Do you have three weeks of your life to commit to working to get Marissa Alexander, so unjustly, cruelly, egregiously imprisoned, out of jail???

We are ramping up our energy & commitment to FREE MARISSA NOW! as she has a Jan 27th hearing date, that could end up with her spending another 5 years in jail, or house arrest – for daring to stand up to a batterer, firing a warning shot into the ceiling, injuring no one.

We need to make her name known in every household across the u.s.ofa., and her freedom a STAND UP, FIGHT BACK cause too.

Which is why in January we are going to caravan from Oakland to Jacksonville, spreading the word from city to city, town to town, as we banner, hand out flyers, engage in direct actions, teach-ins, whatever we can do as we travel across the country spreading the word of her freedom!

PLEASE come to this meeting Saturday, whether you intend to go on the caravan or not. We need plenty of on-the-ground support if you opt not to go.

But please seriously consider spending three weeks of your life working to get Marissa out from behind bars! TOGETHER we WILL free Marissa and obtain a pardon for her!

See you Saturday!

Facebook event.

Come learn about police tactics and human rights obligations, what to look out for and how to best record evidence of police misconduct in support of #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations against state-sanctioned police brutality and systemic anti-black racism.

Legal observers play a crucial role monitoring and reporting on police behavior at demonstrations and other protest events by protecting and asserting civil and political rights.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Legal Observer program is part of a comprehensive system of legal support designed to enable people to express their political views as fully as possible without unconstitutional disruption or interference by the police and with the fewest possible consequences from the criminal justice system.

Please review the Legal Observer Manual (located at http://www.nlg.org/sites/default/files/LO_Manual.pdf) prior to attending the workshop.

Event Organizers and Supporters:
— The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the NLG
— #BlackLivesMatter Bay Area
— National Lawyers Guild of San Francisco (NLGSF)
– To be continued –

Winter Solstice is the 9th Month Anniversary

of Alex’s homicide by SFPD

CHECK HERE FOR FINAL DETAILS PLEASE

Bring flashlights. It’ll be dark by the time we walk back down the hill.

Opening ceremony & words by families who have lost loved ones in 2014 to police brutality.

Confirmed visiting families:
Family of Yanira Serrano Garcia (killed in Half Moon Bay).
Family of Antonio Lopez (killed in San José)
Family of Errol Chang (killed in Daly City)

Sidewalk procession to Bernal Hill.

@ Bernal Heights Park, Alex Nieto Memorial Site, northside slope: Words by family and supporters of Alex Nieto.

Closing ceremony.

Walk to site of Mexican Posada, to be announced on hill.

Monday is the Ferguson 3’s preliminary hearing. Let’s pack the court at 9am in Dept 112. Please invite all of your friends and spread the word!

Continued from this morning.

Court support for the Ferguson 3 is going on today! The court is on lunch break and reconvenes at 1:30 Dept 110 at Wiley Manuel Courthouse on 6th and Washington. This is a super important hearing so please go and show your support and solidarity!!!

Via Anti-Repression Facebook.

#Ferguson3 hearing at 1:30 at Wiley Manuel, department 110. Get there. #oaklandprotests #blacklivesmatter #oak2stl #courtsupport

— Jingle Elle Rock (@OaklandElle) December 22, 2014

Plans:

1.      An overnighter on Monday, December 22^nd at 101 Market St. Beginning around 6:00pm
2.      Actions on Tuesday, December 23^rd. around and near the Federal Reserve

Needs:

1.      Your presence on Monday evening and Tuesday
2.      A rocking chair,  cot; children’s blankets, teddy bear (anything that looks like a child’s room)
3.      Help with supplying organic (non-GMO) food and a table
4.      Good conditioned clean used clothes for give away / sharing
5.      Toiletries to give away
6.      Signage / Banners

Few Points About the FEDERAL RESERVE:

• IS a PRIVATE BANKING CORPORATION with a monopoly on the creation of the money supply
• IS the PRIMARY CAUSE of every ECONOMIC CRISIS since it existed
• IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE to CONGRESS or the VOTERS
• IS the ROOT CAUSE of INFLATION

**Brochure on the Federal Reserve is available upon request via an email link

If you can help out in anyway or if you can stay overnight please contact: afong@jps.net

SHUT DIABLO CANYON, CALIFORNIA’S LAST NUKE!

With the wonderful anti-nuke activist and writer Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman, author of Solartopia. Harvey coined the term “No Nukes”. He was arrested at Diablo back in the 80s. He organized anti-nuke concerts with Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby Stills Nash & Young. He has a radio program on Progressive Radio Network: Solartopia Green Power And Wellness Hour – 12.09.14 – PRN.fm

also: Linda Seeley with San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, and Cynthia Papermaster, coordinator of Codepink “PG&E Ratepayer Revolt to Shut Diablo Now!”

Starts promptly at 6! Information, discussion & community! Time will be allocated for announcements. Donations welcome, no one turned away. Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!

You’re going to want to be a part of this historic campaign and convergence to shut Diablo!

The NRC’s chief resident inspector at Diablo, Dr. Michael Peck, recommended LAST YEAR to shut the plant because critical backup safety systems won’t work in the event of an earthquake.

California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors are surrounded by earthquake faults they were never designed to withstand. They are riddled with design flaws and can’t meet basic fire safety standards. They dump huge quantities of hot water into the ocean in defiance of state water quality standards, killing billions of sea creatures.
They continue to pile up huge quantities of deadly radioactive wastes that have no place to go. And that’s just the start of it.
Fortunately, a powerful grassroots movement is rising up in California to shut these reactors and make the state nuke-free. More demonstrators have been arrested at Diablo Canyon than any other nuke site in the U.S. Green Power activists recently won a landmark victory by shutting the two nukes at San Onofre, between Los Angeles and San Diego, leaving just the ones at Diablo to plague the state.

This gathering is meant to inform, energize, plan and commit us all to winning another great victory over the nuclear power industry, and to finally bring California to Solartopia, a green-powered state where we can live in harmony and safety with our nuke-free Mother Earth. Join us at this rare and wonderful gathering…bring your best intentions and let’s figure out how to win this one NOW.

Linda Seeley
Linda Seeley is Vice-President and Spokesperson for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, the legal intervenor in all matters pertaining to the safety and licensing of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in Avila Beach, CA. She is an advanced facilitator of Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, group practices to guide us through the current world crisis without going crazy. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Santa Lucia Sierra Club and is a Core Team member of the national Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign. She has lived in San Luis Obispo for 32 years, where she delivered over a thousand babies during her career as a nurse-midwife. Her passion for the future generations is the guiding principle in her work to shut down Diablo Canyon.

Codepink’s Cynthia Papermaster
is a law librarian, justice activist and mother in Berkeley, California, Coordinator of “PG&E Ratepayer Revolt to Shut Diablo”, Director of Berkeley No More Guantanamos, Co-Coordinator of Golden Gate Codepink Women for Peace, a Board Member of Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute. She is one of the “Vandenberg 15” (Dan Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, Father Louis Vitale, etc.), arrested trying to stop an ICBM launch, undertook an 84-day hunger strike in 2013 in solidarity with Guantanamo and Pelican Bay hunger strikers. She works to end U.S. torture, close Guantanamo, end illegal wars of occupation and drone killing, civilize the police and end state violence, free Chelsea Manning, and audit the Pentagon.

Come learn about continuing developments and help us plan our next steps in opposition to this theft of our public commons.

THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTED TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP. HUDSON-MCDONALD BACKED OUT OF THE DEAL LAST WEEK.

THE CITY OF BERKELEY SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER WAS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th, BUT WAS LIFTED BY THE JUDGE WHEN HUDSON WITHDREW.

 There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th.

THE POSTAL POLICE TRIED TO DISMANTLE THE OCCUPATION/VIGIL AT THE POST OFFICE LAST WEEK. BUT THEY WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL!  Read about the latest in eviction attempts here.

Get an overview of the sale announcement here.

Here’s a good more general overview piece.

Davic Rovics gave a concert on the Post Office steps recently. Check out pictures and video of him playing.

Also CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE. and the Save the Berkeley Post Office website, and First they Came for the Homeless Facebook for updates.

BPOD is an offshoot of Strike Debt Bay Area, which itself is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and a chapter of the national Strike Debt movement, which is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.

More than a hundred comrades will appear in court this week for charges related to the Berkeley Uprisings earlier in December, particularly for the mass arrests, such as the CHP arrests in Emeryville. Courts will be closed on Thursday, December 25th. Otherwise it’s business as usual for state oppression.

Court support is needed EVERY DAY at 9 am in Dep 107!

Share, invite, show up! Let’s pack the courts!

MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE ANTI-REPRESSION WEBSITE and FACEBOOK FOR THE LATEST INFO. COURT DATES CHANGE AND TIMES GET PUSHED FROM MORNING TO AFTERNOON.

We are ramping up the energy to FREE MARISSA NOW! We need to make her name known in every household across the u.s.ofa., and her freedom a STAND UP, FIGHT BACK cause across the country too.

Which is why we are going to caravan from Oakland to Jacksonville, spreading the word from city to city, town to town, as we banner, hand out flyers, engage in direct actions, teach-ins, whatever we can do as we travel across the country spreading the word of her freedom!

We have two vehicles that can carry up to 10 womyn – we still have space for 6 more! And if you have your own vehicle and want to join us, PLEASE do! The more vehicles, the larger the caravan, the more attention we bring to Marissa’s fight for freedom!

PLEASE come to the meeting, whether you intend to go on the caravan or not. We need plenty of on-the-ground support if you opt not to go.

But please seriously consider spending less than three weeks of your life working to get Marissa out from behind bars!

Remember: we are asking for less than three weeks of our lives when Marissa has already spent three YEARS of her life – and the lives of her children – in prison.

Surely we can willingly choose to put aside some time to ensure her freedom January 27th from a 3 year incarceration she certainly didn’t choose!

TOGETHER we WILL free Marissa and obtain a pardon for her!

See you Tuesday!

Also SAVE THE DATES: Sunday December 28th, 2-4pm, Sunday January 4th 2-4pm and Wednesday January 7th 7-9pm! We will hold potlucks, shows, fundraiser at these times!

Facebook event.

Plans:

1.      An overnighter on Monday, December 22^nd at 101 Market St. Beginning around 6:00pm
2.      Actions on Tuesday, December 23^rd. around and near the Federal Reserve

Needs:

1.      Your presence on Monday evening and Tuesday
2.      A rocking chair,  cot; children’s blankets, teddy bear (anything that looks like a child’s room)
3.      Help with supplying organic (non-GMO) food and a table
4.      Good conditioned clean used clothes for give away / sharing
5.      Toiletries to give away
6.      Signage / Banners

Few Points About the FEDERAL RESERVE:

• IS a PRIVATE BANKING CORPORATION with a monopoly on the creation of the money supply
• IS the PRIMARY CAUSE of every ECONOMIC CRISIS since it existed
• IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE to CONGRESS or the VOTERS
• IS the ROOT CAUSE of INFLATION

**Brochure on the Federal Reserve is available upon request via an email link

If you can help out in anyway or if you can stay overnight please contact: afong@jps.net

More than a hundred comrades will appear in court this week for charges related to the Berkeley Uprisings earlier in December, particularly for the mass arrests, such as the CHP arrests in Emeryville. Courts will be closed on Thursday, December 25th. Otherwise it’s business as usual for state oppression.

Court support is needed EVERY DAY at 9 am in Dep 107!  (And possibly at 2:00 pm)

Share, invite, show up! Let’s pack the courts!

MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE ANTI-REPRESSION WEBSITE and FACEBOOK FOR THE LATEST INFO. COURT DATES CHANGE AND TIMES GET PUSHED FROM MORNING TO AFTERNOON.

candlelight vigil for #AntonioMartin // 12.24 at 5pm, mlk park in berkeley, ca #BerkeleyToBerkeley #BlackLivesMatter #Ferguson please RT.

— pan ellington (@littlechicken) December 24, 2014

We are organizing a party for the homeless this Christmas. It went really well last time and we are excited to do it again! If you’re from out of town or if you’re free after seeing family, please consider coming down! We need donations of food, alcohol, soda, plates, and utensils. Also if you have clothes, jackets or tents for the needy please bring them by!

we will have dis and maybe some live performers, if you’re interested please let me know!

Facebook RSVP

Mob to the court this Friday, 12/26 at 8:15am. Support the #BlackFriday14, who shut down the BART. pic.twitter.com/fXB7p6WV8E

— BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) December 25, 2014

Our friend Adilia Torres was arrested during one of the FWY takeovers and is facing felony charges.  We’re organizing court support for her. Please show up to have her back! 

We believe hearing will be at Wiley W. Manual Courthouse but will advise if it is somewhere else.

MAKE SURE YOU CHECK AT THE ABOVE LINK BEFORE GOING AS COURT TIMES AND DATES CHANGE.

Please come and do court support for the comrades who got arrested during the mass arrests of the Anti-Police Uprisings in Berkeley and Oakland the last month and a half. Let’s pack the courtroom!