Monthly Archives: June 2012

Undeserved: Bushbamney’s Nobel Peace Prize, Peres’ Medal of Freedom, Sarsak’s Starvation in Indefinite Detention

Undeserving Nobel Peace Prize recipient Obama awards Medal of Freedom to fellow war criminal Peres while soccer player Mahmoud Sarsak starves in Israeli jail. UNDESERVED: BUSHBAMNEY’S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, PERES’ MEDAL OF FREEDOM, SARSAK’S STARVATION IN INDEFINITE DETENTION In a cruel twist of irony, Israeli President Shimon Peres was honored Wednesday night [6/13/2012] with the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” at a lavish White House feast while Mahmoud Sarsak, rising Palestinian soccer star, nears death by starvation. Sarsak is now on his 87th day of hunger strike to demand the basic … Continued

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Community Control of Police Walking Tour – Lunch with the Sheriffs!

Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group with the Anti-Repression Committee offers a walking tour and info picket of cop and capital headquarters downtown. Friday, June 15th 11:30-1:30 Meet at 19th and Telegraph in the park. If the community had control over the police would thousands of of people be evicted under the threat of violence from armed sheriffs? If the community had control over the police would Alan Blueford, a 17 year old high school senior, have been shot dead in the street? Would his killer remain at large on paid … Continued

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Singing to Freedom- Bassel Shahade

This video directed by Bassel Shahade starts with a dedication to Shahade, who recently was killed in Homs, Syria while he worked on a documentary and trained media activists: “A tribute and gratitude to Bassel Shahade Who has since been killed doing what he loved, promoting nonviolence and training activists how on media activism. “The free spirit that found its “Home” through freeing itself from the mortal “body” that constrained its presence to one place, whilst it was all the time searching for a way to belong to all places … Continued

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Kali

Why was Kali allowed to participate in an Occupy if he was on probation? Anyone on probation or parole should not be demonstrating in any kind of Occupy protest because if they are arrested, they will have a probation hold placed on them and can be sentenced to the maximum period of custody on their original charge. Does not anyone in Occupy Oakland know anything about the law? 33749

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Occupy Lakeview Elementary School–Closed by Oakland School District

WHERE: Lakeview Elementary School, 746 Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94610 WHAT: Sit-in Protest To Reverse Closures of Oakland Public Schools WHEN: Beginning Friday, June 15 at 1:00 p.m. PST WHO: Teachers, parents, students, allies, and all who believe in public education At the end of this school year, the Oakland Unified School District plans to close five public elementary schools and hand children’s school buildings over to private charter schools and district administration offices. Hundreds of the displaced students have been placed by the district in elementary schools that are … Continued

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Support Kali! Come to his sentencing! 6/20

This is our last chance to support Kali before he is sent to a state prison for Occupying! On June 20, meet at 19th & Telegraph 7:30 am for the bus to Hayward, WEAR RED! Kali was originally arrested December 16th on minor misdemeanor charges, but because of a probation violation hold he was incarcerated for 4 days before any charges were formally filed. While most people would have been released from jail and asked to appear for a future court date given the minor nature of the misdemeanor charges, … Continued

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Shut down the pig conference, June 13th 1pm, Oakland Marriot,11th and Broadway

SHUT DOWN THE PIG CONFERENCE June 13th 1pm, Oakland Marriot – 11th and Broadway SOLIDARITY WITH SEX WORKERS MEANS PUTTING THE HEAT ON THE H.E.A.T. CONFERENCE This is What Patriarchy Looks Like: The H.EAT. conference is a conference of pigs and their nonprofit lackeys to increase the harassment, imprisonment, marginalization and criminalization of sex workers. Fronting as a conference against “child trafficking,” this conference brings pigs and nonprofits together to develop policing strategies that line their pockets while leaving sex workers exploited and disempowered. Pigs and nonprofits hide behind lies … Continued

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Letter to Occupy Oakland from Anti-Repression Committee

To Occupy Oakland: First of all we would like to introduce ourselves to folks who do not already know us: We are the Anti-Repression Committee. What We DO: We provide educational materials and workshops with Occupy Legal that seek to empower people against the repressive tactics of the State and its legal system We work to gain political and material support for people who were arrested as part of Occupy Oakland in and out of custody through letter writing and campaigns to pack the courtroom on certain court dates We … Continued

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To Occupy Oakland, from Antirep

First of all, we would like to introduce ourselves to folks who do not already know us: We are the Anti-Repression Committee. What We DO: -We provide educational materials and workshops with Occupy Legal that seek to empower people against the repressive tactics of the State and its legal system. -We work to gain political and material support for people who were arrested as part of Occupy Oakland in and out of custody through letter writing and campaigns to pack the courtroom on certain court dates. -We help facilitate rides … Continued

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Blockupy

Blockupy is coming to Oakland! In Solidarity with Blockup NYC Starting June 28th, we will meet at 19th and Telegraph and organize mass marches in Oakland. There will be a series of anti-capitalist marches, black blocs, bank blocks, anti-war demonstrations, solidarity mar…ches with Quebec protesters, and NYC, etc. The event was inspired by the Blockupy protests in Germany, and the student uprising in Canada. Our main goal is to start a series of large daily protests similar to that in Quebec. The third day of Blockupy Oakland  (June 30th) will … Continued

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