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The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
And we’re fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We are starting a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard.
The Berkeley City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it.
And we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a sale!
Encouraging articles have come out recently about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. We will be holding a forum on postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps. Come help us plan it!
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
East Bay Hotel & Food Service Workers Take It to the Streets of Oakland!
East Bay hotel, restaurant and stadium workers are marching for our jobs, our rights and OUR POWER! We are fighting for a higher minimum wage and good jobs that pay us what we need to survive and thrive in the Bay Area in 2014!
Join hotel housekeepers, hot dog vendors from the Coliseum, and airport restaurant workers who are fighting for good contracts – along with fast food workers fighting for $15 an hour and a union, and the Lift Up Oakland! coalition to raise the minimum wage!
“I work at the Oakland Airport, and we’re in a hard fight to keep our families out of poverty, but we’re not fighting alone. We’ve been joining up with Walmart workers, fast food workers, and everyone else who is struggling to pay their rent in the Bay Area. Now we’re going out on the streets in downtown Oakland to show the whole city how strong we are when we’re together!” said Nancy Moncada, retail clerk at the Oakland Airport.
“I believe that it is really important for all of us to come together on March 27th, because when my co-workers from the Coliseum unite with hotel and airport workers we have real strength. We did this five years ago, and we won good contracts, now is the time to make this action even bigger,” said Johnny Stake, a longtime Oakland resident and Coliseum stand worker.
BRING YOUR KIDS AND JOIN THE CHILDREN’S BRIGADE!!!
Si se puede!!!
UNITE HERE Local 2850
www.facebook.com/unitehere2850
Gather at 2pm, then we will take to the streets at 3pm. Bring your body down. Bring a friend or a hundred. We will march to honor Alex Nieto and all the countless many black and brown young men murdered by those thugs in uniform. We will march for our friends and families getting kicked out of their homes. We will march to stand up and fight back against the takeover of our communities by the forces of capital and their human agents who have too much money for how little heart they possess.
Stand up and be counted.
A revisit to Macy’s to thank them for their support of the inhumane sit/lie ‘law’
which criminalizes our homeless sisters and brothers
– we have the signs, cardboard & sharpies, bring yourself / friends / family & sit for your human & civil right to sit down –
On Sunday, March 30, 6:00PM @ the Sudo Room (2141 Broadway Ave. Entrance on 22nd St.) We will be having a meeting to prepare for the Earth Day to May Day Direct Action Assembly.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
And we’re fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard.
The Berkeley City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it.
And we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a sale! The Office of Inspector General’s report on the sale of Post Offices is supposed to come out before the end of March – anything could happen after it comes out.
Encouraging articles have come out recently about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. We will be holding a forum on postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps. Come help us plan it!
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum presents�
Fukushima:
Facts and Fiction
During the three long and frightening years since the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, the world has heard less and less about this manmade industrial disaster. Money, power, and engineering hubris were put ahead of the lives and health of the people of Japan and the northern hemisphere as radiation releases continue to leave the site and migrate into the environment. Decommissioning and dismantling the reactors will take decades, and complete cleanup is not even possible.
Ralph Nader calls nuclear power and the radioactivity it produces �violent, unnecessary, unsafe, and uninsurable� undemocratic.� And constructing new words that begin with �un,� it is also �unevacuate-able, unfinance-able, unregulatable.�
Naoto Kan, prime minister of Japan when the disaster began states: Without nuclear power plants we can absolutely provide the energy to meet our demands. Since Fukushima began, Japan has tripled its use of solar energy a jump in solar power production that is the equivalent of the electricity that would be produced by three nuclear plants Germany is a model in its commitment to shutting down all its nuclear power plants with all its power supplied by renewable power by 2050. The entire world could do this if humanity really would work together we could generate all our energy through renewable energy.
OccupyForum brings together a panel to discuss Fukushima and the alternatives to fossil fuel and nuclear power. Josh Wolf, moderator, is a journalist who spent a year in prison for refusing to turn over videos of a 2011 demonstration to police. Umi Hagitani from No Nukes Action is a journalist and anti-nuke activist from Japan, and a key organizer in Japan and the United States. Paul Kangas (Solar One) is a journalist, veteran (Bay of Pigs), private investigator and doctor who has been an activist for solar power and against atomic energy since 1963. In May, Paul is making a film in France and Germany on the growth of solar in Europe to be released in January of 2015. Paul will be discussing the inevitability of solar�s displacement of fossil fuel.
Bloggspot/paul kangas, Youtube: paul8kangas
Time will be allocated for Q&A and announcements.
Donations welcome, no one turned away!
April 2-3, 2014
Wednesday, April 2 Schedule:
8:00 AM – American Federation of Teachers Hosts Breakfast
8:00 to 10:00 – First Picket Line Shift!
(Rhetoric, Film, Music, EECS, Latin American Studies)
10:00 to 12:00 – Second Picket Line Shift!
(Comp. Lit, Classics, Education, French, Philosophy)
12:00 to 1:30 – MASS RALLY ON SPROUL
1:30 – AFSCME HOSTS LUNCH
1:30 to 3:30 – Third Picket Line Shift!
(City planning, Public Health, Sociology, History, Geography, English)
3:30 to 5:30 – Fourth Picket Line Shift!
(Political Science, Social Welfare, Anthropology)
**PICKET LINES LOCATED AT BANCROFT AND TELEGRAPH**
Join Eviction Free San Francisco for a spirited lunchtime march and picket at Vanguard Properties to demand that Michael Harrison of Vanguard Properties rescind the Ellis Act eviction of Benito Santiago!
Meet at 24th street BART station and march to Vanguard Properties at 2501 Mission Street at 21st.
Co-founder of Vanguard Properties Michael Harrison is currently using the Ellis Act to attempt and evict long-term tenant and native San Franciscan Benito Santiago.
Benito Santiago is a senior and disabled Filipino resident of the Duboce Triangle. He was born and raised in San Francisco. Benito is a teacher for the San Francisco unified school district where he teaches dance to children. He received his first eviction notice the day before Thanksgiving, on November 24th 2013. Benito has been organizing with Eviction Free San Francisco to fight his eviction.
Michael Harrison is a “property flipper”: his shell company Pineapple Boy LLC bought Benito’s home in November 2013 and tried to evict Benito and the two other tenants immediately. Vanguard Properties is currently involved in a number of luxury property developments in the Mission District including the development at 19th and Valencia that in February 2014 set record sale prices for the neighborhood with a 2 bedroom rental apartment going for $10,500 /month.
Endorsed by Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, Our Mission NO Eviction, San Francisco Senior and Disability Action, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), San Francisco Tenants Union, POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE, Mission SRO Collaborative, Bill Sorro Housing Program (BiSHoP), Tenants Together, Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Causa Justa Just Cause, Gray Panthers, New York City Anti- Eviction Network
April 2-3, 2014
Thursday, April 3 Schedule:
8:00 AM – American Federation of Teachers Hosts Breakfast
8:00 to 10:00 – First Picket Line Shift!
(Art History, Social Welfare, City planning, Public Health, Rhetoric)
10:00 to 12:00 – TEACH-IN on SPROUL
12:00 to 2:00 – Second Picket Line Shift!
(Education, Sociology, Economics, Student Learning Center)
2:00 to 4:00 – TRAVELLING PICKET LINE
(All departments come!)
4:00 to 6:00 – Third Picket Line Shift!
(Latin American Studies, Film, Music, Philosophy)
**PICKET LINES LOCATED AT BANCROFT AND TELEGRAPH**
Or next class will be discussing Michael Hudson’s The Bubble and Beyond ch.9 – ‘Junk Bonding Industry.’
We will also be taking a look at the Public Banking Workbook ch 1-3 to further understand Public Banking and what it can provide.
Here are the readings.
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Emergency Picket Line needed TOMORROW Thursday April 3rd 6 AM Campell Hall UC Berkeley!
- Tomorrow there will be a militant picket line in solidarity with UC Santa Cruz UAW that were attacked and arrested. Police used tasers while forcefully opening the west entrance to campus. http://www.ksbw.com/news/planned-2day-strike-is-underway-at-uc-santa-cruz-this-morning/25282900
- Picket at the Campbell hall construction site on UC Berkeley where union workers won’t cross @ 6:00 am sharp. We need about 30 to 50 people so please forward to as many people as possible!
New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals talking about debt! Show up a half hour early—at 2:30 PM—for an informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@
Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt.
– The latest on our coalition efforts to Save the Berkeley Post Office and fight the privatization of our commons.
– The latest on our efforts to help Richmond and NGO allies push for principal reduction for Richmond’s homeowners. Read two articles here and here, written by two Strike Debt Bay Area members on the Richmond principal reduction / eminent domain case.
In addition, we are exploring the use of a public bank to help Richmond, CA and other communities escape the thrall of Wall Street.
– Work on our radio segment on KPFA
– Other projects include efforts to fight against student debt in conjunction with peeps at UC Cal via a Strike Debt UC Berkeley chapter of Strike Debt, a book group with semi-weekly discussions, investigations into the legitimacy of mortgage ownership and therefore the right to foreclose, efforts to thwart payday loan usury and more.
“Just as bosses are dependent on workers, so are lenders dependent on borrowers. If workers walk out, the enterprise stops. If borrowers refuse to pay their debts, the lenders could be in real trouble. Each side depends on the other. The millions of underwater mortgage holders, of student debtors and credit card holders, need the bank loans – but so do the banks need those borrowers, and they especially need them to cooperate by paying their monthly charges. Otherwise, the capital that the banks list on their books begins to drain away.” ~Francis Fox Piven
Check out our website, our Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.
Check out the Berkeley Post Office Defenders website too.
We are having an assembly to plan direction actions from April 22nd to May 1st to raise awareness about the intersections of labor, immigration and environmental issues. You can propose actions or events. Examples include film screenings, sit-ins, tree-sits, guerrilla gardening, pickets, marches, blockades, strikes, etc. After the proposals are voted on we will have a discussion about strategies to unite workers and environmentalists against the bosses.
Following this will be a screening of he file “Rocking the Foundations,” about the Builders Labourers Federation of Australia.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
And we’re fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard.
The Berkeley City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it.
And we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a sale! The Office of Inspector General’s report on the sale of Post Offices was supposed to come out before the end of March – anything could happen after it comes out. Come help us plan our response.
Encouraging articles have come out recently about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. We held a forum on postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
Save the Albany Bulb!
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win!!!
Save the Bulb Panel at OccupyForum you want to see the future
hike up the middle trail for 5min on
the right by the solitary tree is the future STATE PARK run by the East Bay Regional Parks deconstruction
they destroyed all the birds nests, ( I know because I use to play my guitar
and watch those great black and yellow gold finchs in the trees) animal
habitats , art ,bushes and trees what they left was barren ground
seeded with grass and signs saying Don’t walk on the grass. they want
to destroy the rest of the 30 acres of the most public and awed park
around.how many of you have taken your out of town friends to the
Bulb Ive met hundreds of delighted tourists over the last twenty
years…
go to google image and type in the bulb you will see thousands of photographs
make no mistake the state does not have to do any thing that albany
suggests when the East Bay Regional Park took over the flat lands all
the mudflats art were destroyed “we didn’t have the man power to keep up
the art” they whined
all art people birds trees bushes will be ploughed under and 4 inchs
of mulch spread with grass seeds for the future sierra club and albany
city planed park of pristine back to nature and in 15
years after the state park system goes broke since there not taxing
the the rich
they will sell it to themselves like the berkeley post
office and build condos plus dogs will be leashed or banned unless we
stop them.
which we have done since the 1st of october which was the eviction
date the Workers and students of the the bay area will be hurt greatly if
the capitalist 1% and appologists get their way hopefully you won’t
say “aw gee I should have done something I didn’t know” well u do
know now so join our ranks and fight the lies lies lies the masses are
the makers of history not the 1%
ALBANY BULB COMUNITY DEFENDED BY GG AGAINST CAPITALIST CITY COUNCIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBzPM0jxxDc&feature=em-share_video_user
GO TO sharethebulb.org
Donations welcome, no one turned away!
ATTENTION ALL FAMILIES WHO HAS BEEN A VICTIM OF POLICE TERRORISM join us as we march on State Capital Sacramento during Crime Victim Day April 8, 2014. Please organize your communities and unite with us as we speak out against State Attorney General Kamala Harris for turning a blind eye under the Color of Law. Let’s organized now to address the Peace Officers Bill of Rights, Police Terrorism, and failure to resolve gun violence in our communities. Those families harmed by Gun Violence that are still seeking justice and an investigation into the killing of your Love one, please join us. Lack of forensic labs or non efficient labs must be addressed. Please share this with your network. “We are only as strong as our UNITY”
There will be two Bay Area events:
Press Conference at NCRIC Fusion Center in San Francisco
11:00am – Thursday, April 10
Northern California Regional Intelligence Center
450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Oakland Press Conference / Rally at City Hall
6:00pm – Thursday, April 10
Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater
14th & Broadway
Oakland, CA
There will be two Bay Area events:
Press Conference at NCRIC Fusion Center in San Francisco
11:00am – Thursday, April 10
Northern California Regional Intelligence Center
450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Oakland Press Conference / Rally at City Hall
6:00pm – Thursday, April 10
Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater
14th & Broadway
Oakland, CA
STOP STAPLES SCABS. STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE POST OFFICE!
Join American Postal Worker Union members protesting against Post Office counters in Staples stores staffed by low wage Staples employees instead of living wage Postal Union members.
