Calendar
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!!!
#Ferguson3 hearing at 1:30 at Wiley Manuel, department 110. Get there. #oaklandprotests #blacklivesmatter #oak2stl #courtsupport
— Jingle Elle Rock (@OaklandElle) December 22, 2014
6:00pm
(nighttime occupation)
&
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
101st Anniversary
of the
Federal Reserve at 101 Market Street
San Francisco
Plans:
1. An overnighter on Monday, December 22nd at 101 Market St. Beginning around 6:00pm
2. Actions on Tuesday, December 23rd. 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!
6:00pm
(nighttime occupation)
&
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
101st Anniversary
of the
Federal Reserve at 101 Market Street
San Francisco
Plans:
1. An overnighter on Monday, December 22nd at 101 Market St. Beginning around 6:00pm
2. Actions on Tuesday, December 23rd. 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!
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!
Come get together the day after Christmas at Union Square in San Francisco with other folks who think that #Black Lives Matter.
Following the Call out from the #Blackout Collective to keep the momentum going around the holidays, we are going to have a gathering at Union Square in downtown SF to be a big presence in the face of all the post Christmas consumerism. invite your friends and comrades!
PLEASE READ BELOW IF PLANNING TO COME:
The aim for this event is for it to be family friendly and safe. This is not because of a belief that some tactics are better than others, this is just what I had the capacity to plan for right now.
I’m asking folks to use this event to plug the Ferguson National Demands, which you can scope here:
I’m also asking folks (and white folks in particular) to follow these protocols at event:
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(I know this document is specifically for white folks and this event is open to anyone; I think this is a well worded thing and the best we have to go on right now.)
We are explicitly not going to get down with property destruction at this event because we want it to be safe and available to anyone who wants to show up.
I’m also asking white folks to not appropriate black experiences with “I can’t breathe” signs. All lives will matter when black lives aren’t disrespected daily by law enforcement.
The goal of this event is to be sore thumb in the day after christmas shopping spree and to continue to build strong relationships with each other. The stronger our relationships, the more powerful we are, the bigger and badder stuff we can do.
Based on how many of us are there, we may just hang out an Union Square and give out flyers about the Ferguson national demands, or we may cruise to different shopping centers with our signs and making some noise.
and please give me feedback. praxis makes perfect, and its our duty to win.
This is a peaceful action that the whole family can come out for. We will march to a location soon after we do the die in…
Tomorrow 10am #BlackLivesMatter demo in front of #SF City Hall. Demo will head to Hayes Valley to read names of #StolenLives in each store.
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 28, 2014
No other information available at this time.
At our next meeting we will continue our discussions about the past week’s events, hear report backs from autonomous groupings and hold a more focused conversation about long-term strategy and goals. If you or your group would like to help with agenda, facilitation or any other tasks, please contact us at edgecity510@gmail.com.
Thanks to the group of over 80 people who came and participated in the December 14 meeting at Oscar Grant Plaza. Though we were forced to deal with the presence of several uniformed OPD officers as well as a freelance photo journalist and San Francisco Chronicle staffer who refused to leave, the group was able to reflect on this most recent wave of actions and what kind of infrastructures are necessary in the future to support our efforts. Thanks also to the Anti-Repression Committee who gave information about what kinds of support is still needed for people facing charges.
The assembly had initially decided to meet again at the Omni Oakland Commons on Sunday, December 21 @ 2PM. There are multiple events happening this weekend, however, and while we apologize for the change of plans, we think it is best to push back the meeting another week. We hope that folks will attend the following events and continue to help us outreach as much as possible.
Sunday, December 21 @ 1-3pm: Bay Area Legal Observer and Know Your Rights Training workshop in support of #BlackLivesMatter at the East Side Arts Alliance.
Sunday December 21 @ 4pm: Winter Solstice Posada for Alex Nieto at 24th and Mission in San Francisco.
To repeat: the second assembly will take place at the Omni Oakland Commons on Sunday, December 28 @ 2pm.
In the early morning hours of July 3rd, our beloved Monique Robinson was stolen from her kids and all who knew and love her. Next Monday, December 29th, the person being charged with her murder will be in court at Rene C. Davidson at 2pm in Dept 11.
While some may be so moved to attend that hearing, we know there is not and will never be any justice found in the courtrooms or any part of the PIC. Let us gather in honor of Mo, who dedicated her life to tearing these oppressive systems down and building a better world.
……………………… Let’s summon “Mo’ Power!” ………………………
★ Wear purple. ★ Bring candles. ★ Bring food/drinks/music. ★
Meet at 1:30pm on the southeast steps of the courthouse, near Fallon and Lake Merritt Blvd.
Once the folks who feel so moved to head up for the hearing have gone in, we will move our gathering across the street, down into the amphitheater by the lake where we will hold vigil and break bread together as a community.
We’ll likely be out there for a few hours, so folks who have work during the afternoon can still join us once they get off. In fact, some of us are planning to remain ’til after sunset: