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Officials have announced that a decision on whether to indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown has been reached, but what the decision is is not public yet. The decision itself is to be announced later today, now officially stated to be at 6:00 PM Pacific Time.
The call associated with the picture to the left.
FTP March Tonight at 14th and Broadway 7pm #getfree
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) November 24, 2014
The call from Stop Mass Incarceration Bay Area email:
If Wilson Walks, America Halts!
No Business As Usual in NYC!
Anything Less Than a Murder Charge Is Unacceptable
Charge Darren Wilson With Murder Now!
When Announced Immediately Go to 14th and Broadway and Into the Streets!
Justice for Michael Brown, Eric Garner,
and All Victims of Killer Cops!
Tonight Is The Night! #Oakland #DarrenWilson pic.twitter.com/Cot1qhEN62
— FireWorks (@FireWorksBAY) November 24, 2014
Join First They Came for the Homeless and Berkeley Post Office Defender peeps for a free movie on the steps of the Berkeley Post Office!
Movie title to be announced.
Ed not Bombs is your host.
Please join us for a community gathering and rally that will coalesce community organizers and members in solidarity with Marissa Alexander on the “eve” of her retrial. This will be an occasion to gather in poetry, song and more as we share words of struggle, resistance and hope in addition to raising greater awareness about and critical funds for Marissa. This will also be an opportunity for organizers to share with attendees ways in which people can involve themselves in work in the Bay Area around prison abolition, ending mass incarceration, domestic violence awareness and more.
The Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander will be present and will bring items from the online store to sale where every dollar raised will be donated to the Marissa Alexander Legal Defense Fund.
Please share widely. If you’d like to share a poem, please email us at FreeMarissaChicago at gmail dot com.
Large street mobilization convening in #Oakland tonight 7pm at 14th and Broadway to continue demonstrations for #Ferguson and #MikeBrown
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) November 25, 2014
WE INVITE ALL SUPPORTERS FOR JUSTICE FOR MIKE BROWN AND ALL WHO OPPOSE RACIST POLICE ATTACKS TO MOBILIZE IN SOLIDARITY WITH FERGUSON, MO.
The Ferguson Grand Jury announced Monday, November 24th that they will not sentence Darren Wilson for the murder of Mike Brown. This is a complete outrage! We must continue to regroup and remobilize to demand the proper indictment of Darren Wilson and jail the killer cops! Enough is enough! No business as usual!
* JUSTICE FOR MIKE BROWN!
* STOP the Racist Attacks Against Minority Youth!
* JAIL the Killer Cops: A Badge Is Not A License to Kill!
* END the Policy of Cover-Up and Blaming the Victim!
Join First They Came for the Homeless and Berkeley Post Office Defender peeps for a free movie on the steps of the Berkeley Post Office!
Movie title to be announced.
Ed not Bombs is your host.
Come enjoy Thanksgiving at the people’s Berkeley Post Office.
Join us on Black Friday as we condemn Walmart as the world’s largest climate criminal, destroying land and life from Richmond to Bangladesh.
This Black Friday (November 28th, 2014), we gather as peoples deeply committed to environmental and climate justice to condemn Walmart as a climate criminal and to stand side-by-side with Walmart’s workers organizing for $15/hr, full time work, and the respect they deserve.
Walmart’s war on workers is a war on planet Earth. Walmart has tried to salvage their tarnished reputation through greenwashing. But no amount of rooftop solar or energy efficient refrigerators can conceal the fact that Walmart is the world’s largest climate criminal.
Walmart’s business model – worker exploitation, intensive resource extraction, globalized production and distribution, rampant consumerism, ruthless supplier competition, and subversion of our democracy – is at war with life on Earth.
In 2012, Walmart generated $16 billion in profit. The Walton family is worth $145 billion. These unprecedented profits have been extracted from the uncompensated labor of its workers at every stage of its global chain of production, as well as from the natural world. It is this extreme concentration of wealth wielded like a chainsaw against the natural world which is at the root of the ecological crisis:
Walmart exploits workers worldwide. Walmart’s chain of production is a chain of exploitation – Thousands of subcontracted workers in Bangladesh risk and lose their lives stitching “lowest price” garments, which are moved across the country by subcontracted port truck drivers, dubbed “sweatshops on wheels,” and sold by Walmart retail associates making poverty wages.
Walmart has a massive ecological footprint. Walmart’s endless rows of plastic products and electronics demand ever intensifying oil and mineral extraction. Their stores are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. And Walmart’s globalized supply chain model makes it the largest importer of containerized ocean cargo in the U.S., one of the leading sources of pollution.
Walmart destroys local, living economies. Walmart actively drives out of business smaller, public transit-friendly, and environmentally-sustainable neighborhood retail districts, public markets, and “mom and pop” stores to make way for its -polluting, land-intensive, auto-oriented stores. Its
impoverishment of workers and communities then guarantees customers too poor to shop anywhere else.
Walmart undermines our democracy. Walmart’s PAC funnels millions of dollars to climate deniers and other lawmakers on the wrong side of climate policy – backing the Keystone XL pipeline, supporting subsidies for big oil, blocking the EPA’s ability to regulate CO2 emissions, and protecting the fracking industry from regulation.
Walmart’s funds to ALEC support mass incarceration when Walmart is committing the real crime of creating poverty and pollution.
Black and Blue Friday: a celebration presented by 350Marin
350Marin invites you to Black and Blue Friday, “a celebration of climate justice and life on our hot little blue planet.” The lively event offers music, speakers, poetry, dance and art. Performers include JIG, Wendy Johnson, Jon Symes, Lucia Iman, Robert Steiner, Love Rockit and others.
Donations requested but no one turned away.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit the event page on the 350Marin website.
Download flyer.
Tickets available at the Box Office, first come, first served. Free and open to the public. The theater seats about 150 so arrive early to guarantee admission.
Community outreach action to shoppers about Walmart’s connection to funding police terror.
* Ask John H Crawford III’s family – the 22 year old Black man was killed in an Ohio Walmart in August, for being a customer looking at one of their BB guns for sale.
* Number 1 on the Fortune 500, with net sales of $473.1 billion, Walmart rakes in $16 billion a year in profits and steals more than $8 billion a year from taxpayers forced to subsidize food, healthcare and housing for Walmart workers struggling to get by. The taxes they do pay provide significant funding for local police repression forces.
Walmart is the largest employer of African-Americans in the United States. About 19% of Walmart’s 1.4 million US workers are African-American. Unfortunately, Walmart jobs keep our communities in poverty—wages average just $8.81/hour. A full-time Walmart associate earns less than 70 percent of the 2013 federal poverty line for a family of four.
At the same time, workers at Walmart struggle to get the hours they need to make ends meet. People of color are also underrepresented in management jobs at Walmart
Walmart’s low wages are not good for any workers, but minorities are disproportionately represented in low-paying positions. While people of color made up 37% of Walmart’s US workforce in 2012, only 27% of first and mid-level officials and managers were minorities.
Walmart is a Job Killer in Our Communities
Walmart store openings destroy almost three local jobs for every two they create by reducing retail employment by an average of 2.7 percent in every county they enter.
Please support OurWalmart workers Black Friday, 11/28, protests at Walmart stores around the Bay area including the Oakland store at noon and the Richmond store at 9am. See link for more info: http://
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This action is organized by Anti-Police Terrorism Project, a project of ONYX in coalition with CRT, Healthy Hoodz, Young Oakland, Workers World, Alan Blueford Center for Justice, and POOR Magazine/ Pensa Pobre.
GENERAL MEETINGS: Third Thursday of the Month, 7:00 PM, Eastside Arts Alliance.
#shutitdown #endpoliceterror
RSVP HERE: https://omnicommons.org/
RE:CONSTRUCTION – A celebration of life, community and culture, this 2-day multimedia performance arts event brings together many diverse collectives from across the Bay Area to mash it up and kick-off a crowd-funding campaign to bring back the Omni as a vibrant network of learning and commons.
Read our amazing Saturday and Sunday schedule, below!
SATURDAY, NOV 29TH
NOON Doors Open SPAZ Sound System
1PM Opening Water Ceremony
2PM Toddlers & Kids Zone: Walk About Clown, Instrument Zoo
Community Panel: Artists, Activists, Organizers, Educators
Workshop A: Rhythm & Movement
Workshop B: Instrument Making
3PM Radio Café (Open Mic, Readings, Forum Discussion)
4PM Pledge Drive
5PM Screenings (documentary, films)
Fermentation Station
6PM Chess Tournament
Freedom Cypher
OMNI Media (Books, CDs, Print, Screen, Graphics, Podcast)
Workshop C: Healing Arts (Chi Kung, Flow, Yoga, Capoeira)
7PM Variety Show: Dragon Master, Stand-Up Comedian, Magician
Soul Sessions – Performance Dance Party
8PM DJ Zaki w/ Live Art
CHILL ZONE
9PM Thee Hobo Gobbelins
10PM DJ Zion
11:30PM Mindful Drumming
MIDNITE The Aquarian Project
SUNRISE Closing Water Ceremony
SUNDAY, NOV 30TH
10AM FREE BRUNCH
11:11 Meditation
Qi Gong
NOON DJ Jixshi
1PM Open House!
2PM Creative Writing
Artmaking (Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, etc)
Drum Language Workshop
Healing Corner (Massage)
3PM Counter Culture Lab
4PM OMNI Music Project
OMNI Media
Optikallusions
5PM Circle Singing
7PM The Gather – Community Potluck
This is a party for guests, as we need do more building, permitting, and other work before we officially declare that we are open to the public.
Its been one year since deputy erick gelhous shot and killed 13yr old andy lopez and we still have no justice so we will keep fighting and marching til we get JUSTICE, please join us saturday nov. 29 at 1pm in the dollar tree parking lot on Sebastopol road from there we will march to the courthouse square come show your support if you really care.
Bring a candle, a name, an object for a shrine to remember our fallen angels, martyrs, and all people unjustly targeted by agents of white supremacy. To name but a few, this event is to commemorate Mike Brown, Alan Blueford, Oscar Grant, James Rivera, Derrick Gaines, Mario Romero, Yanira Serrano Garcia, Errol Chang, Pedie Perez, O’Shane Evans, Kenneth Harding, Idriss Stelley, Alex Nieto, Anthony Skeaton, Angelo Moreno, and all victims of police terror.
We will have a vigil and a community discussion to address our responses to police terrorism.
This event is organized by Anti-Police Terrorism Project, a project of ONYX in coalition with CRT, Healthy Hoodz, Young Oakland, Workers World, Alan Blueford Center for Justice, and POOR Magazine/ Pensa Pobre.
GENERAL MEETINGS: Third Thursday of the Month, 7:00 PM, Eastside Arts Alliance.
November 30, 1999 — thousands of us shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle and withstood hours of tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray. Let’s celebrate and remember this important moment.
We’ll show some old video and folks who were there will be on hand to tell stories and discuss our strengths and weaknesses. With luck we can grapple with the question of “what shall we do next” keeping the WTO, occupy, and our other high water marks of action firmly in mind. Do we dare to have a thoughtful discussion, or will crazy annoying people dominate? Come find out!
14 people are still in custody facing felony charges. Arraignments Monday at 9a (Dept 107) and 2p (Dept 112) at Wiley Manuel.
— friesB4guys (@beingtherewith) November 27, 2014
See y'all at arraignments! Wiley Manuel courthouse 9am & 2pm. We get each other's backs! #solidarity #Oakland #Ferguson #ftp #coffeenotcops
— AntiRepBayArea (@AntiRepBayArea) December 1, 2014
Contribute to the AntiRepression Bail Fund.
Note: While AntiRep tweeted out the above just Monday early morning, The AntiRepression Committee website does NOT list court support for 9:00 AM tomorrow, only at 2:00 PM. Caveat emptor.
No event yet in the Bay Area!
In the wake of events in the last weeks, including the non-indictment in the killing of Mike Brown and the senseless killings of Akai Gurley in New York and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, our communities are hurting and justifiably angered. What gives us hope in this moment of pain and anguish is the thousands of people who have poured into the streets of America to demand change.
From the #ShutItDown actions that have blocked major highways and intersections to the #BlackoutBlackFriday protests,the message is clear: No more business as usual. We can no longer do what we have always done and cooperate with a system that does not respect Black Lives. We will only get the change we want if we disrupt the daily order and insists that Black Lives Matter. If that means shutting down the entire country, that’s what we’ll do.
On Monday, Dec 1st people around the country will be walking out of their schools and places of work in solidarity with Ferguson communities across the country effected by police violence.
Where? It can be any central location at your school or the area where you work . Consider if there is a place that has relevance to social justice such as a monument, chapel, or scene of previous protests.
When? Ideally, all #HandsUpWalkout events will happen simultaneously at 12pm central time on Monday, August 25th.
How?
The steps for organizing a #HandsUpWalkout are simple:
Before the walkout:
- Just register an event asking people to meet at that space on FergusonAction.com.
- Make a list of friends and to invite to the event, make calls, email them, tag them on social media, ask each person to invite 5 more people.
- Share the event on social media with the hashtag #HandsUpWalkout and the hashtags affiliated with your campus, city, or part of town where you are trying to draw out.
At the walkout. Each community should do what makes sense once you are gathered. You can engage in a wide range of action from a community speakout to more bold direct action. Here are some ideas for the most basic type of event:
- Be at your location early to greet participants.
- Get a few friends to help you with the event. Here are a roles to fill:
- Circulating sign-in sheets
- Greeting and directing participants as they arrive
- Social Media: At least 1-2 people who are responsible for livetweeting the action using the #HandsUpWalkout hashtag.Other hashtags to use include #BlackLivesMatter, #Ferguson, and #ShutItDown.
- Call out the names of individuals lost to police violence and have a moment of silence. For example:
- Mike Brown: Ferguson, MO
- John Crawford III: Dayton, OH
- Eric Garner: Staten Island, NY
- Tamir Rice: Cleveland, OH
- Akai Gurlay: New York
- Israel Hernandez: Miami, Florida
- Oscar Grant: Oakland, CA
- Ezell Ford, Los Angeles
- Ramarley Graham, New York
- Ask people to talk two one or two people standing next to them about your they are feeling (give folks a few minutes for this)
- Read the list of demands that have emerged from Ferguson.
- Ask people to again talk to one or two people next to them about their ideas for solution to police violence.
- Take lots of picture and video of the event including a Hands Up picture of the entire gathering and tweet them using the hashtag #HandsUpWalkout.
- Ask participants to keep up with the movement for Mike Brown by texting HANDSUP to 90975 and visiting fergusonaction.com
This event is meant to be more than just a gathering. This is an opportunity to organize like-minded people on your campus around police violence against people of color. Think about other actions that can be taken locally to change police practices and consider scheduling some kind of follow up event.
Prayer & Teach-in: 11:00 AM – 12:00 noon
March: 12:00 noon.
Calling all Idle No More folks, Earth Guardians, Water and Land Defenders! From December 1st to 12th, it’s time to let the global climate policy makers who will be meeting in Lima, Peru, know that we demand a safe future for ourselves and those yet to come: From the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change website: The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties and the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol will be held from 1 to 12 December.
COP 20/CMP 10 will be hosted by the Government of Peru, in Lima, Peru. We must make sure the policy makers understand that we know they are meeting to determine whether or not climate chaos will continue unabated. We demand: – A world-wide reduction in carbon emissions – Stop to the carbon trading scheme known as REDD+ – Hold fossil fuel corporations financially and legally accountable for their harms – Fund the account for climate refugees