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March to demand a real jobs program!
If you are
— tired of being broke because you don’t have a job.
— sick and tired of being a number they don’t count any more.
Then it’s time to start fighting back. Join a movement to organize the ranks of the unemployed.
We encourage our Sisters and Brothers who have jobs to march with us July 11th.
Wells Fargo Bank taking home from 60-year old woman, help is needed!
Come to the rally on Wed, July 11 at 5 PM at the 4th St Plaza in San Rafael. Show your support for Pat and John and for all of our neighbors who are victims of the banking system.
If you are facing foreclosure yourself, please come and share your story. The way we can pressure the banks is to turn out in LARGE numbers!!!
Kenneth Harding was murdered by SF police on July 16th, 2011 at the age of 19 for alledgedly failing to pay a $2.00 transit fare.
Only July 16, we are asking for full support and cooperation from all unions especially transit. We don’t want anyone to have the option to travel by transit in the city of San Francisco that day.
Shut down MUNI!
We are all Kenneth Harding, Gary King, Oscar grant, Trayvon Martin, Rhamarley Graham, Raheim Brown, Idriss Stelley, James Rivera, Gus Rugley and so many more.
Please come join us for our on-going clean-up at St. Andrew’s Park in West Oakland, in collaboration with the San Pablo Corridor Coalition. We will have plenty of equipment and safety gear, and there will be free coffee, donuts, and maybe even a barbecue. We’re there from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and those who wish to will have the opportunity to move on to other clean-up sites once we’re done at St. Andrew’s. Lookin’ forward to it.
On July 21 Anaheim Police Chased and shot Manuel Angel Diaz in the back of his head Killing him. Diaz was Unarmed. The Latino Community that the Killing had happened in had already been the victim of several other shootings in the Past done by Anaheim Police. confronted the police in Protest of Diaz killing. and were viciously attacked by Police the Extreamly Cruel repression that the Anaheim police unleashed on the community was horrible. you see the Police shot Rubber Bullets into the crowd including Woman and Children you even see a Police dog attack a woman with a Stroller with her Baby inside. it was just another reminder of the sick Capitalist Police state that we live under.
we here in the City of Oakland particularly the Black and Brown Community but also the Radical community as well like Occupy Oakland can relate to this police terror in our own city. so LETS ORGANIZE A rally and March on Friday July 27 at Oscar Grant Plaza at 5:30 pm and stand in solidarity with our Brothers and sisters who were brutally attacked on Saturday July 21. we here in Oakland stand in solidarity with them to end Police terror from Oakland to Anaheim and beyond.
Alex Mahan, a Stockton comrade, was killed in a driveby shooting the same evening. Everyone remembers Alex as very kind, energetic, and totally committed to the struggle we have all been building together. He never missed an opportunity to fight for the world he believed in. We all remember him coming up with the Stockton crew, to join us in Oakland, often with his Anonymous Mask. He and his comrades planned on how to bring the struggle to Stockton, which they did! He was an unwaivering comrade and friend and will be painfully missed. Like Tsega, Alex’s murder was not just the result of a few bad people. It was the result of a society structured on violence, a society where brown and black young men are murdered every day with no notice from society at large. It was the result of a violent economic system which forces whole communities into deprivation, with no options but to fight each other, and a violent political system that leaves us in constant fear of incarceration or death at the hands of the police and the state. These structural forms of violence are the foundation of the violence we experience every day, the violence that took Alex from us.
This Saturday, buses are being organized to take folks out to Stockton, for a rally at Alex’s house followed by a march and speak out in honor of his memory.
The buses will leave at 12:30.
March through the neighborhood departing from Bianchi and Calandria at 2:00.
Come out and celebrate the life of our fallen friend.
more info at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/03/18718827.php
Show up at Justin Herman Plaza at 6:30pm with signs, brightly colored outfits, your Pussy Riot inspired masks and tambourine, harmonica, drums, xylophone, ukulele, triangle or noismaker of your choice and get down to the beats of a revolution.
In an August 17 decision, Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson of the National Labor Relations Board found that Castlewood Country Club has maintained an illegal lockout since August 10, 2010. He recommended that the NLRB order Castlewood to reinstate the locked-out workers and pay them two years of back wages and benefits. But Castlewood may appeal the decision!
DEMAND AN END TO AN ILLEGAL LOCKOUT!
Wednesday, August 22, 5 pm
Castlewood Country Club Valley Course
Join us for a picket to celebrate the ruling and call on Castlewood to bring its workers back!
More information about the court case and the decision
Rides may be available. Contact Sarah Norr, 510-502-5344.
Emergency Rally & Protest
Friday August 24th 2012 @ 5pm
Oscar Grant Plaza (aka Frank Ogawa Plaza)
Protest the murder of 40 striking mine workers by the South African Government. Stand in solidarity with the mine workers as they continue their battle with the Lonmin Platinum Mine and the murderous government police force. Workers in all countries must come together to resist these atrocities carried out by the state in the interests of International Capitalism. As working class organizations we strongly believe that:”an injury to one IS an injury to all.”
Initiated by Advance the Struggle in conjunction with the Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality and State Repression. Please contact us if your organization would like to be included as an endorser: bay.strikes@gmail.com
From Oakland to South Africa,
one struggle, one fight!
Airport concession stand workers have been subject to workplace abuses such as not being paid the legally required ‘living wage’, no overtime when overtime is due, no vacation when vacation is due, firings for trying to organize a union, and plenty else.
UNITE HERE is the union which has organized the Castlewood Workers, sought and obtained aid for their cause from Occupy Oakland and its Labor Solidarity Committee, and recently won a huge court victory against the Castlewood Country Club for unfair labor practices.
THIS FRIDAY! Airport Action and Boycott Launch
Friday, August 31, 11am-1:30pm.
Oakland Airport Terminal 2.
Join UNITE HERE 2850 and airport workers for a Labor Day action at the Oakland Airport! Workers are launching a boycott against the following non-union airport businesses:
• See’s Candies • Auntie Anne’s Pretzels • Gordon Biersch • Jamba Juice • Subway • Otaez • Burger King • World Passage Duty Free • Silver Dragon • Tech Showcase
Stand up with the workers in demanding a fair process for deciding whether to join a union, free from intimidation.
While you’re there, you can meet Hakima Arhab and consider making a donation to support her and her family. She’s the cashier at the Oakland Airport Subway who was fired after she blew the whistle on her bosses by filing charges that Subway has violated various labor laws. You can make an online donation here or send a check to 1440 Broadway Ste 208, Oakland, CA 94612 (make checks out to UNITE HERE Local 2850, with “Hakima Arhab” in the memo line).
Also, check out our new airport campaign page and the 2850 Facebook page to learn more about the workers and their stories!
For questions or rides, contact Lian Alan at lalan@unitehere.org or 510-219-6491.
UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612, Tel. 510-893-3181, Fax 510-893-5362
Chevron profit was 26.9 billion dollars last year, yet they cannot stop leaks like the one that occurred on August 13th in Richmond.
Meet at Pt. Richmond Washington Park at 10:00 AM on September 3rd and march to Chevron!
Support SEIU 1021 Port Workers. Tell The Port of Oakland and Goldman Sachs: Stop the Greed!
— Goldman Sachs owns a major stake in one of the terminals at the Port of Oakland, and rakes in huge profits while paying no taxes and ripping off the City of Oakland over bond indebtedness.
–Goldman Sachs got bailed out while libraries, schools and parks crumble.
— The Port of Oakland generates a $35,000,000 surplus each year.
— Yet the Port of Oakland wants to cut real wages by 15%. More money for Goldman Sachs, less money for the rest of us.
The Coalition to Stop Goldman Sachs says:
“It’s time for a series of escalating actions.”
FREE FOOD
Join us for a one mile march around downtown San Francisco, visiting at least four Bank of America branches and perhaps artistically decorating the sidewalks out in front.
In New York, on September 13th, thousands will BLOW THE WHISTLE and organize determined resistance to Stop & Frisk, mass incarceration, solitary confinement, police brutality, and the criminal injustice system.
In Oakland, meet at Bancroft & 73rd Ave at 4:00 PM to march to the Oakland Police Substation at the Eastmont Mall.
Stop Masss Incarceration National Website.
Monday September 17th, celebrating the one year anniversary of the Occupy Movement and Growing Resistance Worldwide.
At t 1pm begin gathering at Bradley Manning Plaza (a.k.a, Justin Herman Plaza) – Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco, CA.
At 2pm PARTY TAKES TO THE STREETS!
At 5pm Mass Convergence at 555 California, San Francisco, CA.
…. Stay Tuned For October 10th, 2012 — One Year Anniversary of Occupy Oakland!!!
On Tuesday, June 5, just before 9 PM, Derrick Gaines, a fifteen-year-old youth of multi-racial descent, was needlessly killed by an officer of the South San Francisco Police Department.
South City Police Chief Michael Massoni and the cooperative local media wasted no time in fabricating a story intended to justify the blood on their hands, in part through shamelessly smearing the victim’s character.
But there are two sides to events like these: what the cops say, and what the truth is. In this case, the
truth is that Derrick never reached for or produced a weapon, and was shot down by an officer who had brutalized and restrained him first. Derrick’s friends and family have staged multiple actions at the site of the shooting, and the anger at Derrick’s murder is combining with general discontent regarding how the South SF police treat youth, particularly youth of color locally, as well as the horrendous reality that such acts of police violence are a disturbingly common occurrence, here in the Bay Area and across the country.
The Arco Gas Station, which was the scene of the incident, is located at 2300 Westborough Blvd., at the corner of Westborough and Gellert. It is 4.4 miles from the San Bruno Caltrain Station, and 3.2 miles from San Bruno BART.
Do not let the South SFPD’s lies, and heinous actions, go unchallenged. Please join friends, family members, and other allies in the ongoing struggle against racism and social injustice as we continue to demand justice for Derrick, and for all victims of racist police violence.
Article about Derrick Gaines: They Treated Him Like a Statistic
Show support for the Chicago Teachers Union who are on strike defending jobs and public education.
Organized by local Bay Area unions.
Who: Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group,
ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment)
and YOU!
Zaki Alshalyan, our neighbor, an Oaklander from the east side is facing a sale date of October 4th!
We will be joining another community group, ACCE, to simultaneously take action on several banks in the downtown area. We are sending a “delegation” to accompany Zaki and his family as they deliver a demand letter to his bank and their executives. We are demanding that they postpone his sale date and reopen negotiations with him in good faith.
In other words, he needs backup to make these bastards treat him like a human being.
Here is his story:
My name is Zaki Alshalyan.
I am Iraqi-American and I was a prisoner of war in Operation Desert Storm 1991. I am one of thousands of Iraqis who stood up with the American army to fight with them against Saddam Hussein.
I spend 5 years in the prison. It was the worse place in the Saudi Arabian desert. I spent days and nights… months and years in this place without exit to anything. I can’t see anything except the sand and the sky…no plant, no bird, no animal can live there. Everyday my body was totally covered with sand because my tent where I slept was broken from the storms and sometimes I can’t see or breathe and the days turned to darkness. I suffered torture by Saudi guards many times. After seeking freedom for 5 years, I had the chance to meet the American delegation. They check my story and they accept me to live in the USA as a refugee.
I arrived in San Francisco on 1/15/1995. I had hope for my future and family I left behind. After one month in San Francisco, I started working two jobs 16 hours a day, 6 days a week… working hard and paying my taxes.
In May 2005, I had saved my money and put down payment to buy this property, a small four unit building in East Oakland.
Four years later, my hardship started when the bank started raising my mortgage payment until it reached 5000 dollars a month. I couldn’t pay the high payment. I ask the bank for help, for a loan modification. It took two years and the bank kept asking me for documents and paper work and I send them everything they ask for over and over. Finally, the bank denied my loan modification for no reason. The loan modification and hardship has negative effect on me and my job, on my wife and my three kids. Now I live in tough times.
After I spend all the money I had, after I borrow money from friends and family to fix the property, now the property is worth nothing – I owe more than the property is worth.
Bank of America sent me a letter saying they want to sell my property at auction on October 4th. I can’t lose my property. This is my only income. I have no other support for myself and my family.
I am now seeking help from you to put pressure on the bank to modify my loan and help me save my property.
Thank you very much,
Zaki Alshalyan
Rally at the 12th Street entrance to the County Superior Court, 1225 Fallon Street (location of the district attorney’s office)
March to city hall for the 5:30 city council meeting.
Conscience demands that we stand against excessive force, harassment, and racial profiling by the Oakland Police Department–practices that contributed to the death of Alan Blueford–and that we call upon city officials to stand against them, too. To date, the city has been unwilling to take a stand; city council adjourned several hours early on September 18 rather than deal with the grief and anger of the citizens, and now they are seeking to change meeting policies to avoid being confronted with such feelings in the future
At the district attorney’s office and then at city hall, we will issue the following demands of the Blueford family, their friends, and supporters:
* Release a police report that includes a thorough investigation of Alan’s murder
* Terminate Officer Masso’s employment with the Oakland Police Department
* Bring criminal charges against Officer Masso
* Hold Chief Jordan accountable for changing his story to the family about what happened the night of Alan’s death.
*End de facto stop-and-frisk and other racial profiling practices of the OPD
* Work with state legislators to repeal the so-called Police Officers’ Bill of Rights that shields violent cops from prosecution and keeps them on the street.
An essay: Searching for answers to a Police Killing
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website
Sign the Petition for Justice 4 Alan Blueford