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Justice for Richard Perkins — Anti Police-Terror Project Successfully Demands Coroners Report for Perkins Family
On Friday, March 11th, at 9:00 am on the corner of 90th and Bancroft (Where Richard was murdered), APTP will host a press conference in partnership with families that have lost loved ones to police terror and celebrate this recent victory while also raising critical questions about collusion between the sheriff’s office and Alameda County police departments to hide evidence from families who have lost loved ones to state sponsored violence.
“We don’t understand why it takes community pressure to force the coroner’s office to release the reports,” said Cat Brooks of APTP. “These families are already suffering a great loss and grieving their loved one. They rightfully want to know what happened and that report is critical in putting the pieces together.”
Yet time and time again, the coroner’s office – which is essentially the sheriff’s office – delays getting this report to the families. Yuvette Henderson was murdered by the Emeryville Police Department in February of 2015. Eight months later, it took APTP in partnership with Henderson’s family, to force them to release the report. Similarly in the case of Alan Blueford who was murdered by OPD on May 6, 2012, the community had to demonstrate at the Sheriff’s office to get the report released to family.
“They know that these reports are critical pieces of evidence,” said Dan Siegel, head legal counsel for APTP. “The longer they delay giving it to the family, the longer it takes to assess the wrongdoing on the part of OPD.”
Friday’s press conference is also the launch of APTP’s campaign for more accountability and transparency with the Sheriff’s office in relation to reports following Officer Involved Shootings. APTP will make the following demands:
– Provide families that are victims of police violence the coroner’s report within 30 days
– Investigate collusion between the Sheriff’s department and the Oakland Police Department
– Recall Sheriff A. Hearn who has a long list of egregious behaviors
– Release the ENTIRE video series to the Perkins family and their legal counsel
– Bring in an outside investigator to investigate the murder of Richard Perkins.
Ada Henderson, Richards mother and Jamison Henderson, Yuvette’s brother will speak at the press conference.
BREAKING #Oakland city council forwarding exclusive agreement with UrbanCore for E12th parcel to full city council for 3/15 vote. #SaveE12th
— E12 Peoples Proposal (@PeoplesProposal) March 3, 2016
City Hall is failing too address Oakland’s housing crisis. While thousands of working class families of color see their rents rise or face eviction, our elected officials are selling off public lands to private developers.
After a hundred people testified last week in support of A People’s Proposal in a public hearing on the future of the E 12th parcel, City Council Members are attempting to undermine democracy and community by moving forward with an Exclusive Negotiating Agreement for the UrbanCore / EBALDC proposal for E 12th, a luxury tower that includes a token amount of segregated affordable housing.
Come out Tuesday March 15th at 5 pm to oppose the UrbanCore/EBALDC proposal, fight for A People’s Proposal, and let City Council know they must create real solutions to the housing crisis now.
We want to show up BIG and LOUD and are asking supporters to:
- Pack the room for open forum at 5 pm to show City Council members right away that we do not accept luxury housing on public land. Be prepared to speak!
- Sign up online to speak during the E 12th agenda item (item #3, sign up here) and urge City Council to vote NO on an ENA with UrbanCore/EBALDC and support A People’s Proposal
- Be prepared to support the incredible organizers who have been working hard on this campaign for over a year now.
E 12th is not just about one parcel, its about the entire housing crisis in Oakland. We are inspired by the brilliance and perseverance of so many Oakland residents and everyone’s incredible support. Join us as we continue to bring the call for development without displacement and accountability from our elected officials directly to City Hall.
#SaveE12th & #publicland4publicgood!
Join our keynote speaker, internationally acclaimed urban planner James Rojas of PLACE IT! for an interactive and inspiring evening re-envisioning our water infrastructure in response to climate change. We’ll use everyday objects and our creativity to design a different water future.
Invite friends, colleagues, and neighbors and keep growing our local climate movement!
Dinner served at 6 PM. RSVP: Email rebecca@ecologycenter.org by Thursday, March 10 to reserve a meal.
Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays (cell phone interceptors) being acquired by law enforcement agencies, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, especially by Alameda County and the Oakland City Council. - We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments. OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network, and its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC.
We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors).
Stop by and learn how you can help guard Oakland’s right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
For more information on the DAC check out
Reach out to aptpinfo@gmail.com if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas, etc.
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Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World 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 encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting.
Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its intention to enact an outright ban on coal exports. In fact, it passed a moratorium on the issuance of any permits for the terminal until the question has been resolved. Read details on the latest developmemts here.
(And for more background, see A Coaltastrophe Threatens Oakland on this website.)
Homes not Jails will be screening Shelter: a Squatumentary and hosting a panel of squatters 3/17 @ 8pm, @Longhaulinfo plz join us!
— homesnotjailsSF (@SFHNJ) March 7, 2016
“City leaders were determined to push this (Urban Core proposal for a luxury housing tower with a segregated building with some nominally affordable units) forward, even if it meant leaving the public behind.” – KTVU Reporter after Tuesday’s City Council Meeting
While the displacement of longtime Oakland residents has already reached crisis proportions (25% of Black Oakland has been displaced in the past 10 years alone), the corporate interests who are driving this crisis are just getting started. This week’s City Council meeting made it clear that our elected officials are willing to leave the public behind to serve a self-interested group.
Our voices are needed now more than ever to remind our public servants that they took an oath to serve the people of Oakland and protect our most disenfranchised community members.
To protect the people of our city, we must reject the trickle-down housing strategy, put a stop to the escalating predatory tactics of speculators, landlords, and neoliberal politicians, and provide real solutions to keep our people in Oakland. No more evictions, rent increases, school closures, service cuts, foreclosures or police killings!
Second Acts is calling for an interfaith sunrise ceremony this Friday, March 18th at Lake Merritt. We’ll gather together to tap into our collective power and call for an end to the deception, displacement & death being advanced by private interests with the support of our elected officials.
Coffee & breakfast will be provided to all the community members who show up!
It is time for black and brown to come together and demand justice for our communities. The decision in the Alex Nieto Case was a travesty of justice.
We must come together and tell SFPD, The Mayor and The City Attorney’s Office that we shall not be moved until we get justice for Alex Nieto, Amilcar Perez Lopez and Mario Woods.
We are now one in this struggle!
These officers have been joking about getting away with killing Alex Nieto and making threats against the Nieto family on Social Media. Unless we hold them accountable, they will continue to commit acts of terror against black and brown in San Francsico. We will meet on the steps of city hall and let them know they will have no peace until Chief Suhr is fired!
NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE!
Tomorrow!! Justice 4 Mario Woods & Justice for Alex Nieto !!! pic.twitter.com/yV92Xm7uO3
— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) March 17, 2016
MOVIE NIGHT
(Free Movie! Free Prizes! Free Popcorn!)
Doors: 6:00PM – Event: 7:00PM
KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON is an inspiring documentary which depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy.
Justin, fighting a debilitating case of stage fright, is invited to compete in a prestigious competition, while Clark’s health takes a serious turn. The two face the toughest challenges of their lives. The result is an intimate portrait of two remarkable men–a student striving against all odds and a teacher who continues to inspire through the power of music.
(enter through the Blue Door from back parking lot)
3/18 – Q&A with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, moderated by BAVC
3/19 – Q&A with Mary Curtis Ratcliff, moderated by Gabriel Saloman, musician and artist
In the 1960s and 70s, a group of renegade journalists known as the Videofreex democratized the future of the media as they deployed the first handheld video cameras to report and observe the world around them. In HERE COME THE VIDEOFREEX, directors Jon Nealon and Jenny Raskin tap into a treasure chest of restored tapes shot by the Freex, including interviews with icons like murdered Black Panther Fred Hampton and legendary activist Abbie Hoffman, charting the path of this underground video collective from their assignment on the counterculture beat for CBS News to their rupture with the network and creation of a radical pirate television station in upstate New York. An official selection at the prestigious Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and BAMcinemaFest, the documentary captures the pure enthusiasm and revolutionary use of technology of the Videofreex as they changed the nature of journalism through the power of portable video, forging a legacy that has evolved to become today’s all-access media environment.
Directed by John Nealon and Jenny Raskin. 79min. USA.
Here’s our first opportunity to pick up petitions for the signature-gathering phase of the campaign!
Hear now a campaign led by sex workers working with formerly incarcerated people and others, got the victim compensation law changed so sex workers can now get compensation for rape and other violence3 on the job, and people on probation or parole can get compensation if they are victims of crime.
Learn how to press for implementation and further changes.
Learn about exciting gains the local, national and international movement for decriminalization of sex work.
Keynote speaker Margaret Prescod, host of Pacifica Radio’s “Sojourner Truth.”
Speakers from All of Us or None, Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, Erotic Service Providers Union, US Prostitutes Collective.
WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS to gather the THOUSANDS OF VOTER SIGNATURES required to put our Charter Amendment on the NOVEMBER BALLOT!
THIS MEANS BOOTS ON THE GROUND! THIS MEANS YOU! IT’S TIME TO STEP UP and show your support.
A HUGE THANK YOU to those who VOLUNTEERED last Saturday to serve as petition gatherers and receive training.
WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED SO MUCH! For over two years ARC has advocated on behalf of RENTER PROTECTIONS AND COMMUNITY STABILITY. Countless hours have been invested in private meetings with City officials; researching public documents, municipal code and best practices; investigating renter complaints; advising displaced renters; demonstrating and networking; monitoring the RRAC and the Housing Authority; attending and speaking at City Council meetings into the wee morning hours.
The City Council responded with a WEAK TEMPORARY ORDINANCE that’s barely window dressing and has serious LANDLORD LOOPHOLES.
ARC’s pending ballot measure to amend Alameda’s City Charter is a compendium of BEST PRACTICES and a PERMANENT SOLUTION.
TIME IS SHORT! We have only four weeks to gather thousands of VALID SIGNATURES.
CAN’T MAKE IT? Mail a donation to P.O. Box 2322, Alameda, 94501
- student debt resistance
- organizing for public banking
- advocating for Postal banking
- fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
- our famous Strike Debt radio program
- staging Debtors’ Assemblies
- Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts
- Working on ways to kickstart the drive for basic income
- Presenting debt-related topics at forums and workshops
- and much more! Bring your own debt-related project!
If you are new to Strike Debt and want to come early and meet one or two of us before the formal meeting starts, email us at strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com .
Strike Debt – Principles of Solidarity
Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it.
We also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and political domination. Debt is used to discipline us, deepen existing inequalities, and reinforce racial, gendered, and other social hierarchies. Every Strike Debt action is designed to weaken the institutions that seek to divide us and benefit from our division. As an alternative to this predatory system, Strike Debt advocates a just and sustainable economy, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.
Strike Debt is committed to the principles and tactics of political autonomy, direct democracy, direct action, creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and commitment to anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of oppression.
Strike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest in resisting.
Strike Debt engages in public education about the debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers those who participate in challenging the debt-system.
Strike Debt holds that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends, families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and austerity.
Spring into Action at the Gill Tract Community Farm
Join The Polish Ambassador & the UC Gill Tract Community Farm on Sunday March 20th for a day of celebration and planting for the coming Spring season. The UC Gill Tract Community Farm is a gorgeous urban farm in Albany, CA, just north of Berkeley, which grows tons of organic produce that is given away to neighbors, those without adequate nutritious food, and the surrounding community for free and by donation.
We will be digging a swale to capture rainwater and hold it in the soil, planting and beautifying the Ladybug Patch Children’s Garden, planting a hedge around the farm to stabilize the micro-climate and attract pollinators, planting out the biomass zone of the farm with a food forest of perennials, and prepping and planting the organic farm rows for Spring.
We have over 2,000 seedlings to plant!!
We will also have wonderful music and workshops throughout the day to entertain and educate, so check out the schedule below and come ready to take a break from planting and learn something new!
Detailed Workshop Schedule
10:30-11:30am Edible and Medicinal Weeds Under Your Feet
with Baruch Brian Schwardon of WateroftheVine.com
Baruch Brian will facilitate an exploration of getting to know the food and medicine all around us, as well as facilitate discussion on implications for food justice, and ecological health markers.
11:30am-1:30pm Medicinal Herb Garden Tour and Workshop
with Penny Livingston-Stark & Richard Koenig
We will be drawn to some of the 100 varieties of Medicinal Herbs and Plants on display from Traditions around the world. This will be an opportunity to become acquainted with the Herb plants, and experience how they can be successfully grown together. Penny Livingston is a world renowned Permaculturist and Leader of the Regenerative Design Institute near Bolinas California. Richard Koenig is designer and curator of Our Medicinal Herb Garden here on Our UC Gill Tract Community Farm.
12:30-1:30pm Decisive Ecological Warfare: A Workshop on Resistance Strategy
1:30-2:30pm Plant Propagation Workshop in the Ladybug Patch
w. Alexa Levy, Brooke Porter & Mallika Nair of Growing Together
(children encouraged to attend!)
2:00-2:30pm Soil Not Oil: Carbon Sequestration & Moving Away from Industrial Ag
with Miguel Robles
Hear about the connections between food production and climate change, and learn the solutions for the great transition that we are collectively undertaking, presented by Miguel Robles of the Soil Not Oil coalition.
2:30-3:30pm Nutrient Cycling with Microbes from the Wild
with Dennis Dierks
Dennis will present his techniques and experience in the wild harvesting of Lactobaccillis and other bacteria which are essential in nutrient uptake by plants, and the establishment of healthy organic ecosystems for vegetable growing as well as within our bodies. Dennis Dierks is the founding farmer for over 40 years of Paradise Valley Farm near Bolinas Ca.
3:30-4:30pm Seeds & Seed Saving
with Tali Weinberg (of Permaculture Design Course at Urban Adamah)
We’ll have some food and drinks, and please bring a potluck dish or something to share if you can!
We will have the farm stand open all day too! So come grab some produce from this urban, organic, community farm to bring home and cook; and you can even be the one to harvest produce for the streetside farm stand yourself!
Hosted by: Aunti Frances and the Self-Help Hunger Program, a self-determined food justice group
“We are here, we ain’t leavin’, so let’s break bread together!”
We will be celebrating Black History by celebrating it all year ’round: from the revolutionary events of Black August to the current struggles and organizing of people at Driver Plaza to resist gentrification. Let’s fight for Black Futures in the Ohlone Bay Area by celebrating through food, culture, story-telling, history and community!
*Come through and enjoy BBQ, speakers from different struggles, drummers from Ashby Flea Market, Danza Azteca, Live Mural from Community Rejuvenation Project, youth performances, Healing Circle, Waterless Compost Toilet demonstration, and more! Bring a dish to share for our 3rd Annual Celebration!*
Sponsored by: Self-Help Hunger Program, POOR Magazine, Farms to Grow, Phat Beets Produce, APTP, with support from members of North Oakland Restorative Justice Council
Wanna Sponsor? Volunteer? Donate? Table? Contact: Aunti Frances: auntifrances@yahoo.com (510) 395-5988
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
- Announcements
- (Optional) Discussion Topic
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
On the heels of continuing development on the Southernmost portion of the Gill Tract, we invite you to join us for a VIGIL (at the end of the Permaculture Action Day on the Farm).
Let’s MOURN together the destruction that UC Berkeley insists on carrying on, the loss of arable soil & its accompanying beneficial biology, and the many attacks on Mother Nature all over the globe. Let’s take this moment to express our SORROW while watching over the land in PROTECTION, knowing that this community gathering will STRENGTHEN us to defend the rest of Gill Tract even more fiercely.
To Bring:
1) Please BRING an IMAGE for the altar that represents a loss (either at the GIll Tract or any other part of the natural world).
2)Also bring FLOWERS to add to the altar.
3) You’re invited to WEAR black, or any other color or attire that may represent your mourning tradition.**
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UC Berkeley is Paving Over This Farm Land to Build an UNaffordable Luxury Elderly Housing.
Defend Gill Tract – Restore Soil & Justice – Local Food Over Corporate Profits & Privatization of Public Land.
#DefendGillTract #BoycottSprouts #BoycottBelmontVillage
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To particiate in the Permaculture Action Day at the Gill Tract Farm from 10-5pm prior to the Vigil, check out: https://www.facebook.com/events/1690270454519676/