In Oakland, hundreds of people from more than two dozen groupings organized in response to the Anti Police-Terror Project’s call to come together for ninety-six hours of direct action over the Martin Luther King Day weekend, from January 16 through 19. They joined thousands of others across the country responding to a call from Ferguson Action to reclaim Dr. King’s legacy of militant direct action in opposition to economic violence as well as police violence and discrimination. The first action announced was a protest inside Montgomery BART station in San Francisco at 7am on Friday. The weekend’s events culminated in a Jobs and Economy March for the People on Monday, January 19, beginning at 11am at Oscar Grant/Fruitvale BART station in Oakland.

The ninety-six hours of direct action across the Bay Area highlighted the unjust economic and political structures that King fought to defeat. Thousands unified, regardless of skin color, religion, or creed to reclaim King’s legacy and act, in tandem, against police and economic violence, two primary tools of white supremacy. Actions took place throughout the Bay Area, at BART stations, community meetings and street corners and came in the form of shut downs, guerrilla theater, teach-ins, and concerts. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, activists in Oakland staged a pre-dawn home demo at the house of new mayor Libby Schaaf before protesters held a large march through the neighborhoods where systematic and state sanctioned murder of Black, Brown, and Poor people occur most.

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Other groups are organizing marches, teach-ins, movie screenings, environmental actions, and more MLK-related events in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, and throughout Northern California.

Oakland
Friday: Third World for Black Power Lockdown at Federal Building in Oakland | Black Lives Matter Demands Read at Mayor Libby Schaaf’s Office | Anti-Gentrification Action Disrupts Oakland Home Auction
Saturday: March For Black Community Control Of The Police! | Holiday Appeal for Class-War Prisoners
Sunday: #MLKSHUTITDOWN: Walmart Action Connects Economic Oppression with Police Terror | Shut It Down: WAL-MART Edition | Fuck the Police March | From Oscar Grant to Ferguson: Racism and Police Repression in America
Monday: Black Lives Matter Activists Brings the Noise to Home of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf | Thousands Unite and March in East Oakland to Reclaim King's Legacy | Justice Now-MLK Oakland Rally/Workers & Community Demand Justice And An End To Privatization | Hard Knock Radio: Martin Luther King Jr. Day audio and interviews | “Reclaim King’s Legacy” Oakland March

San Francisco
Friday: Lawyers and Public Defenders for #blacklivesmatter | BART Friday Shuts Down SF Stations, Disrupts Morning Commute | interview with BARTfriday Montgomery Street station | First arrest at BARTfriday Montgomery Street station San Francisco | Photos and video from #BARTFriday: NO BUSINESS AS USUAL | #BARTFriday: NO BUSINESS AS USUAL #BlackLivesMatter Reclaiming King's Legacy | Forum/Foro: The Real Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday: "Queers" Protest in the Castro #Blacklivesmatter
Sunday: Sleepout in San Francisco Draws Demonstrators on the Eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Rebellion and Resistance from Ferguson to Ayotzinapa
Monday: Reading the Roots of MLK's Social Justice

Palo Alto
Stanford Students Shut Down San Mateo Bridge on MLK Day, 68 Arrested (Mon) | MLK Birthday Commemoration: Film Screening (Thu)

Fresno
MLK Day in Fresno (Mon)

Berkeley
Thurs: Black Lives Matter Film Series: "War Witch"
Saturday: Protest Berkeley Police Violence at Special City Council Meeting
Sunday: Free Movie: Do the Right Thing

Richmond
Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service - Richmond Greenway (Mon) | Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service - Point Pinole (Mon)

Santa Rosa
4 Mile March (Mon)

Santa Cruz
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine (Sun)