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In 2007 Antoine Thomas was arrested in Fairfield with a friend. They were subject to a public cavity search in which they were brutalized and humiliated by Solano County Police. Antoine later filed a complaint against the Solano County police
In 2009 he was framed for an alleged robbery in 2010 he was sentenced to 65 years in Vacaville. His sister says she has significant evidence that would exonerate him.
Concert features Dominico Bangaluchi, Richelle Scales, Fly Benzo and more!
The East Bay Anarchist Bookfair will be held on December 7th from 10AM to 8PM. It will include conversations and books during the day.
Update, Dec. 7, 2:43 a.m. According to reports from the scene, many of the protesters have dispersed. Some have called for supporters to meet Sunday at 1 p.m. at Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus to continue their efforts. Stay tuned to #BerkeleyProtest for live updates.
Meeting tomorrow at 1 o clock on Sproul. #berkeleyprotest
— Sahil Chinoy (@sahilchinoy_dc) December 7, 2014
So far we’re hearing march is called for Sunday (technically today) 5pm at Bancroft And Telegraph in #Berkeley #EricGarner #Ferguson
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 7, 2014
I’ll be gearing up & attending protest Sunday 5pm @ Telegraph & Bancroft in #Berkeley. Please attend. See you there. Will be Live Tweeting.
— Domain Awareness (@domainawareness) December 7, 2014
Sunday 1pm 14th&Broadway, 5pm Bancroft &Telegraph. Bring milk as well and trade contacts for glasses if poss #FTP pic.twitter.com/DymVS0ZfUd
— LaCrise (@lacrise_ucd) December 7, 2014
#Berkeley — Call has gone out. Protest: Telegraph & Bancroft Sunday @ 5pm #EricGarner #ShutItDown #Ferguson #Oakland #PoliceState ALL OUT!!!
— Domain Awareness (@domainawareness) December 7, 2014
#Berkeley #Oakland This is definitely a gas mask night ahead of us. Show up prepared – bring water & snacks. Police are out for blood. #FTP
— Domain Awareness (@domainawareness) December 7, 2014
John P. Clark’s new book, The Impossible Community, comes out of the anarchist Social Ecology tendency of Murray Bookchin. Bookchin’s ideas have been cited lately as one of the influences among Kurds of Turkey and northern Syria. The latter have inspired the world with their defense of an egalitarian, gender-equal community against the superior weapons of the Islamic State butchers.
For Clark, Hegel’s dialectic addresses the problem of free and full development after a revolution when new forms like popular assemblies appear. For Bookchin these popular assemblies are purely “unmediated social relations.” That, says Clark, can never be. Freedom means confronting anew the necessarily mediated character of social relations.
An Anarchist / Marxist-Humanist dialog will engage this issue from the perspective of Hegel’s concept of dialectical mediation. Hegel saw the need for his dialectic to be projected directly into the fray as the prevailing discourse late in his life had retrogressed into two opposite forms of “immediate truth:” either a fundamentalist attitude toward scripture or an “enlightened” pure intuitionism.
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The Progressive Victory party celebrating the Progressive candidates who won Richmond’s last election. Live muisc by Grupo Puyakan playing traditional Afro Colombian music.
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 obstructing an officer, a felony, and misdemeanor battery on a police officer.
He is still in custody, held on $75K bail.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
1) Donate here to the Bay Area Anti Repression Committee Bail Fund.
2) Show up to @codeframesf’s hearing:
Watch the infamous Vine: https://vine.co/v/On1x6iUuwxK
5 arraignments at 2pm at Wiley Manuel for people who were arrested last in Berkeley this weekeend. The anti-rep website does not list the Department (for the 9:00 AM hearings it is Department 112).
On Saturday evening over 500 UC-Berkeley students and community members marched to demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner. Police from across the East Bay rioted against the peaceful crowd, with batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets. They broke one person’s leg, inflicted other injuries, and indiscriminately arrested members of the crowd.
But UC-Berkeley students and community members poured into the streets to protest this violent onslaught and STAYED STRONG FOR NINE HOURS. Inspired by the heroic example Ferguson, we showed that WE WON’T BACK DOWN!
Protesters voted to MARCH AGAIN for THESE DEMANDS:
* Jail Darren Wilson, Daniel Pantaleo, and All Killer Cops
* End the Racist Coverups by the District Attorneys and Grand Juries
* Down with the New Jim Crow! Down with the Police From Ferguson to Ayotzinapa to Staten Island: March Against State Repression
* Release the Berkeley protesters arrested and drop all charges.
*** BERKELEY ASKS OTHER CAMPUSES AND COMMUNITIES TO JOIN US IN SOLIDARITY ***
*** SHARE PHOTOS + VIDEO FROM THAT DAY TO GET OUT THE TRUTH ***
TO EVERYONE WHO WAS PROTESTING IN BERKELEY LAST NIGHT: if you or anyone know was injured or arrested by police, document any injuries and contact me (Ronald Cruz, BAMN attorney) at ronald.cruz@ueaa.net . Thank you.
FROM FERGUSON TO BERKELEY, WE WON’T BACK DOWN!
JUSTICE FOR MIKE BROWN AND ERIC GARNER!
A BADGE IS NOT A LICENSE TO KILL, AND NOT A LICENSE TO BEAT STUDENTS!
JAIL DARREN WILSON AND ALL KILLER COPS!
NO MORE RACIST COVER-UPS!
DOWN WITH THE NEW JIM CROW!
DOWN WITH THE POLICE STATE!
Please check the Facebook event page for updates.
a note from Orion I have seen and played with Saxaphonist Archbishop Franzo Wayne King at Anti foreclosue Demonstrations sponsered by ACCE Alliancae of Californians for Community Empowerment He is a true fighter for the people
This December will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the recording A Love Supreme, the John Coltrane album which many consider to be his seminal work. In celebration of this momentous occasion, the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church will celebrate A Love Supreme Mass on December 8 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
The Mass is the high point of a global festival from December 5th to the 9th, in which communities throughout the world will be listening to and playing the music of John Coltrane. In his words “…the whole globe is community.”
In 1965 Archbishop Franzo Wayne King and Reverend Mother Marina King witnessed John Coltrane performing at the San Francisco Jazz Workshop. The experience, which they described as a “sound baptism”, leads them to found the church in 1969. The music and the testimony of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme recording was the corner stone of its founding. In 1982 the congregation joined the African Orthodox Church, which subsequently recognized the canonization of John Coltrane as St. John Will I Am Coltrane.
The Coltrane Church has become an important cultural and spiritual landmark in the city. The congregation has grown beyond the confines of San Francisco to include the whole globe. Every Sunday, the congregation includes members and visitors from throughout the world. All are encouraged to participate in the sound praise, and musicians, including saxophonists, singers, pianists, tap dancers, and drummers join in the “Coltrane Liturgy” led by Archbishop King, Pastor Wanika Stephens, the Ministers of Sound and the Sisters of Compassion.
There is a special significance to the “Coltrane Church” bringing the A Love Supreme Mass to Grace Cathedral. The present Cathedral was consecrated in November 1964 and in September 1965 Duke Ellington premiered his famous Sacred Concert at Grace Cathedral as part of its yearlong opening celebration.
Event: A Love Supreme Mass
Celebrant: Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church
Date: December 8, 2014. Doors open at 6pm. Mass begins at 7pm
Location: Grace Cathedral. 1100 California St, San Francisco
Free to the public, all invited
Saint John Coltrane AOC Presents
Grace Cathedral Vesper Service
Monday December 8, 2014
Door Open at 6pm
Service Starts at 7pm
THE POSTAL SERVICE HAS THE BERKELEY POST OFFICE “UNDER CONTRACT.” !!!!!!!!!!!
THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTS TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP.
THE CITY OF BERKELEY HAS SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER IS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th.
A hearing will take place in Federal Court on December 11th.
Come learn about continuing developments and help us plan our next steps in opposition to this theft of our public commons.
Get an overview of the sale announcement here.
Here’s a good more general overview piece.
Davic Rovics gave a concert on the Post Office steps recently. Check out pictures and video of him playing.
Also CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE. and the Save the Berkeley Post Office website, and First they Came for the Homeless Facebook for updates.
BPOD is an offshoot of Strike Debt Bay Area, which itself is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and a chapter of the national Strike Debt movement, which is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
Please join us at a Teach-In & Fundraiser for the Caravana Climatica and the People’s Climate Summit in Lima, Peru (This is also an OccupyForum Field Trip)
In Dec 2015, the United Nations will convene again in Paris, France to make decisions about our climate future. Between now and then, frontline communities and movements for climate justice and action will be mobilizing for the fight against climate change. It’s time to mobilize locally against fossil fuel infrastructure and Bay Area based corporations profiting from climate change. Join us as we discuss mobilizing events in Lima, in Paris, and in the Bay Area.
This event will include:
– A panel of speakers on climate and anti-extraction campaigns in Northern California
– A video call-in with Caravana Climatica organizers in Lima
– Snacks, drinks
All donations will support the Caravana Climatica currently in Lima, Peru [http://caravanaclimatica.org/].
COME TO CLOSING ARGUMENTS FOR TRIAL
For the entire week of Oct 27th, Superior Court Judge Karnow heard testimony from both the City Attorney’s Office and the ACCJC in the matter of the People of California vs. the ACCJC.
The Judge will hear oral closing arguments on Dec. 9th. After that he will issue a tentative ruling and send to the attorneys who will then get a chance to submit written objections within 15 days. After the judge considers these he will issue his final ruling. So this all sounds like not until at least January. Probably after the ACCJC meeting where they will decide whether or not to put us on Restoration.
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Here are some links to good coverage of it:
Tim Redmond (48 Hills)
AFT 2121
SF Examiner
Save CCSF website’s Latest News
Related reading:
FCMAT critique
OPEB Made Simple
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CANCELLED: HE IS OUT!
Dante/Veggiebone was arrested at the noise demo last night. He is currently in Santa Rita county jail, and his bail is set at $50,000.
He is being charged with felony battery of a “peace officer” of the law.
His arraignment is Tuesday, December 9th at 2pm at Wiley Manuel Courthouse, 661 Washington St, Oakland, CA.
Please support him and his family in any way that you are able.
Read more about the incident: http://www.youcaring.com/
Of the five people arrested in Berkeley over he weekend, three people’s charges were not filed. (These were the three people facing felony charges.) Two people’s arraignments got pushed to tomorrow (TUESDAY). One is at 9am in 107, and one is at 2pm in 112. Please come out tomorrow and support!!!
Check updates here before going.
*** REVISED TUESDAY UPDATE ***
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GATHER TODAY (TUESDAY, DEC. 9) AT BANCROFT + TELEGRAPH AT 5:00PM. IF THERE’S STILL NO JUSTICE, THERE WILL BE NO PEACE!…
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Tuesday city council meeting must be shut down. City government needs to be brought to a halt. In response to the tear-gassing of Telegraph Ave and the People’s Park area, Mayor Bates must resign. Bates resignation must be requested during the city council meeting of Dec 9th. It needs to be made clear that Bates political career is over; he does not represent Berkeley.
Shut down Berkeley city government. The police are waging war on the populous.
If Bates won’t protect citizens from the police, then there needs to be mayor who will.
Furthermore, the police chief Michael Meehan must be terminated. The dissolution of trust has been too great.
The system is corrupt. Shut it down.
Converge at Berkeley City Hall tomorrow at 7pm and demand an end to police terrorism and repression. #Berkeley #BerkeleyProtests #Oakland
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 9, 2014
#Berkeley Any group converging 5pm Telegraph&Bancroft march/regroup @ MLK Jr. / Civic Center Park for 7pm convergence. 2options. #ShutItDown
— Domain Awareness (@domainawareness) December 9, 2014