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Government Surveillance: Panel & Film Screening
From Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers in 1971 to Edward Snowden’s NSA bombshell in 2013, whistleblowers have risked everything to leak dangerous government secrets.
Explore Government Secrecy, Privacy, and Surveillance with us at The New Parkway Theater next Wednesday, July 31, for an evening panel and film screening.
Panel discussion featuring:
Nicole A. Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California
Cindy Cohn, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Judith Ehrlich, Director, Writer, Producer, The Most Dangerous Man in America
Moderated by Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, Senior Writer, CNET
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is the true story of what happens when a former Pentagon insider, Daniel Ellsberg, armed only with his conscience, steadfast determination, and a file cabinet full of classified documents, decides to challenge an “Imperial” Presidency – answerable to neither Congress, the press nor the people – in order to help end the Vietnam War.
Admission is free, but space is limited. RSVP is required for entry.
When: July 31, 2013 (5:30 – 8:30 p.m.) Doors open at 5:30, panel begins at 6:15, followed by the film screening at 7. Food and drink purchases available.
Send a message to Attorney General Eric Holder and Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels Jr. that Lynne deserves compassionate release!
Long-time National Lawyers Guild member and activist lawyer Lynne Stewart needs our help and she needs it now! The Federal Bureau of Prisons has denied Lynne Stewart’s application for compassionate release, despite recommendations in favor from the warden at her facility, the Regional Office Director, and vetting of Stewart’s release plans by the Federal Probation Office in New York.
Lynne Stewart’s condition is deteriorating rapidly. Medical treatment to arrest the cancer that is metastasizing in her body has been halted because she is too weak to receive it. She remains in isolation, as her white blood cell count is so low that she is at risk for generalized infection.
For over 30 years, Lynne Stewart devoted her life to the oppressed – a constant advocate for the countless many deprived in the United States of their freedom and their rights. She, herself, was targeted and prosecuted because she defended vigorously her unpopular clients – people the U.S. government sought to execute, disappear, and demonize.
In 2006, Lynne Stewart was sentenced to 28-months. In 2009, she was resentenced to 10 years in federal prison in response to the vindictive dictates of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In the fall, the Supreme Court will consider her Certiorari petition on the basis of both Lynne’s and her client’s first amendment rights.
Lynne Stewart’s prosecution and continued imprisonment are an attempt to intimidate all attorneys who would represent unpopular clients, particularly those accused of being terrorists. It is a message to those of us in the legal community who understand how important it is that everyone accused of a crime, especially those accused of the most serious crimes, have a capable attorney both able and willing to zealously defend them.
When BART workers went on strike July 1, the whole Bay Area was affected. BART hired a major union buster to put the workers on strike, then blame the workers in a highly visible battle to bring Wisconsin-style attacks to the Bay Area and drive down living standards for all of us. The 30-day contract extension expires Sunday, August 4 at midnight, yet BART management still refuses to negotiate, likely forcing the workers out again starting Monday, August 5.
BART workers represented by ATU 1555 and SEIU 1021 invite all workers to stand up against Wisconsin-style attacks in the Bay Area on Thursday, August 1 at 5pm at Frank Ogawa Plaza (Oscar Grant Plaza).
Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition members calling attention to the fate of Alan Blueford, murdered by Oakland Police Officer Miguel Masso, and all those who have suffered similar fates.
The Interfaith Tent will once again be handing out fliers, talking with people, and reading the names of those killed by police on August 2nd @ OPD Headquarters on 7th and Broadway.
We will then walk up Broadway and Telegraph, towards First Friday, talking with people as we go. At previous events this was very effective. Our “Stop Police Violence” signs made people want to talk with us.
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: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
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
GA will be held at the Humanitarian Statues, at Kaiser Park at 19th/Telegraph Sunday, August 4th only.
The City of Oakland is privatizing public space and shutting down public access to OGP – $10 admission is required – for a commercial purpose, namely Art and Soul Festival next weekend.
Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally and has equal decision-making power. Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly uses a participatory decision-making process appropriately called, “Occupy Oakland’s Collective Decision-Making Process.” Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
Come help us figure out our next steps as we continue to defend the Berkeley Post Office and the Post Office System against privatization.
Our Occupation has been ongoing for 10+ days now.
Come help us figure out our next steps as we continue to defend the Berkeley Post Office and the Post Office System against privatization.
Our Occupation has been ongoing for 10+ days now.
Come help us figure out our next steps as we continue to defend the Berkeley Post Office and the Post Office System against privatization.
Our Occupation has been ongoing for 10+ days now.
Non-violence and conflict de-escalation training.
It has been one month since CA Prisoners began a hunger strike demanding an end to indefinite solitary confinement and the cruel, inhumane and torturous conditions of confinement in CA Security House Units (SHU).
Stand in solidarity with CA prisoner hunger strikers as they enter their second months of an indefinite hunger strike:
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity.
STOP THE TORTURE!
Come help us figure out our next steps as we continue to defend the Berkeley Post Office and the Post Office System against privatization.
Our Occupation has been ongoing for 10+ days now.
Learn about your rights under the US Constitution with respect to being questioned, stopped and/or arrested by police.
One down and no end in sight… A bike ride following ART OUT! in solidarity with CA Prison Hunger Strikers, come out and help bring their message to the public sphere and wake up these sleeping masses. Let’s make their demand a reality!
~*In Memory of Billy “Guero” Sell*~
-Prisoner Demands-
• Eliminate group punishments for individual rules violations.
• Abolish the debriefing policy and modify active/inactive gang status criteria.
• Comply with the 2006 recommendations of the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons regarding an end to long-term solitary confinement.
• Provide adequate food.
• Expand and provide constructive programs and privileges for indefinite SHU inmates.
Bi-weekly JAB meeting. 11am, normally at 100 Oak St., but please check here for late changes.
11:00 a.m. : Meet at the Berkeley Post Office, with signs and banners. Hear speakers, and sing with the music.
12 noon : March to CONNECT THE DOTS between FedEx, UPS, and the Blum Center at U.C.
Protest those who want to privatize our public postal service and eliminate union jobs.
We will then return to the Berkeley Post Office
There is a danger that the encampment may be raided and closed soon. Please support our
actions to protect our public property! See you Saturday!
SAVE OUR PUBLIC COMMONS
Committee to Save the Berkeley Post Office
The press has been overflowing with reports on exploding student debt, and the payday lending industry is under increasing public scrutiny. Let’s take this momentum and radicalize it!
Join Strike Debt Bay Area on Saturday, August 10th for our next Ideas Into Action meeting. We will be discussing our ongoing big action at the Berkeley Post Office, and planning continuations or followup actions.
Also
- student debt resistance in light of Congress’ horrible legislation to raise future student loan interest rates.
- Postal Banking
- national Strike Debt connections & media strategy
- putting the payday lenders out of business
- local resources
- next debtors’ union steps
Come join these efforts and bring your own ideas…
Solidarity.
You are not a loan
Strike Debt Bay Area