Oakland Gang Injunctions
Close friends of ours have been working hard the last couple years to push back on the City of Oakland’s proposed gang injunctions. They have been working with Stop the Injunctions in Oakland and have dealt some serious blows to the city’s intentions, but things have heated back up.
Stop the Injunctions is having a showdown at the October 4th City Council Meeting at 5:30 at City Hall in Frank Ogawa Plaza to once again show that these measures have not worked in the past and will not address the violence that exists in East Bay communities. The Oakland City Council, disregarding decisions they made on May 17th to conduct an independent review of the North and Fruitvale gang injunctions prior to moving on any additional injunctions, has decided to try to implement a package deal. They are proposing in addition to injunctions in both the west and deep east, a loitering ordinance and a youth curfew (possibly also a daytime curfew ostensibly to deal with truancy). The City Council continues to try to implement costly and ineffective policies that target poor and working class communities of color.
For more info on the background of the injunctions or to get involved, check out:
Stop the Injunctions
Critical Resistance’s Gang Injunction Report
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