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“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word “tension.” I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.”
#MLKshutitdown Bay Love at N. Oakland Farmers Market.
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This action is being held by WAS – Workers Against the System; an affinity group of Anti-Police Terrorism Spokescouncil as part of the weekend reclamation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy weekend.
Join us in our action to interrupt business as usual at the Oakland Walmart. We will raise awareness of John Crawford’s murder that happened August 5, 2014 inside of a southern Ohio Walmart store.
We stand in solidarity and remembrance with his family against the injustice the system has served them; by murdering their son and not indicting the officers involved in the shooting.
Wal-Mart is notoriously known for underpaying it’s workers; and in the Bay Area, employing managers that are publicly racist. Wal-Mart also facilitated the murder of John Crawford. We need to remind them that BLACK LIVES MATTER!
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The Domain Awareness Center was constrained last year to the Port of Oakland, and not allowed to come online until a privacy policy was put in place.
The privacy policy has been written, and will come before the City Council beginning on February 10th.
The Privacy Policy Committee and the Oakland Privacy Working Group have been working hard to make sure the privacy policy is very strong and it has become a national model. Now support is needed so that it won’t be watered down by the Council!
The Privacy Policy Committee will also recommend to the City Council that the Privacy Policy for the DAC be extended to Oakland (currently Oakland has no privacy policy), and also that the City Council adopt an “open” surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance.
Come learn more about all of this and how you can help keep privacy alive in Oakland.
Reference: The DAC FAQ
The first portion of the CrytoParty will be the DAC Workshop:
Stop the Spy Center from Encroaching Into Oakland – A Workshop on the DAC, its Privacy Policy and Surveillance Equipment
which begins at 2:00 PM. The usual cryptoparty will begin at 3:30 PM.
Join us for dinner ,outdoor entertainment and a sleep-in.
Everyone deserves a #Right2Rest.
Description (Drama 1984) Directed by Spike Lee – a community responds to the killing of a black man
Greetings citizens of the world, we are Anonymous.
FUCK THE POLICE: Time to 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 Oakland Fuck the police committee.The Fuck the police Committee was approved by Oakland to perform autonomous actions at their discretion.
IMPORTANT NOTE All folks are welcome, this is a peaceful protest — whatever that means.
FTP March, Iteration 3.0 Jan,18, 2015 – Fuck the police 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, FTPC 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.
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Sunday, January 18, the run-up to the historicMarch for Real Climate Leadership begins with an Oakland forum on “Organizing at the Crossroads: What Real Climate Leadership Looks Like,” one of seven forums to be held throughout the state on the community impacts of the gas and oil industry.
California is standing at the crossroads between deadly fossil fuel-dependency and the promise of an emerging social and economic renewal. And only an equitable, green energy transition rooted in environmental justice can take us there.
Come hear an inspiring panel of real climate leaders who are unafraid to face this challenge head on: newly elected Assemblyperson Tony Thurmond of AD 15 and Richmond City Councilperson Eduardo Martinez; Mary Lim Lampe of Genesis and Gamaliel; a representative of the California Nurses Association; community organizers Andrés Soto of Communities for a Better Environment, Margaret Gordon of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, and Juan Flores of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment. Pennie Opal Plant offers the opening invocation. Forum MC is New Yorkers Against Fracking co-founder and Californians Against Fracking organizer, David Braun. Other speakers TBA.
The evening panel discussion will showcase how everyday Californians are in the fight of our lives against all aspects of the fossil fuel economy including extraction, infrastructure and transport, and our resistance to the industry’s assault on sustainable businesses and innovation. We’ll be exploring the intersections between our movements and aligning our energies behind one common goal: a truly clean energy future where our children are not poisoned for toxic profits.
Hosted by Californians Against Fracking, California Nurses Association, Sunflower Alliance, 350Bay Area, 350.org, Sierra Club, and others.
What: An inspiring organizing meeting to get ready for the March for Real Climate Leadership
Why: To meet local activists near you, learn about the local organizing that’s happening in the Bay, and build momentum towards the March for Real Climate Leadership
Next month’s march is one of our best chances to demand real action to combat the climate crisis here in California — and the next step towards making Oakland part of that is coming to the community organizing meeting on Sunday.
We have an amazing chance to build on the momentum from 2014, from over 4,000 people rallying in the state capitol to demand a ban on fracking, to historic mobilizations across the country for the People’s Climate March, to New York banning fracking in December. Let’s make the March for Real Climate Leadership the first of 2015’s big movement moments.
These organizing meetings will deepen our local networks and create new connections — because real climate leadership isn’t just about banning fracking (though that’s a big part of it). We will talk about the march itself, as well as: organizing and recruitment, how to be a bus captain and bring dozens of people from your community to the march, and ways to create art to make the day transformative.
Click here to sign up for the organizing tour stop in Oakland on Sunday.
Let’s make this amazing,
#MLKshutitdown Unspecified Action @ West Oakland BART
“Equality demands dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.”
“When you have mass unemployment in the Negro community it’s called a social problem. When you have mass unemployment in the white community it’s called a depression”
“We refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt”
— Martin Luther King, Jr—–
Join the Anti Police-Terrorism Project (APTP) for a MLK day march that reclaims the spirit of King and celebrates his legacy of resistance!
There will be performances, speakers, resource booths, face painting, crafts and more!
This is a family-friendly event and a celebration of King’s legacy, Black Lives and the struggle for social justice.
We will gather at the plaza outside of Oscar Grant Station (Fruitvale) at 11 AM. There will be performances, speakers, resource booths, face painting, crafts and more! From there we will march to Coliseum City connecting the dots between police terrorism and economic terrorism – meaning the unjust ways that cops kill unarmed Black people as with Oscar Grant and the unjust way Oakland’s development is either pushing Black and Brown people out of the city and/or not hiring Black and Brown Oakland residents to facilitate or benefit from the new development as with the Coliseum City project.
Stay Tuned for More Details!!!
The APTP is a group of concerned institutions, organizations and individuals committed to ending the state sanctioned murder of Black, Brown & Poor people by police departments across the country.
#BlackLivesMatter. Join us as we discuss the national epidemic of police brutality, misconduct and associasted laws and legal procedures, as well as your rights when facing law enforcement and the state of our modern civil rights movement.
Panelists: John Burris, Adante Pointer, Paul Henderson, Cephus Johnson
Performance: Prentice Powell, spoken word artist.
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For this week. Back next Monday.
Please come at 9am and 2pm to support folks arrested at a march during MLK weekend. Let’s come out and support each other!
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Demands to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors
1. Set aside 50% of the County Realignment budget for reentry programs and services.
2. Support the #BlackFriday14 and tell BART and the District Attorney to drop charges and restitution.
3. Follow Supervisor Keith Carson’s call for 2015 as the year to attack issues of racial inequality. Protect and invest in Black and Brown lives because they are among the most criminalized, incarcerated, and subjected to violence by law enforcement.
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Surveillance technologies such as automated license plate readers, body cameras and drones, to name a few, have the potential to give law enforcement an edge in fighting crime and bringing wrongdoers to justice. Yet the same technologies also raise serious concerns about privacy and civil liberties. Throughout California, elected representatives and law enforcement leaders are faced with the task of finding a balance that serves their community.
At this Forum, speakers from California and elsewhere will discuss how law enforcement is procuring and using these technologies, how local communities are addressing the related policy issues and how to develop best practices for balancing the need to keep our communities safe while at the same time respecting privacy rights and civil liberties.
Refreshments provided courtesy of The Lares Institute, a think
tank on technology, privacy and information governance.
Register by email to AGforum@doj.ca.gov
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris presents
Featured Speakers
M. Ahsan Baig
Division Manager, Public Safety Services & Business Applications, City of Oakland
Renee Domingo
Director of Emergency Services and Homeland Security, City of Oakland
Michael Downing
Deputy Chief, Commanding Officer, Counter-Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau, Los Angeles Police Department
Brian Hofer
Chair, Domain Awareness Center Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Privacy and Data Retention, City of Oakland
Jennifer Lynch
Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Deirdre Mulligan
Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
Nicole Ozer
Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California
Cynthia Renaud
Police Chief, City of Folsom
And a representative of the Police Executive Research Forum
Protecting Our Communities, Respecting Our Liberties
Join us on the 5th anniversary of the infamous Citizens United decision for the “Mourning in America” March and Rally. The 3.1 mile march will be kicked off by well known hip-hop artist for change, Khafre Joy. Marchers will be led by effigies of five of the Supreme Court Justices, and followed by a spirited band and a coffin with Uncle Sam inside. The rally will begin at 4:30 at at the Federal Building, the end-site of the march. Speakers will include Gayle McLaughlin, former mayor of Richmond who stood up to Chevron and won, and Bill McKibben of 350.org. There will be musicians, street theater and the lighting of a building with our message.
Can you join us in San Francisco on Wednesday?
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Join a march and rally—in fact, a memorial service— to mark the 5th anniversary of the death of democracy. On this day in 2010, the US Supreme Court issued its “Citizens United” ruling, which allows corporations and their billionaire masters to strangle democracy.
Statement of the event organizers, Money Out! People In!:
On this the anniversary of the Citizen United we:
• Mourn the Supreme Court decisions granting corporations unlimited campaign spending rights.
• Mourn our lost American democracy,
• Mourn the loss of government that no longer works for us.
• Vow to recreate a government by the people.
• And find hope that democracy will be resurrected in America
Our call to action:
1. Demand an amendment to the US Constitution — We the People must clearly affirm that corporations do NOT have the same rights as people and money is NOT protected as free speech (www.movetoamend.org / www.freespeechforpeople.org).
2. Pass anti-corruption legislation in your city. Corruption has been legalized. (represent.us/local-anti-corruption-act). End the revolving door between lobbying and any government work, including political office. Hold politicians accountable.
3. Volunteer with a local group working to get big money out of politics (www.moneyoutpeoplein.com).
4. Broaden the movement. Have your union, congregation, non-profit, or other organization endorse Move to Amend and/or Free Speech for People.
5. Learn about and advocate for the California DISCLOSE Act and the Federal DISCLOSE Act to require transparency in political ads and neutralize super PACs and billionaires.
This event is organized by Money Out! People In! – a Northern California coalition dedicated to getting big money out of politics. Visit their website at www.moneyoutpeoplein.com
Download Statement of Principles for a 21st Century Democracy (PDF), from Money Out! People In!