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Due to Oct 25th events at OGP spanning the usual hours of the Labor Solidarity Committee meeting, we will not be holding a meeting this week. Meeting will resume next week.
Please check back for the place of the next OOLSC meeting, to be held Nov 1st, as it is not yet determined.
We are now meeting weekly. After the release of the (redacted) police report, the (whitewashed) DA’s report and its pronouncement that Masso was justified in gunning Alan down, and our press conference denouncing same, we will be planning further steps in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. Come help us out!
We are organizing a large march for November 10th, 2012 with an emphasis on opposition to Racial Profiling, particularly Oakland’s de facto Stop & Frisk policy — which led directly to Alan’s death — and the repeal of the Police Officers’ Bill of Rights, a California law which protects Officer Masso from investigation unlike ordinary citizens.
OO Web Committe will be meeting this Saturday October 27th, 2012.
Members are encourage to attend.
Location: Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez, 1449 Miller Avenue, Oakland, California
The Labor Solidarity Committee is attempting to organize a group to support a possible walkout by Walmart workers on ‘Black Friday’, the day after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping day of the year.
Come and help us get organized!
Come if you are interested in participating and perhaps joining the Finance Committee.
Be nice, these folks are doing a boring, thankless task and are real-life Stakhanovites.
🙂
-Fat Ed
New schedule and additional location!
Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM
And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM
If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!
Web@occupyoakland.org
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting is tentatively scheduled for the amphitheater at Oscar Grant Plaza, directly in front of City Hall. PLEASE CHECK BACK BECAUSE THIS LOCATION COULD VERY WELL CHANGE!
Topics will likely include planning for the next Port Workers Assembly, a future Mi Pueblo action, a discussion of what we might do for December 12th, the one year anniversary of the West Coast Port Shutdown, along with possibly ILWU, SEIU, Airport workers, United Food Workers, Walmart and other labor activity updates.
Join members of the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition to spread the word about Alan Blueford and his untimely death at the hands of the Oakland Police.
Center stage will be at 477 25th St., a cooperative gallery where there will be an Alan Blueford table, a display, timeline, information, flyers to pass out, petitions to gather signatures and much camaraderie. Thousands of people will likely pass through this gallery during Art Murmer., and thousands more will be out and about.
—– More about the exhibit:
Justice 4 Alan Blueford Means There Will Be No More ‘Alan Bluefords’
Local artist Nite Owl & Justice 4 Alan Blueford coalition member Mollie Costello, RN will co-present a timeline exhibit dedicated to Alan Blueford debuting on Nov. 2nd and running thru Nov. 10th.
The event is presented with the support of Art Beat Foundation http://www.artbeatfoundation.org a local organization with the mission of supporting the artist community.
Nov. 2nd is Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) as well as the 1 year anniversary of the General Strike and Port shutdown called for by Occupy Oakland and supported by tens of thousands. Nov. 2nd is also 1st Friday in Oakland where thousands of people successfully occupy and shut down parts of downtown Oakland on the 1st Friday of every month.
Exhibit Hours:
Mollie will be at the 25th St Collective daily from Nov. 2nd thru Nov. 10th from 11am-6pm, the doors will be open on Nov. 10th, but Mollie will be marching!
Whether not you visit the timeline exhibit, please join the Justice 4 Alan Blueford coalition and other Bay Area families affected by repressive & racist policing on our March Against Police Brutality and to End Racial Profiling! There will be a rally, followed by the march, at 14th & Broadway at noon on Nov. 10th.
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website
This video of Alan’s family and also of Oscar Grant’s uncle is from outside Oakland Police Department’s Headquarters only 5 days after Alan’s murder.
As is this video of MC Hammer, close personal friend of the Blueford’s.
The meeting location for this week is Siegel & Yee, in City Center (the little shopping center on Broadway between 14th and 12th). It’s basically behind (on the back side) of the row of shops that includes Radio Shack. From City Hall, cross
the street at the crosswalk and just keep walking in the space between the two large buildings. The Siegel & Yee building is diagonally to the left, up a few steps.
There will be somebody to let people in at the beginning of the meeting or a phone number you can call to have somebody let you in.
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We are now meeting weekly. After the release of the (redacted) police report, the (whitewashed) DA’s report and its pronouncement that Masso was justified in gunning Alan down, and our press conference denouncing same, we will be planning further steps in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. Come help us out!
We are organizing a large march for November 10th, 2012 with an emphasis on opposition to Racial Profiling, particularly Oakland’s de facto Stop & Frisk policy — which led directly to Alan’s death — and the repeal of the Police Officers’ Bill of Rights, a California law which protects Officer Masso from investigation unlike ordinary citizens.
We are expecting a large turnout and we need all the help we can get with outreach and logistics. And we need people to help plan further actions!
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website.
Jodie Randolph and her possessions are about to go out onto the street, because Morgan Stanley has something better to do with her home than let her live there.
Jodie has been fighting to stay in her home for years. Companies affiliated with Morgan Stanley shuttled the loan around from one subsidiary to the other until they foreclosed on her.
When the truck comes Tuesday morning (yes, Election Day morning!) to take away her furniture and leave her on the street people we will be on that street to stop that truck.
The most important thing to do is to be there Tuesday to a) stop the eviction and b) organize to make sure the eviction continues to not happen.
The Alameda County Against Drones (ACAD) coalition, together with our supporters and allies, will introduce ourselves to the Board of Supervisors.
Please join us in letting the supervisors know that the people of our county do not want the sheriff to purchase a drone.
The Board of Supervisors is not used to having a full house. Let’s show them that the people care strongly about this important issue. You can just come to the meeting, or you can sign up to speak. (Details to come.)
We will be showing the video on the founding of Cosatu this Wednesday, Nov. 7, at Niebyl Proctor at 7:00 p.m. This will be a fund raiser for the miners and their families. The film is really worth seeing.
— South Africa Miners Solidarity Committee
Public education in California is facing a severe crisis. State budget cuts and austerity measures have accelerated administrators’ efforts to privatize our public colleges. This November, UC Regents and CSU Trustees plan to submit our universities to radical, privatizing reforms. Even if Prop. 30 passes, in the best-case scenario, it would only maintain the status quo; meaning excessive fees, under-funded programs, overcrowded classes, layoffs and pay-cuts for campus workers, and an ongoing process of priv
Through collective struggle, we can defend and sustain public education in California, and we can counter state austerity.
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
The OO Labor Solidarity Committee meets weekly, with every other meeting being held at Oscar Grant Plaza weather permitting. This week’s meeting is tentatively scheduled for the amphitheater at Oscar Grant Plaza, directly in front of City Hall. PLEASE CHECK BACK BECAUSE THIS LOCATION COULD VERY WELL CHANGE! will be held at Unite Here, just a flash-bang grenade’s toss away from 14th & Broadway.
Topics will likely include planning for the next Port Workers Assembly, a future Mi Pueblo action, a discussion of what we might do for December 12th (the one year anniversary of the West Coast Port Shutdown) along with possibly ILWU, SEIU, Airport workers, United Food Workers, Walmart and other labor activity updates.
Bay Area Families March Against Police Brutality – Nov 10 @12pm 14th&Broadway, Oakland
http://occupyoakland.org/2012/10/bay-area-families-march-against-police-brutality-nov-10-12pm-14thbroadway-oakland/
www.Justice4AlanBlueford.org
Every 36 hours in the US, a black person is killed by law enforcement. In 2012, Bay Area Police have killed at least 12 black and brown people.
One one officer has ever been convicted in California of killing a black or brown person.
And Johannes Mehserle, who killed Oscar Grant, served only 11 months in prison and now
wants to return to a law enforcement job!
Alan Blueford, an 18-year old African-American student from Skyline High School,
was shot and killed by Oakland Police Officer Miguel Masso on May 6, 2012. The
Blueford family and the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition (JAB) strongly condemn
the DA’s report and reject all attempts to cover up their son’s murder. We demand
Masso be fired and prosecuted, and all racial profiling practices, including stop and
frisk, be stopped immediately!
