Posted on 24 March 2009. Tags: Brown, California, Community, Corruption, Events, Illegal, News, Nightclubs, Nightlife, Oakland, Parties, Police, Racism, Racist, allegations, drugs, inner circle, mayor jerry brown, oakland city hall, parking garage, police officers, revellers

Last week, Geoffrey Pete--long a well-respected figure in Oakland's African-American community, and the owner of Geoffrey's Inner Circle nightclub--held a press conference outside Oakland City Hall to announce he's considering filing a complaint against the OPD for unlawful harassment.
Pete has previously raised allegations that OPD and former mayor Jerry Brown instituted a crackdown on Oakland's ...
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Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: Black, Blacks, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Discrimination, Nicaragua, Nightclubs, Sea, South America, University, Women, american parliament, atlantic ocean, autonomous regions, black women, caribbean coast, caribbean sea, caribbean women, coastal regions, criminal prosecution, double discrimination, eastern coastline, fsln, hooker, marginalisation, parlacen, public prosecution service, racial discrimination, s, sandinistanational liberation front, woman lawmaker

MANAGUA, Mar 20 (IPS) - The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist treatment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women in the Caribbean coastal regions.
Indigenous and black women make up 52 percent of ...
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