland for years and has created this documentary film to bring a picture of apparently ingrained police racism and rising community resistance to the idea of continuing victimhood. [...]

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Oakland, California man becomes unlikely activist after Oscar Grant’s death

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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — On Dec. 31, 2008, Jack Bryson warned his two sons and their friends not to spend New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. “I was worried about the police,” Bryson said. “Call it a father’s intuition.” When calls to his sons went unanswered in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2009, Bryson knew [...]

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