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The Egyptian Revolution that began in January 2011 is in crisis following the killing of more than 500 people and the wounding of more than 3,700 on August 13. Most of the dead and wounded were victims of the U.S.-armed Egyptian military. The military seized power on July 3, after massive protests against the government of Mohammad Morsi, whose economic and social policies had alienated millions of Egyptians.
What do these developments mean for the future of Egypt and the entire region? What is the role and goal of the U.S.? Join us for informative presentations and discussion.
Featured Speakers:
Omar Ali, Egyptian American ANSWER activist, lived for many years in Egypt
Mazda Majidi, Co-author, “Socialists & War,” covers the Middle East for Liberation News
Join us* in commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
*There is no sponsorship attributed on the event flyer this calendar event is taken from.
Come hear music, sing along, discuss the politics of privatization and hear peeps from the movement to save City College of San Francisco (at 3:00 PM).
Berkeley Post Office Defenders and Save CCSF will be discussing how best to join forces to keep privatization from happening on both sides of the Bay.
On Saturday, August 24th at 5pm join us at Oscar Grant Plaza to march in solidarity with the California prisoners on the 48th day of their hunger strike. As they organize behind the closed doors of solitary, let our support ring loudly through the streets. Let us voice the demands of the prisoners and demand justice for Guero, the first prisoner to die participating in the hunger strike (may he rest in peace.)
Come ready to make some noise!!
Sponsored by the Anti-repression crew.
Israel Hernandez was an artist who used a variety of mediums, including graffiti, under the name Reefa. On the morning of August 6th, Hernandez was tasered to death by Miami Beach police, who proceeded to high-five and congratulate each other. This sick incident of police brutality is nothing new, and the list of people slain by police gets longer and longer.
The evening of August 24th we will gather to seek justice for yet another wrongful death at the hands of the state, and decorate the city how Reefa did when he was murdered.
Original call for action on IndyBay.
More info on the murder from the Miami Herald.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Direct Action.
DEFY Rotten #NSA Contractor #CSC AT #VMWorld2013.
Also Tuesday and Wednesday, same time, same place.
Come help plan and organize this big day in Oakland and called-for protests across the country.
After this last organizing meeting there will be a banner and sign making jamboree!
Facebook event for August 28th
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN –
JAIL ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
End the murder of Black & Brown youth
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS INCARCERATION!
Support California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
END RACIAL PROFILING OF ALL FORMS!
Including Stop-and-Frisk!
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR
Drug test killer cops
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NOW
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
Stop Urban Shield & surveillance of our communities
A LIVING WAGE & UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE & ALL WORKERS!
We’ve been discussing theories of money and our debt crisis lately, and Brown is a backer of the public bank option. It will be interesting to see where she connects and/or clashes with other theories of Capitalism and Debt. See you there!
(Entrance is on 22nd St, just off Broadway. Ring bell (not intercom!) to left)
During the 2012 Mayday protests in Oakland, the OPD switched up it’s normal crowd control tactics and sent in ‘snatch squads’ to remove people who they perceived to be planning unlawful actions. Without any warning, groups of officers marched in formation directly through the crowd in search of their targets. Prince was one of the activists to be targeted and arrested early in the day. More than three officers assaulted Prince, before one used their tazer to bring him down. It’s more than clear that there was no reason for any of these arrests to be made, as no illegal activity (on the part of the protesters) was taking place. Prince was held for 72 hours, brutalized, and released with no charges. The DA quietly filed charges later, and issued a warrant for his arrest.
Two of the officers involved in Prince’s brutal arrest on MayDay have been identified as Officer Fukuda and Officer W. Burke. Officer Burke was seen on Mayday, multiple times, pointing his rifle at people in the crowd, and waving it around carelessly. Officer Burke was also fired at one point, for falsifying search warrants, but was rehired in arbitration.
Lets show support for our comrade in the face of outrageous charges.
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN –
JAIL ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS INCARCERATION!
END RACIAL PROFILING OF ALL FORMS!
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR INCLUDING STOP-AND-FRISK!
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NOW
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
A LIVING WAGE AND UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE AND ALL WORKERS!
Stop Urban Shield Militarization & Surveillance of Our Communities
On Wed., August 28, after we’ve marched in Washington on Aug. 24 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the great march against racism in Washington, D.C., led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the People’s Power Assembly Movement calls on activists across the U.S. to hold local JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN ASSEMBLIES, including rallies, speak-outs, marches in public squares or in front of federal buildings or local police headquarters.
Webpage for the national call for this event.
Local Endorsers: ILWU Local 10, ONYX Organizing Committee, Dignidad y Resistencia, Oscar Grant Foundation, Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition, Malcolm X Grass Roots Movement, Kenneth Harding Foundation, Peoples Community Medics, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Workers World Party, Urban Black Men United, Tsega Center, IWW, Peoples Database Project, Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee-Berkeley , Monterey Peace & Justice Center, Dan Siegel – attorney, Anne Weills – attorney, Shane Hoff – UTU Local 1741
On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.
f you work in a fast food or retail store anywhere in the country, the most effective thing you can do right now is make plans to take to the streets on August 29. Encourage your friends, family, and neighbors to do the same. The more of us who go on strike that day, the louder our message will be that it is not right for companies making billions in profits to pay their workers pennies.
Come support low-wage workers at a rally demanding a living wage and a right to form a union without retalitation. Across the country, thousands of workers are coming together to call for better pay and workplace respect. Now it’s time for the East Bay to join the fight for a living wage so workers can provide food, shelter and clothing for their families, and improve the economy for everyone.
Tomorrow morning August 30 fast-food workers in Oakland will return to their shifts. They need supportive members of the public to accompany them. If you can show up, you will show both the workers and the fast-food giants that the workers do not stand alone. It will make it MUCH harder for management to retaliate against them.
Just show up at the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) office at 2501 International Blvd. Suite 2D (between 25th and 26th Ave in East Oakland) at 6:30AM. For any questions, email ACCE at oakland@calorganize.org. “
80 Oakland Airport food and retail workers will walk off the job tomorrow morning to protest unfair labor practices by their employer Host International.
We’ve been in negotiations with Host for a year, and the company’s most recent proposals would gut our contract–drastically reducing vacation and sick days; eliminating pensions, paid meal breaks, and even overtime pay on shifts longer than eight hours; cutting pay for new hires and freezing longtime workers’ wages for five years; and removing workers from the union’s affordable health insurance plan.
Come down and join workers from Starbucks, Chili’s, California Pizza Kitchen, and other shops on the picket lines. We will be on strike all day, with rallies at 7am, noon, and 5pm at Terminal 2!
We will be shuttling people from the parking lot of the ILWU Local 6 office at 99 Hegenberger Road before the 7am and 5pm rallies. If you want a ride to the airport, please meet us there by 6:45am or 4:45pm.
UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612, Tel. 510-893-3181, Fax 510-893-5362
11:30 AM: Press Conference. Find out the truth of what happened Wednesday evening, not the lies reported by the Berkeley Police and regurgitated by the press.
12:00 PM: MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC! Featuring Anne Feeney, folk musician, singer-songwriter, and political activist.
1:00 PM: Rally & Teach-in. Dave Welsh will talk about the history the Postal Labor Union Movement.
Also see our Message From the Berkeley Post Office Defenders about the raid on Wednesday.
2141 Broadway (Enter on 22nd) OAKLAND, just 2 blocks from 19th St. BART!on SATURDAY 8/31!! The Summer School 2013 day on: INFORMATION
12-3pm: CRYPTOPARTY! Bring & secure your laptop/phone in a hands-on session! Yes!!
Also, from 12-1pm: Free wonderful YOGA for those who don’t need to cryptoparty, by the wonderful Lisa Light!
3-6pm: LIGHTNING TALKS, WALKABOUT, and DISCUSSION:
3pm Introduction / Emerging Technologies of Oppression and Liberation
by David Keenan (Bay Area Public School)
3:15 “Understanding ‘Big Data’”
by Andrew Ahn (engineer)
3:30 WALKING INFOTOUR OF Oakland’s NEW camera surveillance network / Domain Awareness Center
by Becky Hurwitz, Emi Kane, Sarah Reilly, Salima Hamirani (security activists)
4:10 “Citizen Science: From Institutions to Community”
by Craig Rouskey (SUDO GETit Project)
4:30 Creating a Network Commons: The Oakland Community Mesh Project
by Marc Juul and Jenny Ryan (SUDO Room)
4:45 “Security Activism: What We Know Works, What We Know Doesn’t, and What We Don’t Know But Probably Should Know Better”
by Danny O’Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation/EFF)
5:00 PANEL DISCUSSION featuring:
Moxie Marlinspike (Open WhisperSystems/RedPhone),
Bill Budington (Electronic Frontier Foundation),
..and the other attendees! This will be amazing.
7:00 Summer School week CLOSING PARTY! DANCIN’! DRINX!
FEATURIN’ DJ Public Frenemy (Liam O’Donoghue!) Yaaaayy
PLEASE distribute widely – If you prefer not to use Facebook, here is a link to the flyer: http://bayareapublicschool.org/index.php?id=15
https://www.facebook.com/events/831923820156017/Thanks! It’s gonna be so rad…
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