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Marin County Sheriff need an armored truck? – Vigil tonight 2/15/13 5:30pm

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Marin County Sheriff need an armored truck? Vigil tonight 2/15/13 5:30pm [for Google directions click here]   ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Peace Novato <peacenovato@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM Subject: Vigil TONIGHT: Does Marin sherriff need an armored truck? To: Hello peace friends, PeaceNovato invites you to join our monthly vigil this evening from 5:30 to 7:00 PM in front of the Novato City Hall, 901 Sherman Avenue at DeLong Avenue. Tonight we will be talking about Sherriff Robert Doyle’s plan to arm the sheriff’s office … Continued

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State of the CounterCulture Union Address 2013

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great article from an Occupy affiliated journalist about the Top 21 Nightmare News Stories of 2012. full speech here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/125166132/STATE-OF-THE-COUNTERCULTURE-UNION-ADDRESS-2013-by-Ryan-Bartek “…my condemnation of Obama has nothing to do with the usual distorted arguments of right wing propaganda. It instead basis itself upon such dubious realities as Executive Order 13603, the NDAA, HR 347, Fukushima, Corexit 9500, FEMA Camps, ICE Centers, secret wars, indefinite detention, making the USA military & police legally one and the same – not to mention ICLEI, AGENDA 21, SOPA, PIPA, PP20, Obama’s Bilderberg Membership, usurping Habeas … Continued

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Call Out for a Drone-free Alameda County!

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Protest the Coming of Drones to Alameda County! Alameda County Board of Supervisors Public Protection Committee Hearing 1:00PM, Thursday, February 14, 2013 1221 Oak Street Board Chambers, Room 512, 5th Floor More event info. Alameda County does not need drones intruding on its privacy or its pocketbook. Alameda County Against Drones (ACAD), a grassroots community organization that formed to oppose Sheriff Ahern’s push to buy a surveillance drone, will attend the Alameda County Public Protection Committee’s drone hearing on February 14th. The Sheriff is understating drones’ threat to privacy and … Continued

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Day 100! And Jodie is Still In Her House! #defendjodie.

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One hundred days ago Morgan Stanley was threatening to send in the sheriffs and a moving truck the next morning to evict Jodie Randolph from her house in Alameda, California. One hundred days ago it looked like Jodie Randoph, grandmother and cancer patient, might be out in the street. But it was also one hundred days ago that the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group swung into action, invading Morgan Stanley’s Oakland offices and calling for anyone and everyone to show up at 9:00 AM the next day to prevent the … Continued

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smoking or no smoking? IN ALAMEDA

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I GREW UP IN A DECADE WHERE SMOKING WAS NOT A ISSUE.,OR A HEALTH HAZARD. LIKE HOSPITIALS ,RESTRUANTS,AND THE GREYHOUND BUS. SO NOW IM 38 YEARS OLD,AND A SMOKERSINCE THE AGE 13.NOT ONLY AM I STARTING TO SEE SIGHNS LIKE NO LORTING OR NO TRUST PASSING.I WATCHED A LAW UNFOLD CREATED BY OUR GOVERMENT OFFICIALS TO BAND AND TICKET ALAMEDA RESIDENTS WHO SMOKE IN RESTRICTED PUBLIC PLACES. WE ARE NOT A PUBLIC OR REPUBLIC NO MORE.WHEN YOU MAKE SMOKING A CRIME.DO YOU REALLY THINK THE US GOVERMENT GIVES A SHIT … Continued

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Lawsuits. OPD’s Once and Future Legacy.

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Oakland quite possibly spends more per capita on settling lawsuits caused by questionable and unconstitutional policing than any other city in America. Certainly it spends more per capita than any other significantly-sized city in California, having shelled out about $60,000,000 in the last ten years, double that of San Francisco, which has about twice the population, and vastly more than San Jose, the Bay Area’s biggest metropolis. Just months ago Oakland settled a civil rights case involving public strip-searches (!) for $4.6 million, and The city has paid out nearly … Continued

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FTP on 3,1,13 Meet at 14 and broadway 7:00pm

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FTP March - Jan 14, 2012

Hello people of the world. It is time that people come and march as a bloc. Let’s keep it fun and cool , we have a set of rules to keep every safe so we can all march in peace. FUCK THE POLICE MARCH FTP2.0 – FUCK THE POLICE Take our pigs for a walk. They need the exercise. And it only costs the city $50K a week! *** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It might continue weekly. The Tactical Action Committee was … Continued

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OAKLAND OCCUPY LABOR SOLIDARITY LETTER TO SAVE GG/S AKA GWEN WINTER AND ORION/S HOME

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TO Capital One Bank McLean Headquarters Address: 1680 Capital One Drive McLean, VA 22102-3491 Phone: (703) 720-1000 We of the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee, the folks that brought you the Dec 12 West Coast Port shut down, demand that you not evict Gwen Winter, a 30 year member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union . Her loan illegally went from $1300 to $4300 per month. We demand that you modify her loan, in accordance with a new Dept. of Justice loan based on today’s values. WE WILL … Continued

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Debtors’ Assembly Comes Down With Interest (0% Down, 0% Interest)

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The Bay Area’s first Debtors’ Assembly took place on Saturday from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Eastside Arts Alliance in East Oakland. Aprroximately seventy people came to first hear Strike Debt Bay Area organizers present an overview of debt, then discuss amongst each other debt in small groups, and finally brainstorm on ways to fight against those who hold debt over us as a cudgel. Debtors’ Assemblies first started in New York City, organized by Occupy Wall Street peeps. Out of them came Strike Debt, the OWS offshoot … Continued

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