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Join us for the first gathering to begin re-imagining the General Assembly on Saturday June 16 at Mosswood Park, starting with music and food at 1:00pm.
Please fill out our survey to share you thoughts on the GA:
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YDSBC2
Please spread the word!
Kali was originally arrested December 16th on minor misdemeanor charges,
but because of a probation violation hold he was incarcerated for 4 days
before any charges were formally filed.
While most people would have been released from jail and asked to appear
for a future court date given the minor nature of the misdemeanor charges,
the DA denied Kali’s release because of the county’s assertion
that he is homeless.
At his arraignment Kali immediately notified the
judge that he did have a residence and provided the address. The staff
that could confirm this residence was gone for the day and it was
concluded that Kali would have to remain in jail until his next court date.
Meet at 19th and Telegraph at 7:30 am. Caravan leaves at 8 am SHARP! more cars would be very much appreciated.
Address is: 24405 Amador St , Hayward, CA 94544
Wear red in support of Kali’s favorite color!
Since he was an active member of the Kitchen Committee, there will be Coffee not Cops as well as a potluck afterwards.
RAISE YOUR VOICE!
Castlewood Country Club Valley Course
(Castlewood Dr. at Pleasanton-Sunol Rd, Pleasanton)
Saturday, June 23, 8-11 am
Once again, the golfers of Castlewood Country Club are gearing up for their biggest tournament of the year – while keeping their workers out on the street. Remember last year’s tournament?
Most of the golfers have been deaf to the workers’ cries for affordable health care, job security and respect. So this year, let’s see if music gets through.
Bring your voices, bullhorns, whistles, trombones, and vuvuzelas, and sing out for justice!
Occupy Oakland has supported the locked out Castlewood workers on their picket lines and in helping to organize a march and a mock 1% rally. (“Golf Is A Human Right!”)
They are still locked out, and they could still use our support.
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LOGISTICS
For questions or rides, contact Sarah Norr at 510-502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com.
Want to caravan from Oakland? Meet at 14th and Broadway at 7 am (RSVP first to make sure we have enough cars).
Driving/parking directions: Castlewood’s Valley Course is located along Castlewood Drive between Foothill Road and Pleasanton-Sunol Road. Coming from the Oakland area, take 580 East to 680 South. Take the 3rd exit for Castlewood Dr/Sunol Blvd and turn right at the exit onto Pleasanton-Sunol Road. The first right is Castlewood Drive. Park along Pleasanton-Sunol Road, then walk up Castlewood Drive to the golf course.
Can’t make it? Consider making a donation to the hardship fund instead.
After our regular 10 AM clean-up at St. Andrew’s Plaza on 32nd and San Pablo, those who wish to can come along with us to Lakeview Elementary at 746 Grand Ave. at 11:00 AM to assist in cleaning the school and the sit-in site, and whatever else the teachers and parents might need to help prep. for the rally.
As always, there will be free coffee and pastries at 32nd and San Pablo at 10:00, and plenty of brooms, dust pans, trash bags and gloves. Alright, hope to see you all there. Help the teachers, save the schools! Re-Open or Resign!
MARCH TO SUPORT LAKEVIEW AND THE STRUGGLE FOR OAKLAND SCHOOLS!
Reconvergence as well if lakeview gets raided earlier in the week
Leaving from 19th and Telegraph at 12pm, to Lakeview
You can sign up for text blast system to receive instant updates on police threats and responses.
Text the message “lakeviewsitin” to 41411 (i.e. put 41411 instead of the normal 10 digit phone number).
Lakeview School
(across from the Grand Central Theater)
For more info: http://www.saveoaklandschools.org/
Stop Starving the Postal Service. No cuts! No closures!
Coinciding with a nation Hunger Strike in Washington DC.
The Postal Service has threatened to eliminate 220,000 living-wage jobs and close 3700 post offices. And they are targeting poor and rural communities, those who need their community post office the most.
Help support a nationwide effort, from NYC to Baltimore, to Chicago to San Francisco and Portland, OR.
4pm @ Lakeview Elementary
5pm @ OUSD offices ( 1025 2nd ave.)
This Wednesday is the last OUSD school board meeting until the fall. All year, we have been attending school board meetings to protest school closures, union busting, cuts and privatization, and we have been ignored and silenced. The school board has pushed our agenda items until the end of their discussion, and after hours, we have been permitted just 2 minutes to share our concerns with barely present board members.
We refuse to continue to have our concerns ignored and dismissed! The school board doesn’t represent our communities, so we must represent ourselves. On Wednesday 6/27, the parents, students and teachers of the Lakeview Sit-in are organizing our own hearing – the “People’s School Board Meeting”! We invite all parents, teachers, students and community members to join us to share your vision for Oakland public schools, and speak out against the continuous disrespect Tony Smith and the elected school board members have shown the school communities they are supposed to serve!
Show Solidarity with CLASSE Demands Against Tuition Hikes and Austerity Measures
Demand An End to Repression of the Student Movement
Solidarity March Friday, June 29th @ 11:30 AM in San Francisco. 580 California St, downtown.
Bring pots and pans to make noise, and a red square of cloth pinned to your clothes, the symbol of solidarity with the Montreal student strikers.
BBQ HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 30 JUNE. ARROYO PARK.
The OO AC Transit Committee is working with the BBQ Committee to throw a BBQ around the Occupy AC-Transit issue. There will be a driver/rider speak out, button-making, and maybe posters and t-shirts.
Arroyo Park 2:00 Facebook page.
Facebook page description:
The Occupy Oakland BBQ committee is having an Occupy AC-Transit BBQ that will feature great food and music, as always, and a speak-out with riders and drivers talking about the effects of cuts and fare increases. We will give a short presentation on what we have been doing and how you can get involved. We will also be making Occupy AC-Transit buttons and t-shirts (bring a blank t-shirt in case we run out). Other committees will also be talking about their ongoing organizing and how to get involved.
To help build up for the BBQ we will be having a rally and speak-out Friday at 11am at Eastmont Station. More details are here: http://www.facebook.com/events/319902598093813/
We are also doing mass outreach downtown and in East Oakland on Thursday from 4-7. If you would like to help, more info, is here: http://www.facebook.com/events/312095595547544/
Come out, eat some good food, and find out how Occupy Oakland is going to make this a hot Summer!
Come out and protest the white supremacist, patriarchal, heterosexist violence of the OPD! OPD murders our community with impunity! This will be a black bloc action–WEAR ALL BLACK AND COVER YOUR FACE AND HEAD!!!!!!!!!!
Justice for Alan Blueford, James Rivera Jr., Luther Brown, Raheim Brown, Brandy Martell, CeCe McDonald, Kenneth Harding, Oscar Grant, Eric Vigen, Ricky Miranda, Rita Elias, Francisco Moran, Sammy Galvan, Richard Robles, Elizabeth Kropp, Luis Gutierrez, Joey Pinasco, Craig Prescott, Manuel Dante, Kenya Bosley, Jesse Watson, Brian “Deacon” Turner, Ernest Duenez…………..
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The 1st General Assembly of Occupy Oakland in the month of July is this Sunday, and there are a number of interesting proposals that are being put forth, such as:
1. The proposal to endorse and help organize the Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference this summer, geared towards providing a more radical tone and communicating the unique perspective of Occupy Oakland to others and the world,
2. A proposal to jointly plan an Occupy Oakland July 4th action of some sort or another
3. A proposal to deal with the (rather glaring) issue of quorom
…and much, much more!
There will be a surprise guest speaker as well!
Also, it is out dear friend Chris of TAC’s birthday this Sunday, so we encourage folks to bring cake, food, and make merry as we all celebrate together as Occupy Oakland!
Dear friends, comrades, neighbors, and colleagues,
Please join us to celebrate Day 16 of the Lakeview Sit-In and the People’s School with a community potluck and film screening this Sunday, July 1st, at 6 pm. For two weeks now we’ve been running a free summer program out of occupied Lakeview Elementary, serving over 30 children with programming in social justice, art, PE, and gardening. At the same time, we’ve been organizing to pressure Tony Smith and the school board to reopen all five closed elementary schools, repudiate the state debt, stop busting teacher and school workers’ unions, reverse the cuts to special education, and fully fund public education for every student. This Sunday, we kick back and grub. The potluck starts at 6 pm at the People’s School (746 Grand Ave), followed by a screening of “The Inconvenient Truth behind Waiting for Superman.” Please bring a dish or a non-alcoholic beverage to share.
In love and solidarity,
The Lakeview Sit-In and People’s School for Public Education
Now is the time to protect, improve, and expand Medicare — let’s build support now for Medicare for All! One of a series of rallies being held all over California by the California Nurses Association and other Health Care advocacy groups. Details.
Tour Sponsored By THE CAMPAIGN FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA: California Alliance for Retired Americans/ California Health Professional Student Alliance / California Nurses Association / The Progressive Caucus of California/ Health Care For All – California/ Communication Workers of America-District 9 / Physicians for a National Health Program – California / California OneCare / Single Payer Now / Progressive Democrats of America / League of Women Voters of California / Green Party of California / Democracy For America
On July 7th we will march to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s office and demand that a citizen’s review board be put in place. The Sacramento County Sheriff has no review board and deaths at the hands of the police continue to increase and the conditions at the jail continue to deteriorate.
http://www.facebook.com/events/399209143456054/
via
OccupyUCDavis @OccupyUCDavis
Action THIS SATURDAY AT NOON against police brutality in Sacramento. You should totally go.
March to demand a real jobs program!
If you are
— tired of being broke because you don’t have a job.
— sick and tired of being a number they don’t count any more.
Then it’s time to start fighting back. Join a movement to organize the ranks of the unemployed.
We encourage our Sisters and Brothers who have jobs to march with us July 11th.
Wells Fargo Bank taking home from 60-year old woman, help is needed!
Come to the rally on Wed, July 11 at 5 PM at the 4th St Plaza in San Rafael. Show your support for Pat and John and for all of our neighbors who are victims of the banking system.
If you are facing foreclosure yourself, please come and share your story. The way we can pressure the banks is to turn out in LARGE numbers!!!
Kenneth Harding was murdered by SF police on July 16th, 2011 at the age of 19 for alledgedly failing to pay a $2.00 transit fare.
Only July 16, we are asking for full support and cooperation from all unions especially transit. We don’t want anyone to have the option to travel by transit in the city of San Francisco that day.
Shut down MUNI!
We are all Kenneth Harding, Gary King, Oscar grant, Trayvon Martin, Rhamarley Graham, Raheim Brown, Idriss Stelley, James Rivera, Gus Rugley and so many more.
IRREPRESSIBLE VOICES: A benefit for the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee
Featuring: Mad Noise, The 21st Century, Kent Decide
Thursday July 19th. 8PM @ The Starry Plough Pub (21+)
3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
Suggested donation 5-20 dollars. Larger donations gladly accepted. No one turned away for inability to pay.
All proceeds will go directly towards prisoner support and bail funds for Occupy’s political prisoners.
Please come join us for our on-going clean-up at St. Andrew’s Park in West Oakland, in collaboration with the San Pablo Corridor Coalition. We will have plenty of equipment and safety gear, and there will be free coffee, donuts, and maybe even a barbecue. We’re there from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and those who wish to will have the opportunity to move on to other clean-up sites once we’re done at St. Andrew’s. Lookin’ forward to it.
Justice 4 Alan Blueford
Free Food. Rally. Music. Workshops. Arts & Crafts. Children’s Village. Literature.
“Just after midnight on Saturday May 6th, Alan Blueford and two of his friends were waiting for some girls to pick them up on 90th Ave., in East Oakland, after the Floyd Mayweather fight. Not long after Alan had phoned his parents to check-in with them, a car slowly pulled up to them with its lights off. Alan ran. One officer gave chase. A few blocks later Alan was shot by OPD officer Miguel Masso. Masso also shot himself in the foot. Over a dozen witnesses all said that Alan had no weapon and posed no threat to the officer.
Why did the police approach Alan and his friends with their lights off? Why did they give
chase when Alan had committed no crime and posed no threat to the officer? Why was Alan
shot three times when he had no weapon? How did a trained officer shoot himself in the foot? From the witnesses’ statements, why was Alan not given emergency CPR by OPD? Why did
the OPD change their story to the family several times in the days after the shooting? Why have they refused to release the coroner’s report, despite the fact that it has been complete for weeks?
The family has gotten nothing but lies, distortions and stalling from the OPD.
The Blueford family and the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition are demanding:
• Officer Miguel Masso be fired and charged with Alan’s murder.
• OPD Chief Howard Jordan be held accountable for lying to the Blueford family.
• An end to stop-and-frisk and other police practices of racial profiling.
• The repeal of the Police Officers’ Bill of Rights, that shields violent cops from prosecution and keeps them on the street.”