Calendar
At noon Laura Wells, candidate for California State Controller, endorsed by the Green Party of California, will speak on the issue of public banking. She will be followed by comments on recent happenings around the possibility of Post Office banking and financial services, updates on where things stand with the (possibly imminent) sale of the Berkeley Post Office, the campaign against the outsourcing of Post Office jobs to Staples, music, letter-writing and more.
The first item in Wells’ platform is
Implement a Publicly-Owned State Bank for California
Determine the best option or options for a successful implementation of a State Bank, and get started on it. Day one.
Come eat at the Farmer’s Market a block away, join us, get caught up, and enjoy a beautiful Spring day in Berkeley.
Music by one or more of Hali Hammer, Dave Welsh, Fresh Juice Party, Fat Luv, and Mountain Fire.
Other updates about efforts to save our Post Office:
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~ March 11 hearing with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
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~ Status of the proposed Zoning Overlay Ordinance.
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~ Protests at Staples Stores, ongoing.
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~ Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s proposed moratorium on selling historic Post Offices.
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~ Legal actions, and invoices outstanding. Plans for a lawsuit. ~ Bring your lunch.
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 –
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**
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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!
President Obama is now the “Deporter-in-Chief.” He has deported 2 million people and counting — our loved ones, friends and neighbors.
We will highlight the stories of families and workers who have been affected by the deportation machine, e-verify and I–9 Audits!
Obama End the Deportations! Legalization and Worker Rights for All!
In April 2014 we will have reached record deportations under the Obama administration — which are anticipated to soon hit the tragic milestone of two million removals since he took office. Our community has stood up to denounce the deportations and separation of families, and for a fast track to legalization. As part of the national #Not1more Deportation campaign, the San Francisco Bay Coalition for Immigrant Justice will hold a rally on Friday, April 4, just ahead of a national day of action planned for Saturday, April 5.
Our demands? Obama: STOP all deportations, legalization for all!
Join us in demanding #NotOneMore #Legalization4all #workersrighst4all
Causa Justa :: Just Cause
Come hang out with us at First Friday! We’ll be somewhere near the Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice between 24th and 25th streets on Telegraph. We’ll have literature, a slide show, maybe a movie and people to tell you all about the DAC and Stingray, OPD’s latest gadget to spy on everyone in Oakland.
Everyone is invited to a Cal Berkeley event on Spoken Word /Prison Stories:
All Of Us Our None will have a full hour to talk with and engage the audience by sharing their personal stories, organizational campaigns, and victories. The goal of this event is to build relationships with other formerly-incarcerated students, others students, and explore ways that educational institutions, such as CAL, can help empower/ be in solidarity with formerly incarcerated people.
The Alan Blueford Center For Justice is gonna be open for 1st Friday on April 4th, 2014….Fresh Juice Party is gonna be our special guests performing their original blend of justice beats….and because we love The People of Oakland, the show is FREE!!! Come on by 2434 Telegraph Ave & help us celebrate Alan Blueford‘s life, AND DON’T FORGET, YOU CAN GET YOUR #EndPoliceTerror STICKER!
**DOOR OPENS AT 8PM FOR THE SHOW, BUT #ENDPOLICETERROR STICKERS & OTHER INFO WILL BE AVAILABLE STARTING AT 5PM**
Come to find others taking action…
Meet other tenants fighting displacement…
Resist the proliferation of surveillance…
Combat racist development…
Come to plan actions with others.
In Honor of Lil Bobby Hutton
“SPEAKING UP AGAINST VIOLENCE”
Come enjoy FREE BBQ w Music, Family Entertainment & Speakers
Every year the Black Panthers commemorate their fallen warriors. It’s held on behalf of Bobby Hutton, “Lil” Bobby was murdered by OPD prior to him having an event at Defremery park, which involved Feeding The People. We as community members in 2012 organized a Take Back the Town BBQ at what is known today as “Lil” Bobby Hutton park.
The theme of the event is “SPEAKING UP AGAINST VIOLENCE”, not just police brutality but all forms of violence. There will be a wide range of speakers, food, music and kid entertainment.
Speakers from Criticial Resistance, Oakland Privacy Working Group, Justice 4 Alan Blueford. Also speaking: Dan Siegel, Elaine Brown.
Community Medics will give instruction on binding wounds.
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 KPFA Community Advisory Board is sponsoring an information and proposal sharing event. We invite listeners, community members, volunteers, media activists, programmers, board members and staff from KPFA and the Pacifica Network to participate. We will be using a non-hierarchical group process to address the urgent need for expanded listener sponsored free speech radio.
Please come and contribute:
Bring material for our information sharing table
Write and post YOUR concerns. (Please bring a felt pen or marker).
Proposed topics include:
- Financial sustainability
- Quality programming
- Equality and inclusion
- KPFA community activism. and participation
- Pacifica Network
- KPFA and Pacifica Governance
Share in a small group on a self-selected topics,
Participate in our large group summary and plan for how we use the information
gathered ______________________________________________________________________________
The KPFA Community Advisory Board is charged with assessing and reporting the needs of the community served by KPFA to the governing board and management of KPFA.
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”
Families United March on State Capital Sacramento
The State Capitol in Sacramento, California for the United Families of California at the fifth annual Victims’ Rights March is a call to action for victims and their supporters to come together as they do every year on the steps of the California State Capitol to have their voices heard by their elected officials. This event is not considered a memorial, but rather a rally in which we encourage victims to visit their legislator’s offices and let them know how you feel about public safety issues. The California Coalitions and one of the leading organizers is the Oscar Grant Foundation, and their Executive Director: Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson and will be joined by over 21 families of victims murdered by Police and most of the “Police Brutality” murders are in question and have current investigations.
Article on rally and co-rally in Florida.