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Stand with Grandma Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, who was killed by San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher during a mental health crisis.

This week, newly appointed District Attorney Ursula Jones-Dickson informed the family that she would be filing a motion to dismiss all charges against Fletcher — while the presiding judge who has overseen this case for four years is on vacation.

That judge just denied the defense’s motion to dismiss on November 14, stating on the record that this case must go to trial and be decided by a jury. Instead of respecting that ruling, DA Jones-Dickson went judge-shopping, selecting a different judge to push through a dismissal.

This is a betrayal of the Taylor family, of justice, and of the people of Alameda County. We will not be silent while another DA shields law enforcement from accountability.

Join us in court to demand transparency, accountability, and justice for Steven Taylor.

After being rejected twice — by the Privacy Advisory Commission and the Public Safety Committee — OPD’s $2.25 million FLOCK mass surveillance contract is back on the agenda through a backdoor, undemocratic process.

On Wednesday, with less than 24 hours’ notice, Council President Kevin Jenkins, Councilmembers Rowena Brown, and Janani Ramachandran voted in the Rules Committee to send the FLOCK contract to the full City Council for a vote on December 16. Councilmember Ken Houston even thanked Jenkins for “bringing it back,” making it clear this was a coordinated effort to bypass the democratic process and ignore the people’s will.

This comes after more than 4,000 Oaklanders sent emails and over 40 organizations — including ACLU NorCal, SEIU-USWW, and Trabajadores Unidos Workers United — called on the Council to reject FLOCK’s expansion.

This is a betrayal of public trust and a direct attack on Oakland’s most vulnerable communities. A city that calls itself a sanctuary cannot partner with a surveillance company that shares data with ICE and the Trump administration.

Join us Tuesday, December 16 at 1:00 PM to stand against this outrageous move and demand real community safety, not mass surveillance.

The people of Alameda County deserve leaders who will stand for justice — not secrecy, not police power, and not corruption.

Until justice is won, we’re not done.

In solidarity and resistance,

Cat Brooks & the Anti Police-Terror Project Crew

www.antipoliceterrorproject.org

Across the country, ICE agents are escalating violence against immigrant workers in Home Depot stores and parking lots. These enforcement operations are chaotic, traumatic, and sometimes deadly.

Just last week in Oregon, agents forcibly abducted a man inside a Home Depot as onlookers called them cowards. In August, in Monrovia, CA, Carlos Roberto Montoya – a Guatemalan day laborer – was killed while fleeing an ICE operation at a Home Depot store.

These attacks are happening on Home Depot property, under Home Depot’s watch, and with Home Depot’s silence. The company has taken no public steps to condemn these raids or to demand that the government stop carrying out enforcement actions at its stores. Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus amassed billions from an industry built on immigrant labor –  only to funnel millions into Trump’s xenophobbic campaigns.

In Oakland, day laborers face the threat of ICE while Home Depot refuses to provide them with a safe place to seek work, banning them from parking lots and denying them basic dignity and respect.

Home Depot has ignored the harm for far too long. We will not. As ICE escalates its attacks, we are escalating our response.

From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, people nationwide said, “We Ain’t Buying it,” withheld their dollars, and took aim at Home Depot and other key corporate targets for collaborating with ICE and the MAGA agenda.

This Super Saturday – the final major shopping day before the holidays – we’re keeping the pressure on and gathering near Oakland Home Depot on 12/20 from 10:00am � 12:30pm to say, EEnough is enough. RSVP for more info on location details.

Join us to demand that Home Depot immediately:

• Publicly condemn ICE raids.
• Stop cooperating with ICE – close stores and parking lots to ICCE agents.
• Negotiate with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network to protect workers and customers from attacks.
• Help detained victims and support their families.
• Release security video and other footage of enforcement actions at Home Depot stores

Through its silence and inaction, Home Depot has become ICE’s passive partner. Every raid on its properties deepens fear in our communities.

Stand with us to reject ICE terror and demand real protections – not corporate silence.

This is not ceremony. This is collective action. We will be in the streets reclaiming Dr. King’s radical legacy and launching two weeks of people-led action against state violence, mass incarceration, displacement, and fascism at every level.

Oakland’s civilian oversight of the Oakland Police Department is under direct attack, and it is not accidental.

Right now, the Oakland Police Officers Association and their astroturf allies, backed by Bay Area tech billionaires, are actively working to dismantle independent oversight of OPD. Even worse, Oakland City Council leadership is allowing it to happen.

Unpaid community volunteers on the Oakland Police Commission do the hard, thankless work of holding OPD accountable to the people. Since September 2025, City Council President Kevin Jenkins, at the urging of OPOA President Hu Nguyen, has led an unprecedented and potentially illegal effort to obstruct the charter mandated selection process.

Police Commissioners Omar Farmer and Chair Roberto Garcia-Acosta:
• Passed multiple background checks
• Participated in livestreamed public interviews
• Were approved in THREE separate votes by the independent Selection Panel

That should have ended the process.

Instead, police pandering Councilmembers are attempting to block their reappointments while fast tracking Mayoral appointees chosen behind closed doors.

Let us be clear.

This is not democracy.
This is not transparency.
This is pay to play politics.

Oakland voters demanded independent civilian oversight of the Oakland Police Department. What we are witnessing now is a coordinated effort to gut that oversight and return power to police unions and corporate interests.

We cannot allow this to stand.

We need you to take action immediately.

TELL OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL:
• Respect the will of Oakland voters
• Maintain the independence of the Oakland Police Commission
• Re appoint Omar Farmer and Roberto Garcia Acosta

PUBLIC ACTION DETAILS:
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
3:30 PM
In person: Oakland City Hall, 3rd Floor
Attend online: bit.ly/oakland-cc120

Send a letter right now:
bit.ly/Restore-OPC

Scan QR code to also send a letter.

Accountability is not optional.
Oversight is non negotiable.
Oakland is watching.

In solidarity,

Cat Brooks and the APTP Crew

www.antipoliceterrorproject.org

In Minneapolis right now, the working people have responded to the atrocities committed in their city by making a plan. This Friday, January 23rd, there will be no business as usual in Minneapolis—no school, no work, no shopping. The call for a general strike has been taken up by many major unions, including the educators. This is the type of bold, coordinated action that unions across the country and right here in San Francisco must strive for.”

We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Minnesota, where 3,000 ICE agents are waging a violent, state-sanctioned occupation. It is a coordinated, top-down assault designed to break our communities and test our resistance. We refuse to let it operate with impunity.

STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH MINNESOTA

What’s happening in Minnesota will shape all of our futures. That’s why we are mobilizing here in the Bay Area in direct solidarity. Join us Friday, 1/23 at 4pm outside the Target on 4th & Mission in San Francisco as we march on ICE profiteers. If we push the corporate pillars whose silence or collaboration enables the occupation of Minnesota, we can end ICE terror and topple corporate support for the MAGA regime.