Thursday, January 15, 2009

Oakland Winter


It's been a hot winter in Oakland.

Protests turned violent again last night in downtown as hundreds of people met for a peaceful rally to protest the murder of Oscar Grant. News coverage from the melee shows that the folks who smashed windows and trashed organizer's best hopes for a peaceful event all had the same MO: white, faces covered in bandanas and looking for some shit to get into.

Oaklandite Adriel Luis just dropped a track produced by Jon Reyes that captures the mood perfectly:

download.

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