The Moms who occupied a vacant house in West Oakland on Nov 18th, owned by a development corporation, lost their court case Friday, the judge ordering the Sheriff to evict them “within five days.”

At their press conference at the house after the decision, the Moms called for people to stand with them beginning at 6:30 AM at 2928 Magnolia (one block off Adeline), Oakland.  Should you be willing to risk arrest in non-violent civil disobedience the Moms and their allies have lawyers available and ready to help.  Otherwise, there are plenty of roles for those not willing or unable to risk arrest, and the more bodies there are the less likely Sheriff’s deputies are to attempt an eviction.

Depending on what happens, they will need people continually throughout the day and evening and into Tuesday.  Coming at any time (and perhaps bringing food or coffee…) will help.

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Their website: https://moms4housing.org/

Their statement:

No one should be homeless when homes are sitting empty. Housing is a human right. The Moms for Housing are uniting mothers, neighbors and friends to reclaim housing for the Oakland community from the big banks and real estate speculators.

Moms for Housing is a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers. Before we found each other, we felt alone in this struggle. But there are thousands of others like us here in Oakland and all across the Bay Area. We are coming together with the ultimate goal of reclaiming housing for the community from speculators and profiteers.

We are mothers, we are workers, we are human beings, and we deserve housing. Our children deserve housing. Housing is a human right.

A statement as of 1/12/20, from https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Update-Moms-Call-Offer-For-Temporary-Housing-An-14968732.php

One of the homeless mothers who has been living in a vacant West Oakland house since Nov. 18 scoffed Saturday night at an offer by the house’s owner to pay to move them out and shelter them for the next two months, calling the offer “an insult.”

“It is deeply disingenuous for this multi-million-dollar corporation, through their multi-million-dollar public relations firm, to pretend to be concerned about the well being of black families,” said Dominique Walker, one of the mothers who has been staying at this Magnolia Street house, owned by the real estate investment firm Wedgewood Properties. “Wedgewood CEO Greg Geiser is desperate to avoid taking responsibility for how this company has contributed to the housing crisis that is causing families like mine to be homeless and for participating in an industry that has robbed Black and marginalized communities of land and wealth for generations.”

“We want to buy this home through the Oakland Community Land Trust, but Wedgewood would rather see our kids be in shelters or worse,” Walker said in her statement Saturday night. “We have seen corporations with blood on their hands try to buy public favor and this is an example. Their ‘offer’ is an insult.”

Earlier Saturday, Wedgewood said it’s offering to pay for the women’s move to a shelter run by a nonprofit and pay for them to stay there for two months.

Join SURJ’s Mobilization Committee for our annual “Wake-Up Call” during the 6th Annual Reclaim Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Legacy Weekend. We’ll be calling commuters in with broadcasts of inspiring MLK speeches, passing out information on alternatives to calling the police, and inviting people to come out to Monday’s big MLK Day rally and march (see https://www.facebook.com/events/747077179148170/ for more info).

Join us to build “The Right to Exist” Village no experience necessary! (But if you’re a builder, give us a call.)

For the past three years, The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople has participated in Reclaiming Dr. Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy by reclaiming unused and/or neglected public landed owned by the City of Oakland to build temporary emergency shelter for our brothers and sisters living on the streets.

The goals are simple:
1. Let people get off the ground, out of tents and into something safe until permanent deeply affordable housing is accessible to our people.
2. Show how illegitimate, ineffective, cruel and inhumane the mayor and her Encampment Management Team are in approaching the homeless crisis that her decisions helped create.
3. Connect the dots between gentrification, the housing affordability crisis and the homeless state of emergency.
4. Inspire regular people like us – both housed and unhoused – to take matters in our own hands and provide community driven solutions since city hall refuses to.

This past year, we focussed on upgrading existing curbside communities by building homes and communal kitchens, upgrading self made homes,, defending self built homes from demolition, and improving conditions at curbside communities that are neglected or brutalized by the mayor’s encampment management team.

One such community is in East Oakland behind the Burger King on East 12th and 14th Ave. We built three emergency homes, are providing regular trash service, and supported the residents in their political empowerment – in particular learning about their rights and developing self government.

This Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, instead of moving on to an empty piece of public land, we call all housed and unhoused volunteers to concentrate our energies on this East Oakland encampment and finish building “The Right To Exist” Curbside Community – that the longterm residents have designed and named.

On January 18 & 19th from 10am to 5pm, we will build 5 tiny homes, a communal kitchen, a solar shower, a bike operated washer, raised garden beds, and paint murals on the three finished homes. We will serve food all day, do a huge trash pick up along East 12th from 14th to 22nd Ave, and offer workshops and services for our unhoused brothers and sisters: Know Your Rights, Adverse Possession and Squatters Rights, Health and Wellness for Curbside Living.

If you want to help us prepare, you can join a committee by contacting Needa Bee at 510-355-7010 :
– building (for skilled builders, carpenters and handy people)
– gardening
– trash pick up
– murals
– outreach to surrounding neighborhood
– food services
– donation solicitation
– portapotty outreach – finding a neighboring business or community to sponsor portapotty services

But, most importantly, please come on MLK weekend – even if you can only be there for a couple of hours! Bring your friends and neighbors (housed and unhoused), too!

If you cannot contribute in person, please contribute resources: We need $16,000 to complete this work. We currently have $8,000 raised. To fill the gap, you can

– donate at https://www.paypal.me/thevillageinoakland
– send a gift card to TheVillage (maowunyo@gmail.com) at https://homedepot.cashstar.com/
– donate building materials, food, etc, by contacting mlkdonations2020@gmail.com

If you have other questions or media requests, please contact Needa Bee at 510-355-7010.

RALLY AND UNDISCLOSED ACTION!

The time it long over due for those in poverty to be heard. Unhoused,advocates, and allies will be coming in from across CA. we will have a rally and an undisclosed action.

On Nov 4 2019 we had to disrupt a meeting with 350 statewide representatives. Our main demand was that we be at the table in these forums panels and homeless policy workshops. We have been approached by less then a handful of reps. We wrote a statement with 21 demands. We also mentioned we would be heard or we would start shutting it down. Martin Luther King Day is the day before this event. This is the same fight 50 years later. Everyone come and be loud and help remind this government they work for all of we the people. NO MORE ABOUT US WITHOUT US, NO MORE DEATH ON THE STREETS AND HOUSING NOW! CA has 189,000+ unhoused. There is a war on the poor.

The National law Center on Homelessness and poverty just released its 2019 report. In the 120+ report is the HALL OF SHAME 7 total made the list. Sacramento made the list due to the stockton blvd sweep and the city trying to sue the unhoused, also redding CA made the list regard mayor trying to gain conservatorship of the unhoused. UNITED WE MUST RISE AGAINST THE INJUSTICES. SACRAMENTO IS THE PLACE TO SHUT IT DOWN! SILENCE IS COMPLICITY AND COMPLICITY IS CREATING POLICIES THAT ARE KILLING PEOPLE!

Lets be loud! BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY SEE YOU THERE

Weekly Friday Vigil with music, snacks, letter writing, conversation

Fred Craves is the owner of Gamechanger LLC. For over a year, he and his lackeys, The Law offices of Alan J horowitz and “the Evictors” have been harrassing The West Oakland Wood St community, all in attempt to develop the land beneath their feet.

Join The United Front Against Displacement and The West Oakland Wood St Community in a Rally against the Law offices of Alan J Horowitz. These law offices call themselves “The Evictors” and specialize in helping landlords evict working people. The Billionaire Fred Craves is using these law offices to harrass and take legal action against the homeless residents of Wood st. These crooks want to develop the land and make millions, leaving the homeless people of Oakland with nothing and nowhere to go.

OME ON DOWN! No worries if you don’t have a sign. We will have poster board and markers.
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This Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Americans will mobilize to demand:

Accountability — Trump and the Senators and members of Congress who voted to cover up his crimes will be held accountable by their constituents.

Democracy — Now more than ever, we need to ensure a free and fair election in 2020, which means real election security reform and and end to voter suppression.

Reform — Like after Watergate, we demand structural reforms to end the corruption and abuses of power that allowed Donald Trump’s criminal behavior in the first place.

It’s up to us to mobilize like never before — and ensure that this dark moment in our nation’s history is followed by an unprecedented level of civic action.

NOTE: A core principle shared by supporting organizations is a commitment to nonviolent, peaceful actions. All actions that are sponsored or organized on this page are intended to be nonviolent and peaceful. We expect all participants to act lawfully at all times and to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values

Weekly Friday Vigil with music, snacks, letter writing, conversation

The United Front Against Displacement and the West Oakland Wood St Community will rally on February 7th at 5 pm to condemn the Oakland State of the City Address (1000 Oak St, Oakland, CA 94607).

The City is in a terrible state. The State of the City Address is an opportunity for Mayor Schaff and the city administrators to lie about the horrendous conditions of the people of Oakland. The City of Oakland has invested millions in “managing” and sweeping homeless people out of site and done little to provide services, housing or employment opportunities to the thousands of dispossessed people of Oakland. Conservative estimates put over 4000 people on the streets of Oakland every night, actual figures could be twice as high! This does not account for the thousands more that are housing insecure. With the rising cost of housing, many are forced to live in cars, trailers or with friends and extended family.

This situation demands that people take action and organize to end homelessness.

The City of Oakland has consistently failed the West Oakland Wood st community and has instead chosen to collaborate with the surrounding real estate developers that seek to evict the community!
Mayor Schaff”s office has collaborated with Fred B Craves, a SF billionaire to develop an abandoned lot in West Oakland that sits at the heart of the West Oakland Wood st Community.

Craves and he City claim that they plan to build a “Safe Parking” lot on Wood st. What they leave out is that after the lease expires (18 months after its finalized) that Craves intend to develop the land at a profit and leave the community with nothing an nowhere to go!

Fred Craves has even enlisted the legal services of the Law Offices of Alan Horowitz, afirm that focuses on evictions and who describe themselves as “The Evictors”.

This is not a struggle just affecting the West Oakland Wood St community. The City of Oakland, real estate developers and law offices across the city collaborate to displace working people and it is time to fight back!

OPEN is supporting SEIU 1021 in calling for a community mobilization to stop the school board from cutting at least $6.27M from our schools and firing at least 68 vital employees.

When Oaklamd’s school board proposed $30 million in cuts that led to the teacher’s strike he posted evidence that there has actually been about a $70 million SURPLUS being illegally “put aside” (presumably to be given to the charter schools bought by the supporters of the real estate developer controlled school board but that’s what I deduced from what I have seen and not an official union position that I am aware of). I am clear that this money is supposed to be spent on students and their classroom needs (I think that includes food but that’s another issue for another day) in the current year not held back “just in case we need it” (and laying off 68 essential personnel seems a reason to spend it, doesn’t it?)

Weekly Friday Vigil with music, snacks, letter writing, conversation

Gather at 21st Street and Fair Oaks

This Presidents Day, we will gather outside Mark Zuckerberg’s house near Dolores Park to let him know that we won’t be quiet in the face of his company undermining our democracy.

We are not sure what billionaires brunch on, but let’s give him some food for thought and a piece of our minds. It will be fun. We will be loud. And we will bring plenty of democracy bagels for everybody who shows up with a sign or a noisemaker.

Why? Zuckerberg’s San Francisco Bay Area technology company — Facebook — refuses to take responsibility for lies, hate, and disinformation spread on its platform. This irresponsibility is alarming — especially in light of the 2020 elections.

Facebook sells ads to U.S. politicians but imposes zero restrictions on lies and false claims and is happy to profit from micro-targeted advertising that’s being used to misinform, manipulate and incite hatred among vulnerable voters.

Facebook should recognize it has created a monster and stop politicians from being able to “buy and lie” in their campaign advertising in 2020. But don’t expect Facebook to let go of so much lucrative attention and influence without a fight. We are ready to fight and to wake the Zuck up!

Facebook should: Refuse political ads that lie, refuse to sell political ad microtargeting, and deny service to anyone seeking to disrupt the 2020 election.

Please join us on President’s Day to “Wake the ZUCK up”. Don’t let disinformation on Facebook ZUCK UP our next election.
To join our Palo Alto protest, email andreabuffa2006 [at] gmail.com.

Brought to you by Global Exchange, Media Alliance, Indivisible SF Peninsula/CA-14, CodePink Golden Gate, Raging Grannies Action League, MediaJustice, and the crew at Don’t Let Facebook ZUCK UP Our Democracy.

Wake The Zuck Up: Manipulation for Profit Isn’t Free Speech

The world’s biggest social media platform collected over $20 million dollars from the Trump administration in just the last year.

Those 218,000 ads used sophisticated micro-targeting based on Facebook’s cavernous catalog of personal data, to aim messages where they would most likely to be believed, and hide them from audiences more likely to be able to rebut them. This isn’t open dialogue and debate.

This is manipulation for profit, not free speech.

We’re visiting the Zuckerberg house on President’s Day to say stop profiting from sabotaging democracy under a fig leaf of free speech. With bagels.

It’s a wake-up call.

Join Media Alliance, Global Exchange, Indivisible San Francisco, MediaJustice and many others at Chez Zuckerberg on the morning of President’s Day, February 17th for a short and spirited rally.

What do we want? Three things.

1. Hold political ads from candidates seeking our votes to the same standards Facebook imposes on community groups and not for profit organizations,

2. Limit targeting on political ads from candidates to geography and not preferences developed from intrusive tracking and profiling of our online activities.

3. Don’t provide a platform for hate speech designed to terrorize vulnerable communities and incite hatred.

These aren’t radical demands. Even Facebook’s own employees have called for them.

Read more at ProtestFacebook.org.

On the morning of President’s Day, February 17th at 10am, we won’t be quiet about Facebook zucking up the 2020 election and our entire political process.

As we told the press:  We’re not willing to cede a communications network that reaches billions of people to the unfettered practices of a corporation that cares more about its profits than about our democracy. Not without a fight.

(Supported by the collective power of the MediaJustice network).
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GRACIAS! CHELSEA MANNING&JULIAN
ASSANGE FOR PUBLISHING BUSH’S WAR CRIMES
join our EVERY friday demo’s @ 4:30 to save them from torture or
death @MacArthur&Fruitvale Oak Ca.

Start your own VIGIL EMAIL ME
ohohorion99@gmail.com .

also CHECK OUT OUR WEB

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LATEST NEWS JOIN 60,000&FREE
CHELSEA FROM TORTURE
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-free-chelsea-manning-now

The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses
confused!! There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and
Julian were two of the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth
about USA’s illegal, immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST
countries in history, killing, wounding, and forcing emigration on millions (did
you know there are 65 million migrants?) all over the world!!

Saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! To the
Working class and it’s Allies.They told us the truth about the wars! And all the
NEW MacArthyism (phony Russia Gate conspiracy led by the New York Times)
is blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem
from the honesty of Chelsea & Julian!! and Wikileaks.org

Twitter feeds #defend assang #xychelsea & Please write letters to
Chelsea (only hand written and no post cards or pictures, or anything written on
the outside of the letter) Write to: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, William
Truesdale Adult Detention Center, 2001 Mill Road, Alexandria Va. 22314. Also
write julian writejulian.com

“SHOWTIMES”

• film “XYChelsea” FREE AT https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea
• Real News Network – “Federal judge continues Chelsea Manning’s confinement and $1000/day fine https://youtu.be/qjywz_U_x1c
• – The –Jimmy Dore Show – “Chelsea Manning jailed again https://youtu.be/bTqVNKXZYAY (89,000 hits)
• – Chelsea Manning 2min “Abolish Ice” https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
• ”Chelsea & Julian are our Working Class Heroes” OAK CA. Forum GG&Orion sing and Eminent Activist and Educator Jerold Smith speaks. https://youtu.be/-atFU5TUcRk

Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area along with other Bay Area climate groups (Rainforest Action Network, 350 Bay Area, 350 Silicon Valley, XR Youth, Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Front Bay Area, Diablo Rising Tide, CodePINK, and others) have joined an extended, escalating campaign aimed at putting pressure on JPMorgan Chase to stop financing the fossil fuel industry.

Stay tuned for more Friday actions through the coming months. Learn more about the national campaign at StopTheMoneyPipeline.

GRACIAS! CHELSEA MANNING&JULIAN
ASSANGE FOR PUBLISHING BUSH’S WAR CRIMES
join our EVERY friday demo’s @ 4:30 to save them from torture or
death @MacArthur&Fruitvale Oak Ca.

Start your own VIGIL EMAIL ME
ohohorion99@gmail.com .

also CHECK OUT OUR WEB

Home

LATEST NEWS JOIN 60,000&FREE
CHELSEA FROM TORTURE
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-free-chelsea-manning-now

The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses
confused!! There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and
Julian were two of the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth
about USA’s illegal, immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST
countries in history, killing, wounding, and forcing emigration on millions (did
you know there are 65 million migrants?) all over the world!!

Saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! To the
Working class and it’s Allies.They told us the truth about the wars! And all the
NEW MacArthyism (phony Russia Gate conspiracy led by the New York Times)
is blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem
from the honesty of Chelsea & Julian!! and Wikileaks.org

Twitter feeds #defend assang #xychelsea & Please write letters to
Chelsea (only hand written and no post cards or pictures, or anything written on
the outside of the letter) Write to: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, William
Truesdale Adult Detention Center, 2001 Mill Road, Alexandria Va. 22314. Also
write julian writejulian.com

“SHOWTIMES”

• film “XYChelsea” FREE AT https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea
• Real News Network – “Federal judge continues Chelsea Manning’s confinement and $1000/day fine https://youtu.be/qjywz_U_x1c
• – The –Jimmy Dore Show – “Chelsea Manning jailed again https://youtu.be/bTqVNKXZYAY (89,000 hits)
• – Chelsea Manning 2min “Abolish Ice” https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
• ”Chelsea & Julian are our Working Class Heroes” OAK CA. Forum GG&Orion sing and Eminent Activist and Educator Jerold Smith speaks. https://youtu.be/-atFU5TUcRk