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Oakland Hunger Strike Solidarity peeps are conducting a 60 hour fast in solidarity with the 60-day (now suspended) CA Prison Hunger Strike.
From Thursday noon to Saturday, midnight, in honor and respect for the California Prison Hunger Strikers, who suspended their hunger strike after 60 days, we will publicly fast in front of Governor Brown’s condo, shining a light on his gross disregard for life and blatant profiteering off human suffering. We invite everyone to claim space with us, whether fasting or not. POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
They are going to have a noise demo at 9:00 PM Friday (as First Friday is winding down). They would love for us all to join them and to hang out with them any time on Friday and through the end of their fast.
Bay Area March & Rally in Solidarity w/Mass Protest at Capitol in DC
Gather at Chelsea Manning Plaza (Embarcadero), SF
Time is of the essence. We have been in the streets all over the country. The opposition to a new war is everywhere. This forced the administration to step back from imminent bombings.
But the danger also exists for an even larger war against Syria as Obama seeks to make a deal with pro-war senators and congresspersons like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi and others.
Now is the time for the people to step up pressure on Congress and demand that they vote NO to any resolution authorizing a military attack on Syria.
On Saturday, September 7, people are descending on Congress for a major demonstration as Congress returns to Washington, D.C., and prepares to vote. This demonstration is initiated by a broad ad hoc coalition called the Vote No War Against Syria Coalition. If you or your organization would like to be an endorser of the Sept. 7 demonstration, email votenowaronsyria@yahoo.com.
Here in the Bay Area, there will be a parallel march and rally in solidarity with the mass protest in Washington DC, beginning at Chelsea Manning Plaza (Embarcadero) at 12 noon. We urge everyone who wants to stop a new war against Syria before it starts, to endorse, help organize and join the demonstration on Saturday, Sept. 7.
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
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
Come talk about and help plan our next moves in the struggle to save the Berkeley Post Office from greedy moneygrubbers like Richard Blum and privateers scheming to sell off our roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, Post Offices and more all across the country.
The Post Office bureaucrats could announce the sale of the downtown Berkeley Post Office as soon as October 5th, and we need to be ready!
Possible topics for discussion include:
– Discuss continuing strategies that address the – possibly – imminent next moves by the Board of Governors to sell the Post Office
– Volunteers for
Information table
Future teach-ins
Music and entertainment events
Citizen empowerment training and resource sharing:
Know your rights
Cop Watch
Updates on privatization
Mental and physical health resources
Empathic listening circles
Training in nonviolent civil disobedience tactics and communication
Clothing and crop swaps
Banner and sign-making workshops for a variety of political actions
– Discuss our relationships with City of Berkeley officials
– Discuss the terms of ongoing mutual support of our defense of the post office/service and of future coalitions.
– Results of 9/4 Planning Commission meeting to rezone district in which Post Office is located.
Relevant websites:
(Entrance is on 22nd St, just off Broadway. Ring bell (not intercom!) to left)
Convene at Honduran Consulate Sep 10th and demand the respect and saftey of the Rio Blanco Lenca community.
The Rio Blanco Lenca community in Honduras is under attack. The Honduran government signed onto an illegal concession with DESA and SINOHYDRO, against the peoples will, to build a dam on indigenous land. The concession is a direct violation of UN ILO convention 169, that clearly states the indigenous people have the right to determine their own process of development. Since the road blockade April first the community has been threatened, attacked by DESA personnel, one man has been murdered by the Honduran Military, one man has been brutality injured by the military, three people are potentially facing criminal charges and prison time, and now, as this morning Sep 5th 3am, one man was kidnapped out of his home and threatened to be tortured in front of his family including six children. The man has not be released and no one has information on where he was taken.
There is a National Day of Action all throughout Latin America as well as the United States on Sep 9th or 10th to show the Honduran government that the international community will not stand for this abuse of humanity. Please come on Tues the 10th 11-1pm Honduran Consulate, 870 market st SF to show your support and stand against the behavior of the Honduras Government and the companies involved. Please spread the word, blast the blogspot and contact leilafli@yahoo.com if you would like to organize for this event.
Visit rioblancocommunity.blogspot.com for details and more information.
(make signs and statements if you can)
Pack the Court 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Rally on the Court steps at 12:00 noon.
Support anti-colonial, anti-capitalist comrades.
Come pack the court on September 10 as pretrial begins for the ACAC 19! The ACAC 19 are comrades who were arrested at an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist demonstration on Columbus day weekend last year. This is the last chance to pressure the DA to drop charges before trial. Pack the court from 9am – 4pm. Rally in front of the courthouse at noon. Bring signs, court allowable attire and solidarity! Even though a year has passed, comrades are still facing a slew of charges and it appears that the DA is intent on bringing them to trial. The state would like nothing more than to quietly convict and punish opponents of its colonial, capitalist rule. Don’t let them! The ACAC 19 need your support.
Via ACCE Oakland:
The fight for widespread principal reduction is on, in Richmond California, and we need your help! The City, together with our community/labor/faith coalition, have a real shot at successfully standing up to Wall Street and launching a new Local Principal Reduction strategy that, once it spreads, could provide significant relief to tens of thousands of struggling homeowners.
As you’ve probably heard, Wall Street is throwing its full weight against Richmond in an attempt to stop the city from reducing the mortgage principal of underwater homeowners via the lawful use of eminent domain. Over the past 6 years, Wall Street’s reckless practices have devastated millions of lives and our national economy, and now the big banks are spreading truly absurd lies in an effort to intimidate Richmond into backing down and abandoning its plan. (They’re sending direct mail, launching deceitful websites, filing lawsuits, and trying to pressure the city financially).
On September 10, the Richmond City Council will take a crucial vote about moving forward. It is essential that we win this vote.
We need to show our allies (and the swing voters) on the Richmond City Council that we’ve got their backs. Every public expression of support will bolster their confidence in the face of intimidation tactics by Wall Street.
OCCUPY THE CIVIC CENTER STEPS
TO STOP STRIKES AGAINST SYRIA.
There will be painting, chalking, speak-outs over the bullhorn and solidarity.
Bring art supplies, signs, cardboard.
Come by any time during the day and evening. Occupy is there now, and
no one’s leaving any time soon.
Come help us prepare for the next year in the struggle to get Justice for Alan!
Reports on the end of the Prisoners’ Hunger Strike and First Friday Outreach.
Discussion of where we go next.
PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR MEETING PLACE BEFORE YOU COME. IT MAY CHANGE.
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
Help plan and organize our next rally on September 21st. Learn the latest about the fight the save the Berkeley Post Office and against privatization in general.
Please join the rally for public education and the march to the bargaining session of the UC Student-Workers Union (UAW 2865), this Tuesday, September 17, beginning at noon.
At the rally, speakers will address the meaning of Napolitano’s appointment for workers and students, and will talk about how this appointment shows the priorities of those who manage and govern the University: militarization, repression, and financial accumulation; not quality and accessible education.
The rally will be followed by a series of teach-outs on the following topics:
– financial speculation and student debt;
– austerity and the privatization of public education;
– Napolitano, the militarization of the campus and undocumented rights;
– the US threat to bomb Syria and the Syrian revolution; and
– the stakes for students and workers of the UC Student-Workers Union’s current contract campaign.
The teach-outs will be followed by a march to the bargaining session between the UC Student-Workers Union and UC management. Those who come to bargaining, which is open to all, will have the chance to speak about the importance of higher instructor / student ratios and better support for student workers to the quality and accessibility of public education in California.
Here is the schedule of the afternoon:
12-12.30pm: Rally on the Steps of Sproul Hall
12.30-1:30pm:
– Announcement of a contingent leaving to the Regents meeting to participate in public comment and possible action
– Teach-Outs in front of Sproul
1:30 – 2pm: All the groups reconvene for a common mini presentation and Q&A on the UAW contract negotiation
2 pm: March towards the UAW bargaining session
Hayward city employees are facing a 5% pay cut on top of a previous 12% cut. Join them to demand that the mayor and city council “Put People First” and stop the cuts.
IMPORTANT Justice 4 Tristan meeting.
We need to figure out how care is going to work for Tristan while I am away (Ayr will be taking on A LOT) and we need to organize around the trial in a way that reflects our real politics. We know our power’s not in some courtroom, it’s in the streets! J4T needs help this Fall.
Please support if you can, stay tuned for upcoming news and events…
On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.
http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/oakland-moves-forward-with-citywide.html
The Oakland Privacy Working Group and others are continuing to organize against these encroachments upon our liberty and privacy.
The entrance to The Sudoroom is on 22nd Street a few doors west of Broadway, up some stairs. There is a buzzer if the door is not open.