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Purpose:
To brainstorm how to implement the principles and practices of Restorative Justice throughout the City of Oakland that will facilitate Oakland becoming a restorative city. To develop a plan of action designed to empower citizens, eradicate violence, and build community and relationships by introducing, utilizing, implementing, and maintaining ongoing restorative justice circle processes in neighborhoods, schools, families, churches, synagogues, government, justice system, hospitals, unions, and workplaces citywide until it becomes a way of life. To have restorative conversations become the cornerstone for addressing conflict and harms, promoting understanding and collaboration, celebrating Oakland’s rich diversity, and changing the culture throughout the City of Oakland and beyond.
Please join us at this initial meeting to indicate your interest, lend your voice and ideas, suggest who else needs to be a part of the discussion, and to strategize about next steps in the development of a plan of action. We will discuss a proposal that this project become a collaborative effort of the Alameda County Restorative Juvenile Justice Task Force.
Judge Gail Brewster Bereola
Alameda County Superior Court of California
There will be gathering at the Valencia Gardens entrance for a march to the 17th Valencia police station for a press conference demanding the release of both individuals, demanding all charges dropped & demanding the undercover Narcotics officer that beat DJ & 3 other individuals be fired. Please join us!
RALLY AT OAKLAND CITY HALL (OSCAR GRANT PLAZA) THIS TUESDAY AT 5:30PM, TO STOP THE CITY COUNCIL FROM CREATING A MASSIVE SURVEILLANCE CENTER FOR OPD AND DHS!!!
The Department of Homeland Security and Oakland Police are building a massive surveillance center to videotape, track, and log the movements of all Oakland residents and visitors! The Domain Awareness Center (DAC) as its called, is an unprecedented attack on our civil liberties, giving the police department unlimited access to our whereabouts. This includes a computer system that aggregates information from thousands of surveillance cameras and license plate readers, and in the future may include facial recognition software and social media data mining.
The NY Times made Oakland’s new surveillance center national news in a front page article warning Americans of its implications as similar technology spreads to other cities. This is another OPD and DHS attack on our rights, essentially criminalizing our every day lives as we are forced to live under constant surveillance as if in a prison complex.
WE CAN STOP THIS! LET’S SHOW THE CITY COUNCIL THAT THE PEOPLE OF OAKLAND ARE AGAINST WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE AND POLICE INTRUSION INTO OUR LIVES!!!
RALLY AT CITY HALL AT 5:30 PM THIS TUESDAY, NOV 19th. SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL YOUR LIST SERVS AND GROUPS. CITY HALL MEETING BEGINS AT 6:30pm
It had been one month since the horrific murder of Andy Lopez. One month and we as a community have been completely alienated by those whom are supposed to serve and protect us.
Demands for a transparent investigation have fallen on deaf ears, as no new information has been released by the SRPD. Our District Attorney has done nothing to address this murder in an attempt to let the flame for justice die down.
Join us as we march from City Hall to the District Attorney’s office.
This march is very important to the Lopez family as it will take place on the one month anniversary of their son’s murder. There is no excuse, be there. Be there to honor this child who’s life was taken far to early. Be there to show your respects to the family. Be there, to let all know we will continue to fight for justice. Justice in the form of an immediate arrest of sheriff, Erick Gelhaus.
NO ARREST = NO ELECT
Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting: Saturday, 11/23, 6pm @ Sudo Room
Join us for a meeting of the Oakland Privacy Working Group:
When:
Saturday
November 23, 2013
6pm
Where:
Sudo Room
2141 Broadway
Oakland
Directions
Organize to stop the Oakland Domain Awareness Center!
The City Council meeting may have been a joke (as we expected), but seventy people showed up in the drizzling rain to rally at 5:30 last Tuesday against DAC and then many stayed it out to speak truth to power at midnight!
There is more to do!
Come help us plan our next steps.
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: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Join CODEPINK, World Can’t Wait and others as we protest against President Barack Obama use of deadly drones! President Obama will be in San Francisco to attend a high-roller luncheon at the new SF Jazz Center in Hayes Valley.
Obama’s drone policy is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in Pakistan and Yemen — countries we aren’t even at war with. Since Obama has taken office, deadly drone strikes have increased, causing more drone bases to pop up across the country and across the globe to engage in surveillance and targeted killing. Join us to say stop the killing! Bring your own signs, props, costumes etc.
We understand that others may have a long list of grievances against the President’s policies. We welcome other signs, groups and issues!
March to the SF Jazz Center at 11:30am where will have an outside presence against US/CIA drone strikes. Be flexible because we might have to move locations.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
Seven weeks ago we learned that perfidious Post Office Executives, who only the week before had sent a letter to the Berkeley City Council offering to negotiate until at least November 12th, had CBRE (Richard Blum’s company) list the downtown Berkeley Post Office for sale.
A couple of weeks ago the Planning Commission passed on to the Berkeley City a proposed Zoning Ordinance that would make the Post Office property less desirable to potential purchasers of the capitalist variety. We are still waiting for action on this from the City Council.
Help us organize a public meeting on Debember 5th about what’s happening with our Post Office!
Come and help plan our next actions in defense of our post office and against privatization. We want to send a message to CBRE, the Post Office and Berkeley politicians that the sale will not be tolerated!
Check out the video of Peter Byrne’s talk at our latest Save the Post Office Rally!
Oakland is receiving federal money to build a Domain Awareness Center with cameras, audio recording devices and other technologies that will make it possible for the police and other government agents to monitor the movements and affiliations of all residents and visitors to the city.
http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
We are planning to educate people about this process with a presence at the Oakland First Friday event on December 6th with a table, fliers, perhaps our own set of intrusive video cameras and street theater. Join us Tuesday evening to help plan this action. If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv send an email to this address:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
The meeting will be at the sudoroom, 2141 Broadway, but the entrance is actually on 22nd Street upstairs.
Facebook event, read more & RSVP.
Port of Oakland Truckers Association (POTA) members voted unanimously late Friday evening to stop work at the port on Wednesday, November 27. They’ve met with city, state and federal regulators, terminal managers, and Port of Oakland officials many times since their August 19 work stoppage, but have not made any gains on their demands. On November 13, truckers met with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, Deputy Mayor Sandré Swanson, Port Executive Director Chris Lytle, as well as California Air Resources Board (CARB) members, expecting to bring offers of an extension from CARB or funding from the City and Port, but were forced to return to their membership without any offers to present.
“The Mayor said she was going to help us, but during the meeting she seemed more interested in her phone than in what we were saying,” said POTA board member Jorge Esparza.
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We need folks with cars to volunteer to shuttle people from West Oakland BART from 4:30am to 5:30am. This job pays in coffee, perhaps donuts, but mostly satisfaction that you are lending needed material support to some really inspiring workers!
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Excellent article on the Port Truckers’ situation by Dave Firestein: “Tired of Carrying the Load.”
Now the time has come to fight back. This Wednesday, the truckers are taking the last action available to them. They are putting their bodies on the line and risking their livelihoods to get the attention of the Port the only way they can. If you can get to the port on Wednesday morning to help support their lines, that will be helpful. Whether or not you can make it to the pickets, please give what you can to the strike fund. Every dollar helps, but it’s gonna take a lot more dollars than what they have now in order to sustain a lengthy strike, should one happen.
Leafleting ALL DAY: 6 am – 7 pm
Mobilizations at 7 am, noon, and 5 pm
OAKLAND AIRPORT FOOD AND RETAIL WORKERS ARE STANDING UP FOR THEIR JOBS, THEIR RIGHTS AND THEIR FAMILIES! ON THE BUSIEST TRAVEL DAY OF THE YEAR, STAND WITH THEM!
RIDES AVAILABLE FROM ILWU Local 6, 99 Hegenberger, beginning 20 minutes before each mobilization. Call Sarah Norr at 510-502-5344 if you arrive and don’t see a shuttle.
Part of the ReFund Oakland Coalition’s Week of Action: A Hand Up for Workers, not Handouts for Corporations!
In the old days, workers were thankful to have a good union job in food service at the Oakland Airport. But now their employer, HMS Host, is going backwards in negotiations and proposing a contract would plunge many of the workers’ families into poverty. The proposal would slash vacation and sick days; eliminate pensions, paid meal breaks, and even overtime pay on shifts longer than eight hours; cut pay for new hires and freeze longtime workers’ wages for five years; and take away workers’ affordable health insurance plan.
“Host is going so far backwards in bargaining that now they say they want to charge me $899 a month for Kaiser for my family. I only make $12.64 an hour – if I pay that much for health care, how can I pay rent in the Bay Area?” said Monica Guzman, who’s been a retail clerk at the airport for 21 years.
On the day before Thanksgiving – the busiest travel day of the year – join the workers for a daylong action at the Oakland Airport. Mobilizations and picketing are at 7 am, 12 noon, and 5 pm – or come by and help leaflet any time. For questions or rides, contact Sarah Norr at snorr@unitehere.org or 510-502-5344.
(Last Thursday, the airport workers announced plans to go on strike sometime during this holiday season to protest Host’s Unfair Labor Practices. The strike date has not yet been announced.)
Airport workers are part of a growing national movement of low-wage workers standing up for their rights! This action is part of a Week of Action sponsored by the ReFund & ReBuild Oakland Community-Labor Coalition (ACCE, EBASE, the East Bay Organizing Committee, UNITE-HERE Local 2850, OUR WALMART, SEIU 1021, & SEIU ULTCW).
Also on Wednesday the 27th, join our friends at OURWalmart for a community action calling for reinstatement for fired strikers, respect at Walmart, a $25,000 a year salary and full-time hours. 9 am at 44009 Osgood Road, Fremont. Spend your whole day standing up for worker justice!
In solidarity,
UNITE HERE Local 2850
www.facebook.com/UniteHere2850
www.unitehere2850.org
UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612, Tel. 510-893-3181, Fax 510-893-5362
Friday, November 29th:
9am – Morning Meeting/Workshop announcements and proposals – The Amphitheatre
10am – 3pm – Workshops.
11am – CopWatch – The Cove
1pm – Worker organizing and class struggle in the Bay Area – IWW – The Amphitheatre
3pm – Direct Action Training – The High Road
4pm – Art Tour of the Bulb. Featuring Amber and Osha. Explore the art and history of the Bulb with two seasoned guides. – Meet at the Cove
5pm- Music by DJ Neon Leon – The Cove
6pm- Music by Woodspider – The Cove
7pm – Bum’s Paradise Film Screening. (The story of people living on the Bulb before and during the eviction in 1999). – The Cove
Solidarity Potluck: 12:00 noon and 4:00 PM.
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| Event Type: | Protest |
| Come join us for The No Thanks Resistance Festival and three day Camp-out to defend the Albany Bulb from Eviction! See the Flyer for the schedule of events! Schedule updated to the event page tonight!FB Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/events/405870986212443/
FB Event Page for the No Thanks Anti-Colonial Potluck – http://www.facebook.com/events/547036912048234/ FB Event Page for the Artwalk of Friday and Saturday! – http://www.facebook.com/events/587362084664394/
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Thursday, November 28th:
4pm – No Thanks Anti-colonial potluck feast. – The Beachfront/Entrance Aka The Cove
5 pm discussion on Post-Colonialism and Autonomy – The Cove
7pm – Buried Voices Film Screening. (Details struggles of Ohlone and Miwok peoples regarding sacred sites). – The Cove
Each day will conclude with a campout on the Bulb. Bring water, warm clothing, tents, and camping gear. Potlucks will take place on Friday – Sunday at 12pm and 4pm.
| Title: | No Thanks Resistance Festival this weekend at the albany bulb! |
| START DATE: | Thursday November 28 |
| TIME: | 4:00 PM – 4:00 PM |
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| The Albany Bulb https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=albany+bulb&fb=1&gl=us&hq=the+albany+bulb&cid=5591627028123502950&ei=GSCVUqXRIa7nigKBl4DACw&ved=0CJ8BEPwS | |
| Event Type: | Protest |
| Come join us for The No Thanks Resistance Festival and three day Camp-out to defend the Albany Bulb from Eviction! See the Flyer for the schedule of events! Schedule updated to the event page tonight!FB Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/events/405870986212443/FB Event Page for the No Thanks Anti-Colonial Potluck – http://www.facebook.com/events/547036912048234/
FB Event Page for the Artwalk of Friday and Saturday! – http://www.facebook.com/events/587362084664394/ Existing workshops include: Know your rights training – Labor, the Working Class, and Housing – Towards An Ecological General Strike – Tarsands Blockade – Direct Action Training – The IWW EUC, The BLF Green Bans, and Working Class Strategies to Halt Gentrification and Ecological Destruction – ect. Please forward to anyone or organizations you think would be interested! For more information about the struggle to save the Albany Bulb visit us at: http://www.facebook.com/ShareTheBulb or http://www.sharethebulb.org! |
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Follow on Twitter: #WalmartStrikers
Location is near the Bayfair BART Station.
Saturday, November 30th:
- 9am – Morning Meeting/Workshop announcements and proposals- The Amphitheatre
- 10am – 3pm – Workshops
- 10am – Towards an Ecological General Strike – BLF Green Bans and Green Unionism – IWW EUC – The Amphitheatre
- 11am – Resisting the development of Knowland Park – John R.
- 1pm – Art Tour of the Bulb. Featuring Amber and Osha. Explore the art and history of the Bulb with two seasoned guides.
2pm – Astrology – Ardene – The Amphitheatre
4pm – 7pm – Live music. (The Last Bar Fighter, Emily Yates, WUV, Orion’s Joy of Music, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Ruby Mountain, TBA).
7pm – Notre Dame des Luttes Film Screening. (Inspiring documentary film about the French struggle of farmers and squatters resisting the development of an airport.)
Solidarity Potluck: 12:00 noon and 4:00 PM.
Come join us for The No Thanks Resistance Festival and three day Camp-out to defend the Albany Bulb from Eviction! See the Flyer for the schedule of events! Schedule updated to the event page tonight!
FB Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/events/405870986212443/
FB Event Page for the No Thanks Anti-Colonial Potluck – http://www.facebook.com/events/547036912048234/
FB Event Page for the Artwalk of Friday and Saturday! – http://www.facebook.com/events/587362084664394/
To help organize, distribute flyers, and or propose a workshop send an email to nothanksresistancefestival [at] gmail.com
Workshop proposals should include if you want to do it on Friday or Saturday, What time between 10 AM and 3 PM, things you need from organizers, and the title of your workshop!
Existing workshops include: Know your rights training – Labor, the Working Class, and Housing – Towards An Ecological General Strike – Tarsands Blockade – Direct Action Training – The IWW EUC, The BLF Green Bans, and Working Class Strategies to Halt Gentrification and Ecological Destruction – ect.
We request more workshops and skill shares about Class Struggle, Environmental Justice, Gentrification, Food Justice, Natural Building / Cob Building, Anti-Repression, Parkour, Accountability and Conflict Mediation, Cop Watch and Know Your Rights, Radical Theory, LGBTQ, Indigenous Struggles, Guerilla Gardening, Carpentry, Squating, Direct Action, Graffiti, Screen Printing, Flyer Making, Facilitation Training, DIY, Hacking, Bio-Remediation , AgroForestry, Bike Maintenance, Welding, Workplace Organizing, Labor History, Herbalism, Street Medic Training, Native Wild Edible And Medicinal Plants, Homesteading, Child care, Consensus, Feminism, Bay Area Radical History, Journalism and Alternative Media, Punk Rock, Poetry, Writing, Self-Defense, Decolonization and Post colonialism, Mutual Aid, Jail Support, Land Reclaimation, Jewelry Making, Gift and Trade Economies, Student Unionism, Spokeland and ETC!
Please forward to anyone or organizations you think would be interested!
For more information about the struggle to save the Albany Bulb visit us at: http://www.facebook.com/ShareTheBulb or http://www.sharethebulb.org!
Sunday, December 1st:
- 9am – Morning Meeting/Workshop announcements and proposals – The Amphitheatre
- 12pm – 3pm – Clean up the Bulb Party. Pick up trash and build things! – The Amphitheatre
- 2pm -3pm – Live music by Mudfence – The Amphitheatre
- 4pm – Strategic organizing and discussion to resist eviction. – The Amphitheatre
- 7pm – Rocking the Foundations Film Screening. (Australian documentary about struggles in the 1970′s which fought development and gentrification). – The Amphitheatre
- 8pm – Towards an Ecological General Strike Power Point – IWW Environmental Unionist Caucus – The Amphitheatre
- 9pm – Where Do You Go When it Rains? Film Screening. (Recent documentary about life on the Albany Bulb). – The Amphitheatre
Solidarity Potluck: 12:00 noon and 4:00 PM.
Come join us for The No Thanks Resistance Festival and three day Camp-out to defend the Albany Bulb from Eviction! See the Flyer for the schedule of events! Schedule updated to the event page tonight!
FB Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/events/405870986212443/
FB Event Page for the No Thanks Anti-Colonial Potluck – http://www.facebook.com/events/547036912048234/
FB Event Page for the Artwalk of Friday and Saturday! – http://www.facebook.com/events/587362084664394/
Please forward to anyone or organizations you think would be interested!
For more information about the struggle to save the Albany Bulb visit us at: http://www.facebook.com/ShareTheBulb or http://www.sharethebulb.org!
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