Bay Area movement: ‘Mass releases, not mass deaths!’ By Judy Greenspan posted on February 3, 2021 Oakland, Calif. In a demand for prisoner release during COVID, a caravan of 200 cars occupies the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Jan. 21. Jan. 31 — Today as a plane pulled a banner, “Newsom: Free prisoners 2 stop Covid deaths,” through the sky over the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, protesters held signs against “State execution by COVID 19” and dropped banners from the bridge pedestrian path on the East Span. Simultaneously, a caravan of more than 200 cars — which started earlier at the Port of Oakland — drove onto the bridge. Advancing very slowly at 5 mph, lead cars fanned out to fill all five lanes of traffic, so that the caravan took at least an hour crossing the bridge.