Too many times movements dies and voices aren’t heard because the weather isn’t as pretty. Well, it’s an ugly world we live in and we have to be willing to sometimes do things that are hard and face ugly things.

When the rain comes, people go in their houses, let us not forget about those who cannot go home because their lives have been stolen in this violent police state.

Come rain. sleet, hail or snow; #BlackLivesMatter and we must not let that be forgotten just because of some much needed rain. Bring your umbrellas out, network with one another, build up the community we want to save and march side by side in solidarity with one another & in solidarity with those around the world fighting for a better world.

Wear all Black because #BlackLivesMatter.

With the imminent threat of a sale, First They Came for the Homeless has moved from Staples to the downtown Post Office, with support from Berkeley Post Office Defenders.  The new Occupation began in early November and continues on into December. Come hang out with them and show solidarity as we all take a stand against the privatization of our commons.

Check out the Christmas event this Saturday.

Check out the stories on the raids by the Postal Police.

This is a Pretrial Hearing. Come and support comrades.

Check the Anti-Repression website and/or Facebook for last minute changes!

We invite you to join us in the courtroom as EFF challenges the government’s violations of Americans’ constitutional rights. Be part of our tireless call for justice and an end to illegal spying.

WHAT:
Hearing on Motion for Partial Summary Judgment in Jewel v. NSA

JUDGE:
Jeffrey S. White

MORE INFORMATION:
EFF Case Page: Jewel v. NSA
Timeline of NSA Spying Developments
Media Alert

SPECIAL NOTES:
Government-issued photo ID is required for entry; arrive early for security screening. EFF urges attendees to dress in business attire and to observe respectful courtroom decorum.

There is now a Facebook event for this as well.

See yall at OGP at 8:30 pm.

— commotion pictures (@revflix) December 20, 2014

Please Join us on the last Saturday before Christmas with signs, drums, kids, and you passion. No Business as usual, this is a protest about Police and state violence and in support of #BlackLivesMatter

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Dear Defenders of the Berkeley Post Office,

Saturday December 20 marks the 50th day of this year’s 24/7 occupation at the Berkeley Main Post Office, under the auspices of First They Came for the Homeless and Berkeley Post Office Defenders. The current occupiers have long since eclipsed the 33-day record of the well-publicized 24/7 Tent City at the Berkeley P.O. in August 2013. Their goal: Stop the sale of the Post Office to greedy privateers.

And they’ve maintained the encampment through many cold days and nights of drenching rain and driving wind, and putting up with multiple harassment visits by the Postal Police and postal inspectors. Saying no to the privatization and dismantling of our public treasure, the Post Office.

It’s been 15 months since we first claimed this Post Office as public space, paid for by the people and held in trust since Ben Franklin’s day. As of today, the information table and big tent are still standing at the historic 100-year-old Post Office at 2000 Allston Way.

Our banner “Welcome – Our Post Office is Open – Let’s Keep it That Way” was confiscated by postal police — but the handsome “First Amendment” poster remains defiantly wheat-pasted on one of the columns of this beautiful building. After the people of Berkeley mounted a legal challenge and a favorable new zoning ordinance, the Post Office so far remains in the public domain.

So why don’t we have a celebration on the Post Office Steps to mark the 50th day of the people’s camp??

Be there on the steps, starting 1:00 PM Saturday. Bring yourself, your talents, food and supplies for everyone and for the people’s camp. For more information go to the Facebook page of First They Came for the Homeless.

Weather Report for Saturday – NO RAIN

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The Depression-era mural inside the downtown Berkeley Post Office:

Also scheduled here.

No other information.

Come learn about police tactics and human rights obligations, what to look out for and how to best record evidence of police misconduct in support of #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations against state-sanctioned police brutality and systemic anti-black racism.

Legal observers play a crucial role monitoring and reporting on police behavior at demonstrations and other protest events by protecting and asserting civil and political rights.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Legal Observer program is part of a comprehensive system of legal support designed to enable people to express their political views as fully as possible without unconstitutional disruption or interference by the police and with the fewest possible consequences from the criminal justice system.

Please review the Legal Observer Manual (located at http://www.nlg.org/sites/default/files/LO_Manual.pdf) prior to attending the workshop.

Event Organizers and Supporters:
— The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the NLG
— #BlackLivesMatter Bay Area
— National Lawyers Guild of San Francisco (NLGSF)
– To be continued –

Winter Solstice is the 9th Month Anniversary

of Alex’s homicide by SFPD

CHECK HERE FOR FINAL DETAILS PLEASE

Bring flashlights. It’ll be dark by the time we walk back down the hill.

Opening ceremony & words by families who have lost loved ones in 2014 to police brutality.

Confirmed visiting families:
Family of Yanira Serrano Garcia (killed in Half Moon Bay).
Family of Antonio Lopez (killed in San José)
Family of Errol Chang (killed in Daly City)

Sidewalk procession to Bernal Hill.

@ Bernal Heights Park, Alex Nieto Memorial Site, northside slope: Words by family and supporters of Alex Nieto.

Closing ceremony.

Walk to site of Mexican Posada, to be announced on hill.

Monday is the Ferguson 3’s preliminary hearing. Let’s pack the court at 9am in Dept 112. Please invite all of your friends and spread the word!

Continued from this morning.

Court support for the Ferguson 3 is going on today! The court is on lunch break and reconvenes at 1:30 Dept 110 at Wiley Manuel Courthouse on 6th and Washington. This is a super important hearing so please go and show your support and solidarity!!!

Via Anti-Repression Facebook.

#Ferguson3 hearing at 1:30 at Wiley Manuel, department 110. Get there. #oaklandprotests #blacklivesmatter #oak2stl #courtsupport

— Jingle Elle Rock (@OaklandElle) December 22, 2014

Plans:

1.      An overnighter on Monday, December 22^nd at 101 Market St. Beginning around 6:00pm
2.      Actions on Tuesday, December 23^rd. around and near the Federal Reserve

Needs:

1.      Your presence on Monday evening and Tuesday
2.      A rocking chair,  cot; children’s blankets, teddy bear (anything that looks like a child’s room)
3.      Help with supplying organic (non-GMO) food and a table
4.      Good conditioned clean used clothes for give away / sharing
5.      Toiletries to give away
6.      Signage / Banners

Few Points About the FEDERAL RESERVE:

• IS a PRIVATE BANKING CORPORATION with a monopoly on the creation of the money supply
• IS the PRIMARY CAUSE of every ECONOMIC CRISIS since it existed
• IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE to CONGRESS or the VOTERS
• IS the ROOT CAUSE of INFLATION

**Brochure on the Federal Reserve is available upon request via an email link

If you can help out in anyway or if you can stay overnight please contact: afong@jps.net

SHUT DIABLO CANYON, CALIFORNIA’S LAST NUKE!

With the wonderful anti-nuke activist and writer Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman, author of Solartopia. Harvey coined the term “No Nukes”. He was arrested at Diablo back in the 80s. He organized anti-nuke concerts with Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Crosby Stills Nash & Young. He has a radio program on Progressive Radio Network: Solartopia Green Power And Wellness Hour – 12.09.14 – PRN.fm

also: Linda Seeley with San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, and Cynthia Papermaster, coordinator of Codepink “PG&E Ratepayer Revolt to Shut Diablo Now!”

Starts promptly at 6! Information, discussion & community! Time will be allocated for announcements. Donations welcome, no one turned away. Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!

You’re going to want to be a part of this historic campaign and convergence to shut Diablo!

The NRC’s chief resident inspector at Diablo, Dr. Michael Peck, recommended LAST YEAR to shut the plant because critical backup safety systems won’t work in the event of an earthquake.

California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors are surrounded by earthquake faults they were never designed to withstand. They are riddled with design flaws and can’t meet basic fire safety standards. They dump huge quantities of hot water into the ocean in defiance of state water quality standards, killing billions of sea creatures.
They continue to pile up huge quantities of deadly radioactive wastes that have no place to go. And that’s just the start of it.
Fortunately, a powerful grassroots movement is rising up in California to shut these reactors and make the state nuke-free. More demonstrators have been arrested at Diablo Canyon than any other nuke site in the U.S. Green Power activists recently won a landmark victory by shutting the two nukes at San Onofre, between Los Angeles and San Diego, leaving just the ones at Diablo to plague the state.

This gathering is meant to inform, energize, plan and commit us all to winning another great victory over the nuclear power industry, and to finally bring California to Solartopia, a green-powered state where we can live in harmony and safety with our nuke-free Mother Earth. Join us at this rare and wonderful gathering…bring your best intentions and let’s figure out how to win this one NOW.

Linda Seeley
Linda Seeley is Vice-President and Spokesperson for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, the legal intervenor in all matters pertaining to the safety and licensing of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in Avila Beach, CA. She is an advanced facilitator of Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, group practices to guide us through the current world crisis without going crazy. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the Santa Lucia Sierra Club and is a Core Team member of the national Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign. She has lived in San Luis Obispo for 32 years, where she delivered over a thousand babies during her career as a nurse-midwife. Her passion for the future generations is the guiding principle in her work to shut down Diablo Canyon.

Codepink’s Cynthia Papermaster
is a law librarian, justice activist and mother in Berkeley, California, Coordinator of “PG&E Ratepayer Revolt to Shut Diablo”, Director of Berkeley No More Guantanamos, Co-Coordinator of Golden Gate Codepink Women for Peace, a Board Member of Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute. She is one of the “Vandenberg 15” (Dan Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, Father Louis Vitale, etc.), arrested trying to stop an ICBM launch, undertook an 84-day hunger strike in 2013 in solidarity with Guantanamo and Pelican Bay hunger strikers. She works to end U.S. torture, close Guantanamo, end illegal wars of occupation and drone killing, civilize the police and end state violence, free Chelsea Manning, and audit the Pentagon.

More than a hundred comrades will appear in court this week for charges related to the Berkeley Uprisings earlier in December, particularly for the mass arrests, such as the CHP arrests in Emeryville. Courts will be closed on Thursday, December 25th. Otherwise it’s business as usual for state oppression.

Court support is needed EVERY DAY at 9 am in Dep 107!

Share, invite, show up! Let’s pack the courts!

MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE ANTI-REPRESSION WEBSITE and FACEBOOK FOR THE LATEST INFO. COURT DATES CHANGE AND TIMES GET PUSHED FROM MORNING TO AFTERNOON.

Plans:

1.      An overnighter on Monday, December 22^nd at 101 Market St. Beginning around 6:00pm
2.      Actions on Tuesday, December 23^rd. around and near the Federal Reserve

Needs:

1.      Your presence on Monday evening and Tuesday
2.      A rocking chair,  cot; children’s blankets, teddy bear (anything that looks like a child’s room)
3.      Help with supplying organic (non-GMO) food and a table
4.      Good conditioned clean used clothes for give away / sharing
5.      Toiletries to give away
6.      Signage / Banners

Few Points About the FEDERAL RESERVE:

• IS a PRIVATE BANKING CORPORATION with a monopoly on the creation of the money supply
• IS the PRIMARY CAUSE of every ECONOMIC CRISIS since it existed
• IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE to CONGRESS or the VOTERS
• IS the ROOT CAUSE of INFLATION

**Brochure on the Federal Reserve is available upon request via an email link

If you can help out in anyway or if you can stay overnight please contact: afong@jps.net

More than a hundred comrades will appear in court this week for charges related to the Berkeley Uprisings earlier in December, particularly for the mass arrests, such as the CHP arrests in Emeryville. Courts will be closed on Thursday, December 25th. Otherwise it’s business as usual for state oppression.

Court support is needed EVERY DAY at 9 am in Dep 107!  (And possibly at 2:00 pm)

Share, invite, show up! Let’s pack the courts!

MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE ANTI-REPRESSION WEBSITE and FACEBOOK FOR THE LATEST INFO. COURT DATES CHANGE AND TIMES GET PUSHED FROM MORNING TO AFTERNOON.

candlelight vigil for #AntonioMartin // 12.24 at 5pm, mlk park in berkeley, ca #BerkeleyToBerkeley #BlackLivesMatter #Ferguson please RT.

— pan ellington (@littlechicken) December 24, 2014

We are organizing a party for the homeless this Christmas. It went really well last time and we are excited to do it again! If you’re from out of town or if you’re free after seeing family, please consider coming down! We need donations of food, alcohol, soda, plates, and utensils. Also if you have clothes, jackets or tents for the needy please bring them by!

we will have dis and maybe some live performers, if you’re interested please let me know!

Facebook RSVP

Mob to the court this Friday, 12/26 at 8:15am. Support the #BlackFriday14, who shut down the BART. pic.twitter.com/fXB7p6WV8E

— BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) December 25, 2014