EMERGENCY ACTION AND MEETING TO DEFEND HUCHIUN – KNOWLAND PARK!

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http://www.facebook.com/events/1621914134725011/

12:00 PM – Thursday August 6th – The Knowland Park entrance by the intersection of Malcolm and Snowdown Ave.

6:00 PM – Planning Meeting – The Knowland Park entrance by the intersection of Malcolm an Snowdown Ave.

Please join us this Thursday to stop the construction and plan a long term resistance to defend the park and neighborhood from the Zoo!

Over the weekend the Oakland Zoo began constructing a fence around the proposed development site for the Zoo expansion despite public outcry against its negative impacts on the rare habitat and working class neighborhood. The Oakland Zoo plans to cut down 50+ trees including 2 old growth Oak trees destroying the home of the threatened Alameda Whipsnake, the rare Maritime Chaparral plant community and the Mountain Lion. We see this expansion as neo-colonial, gentrifying, and devastating to this rare and beautiful land. Now that the Zoo and City of Oakland are refusing to hear the concerns of a massive community coalition the we are being forced to take direct action to protect the land.

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#DayofRage is in honor of Sandra Bland. We, the people of the Bay Area, and the United State of Amerika need to stand up and fight the racist, and militant police force that controls us. Its time for us to stand up for our rights and make our voices heard.

We do not want to cause any more violence than we are already accustomed to, but we do need to raise hell. We need to stick up for our brothers and sisters nation wide. We need full police reform. We need your help. Please find time in your busy lives to make a difference. We need voices and bodies from all walks of life, after all, we are in this together. Please spread the word, and invite friends, family, coworkers, etc. We need this senseless violence to stop. Bring noise makers, loud speakers, anything to catch the attention of the masses. How many more deaths will it take for change to happen? Why wait, lets make it happen now.

Remember, if you are reading this, then you ARE the RESISTANCE.

RIP Sandra Bland. Another senseless murder for the fail to use a turning signal.

#SandraBland
#DayofRage

We are resisting a development that would cut down 400+ trees including a 600 year old Oak tree, put a fancy ass restaurant along with 60 other buildings on top of the most beautiful park in Oakland. Then they would cage a bunch of beautiful animals on it gentrifying the working class neighborhood. Please join us for a weekend of fun and Direct Action to stop the Oakland Zoo! For more info about the campaign go to: http://www.defendknowlandpark.org

There will be a shuttle available stopping at Coliseum Bart and Foothill Square but If you can offer a ride or need a ride from Coliseum Bart or the 57 Bus, Oakland , Berkeley or SF please sign up here: http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/u687ix

Bands playing on Friday from Noon – 9 PM!
Star Amerasu – https://soundcloud.com/staramerasu
Dawn Riding – http://www.dawnriding.bandcamp.com
Rock and Roll Breakfast – noisey post punk
DeadFriends – Psychedelic sludgy stuff…
Rock and Roll Breakfast – Post punk –
Walle – Hardcore Punk from Tijuana – https://walle.bandcamp.com/
Moxiebeat – https://moxiebeat.bandcamp.com/

Saturday workshops!:

Workshop/discussion proposals:
Direct Action 101
Cat and Mouse
Knowland Park Defence.
Plant Walk
Scouting
Intersectionality and Deep Ecology

Sunday – Monday: Direct Action!

If you would like to propose a band or a workshop you can FB message or email us at defendknowlandpark.org

It is a donation based event so if you want to help our campaign send donations to: http://www.rally.org/defendknowlandpark and/or give us donations in person. This will help cover food, water, bathrooms, the generator, etc.

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Defend Knowland Park! Direct Action and Call-in against Chain Link Fence and Supply Inc.

http://www.facebook.com/events/953130058065883/

Chain Link Fencing and Supply Inc. (a non-union company) has started to construct a mile-long perimeter fence around the proposed development. We can find no approved building permit for this construction so this fence may be “illegal”. No permit is posted on-site and there has been no response about the fencing from the City building permit staff. Therefore, it is within our “legal” right to take direct action and stop fencing from going up .

Please Join us, Monday – August 17th at Knowland Park to demand their permit to work or if you cannot make it call and email their office repeatedly to jam their lines and respectfully demand information regarding their Work Permit for fencing construction at Knowland Park.

The park was deeded to be protected forever for privatization and not it’s our duty to uphold that deed and Defend Knowland Park

Monday – August 17th – 11 AM – Knowland Park entrance at the end of Edgemont way near Edgemont and Malcolm ave. – Oakland, CA

If you can offer a ride or need a ride from Coliseum Bart or the 57 Bus, Oakland , Berkeley or SF please sign up here: http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/gb9ejt

Chain Link Fence and Supply Inc. – 2040 Research Dr, Livermore, CA 94550 – (925) 606-8167 – INFO [at] FENCESUPPLY.ORG – OPEN M-F 8AM-4PM

http://defendknowlandpark.org/2015/08/15/d…

Interfaith prayer & rally TODAY @WholeFoods (27th & Harrison, Oakland) @1PM in response to Black man attacked by security guards on Friday

— Nicole Deane (@sassmasterdeane) September 6, 2015

Help us let @WholeFoods know that we won't accept this in our neighborhood or in our city. Rally TODAY at 1 PM at the 27th & Harrison store

— Nicole Deane (@sassmasterdeane) September 6, 2015

TAKE ACTION

Tell Congress and the White House:

Keep the Ban on Crude Oil Exports

& Stop Exports of All Fossil Fuels

Protect Our Climate, Health and Environment!

No More Fracking or Tar Sands Mining!

No More Crude Oil Rail Shipments Through Our Communities!

Stop the Utah – Oakland Coaal Export Scheme!

Support Renewable Energy!

Bring Signs!

The Oil Industry is currently working with their friends in Congress in an effort to lift the decades-old ban on shipping crude oil abroad.

In late July, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – chaired by Senator Murkowwski of Alaska – approved the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 that includes a dangerous measure to lift the decades-old crude oil export ban.

Exporting crude oil will encourage even more fracking and tar sands mining, causing increased health, environmental and climate problems in the US and abroad.

To protect health, the environment and stop climate change, we need to keep the crude oil export ban in place, stop fracking and tar sands mining, build the campaign to keep dirty oil and other fossil fuels in the ground, and support renewable energy.

September 8th Action sponsored by: California Environmental Justice Coalition, Center for Biological Diversity, Community Food & Justice Coalition, Community In-power Development Association, Food Empowerment Project, Forest Ethics, Grayson Neighborhood Council, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Huntersview Mothers & Fathers Committee for Health and Environmental Justice, Idle No More/Bay Area, Oil Change International, Occupy Forum, Occupy San Francisco Environmental Justice, Sierra Club, Sunflower Alliance, Tri-Valley CAREs, West Berkeley Alliance for Clean Air & Safe Jobs, West County Toxics Coalition, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, Youth United for Community Action, 350 Bay Area, 350 SF, APEN, CBE

On Thursday Sept. 4th a Black man who was attempting to make a purchase with his EBT, was beaten and bloodied by armed security guards at the Lake Merritt Whole Foods. This man was left unconscious in a large pool of his own blood out front of the store, while employees called for more back-up rather than sending for paramedics.

This inhumane beating adds to the national narrative around a crisis of anti-Black violence. Currently, every 28hrs a black person is murdered by police, vigilantes, or security guards.*

This latest brutality is also in context of many ongoing discriminatory practices and anti-Black policies engaged by Whole Foods:

**Whole Foods materially supported the state violence in Baltimore**
During the Baltimore protests, Whole Foods distributed free water bottles to the National Guard and created a photo opportunity, rather than providing any food/water donations to the Baltimore children left hungry by the forced school closures.

**Whole Foods depends on Prison Labor**
WF uses exploitative prison labor in Colorado to supply products to their stores nationally.

*Whole Foods has a poor labor record**
WF is known for their union-busting and anti-worker labor practices.

*Whole Foods was a significant gentrifying force in Oakland*
WF only opens locations in areas that meet their median income standards. The Lake Merritt location was an exception to this policy; in 2007 this store was opened based on a projected rise in income. Meaning WF both fostered and depended on the gentrification of this area in particular.

On Thursday Spet 10th, we are calling for a picket at Whole Foods with the following demands:

1. Disarm all security guards at the store
2. Compensate for the pain, suffering, and humiliation of the attack victim
3.Issue a public apology
4. Suspend all managers on duty that night, as well as the employees who called for more backup rather than calling the paramedics.
5. Provide discounts and giveaways for EBT customers, in solidarity with the working families being displaced from the area.
6. Require on-going staff training on how anti-Black racism functions within customer service

Please turn out with SIGNS and BANNERS for a two-hour picket line out front of the Whole Foods. This violence against our community has to stop!! And we will not support a business that promotes these acts of brutality!!

~This event is being hosted by members of black.seed and the Anti-Police Terror Project~

*This statistic comes from Malcolm X Grassroots Project annual report, Operation Ghetto Storm.

Protest Alameda County Sheriff Ahern’s

militarized police exhibit and exercises

Urban Shield is the largest SWAT training & war-weapons expo in the world. We will gather on September 11th, across communities, to end it & resist police militarization around the world!

Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition to say NO to policing, militarization and state violence!

While Urban Shield is just one front in the fight against the state’s attempt to militarize every aspect of our lives – from its war-making here and abroad, to the increasing presence of police in our schools, to the systemic murder of Black and Brown people at the hands of police – stopping Urban Shield would be a major victory against this growing trend of militarization in cities everywhere, from Oakland to Ferguson to Baltimore.

Join us in resisting violence against our communities and in fighting for genuine visions of justice, safety, and self-determination.

Organized by American Friends Service Committee, Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition, Civilize the Cops, Code Pink, Critical Resistance, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Justice for James Rivera, Million Hoodies, Oakland Privacy Working Group, Oscar Grant Committee, Palestinian Youth Movement, Restore the 4^th, San Leandro-SAFE, School of the Americas Watch-Oakland & San Francisco, UAW Local 2865, War Resisters League, Xicana Moratorium Coalition

There is an event in Oakland.

Flood the institutions that are profiting from the climate crisis. Wear Blue.

More Info: FloodWallStWest.org
#FloodTheSystem

One year ago, thousands of us flooded Wall Street in New York, taking mass direct action in the heart of a global financial system that’s fueling the climate crisis.

Now, a year later, people across the continent are preparing and organizing for #FloodTheSystem, a continental uprising against the economic and political systems threatening our survival.

To kick off #FloodTheSystem, we’re going to Flood Wall Street West: San Francisco’s financial district. Flood Wall Street West will consist of a tour of shame of some of the worst corporate and political bad actors in San Francisco’s financial district. We will take mass direct action to shut down business as usual and highlight the connections between the climate crisis, capitalism, exploitation and oppression.

Come dressed in blue. We’ll have everything else you need, including chant sheets, banners, signs, props and art.

This is direct action for everybody. While many of us will risk arrest, everyone can participate safely, whether or not you’re willing to go to jail. We will lead a legal briefing and nonviolent direct action training before the march to make sure that everyone is prepared to participate.

Organized by the Flood Wall Street West Welcoming Committee

The Le Méridien and Hyatt on Fisherman’s Wharf are not respecting the right of workers to choose a union. UNITE HERE Local 2 has called for actions on those days. Join the Francisco for Mayor Campaign on the picket line on Monday, Sept. 28, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. and from 4 – 6 p.m. at Le Méridien, 333 Battery Street, between Clay and Sacramento. If you are willing to engage in a civil disobedience action, call 415-863-1225 or email sflivingwage@riseup.net

A drum circle protest is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. tonight outside Oakland City Hall. 

See background information here in this East Bay Express article  by San Levin.

APPARENTLY CANCELLED BY THE PERSON WHO ORIGINALLY CALLED FOR IT AND MADE THE FACEBOOK EVENT.

This is bullshit and we know it! Gentrification is trying to take your cultural space, from churches to your beautiful lake oakland. It’s time to be heard. Come and discuss these new park laws created to keep POC people in the margins of society, while supporting white supremacy. Everything you’ve ever done with your people IS under attack. We must draw the line. Let’s meet at the steps closest to the freeway by where the farmers market is on Saturdays. Please invite anyone who is willing and please share this event on your page.

REMEMBER, DO NOT BRING YOUR DRUMS AND YOUR INSTRUMENTS! THAT’S AGAINST PARK CODE!

We, the General Union of Palestine Students, declare Palestine in a state of emergency and urge all of our community organizers and leaders to come forth as we rise with the uprisings, as we rise with Palestine in front of the Israeli Consulate.
As you may have heard recently, the situation in Palestine has been deteriorating. Within the past few weeks, Zionist forces have shut down Al-Aqsa and Al-Aqsa compound, forbidding all Palestinian and Muslim worshippers from their homes of prayer and restricting their rights to practice their religion in safety. Hundreds of Zionist settlers have stormed into Al-Aqsa, plunging Jerusalem and the greater West Bank into chaos. Zionist forces continue to violate and damage Al-Aqsa by burning down doors, setting fire to the rugs, and breaking the glass windows, flexing their control in complete provocation against Palestinians…leading to the murder of four Palestinian youth within the past few days and over 200 injured by snipers, rubber bullets, and gas inhalation. Our people of Palestine are frustrated, enraged, and resisting these constant acts of terror throughout the country. From Ramallah, to Nablus, to Jenin, and Al-Khalil, the Palestinian people are rising against the oppressive Zionist regime and defending Jerusalem. Along with the murder of our youth, Zionist forces have also demanded the demolition of their family homes in Ramallah, Surda and Nablus. Palestinian men and women have been surrounding each and every city day and night to protect the homes of their fellow people and to protect their cities from Zionist invasion.

We stand together in support of the Palestinian resistance against the oppressive Zionist regime and ask you all to stand with us. We need to stand united in front of the face of settler colonialism and echo the rage of our Palestinian people!

Flags, posters, and noise are encouraged.

Co-Sponsorers:
Palestine Youth Movement-PYM
The Freedom Archives

We’ve all seen the hordes of Canadian geese around the lake. They are an invasive, non-native species that have taken up residence, are shitting all over everything, and are depriving local wildlife of resources.

The City has installed a bird sanctuary on the west side of the Lake, but it is not sufficient to make up for the displacement of the indigenous bird population by the relative newcomers, the Canadian geese, especially since several Canadian geese have taken up residence in and around the housing previously designated for native species.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It’s time to show those geese who’s boss! Bring your grills, your dogs, your stereos, your instruments, and your children! Let’s make sure those geese know the Lake is for the Town, not for foul-tempered fowl.

We will not be seeking a permit from the City; we are uninterested in the platitudes they give us with one hand to quash our dissent, while they use the other hand to build more and more open spaces for the geese to use at the expense of the wildlife who existed here prior to the geese’ arrival.

[[ Note: This protest may or may not be related to this cancelled protest ]]

Shonda, a member of the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly and otherwise cool labor organizer was
fired Saturday from the KFC at 28th & Telegraph in Oakland.

People shut down the KFC for many hours on Saturday with a picket and will continue the action today (Sunday).

KFC 28th & Telegraph is now closed for today. WE’LL BE BACK tomorrow at noon – a normally big day for KFC purchases. SHUT IT DOWN!

— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) October 18, 2015

A statement from EBOC about Shonda and the action:

Shonda Roberts, a dedicated original member of EBOC (for over 2 years) was unjustly terminated yesterday afternoon. She has an impeccable track record in her former place of employment, KFC/Pizza Hut on 2800 Telegraph Ave, with 0 write-ups and many loyal customers who consistently go back to the store just to see her. For over 3 years, Shonda has been the best employee in the store, she is experienced, hard working and most of all, her energy is illuminating.

EBOC has always been a union and our strength comes from people power, especially because of AMAZING support from community and labor partners. Shonda’s activism reflects the best of Oakland, we cannot let this injustice stand. Yesterday, EBOC with support of our partners held a 7 hour direct action where we demanded Shonda’s job back. With the help of OPD, KFC/Pizza Hut attempted to stop our efforts, to no avail. Today at noon we are going back because that is Shonda’s next scheduled shift. Please join us there, and send to your networks, the bigger the turn out, the better.

Tweetpics from Saturday’s picket:

#Fight4$15 Stand up with fired organizer Shonda. #Oakland come out now. #KFC Telegraph & 28th pic.twitter.com/u6g9vEG4On

— Terri Kay (@TKOakWWP) October 17, 2015

#Fight4$15 #KentuckyFriedChicken just fired organizer Shonda. Need support @ Telegraph & 28th now. #Oakland pic.twitter.com/LiKu5G5jKp

— Terri Kay (@TKOakWWP) October 17, 2015

After relentless actions, petitioning and calls, Shonda’s regional manager (Sal) sat down with the union and Shonda to discuss the terms of her return to work! Sal said the KFC management team met and decided the best move would be to offer Shonda her job back, and is set to return on Sunday with back-pay…

Community pickets!

Shonda Roberts, a dedicated original member of EBOC (for over 2 years) and the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly was unjustly terminated Saturday afternoon. She has an impeccable track record in her former place of employment, KFC/Pizza Hut on 2800 Telegraph Ave, with no write-ups and many loyal customers who consistently go back to the store just to see her. For over 3 years, Shonda has been the best employee in the store, she is experienced, hard working and most of all, her energy is illuminating.

More background.