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TUESDAY, APRIL 24TH AT 10AM
Meet at Justin Herman Plaza
Near the Embarcadero BART where Market St. ends at Stuart
March to Merchants Exchange Building 465 California St.
Wells Fargo profits at the cost of our communities:
- America’s Biggest Tax Dodger – Hoarding billions of tax dollars that should be paying for public services and putting America back to work
- Leads in Foreclosure – Continuing to foreclose on families in an economy it helped to ruin
- Predatory Lender – Targeting those who can least afford it with exploitive mortgages and payday lending,especially low-income communities of color
- Corrupting our Democracy – Protecting its profits by quadrupling spending on lobbying since the financial crisis began
- Prison Profiteer – Profiting from increased incarceration by investing heavily in for-profit prison corporations and anti-immigrant legislation
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4PM – Rally and Truth Mob at Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway
5PM – March to Federal Building, then to:
6PM – Putting the Injustice System on Trial at 19th and Telegraph. Charges include: Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality and Murder, Inhumane Treatment of People in Prison, and more.
This action is in solidarity with the Occupy the Justice Department protest happening in Washington DC on April 24th, Mumia Abul-Jamal’s birthday. Occupy4Prisoners joins the growing list of endorsers.
HELP US TIP THE SCALES!
occupy4prisoners.org/occupythejusticedepartment.com
occupy4prisoners@gmail.com
Hey there! As a fun way to get ready for may day, we will host a wonderful medic l.a.r.p.ing event.
This event might be more useful if you have already been a street-medic, and or you have been trained. We will not go over a whole training at this event, this is just to practice your skills and for us to hangout and have fun!
Please bring: Clothes you will get dirty in! supplies to share! A lunch or money/ebt etc to get one. friends who want to be lovely actors, your awesome skills,
Tentative schedule:
9am-12pm workshop skill share discussion, social, maybe breakout groups for detailed workshops
12-1pm lunch and social and supply swap!
1 til 4pm scenarios, feedback, and live action role playing.
4 til 5pm socialize
5pm end of the event!
First come First on the list. Limited room. Please RSVP to bayareastreetmedics@gmail.com
With May Day approaching in less than two weeks, the Safer Spaces committee invites activists and allies together for a two and a half hour panel and skill share session on:
*Basic tips for a sustainable street action
*Emotional First Aid: trauma education, emotional self care tips for pre, during and post action
*First Aid: simple street medic tips, physical self-care for pre, during and post action
*Coping with activist burnout and keeping the movement connected
When: 4/29/12 (Sunday)
Time: Noon-2:30 (hope everyone is ok with a slight overlapping of the GA)
Where: 19th and Telegraph
International Worker’s Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day. Occupy Los Angeles has called for a General Strike on May 1st, an action which Occupy Oakland has endorsed.
Posters and flyers here and here.
Synposis:
6AM:
Occupy the Golden Gate bridgepicket with Golden Gate Labor Unions or attend a rally near the Golden Gate Bridge.
Meet at 19th & Telegraph to occupy the Golden Gate Bridge. Buses will be available. More info here and here.
9AM – NOON: 3-4 morning actions, Some events here.
NOON – 1PM: Everyone Converge on Downtown
1PM – 3PM: Themed Actions & Marches Around Downtown
3PM: March for Dignity and Resistance
All are encouraged to join the march starting at Fruitvale BART station at 3pm.
More info here and here and here.
6PM – 7PM: Reconvergence downtown to coincide with the march arrival
Stand up for ATU Members, Stop Cuts in Para Transit!
Called by the ATU 192 who represents the workers there in Para Transit: as part of a campaign against Substandard conditions, contract concessions, arbitrary discipline & firings, and service cuts.
Support by Occupy AC Transit
as part of a campaign for transit equity and organizing to unite AC workers and transit riders to stop budget cuts, oppose concessions,and make the Banks pay. Passengers and Transit workers Unite. Free passes for the working poor and youth.
Directions: Bart to Hayward Station
AC Bus 86 towards W Winton (about 13 minutes)
Stop at W Winton and Corsair.
Clawiter is across from Corsair, walk left on Clawiter to A-Para Transit
For individual or group trauma support, mediations and anti-oppression advocacy, please contact Safer Spaces:
Tel: (510) 502-9466
Email:saferspaces@occupyoakland.org
Healing can take place in the form of reconnecting with Mother Earth.
It can be little steps like birdwatching, hiking, going to the beach or eating freshly picked berries. Ask your five senses what do I see, hear, taste, touch, smell?
Have you tried gardening? Or are you already a gardener? What does your body, mind and soul experience when you dig that dirt, plant the seed, water, trim the weeds, ask the ladybugs to kindly tell some insects to be nice to your plants and watch the phenomenon of seeds turning into fruits,vegetables or flowers? What does it feel like to struggle with a plant that won’t thrive but one day you go out and it turned into something beautiful? What does it feel like when you can be sustainable and self-efficient through this entire process? What does it feel like to share stories and tips with your fellow Green Thumbs? What does it feel like when you can share your harvest with your friends, family or community?
Healing from trauma is about your body regenerating and flourishing much like plants. Sometimes you may have to become a seed again in order to recover. There may be ups and downs but because you are part of Mother Earth, you have the resilience and strength to overcome, no matter how difficult. You are also your own gardener. What can you do for your garden? Our movement went from seeds to the bountiful harvest that it is now because of the care, faith and dedication you and your comrades gave to it.Take care and be kind to yourself. Take care of each other. We can heal as a community.
On that note, there’s some beautiful healing going on at Occupy the Farm today! Please come if you can.
When: Thursday, May 3
Event Schedule:
“Occupy the Farm”: Permaculture workshop and Maypole
Join Starhawk and friends to support the wonderful farm being created on a piece of vacant land in the East Bay by the Occupy movement.
Permaculture workshop, 3:00 p.m: Learn some of the basic ethics and principles of permaculture as we put them into practice at this reclaimed farm site.
Maypole celebration, 6:00 p.m.: Dance the Maypole to celebrate the rising tides of life, the diverse forms of love, and the power of regeneration.
Bring food to share. Donations of seeds and starts for the farm are much appreciated.
Cost: Free! Kids welcome.
Location: Marin between San Pablo and Jackson streets, Albany, California
For more information: http://www.takebackthetract.com/
In response to the May 1st vandalism of small businesses and private property in this largely working class neighborhood, we at the Brooms Collective are planning on gathering at the 16th Street Mission BART Station at 11:30 on Saturday morning to participate in a neighborhood clean-up and outreach action. Many people seem to believe that these deplorable actions were attributable to supporters of the Occupy Movement, and even Occupy Oakland in particular. Many of us in the Brooms Collective found this truly senseless destruction wholly out of step with our beliefs, political, social or otherwise, and we believe that many others feel the same way. An action such as this is the only way that we could even hope to repair the damage that was done in the name of a movement that many of us believe would never have condoned it in the first place.
This Friday, May 11th, there will be an action in front of the OPD Station at 7th and Broadway to protest and bring light to the murder of 18 year old Alan Bluford this past weekend. It will begin at 5pm and will include such speakers as Jack Bryson from Occupy Oakland amongst others.
This Saturday, May 12th, there will be a march at 3pm from the corner of 90th and Birch in East Oakland and will go to the Eastmont Pol ice Substation at 73rd ave and MacArthur. Alan’s family has called for the march and has asked for a peaceful assembly and march.
Alan was shot in the back by Oakland police last Sunday. The family is asking why the OPD has changed their story of what happened 3 times, why they consider the offer competent after he shot himself in the foot and a young man who posed no threat to the officer as he was running away, and why this same officer is on paid leave.
Supplies to make picket signs will be available at 11am Saturday at Arroyo Park.
The family of Alan Blueford has asked allies to come to the Oakland City Council Meeting at 6 pm on Tuesday to demand justice for the OPD killing of their son! Get there by 6 pm to demand a real investigation into the circumstances of the killing! The police officer should not be on paid leave, beyond that, what is his name, and why are they still on the force?
March from San Pablo Park (Ward and Mabel) to Bayer (Grayson and 7th) in Berkeley to protest production of pesticide that is killing off the bees!
Castlewood workers have been locked in a dispute over health care benefits for more than two years now. Last winter Occupy Oakland supported their cause and helped organize a march and rally. Now they would like our help again:
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Walmart Supplier Plans to Cross Our Picket Line!
Join us on the line – Monday, 5/21, 12:30 pm
Acosta Sales and Marketing is having a golf
tournament at Castlewood on Monday, May 21st.
Acosta is a national food brokering company
for Walmart and other stores.
Come join us on the picket line and add your voice to the struggle.
Tell Acosta to respect the workers’ boycott of Castlewood!
Valley Course, Castlewood Country Club
(Castlewood Drive between Pleasanton-Sunol Rd. and Foothill Rd.)
Questions or Rides? Contact Sarah Norr at (510) 502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com
Come out, come out wherever you are!!! Please, please, please join us
to picket the Bank of America next Monday, May 21, 5-6pm at the Albany
Branch, Solano at Neilson, next to Safeway. Nine of us, mainly
community senior citizens ranging in age from the early 60s to 85
years asked for a meeting with the manager. After he consulted with
his superiors he refused to give us any appointment. Instead, we
should submit our questions on paper without expecting a meeting
afterward. In fact, the manager wouldn’t even give us his business
card. When we tried to explain why we wanted to talk with him, his
only response was to insist that we leave immediately.
- Release the cop’s name
- Take him off paid leave
- Charge him with murder
- Fire him
On May 30th, people will travel from around the world to descend on San Ramon, CA and confront Chevron at its annual shareholder meeting.
Join us for a colorful and fun rally outside Chevron’s headquarters in support of human rights, environmental, economic and climate justice, and more!
DIRECTIONS
From Berkeley or SF, take 80 to 24 (Caldicott Tunnel). Then 680 South. Off at Bollinger Canyon. Make a left onto Bollinger over bridge. Chevron HQ on right.
Drivers will have to park in Whole Foods parking lot across the street or at San Ramon Central Park (on left after Bishop Ranch One E).
From 580, take 680 N. Make a right at Bollinger Canyon Exit.
Chevron HQ is between Walnut Creek and Dublin Pleasanton BART stations. There are buses from these stations that go to Bishop Ranch (the corporate business park that Chevron HQ is located in).
Carpooling can be arranged at
http://www.facebook.com/events/317844888283134/
There’s also a teach in the night before in Berkeley. Tuesday, May 29, 7pm David Brower Center 2150 Allston Way. Community and Union leaders will travel from Ecuador, Angola, Nigeria, Brazil, Texas, Richmond and more to expose the True Cost of Chevron and encourage us to join them in fighting back. Please come to hear these and other accounts and to join the discussion on what you can do.
May Day! May Day! Shut down Stockton! Come out May 31 to Stockton, California and help shut down the town to protest racist police murders, criminally greedy banks and a corrupt and incompetent city government!
Justice for James Rivera!
Justice for Luther Brown
Justice for the People of Stockton!
1-130pm– Meet-up/drop off point-Eden Park (El Dorado St)
2-3pm– Rally @ MLK park (El Dorado & Fremont)
3-5pm– Bank Shutdown Parties and Justice for the
Families march through Downtown Stockton
5-8pm– “the Right–to-Assemble” Street Dance Party
All-day BBQ and Services @ Fremont & Sutter St
Free buses leaving Oakland
14th and Broadway 11am
19th & Telegraph 11:30am
Pack the court: Trial readiness for Ted and Colin, arrested on October 26th, 2011, after Oscar Grant Plaza was reclaimed
Over the last few months, we have been enheartened by the revolt taking shape in the streets of Montreal. The students of Quebec have taken a struggle against tuition hikes and mobilized hundreds of thousands against austerity and state repression. What began as a one-week university student strike has precipitated into an anti-capitalist revolt against universities, banks and police in what many are calling a general and indefinite social strike. In the face of intense state repression, including the draconian law 78 more or less banning protest, court injunctions against university picket lines, and mass arrests, the rebels of Montreal return to the streets night after night for over 100 days. They have called for solidarity actions from everyone and everywhere that can connect with the struggle, saying that if the strike “cannot inspire disruptions of its own, then it will die out quick.”
In the Bay Area, we, too, have seen revolt spread from universities into the community through Occupy, and we’ve seen tens of thousands come together against state repression for the November 2nd general strike and December 12th west coast port shutdown. And during those days of intense struggle, we drew strength and joy from the solidarity extended to us from as far as New York to Mexico City to Cairo.
It is now time for us to extend our solidarity to our comrades in Montreal and work to inspire the same solidarity and desire to disrupt business as usual in our friends, families and neighbors.
Keep striking and don’t ever stop!
Infinite solidarity with the infinite social strike!
Bring pots, pans, and red squares of cloth. These are the symbols of solidarity with our Quebec comradies
The carre rouge, or red square, has become the Canadian symbol of revolt. It comes from the French phrase carrement dans le rouge, or “squarely in the red,” referring to those crushed by debt… The din of citizens beating pots and pans reverberates nightly in cities in Quebec. The protesters are part of what has been nicknamed the army of the cacerolazo, or the casseroles. — Truth Out