Blackout Collective obstructs BART trains on Black Friday in protest of police killings
12/1/2014
On so-called Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year in the U.S., members of the Blackout Collective and their allies obstructed BART trains on both sides of the track from moving out of the West Oakland BART station in an economic protest to the systemic wanton killing of Black people in this country, most recently symbolized by the police murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner.
I talked to Celeste, one of the founders of the Blackout Collective, about their history and the phenomenal demonstration that stopped the flow of BART traffic for hours into and out of San Francisco’s shopping and financial district. Check out this sista in her own words …
M.O.I. JR: Can you tell us a little bit about what happened in West Oakland on so-called Black Friday and can you tell us how it came to be?
Celeste: So a few weeks ago, a few Black folks were sitting together from Blackout Collective and Black Lives Matter. A few of us were sitting together and dreaming about what it would be like to have an all-Black organized response to what’s going on in Ferguson. And also what’s going on in Oakland.
in full: http://sfbayview.com/2014/12/blackout-collective-obstructs-bart-trains-on-black-friday-in-protest-of-police-killings/
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They had a bus bridge setup in no time! 
