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On September 10th, sites across the web will display an alert with a symbolic “loading” symbol (the proverbial “spinning wheel of death”) and promote a call to action for users to push comments to the FCC, Congress, and the White House. Note: none of these tools actually slow your site down; they tell your visitors about the issue and ask them to contact lawmakers.
How to participate:
- Do have a website or blog? Get the code, and run it all day on September 10th.
- Know anyone with a popular iPhone or Android app? Ask them to send a push notification.
- Is social media your biggest audience? Change your avatar to a spinning wheel of death. Or share these images on Facebook.
Be creative! Grab peoples’ attention with a loading symbol, and link to tools for emailing and calling lawmakers (e.g. battleforthenet.com). Whatever you decide, tell us you’re participating, announce it publicly, and commit to getting *one* person or company with a *bigger* reach than you to join in as well. Got a question? Contact us.
If you have never come before, come and get involved!
If you have been participating, come and get re-energized!
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Although we have made tremendous gains, the fight is not over. We are still fighting for the college we want and the college all of our students deserve. We agree with the City Attorney who says that the issue at City College is the principle of open access education for all versus success for a few.
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COME TO HEAR UPDATES
Restoration, the legal suit, Board of Trustee status and elections, etc.
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COME TO SET DIRECTION AND PLAN ACTIONS
To influence the BOT race, to lobby the Board of Governors to bring back our democratically elected BOT, etc. etc
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COME TO HELP SAVE OUR CITY COLLEGE
Keep our college a community college!
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AGENDA
5:00 – 5:30 pm
Short history and where we are at this point
5:30 � 6:00 pm
Reports from students, lobby committee, etc.
6:00 � 6:15 pm
Entertaining skit
6:15 – 6:45
Brainstorming for activities of Coalition for Fall and beyond.
6:45 – 7:15
Discussion of Coalition structure.
7:15 – 7:30
Announcements and wrap up.
7:45 � 8:00 pm
Slide show
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The purpose of our tour is to generate audiences under one roof that want to get big $$$ out of politics with folks that want to reboot America led by renewables with those wiped out thanks to ’08.
Following is a brief description of the film:
Patrick Lovell is an accidental filmmaker/activist. Lovell was in the midst of living his American Dream when suddenly his world caved in. The Lovell’s would find themselves in the midst of the collapse of Americas middle class and like millions would eventually lose their home to foreclosure. Patrick figured out a way to make a film using his story as the entry point to broader truth that America is no longer a Democracy, that free markets have been overrun by global monopolies and the American Dream is Dead! Lovell crisscrossed the country surfing the Occupy Wall Street Wave to discover America is corrupt, defunct and unsustainable, but more importantly, how we can turn the tables on the dark forces that are undermining the American ideal to reboot the American Dream.
Starring Bernie Sanders, Van Jones, James Hansen, Jeremy Rifkin, Mary Boyle, Jeffry Sachs, Music by Michael Franti and a slew of ordinary Americans rising becoming extraordinary. �
Here’s some recent radio:
http://kboo.fm/content/forward13wakinguptheamericandreamadocumentaryaboutfo
Here’s some national TV interviews:
http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/waking-up-the-american-dream-226604099690
Mortgage Crisis Gets Personal <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctr77TgXVTo>
Berkeley in the Sixties” is kicking off the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement this week at the Pacific Film Archive.
Veterans of the Free Speech Movement will be there.
Oakland California, to Ferguson, Missouri
FUCK THE POLICE MARCH
Wear all Black
Ferguson, Missouri.
To the good people of Ferguson, resisting fascism – and taking your streets: You are not alone. We will continue to take the streets here in Oakland in solidarity!
On August 31st, @LostVoices14 found a noose hanging in the Ferguson camp, showing the KKK are alive & well.
(video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWiUqcSWD_c)
We will take the streets behind an Anti-Fascist banner. We will march against the fascism of racist police forces everywhere, and the racists they empower. KKK impunity ends with the barbaric acts of Aug 31 and the finding of a hanging noose.
Oakland California!
The time has come for more than state justice for these atrocities. The time has come to draw a line in the sand and say “no more racist police killings or beatings.”
Newly awoken resistance groups across the USA, Anonymous, Occupy alumni, East Bay radicals, and many others are drawing a line in the sand that runs right down the middle of Main Street in Ferguson, Missouri. We will no longer watch the powerful oppress the downtrodden without letting our anger sing. We are simply defending ourselves and our sisters and brothers against racism and abuse of power.
Feed each other, keep each other safe – and stay in the streets until we are totally victorious in all our demands!
Rising Tide co-founder, environmental campaigner and
renowned author George Marshall will talk about his new book
“Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to
Ignore Climate Change”
It’ll be right before the climate march in NYC and our solidarity actions in the East Bay and SF, and we expect lively conversation about dynamics in the movements to address climate change and climate justice.
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1462038400737108/
DONATIONS: $5-15 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
This event is a Rising Tide production.
About the book:
Why, even with overwhelming scientific evidence, do most people still not feel or accept the full threat of climate change – or even talk about it?
What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? In this groundbreaking and engaging look at one of the most important issues facing us today, George Marshall, world renowned for his work on the psychology of climate change denial, shows that even when we accept that climate change is a dire problem, our human brains are wired to ignore it and argues that we can overcome this.
With engaging stories and drawing on years of his own research, Marshall confirms that humans are wired to respond strongest to threats that are visible, immediate, have historical precedent, have direct personal impact, and are caused by an “enemy.” Climate change is none of these – it’s invisible, unprecedented, drawn out, impacts us indirectly, and is caused by us. Taking the reader deep into our evolutionary origins, Marshall argues that once we understand what excites, threatens, and motivates us, we can rethink and reimagine climate change. In the end, his book is both about climate change and about the qualities that make us human: our limitations, our strengths, and how we can grow as we deal with the greatest challenge we have ever faced.
Interfaith prayer meeting for healing, dedicated to the survivors and victims of violence and police brutality in Oakland.
We are organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.
Please feel free to bring quotes or passages to share
All are welcome
We will serve simple breakfast.
Film and Speaker:
The Ghosts of Jeju
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The Ghosts of Jeju is an award-winning documentary directed by Regis Trembly about the struggle of the people of Jeju Island, South Korea. Set in the context of the American presence in Korea after World War II, the film reveals horrible atrocities at the hands of the U.S. Military Government of Korea. Jeju Island is off South Korea and has three International Heritage Sites.The United States is building a huge Naval Base on the island. The film describes the brave, peaceful resistance of the indigenous people to the base today and the history of the genocide of native people during the “Korean War.” The spirit of the villagers and those who have joined their resistance movement is inspiring.
Using previously secret and classified photos, film and documents, this is the first English-language documentary about the struggle of the brave people of Gangjeong Village who are opposing the military advance of the United States, just as their parents and relatives did in 1947. As then, they are being arrested, jailed, fined, and hospitalized for resisting the construction of a massive naval base that will accommodate America’s “pacific pivot” and will destroy their 400 year old village and their UNESCO-protected environment.
The United States is a war-based economy and has been one since WW I and reconfirmed by WW II, the Korean War, the Vietnam wars and up to, and including the Gulf War in Iraq and the Afghanistan War. Sadly, the vast majority of Americans have been conditioned to accept our serial wars and to “Support Our Troops” without questioning.
Our speaker has previously spoken OccupyForum. Discussion and announcements will follow. Donations accepted; no one turned away.
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/64077154
Background: http://subversivepeacemaking.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-ghosts-of-jeju.html
On this day 3 Years after the birth of Occupy Wall Street we welcome all of those who participated in OWS and those are or may be interested in joining/rejoining the movement.
During this time of our anniversary we also welcome people and group to mix, mingle, network and build/rebuild relationships that may have been lost due to time or to start new ones that will help re-build community and connect to one another on deeper levels.
Schedule of events at Zuccotti Park.
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee is having a rally at Oakland City Hall on the 17th.
There will be first person report backs from Ferguson, including one from Nadia Kayali, a lawyer with the EFF.
There will be a handful of speakers followed by music from a PA and food and an opportunity for people circulating in parallel, yet disconnected, circles to meet one another and expand the organizing potential across the greater Bay Area.
Or next Politics of Debt meeting will be a presentation by Chong Kee Tan on Bay Bucks, a local alternative currency. We’ll hear him speak and then have a Q&A period, perhaps leasing into a broader discussion.
Or next meeting will be one week following, on September 24th, instead of two. We’ll discuss chapters 21-23 of Ellen Brown’s Web of Debt.
Come one, come all!
BYO; Drinks, snacks, pillows, cushions, etc.
Donations accepted for popcorn and punch.
First screening will be The King of Hearts, by Philippe de Broca, 1966.
French, with English subtitles.
We’re excited to let you know about the 2nd training in our “Support
from Outside the Walls” series.
The invite is here https://www.facebook.com/events/663599277069128/
Please help us spread the word.
People in prison are often required to exhaust internal, administrative
complaint processes before they can take a case to court. In California,
non-lawyers and lawyers can be a huge help to people with their
complaints against the prison system. Learn how to assist California
inmates with their administrative appeals in this session led by Sajad
Shakoor of the Tayba Foundation.
Please RSVP & complete this poll so we can customize the training and
connect you with projects http://tinyurl.com/Walls-Pre-Training-Survey
Materials from last training and this training are here
http://caitlinkellyhenry.com/support/
This training will focus on practical skills development for activists,
legal workers, and lawyers to understand the nitty gritty methods and
best practices for “Supporting People in California Prisons to Address
and Appeal Grievances.”
Come get connect with SDBA’s many projects:- organizing for public banking in Oakland
- saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs
- working with the City of Richmond and other municipalities for eminent domain seizure of underwater mortgages from the banksters
- ongoing study group
- distribution of Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual
- student debt resistance
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization
- and much more!
Come to a forum about militarization and repression in our communities, from
Ferguson to Gaza to Oakland. Hear speakers actively fighting to stop this.
– “Uncle Bobby” Johnson (Oscar Grant’s uncle), reporting back from Ferguson
– Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10 member, former SFSU BSU leader, with a worker’s
perspective on the Block the Boat for Gaza campaign, which stopped an Israeli Zim ship from
unloading most of its cargo at the Port of Oakland
Sponsored by the Black Student Union in conjunction with Workers World Party
OccupyForum Field Trip
KPFA Radio 94.1FM , Earth Island Journal
and Movement Generation present:
NAOMI KLEIN
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Hosted by Jason Mark
� This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate is the most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine.
Naomi Klein clearly explains why we must soon abandon the core free market ideology of our time, restructure the global economy,
and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change,
or radical changes will be violently visited upon us. Status quo is no longer an option.
Naomi Klein argues that climate change is not merely another issue to shrug off and file away for the future. It is an alarming certainty that demands
we fix an economic system already failing in many terrible ways. Klein meticulously presents the case for how massively reducing
our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce the growing inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies,
and rebuild our gutted local economies. She exposes the ideological desperation of climate-change deniers, the messianic delusions
of would-be geo-engineers, and the tragic defeatism of far too many mainstream green initiatives. She demonstrates precisely
why the market has not and can not fix the climate crisis, and will in fact make things worse,
with ever more extreme, ecologically damaging extraction methods,
accompanied by rampant disaster capitalism.
Klein reveals how the changes to our relationship with nature and one another that are required to respond humanely
to this crisis should not be viewed as grim penance, but as a kind of gift, a catalyst to transform broken economic and cultural priorities
and heal long-festering historical wounds. She documents the inspiring movements already involved, communities not simply refusing
to be sites of further fuel extraction, but already building
the next regeneration-based economies.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed #1 international bestseller
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, which The New York Times called “a movement bible.”
Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian.
She is a member of the board of directors of 350.org and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute.
Thousands of Oakland’s tenants are being intimidated by their landlords, harassed, or neglected in the landlords attempts to push them out. We have worked with Council member Dan Kalb to draft an ordinance that will stop this behavior and fine landlords that intimidate or threaten tenants, and we need your support to get the council to pass it.
The Tenant Protection Ordinance (TPO) will define harassment to include 16 different methods that we have seen landlords use to push tenants out of their homes in Oakland. In its definition of harassment it names: neglect to make basic repairs, physical and verbal threats, the threat of calling ICE, and a number of other actions that will be punishable with administrative and civil penalties. It gives tenants the ability to both make complaints directly to the city and take legal action against landlords who violate the rights that all tenants have to healthy housing.
Tell Your Story
Let’s show the media and City government just how serious the situation is in Oakland. Post your story about harassment or eviction on our blog today. Each entry will be sent directly to the City Councilmembers and the press to build the case for this new law. We wont use your name unless you include it. Don’t have a personal experience with harassment? Check out the BLOG to see stories others are posting.
Tell it to the Council
Come out Tuesday, September 30th at 1pm to Oakland City Hall for a rally followed by the hearing that starts at 2pm AND BRING PEOPLE WITH YOU! We want to get 50 people to fill out speakers cards in advance to show community support. Fill out a Speakers Card HERE. Put in Agenda Item 4. EVEN IF YOU DONT WANT TO SPEAK, but just want to show your support, Fill out a Speakers Card. You can click the box for “In Favor” and also indicate if you wish to speak or not.
RSVP Here
EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
HANDS OFF PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND THE LAVALAS MOVEMENT!
HUNDREDS OF SUPPORTERS RALLY OUTSIDE PRESIDENT ARISTIDE’S HOME AFTER MASKED AND HOODED POLICE SURROUND IT!
ON SATURDAY MORNING, MASKED HAITIAN POLICE SURROUNDED FORMER PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE’S HOUSE, AS HAITIAN RADIO STATIONS BROADCAST NEWS THAT HE WOULD BE IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE RALLIED IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, VOWING TO STAY THERE TO PREVENT HIS ARREST.
THIS IS THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE LAVALAS MOVEMENT’S CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS ON TUESDAY TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1991 COUP AGAINST PRESIDENT ARISTIDE. IT IS PART OF A PATTERN OF INTIMIDATION THAT HARKENS BACK TO THE DAYS OF THE DUVALIER DICTATORSHIP.
ON SEPTEMBER 12TH, AT 1 A.M., THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT REMOVED THE SECURITY DETAIL THAT HAS BEEN GUARDING FORMER PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND HIS FAMILY SINCE HIS RETURN TO HAITI IN 2011. THIS CAME A DAY AFTER A JUDGE ORDERED PRESIDENT ARISTIDE, HAITI’S FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT, TO BE PLACED UNDER “HOUSE ARREST.” UNDER CURRENT HAITIAN LAW, “HOUSE ARREST” DOES NOT EXIST, BUT IT WAS USED FREQUENTLY AS A FORM OF REPRESSION BY THE DUVALIER REGIME.
WE VIEW THIS WITH THE GRAVEST CONCERN AND CONSIDER THESE DEVELOPMENTS A DIRECT THREAT TO PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND HIS FAMILY.
PLEASE CALL THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S HAITI DESK.
THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN A KEY SUPPORTER OF THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT OF MICHEL MARTELLY. LET THEM KNOW — GIVEN THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE MARTELLY GOVERNMENT – THAT WE HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND HIS FAMILY, AND THAT WE DEMAND AN END TO THIS HARASSMENT AND REPRESSION AGAINST PRESIDENT ARISTIDE AND THE LAVALAS MOVEMENT.
Please Call:
Haiti Special Coordinator Thomas ADAMS
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
202 647-9510
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Pamela White, Ambassador of the United States in Haiti
Embassy of the United States
Tabarre, Haiti
Tel: 011-509-2229-8000
Fax 011 509 2-229-8028
Initiated by Haiti Action Committee
www.haitisolidarity.net
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