- Click here to view the Silicon Shut Down website. Click here for the official statement.
Contact 650-427-9827 or paloaltosoe@gmail.com to provide legal or bail support to the arrested students. Follow @SiliconShutdown on Twitter for information on future actions. OFFICIAL STATEMENT: Silicon Shutdown #reclaimMLK at San Mateo Bridge
"FOSTER CITY, Calif.,–Today, over 100 Stanford University students and community members have shut down the San Mateo-Hayward bridge in response to Ferguson/St. Louis organizers’ call for intense, sustained, direct action. We will hold the bridge for 28 minutes, 28 minutes because every 28 hours a Black person is killed by a police officer or vigilante. We align ourselves with the Ferguson Action demands (fergusonaction.com/demands/), including the demilitarization of local law enforcement and the repurposing of law enforcement funds to support community-based alternatives to incarceration. This is in defense of ALL black lives. We stand with Black men and women. We act when Black Queer and Trans lives are threatened. We defend the rights of our Black family when we are poor, disabled and incarcerated. In honor of Martin Luther King’s legacy, we will place ourselves and our bodies in direct opposition to the racist, oppressive system that has exploited, destroyed, and profited off Black and Brown lives from the moment of this country’s inception. In commemoration of his legacy, we will continue his fight, and reclaim this day."
Read more of the official statement at the link below.
Silicon Shutdown #reclaimMLK at San Mateo BridgeFOSTER CITY, Calif.,-Today, over 100 Stanford University students and community members have shut down the San Mateo-Hayward bridge in response to Ferguson/St. Louis organizers' call for intense, sustained, direct action. We will hold the bridge for 28 minutes, 28 minutes because every 28 hours a Black person is killed by a police officer or vigilante....
Stanford Students ARRESTED in #ReclaimMLK ShutdownFOSTER CITY, Calif., This afternoon, 63 Stanford students were arrested while honoring Martin Luther King's legacy by engaging in civil disobedience. They held the westbound side of the San Mateo Bridge for 28 minutes, symbolic of the fact that, every 28 hours, a black person is killed by law enforcement or vigilantes.To assist with bail/legal fees for the #Stanford68, please Venmo Silicon Shutdown. More information on exact fees and other forms of direct giving to be annouced.
To financially support #Stanford68 with bail/legal fees, Venmo https://venmo.com/Shayda-Zarafshar … #ReclaimMLK #siliconshutdown http://bit.ly/StanfordReclaimMLK …
EVERYONE FROM THE #Stanford68 HAS BEEN RELEASED! A very long #MLKDay is over but our movement is just warming up. State violence must end.
Just released with the last two women after 10 hours in jail. thanks for your support to #ReclaimMLK, the #stanford68 are now all released- The #Stanford68 being charged w/ CA Penal Code 420 (obstructing entrances), 647c (obstructing movement), &sometimes 372 (public nuisance).
Every member of the #Stanford68 were cited for CA Pen Code 420 & 647(c). Others cited for more misdemeanors #siliconshutdown @BlklivesmatterDozens of Stanford students arrested after protest shuts down Bay Area bridge
Several dozen demonstrators identifying as Stanford students were arrested Monday night after they shut down traffic for more than an hour on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. Just before 5 p.m., at least 50 people lined up across the bridge, which traverses the San Francisco Bay, said California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Peter Van Eckhardt.- “There is nothing wrong with a traffic law which says you have to stop for a red light. But when a fire is raging, the fire truck goes right through the red light……..Or, when a person is bleeding to death, the ambulance goes through those red lights at top speed…… Disinherited people all over the world are bleeding to death from deep social and economic wounds. They need brigades of ambulance drivers who will have to ignore the red lights of the present system until the emergency is solved…Massive civil disobedience is a strategy for social change which is at least as forceful as an ambulance with its siren on full.”
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 
Salute to the #Stanford68 @StanfordBSU Thank you for being young, gifted, black, and bold.- Ten women and one male from the #Stanford68 are in jail tonight. Police did not follow the same process for all 68 of us. #ReleaseTheRest
11 of the #Stanford68 are in jail for the night. @SiliconShutdown #ReclaimMLK pic.twitter.com/v9HgxjBzUw- Some of the #Stanford68 were given two misdemeanor charges. Others got three. Police told us were all being charged with the same thing. BS.
- being cited and released. We're hearing some women were not given the option to be cited/released and were jailed instead #Stanford68
- Tonight's sunset was beautiful. #stanford68 #reclaimMLK #siliconshutdown | I have almost reached the… http://instagram.com/p/yEEXAxiXIF/
- The #Stanford68 have arrived at Redwood City County Jail. Support to 650-427-9827 or paloaltosoe@gmail.com #ReclaimMLK #SiliconShutDown
Stanford Students ARRESTED in #ReclaimMLK Shutdown of San Mateo Bridge
On January 19th, 2015, 68 Stanford students were arrested while honoring Martin Luther King’s legacy by engaging in civil disobedience. #SiliconShutDown #ReclaimMLK #Stanford68
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