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Special Update on Oscar Grant sentencing of Mehserle and the subsequent reaction in Oakland and the police arrests of over 200 people. We are joined by Marcus La Fontaine, All of Us or None, Jack Bryson, Justice for Oscar Grant, and Rachel, organizer, speak about the arrests, the sentencing and verdict and next steps: gang ordinances in Alameda county. Our final guest is Sienna McLean LoGreco is a producer, director and writer for documentary film and television. She has produced and written programs for Showtime, VH1, Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Lifetime and PBS, and is currently directing a feature length documentary about the controversy around refugees resettling in Northern Vermont. She is also currently a consulting producer on an interview series with producers and studio executives who have shaped the modern film industry. Sienna’s documentary short, Still Revolutionaries, is about women in the Black Panther Party, and premiered at Sundance, was awarded first prize for best documentary at the NextFrame UFVA International Film Festival, and has been distributed internationally on DVD.