BART Should Drop $70,000 Fine Against Protesters
By Robert Gammon, East Bay Express, January 28, 2015
The BlackOUT Collective’s protest was entirely peaceful and served as an important contrast to the continued late-night demonstrations in Oakland in which groups of mostly white anarchists have smashed windows and looted stores. In fact, we called the Black Friday demonstration the “most effective act of civil disobedience in the East Bay since the Ferguson [Missouri] grand jury verdict.”