Calendar
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!
Hey all! It’s time to pack City Hall again! Stop the Injunctions believes that we are in a culmination moment in this struggle against gang injunctions in Oakland, and we are stronger than ever!
Last month we defeated City Council in trying to roll out more injunctions. This month OPD will be presenting their “crime data” on the North Oakland injunction zone from the last year. Come out to represent the whole picture! STIC and our allies (you) will talk about the social and economic impacts of injunctions. City Council is stalling on doing a thorough, independent review of injunctions; we cannot allow them to sit on their hands any longer. LET’S KEEP OUT CITY ACCOUNTABLE AND CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE FUNDING OF POLICE BRUTALITY, THE FUNDING OF POLICE SURVEILLANCE and THE DE-FUNDING OF REAL SOLUTIONS LIKE EDUCATION, JOB OPPORTUNITIES and MEANINGFUL CULTURAL WORK!
TUESDAY EVENING, 5:30 pm, til….? come whenever you can. People power!
14th and Broadway, City Hall, downtown Oakland.
We’ll also have stacks of the beautiful posters by Melanie Cervantes/Dignidad Rebelde, so get excited about picking up a some heartfelt propaganda to share with the world where our struggle is at!
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.
Poor Peoples Decolonization (Occupation) From Oakland to San Francisco
Gente Pobre Descolonizacion (Ocupacion) de Oakland a San Francisco
Poor people, im/migrant workers, families on welfare, disabled, elders, youth of color, po’lice brutalized peoples of color will Decolonize (Occupy) four federal, state and local government offices that perpetrate ongoing criminalization, eviction, removal, scarcity models, false borders deportation, abuse and harassment on poor peoples everyday in the US and beyond
What: Poor Peoples Decolonization (Occupation) & March
When: Thursday, November 10th @ 12:00
Where: Three locations in Oakland in the following order:
1) Oakland Police Department 455 7th Street @ Broadway (1st location!)
2) Oakland Housing Authority/HUD: 1805 Harrison St @ 19th St.
3) Alameda County Social Services (Welfare) 2000 San Pablo Av
One Location in San Francisco:
4) US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) 630 Sansome St San Francisco @ Jackson St.
We will begin the poor peoples occupation at 12:00 noon at the police station at 7th and Broadway in Oakland and then march to HUD, then to Alameda County Social Services (welfare) and then take BART to SF to USICE in downtown SF
As the poorest of the poor, barely surviving on the margins of the 99%, we are very poor families, the no-wage workers, indigenous/im/migrant day laborers, recyclers, workfare/welfare and/or disabled folks. Most of us have no bank accounts, no homes, no passports, We exist on government crumbs or underground work to survive and our lives have become increasingly dangerous due to criminalizing legislations, racial profiling, US in-justice, and drastically shrinking government budgets for housing, aid and social services.
We are asking the powerful Decolonize (Occupy) movements in the Bay Area to decolonize and march with us in solidarity with those of us in severe poverty who struggle to survive, raise our babies and face ongoing racist, classist laws legislations and false borders everyday on both sides of the bay as we present demands to the government offices that continue to racialize, criminalize, harass, evict and abuse us.
We will march and decolonize four govt spaces on both sides of the Bay – ICE, Welfare (DHS), HUD (Housing n Urban Development) & The Po’Lice in one day at the front of each of these buildings – we ARE not trying to endanger ANY poor peoples/migrante peoples with arrests as none of us can risk arrest-
POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork(PNN) is a poor people-led.indigenous peoples led grassroots, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, education, art and advocacy to youth, adults and elders in poverty across Turtle Island
Co-sponsors: The San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, Bay Area CISPES, Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP), Idriss Stelly Foundation, Education Not Incarceration, United Playaz, Living Wage Coalition ( More TBA)
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!
One Month at the Oscar Grant Plaza, and the Commune feels stronger than ever!
Music, Dancing, Retrospective Slide Show & much more!
please bring donations of cakes, sweets & party favors!
SHOW HELLA LOVE FOR OCCUPY OAKLAND!!!!!
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!
As part of Veterans Day, veterans will be leading a march against police brutality on November 11th, 2011 in Oakland. We will start with a press conference and rally with an update and statement from Scott Olsen at Oscar Grant Plaza starting at 4pm.
We welcome all veterans of the 99% to lead the way and all supporters to join us as we march the streets. We march not only for injured veterans Scott Olsen, Kayvan Sabeghi and Doug Connor, but for all those who have been killed or injured as a result of police brutality.
Kayvan Sabeghi and Doug Connor were injured on November 3, 2011 while being detained near Oscar Grant Plaza. Kayvan was severely beaten and suffered a lacerated spleen and internal bleeding. He was abused and denied medical treatment. For hours, Kayvan waited in a holding cell in severe pain before receiving medical attention. Doug is an ex-army flight nurse who was attempting to help injured protesters in jail when he was then put in additional handcuffs that were so tight on his wrists that his hands turned blue and were numb. He was left in those handcuffs for several hours until he was released.
Numerous injuries have been incurred at the hands of the police in our communities. This is unacceptable.
We strongly believe that the 99% should be free to exercise our constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech and peaceful assembly without fear of harm.
Oakland citizens have long been on the receiving end of police violence. The most recent victims have been military veterans who served their country in foreign wars, only to be seriously injured at home as they exercised the freedoms they served to protect.
While it has been the recent injurious of three of our military brothers that has catalyzed us, we stand against violence and brutality toward ANY of our people- veteran, civilian or otherwise.
As military members, we put our lives on the line in the name of protecting our country and its citizens (including the police). We take our oath to protect and defend the Constitution very seriously and while we may have departed the military, we never disavowed our commitment.
We will return to the streets this Veterans Day to remember our brothers and sisters who have served to protect the freedoms that the Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County Sheriffs have decided do not exist. We join the people of Oakland in affirmation of our Constitution, our right to peacefully assemble and to do so without fear of violence from those sworn to protect and serve.
Meets Monday Wednesday, Friday and Sundays at 6.
Training covering teargas, pepper spray, handcuffs and some blunt trauma. All are welcome. This will be a completely sober space.
“Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet” authors Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, as well as Dakota writer, teacher, and activist Waziyatawin speak at OccupyOakland and OccupySF.
Our planet is under serious threat from industrial civilization. Yet activists are not considering strategies that might actually prevent the looming biotic collapse the Earth is facing. We need to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. We need a serious resistance movement that includes all levels of direct action–action that can match the scale of the problem.
Deep Green Resistance organizers will be at both locations with literature and available to chat and answer questions.