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Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons.
The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-Mcdonald, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-Mcdonald backed out of the deal in early December.
There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th. There was another hearing in March 26th. Federal Judge William Alsup decided to dismiss the lawsuit because the Postal Service says it is not currently selling the building. But we’re not fooled. The Postal Service could “find” a buyer at any moment. Fortunately, the Judge ordered the Postal Service to provide 42 days notice before any sale, so that the lawsuit could be refiled.
Check out our response to the Judge’s order.
Check out the Community Garden at the Post Office.
Also check out our website and the Save the Berkeley Post Office website, and First they Came for the Homeless Facebook for updates.
BPOD is an offshoot of Strike Debt Bay Area, which itself is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and a chapter of the national Strike Debt movement, which is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
Note: The City Council meeting has been moved to Wednesday. The Facebook event for still says Tuesday, and an inquiry and response in the comments seems to confirm that the rally is still on for Tuesday.
The City of Oakland & County of Alameda are making plans for a huge new development project at the Coliseum. But Oakland doesn’t need more tech offices, luxury condos, low-wage jobs or displacement of our communities! We need:
*AFFORDABLE HOUSING!
*PUBLIC TRANSPORT!
*GOOD UNION JOBS for OAKLAND RESIDENTS!
*JOB TRAINING FOR YOUTH!
Tell the City of Oakland: protect good union jobs at the Coliseum – and build a Coliseum City that benefits OUR COMMUNITY.
4 PM – Gather at City Hall
4:30 – Rally
5:30 – Speak at City Council
Co-sponsored by EBASE, Unite Here 2850, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Oakland Community Organizations, East Bay Housing Organizations, Communities for a Better Environment, Causa Justa Just Cause, SEIU USWW, Urban Peace Movement, and Public Advocates.
Join our Facebook event and invite friends!
OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops.
If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop!
We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open to all!
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Optik_Allusions
Come to the meeting on the 17th to learn more about what’s at stake and how you can support both Just Cause and Rent Control for Richmond. It’s being organized by a coalition that includes the Richmond Progressive Alliance. These issues will be taken up at the Richmond City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 23. Please plan to be there, too.
E. 12th Vote this Wednesday 6/17 – Need your support!
This is it! We need to go ALL OUT to the City Council this Wednesday June 17th at 6 pm to demand public land for public good and 100% low-income housing on E 12th!
The regular Tuesday 6/16 City Council hearing was cancelled, and have just learned that the Special Meeting on Wed. June 17th will include the vote on the E 12th development. We are troubled by the opaque process from the City.
Compounding our concerns are the latest proposed changes to the development, which we still have very little information about. While developers have put more money on the table to pay for future affordable housing, the changes to the development include an INCREASE in the number of luxury units, ZERO on-site low-income units, and still fails to comply with STATE LAW!
The good news is that the developers and UDR, the out-of-state corporate real estate investment firm backing the project, are running scared. Lets keep instilling the fear of Oakland’s mighty people power in them!
Wed June 17th, 6 pm: SPEAK AT CITY COUNCIL against this luxury hi-rise on public land! We need each and every person who is willing to speak – your voice DOES make a difference! We are still waiting to get the final agenda for the meeting and will let folks know as soon as we have more details. We will keep our Facebook event updated with info on the timing: http://on.fb.me/1Fk1syg
Also this week: RALLY Tuesday June 16th @ 4 pm: we will be joining the Oakland United Coalition’s rally to demand public lands for public good in the new Coliseum City development, and encourage folks to support! This project will have huge impacts on East Oakland and we need to stand in solidarity with the community effort to get housing, jobs and other meaningful community benefits. http://on.fb.me/1Tp04VI
Can’t join on Wednesday? Email and call City Councilmembers TODAY!
Do not doubt it: every call & email has an impact. Many City Councilmembers cited the number of emails and calls they have received on this issue and that has helped turn the tide on the project. So even if you cannot join us on 6/16, send an email or make a call today.
THANK YOU for everyone’s incredible support over the past several months – it is truly inspiring. See you on Wednesday to #SaveE12th – public lands for public good!
~Eastlake United for Justice
The Anti-Police Terrorism Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like the Alan Blueford Center for Justice, Workers World and Healthy Hoodz is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.
We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month.
Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film.
RADIOACTIVE WOLVES OF CHERNOBYL
by Klaus Feichtenberger
For a description of this film, see here.
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
More details at Facebook event.
On June 18, Supervisor Jane Kim will hold a public hearing on Alternatives to a Jail Rebuild. This is another opportunity for the community to express what is crystal clear: San Francisco needs to invest in affordable housing, residential treatment programs, outpatient mental health services, health care for all, quality schools, parks and recreation program, not more cages.
Take action to stop the criminalization and imprisonment of Black and Brown communities and poor people. A recent report by the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice revealed that Black women in SF account for nearly 50% of the city’s arrests of women while they are only 6% of the women’s population in jail. This shocking statistic confirms the racism that we see operating on a daily basis in our work with women and transgender prisoners at SF County Jail. At the same time, we know that 84% of people in SF jail are pre-trial which means they haven’t been sentenced of a crime but simply can’t afford bail. Bail reform would eliminate the perceived need for a new jail.
Come speak your truths, share your experiences and fight back against a jail that will thrive by tearing our communities apart.
Join us as we demonstrate that alternatives to jails and policing are what we need. It is scandalous that some Supervisors are proposing to significantly expand the SF police force. Wasting hundreds of millions of dollars into rebuilding a jail will only increase the violence of policing and imprisonment. This past week, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors suspended their jail construction plans to adequately assess community alternatives. San Francisco needs to follow their example now.
The @CalBSU leading vigil for #CharlestonShooting victims tonight, 6:30p at @UCBerkeley, Sproul Steps pic.twitter.com/ugcEgfl1WI
— black muslims matter (@Rasheed_Shabazz) June 18, 2015
March from the Mission District (no location provided) to SF City Hall to the “Counter Gala.”
Organized by Stop Mass Incarceration.
Mayor Ed Lee is hosting a “Welcome Gala” inside City Hall for ther mayors. This is also the SF City Hall Centennial. We will have the Bay Area Light Brigade, Bay Area Stop Mass Incarceration, Food and more.
Join Queer Cumbia and Idriss Stelley Foundation as we raise awareness for the police killing of O’Shaine Evans.
On Oct 7, 2014, 26-year-old Caribbean immigrant and Oakland resident O’Shaine Evans was shot and killed by SFPD officer David Goff.
O’Shaine’s family have become active in the anti-police brutality movement. Radicalized in Jamaica’s rich tradition of resistance, O’Shaine’s mother and sister speak passionately about the dangers of policing in Black and Brown communities.
Come out and get down to some beats while supporting this incredible family!
*Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF) was founded in 2001 after Idriss Stelley was shot and killed by SFPD in the Sony Metreon theater. Since it’s founding, ISF has engaged in politics and protest to stop police violence, and counseled families whose loved ones have been disabled or killed by law enforcement.
Idriss Stelley Foundation FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/116337228453342/
Donate online to O’Shaine Evans family http://www.youcaring.com/memorial-fundraiser/donate-funeral-expenses-for-o-shaine-evans-killed-by-sfpd-/252839#.VEsRYYtjQRI.facebook
We will begin at Ninth Street Park in Benicia
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at Lone Street Park in Rodeo
Please feel free to join us for the prayers for the water at 8:00 a.m. Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from your area to join the waters in the Rodeo.
Registration for the walk will begin at 8:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
This walk is approximately 14 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – Please bring your own refillable water bottle.
Everyone will be taken back to their vehicles at the end of the walk. If you are coming to the walk with friends and have two vehicles, please consider leaving one vehicle at the end.
Need a ride from BART? Please post your request on the Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/432961726863117/
CARPOOL? CLICK HERE: http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/pfm5ge
Let us know you’re coming! RSVP HERE!
TRACK OUR LOCATION LIVE beginning Saturday at 9:30 AM: CLICK HERE
Make sure you keep this phone number with you on the walk:
(510) 619-8279
We will begin in Benicia, home to the Valero Refinery, and proceed through Vallejo. Crossing the Carquinez Bridge is always a treat! Then we head toward the Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery in Rodeo , ending at Lone Tree Park.
March from SF City Hall to the Union Square Hilton Hotel. March to the Tenderloin Police Station, through the Tenderloin and then to the Hilton Hotel.
Organized by Stop Mass Incarceration.
“Our communities are safer and stronger when we have access to stable and supportive housing, quality healthcare and food, empowering education and employment, and freedom.” -War Resisters League
San Francisco and Mayor Ed Lee will host the 83rd U.S. Conference of Mayors summer session June 19-22, 2015, the first time since 1997. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, about 200 mayors from across the country are expected to attend, along with 200 to 300 support staff and roughly the same amount of corporate sponsors. Mayors also often bring their spouses and families to the summer meeting. The San Francisco meeting will be held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel.
This an opportunity for the Mayors to hear from the people!
The Conference of Mayors is coming to SF. Mayor Ed Lee is getting excited to play the proud host while ordinary San Franciscans struggle with a housing crisis and an epidemic of racist policing.
The mayors of this country, many of them Democrats, who posture like progressives, are administering austerity and managing a police form that kills every day.
Come to the rally and march to protest the Mayor’s Conference.
International Socialist Organization.
The mayors plan to party hearty while cops continue to kill Black and transgender men, women, and youth across the country. They will be boarding buses to attend a “Color of Life Global Celebration” at the California Academy of Sciences. Join with APTP to dampen their party.
Across the country mayors have allowed their police departments to become heavily militarized, with weapons and equipment provided by the U.S. military. They’ve invited repressive regimes like Israel to provide their departments with training. Israeli troops act as an occupying army to the Palestinian people, much like many police forces in the U.S. act with regard to Black communities and other communities of color.
We demand that the assault rifles, tanks, drones, and other military style offensive weapons be removed from our cities’ police departments. Instead we demand complete control over the police by the communities which they are supposed to serve.
Sponsored by the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly.
Come view Bread and Roses, enjoy a potluck social beforehand and hear an update on the Fight for $15, the Fight for a Livable Wage and a Union.
Outdoor film showing! Bring layers and a blanket!
