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#OccupyWheeler GA happening at 8 tonight! Big decisions to be made! #occupycal #FightTheHike #takebackyourtuition @theopenuc @bpoffcampus
— OCCUPY CAL (@OccupyCalCampus) November 23, 2014
A documentary about Rodney Reed – an innocent man the State of Texas is preparing to “legally” lynch by execution on January 14th, 2015.
#Justice4Rodney
Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Films From The Frontlines: Screening and discussion with the Global Uprisings media collective
Join the Global Uprisings media for a special screening of their films covering international social movements!
Global Uprisings is an independent news site and video series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis and authoritarianism. Since 2011, filmmaker Brandon Jourdan and researcher Marianne Maeckelbergh have produced 24 online viral documentary films about the uprisings, rebellions, revolts, and revolutions that have spread around the world. All of their films are completely free online at www.globaluprisings.org.
Their short films detail social movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US. Their films cover strikes and demonstrations in the UK, the large-scale housing occupations and street mobilizations in Spain, the various general strikes, protests, and factory occupations in Greece, the revolution in Egypt, the Gezi Park uprising in Turkey, the 2014 social explosion in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the revolt against austerity in Portugal, and the occupy movement in the United States.
The Global Uprisings series has received hundreds of thousands of online views, been translated into multiple languages, screened at various international film festivals, theaters, galleries, and other venues around the world, used in university and high school classrooms, screened on Democracy Now!, and on the US TV station Free Speech TV.
Global Uprisings Creators
Brandon Jourdan is a journalist and filmmaker who has contributed to Democracy Now!, the NY Times, CNN, Reuters, Deep Dish TV, Independent Media Center, Now with Bill Moyers, Foreign Exchange, and Free Speech TV. With over ten years of experience in documentary filmmaking and journalism, his films have played in film festivals around the world including DocLisboa, Movies That Matter, and the Aljazeera International Film Festival and featured in the 2005 Whitney Biennial, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Contemporary Art Meeting Point in Athens, and the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight. Since 2011, he has worked together with Marianne Maeckelbergh on www.globaluprisings.org, an independent news site and video series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis and authoritarianism.
Marianne Maeckelbergh is Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is author of The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy (Pluto Press, 2009). She is co-founder of www.globaluprisings.org, an independent news site and video series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis and authoritarianism. She is currently a Marie Curie fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
GA tonight at 8 in Wheeler Commons. Main issue: updates and finalize Walk Out tomorrow! #openuc #FightTheHike #FundOurfuture
— CalProgressives (@CalProgressives) November 23, 2014
UC-Wide Walkout Against the Fee-Hikes and for Accessible Public Education
The general assembly in Wheeler hall has called for a day of action on Monday to continue our struggle for accessible public education.
We will have:
Morning teach-outs ~ come join discussions on a variety of topics
- 11:30: Academic Workers’ Rally for Public Education: https://www.facebook.com/events/501511563323950/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
- 12pm: Rally at Sather Gate in solidarity with statewide movements for public education
March through campus, then to downtown, passing big banks, BCC, and BHS. March returns to campus for a General Assembly to decide on a major action for Tuesday morning.
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Throughout the day, there will be Open University teach-outs on issues that cross student, worker, and community issues.
Check out the Open UC Website.
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.