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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?
The working class is facing an unprecedented assault from
employers and the state. We must build solidarity in collective
struggle. In this spirit we invite all workers – paid and unpaid,
employed and unemployed, union and non-union, full-time and
precarious – to join a Workers’ Assembly.
We aim to encourage communication and solidarity between
different sectors of the working class. We want to encourage
common struggle against the 1% and their agents who exploit
and oppress us, for a society based on justice and equality, where
the needs and desires of all working people are given first priority.
This will be the 2nd meeting of the Workers’ Assembly.
It will take place at the SEIU 1021 Hall, 155 Myrtle St, Oakland, CA.
Please join us — And there is such thing as a free lunch!
Our comrade Jesus is being sentenced on Thursday, but a show of our strong community support can improve his sentence.
Jesus was originally charged with three counts of felony assault of an officer with a folding chair, among other things, for an incident that occurred during the December 30th raid of Oscar Grant Plaza. A jury has convicted him of one felony count of deterring an officer. Jesus has been inside Santa Rita Jail since late January; on Thursday we’ll find out how long he’ll have to stay there.
Let’s show the judge and DA how real our solidarity is!
When: 9AM, Thursday, May 24, 2012
Where: Dept 14, Rene Davis Courthouse
Join Occupy Oakland and Earth First! for
The working class is facing an unprecedented assault from
employers and the state. We must build solidarity in collective
struggle. In this spirit we invite all workers – paid and unpaid,
employed and unemployed, union and non-union, full-time and
precarious – to join a Workers’ Assembly.
We aim to encourage communication and solidarity between
different sectors of the working class. We want to encourage
common struggle against the 1% and their agents who exploit
and oppress us, for a society based on justice and equality, where
the needs and desires of all working people are given first priority.
This will be the 3rd meeting of the Workers’ Assembly.
It will take place at Lakeside Park (Belleview & Grand, Oakland, CA).
The exact location within the park is yet to be determined
and the starting time of 11:30 AM is subject to change. Please check
back.
An Occupy Oakland barbecue will be taking place at 2:00 PM at the same
location; the Workers’ Assembly will transition into that event.
This meeting’s primary goal will be to figure out the organization of the Workers’
Assembly and its future roles.
What’s Next? Occupy Oakland BBQ
COMMUNITY OF POLICE WALKING TOUR! – LUNCH WITH THE SHERIFFS!
Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group with the Anti Repression Committee
offers a walking tour and info picket of cop and capital headquarters downtown.
Friday, June 15th
11:30-1:30
Meet at 19th and Telegraph in the park.
If the community had control over the police would thousands of of people be evicted under the threat of violence from armed sheriffs?
If the community had control over the police would Alan Blueford, a 17 year old high school senior, have been shot dead in the street? Would his killer remain at large on paid leave?
If the community had control over the police would Santa Rita be an instrument of abuse and torture?
If the community had control over the police would Occupy Oakland members be subject to the summary judgement and violence we have endured these last 6 months?
NOTE!: AS OF THIS POSTING, ANOTHER COMRADE WAS SNATCHED OFF THE STREET AFTER THE H.E.A.T. ACTION AND IS FACING $110K IN BAIL!!
IF THE COMMUNITY HAD CONTROL OVER THE POLICE, WOULD MELVIN BE KIDNAPPED AND SITTING IN SANTA RITA BLUES??!! FREE MELVIN!
Community Control of Police was rightfully one of the points of the Black Panther Program. It still is rightfully at the top of the people’s agenda and this includes control of the Sheriffs, the armed agents of the foreclosure crisis and the keepers of the county prison system.
We will be touring various relevant sites and offices downtown during lunch hour on Friday to picket, canvass and shine the light on the repressive, displacing, anti-social apparatus of the sheriffs department.
Speakers at stops along the way will include members of the Anti-Repression Committee, homeowners fighting evictions, and more.
We will have plenty of flyers and handbills for everyone so come prepared to canvass and engage your fellow Oaklanders on the street.
And come ready to MAKE SOME NOISE!
Join the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group and the Anti-Repression Committee as we rally and march against evictions, and pay a visit to the Alameda Sheriff (responsible for doing the banks’ dirty work of evicting people from their homes), perhaps the Alameda County DA, and some big banks in the downtown area.
We’ll assemble at 19th & Telegraph and move on from there.
Speakers will include Boots Riley and a homeowner fighting eviction.
Join us for the first gathering to begin re-imagining the General Assembly on Saturday June 16 at Mosswood Park, starting with music and food at 1:00pm.
Please fill out our survey to share you thoughts on the GA:
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https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YDSBC2
Please spread the word!
RAISE YOUR VOICE!
Castlewood Country Club Valley Course
(Castlewood Dr. at Pleasanton-Sunol Rd, Pleasanton)
Saturday, June 23, 8-11 am
Once again, the golfers of Castlewood Country Club are gearing up for their biggest tournament of the year – while keeping their workers out on the street. Remember last year’s tournament?
Most of the golfers have been deaf to the workers’ cries for affordable health care, job security and respect. So this year, let’s see if music gets through.
Bring your voices, bullhorns, whistles, trombones, and vuvuzelas, and sing out for justice!
Occupy Oakland has supported the locked out Castlewood workers on their picket lines and in helping to organize a march and a mock 1% rally. (“Golf Is A Human Right!”)
They are still locked out, and they could still use our support.
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LOGISTICS
For questions or rides, contact Sarah Norr at 510-502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com.
Want to caravan from Oakland? Meet at 14th and Broadway at 7 am (RSVP first to make sure we have enough cars).
Driving/parking directions: Castlewood’s Valley Course is located along Castlewood Drive between Foothill Road and Pleasanton-Sunol Road. Coming from the Oakland area, take 580 East to 680 South. Take the 3rd exit for Castlewood Dr/Sunol Blvd and turn right at the exit onto Pleasanton-Sunol Road. The first right is Castlewood Drive. Park along Pleasanton-Sunol Road, then walk up Castlewood Drive to the golf course.
Can’t make it? Consider making a donation to the hardship fund instead.
BBQ HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 30 JUNE. ARROYO PARK.
The OO AC Transit Committee is working with the BBQ Committee to throw a BBQ around the Occupy AC-Transit issue. There will be a driver/rider speak out, button-making, and maybe posters and t-shirts.
Arroyo Park 2:00 Facebook page.
Facebook page description:
The Occupy Oakland BBQ committee is having an Occupy AC-Transit BBQ that will feature great food and music, as always, and a speak-out with riders and drivers talking about the effects of cuts and fare increases. We will give a short presentation on what we have been doing and how you can get involved. We will also be making Occupy AC-Transit buttons and t-shirts (bring a blank t-shirt in case we run out). Other committees will also be talking about their ongoing organizing and how to get involved.
To help build up for the BBQ we will be having a rally and speak-out Friday at 11am at Eastmont Station. More details are here: http://www.facebook.com/events/319902598093813/
We are also doing mass outreach downtown and in East Oakland on Thursday from 4-7. If you would like to help, more info, is here: http://www.facebook.com/events/312095595547544/
Come out, eat some good food, and find out how Occupy Oakland is going to make this a hot Summer!
The 1st General Assembly of Occupy Oakland in the month of July is this Sunday, and there are a number of interesting proposals that are being put forth, such as:
1. The proposal to endorse and help organize the Occupy Oakland Liberate Everything Conference this summer, geared towards providing a more radical tone and communicating the unique perspective of Occupy Oakland to others and the world,
2. A proposal to jointly plan an Occupy Oakland July 4th action of some sort or another
3. A proposal to deal with the (rather glaring) issue of quorom
…and much, much more!
There will be a surprise guest speaker as well!
Also, it is out dear friend Chris of TAC’s birthday this Sunday, so we encourage folks to bring cake, food, and make merry as we all celebrate together as Occupy Oakland!
Dear friends, comrades, neighbors, and colleagues,
Please join us to celebrate Day 16 of the Lakeview Sit-In and the People’s School with a community potluck and film screening this Sunday, July 1st, at 6 pm. For two weeks now we’ve been running a free summer program out of occupied Lakeview Elementary, serving over 30 children with programming in social justice, art, PE, and gardening. At the same time, we’ve been organizing to pressure Tony Smith and the school board to reopen all five closed elementary schools, repudiate the state debt, stop busting teacher and school workers’ unions, reverse the cuts to special education, and fully fund public education for every student. This Sunday, we kick back and grub. The potluck starts at 6 pm at the People’s School (746 Grand Ave), followed by a screening of “The Inconvenient Truth behind Waiting for Superman.” Please bring a dish or a non-alcoholic beverage to share.
In love and solidarity,
The Lakeview Sit-In and People’s School for Public Education
Now is the time to protect, improve, and expand Medicare — let’s build support now for Medicare for All! One of a series of rallies being held all over California by the California Nurses Association and other Health Care advocacy groups. Details.
Tour Sponsored By THE CAMPAIGN FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA: California Alliance for Retired Americans/ California Health Professional Student Alliance / California Nurses Association / The Progressive Caucus of California/ Health Care For All – California/ Communication Workers of America-District 9 / Physicians for a National Health Program – California / California OneCare / Single Payer Now / Progressive Democrats of America / League of Women Voters of California / Green Party of California / Democracy For America
Wells Fargo Bank taking home from 60-year old woman, help is needed!
Come to the rally on Wed, July 11 at 5 PM at the 4th St Plaza in San Rafael. Show your support for Pat and John and for all of our neighbors who are victims of the banking system.
If you are facing foreclosure yourself, please come and share your story. The way we can pressure the banks is to turn out in LARGE numbers!!!
IRREPRESSIBLE VOICES: A benefit for the Occupy Oakland Anti-Repression Committee
Featuring: Mad Noise, The 21st Century, Kent Decide
Thursday July 19th. 8PM @ The Starry Plough Pub (21+)
3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA
Suggested donation 5-20 dollars. Larger donations gladly accepted. No one turned away for inability to pay.
All proceeds will go directly towards prisoner support and bail funds for Occupy’s political prisoners.
Justice 4 Alan Blueford
Free Food. Rally. Music. Workshops. Arts & Crafts. Children’s Village. Literature.
“Just after midnight on Saturday May 6th, Alan Blueford and two of his friends were waiting for some girls to pick them up on 90th Ave., in East Oakland, after the Floyd Mayweather fight. Not long after Alan had phoned his parents to check-in with them, a car slowly pulled up to them with its lights off. Alan ran. One officer gave chase. A few blocks later Alan was shot by OPD officer Miguel Masso. Masso also shot himself in the foot. Over a dozen witnesses all said that Alan had no weapon and posed no threat to the officer.
Why did the police approach Alan and his friends with their lights off? Why did they give
chase when Alan had committed no crime and posed no threat to the officer? Why was Alan
shot three times when he had no weapon? How did a trained officer shoot himself in the foot? From the witnesses’ statements, why was Alan not given emergency CPR by OPD? Why did
the OPD change their story to the family several times in the days after the shooting? Why have they refused to release the coroner’s report, despite the fact that it has been complete for weeks?
The family has gotten nothing but lies, distortions and stalling from the OPD.
The Blueford family and the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition are demanding:
• Officer Miguel Masso be fired and charged with Alan’s murder.
• OPD Chief Howard Jordan be held accountable for lying to the Blueford family.
• An end to stop-and-frisk and other police practices of racial profiling.
• The repeal of the Police Officers’ Bill of Rights, that shields violent cops from prosecution and keeps them on the street.”
Melvin was arrested on 7/23/2012 and he’s got court tomorrow. We need a show of support for this comrade. The inmate locator says his arraignment is 7/25/2012, 9am in Dept 107, but since he’s in custody, it’ll probably be 2pm. We’re hoping to get him bailed tomorrow too, and we need carpools ready to head down to Santa Rita for another jail party. Who’s down?
On July 21 Anaheim Police Chased and shot Manuel Angel Diaz in the back of his head Killing him. Diaz was Unarmed. The Latino Community that the Killing had happened in had already been the victim of several other shootings in the Past done by Anaheim Police. confronted the police in Protest of Diaz killing. and were viciously attacked by Police the Extreamly Cruel repression that the Anaheim police unleashed on the community was horrible. you see the Police shot Rubber Bullets into the crowd including Woman and Children you even see a Police dog attack a woman with a Stroller with her Baby inside. it was just another reminder of the sick Capitalist Police state that we live under.
we here in the City of Oakland particularly the Black and Brown Community but also the Radical community as well like Occupy Oakland can relate to this police terror in our own city. so LETS ORGANIZE A rally and March on Friday July 27 at Oscar Grant Plaza at 5:30 pm and stand in solidarity with our Brothers and sisters who were brutally attacked on Saturday July 21. we here in Oakland stand in solidarity with them to end Police terror from Oakland to Anaheim and beyond.
LaborFest is giving a historical walking tour of Oakland’s 1946 General Strike, the last ‘real’ General Strike to occur in the United States. Meet at 12:00 noon where Telegraph and Broadway intersect just above 14th & Broadway.
When the walking tour is over join the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee in Oscar Grant Park for a presentation about the
“2011 Oakland General Strike and the relationships between Occupy Oakland and Labor Struggles”
More information about the walk.