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COMMUNITY OF POLICE WALKING TOUR! – LUNCH WITH THE SHERIFFS!
Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group with the Anti Repression Committee
offers a walking tour and info picket of cop and capital headquarters downtown.
Friday, June 15th
11:30-1:30
Meet at 19th and Telegraph in the park.
If the community had control over the police would thousands of of people be evicted under the threat of violence from armed sheriffs?
If the community had control over the police would Alan Blueford, a 17 year old high school senior, have been shot dead in the street? Would his killer remain at large on paid leave?
If the community had control over the police would Santa Rita be an instrument of abuse and torture?
If the community had control over the police would Occupy Oakland members be subject to the summary judgement and violence we have endured these last 6 months?
NOTE!: AS OF THIS POSTING, ANOTHER COMRADE WAS SNATCHED OFF THE STREET AFTER THE H.E.A.T. ACTION AND IS FACING $110K IN BAIL!!
IF THE COMMUNITY HAD CONTROL OVER THE POLICE, WOULD MELVIN BE KIDNAPPED AND SITTING IN SANTA RITA BLUES??!! FREE MELVIN!
Community Control of Police was rightfully one of the points of the Black Panther Program. It still is rightfully at the top of the people’s agenda and this includes control of the Sheriffs, the armed agents of the foreclosure crisis and the keepers of the county prison system.
We will be touring various relevant sites and offices downtown during lunch hour on Friday to picket, canvass and shine the light on the repressive, displacing, anti-social apparatus of the sheriffs department.
Speakers at stops along the way will include members of the Anti-Repression Committee, homeowners fighting evictions, and more.
We will have plenty of flyers and handbills for everyone so come prepared to canvass and engage your fellow Oaklanders on the street.
And come ready to MAKE SOME NOISE!
Join the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group and the Anti-Repression Committee as we rally and march against evictions, and pay a visit to the Alameda Sheriff (responsible for doing the banks’ dirty work of evicting people from their homes), perhaps the Alameda County DA, and some big banks in the downtown area.
We’ll assemble at 19th & Telegraph and move on from there.
Speakers will include Boots Riley and a homeowner fighting eviction.
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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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.
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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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.
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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.
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.
On July 21 Anaheim Police Chased and shot Manuel Angel Diaz in the back of his head Killing him. Diaz was Unarmed. The Latino Community that the Killing had happened in had already been the victim of several other shootings in the Past done by Anaheim Police. confronted the police in Protest of Diaz killing. and were viciously attacked by Police the Extreamly Cruel repression that the Anaheim police unleashed on the community was horrible. you see the Police shot Rubber Bullets into the crowd including Woman and Children you even see a Police dog attack a woman with a Stroller with her Baby inside. it was just another reminder of the sick Capitalist Police state that we live under.
we here in the City of Oakland particularly the Black and Brown Community but also the Radical community as well like Occupy Oakland can relate to this police terror in our own city. so LETS ORGANIZE A rally and March on Friday July 27 at Oscar Grant Plaza at 5:30 pm and stand in solidarity with our Brothers and sisters who were brutally attacked on Saturday July 21. we here in Oakland stand in solidarity with them to end Police terror from Oakland to Anaheim and beyond.
Alex Mahan, a Stockton comrade, was killed in a driveby shooting the same evening. Everyone remembers Alex as very kind, energetic, and totally committed to the struggle we have all been building together. He never missed an opportunity to fight for the world he believed in. We all remember him coming up with the Stockton crew, to join us in Oakland, often with his Anonymous Mask. He and his comrades planned on how to bring the struggle to Stockton, which they did! He was an unwaivering comrade and friend and will be painfully missed. Like Tsega, Alex’s murder was not just the result of a few bad people. It was the result of a society structured on violence, a society where brown and black young men are murdered every day with no notice from society at large. It was the result of a violent economic system which forces whole communities into deprivation, with no options but to fight each other, and a violent political system that leaves us in constant fear of incarceration or death at the hands of the police and the state. These structural forms of violence are the foundation of the violence we experience every day, the violence that took Alex from us.
This Saturday, buses are being organized to take folks out to Stockton, for a rally at Alex’s house followed by a march and speak out in honor of his memory.
The buses will leave at 12:30.
March through the neighborhood departing from Bianchi and Calandria at 2:00.
Come out and celebrate the life of our fallen friend.
more info at:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/03/18718827.php
Show up at Justin Herman Plaza at 6:30pm with signs, brightly colored outfits, your Pussy Riot inspired masks and tambourine, harmonica, drums, xylophone, ukulele, triangle or noismaker of your choice and get down to the beats of a revolution.
In an August 17 decision, Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson of the National Labor Relations Board found that Castlewood Country Club has maintained an illegal lockout since August 10, 2010. He recommended that the NLRB order Castlewood to reinstate the locked-out workers and pay them two years of back wages and benefits. But Castlewood may appeal the decision!
DEMAND AN END TO AN ILLEGAL LOCKOUT!
Wednesday, August 22, 5 pm
Castlewood Country Club Valley Course
Join us for a picket to celebrate the ruling and call on Castlewood to bring its workers back!
More information about the court case and the decision
Rides may be available. Contact Sarah Norr, 510-502-5344.