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Car Rally to #ProtectOaklandWorkers:
Calling on City Council to Pass Emergency Paid Sick Days and Right to
Return to Work Policies
Gather in front of Xfinity & Popeyes
End at Eastmont Mall (by Burger King) by 12:30 pm
Why:
Half the Oakland City Council failed to show up for workers [2] this
week to pass an emergency paid sick days law that would have protected
workers and the community during this pandemic.
We are joining EBASE and other community partners for an action, riding
through the Fruitvale and East Oakland, the areas hardest hit by
COVID-19 [3], to call on Councilmembers Gallo, Taylor and Reid to stand
with Oakland workers.
Join us in sending a message that Oakland’s workers are essential, and
deserve protections!
* Pass a strong Paid Sick Days law, with no loopholes that requires
all employers to provide universal, immediate paid sick leave during a
public health emergency.
* Protect workers’ livelihoods by ensuring that when it is safe to
return to work, they still have a job with a Right to Return policy.
* Stand up the Department of Workplace & Employment Standards to make
worker protections real.
Bring:
* A car
* Signs with Messages:
* Protect Oakland Workers!
* Show Up for Workers!
* Councilmember Gallo: Support Workers!
* Councilmember Taylor: Support Workers!
* Workers Need Paid Sick Days!
* Workers Need the Right to Return to Work!
* A bullhorn, if you have one
* Your protective mask
* We’ll bring a planned route, signs, tape and window paint
Please let us know if you can participate by emailing
becky@alamedalabor.org
Oakland #dpw told residents on Wood st that they would come evict residents on June 3rd!!!
Come out to defend the community at 9am!!
Meet at 18th & Wood st— the United Front Against Displacement (@TheUfad) May 25, 2020
#TheTown Sits OUT the Curfew
Our coalition includes
Anti Police-Terror Project CRC Oakland Rising
Bay Rising CURYJ Black Organizing Project
Ella Baker Center
Family, JOIN US Wednesday night 6/3 at 8:05 pm
We, The People of Oakland, and our allies and accomplices around the bay, DISSENT to the steadily encroaching FASCISM of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department’s 8pm curfew order!!!
We’ll be sitting down in the intersection of 14th and Broadway to say an unequivocal “F***k your curfew!”
Everywhere we turn there are reminders to fight for each other’s freedom. Today, 6/2, is Miles Hall’s Angelversary ( https://www.facebook.com/events/538186717063894/ ). We defy the sheriff’s orders in honor and memory of him, as well as Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Steven Taylor, and countless others murdered by so-called civil servants.
The CURFEWS here and nationwide are RACIST policing measures that serve the militant suppression of The People. These measures are in clear, direct response to us rising up in defense of Black Lives. We won’t submit to Trump’s “Law and Order State”.
On Monday, June 1st, young organizers from Oakland Tech led a George Floyd Solidarity March that was multigenerational, peaceful, and 15,000 STRONG
On Monday, June 1st, at 7:57 pm, OPD threw flashbang grenades and teargas into the gathered crowd and proceeded in making 100+ arrests into the night — rounding up protesters and non-protesters alike, including many of our unhoused neighbors and essential workers
Again, WE DISSENT
Our coalition includes
Anti Police-Terror Project
CRC
Oakland Rising
Bay Rising
CURYJ
Black Organizing Project
Ella Baker Center
You, your loved ones and friends
NOTE: We remain committed to offering to post bail for Black & Brown folks arrested while protesting. Please contact us if you know of anybody arrested and held who needs this support.
PANDEMIC REMINDER: Wear your mask. Hold 6 foot distance as much as possible. Bring sanitation supplies such as hand sanitizer for yourself, and more if you have enough to share.
THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM CONTINUES!
STOP Police Terror, Systemic Racism & STOP the Privatization of the Port of Oakland!
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Longshore Division will stop work at all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours to commemorate JUNETEENTH, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery.
Join ILWU Locals 10, 34, 75, 91 for a day of solidarity & resistance. AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL!
EMERGENCY EVICTION DEFENSE TUESDAY, 6/23 @ 8AM. Caltrans is attempting to illegally evict over 20 homeless people during the #COVID19 pandemic!! Come out to help defend the community from #PoliceBrutality !! pic.twitter.com/sVzvNdH1Tz
— the United Front Against Displacement (@TheUfad) June 21, 2020
We are asking folks to show up THURSDAY AT 8am to support homelsss residents of 38th & Manilla. The city is trying to evict them during a #pandemic and during the #CaliforniaWildFire !! https://t.co/CRvFy6GL1R pic.twitter.com/a8LaEBVOwX
— the United Front Against Displacement (@TheUfad) August 25, 2020
The latest updates from the #6Forced2Strike group, who are going on day 7 of a hunger strike in front of Antioch Police Department. Below is the latest press release (9/10/20), a photo of the site, and their three demands: pic.twitter.com/GJ2Vvs6RMy
— Sarah Belle Lin (@SarahBelleLin) September 10, 2020
TOMORROW! The long standing Wood St encampment is being threatened with an illegal eviction as early as 5 am but going on all day. Show up to help residents and watch cops. #ftp #homesanddignityforall pic.twitter.com/U75bGHoLJP
— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) October 12, 2020
ACCORDING TO AN EMAIL FROM BERKELEY COPWATCH THE EVICTIONS ON OCT 13th HAVE BEEN CANCELLED (NOT SURE IF THAT IS PERMANENTLY…)
Berkeley's largest unhoused encampment is facing eviction and its residents are willing to face arrest to defend their right to occupy space! We need copwatchers and witnesses to come to Seabreeze cafe 7a this Tues 10/13 and possible dates after to film any evictions and arrests. pic.twitter.com/JgOaKvxyhH
— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) October 8, 2020
Saturday 10/17 event has been moved from Dolores Park to Civic Center. Spread the word and make sure everyone knows the new location!!!!!!!! 🖤❤️ pic.twitter.com/5O1NKKToHE
— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) October 16, 2020
Sat October 17
12pm noon
Wear black pic.twitter.com/HGHRIaUEK3— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) October 8, 2020
When Black families are under attack – what do we do?
ACT UP FIGHT BACK!
Join us on Monday, Nov 3 @ 10:30 AM @ 3359 Brookdale Ave to stand with our friend Fred, his wife, & 3 young children who are facing eviction – in the middle of a pandemic – due to a predatory foreclosure.
— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) October 30, 2020
The family, members of @CalOrganize and the Black Housing Union, will host a press conference outside their home to send a strong message to the landlord that they will not be leaving their home and to let all other tenants at risk of eviction that ACCE has their back. BE THERE!
— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) October 30, 2020
As we approach the November election, the multiracial working class is facing multiple crises: dangerous school reopenings, no pandemic relief, continued police violence and repression, climate change crashing down upon us, and a potentially chaotic General Election looming before us.
But we know that collective action in the streets is still the best antidote to the anger and fear we face daily. As democratic socialists, we must be a visible and committed force fighting for democracy and building a mass movement of the working class.
That means — whatever the status of the election — we need to be ready to mobilize on November 4th. Join East Bay DSA and coalition partners from across the Bay Area as we rally to demand that every vote is counted, and to begin organizing to grow DSA and our movement in the coming months. We’ll convene at Oscar Grant Plaza starting at noon for a mass rally and day of action. RSVP below!
| Meet: Cable Car turnout, Powell and Market Streets, then march to the Westfield Shopping Complex | |
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It’s that time of year again! The 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend will take place January 15th-18th 2020.
This year’s theme is Re-Imagine. Reimagine and remember King’s unrealized dream.
Oaklanders have a dream:
We dream of a total transformation of how Oakland defines and implements public safety.
We dream of REfunding our communities with 50% of OPD’s dollars to create true public safety.
We dream of housing our unhoused.
We dream of being able to afford our rent.
We dream of an equitable and competent response to our most COVID-19 impacted communities.
We dream of communities that are not terrorized and traumatized by gun violence.
We dream of a 100% progressive city government that reflects the values that are the heart and soul of Oakland.
We are making our dream the collective lived reality of our City.
We are asking organizations to organize events over the weekend on January 15, 16, or 17. But please reserve Monday, January 18, MLK Day itself, for the 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy — Car Caravan: https://www.facebook.com/events/446637456326892
Events should be virtual or absolutely ensure safe social distancing and adherence to COVID-19 precautions. We will post events here as we learn of them.
See you online and in the streets!
It’s that time of year again! The 7th Annual Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy Weekend will take place January 15th-18th 2020.
This year’s theme is Re-Imagine. Reimagine and remember King’s unrealized dream.
Oaklanders have a dream:
We dream of a total transformation of how Oakland defines and implements public safety.
We dream of REfunding our communities with 50% of OPD’s dollars to create true public safety.
We dream of housing our unhoused.
We dream of being able to afford our rent.
We dream of an equitable and competent response to our most COVID-19 impacted communities.
We dream of communities that are not terrorized and traumatized by gun violence.
We dream of a 100% progressive city government that reflects the values that are the heart and soul of Oakland.
We are making our dream the collective lived reality of our City.
We are asking organizations to organize events over the weekend on January 15, 16, or 17. But please reserve Monday, January 18, MLK Day itself, for the 7th Annual Day of Action to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy — Car Caravan: https://www.facebook.com/events/446637456326892
Events should be virtual or absolutely ensure safe social distancing and adherence to COVID-19 precautions. We will post events here as we learn of them.
See you online and in the streets!