Interfaith Vigil at West County Detention Center where immigrants are being held

RSVP, carpooling, questions, to help organize:  Amy Carlson amycarlson77@gmail.com  or (918)896-9577 (text is best)

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Monthly Vigils

Interfaith Vigils to Support Immigrant Detainees 

1st Saturdays of every month.  

We invite you to join our vigils each month as we gather to pray and bear witness to the pain, suffering, and separation of immigrant detainees, and to call for real and immediate immigration reform. We invite you to join us to pray, sing, and act for just immigration solutions.  Please bring a noisemaker for our sacred Moment of Noise– where we let the detainees know that we have not forgotten them.

Why we vigil at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond

We do this to stand in solidarity with the (150-300) people being held here for deportation and thousands in the other 250 detention centers across the country. We know that many have not been convicted of any “crime”, but are charged with a civil immigration offense. We know that detained here and facing deportation are asylum seekers, green card holders, and long term residents. Often the chief breadwinner is taken away, putting children and families in economic jeopardy. We know that ICE’s implementation of our immigration laws makes communities insecure. THEREFORE…

We come here each month, to call attention to our government’s wasteful spending of resources, deporting 315, 943 in FY 2014 (865 people a day), while failing to address root causes of migration. We seek to stop this system of detention and deportation and change our nation’s policies.

We know that all the deportees held here have families, most came not just for a better life, but to survive and support families. Many have fled terrible violence and now face it here, in another form. And now, the children have come, many to reunite with families already here…. and even they, face expedited deportation processes.

We do this to give moral and spiritual support to the families whose loved ones are being held here. We know their trauma can be deep and their lives filled with fear. We seek to give practical advice and counsel on legal, medical, food and housing issues and to be a friendly face. And we also do this to provide opportunity for people directly impacted by our detention and deportation policies to share their truth – to give their testimony so that they know, they are not alone.

We pray together for a just and fair immigration policy closer to what our Statue of Liberty proclaims “Mother of Exiles … Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

We pray, knowing that all our faith traditions call upon us to welcome strangers and aliens, for they are our sisters and brothers and our families, like them, we were once strangers and aliens in this land.

For more information about immigration detention, go to:  Detention Watch Network, CIVIC.

The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in the Bay Area July 1, 2 & 4 with its 58th season premiering “WALLS“

The Peace and Freedom Party presents

After a reading of the 1852 speech of Frederick Douglas to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, NY, we will discuss two of the political institutions bequeathed us by the slaveowners: the Electoral College and the U.S. Senate.
This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30 pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk as long as you like. Speaker’s affiliations are listed for identification only. The opinions expressed do not reflect the official views of the Peace and Freedom Party.

The Peace and Freedom Party, born from the civil rights and
anti-war movements of the 1960s, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism, racial equality, and internationalism.

YOU’RE INVITED!
Resistance Summer Community Cookout in Berkeley

Resistance Summer is here!

Since November, Americans of all political stripes have been relentless in peaceful resistance to the divisive and dangerous policies of the Trump administration and its enablers in Congress, in state governments, and in corporate America. And with the Senate actively working to pass Trumpcare within weeks and the Supreme Court upholding parts of the Muslim ban, there is still much work ahead of us.

But we know that taking the time to acknowledge all we have accomplished together and to connect with one another is what will sustain our movement and keep the resistance strong for weeks and months to come. That’s why we’re kicking off Resistance Summer with almost 500 community cookouts in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Come share food, stories, ideas, and opinions with fellow progressives and discuss actions we can take, in our own communities during the recess and the weeks ahead, to stop the GOP’s attempt to rip away life-saving health care from tens of millions of Americans.
Will you join a Resistance Summer community cookout near you this weekend?
YES, I’LL BE THERE!

The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in the Bay Area July 1, 2 & 4 with its 58th season premiering “WALLS“

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall.  If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph.  If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months,  once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).

On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five 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

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (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

This Monday join nurses, patients, and community members as we take action again at the Capitol with the message:

Speaker Rendon: Don’t deny democracy,

Where: State Capitol South Steps (near 10th & N St) Sacramento, Ca.

Some bus transportation will be available. Sign up for a seat on the bus below.

Grass Valley/Auburn: https://goo.gl/SnC9jH

Oakland/Davis: https://goo.gl/GeHwvn

Other actions to take. Make Your Voice Heard!

Please keep the calls coming to both speaker Rendon (562) 529-3250 & (916)319-2063 and your Assemblymember (855-271-8515

Tell them: Don’t deny democracy, pass SB 562. Stop holding our healthcare hostage!

Please connect with the campaign via Facebook post and twitter:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/pg/CampaignForAHealthyCalifornia/events
HealthyCA: http://www.healthyca.org/event/tell-speaker-rendon-dont-hold-healthcare-hostage
Twitter: @4healthyCA

The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.

Nadya Williams toured Viet Nam with the annual spring Veterans For Peace delegation that she has coordinated for the past 6 years.

Michelle Kern was a member of a delegation that recently met with leaders of the Communist Party and Government of Cuba.

Join us for an afternoon with good people, good food, and good discussion for a great cause

program at 2:00 pm              
All proceeds support the new People’s World website(peoplesworld.org) and the continuing struggle for peace & justice!

A series of 5 minute presentations of hackery and radical projects from the bay and beyond, followed by socializing and hacking!

Sponsored by the Sudo Room.

AGENDA:

• 5:00pm: Call to Order, determination of quorum 2.
• 5:05pm: Review and approval of June 1 meeting minutes 3.
• 5:10pm: Open Forum 4.
• 5:15pm: Staff update on Surveillance Equipment Ordinance status 5.
• 5:20pm: Discuss and take possible action on city attorney feedback regarding Non-Cooperation With Anti-Registry Ordinance
• 5:30pm: Review take possible action on draft Privacy Advisory Commission Annual Report 7.
• 5:45pm: Continue ongoing Database Review with outside entities 8.
• 6:10pm: Discuss and take possible action on Oakland Police Department’s automated license plate reader policy

We’ll be going over our new jail outreach surveys and mobilization/escalation planning for the july 24 alternatives to incarceration county hearing.
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Click HERE to become a member of the Ella Baker Center and organize with us to win jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs.

Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

Mumia’s Struggle For Freedom at Crucial Stage!

Mumia Abu-Jamal has been kept alive while on the slow death row of life
imprisonment without parole, by those who came out to support him worldwide in
the fight to get him hepatitis-C treatment! Now, let’s act to finally free him!

“…I’m Hep C “negative”! Aint’t that a gas? I wanna thank you and the
brothers in N. Cali for helping to make it happen. Without a people’s movement
we would have never gotten into ct. W/out it, we never coulda won…”
– Excerpt from Mumia’s letter to the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Mumia’s Hepatitis-C infection, which came from a blood transfusion in the hospital
after he was critically wounded from police shooting him on December 9, 1981, is
cured due to active support by thousands of supporters who tirelessly resisted the
PA prison system’s refusal to supply the needed medication. Mumia’s federal legal
victory is now the precedent to provide Hep-C treatment to thousands of prisoners.

Mumia’s New Legal Action
Now, Mumia has a new legal action pending in the Pennsylvania courts, and the movement of Mumia’s supporters worldwide has called for actions to free Mumia on July 7th.

Mumia’s legal action is based on the 2016 US Supreme Court ruling in the case of Williams v Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor who “had significant personal involvement” in a “critical decision” cannot later sit in judgment in appeals concerning the very same case. This was found to be a conflict of interest, which violates the due process right to an impartial appeal. In the Williams case, the former DA, then judge, was one Ronald Castille. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Williams now has the right to re-litigate all of his legal arguments that were previously rejected. In Mumia’s case, the very same Ronald Castille was the Philadelphia District Attorney who argued to uphold Mumia’s frame-up conviction and death sentence in 1989 and then as a Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice denied all Mumia’s post-conviction appeals from 1998-2008. Last August Mumia filed a post-conviction appeal based on the Williams decision. A legal victory in Mumia’s action will reinstate his appeal rights to assert his innocence and the wholesale denial of his due process trial rights.

Mumia Won “Discovery” But DA’s Office Stonewalls
On April 28, 2017 Mumia Abu-Jamal won in court against the prosecution motion to dismiss Mumia’s new appeal. The
judge also ordered the District Attorney’s Office to disclose all files and information that would support Mumia’s claims
that his state appeal process was corrupted because Philadelphia District Attorney Ronald Castille was involved in
prosecuting Mumia’s appeals. Not surprisingly, the DA’s office did not comply. Only public documents from Mumia’s
case that have Castille’s name listed as District Attorney were released. Mumia’s lawyers have demanded “full
compliance” with the judge’s order and the judge issued a new order to the DA to release the files by July 7.
The DA’s office states there is no evidence of Castille’s involvement in Mumia’s case. This is a cover-up of the
prosecutorial, police and judicial frame-up of Mumia. It is inconceivable that Castille as District Attorney did not make
“critical decisions” on Mumia’s appeal given that he was elected to that office as a “law-and-order” and pro-death penalty
candidate. When he ran for Supreme Court justice he openly bragged that he put 45 men on death row. Castille also stated
publicly that he was personally responsible for all filings in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mumia Challenges Race Discrimination and Lies in Prosecution
Mumia’s appeals included direct challenges to the practice of racial discrimination in jury selection, as well as
prosecution’s arguments that told jury’s they could ignore the responsibility for sentencing someone to death, since a
defendant had “appeal after appeal.” Mumia also challenged the prosecution using his teenaged membership in the Black
Panther Party to argue that Mumia had a life-long intent to kill a police officer. These issues were fought in the PA
Supreme Court and then in the U.S. Supreme Court by Mumia while Castille was the District Attorney.

As DA, Castille produced a training videotape to instruct prosecutors how to evade the1986 Batson decision, a US
Supreme Court ruling which banned racial discrimination in jury selection. Prosecutors were told how to keep Black
people off their juries and how to conceal this discriminatory purpose.

During Mumia’s 1988 appeals to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and then to the U.S. Supreme Court, the D.A.’s office
argued that Mumia could not prove the prosecution’s discriminatory motive when they removed Black people from his
jury. The existence of the videotape, which was the very evidence of the discriminatory motive, was suppressed.

Former Prosecutor Sits In Judgement On Mumia’s Case
As a PA Supreme Court Judge, Castille sat in judgment over all the appeals of Mumia’s case since 1998, including the
issues of his direct appeal—jury selection (Batson), jury integrity (appeal after appeal), membership in the Black Panther
Party, as well as the new evidence of coercion of witnesses, of falsified ballistics, the confession of Arnold Beverly, who
confessed to being the actual killer, and the racial bias of the trial and post-conviction hearing judge Albert Sabo, who
stated, “I’m gonna help ‘em fry the n—-r”.

In 1996 and again in 2002 Mumia’s lawyers demanded that Castille recuse himself from hearing the case, on account of
his earlier role as prosecutor over the same case. In each instance, Castille refused to recuse himself, stating he had no
knowledge of Mumia’s case. Castille denied any knowledge of the DA/TV videotape.

Yet Castille’s alleged “non-involvement” is what the current Philadelphia DA now wants us to believe, as their office has
refused the full “discovery” of evidence of Castille’s collusion (in framing Mumia), which was ordered by the
Philadelphia Court earlier this year! This is why we call for action now.

Demand Full Disclosure of Documents in Mumia’s Case!
We need to free Mumia now, and demand full disclosure of documents in his case! The Williams decision could lead to
the throwing out of all the negative decisions on Mumia’s appeals by the PA Supreme Court, which, in turn, could lead to
throwing out his original false conviction! But all of Mumia’s scant victories in court, such as the reversal of his original
death sentence, have depended on the mass mobilization of his supporters worldwide.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist, a former Black Panther, a MOVE supporter and an innocent political prisoner. His
freedom from false murder charges is long overdue, after 36 years for a crime he did not commit. Winning Mumia’s
freedom is a fight against this injustice system and paves the way for others, as did his victory to get Hep-C treatment,
which is precedent for Pennsylvania prisoners as well as other thousands nationwide.

Former political prisoners such as Panther Albert Woodfox, whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, and Puerto Rican
Nationalist/activist Oscar Lopez Rivera have recently achieved freedom with the help and support of masses of
supporters. Now, let us move on.

In 1995 we mobilized in the thousands against the death warrant issued by the Pennsylvania governor; and in 1999
Longshore workers on the entire West Coast of the US shut down all ports to free Mumia. Also in 1999, Oakland teachers
held unauthorized teach-ins in Oakland Schools on Mumia and the death penalty.
Join us at Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway, Oakland, on Friday July 7th, at 4 pm. Rally and march to the
Federal Building, with flyers to distribute on Mumia’s case. Solidarity with Mumia and all his worldwide
supporters! Free Mumia Now!

The July 7th action, called by the Labor Action To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal in Oakland, is initially endorsed by: Oakland
Teachers For Mumia, Oscar Grant Committee, Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby of Love Not Blood Campaign, Workers
World Party, Speak Out, Party of Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition, Freedom Socialist Party, Socialist
Viewpoint, Mobilization To Free Mumia, Socialist Action, and Doro Chiba-the Japanese Railway Workers Union.
Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal • July 2017 • labor donated