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The Interfaith Tent for Justice and our allies ask you to join us this First Friday (and subsequent First Fridays) in downtown Oakland to bear witness as we read the names of those killed by police in our communities.
We will stand in respectful silence from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM at 7th and Broadway (outside OPD) as the names are read.
We stand for an end to all community violence.
Come to #GeziGardens on Sat. 6/8 for a BBQ, meeting, bands, workshops, speakers, gardening, and FUN! Starts at noon, goes all day!
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: 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: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Join us as we share prayer and peaceful protest through the City of Manteca from the point where Ernest was murdered in the 200 block of Flores Ave to the Manteca PD – We will then be having a bbq and event after at location to be announced – bring yourself, we will have signs but you can share your own loved ones poster if you want – so come on out and Join us and remind them WE WILL NEVER FORGET AND WE WANT JUSTICE!!
Justice For Ernest Duenez Facebook page
THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE ARE NOT MEETING AT THIS TIME AND PLACE!!
Join us! All Are Welcome!
You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We held our second Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), May 18th in San Francisco.
We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on June 29, at 900 Alice St, Oakland 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
We will be talking about our coalition organizing with Save the Berkeley Post Office, and have a report back from our Debtors’ Union subcommittee.
We will be discussing our next major actions.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
Check out our website and our Facebook page.
The Whole Damn System is Guilty
On June 10th the trial of racist vigilante George Zimmerman is set to begin. It will take the renewed actions of thousands from all walks of alife to have a hot at justice in this case.
March and rally, protest and walkout. Post the slogan and put up signs declaring:
The Whole Damn System is Guilty!
“Occupy Love”-The Movie, Oakland Premiere
The New Parkway, 474 24th st., Oakland
$10 Tickets: http://huboaklandoccupylove.eventbrite.com/
HUB Oakland and Fierce Love Films present the community screening of Occupy Love–which explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The film connects the dots in this era of rapidly evolving social change, featuring captivating insider scenes from the Egyptian Revolution, the Indignado uprising in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York, Indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands, the climate justice movement, and beyond.
Woven throughout the action oriented backbone of the film is a deep exploration of public love, and compelling stories of an emerging new paradigm. It features some of the world’s key visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and empathy, including Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Jeremy Rifkin, bell hooks and Charles Eisenstein.
Our civil liberties developed painstakingly by generations of historically great thinkers are vanishing at an alarming rate. The United States is more than losing its standing on the global stage as a democracy; it is relinquishing its stature as a country that abides by the rule of law.
Our panel of speakers sound the alarm and formulate ways for all of us to work together and make a difference.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir English
(Member of Parliament, Iceland – Pirate Party) Poetician, Director of the International Modern Media Institute, co-producer of the aerial weapons team, WikiLeaks “Collateral Murder” video, Bradley Manning supporter, and plaintiff-litigant in the NDAA case Hedges v. Obama.
Daniel Ellsberg was a high-level military planner who leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the Vietnam War becoming America’s most well-known whistleblower. He is a founding board member of the Bradley Manning Support Network and the Freedom of the Press Foundation and plaintiff-litigant in the NDAA case Hedges v. Obama.
Norman Solomon
Activist and Author
Nadia Kayyali
Legal Fellow with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Executive Vice President for the National Lawyers Guild
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: NOT A PENNY MORE FOR OPD!!
BBQ at 4:30 PM.
Rally at 5:30 PM.
Bring your family and plan to stay for the City Council Budget Hearing at 6:30 PM.
Wear your JAB shirt!
Dear Friends and Allies of the Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition:
Please join us at City Council 14th and Broadway on June 13th at 5:30 PM. The City Budget decision is fast approaching. The City of Oakland is holing several hearings about city funds and June 13th is the next one. The big question is what will the city council spend our money on: police or social services. The city workers in several unions (SEIU Local 1021, IFPTE Local 21, and IBEW local 1245) are fighting for more money for their contracts, and less for the department that takes up the lion’s share of the budget: namely the police. Just as many unions such as SEIU 1021 have endorsed the Justice for Alan Blueford Campaign, so too does the Justice for Alan Blueford Campaign stand in solidarity with city workers in their fight. Our fights are connected since we face the same enemy.
Why should money go to a police department that still has not fired and charged Alan’s killer, Miguel Masso?
– For more info about the police budget, OPD racism and the basics of Alan’s case:
Tell the City Council to stop Police Terrorism
Sign up to speak to the council show up by 6:30 or sign up ahead of time here:
Online speaker signup
Money for city workers not racist police murder!
Fire, charge and convict Officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford!
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website
Jail Diane Feinstein instead
START DATE: Friday June 14
TIME: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location Details: Rally & Chalk art 5pm at Dianne Feinstein’s Office, One Post St. near Montgomery BART station on Market St., San Francisco March at 4pm from Gezi Gardens, Laguna and Fell St. (formerly Hayes Valley Farm)
Protest RALLY AND CHALK ART TO SUPPORT NSA WHISTLEBLOWER EDWARD SNOWDEN AT DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S OFFICE AT ONE POST ST. NEAR MONTGOMERY BART STATION. BRING CHALK!!! 5PM RALLY AT FEINSTEIN’S OFFICE ONE POST ST. 4PM MARCH TO FEINSTEIN’S OFFICE FROM GEZI GARDENS, LAGUNA AND FELL ST. (FORMERLY HAYES VALLEY FARM, CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY ACTIVISTS TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT)
The government is watching you, yet we refuse to live in fear. Stand in solidarity with whistleblowers and those that speak truth to power! Edward Snowden, 29 year old whistleblower, exposed the illegal NSA/FBI surveillance system called PRISM which gives the government and private security firms direct access to the servers of Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Youtube, MSN, etc. as well as direct access to Verizon phone logs. Edward Snowden, like Bradley Manning and Daniel Ellsberg before him have done a great service to humanity by uncovering to the public the extent at which the government will go to spy on its citizens and deprive of our rights. Dianne Feinstein has called Snowden a traitor, yet she is the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence where she would have been briefed on these government programs that threaten our freedom and violate our fourth amendment rights. Rally at Feinstein’s office at 5pm, march to Feinstein’s office from Gezi Gardens at 4pm.
Capitalism is Killing the Planet. How Can We Fight Back?
Capitalism’s competitive drive to accumulate puts it at odds with our ecosystem and therefore all of humanity. The EcoSocialist coalition wants to build a new sustainable society based on genuine democracy and harmony with our planet by building mass movements against climate change, nuclear disasters, agribusiness and environmental racism. Join us!
We held a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. See photos here.
We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted. In light of the recent upheavals in the Oakland Police Department, we are renewing our calls for the firing of Masso and justice for Alan. We held a press conference to this effect on Thursday, May 16th.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Jutice 4 Alan Blueford website
Come hear why we demand “U.S. hands off Syria, Iran, & Venezuela”. Join us afterwards to celebrate the opening of new
Workers World’s new Oakland office, with food and music by Redd Welsh.
Recent U.S. threats against these and other countries show that this time of capitalist economic crisis brings with it the danger of new imperialist wars and interventions. In late May the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution backing up Israel if it launches an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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
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: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
On Friday, June 21st ACCE’s Riders for Transit Justice Bus Riders Union will be kicking off a monthly Movie Night & Fundraiser! We’re inviting friends & supporters to watch “Bread & Roses” the film inspired by the pivotal and groundbreaking “Justice for Janitors” Campaign! We’ll also be joined by a special guest, the one and only Jono Shaffer, a long-time labor organizer who served as the basis for the film’s main character!
We’ll be showing the film followed by a question & answer session with Jono! This will be our kickoff of regular movie nights where leaders from Riders for Transit Justice will host viewings of movement movies along with discussions about the topics presented in the movies.
We’re asking for donations to support ACCE, with a suggested donation of $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds!). We hope everyone can come and join us! Additionally, ACCE members will be cooking delicious and healthy food that will be available for sale.
Movies, delicious food, and a way to support ACCE – what could be better?!
Join us on Friday, June 21st at 5:30pm at the ACCE Oakland office for the movie.
RSVP by email.
Please tell us:
Your name:
How many people you are bringing:
Your phone #:
Saturday, June 22nd from 7:00 PM to morning!
Bring a sleeping bag.
Oscar Grant Plaza 14th Street & Broadway, OaklandFeast! Films! Music! More!
“This movement won’t end here. We’ve started something much bigger than the park. …After tis, I don’t think people will go back to being afraid of this government or any government.”
-Seyitt Cikmen, 19