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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!!!!!
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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.
Y.O.G.A. = You Occupy, Get Access!
Egypt held a solidarity march for us and now we are doing the same for them.
Oakland and Cairo are one hand.
Rally at the plaza at 4pm
March at 5pm: First to the federal building where people can speak about the U.S. government’s complicity in the repression of Egyptian people, and then to the Glenn Dyer detention facility to connect the imprisonment of political prisoners in Egypt to prisoners in the U.S. and everywhere.
The following was passed at the Nov. 9 General Assembly with 97% approval:
Preamble:
Egyptian activists from the Tahrir Square movement have put out an international call for solidarity actions with their revolution on Saturday, November 12th. While Egypt has faded from the spotlight over the past few months, activists have never been in more danger from their on-going military government and police state. Several Egyptian activists have been imprisoned using open-ended sentences: including Alaa Abd El Fattah by the military of Egypt, which is trying to stifle the revolution and has been using repressive tactics to do so.
Given that our Egyptian counterparts marched on the U.S. embassy in solidarity with Occupy Oakland, published a solidarity letter, continuously strive to keep vital connections between Cairo and our Occupy Movement after the tragic day of police violence on the streets of downtown Oakland, it is imperative that we respond in kind, with solidarity, love and support during their difficult and dangerous struggle. This solidarity is best shown, not only by expressing support for their similar goals and movements, but by acknowledging that our very government stands in the way of their goals, just as it often does with ours.
This proposal is in no way meant to discourage any other actions or statements that may be planned for this day in solidarity with Egypt’s Revolution, but rather, was organized so that there would be at least one GA endorsed Occupy Oakland solidarity letter and action.
To the Revolutionaries in Egypt,
The January 25th revolution shook the globe. After over 30 years of living under a brutal dictatorship, the Egyptian people erupted in fury. We watched as you occupied Tahrir Square and resisted the government’s ruthless attacks; at the end of those 18 long days, we witnessed the power of a united people as you celebrated the revolution’s success in ousting Mubarak.
But we realize that your struggle is long from over. We watched in tears as the military council took power, protecting the remnants of the old government, and defending the system of economic oppression which continues to exploit and drive your people into poverty. It seems that they did not understand the now infamous chant: The people want the downfall of the regime. As the SCAF (Supreme Council of Armed Forces) promised to facilitate the transition to democracy, it has continued to kill protestors, viciously remove occupiers from Tahrir, conduct “virginity tests,” and persecute thousands through unjust military trials. Ridding yourselves of Mubarak was the first step, but now it is more evident than ever that the people will only be truly free when the whole system is abolished.
Do not stop in your efforts for freedom. You have already inspired thousands all over the world to occupy public spaces, to bring Tahrir Square everywhere. These liberated spaces have provided food, shelter, protection and education in a way that capitalism never can, and never will. But just as government thugs, the military, and the police repeatedly cracked down on Tahrir, police forces everywhere are raiding our occupations with the goal of destroying everything that we create. It has become clear that if we build shelters, develop safe spaces for people of color, women, the poor, trans and queers, if we set up open kitchens, create free schools– if we attempt to imagine a world without capitalism, we will be quashed by the capitalists and their army of police.
And so we stand with you. We are you. This entire generation has come to understand that we have no future in the current state of things. From Oakland to Egypt, there is only one chant: The people want the downfall of the regime.
Oakland has fallen in love with the Egyptian revolutionaries, and from Oscar Grant Plaza, we are standing with you. We are standing with you against all military trials, the repression from the government, and this system, which plagues all of our lives. Continue your resistance, strengthen your revolution, and do not be discouraged. You are the ones, after all, who have shown us all that another world is possible.
This Saturday, Nov 12th, as the Egyptian people call for solidarity from across the globe, rest assured that your comrades in Oscar Grant Plaza will be standing with you. Oakland and Egypt are one hand!
With Love and Solidarity from Occupied Oakland
November 9, 2011
This is the same training as Saturday’s covering teargas, pepper spray, handcuffs and some blunt trauma. All are welcome. This will be a completely sober space.
Discussing ways to protect the plaza, to connect with other rank and file workers, and possible ways and places where workers can defend workers in Oakland.
Specific meeting for all camped at Oscar Grant Plaza. Meetings everyday at 12pm.
Bring readings of poetry you want others to hear, or share your own poetry.