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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
Sponsored by the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition.
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
Come hear Jeralynn Blueford, Alan Blueford’s mother, speak about her son and the fight for justice here in Oakland. This is a chance to find out how to get involved in the fight to stop police brutality in Oakland.
Sponsored by the Black Student Union and the International Socialist Organization standing in solidarity with the Blueford family.
Party, feast, slide show, games, toasts, music. We are awesome, let’s celebrate.
On December 11th, civil rights attorney Jim Chanin will file a motion to put OPD under Federal receivership.
How would Federal control affect the people of Oakland?
Will a federally controlled police force be more interested in crime suppression or political repression?
How much will the people pay?
Presentation and Speakout with update on court case by Jim Chanin.
A number of comrades are having their arraignments at 1:30 PM in San Francisco. They were attacked and beaten by police on Saturday, charged with felony conspiracy and other charges, and had astronomical bails set.
Come out and support them!
(If you were at the protest peeps in the know suggest that you NOT go to the courthouse in support)
My understanding is that one comrade from Seattle, Cami (?), is having her arraignment at 9:00 AM at the same location tomorrow. According to the latest information, Cami is being arraigned at 1:30 PM as well.
WHAT: COINTELPRO Panel with Diane Fujimo and Gerald Sanders
WHEN: Saturday October 13th at 7:30pm
WHERE: The HoldOut – 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA
NOTE: Post originally created by WiseOldSnail and posted at: http://hellaoccupyoakland.org/calendar/cointelpro-panel-with-diane-fujimo-and-gerald-sanders/?utm_medium=twitter
“Today
7:30pm
the HOLDOUT
From the Red Scare of 1919-1920 to the McCarthy period of the 1950′s to the COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) era of the 1960′s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has operated primarily as America’s political police. With the recent alegations that long time activist and former Black Panther member Richard Ioki was an FBI informant it is imperative that militants become familiar with the History of COINTELPRO.”
Post created/copied by/from WiseOldSnail at:
Please join us tomorrow Sunday at 1:00pm at:
19th and Rashida Muhammad (a block away from Telegraph)
if you’re interested in getting involved in this!
Since there currently is no communal space for them, people can contribute time and resources, assist in organizing, and share this information with others who may have resources to contribute.
Most Immediate need:
- Safe shelter (Do you know of any vacant shelter, or
- an affordable apartment for rent?
- Are you able to put a Mom and her child/ren up for a couple of nights?
- Do you have other suggestions for housing resources?)
Other needs:
- Diapers
- Food
- Transportation (for donations as well as helping Mom’s get from one safe place to another)
- Baby Clothes
Over the next month we hope to organize an event to raise awareness about this issue, to ask for donations of goods or funds, and to organize an affinity or working group that can help build a sustainable commune where the needs of those who face the most challenging circumstances will be central.
If any Occupy Oakland Committee is interested in helping in this area and working together, please let us know!
We can be contacted at OOMothersAndChildren@gmail.com.
Oakland Cryptoparty
Simultaneous classes for beginners and Advanced.
Cryptography another essential tool for everyone, not just activists.
Techliminal
268 14th St.
Oakland, CA 94612
Sunday, October 14, 2012 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM (PDT)
- Doors open
- Welcome to Oakland Cryptoparty!
3pm –
- aestetix (sudoroom) – A beginners guide to cryptography: Codes vs Ciphers, Classical vs Modern Crypto, symmetric, asymmetric, RSA, DES, and more. (Downstairs)
- ryanj (sudoroom) – What do you want from a cryptoparty? Planning session and feedback for future events – which will enevitibly devolve into an open discussion (Upstairs)
- Micah Lee (EFF) – An Introduction to Public Key Crypto, the Web ofTrust, and Certificate Authorities: Start encrypting IMs, emails, and text messages today (Downstairs)
- cooperq – Full Disk Encryption (Upstairs)
- leif – introduction to Tor (Downstairs)
- legind – OTR (Upstairs)
- Mark Burdett (EFF) – textsecure, gibberbot (downstairs)
- Garret Robinson – Building systems using open source cryptographic primitives: using Tor, GPG, and Bitcoin (Upstairs)
- Wrap up – upcoming events and closing announcements
https://cryptoparty.org and http://cryptoparty.eventbrite.com
The DA’s report was released last week. The DA refuses to prosecute Officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford.
The DA’s report was full of lies and took no account of the evidence or the testimony of many witnesses.
Come here the Blueford family speak. Come hear the lies denounced and the investigative failures exposed.
Sponsored by the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition.
Press conference to highlight concerns including invasion of privacy, militarization of police forces, restriction of free speech and political expression
At a press conference to be held on the steps of Oakland City Hall on Thursday, October 18, at 11:00 a.m., Alameda County residents and legal advocacy organizations will announce their efforts to resist the Sheriff’s announced plans to deploy aerial surveillance “drones” for undisclosed law enforcement purposes.
Hackmeet 3.0 is an unconference happening in San Francisco on October 20th, bringing together hackers and activists to learn from each other and collaborate.
We encourage people who want to present to show up and give a talk or workshop. This is a chance to get real traction and connect people with different skill sets — we are holding skillshares ranging from how to do legal support, to how to encrypt your email and work parties for our more advanced folk to give time to work on developing software to assist hacker and activist projects
WHEN: October 20th
WHERE: 2169 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 (3rd Floor)
DIRECTIONS:
- Getting here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Getting_Here
- SF OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=37.762352&mlon=-122.419372&zoom=16
- Google Maps: 2169 Mission Street, 94110
- 2 blocks South of 16th & Mission BART https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Getting_Here#Getting_Here_by_BART
WEBSITE:
For decades politicians and bosses have forced working people to accept layoffs, increased healthcare costs, and no job security as a fact of life.
This public forum will feature union members and activists. We’ll discuss what the Chicago Teachers Union struggle shows up about the power of working class people to challenge the profit system.
Speakers include Kristin Roberts (CTU rank and file activist), Sal Rosselli (President, National Union of Health Care Workers), and Larry Bradshaw (SEIU Local 1021).
In the last few weeks it has been made clear that the state has been
diversifying its own tactics of repression.
Join a panel of experienced legal workers and organizers in a discussion
about
grand juries
home raids
in custody issues including interrogation and property seizure
tech security