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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!
Donations desperately needed as well. Send to
Prison Literature Project
P.O Box 1253
Berkeley, CA 94701
Members, co-directors, and supporters of The Community Democracy Project (Oakland) (“CDP”) gather signatures every single day to get our initiative on the 2016 ballot. If our initiative passes, Oakland will have the strongest #PeoplesBudget in the United States!
Co-Director Shawn McDougal is being charged with a misdemeanor: “Interfering with a Business” (California Penal Code Section 602.1) for engaging his neighbors shopping at the Oakland Grocery Outlet.
The security guards at the Grocery Outlet demanded that Shawn stop gathering signatures near the entrance of the store. They wanted him to relocate to an isolated spot with little to no foot traffic.
Shawn peacefully asserted his right to circulate petitions in any and all public access areas, including private/corporate property. He continued to gather signatures while the security guards hassled him.
Eventually the guards called the Oakland Police Department because Shawn was “trespassing.” The responding officers threatened Shawn with arrest if he did not leave the premises.
Since Shawn’s shift was minutes from being over, Shawn decided to comply instead of spending the weekend in jail. Still, the cops gave Shawn a citation and now he risks being convicted of a misdemeanor.
JOIN US at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse (Department #107) to support Shawn and to let the City of Oakland know that we as a community will stand up against corporate and police harassment!
We’ll bring CDP pins and posters! See you on Monday at 9:00am!
After the hearing, we’ll debrief over brunch at a location TBD.
Join fast food workers and community supporters next Monday for our second ever action in San Francisco. We’ve raised the wage in SF, now let’s lead the way for the rest of the country. June 22nd is the last hearing of the New York state wage board. The board is investigating wages in the fast food industry and poised to make a decision in late June – early July. With a combination of local and national pressure there is a real chance to get workers to $15 in the state of New York. This impact would have a ripple effect throughout the country. Let’s do this!
Subject: Creating The Department Of Race And Equity
From: Councilmember Desley Brooks
Recommendation: Adopt An Ordinance Amending Chapter 2.29 Of The Oakland Municipal Code Entitled, “City Agencies, Departments And Offices”, Which Established The Organizational Structure Of The City Under The City Administrator’s Jurisdiction In Accordance With The Requirements Of The City Charter Section 600, To Create The Department Of Race And Equity By December 2015, That Will Report Directly To The City Administrator; Establishing Definitions And Implementation Steps Related To A Citywide Strategy Of A Fair And Just City; And Receive An Informational Report Identifying The Timeline And All Steps Necessary To Implement The Department By December 2015 [TITLE CHANGE]
Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these important issues
on the
Trans and/or Women’s Action Camp: A discussion on why inclusive/safer spaces are crucial to successful direct action organizing
From the Dine’ women defending their native lands against destructive mining, to the eco-feminists defending forests from logging and developing; from the immigrant and trans women defending their lives from the prison industrial complex, to the parents and midwifes defending their bodies and babies from the patriarchal medical establishment, women and trans folks have always been powerhouses of political action, and�TWAC aims to support this in a safe(r) environment.
At the age of 8 Eva started her activist career when she learned that the death penalty existed. Her wise kid brain could not see any justice in killing a human being. From there Eva has continued to be curious about the world, for a time pursuing a life in scientific research, changing her mind when she found that being in a lab just wasn’t enough for her even though she still loves it. She has spent years doing community organizing, working with incarcerated youth, planting gardens, and striving to create spaces where people of marginalized identities can participate in meaningful organizing.
Attending and helping organize TWAC has been a life changing experience for Eva. She has gained a new level of confidence from the skills she learned both from participating in twac and from the experience of organizing it. No where else has she felt more supported and encouraged by her fellow organizers and activist comrades.
Announcements will follow.
Donations to OccupyForum
to cover our costs are encouraged;
no one turned away!
We will be distributing literature and engaging members of the public in conversations about torturous conditions within California’s prisons. Please join us.
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June is Torture Awareness Month.
Torture Awareness Month is recognized around the world. On June 26, 1987, the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment was adopted. The UN declared June 26 “International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.”
More than 80,000 people in U.S. are caged in tiny cells for 23 or more hours every day, often for years and decades on end.
Meet at the Simon Bolivar Statue in UN Plaza (Hyde Street between McAllister & Market) – a short walk from Civic Center BART in San Francisco
A draconian and racist policy of ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic threatens a quarter of a million people with deportation to Haiti. Second and third generation Dominicans who are classified as Haitian have been stripped of citizenship and declared “migrants.” Vigilante mobs and legal authorities alike are pushing people out of their homes and taking their property. Anyone who is Black and under the age of 85 may be classified as Haitian, even if they were born in the DR and have no ties to Haiti. They are being expelled from the country and made stateless.
We join with individuals and organizations across the country, the Caribbean and the globe to denounce this injustice and demand the government of the Dominican Republic reverse its unjust law and end forced expulsion of its citizens. No Human Being Is Illegal.
At the same time, we cannot ignore or fail to denounce our own government which under the Obama Administration by 2014 was responsible for the mass deportation of over two million immigrants and the annual incarceration of half a million people in horrific detention facilities awaiting immigration proceedings across the country. No Human Being Is Illegal.
A film screening of Fuck Off, Google! (55min)
A short film exploring the recent rebellion against Google and the desolation that is has brought to our communities. The film traces the path that the rebellion took on the streets of the Bay Area and points to a way out for all those who seek a life that is not built on slavery and exploitation.
A variety of food, drinks, and literature will be provided for free. The event will take place in the Omni Ballroom. The event will be sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
The SF City Planning Commission needs to hear your voice! The Planning Department is trying to short cut the process and force through plans for a new jail. They have tried to declare that there will be no significant impact to SF by filing a “mitigated negative declaration.” San Franciscans won’t stand for this!
Join us as we demand a full Environmental Impact Report (EIR)! Because over 160 people submitted public comment in opposition, our appeal will be heard in a public hearing tomorrow. Now is the time to take action against a new jail.
We need everyone to come out and voice their concerns at the appeals hearing:
What: Public Hearing on Appeals – Agenda Item #4
A jail is not healthy for the environment or community. If built, the jail will create many impacts to the neighborhood that have not been sufficiently studied: noise, air quality, loss of parking, wind and shadow on the playground at Victoria Manalo park. And, as if this were not enough, the nearby SRO tenants will likely lose their home. Furthermore, it is troubling that prisoner exercise yards will be open to toxic freeway smog. We demand the city conduct a full Environmental Impact Report that includes studying alternatives and a no-build option.
We can stop this jail, and we will. See you tomorrow at City Hall!
This Thursday an Oakland Police Department helicopter pilot will brief the public on OPD’s use of Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) camera systems. Stop by 25 June 2015, 6pm – 7pm, Room 4, Oakland City Hall.This may be your only chance to comment on the policy before it’s sent to the council.
Meeting Agenda
- 6:00pm: Call to Order, determination of Quorum
- 6:05pm: Review and approval of minutes from May 28 meeting.
- 6:10pm: Discuss DAC related action at June 2 City Council meeting.
- 6:20pm: Presentation from OPD Helicopter pilot on FLIR use.
- 6:35pm: Discuss and take possible action on Forward Looking Infrared thermal imaging system (“FLIR”) policy.
- 7:00pm: Open Forum