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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.
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.
We’ll meet informally today outside of Jodie’s house in Alameda, CA at 1:00 PM. If you need a ride be at 19th & Telegraph at 12:35 PM.
Updates on Jodie’s eviction defense here.
Call out for action from Friday 10/9.
Help Organize Occupy Oakland’s 1st Open House Tabling Event: Meet at Oscar Grant Plaza
Our dear friend Syd from the Holdout was picked up recently by the Oakland Police department on some bullshit charges.
His arraignment is this Wednesday, November 14th, at 2:00 pm in Department 112 at Wiley Manuel Courthouse on 7th and Washington street.
It would mean a whole lot for as many friends that can come out and support as possible to show up!
Fire to the Prisons, Free All Prisoners!
Join us to help plan Occupy Oakland’s Community Thanks Giving Feast: Meet SF Pizza on 15th & Broadway (due to possible rain)
This project aims to leverage the debt collection system as a tool for direct action and mutual aid. We buy defaulted debt for pennies on the dollar, just as debt collectors would, but instead of attempting to collect it, we abolish it. For every dollar of defaulted debt we buy, $20 of debt will be abolished. This program launches on Thursday November 15th with a live “telethon” event in NYC – The People’s Bailout – where the goal is to raise $50,000, every penny of which will go toward abolishing $1,000,000 of defaulted medical debt. (In general, you cannot buy the debt of individuals. Rather, you have to buy categories of debt either by geography–folks in a given zip code, for example–or by category–medical debt, credit card debt, etc.)
After we have purchased and successfully abolished this $1,000,000 worth of debt, those whose debt was abolished will be notified with a letter that explains:
(1) That their debt has been abolished, and how that was done
(2) How to contact credit agencies to make sure the debt cancellation is reflected in their credit score
(3) How they can pay some of the jubilee forward, to abolish others also in debt. This is the “rolling” aspect of the jubilee.
NEXT STEPS/HOW TO HELP:
‘Like’ the StrikeDebt Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Strike-Debt/244850825627699
Share the Rolling Jubilee event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/394920527248194/
Follow @StrikeDebt on Twitter (we’re almost at 1,000 followers!)
Consider loaning your twitter or FB account to for a once-a-day blast: http://donateyouraccount.com/StrikeDebt (choose ‘Gold’ level)
Once you’ve done that, make some buzz! Try to post a few times a day about the Jubilee. Every single post counts. Here are some sample posts: http://bit.ly/RJSampleTweets. Feel free to copy and paste, or customize to your own liking. Just make sure to include the website www.rollingjubilee.org, and the hashtags #PeoplesBailout and #RollingJubilee, if you can.
Email your friends and ask them to do all of the above, too. Here are some articles you can use to get the conversation going:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jeff-mangum-plans-occupy-wall-street-fundraiser-20121024
http://pitchfork.com/news/48326-jeff-mangum-members-of-sonic-youth-fugazi-tv-on-the-radio-to-perform-at-occupy-wall-street-telethon/
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/ows-debtors-coming-out-first-step-toward-resistance
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/10/ows-debt-resisters-mobilize-arts-education-and-media-for-a-peoples-bailout/
The telethon starts at 8pm eastern time, so 5pm here. It will be streaming live on the internet, (probably on rollingjubilee.org)
**Also, here in Oakland I’m hoping going to host a livestream event at the Holdout Niebel-Proctor Library on the night of the telethon. We’d watch the telethon, and I have a box of Debt Resistors Operations Manuals to distribute, so we can start talking about debt as a broad platform for resistance and direct action, and maybe get a Strike Debt working group going. Please contact me if you’d like to help organize this event!
STAY TUNE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT A LIVESTREAM PARTY!!
TIMELINE:
November 8th: Donation site goes up, promotional video is released, other announcements. We hope to use this day to test and build up our network. We will put up a site for our people to use to send targeted tweets to various celebrities during this time.
November 12th? New York Times article will be published around this day. Then the press embargo will be lifted.
November 15th: The telethon! Massive simultaneous twitter campaign to promote the live stream and our ongoing donation successes.
Israel launched "Operation Pillar of Clouds" earlier this week with a series of air strikes. More than a dozen people have been killed so far including women and children. International solidarity activists are in the streets all over the world, we have to be in SF. Please share this event with your networks, bring your banners and signs n spirit to the action! Day 1: Thursday Nov 15th at 5:15pm at Israeli Consulate Day 2: Friday Nov 16th at 4:00pm at Israeli Consulate
San Francisco | Israeli Consulate, Thursday November 15, 5:15 p.m. [link]
“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. will be held at the Teamsters Local 70 Hall, 400 Roland Way, Oakland. This is near Hegenberger Road by the airport. PLEASE CHECK BACK BECAUSE THIS LOCATION COULD VERY WELL CHANGE!
Topics will likely include planning for the next Port Workers Assembly on November 17th, another Mi Pueblo action, labor support for Alan Blueford, a discussion of what we might do for December 12th (the one year anniversary of the West Coast Port Shutdown), the Hostess bakery strike, along with possibly ILWU, SEIU, Airport workers, Walmart and other labor activity updates.
Emergency Global Actions for Gaza
Israel launched “Operation Pillar of Clouds” earlier this week with a series of air strikes. More than a dozen people have been killed so far including women and children. International solidarity activists are in the streets all over the world, we have to be in SF. Please share this event with your networks, bring your banners and signs n spirit to the action!
Day 1: Thursday Nov 15th at 5:15pm at Israeli Consulate
Day 2: Friday Nov 16th at 4:00pm at Israeli Consulate [link]
For additions or corrections please tweet @southsouth or @riverdryfilm or email southissouth@gmail.com.
Compiled from latest available information with Omar Robert Hamilton.
US Post Office Truckers are about to be ‘privatized.’ Join the early morning rally, march and lunch/brunch and help stop the privatization of the Post Office.
The Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity Committee has endorsed this action and the cause of the Post Office Truckers.
MEETING LOCATION HAS CHANGED FROM SEIU 1021 TO SIEGEL & YEE!!
Directions: From City Hall cross the street at the 14th St. crosswalk, keep going back between the two big buildings towards the walking mall. To the diagonal left and up a few steps is the building. If there’s no one outside there should be a phone number taped to the door of someone to call.
After our successful rally and march on Saturday, November 10th, we will be planning further steps in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. Come help us out!
We are organizing a fundraiser featuring Angela Davis for December 18th at Laney College. We are planning to make our presence known at the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on December 13th when Judge Henderson hears oral arguments as to whether to put the Oakland Police into receivership.
We will be discussing other possible actions and steps, and we can use all the help we can get.
Israel launched “Operation Pillar of Clouds” with a series of air strikes. So far Israel have been killed tens of people women and children. International solidarity activists are in the streets all over the world, we have to be in SF.
Please share this event with your networks, bring your banners and signs n spirit to the action!
Saturday Nov 17th at 4:00pm at Israeli Consulate in San Francisco
456 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
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
ALL OUT FOR GAZA!
Monday
NOVEMBER 19
4:30PM @ Israeli Consulate
456 Montgomery Street
ALONG WITH THE BELOW SCHEDULE, COMMUNITY PICKET SHUTTLES COURTESY OF THE SEIU WILL BE LEAVING THE WEST OAKLAND BART STARTING AT 5:00 AM !!
TUESDAY: Shuttles will pick people up from West Oakland BART station from 5 AM to 8AM, 12 NOON and again from 4 PM to 6 PM.
Buses will be picking up from the Union Hall at 100 OAK St. throughout the day.
Shuttles will return people to West Oakland BART from 7-8 PM.
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SEIU 1021 Port Workers are Going on Strike against Unfair Labor Practices engaged in by the Port of Oakland. The Port of Oakland has a $37 million surplus, yet refuses to give workers the proper information that they are required to by law. This is one of the richest Port’s in Oakland, the Federal Government has invested in the expansion of the Port to create good jobs in Oakland… and now the Port is refusing to Bargain.
Stop Unfair Labor Practices at the Port!
Support SEIU 1021 strike!
We are asking for your support!
Please come out on Tuesday, November 21 at the Port of Oakland:
9 AM: SSA Terminal 1717 Middle Harbor, Berth 57-59
12 PM Noon: Terminal 1 Oakland Airport
5 PM: SSA Terminal 1717 Middle Harbor, Berth 57-59
FULL SCHEDULE
Kick-Off our 24 hour strike:
Monday, Nov. 19th, 9 PM at Oakland Airport, Terminal 1
TUESDAY, NOV. 20th COMMUNITY PICKET SCHEDULE:
5 AM: 100 Oak Street, Shuttle to Port Terminals
9 AM: SSA Terminal, Berth 57-59 Press Event
12 Noon: Oakland Airport, Terminal 1
4 PM: 100 Oak Street, Shuttle to Port Terminals
5 PM: SSA Terminal, Bert 57-59 Press Event
9 PM: End Time
We will have shuttles from SEIU 1021 office at 100 Oak Street, 2 blocks from the Lake Merritt BART at 5 AM!
Background:
After 16 months without a contract, management at the Port of Oakland still refuse to negotiate fairly. They are demanding cuts, even with a $37 million surplus… and are lying about their finances to the workers and the public. We need more, good jobs in Oakland–not line Goldman Sachs pockets.
Stand up for Good Jobs!
Stand up for Oakland!
Stand up for Fair Bargaining!!!
For more info, call 415-412-1982 or visit:
http://www.seiu1021.org/content/portworkers