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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
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
OccupyForum Presents
Panel: The Kurdish Struggle
Just before giving up its empire in the Middle East, the British carved out the borders of the new nations. Kurdistan was split among four different nations. Those nations are all ethnically, culturally, and religiously different from the Kurds, and they have been oppressed minorities in all of them ever since.
Yet in the nation of Syria, the Kurds have formed an autonomous zone, run along Democratic Socialist and Feminist lines, called Kobani. The government of Syria has never been friendly to Kobani, but recently they have had to contend with something even worse: the authoritarian extremists of ISIS. And they have been fighting them without help from the USA or any of the other nations in the region.
One of the main entry points for ISIS fighters is via Turkey. Turkey has quietly let them slip across its borders, yet has refused to let the many Kurds in Turkey enter Syria to help ISIS. Pro-Kobani demonstrations have been endorsed by the Occupy Action Council. Come hear from Kurdish speakers about their struggle for freedom.
New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/fight-lives
On December 2, 1964, Mario Savio stood on the Sproul steps and inspired the students of this university to take a stand. On the 50th Anniversary of this historic day, The Open UC and Cal Progressive Coalition will be coming together to commemorate the legacy of the Freedom of Speech Movement, and to remind every single student on this campus that our voices have power.
If you believe that public education should be affordable and accessible, join us. If you believe that the state and the Regents should hear our voices and find an alternative to tuition hikes, join us.
12PM: Rally at Sproul Plaza to SPEAK OUT in defense of our public education and our public commons.
Hashtags: #speakout #FSM50 #fightthehike #openUC
Twitter: @theopenuc @calprogressives
Facebook: TheOpen UC, Cal Progressive Coalition
Websites:
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Press release about the event.
Call to Community Action
The City Government has moved to legally protect 34 or more officers who are shooters or witnesses to the killing of Alex Nieto, or who are responsible for or witnesses to the handling of the homicide scene was handled. We’ve long argued that this a cover-up of the unlawful killing of Alex Nieto.
We members of the communities affected by the killing of Alex Nieto demand complete transparency. We want names, and we want utter transparency in the facts withheld by SFPD and the City Attorney (aka The Mayor.) This has got to end…!
Bring posters, signs and your demands. We want names!
#Justice4AlexNieto #WeWantNames
We stand in solidarity with Ferguson & Ayotzinapa, and all the other Bay Area families and other victims of police brutality.
The man who was being arrested in THE Vine video needs your help.
Livestreamer @codeframesf was violently arrested in San Francisco while streaming the Ferguson solidarity protest on Friday, November 28, 2014. He is now facing trumped up charges of felony and misdemeanor assault on a police officer.
He is still in custody.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
1) Donate here to the Bay Area Anti Repression Committee Bail Fund.
2) Show up to @codeframesf’s arraignment.
Reminder: You must go through a metal detector and bag X-Ray when entering the courthouse.
WATCH
Watch the infamous Vine: https://vine.co/v/On1x6iUuwxK
Over 43 US cities including San Francisco will participate in an unprecedented national mobilization to demand an end to the deadly “Plan Mexico,” a billion-dollar US program to aid Mexico’s corrupt and notoriously violent security forces, ostensibly in their fight against the so-called War on Drugs.
Links:
�Full list of participating cities: www.ustired2.com/cities/
�Website: http://www.USTired2.com
�Facebook (San Francisco protest): http://www.facebook.com/USTired22SanFranciscoCA
�Facebook (national event): http://www.facebook.com/pages/USTired2//767562843324746
�Video message inviting people in US to join Dec 3rd actions: http:://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnL0llkTVuI
�Twitter: https://twitter.com/USTired2
Participants are being asked to wear white and bring candles.
#SF #BayArea #Oakland All Out to #ShutItDown for #EricGarner #MikeBrown #Ferguson 5PM 14th and BROADWAY OGP OAKLAND
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 3, 2014
Reminder for #Oakland #SanFrancisco: NLG legal # is 415-285-1011. That's 415-285-1011. Sharpie on you & then share it w/others #EricGarner
— Cindy Milstein (@CindyMilstein) December 3, 2014
.@blogdiva : OAKLAND: 5PM #OGP 14th and Broadway. Justice for #EricGarner #ICantBreathe #oakland2NY
— OccupythePort (@occupytheport) December 3, 2014
#OAKLAND: 5PM #OGP 14th & Broadway. Justice for #EricGarner #ICantBreathe #oakland2NY #ShutItDown #IndictTheSystem
— IO: (InterOccupy) (@InterOcc) December 3, 2014
The local CBS station just told 100k+ Facebook fans about the #EricGarner 5PM protest at OGP. Nice. http://t.co/d5PtUmBNdV
— Political Fail Blog (@PFailBlog) December 3, 2014
IMPORTANT ERIC GARNER DEMONSTRATION
1 PM
IN THE QUAD… IRONICALLY THE VERY SITE OF THE INFAMOUS UCD PEPPER SPRAYING INCIDENT
— OccupyUCDavis (@OccupyUCDavis) December 4, 2014
Join us at Fruitvale Bart plaza to bring attention to widespread inequality and our shared struggles for a living wage ($15/hour) and the right to unionize without retaliation.
Nov. 29th marks the 2nd anniversary of when the first 100+ fast food workers, fed up with low wages, poor treatment and disrespect walked off the job in New York.
Let’s make it known that a minimum wage hike isn’t all we’re fighting for in Oakland and beyond!
Hosted by East Bay Fast Food Workers.
45 years to the day that Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. & Defense Captain Mark Clark of the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party were assassinated by the state, The People worldwide recognize December 4th as “International Revolutionary Day” or I.R.D.
While the main event will be at the scene of the crime in Chiraq with POCC/BPPC (PrisonersOf ConscienceCommittee/BlackPantherPartyCubs) on Thurs.December 4th we will hold our 10th consecutive Zulu Nation Thursdays-OAKLAND in solidarity with #IRD45
Performances by:
Jahi (PE2.0)
Kev Choice
East Bay Politix (Sinista Z & Ras Ceylon)
G.P.
Age Scott the Black Bukowski & more
Resident DJ TD Camp
6-8pm Meeting of the Minds (Film Screening of “Assassination of Chairman Fred Hampton” Documentary) & community discussion re: Ferguson & Solidarity Statements
8-11pm Performances
11-midnite Open Mic Cypher
OAKLAND: Non-RCP led March will begin at 7PM. (H/T @hyphy_republic)
— OccupythePort (@occupytheport) December 5, 2014
We hear there's a callout to meet at the cable cars at Powell and Market in #SF today at 6pm for #EricGarner #MikeBrown #Ferguson #BayArea
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 5, 2014
How police are targeting political enemies with attempts to restrict free speech. Everyone, from black and Latino youth, anti-war activists, labor militants and rap artists are in their cross-hairs. We can fight back against police attack on speech and school curricula!
Speakers: Keith Cook, Mumia’s brother.
Cephus ‘Uncle Bobby’ Johnson.
Speakers and Film: “Manufacturing Guilt”
7 pm Friday December 5th 2014
Theater at La Pena Cultural Center
(just below Ashby Avenue)
$5 – $10 sliding scale at the door (no one turned away)
Join the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio and Oakland Teachers For Mumia to hear how police are targeting political enemies with attempts to restrict free speech.• Keith Cook, brother of Mumia Abu-Jamal,
• Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant,
• Eliot Grossman, former lawyer for Mumia, and
• Spokespersons for Prison Radio, Oakland Teachers for Mumia, and the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
• Film: “Manufacturing Guilt” — This riveting documentary makes it clear how cops and prosecutors framed Mumia Abu-Jamal for a murder he didn’t commit.
Join us! We will discuss:
• The New “gag” law in Pennsylvania that seeks to silence prisoners. This law, cobbled together in days following Mumia’s recorded presentation to a commencement ceremony at Goddard College, was explicitly designed to “shut him up.” The targets of this blatantly unconstitutional law, however, include all prisoners convicted of violent crimes!
• A Law Suit has been filed to stop the “gag” law from being implemented! Support for this effort is critical. Donations will go toward the fight against the “gag” law.
• The suppression of the “Urban Dreams” web site by the Oakland School Board. This teacher-created site of voluntary curriculum ideas included one comparing the suppression of Mumia’s commentaries with censorship of Martin Luther King’s later writings. While the Superintendent of Schools has now promised to restore the site, we must remain vigilant!
• Both of these measures—the “gag” law in Pennsylvania, and the suppression of the Urban Dreams website—were taken at the behest of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)! The FOP is a highly politicized organization which seeks to silence social critics such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, and dictate the curricula in schools! The FOP and Democrat/Republican politicians will continue their attempts at intimidation and suppression, unless we act!
• Ferguson shows that black and Latino youth particularly are threatened by militarized and politicized police who shoot first and ask questions later, and frame their targets for crimes they didn’t commit. Chief targets have included Native American Activists like Leonard Peltier, militant working-class activists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Black Panthers and Martin Luther King. Mumia is currently a top target to silence. But anyone and everyone can be on their enemies list, and in their cross-hairs! Fight back now!
Donate Now to fight the “gag” law! go to:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/protect-freedom-of-speech-keep-mumia-on-the-air
See you on December 5th!
The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
PO Box 16222 • Oakland CA • 510.763.2347
Sponsored by Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu Jamal, Prison Radio and Teachers for Mumia.
