Where We Are Going
We will be starting in Oakland where the Black Panthers were formed and made their home and where the community plans to build land trusts to preserve their history. After this, we will visit UC Berkeley where we will hear from students, staff, professors, and the community to discuss reparations in the form of free college. We will move onto San Pablo where the community is fighting back against the city’s efforts to build a massive Cop City, and then we will see the Richmond Oil Refinery which is the site of countless environmental battles. The bus will move on to San Quentin Prison, a powerful site of organizing and a blaring reminder of the violence of mass incarceration, before concluding in the historic Fillmore District in San Francisco.
What We Are Doing
The bus tour will be a fun-filled day of games and celebration, as well as skill building for those who wish to learn more and win reparations. We hold a three-fold commitment to political education, action practice, and healing towards a more just and equitable society and reparations in our lifetime. Reparations Now!
We will explore strategies for integrating community into local reparations work and bring Black joy to our reparations curriculum. We will share best practices for addressing the systemic racism in our local cities and reflect on our role and contributions during times of crisis and change. Our goal for this day is to uplift a comprehensive step-by-step guide for participants and community members that come to each site (all are welcome).
We will also center the tireless efforts of those who came before us, building off of N’COBRA’s five injury areas of systematic racism (Health, Criminal Punishment, Peoplehood/Nationhood, Wealth/Poverty, Education), The California Reparations Task Force (AB 3121) and their extensive research, and The Movement for Black Lives (Reparations Toolkit).
We wish to establish and adopt historical and new best practices for racial justice and anti-racism while building towards a 59 county Reparations tour of California next year. Our involvement in the hearing for AB 3121 California legislation, and the synergy of the 34th National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) Oakland Convention will help to inform this work. Since last year, our project teams from the Got Reparations? Mobilization Campaign, N’COBRA, and M4BL, have continued to build and refine pathways to healing, community organizing strategies, funding programs and political education. Motivate, Educate, and Organize!
We will explore strategies for integrating community into local reparations work and bring Black joy to our reparations curriculum. We will share best practices for addressing the systemic racism in our local cities and reflect on our role and contributions during times of crisis and change. Our goal for this day is to uplift a comprehensive step-by-step guide for participants and community members that come to each site (all are welcome).
We will also center the tireless efforts of those who came before us, building off of N’COBRA’s five injury areas of systematic racism (Health, Criminal Punishment, Peoplehood/Nationhood, Wealth/Poverty, Education), The California Reparations Task Force (AB 3121) and their extensive research, and The Movement for Black Lives (Reparations Toolkit).
We wish to establish and adopt historical and new best practices for racial justice and anti-racism while building towards a 59 county Reparations tour of California next year. Our involvement in the hearing for AB 3121 California legislation, and the synergy of the 34th National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) Oakland Convention will help to inform this work. Since last year, our project teams from the Got Reparations? Mobilization Campaign, N’COBRA, and M4BL, have continued to build and refine pathways to healing, community organizing strategies, funding programs and political education. Motivate, Educate, and Organize!
California 59 County Reparations Healing Walk
The 2024 Juneteenth Reparations Bus Tour is the prelude to next year’s “California 59 County Reparations Healing Walk,” where community and reparationists from around the state will be coming together to push for Boots on the ground, block-by-block, street-by-
We Need Reparations Now!
As we situate this year’s bus tour, we’d be remiss to not acknowledge the present moment we are in. The ongoing international crises in Palestine is amplified by protests at home. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and civil rights legislation are under attack across the country. The harm persists, and this moment underscores the crucial need for Reparations. It is our responsibility to equip our communities with the political education, tools, and insatiable appetite for reparations needed to navigate these complex landscapes with grit, humility, and self-determination.
As Black community organizers/activists, community leaders, students, elders, politicians, university faculty, and healers we invite all allies and comrades for your honesty, reflections, and voice. Help us foster an environment of co-learning and growth as we work towards a future re-imagined with reparations in our lifetime.
Once again, welcome to the Juneteenth Reparations Bus Tour, and we thank you for sharing this time and space with us!
We Need Reparations Now!
As we situate this year’s bus tour, we’d be remiss to not acknowledge the present moment we are in. The ongoing international crises in Palestine is amplified by protests at home. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and civil rights legislation are under attack across the country. The harm persists, and this moment underscores the crucial need for Reparations. It is our responsibility to equip our communities with the political education, tools, and insatiable appetite for reparations needed to navigate these complex landscapes with grit, humility, and self-determination.
As Black community organizers/activists, community leaders, students, elders, politicians, university faculty, and healers we invite all allies and comrades for your honesty, reflections, and voice. Help us foster an environment of co-learning and growth as we work towards a future re-imagined with reparations in our lifetime.
Once again, welcome to the Juneteenth Reparations Bus Tour, and we thank you for sharing this time and space with us!
JUNETEENTH REPARATIONS BUS TOUR Registration:
JUNETEENTH REPARATIONS BUS TOUR
SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH, 2024
GET ON THE BUS* IN OAKLAND, CA.
DEPARTS: 9 AM
RETURNS: 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH, 2024
GET ON THE BUS* IN OAKLAND, CA.
DEPARTS: 9 AM
RETURNS: 7:30 PM
Stops include:
Oakland, Berkeley, San Pablo, Richmond, Marin County, and San Franscisco)
(*IF YOU DON'T GET ON THE BUS, YOU ARE WELCOME TO MEET US AT THE SIX DESIGNATED BAY AREA REPARATIONS BUS STOPS. CONTACT US FOR THE FURTHER INFO ON ITINERARY.)
Juneteenth Reparations Bus Stop Time Schedule for all those that wish to join us at each Bus Stop through BART, bus or your own car transportation:
DAY STARTS:
8 am | BUS STOP #1 WATERMELON EATING CONTEST
(West Oakland BART, 1451 7th St., Oakland, 94607) Cross the street to:
Mandela Grocery 1430 7th, Oakland, CA.
BUS STOP # 1 DEPARTS 9 am
10 am | BUS STOP # 2 TAI CHI MOVEMENT, HOP SCOTCH, and HOOLA HOOP FUN
UCBerkeley (Hearst Mining Circle)
Walking Directions: Hearst Avenue, Gayley Rd., Donner Dr., Evans Hall)
BUS STOP #2 DEPARTS by 11 am UCBerkeley, Berkeley CA.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7QGUWX
12:00 noon | BUS STOP # 3 BLACK TRAUMA ANONYMOUS (BTA) CIRCLES, HOLLA HOOPS, JACKS, JUNETEENTH VIDEO
San Pablo Library
13751 San Pablo Ave., 94806
BUS STOP #3 DEPARTS up 2:00 pm
2:30 pm Richmond (Chevron Refinery Main Gate) ACUPUNCTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL WELLNESS
Bus stop #4 DEPARTS
3:30 pm from Richmond (Chevron Refinery Main Gate)
4:00 pm | BUS STOP #4
Marin County San Quentin, Sir Francis Drake Blvd&Levee Rd., San Quentin MEDITATION, POETRY, PROSE
BUS STOP# 5 DEPARTS 5:00 pm
6:00 pm | BUS STOP # 6 SAN FRANCISCO FILLMORE DISTRICT, Next to Safeway
(*IF YOU DON'T GET ON THE BUS, YOU ARE WELCOME TO MEET US AT THE SIX DESIGNATED BAY AREA REPARATIONS BUS STOPS. CONTACT US FOR THE FURTHER INFO ON ITINERARY.)
Juneteenth Reparations Bus Stop Time Schedule for all those that wish to join us at each Bus Stop through BART, bus or your own car transportation:
DAY STARTS:
8 am | BUS STOP #1 WATERMELON EATING CONTEST
(West Oakland BART, 1451 7th St., Oakland, 94607) Cross the street to:
Mandela Grocery 1430 7th, Oakland, CA.
BUS STOP # 1 DEPARTS 9 am
10 am | BUS STOP # 2 TAI CHI MOVEMENT, HOP SCOTCH, and HOOLA HOOP FUN
UCBerkeley (Hearst Mining Circle)
Walking Directions: Hearst Avenue, Gayley Rd., Donner Dr., Evans Hall)
BUS STOP #2 DEPARTS by 11 am UCBerkeley, Berkeley CA.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7QGUWX
12:00 noon | BUS STOP # 3 BLACK TRAUMA ANONYMOUS (BTA) CIRCLES, HOLLA HOOPS, JACKS, JUNETEENTH VIDEO
San Pablo Library
13751 San Pablo Ave., 94806
BUS STOP #3 DEPARTS up 2:00 pm
2:30 pm Richmond (Chevron Refinery Main Gate) ACUPUNCTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL WELLNESS
Bus stop #4 DEPARTS
3:30 pm from Richmond (Chevron Refinery Main Gate)
4:00 pm | BUS STOP #4
Marin County San Quentin, Sir Francis Drake Blvd&Levee Rd., San Quentin MEDITATION, POETRY, PROSE
BUS STOP# 5 DEPARTS 5:00 pm
6:00 pm | BUS STOP # 6 SAN FRANCISCO FILLMORE DISTRICT, Next to Safeway
EXTRAVAGANZA DANCE CONTEST
7:00 pm BUS STOP DEPARTS at 8:00 pm to West Oakland BART to END (You have option to take WEST OAKLAND BART)
7:00 pm BUS STOP DEPARTS at 8:00 pm to West Oakland BART to END (You have option to take WEST OAKLAND BART)
Pickup at 5:00 pm San Quentin Marin County
(San Quentin, Sir Francis Drake Blvd&Levee Rd., San Quentin, CA)
Drop off at 6:00 pm San Francisco
DAY ENDS:
Pick up at 7:30 San Francisco (Safeway Parking Lot)
Last Drop off at 8:00 pm West Oakland BART END
Pick up at 7:30 San Francisco (Safeway Parking Lot)
Last Drop off at 8:00 pm West Oakland BART END