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Oakland will MARCH on California’s Cesar Chavez Holiday — Monday, April 1, 2013 — to demand FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL! These are our demands:
FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, white, immigrants with and without papers — we are ALL Americans.
OPEN THE BORDERS — give people the same rights that NAFTA provides to the corporations for unrestricted passage across borders.
NO RESTRICTIONS to gaining citizenship should be placed on young people brought by their parents.
NO FINES for the millions of people without papers who are here now. No more deportations.
CLEAR, DEFINITE TIMELINES should be set for people to gain citizenship — not indefinite probation.
Pass the DREAM Act Now!
Rally at 12:00 PM. March at 1:00 PM.
StrikeDebtBayArea peeps will be talking about their projects at the Occupy SF Forum on April 1st.
Cassie Thorton, of one SDBA’s founding members,
will present three years of research and art making about debt
and its relationship to contemporary notions of work, behavior,
emotions and the unconscious. In this talk Cassie will explore the
nature of debt as a tulpa, which, in Tibetan mysticism, is a being or
object created out of a shared willpower, attention, focus, and
ritual. If enough people think it, believe it, and have fear of it,
the tulpa manifests as a powerful physical thing. How do we shift the
collective idea of debt so that it doesn’t create fear and shame?
Others will join her to talk about other SDBA projects, foreclosure and its
relationship to debt, the Rolling Jubilee, etc.
Time will be allotted for Q&A and open discussion.
Monday April 1st 6 – 9 pm.
2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor (push: 200 to be buzzed in), near Mission/16th Street BART
Oakland City workers will take their message for a fair, no concessions contract to City Hall.
The rally will be the highlight of a day-long hearing on the city’s budget, where we will tell city leaders to cut elsewhere than the hard-working members of SEIU Local 1021.
Workers have given back wages, benefits and jobs since 2008, but now livelihoods are at risk. Enough is enough.
Wear purple to show solidarity.
Come to our phone blast AND ORGANIZING party!
lunch – pot luck, bagels and cheese. beer, wine, and soda
ACOUSTIC MUSIC
LEARN HOW OR TEACH OTHERS THE TEDIOUS JOB OF PHONE BLASTING
if u can/t make phone blast party do a phone blast on ur own and forward this
u can phone blast any time on thursday april 4th.
please help us to PHONE BLAST IT IS A SUCCESSFUL TACTIC
call 10 times THAT DAY leaving a message
we give u the script to read just like those annoying phone soliciters
it usually shuts down there system but before the system shuts down
they get the Message and then they realize GG is not alone.
PHONE BLAST SCRIPT FOR GG’S HOME:
US Bank: Phone: 510-891-2990
My name is ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my neighbor, Gwen Winter, who you are trying to evict from her home at 1415 Allman Street, Oakland, CA. She’s been fighting you in court to no avail. I demand you stop the eviction, lower her principal and give her an affordable mortgage now! Your lawyers call themselves: US Bank NA as trustee for Chevy Chase Bank. Her loan number is (Chevy Chase Bank) #0555083294.
Austerity and its Discontents: A Public Forum with David Graeber.
David Graeber is an anthropologist operating out of Goldsmiths, University of London. He emerged as the organic intellectual of the Occupy movement, and has made important contributions to the renovation of antinomian thought. Among his books are “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” and “Debt: The First 5000 Years.”
David Graeber Wikipedia entry.
You are invited to a FRIDAY BANK DEMO in oakland, april 5 330pm. we meet and decide which bank CALL me orion 510 541 3835 for meeting location. the demonstration will be run by ACCE: ALLIANCE OF CALIF0RNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT. I HAVE BEEN TO 5 acce BANK ACTIONS – NOBODY GETS ARRESTED AND IT/S TONS OF FUN AND extremely empowering . WE BASICALLY DEMAND TO TALK TO THE MANAGER TO restructure loans or stop the sale of homes etc. there will be 3 other home owners besides gg.
Even if u don/t go in the bank u should come to the demo to stand out side and be witness. Bring signs if u like – I especially like ITS NOBODYS FAULT BUT THE BANKSTERS. Learn and enjoy how ACCE puts fire to the feet of the 1%.
WHAT KIND OF PIE ? OCCUPY ! VIVA LA HUELGA GENERAL QUE VIVA
FUCK THE POLICE MARCH
14 and broadway 7:00pm
FTP 3.0 – 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 approved by Occupy Oakland’s GA to perform autonomous actions at their discretion. In that sense it is not an “official” Occupy Oakland event, in the sense that it was not directly, but indirectly, approved through the GA.***
IMPORTANT NOTE: NV folks are welcome, this is a peaceful protest — whatever that means.
FTP March, Iteration – Tactical Parameters
Due to the fact that most of our internal issues on each march and action to date have come from a lack of information on what the tactical parameters of a particular action are expected to be, TAC will be calling for tactical parameters on this and all future FTP marches that may change as we learn and practice our skills in the streets.
Note that these are the wishes by the callers of the march. In the interests of solidarity please respect these parameters. These are being called for this march only. This goes both ways — please be respectful enough of the event to not pursue certain actions at this time if they are being put on the “please don’t” list; likewise, if you are uncomfortable with someone performing an action that is acceptable within the march parameters DO NOT INTERFERE with them. This is respect for diversity of tactics, and also proper solidarity in the face of our common enemy. There will come a day that this practice, discipline and restraint will serve us well as a unit.
If you cannot follow the parameters DO NOT ATTEND. They will be read before the march during the rally. People will be given the opportunity to back out if they feel they cannot respect the tactics, with no loss of face.
So, for this march, TAC is asking for the following:
SHIELDS: If you have the capability and the will to march in the front line, make a shield to carry for this Saturday’s action.
NO DAMAGE TO PRIVATE PROPERTY of any kind — people’s cars, any Oakland businesses (especially small businesses – but the Starbucks that was hit last time actually gives free coffee and food to our vigil so we prefer to leave all of them out at this time).
PROPERTY THAT IS FAIR GAME IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED – police vehicles and equipment. The police are not our friends, never have been, and never will be.
NO FRONTAL ASSAULTS ON THE POLICE – i.e., no bottle throwing. Defensive actions are fully accepted and encouraged. Shields, unarresting, disarming cops that are beating comrades, etc. MAKE THE POLICE STRIKE THE FIRST BLOW.
SPLIT-OFF MARCHES AND AUTONOMOUS ACTIONS ARE NOT DISCOURAGED. If you do decide to go your own route, please respect the above parameters. Large banks, huge international corporations that run this city with their money, political organization HQ such as the Democrat campaign office or the chamber of commerce are not considered private property for the purposes of the parameters. If you decide to split off, do your autonomous actions away from the main march, not right next to it.
We are not encouraging anyone to attack any property whatsoever, but some property is more acceptable than others if you really must risk your freedom by doing something of that nature.
FIRE CAN BE FUN – if you want to burn a usa flag in the street (that isn’t somebody’s car) then more power to you. If someone is burning a flag in the street then DO NOT INTERFERE.
BLOC UP: If you hear the shout, “Bloc up!” Or “Tighten up!” It is in your best interest to clump together with the main group in tight formation. Be aware of distance and do not string out along the march route. Do not give the police an opportunity to snatch you and plant evidence on you to conflate charges with.
And to repeat:
NO INTERFERING IN OTHER PEOPLE’S ACTIONS EVEN IF YOU DO NOT PERSONALLY AGREE WITH THEM. Do not yell stop. Do not grab your comrades. If you feel unsafe, move away. The parameters listed above are for our own use so that we can hold one another accountable afterwards for things that may not have gone according to plan. But in the face of the enemy WE SHOW FULL SOLIDARITY. Afterwards we can argue about stuff. Not during the action.
We are all adults. We are all comrades. We have a common enemy and we will have to learn to work as a unit. Following the action parameters on each FTP march should mitigate the fighting and problems we have consistently had after every action to date.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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The Oakland Police Department has harassed and brutalized Occupy Oakland and participants in the vigil. Camps and liberated foreclosed buildings have been raided and shut down. OOers at the vigil have been arrested for as little as standing nearby when the police decide to raid, all the way up to the ridiculous charge of lynching. People have been physically assaulted by those supposed to protect and serve, but only do so in the interests of the 1%.
With dozens of our comrades having been arrested in the past couple of weeks, and culminating in the city’s revocation of the vigil’s permit and the immediate threat of another police raid to clear the plaza, the time has come to rise up and let them know what we think of them and that we will no longer meekly accept their violations of our civil and human rights.
Spread the word, send the invite, join us as we march in solidarity against police repression.
Wear black Bring shields if you are able and willing
Rally at 7:00 pmMarch on OPD HQ at 9:00 pm
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING OCCUPY OAKLANDSOLIDARITY
We are Anonymous,
We are legion,
We never forgive,
We never forget,
Expected us.
A public forum to save the life and win the freedom of radical attorney Lynne Stewart, suffering from Stage 4 lung cancer.
• Victim of a government frame-up conviction on charges of aiding and abetting terrorism •Imprisoned for ten years for defending
the civil liberties and democratic rights of the Egyptian cleric (the “blind sheik’) Omar Abdel Rachman
• Lynne has Stage 4 lung cancer and is seeking “compassionate release” to the New York City hospital that treated her original and now metastasized breast cancer. Citing “prison regulations” at FMC Carswell in Forth Worth, Texas, the warden denied release on the grounds that their medical experts claim that Lynne does not fall under this release program because she has at least two years to live before being overtaken by her metastasized cancer. Lynne’s medical experts say that if she is allowed the state-of-the-art treatment available today, she can recover. Meanwhile Lynne’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her case is pending.
• Lynne is lifelong civil liberties attorney, social justice and human rights activist, coordinating committee member of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and a member of the National Lawyers Guild
Hear: Jeff Mackler, West Coast Coordinator, Lynne Stewart Defense Committee; lifelong friend of Lynne Stewart; director, The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; Administrative Committee, UNAC
Saturday, April 6, 2 PM
Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists , 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley
Free food!
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford coalition is hosting a community BBQ in Arroyo Park on Saturday, April 13th. We hope you’ll come out with friends and family to eat, play, and connect as we build the strength of our community.
Expect delicious home-cooked food, great music, powerful speakers, kid-friendly activities, a nurse’s station – all donated to this community event in honor of Alan Blueford, a Skyline High School student who was murdered by OPD Officer Miguel Masso almost one year ago on May 6th, 2012.
Please join us in demanding the arrest of Officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford, and an end to racial profiling and violent, unaccountable police in Oakland.
Officer Masso must be fired because factual evidence exists that:
– he participated in an illegal ‘Stop & Frisk,’ precipitating Alan’s death
– he did not activate his lapel camera as required by OPD protocols
– he executed Alan Blueford, firing three shots at someone who was unarmed
– he lied after the fact about the events of May 5th & May 6
– he should never have been hired in the first place because of his NYPD record
– he refused a prisoner medical treatment, as documented by NYPD Internal Affair
– he is not psychologically fit to be a police officer, as evidenced by his own statements in the District Attorney’s report
Banks don’t pay taxes but most people do!
Banks don’t pay their debts but we are hounded if we don’t!
Why must we pay income tax when banks and corporations don’t have to? They use accounting gimmicks, offshore headquarters and other scams to avoid paying their fair share. Is it fair that taxpayers bailed out the big banks, but they continue to profit at our expense? Why must we be crushed under the weight of debt for medical, educational, housing AND income tax obligations while those who have made a mess of our communities and our planet freeload at our expense?
On Tax Day, April 15, Strike Debt Bay Area will demonstrate our opposition to debt culture. We will reach out to indebted taxpayers with remedies to a life of financial servitude. Join us to spread the word about our activities.
STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA is beginning to organize for mass debt resistance. Collectively, we can decide that we’ve paid more than enough already for the blunders of the wealthy 1% and we can bill them for the debt they owe us and our communities.
Join us at the Federal Reserve, 3:00PM on Monday, April 15. Bring your voices. Bring your stories of debt persecution. Find out about STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA’s programs for debt resistance.
Strike Debt Bay Area is loosely affiliated with Strike Debt which created the Rolling Jubiliee.
RSVP via Facebook and more info
Mario Romero was 23 years old ,Just 16 days shy of his 24th birthday.He and his brother-in-law had just returned home following the celebration of the two just getting new , promising jobs that would help them better support their families, wives and 3 three children between the both of them. upon returning home they placed a call to open the front door; upon ending the call Mario’s sister went outside to scare them like she always did but upon her arrival to the side of the building she was stopped by a blinding bright light that was shone onto Mario’s car followed by officers exiting from their vehicle yelling “put your hands up!” and a shots fired by one gun before the sentence of “put your hands up!” was finished.
Witnesses recall seeing both men with their hands us pleading for their lives to be spared. family members pleaded with officers to stop shooting the unarmed men. a sort while into the shooting one officer jumped onto the hood of Mario’s car and began to continue shooting to insure that both men were dead.
30+ bullets were unloaded into Mario’s car has he and his family pleaded for Vallejo police to stop. their was NO return fire!..Mario was unarmed. He was shot in the face, in the mouth, hands, wrists,chest, and underarms. following his being shot he was cut from his seatbelt and mutilated by the murdering officers knife, resulting in a gaping hole in his body big enough to put a whole arm and fist into. he was dragged onto the ground , his hands were then zip-tied as the officer pushed his blood from his body. Mario’s dead body which was then removed from the scene of the crime before the coroner could arrive, following the removal of his body a fake gun was planted inside of Mario’s car by Vallejo Police Corporal Stanley Eng, who also stole Mario’s bullet filled & cut seatbelt. The gun that was planted was not just any gun it was a police issued training gun that only law enforcement can be issued. Mario’s body was hidden from his family for a month , delaying his burial, Mario’s family has experienced an abundance of intimidation tactics by the Vallejo Police who have attempted to silence their request for accountability, Vallejo Police have refused to interview witnesses, have admitted that they do not drug test their officers at all following being hired, nor do they psychologically evaluate them.
The Vallejo police have followed, arrested, intimidated, threatened witnesses and friends of Mario with false charges in an attempt to get them to make false stories about Mario. They have illegally raided homes without warrants, with officers tearing down pictures of Mario off of friends walls and urinating on them. The officer that murdered Mario is still patrolling the streets of Vallejo racially profiling and taking pictures of people with his personal cellphone. This officer had a dark past long before he murdered Mario, He arrested a 5 year old boy against the parents will, took him to a mental hospital where he was put on a suicide watch
he has also worked at Vallejo high School where he harassed students, used excessive force as well as tazed multiple stuudents.
Vallejo Police admit that they did not identify themselves, they claim they wanted to make contact with the men
THEY NEVER KNEW WHO MARIO WAS BEFORE THEY MURDERED HIM
VALLEJO POLICE CHIEF LIED ON MARIO CALLING HIM A PAROLEE WHO WAS AFRAID OF GOING BACK TO PRISON WHEN HE KNEW THE STATEMENT WAS A LIE.
THIS IS NOT A CASE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE…NO FORCE WAS NEEDED..IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO SIT IN FRONT OF YOUR HOME AT ANYTIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT! YOU SHOULD BE FREE FROM BEING PREYED UPON BY BLOOD THIRSTY, UNDRUGTESTED COPS!
MARIO LEAVES BEHIND A 3YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WHO WAS HIS WORLD
WE DEMAND JAIL FOR DUSTIN JOSEPH NOW!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2013
CONTACT:
Andrea Prichett (Berkeley Copwatch)
Phone: (510) 229-0527 email: prichett@locrian.com
Diana Bohn (Coalition for a Safe Berkeley)
Phone: 510-525-5497 or 926-5871 email: nicca@igc.org
Who: Berkeley Copwatch, Coalition for a Safe Berkeley
Event Remembering/ Celebrating the life of Kayla (Xavier) Moore on her birthday
What: Birthday Memorial Celebration
When: 5:00pm, Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Where: 2116 Allston Way (near Shattuck Ave.) in Berkeley
and
What: Press Conference and delivery of the Public Records Act Request to the police station.
Where: 2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley
When: 6:15 PM
On what would have been Kayla Moore’s 42nd
birthday, we invite all justice (and fun) loving people to join us for a
remembrance and get-to-know you event in celebration of her life. You see,
we are also forging a movement to demand justice for Kayla Moore. Since the
night of February 12, 2013 when police claimed to be responding to a call about
a “disturbance” on the 5th Floor of the Gaia Building in downtown
Berkeley, the BPD has provided almost no information about what happened
that night. According to the Coroner’s office, the BPD has asked that a “hold”
be placed on the release of the autopsy report. They say it could take 6-8
months to release.
Quote by Elysse Paige- Moore, stepmother: “Xavier had
a very difficult life, but an indomitable spirit. He suffered with mental
illness from an early age, struggling throughout his life with paranoid
schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress syndrome. He also had a near genius I.Q.
and a photographic memory. He was a poet and a gifted singer and oh could he
dance, even at 350 lbs! He was generous, and often took in homeless friends
giving them shelter and cooking 3 course gourmet meals for them. Despite his
challenges, he was resilient and resourceful. His spirit was unbreakable and
served as an example to everyone he touched.”
Demands of the Berkeley Police Department:
Release the police reports on the incident that took place on February 12-13th, 2013.
Release the Coroner’s Report.
Publish the investigation results.
Background:
As details of the tragic death of 41 year old Berkeley
resident Xavier Christopher Moore in police custody begin to emerge, residents
are asking why this person died and why police are slow to release information
in this case.
According to Berkeley Police, officers were dispatched for a
mental health evaluation at about 11:50 pm on February 12, 2013, although
neighbors on the same floor heard no disturbance until the police
arrived.
After officers appeared at Moore’s residence the situation
escalated, and shortly thereafter Moore died in police custody. Neighbors
observed officers carrying Moore on a gurney, unconscious and in restraints,
out of the building. In a city that is known internationally for disability
awareness, social consciousness and protection of civil liberties, it is
unacceptable that a mental health evaluation should end in death. The District Attorney says that since this is not an officer
involved shooting, they are not even investigating the case. We find all of
this unacceptable.
We are calling on the Berkeley Police Department to release
the police reports and the Coroner’s Report, and to publish the investigation
results on the incident that took place on February 12-13th, 2013.
If misconduct has occurred, officers must be disciplined. If it was a failure
of policy and administration, the public must be allowed to analyze the case
and to assist in addressing this breakdown in city services. In any case, we demand that the
Berkeley Police Department comply with Public Records Act requests and that
they make information about that night’s events available to the public as
quickly as possible.
SHUTDOWN US BANK SAT APR 20 MONCLAIR 10M TO NOONISH. Meet at US Bank in Montclair, 1998 Mountain Blvd, Oakland.
If you cannot make it please call US Bank branches between 10:00 AM and noon that are open today in the Oakland area:
Montclair: 510 339 5900
Alameda: 510 747 1657
I am ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my friend, Gwen Winter, who you evicted from her home at gunpoint at 1415 Allman Street, Oakland, CA on Friday morning, April 19. I demand you call off the sheriffs, let her back into her home, lower her principal and treat her fairly and equitably! Don’t try to tell me that it isn’t your loan, because all the lawsuits are from your lawyers, who call themselves: US Bank NA as trustee for Chevy Chase Bank. Her loan number is (Chevy Chase Bank) #0555083294.
Scheduled artists include Voyaj, Upside Drown, Shake Your Peace!, Future Twin and Michael Zeligs.
On Earth Day of last year, Occupy the Farm first broke into the Gill Tract to protest a proposed development neighboring land also owned by the university.
Join many on Earth Day, 4/22, to tell the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop protecting polluters. It is time to start protecting our climate, our health, and our communities!
Meet in front of the U.S. EPA Region IX Office at 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco at noon on 4/22.
March to State Department at 1:45 PM to protest the Keystone Pipeline. More info.
Join us in Support of a resolution to Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to Scomm (Secure Communities, i.e., Deportation) in the County!
We will gather to share food at 10:30am, will have a press conference/rally at 11am and at 12 Noon we will head inside to the 5th floor to give testimony in support of a resolution that the Board of Supervisors will be voting on calling for an end to S-comm in the County. Join us, together we can “Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to S-comm in the County”!
Last year, over 2,000 folks took over the Wells Fargo Share holder’s meeting San Francisco. This year, Wells Fargo is on the run: to Salt Lake City Utah. But it doesn’t mean we can’t leave them a message for when they come back!!! Join ss and make sure John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo, hears us all the way in Salt Lake City Utah, from San Francisco.
gg and orion invite you to join the ACCE demo against Wells fargo and USBANK april 23 tuesday meet 9am at ACCE OFFICE 2501 INTERNATIONAL BLVD @ 25TH OAKLAND THEN BART TO SAN FRANCISCO TO SHUT DOWN WELLS FARGO BANKS IN SAN FRANCISCO in support of actions IN SALT LAKE CITY AGAINST SHARE HOLDERS MEETING AND ALSO SHUT DOWN US BANK FOR GG/S FIGHT TO RESCIND HER EVICTION.
Non-union fast food workers at the Oakland Airport have been calling for justice on the job for over nine months. The Port of Oakland found that two worker leaders were FIRED in retaliation for speaking out – and that Jamba Juice and Subway weren’t following the Port living wage law.
We told the Port Commission last Thursday that this injustice cannot stand at the Oakland Airport. Next Wednesday we will raise our voices so that everyone in the airport knows how unfair Subway and Jamba Juice are.
We will also be joined by a special delegation of union activists from Tunisia and Morocco! You’ll definitely want to hear stories of their struggle and how we can work together for international solidarity.
In solidarity,
UNITE HERE! Local 2850
Join Reverend Billy and the Choir of Stop Shopping for their performance of “Extinction Revolution”, the latest from the singing radicals.
In the new song “Extinction Revolution” the choir, led by Musical Director Nehemiah Luckett, rejoices that the climate-changed killed Golden Toad returns from the dead to haunt Jamie Dimon’s dreams and regulate Wall Street.
Special guests, Chalkupy. Facebook Event: RSVP