When City Councilwoman Sheila Jordan initiated planning for a Oakland Youth Policy, TEAM youth and adults worked with committees to implement focus groups and draft the Initiative to be submitted for funding to City Council.

TEAM designed a performance to announce the Policy to the community and urge its passage. No Blood/No Foul was an event that pitted youth against police officers in a tough, competitive, and fast-paced “basketball as performance” artwork. The performance, with its live action video interrupts, pre-recorded interviews of players, half-time dance presentation, original sound track, and sports commentators, mixed up the rules of the game. Adult referees were replaced by youth referees, then no referees (street ball, where the rule is, “If there is no blood then there is no foul”) and for the last quarter, the audience as referee. The performance received extensive local and national television coverage, an example of the Oakland Youth Policy Initiative in action, and was attended by the mayor and several council members.

Murals by local graffiti artists surrounded the court in the trendy health club, where treadmills were replaced that night with bleachers, youth reporters interviewed the crowd, and telephones connected to a hotline for audience response to the proposed Youth Policy.