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Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Come talk about and help plan our next moves in the struggle to save the Berkeley Post Office from greedy moneygrubbers like Richard Blum and privateers scheming to sell off our roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, Post Offices and more all across the country.
The Post Office bureaucrats could announce the sale of the downtown Berkeley Post Office as soon as October 5th, and we need to be ready!
Possible topics for discussion include:
– Discuss continuing strategies that address the – possibly – imminent next moves by the Board of Governors to sell the Post Office
– Volunteers for
Information table
Future teach-ins
Music and entertainment events
Citizen empowerment training and resource sharing:
Know your rights
Cop Watch
Updates on privatization
Mental and physical health resources
Empathic listening circles
Training in nonviolent civil disobedience tactics and communication
Clothing and crop swaps
Banner and sign-making workshops for a variety of political actions
– Discuss our relationships with City of Berkeley officials
– Discuss the terms of ongoing mutual support of our defense of the post office/service and of future coalitions.
– Results of 9/4 Planning Commission meeting to rezone district in which Post Office is located.
Relevant websites:
Occupy’s Pirate Mike
Veterans for Peace, Environmental Activist and Veterans’ Advocate
Panel discussion with Q & A and film:
“Battlefield of the Mind”
An examination of veterans’ homelessness and the struggle of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
Veterans For Peace is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies collectively building a culture of peace by using their experiences and lifting their voices. Veterans For Peace inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars. Their network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars.
VFP was founded in 1985 by 10 U.S. veterans in response to the global nuclear arms race and U.S. military interventions in Central America. It grew to more than 8,000 members in the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 with veteran and associate members in every U.S. state and several countries, with more than 120 chapters across the nation.
(Entrance is on 22nd St, just off Broadway. Ring bell (not intercom!) to left)
Convene at Honduran Consulate Sep 10th and demand the respect and saftey of the Rio Blanco Lenca community.
The Rio Blanco Lenca community in Honduras is under attack. The Honduran government signed onto an illegal concession with DESA and SINOHYDRO, against the peoples will, to build a dam on indigenous land. The concession is a direct violation of UN ILO convention 169, that clearly states the indigenous people have the right to determine their own process of development. Since the road blockade April first the community has been threatened, attacked by DESA personnel, one man has been murdered by the Honduran Military, one man has been brutality injured by the military, three people are potentially facing criminal charges and prison time, and now, as this morning Sep 5th 3am, one man was kidnapped out of his home and threatened to be tortured in front of his family including six children. The man has not be released and no one has information on where he was taken.
There is a National Day of Action all throughout Latin America as well as the United States on Sep 9th or 10th to show the Honduran government that the international community will not stand for this abuse of humanity. Please come on Tues the 10th 11-1pm Honduran Consulate, 870 market st SF to show your support and stand against the behavior of the Honduras Government and the companies involved. Please spread the word, blast the blogspot and contact leilafli@yahoo.com if you would like to organize for this event.
Visit rioblancocommunity.blogspot.com for details and more information.
(make signs and statements if you can)
Pack the Court 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Rally on the Court steps at 12:00 noon.
Support anti-colonial, anti-capitalist comrades.
Come pack the court on September 10 as pretrial begins for the ACAC 19! The ACAC 19 are comrades who were arrested at an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist demonstration on Columbus day weekend last year. This is the last chance to pressure the DA to drop charges before trial. Pack the court from 9am – 4pm. Rally in front of the courthouse at noon. Bring signs, court allowable attire and solidarity! Even though a year has passed, comrades are still facing a slew of charges and it appears that the DA is intent on bringing them to trial. The state would like nothing more than to quietly convict and punish opponents of its colonial, capitalist rule. Don’t let them! The ACAC 19 need your support.
1:00 pm: Press Conference
2:00 pm: Fill the Federal Courtroom
We urge all supporters of public education, civil rights, and free speech to attend this hearing! The UC Administration and police are trying to get the $15 million dollar lawsuit filed on behalf of Occupy Cal protesters dismissed. They are hoping to convince a federal judge to shield them from being held accountable for ordering police to brutally beat and attack peaceful protesters on Nov. 9, 2011 as part of the Occupy Cal protest.
This Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 2 pm, we need to fill the courtroom and make clear that we won’t let UC Berkeley and the police off the hook for their actions. This is the first hearing on this case — therefore it’s vital that we show our determination to win justice.
We need to show the judge that this is not a business as usual case where it’s only lawyers from the two sides to arguing it out in front of the judge. The judge needs to see the people who are most affected by the issues at hand — students and the community that make UC Berkeley a public university — are directly participating by attending the hearing. BAMN plans to use this case to put the UCB administration on trial, expose the role UCB privatization played on November 9, 2011, and strengthen the movement to defend public education.
Attend the hearing this Tuesday and tell everyone you know!
2:00pm: Hearing before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, 2nd floor, Courtroom 5
Via ACCE Oakland:
The fight for widespread principal reduction is on, in Richmond California, and we need your help! The City, together with our community/labor/faith coalition, have a real shot at successfully standing up to Wall Street and launching a new Local Principal Reduction strategy that, once it spreads, could provide significant relief to tens of thousands of struggling homeowners.
As you’ve probably heard, Wall Street is throwing its full weight against Richmond in an attempt to stop the city from reducing the mortgage principal of underwater homeowners via the lawful use of eminent domain. Over the past 6 years, Wall Street’s reckless practices have devastated millions of lives and our national economy, and now the big banks are spreading truly absurd lies in an effort to intimidate Richmond into backing down and abandoning its plan. (They’re sending direct mail, launching deceitful websites, filing lawsuits, and trying to pressure the city financially).
On September 10, the Richmond City Council will take a crucial vote about moving forward. It is essential that we win this vote.
We need to show our allies (and the swing voters) on the Richmond City Council that we’ve got their backs. Every public expression of support will bolster their confidence in the face of intimidation tactics by Wall Street.
OCCUPY THE CIVIC CENTER STEPS
TO STOP STRIKES AGAINST SYRIA.
There will be painting, chalking, speak-outs over the bullhorn and solidarity.
Bring art supplies, signs, cardboard.
Come by any time during the day and evening. Occupy is there now, and
no one’s leaving any time soon.
A film in honor and memory of war victims and refugees especially women and children. The film is called ‘Female Faces of War: The Untold Story.’ It is a 49 minute documentary about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Suggested Donation $5- $10 will go to nonprofits Middle East Children’s Alliance for Peace and women veteran programs operated by SF’s Sword to Plowshares.
Powerful 50-minute documentary on the impact of the Iraq War.
Post-screening discussion with Executive Producer Moni Law regarding the current crisis in Syria and ongoing effects of the Iraq War.
From Palestine to California to Guantanamo.
A discussion of how to build our until and the challenges and possibilities for doing so across movements against repression, policing, incarceration and militarization and for self-determination.
Join us for a discussion amongst panelists and with audience members.
Please join Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio & Long Memory Productions
in support of the Alan Blueford Coalition
with an ADVANCED SCREENING of
OCCUPY OAKLAND: The Movie.
A Socialist Action Forum.
Speakers: Walter Riley, Jeff Mackler, Emma Cape, Scott Braley, Vanessa Aldrich, Zahra Billoo.
Sponsored by Bay Area Socialist Action.
Come help us prepare for the next year in the struggle to get Justice for Alan!
Reports on the end of the Prisoners’ Hunger Strike and First Friday Outreach.
Discussion of where we go next.
PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR MEETING PLACE BEFORE YOU COME. IT MAY CHANGE.
Come to the first-ever anti-war Bridge Walk (literally, a historical “first”). Let’s show what we think to the people here and around the world, including the Syrian people:
“How to Get To That Stunning New Bay Bridge Bike Path?” KQED gives easy driving/parking, BART, and bicycle info here.
PLAN TO ARRIVE at either of the two walk/bike path entry points by 12 Noon (Emeryville or Oakland). Bicyclists can BART to W. Oakland or MacArthur, then bike there. Cars can park in Emeryville or Oakland near these “trailheads.”
Together we’ll walk, and talk, and send up our message:
WE don’t want OUR GOVERNMENT to bomb Syria!
WE don’t want any more of OUR GOVERNMENT’s endless wars based on lies!
WE say NO to OUR GOVERNMENT’s war crimes!
WE know that even if Congress, the U.N., and every government in the world say “Yes” to this war — it’s still immoral, illegal and wrong!
Everyone is welcome, and your presence will be seen and heard: students, activists, elders – people of faith, community members – revolutionaries, veterans, writers and creative artists – those who fight for the people’s rights already, and those who’ve never taken part in an independent political action before.
The new Bay Bridge includes a beautiful pedestrian+bicycle path along the eastern span (it ends just short of Treasure Island). When you drive out of San Francisco, right next to you are people of all ages walking and biking back and forth, enjoying the incredible vistas.
WORD – Women Organized to Resist and Defend is holding a rally for Marissa Alexander.
Marissa Alexander is serving a 20-year sentence for defending herself against her abusive husband by shooting a warning shot into a wall. No one was hurt, and she is currently in prison.
Support for Marissa Alexander are banding together to hold rallies all over America on Saturday, September 14th.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland