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Join us for the 1st Annual Declaration of Independence Protest Party at People’s Park in Berkeley, California, to show your support for the fight for restoring America. This event is designed to show that protest is patriotic and that the people coming together in unity can bring about effective change that’s needed right now instead of waiting on a government that has been polarized by the corruption from lobbyists and wall streets’ too big to fail banks.
This event is a celebration of freedom with dance, music, food and the learning of different cultures. This is a positive peoples movement!!! THIS IS NOT A TEA PARTY EVENT! This is a working persons event that wants to bring back a goverment that is more representative of working people than corporations. So please join us with a positive attitude, music and food and let us start a positive tradition that brings about change from the grassroots up.
It takes a lot of courage for non-union, low-wage workers to go on strike – especially when their co-workers have been fired for organizing. The workers are ready, but they need your support! Please join us on the 5th and 14th and support these courageous worker leaders!
Non-Union Airport Fast Food Workers Ready to STRIKE!
Strike Build-Up Actions at Oakland Airport Terminal 2:
Friday, 7/5: 11:30 am -1:30 pm.
Sunday, 7/14: 7 am, noon, 5 pm.
It’s going to be a hot summer: as East Bay public workers struggle for justice on the job, non-union workers at Oakland Airport fast food restaurants are preparing to strike!
“My bosses cut my hours to punish me for trying to form a union. They fired my co-worker for organizing, and they still haven’t brought her back to work. I’m tired of waiting for justice – I’m ready to fight!” said Oakland Airport Subway cashier Hayat Selmani.
A year ago, airport fast food workers launched a public campaign for better jobs – including a fair process to decide whether to form a union. Some workers have faced serious retaliation: the National Labor Relations Board just charged two OAK restaurants with breaking labor laws and firing workers who spoke out. And the Port of Oakland found that these same employers violated the living wage and fired workers who complained about it. But so far, the employers haven’t faced real consequences.
Now the workers are taking action to protest their bosses’ unfair labor practices. At Thursday’s Port Commission meeting, workers announced a strike deadline of July 11th. While the strike date itself was not announced, workers are calling for a picket on Friday, July 5th, and a full day of action on Sunday, July 14th.
Si se puede!
UNITE HERE Local 2850 Facebook Website
Brought to you again by Fresh Juice Party. Check out their previous artwork.
What new beautiful design will be etched in chalk at OGP this time? Come find out and help out.
The Interfaith Tent will once again be handing out fliers, talking with people, and reading the names of those killed by police on July 5th @ OPD Headquarters on 7th and Broadway.
A group of us walked from the police station up Broadway and Telegraph, talking with people as we went. That was very effective. Our “Stop Police Violence” signs made people want to talk with us.
Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition members and Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity supporters calling attention to injustice both within prison walls and on the outside.
The SHU (Solitary Holding Unit) mockup is rumored to be making another appearance.
Come check it all out!
How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence.
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.”
Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family
Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia.
How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence.
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.”
Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family
Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia.
Coffee Not Cops- Coffee & Snacks and Outreach in support of the Prisoner Hunger Strikers.
More info about the Hunger Strike.
Website for the Prisoner Hunger Strike supporters.
Memorial services will be held for Jodie Randolph on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 11 a.m. at First African Methodist Episcopal Church. There will be a viewing/quiet time between 9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on the same date.
For more on Jodie Randolph and the fight to save her house by the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group:
We Can No Longer #defendjodie.
Showing are at the Grand Lake Theatre. Showtimes are 1:00 PM, 3:30 PM, 6:00 PM, 8:15 PM and 10:30 PM.
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition may be handing out literature as later showings end.
In 2011, over 12,000 prisoners and their family and community members participated in statewide hunger strikes protesting the inhumane conditions in California’s Security Housing Units (SHU or solitary confinement). California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation promised meaningful reform as a result of those protests, but nothing meaningful has reached the people living in these cages. Prisoners have announced another hunger strike will begin July 8th because of CDCR’s failure to fulfill that promise.
On July 8, prisoners living in the SHUs at Pelican Bay and other prisons will resume their hunger strike and work stoppages if decisive action is not taken by the State before then.
On July 13, we will mobilize from around California to Corcoran State Prison—which isolates over 1,600 people in solitary confinement—to stand in solidarity with striking prisoners across the state. We must take this movement to the prison gates and show the Governor and the Department of Corrections that we support the prisoners and demand that the Governor meet with prisoner representatives immediately to negotiate their demands!
California currently holds nearly 12,000 people in extreme isolation. The state spends over $60 million per year on maintaining prisoners in isolation.
Demand the State of California stop the torture!
Rally at Corcoran State Prison on July 13th!
Caravans leaving from MacArthur BART in Oakland at 10:30 9:00 AM
Show your support for the hunger strikers!
Organize to help win their demands!
Occupy Oakland @OccupyOakland 16m
#hoodiesup. OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie.
OccupythePort @occupytheport 13m
#OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie.
#hoodiesup
OccupythePort @occupytheport 13m
Call has gone out in#Oakland: Meet 10PM at #OGP. Bring your hoodies. #JusticeForTrayvon
INVASION BIOLOGY
OR INTEGRATION BIOLOGY?
Who is behind the deforestation and pesticiding of
the East Bay Hills, from Richmond to Hayward?
**Slideshow with narration, followed by discussion**
DAVID THEODOROPOULOS
Conservation Biologist and Author:
Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience
+ Update from Save Mt. Sutro Forest
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013, 6:30PM (doors open 6PM)
Historic Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar (one block east of MLK, Jr. Way), Berkeley, California
Hear about Invasion Biology from a different perspective of non-native species, based on Evolutionary Biology, and find out about the native plant restoration movement’s connection to the pesticide industry.
**Please refrain from using scented products prior to attending
**Wheelchair accessible
Co-sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert (http://www.dontspraycalifornia.org) (see wildfire pages) & the Social Justice Committee of BFUU (http://www.bfuu.org)
More info and photos: http://www.milliontrees.me
Public Banking:
A Sustainable Solution to Problems Caused by Private Bankers
Private banks are destroying our communities by funneling public funds out through a pipeline of rigged swap deals, municipal bonds, and pension investments. Schools in Oakland are shut down, while banks continue to be paid nearly 20% of the city’s operating budget in interest and fees. UC students are forced to pay ever higher tuition, while the banks are collecting $10 million a year from the UC. These private banking behemoths must be stopped. By arguing that they are necessary to economic survival, these banking giants get ever more public funds through bailouts. Public Banking is an alternative system to financing that has the potential to greatly diminish the power of the private banking elites. Public Banking is a sustainable and local banking solution that has garnered support world-wide. Join us for a forum where we will discuss Public Banking theory and practice.
Jane Smith will talk about how public banks actually function. An Occupy activist with a focus on Wall Street, Jane is trained in mathematics and economics, and is involved with education efforts concerning finance and banking. As a member of the Ideological Liberation Working Group (ILWG), she writes for the www.OBAU.org website.
Susan Harman will highlight efforts to institute a Public Bank in California, and how to talk to politicians about starting a public bank, focusing on interest and fiduciary responsibility. In addition to being a volunteer with the Public Banking Institute, Susan is active with CodePink and Move to Amend.
Jack Wagner will discuss his experience in organizing and educating about Public Banking in Sonoma County as a volunteer with the Public Banking Institute.
If you are part of that side which upholds the right of the Trayvon’s of this world to live and have justice, YOU MUST ACT NOW. The racial profiling that led to the murder of Trayvon and has so many Black and Latino youth facing lives of going into and out of prison must be taken on and stopped. As Zimmerman walks free again, it is like a declaration of Open Season on Black youth! This is unacceptable and must not be allowed to go down without determined mass resistance.
Come out and demonstrate!
Justice for Trayvon!
The Whole Damn System is Guilty!
Endorsed by: Advance the Struggle, Tsega Center, ONYX, Oscar Grant Committee, ISO, Nuestra Nueva América, FMLN Educacion and more to be announced.
July 16, 2013 will mark the two year anniversary of the murder of Kenneth Harding Jr. who was murdered by San Francisco police at the age of nineteen for allegedly failing to pay a $2.00 transit fare. While the family still awaits information for an investigation of the police; the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation would like to call upon everyone to come together in solidarity to support a transit shut down against the San Francisco Municipal Transit.
MUNI Transit has to take responsibility for their role in this horrific murder. They request for police officers to conduct fare inspections within the impoverished areas and upon the “impoverished” youth and people of color. We want free transit for all youth; no one should have to worry about losing their life for not having transit fare, and/or not paying transit fare. No one should be racially profiled, stopped and frisked, and/or have their rights violated to determine if they have paid transit fare. Everyone should have the right to ride transit without fear of losing their life.
We are asking for full support and cooperation from all unions especially transit, organizations, movements, and our community members. We want mothers who have lost their children to step up and speak out with us on this day and allow your cries to be heard. We want to affect the city of San Francisco’s economic system in order to allow our voices to be heard. We are asking those who stand in solidarity against police brutality and those who would like to help organize and/or endorse the shutdown to contact the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation at (415) 505-6331 or you can email justice4kennethhardingjr@gmail.com
We are all still Kenneth Harding Jr., Alan Blueford, Derrick Gaines, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Rhamarley Graham, Raheim Brown, James Rivera Jr., Gary King Jr., Mario Romero, Ernest Duenez Jr., and so many more…
THEY TAKE US DOWN WE SHUT THEM DOWN!
Tuesday, July 16th NOON – Community Bar B Que – MLK PARK 5701 3RD ST
Tuesday, July 16th 4:00pm – Muni Transit shutdown – San Francisco, Ca.
(SAME PLACE MEET AT THE SAFEWAY ON CHURCH AND DUBOCE)
Tuesday, July 16th 6:30pm – Vigil for Kenneth Harding Jr. on Kenny’s Korner @ Third St. & Oakdale
Tuesday, July 16, 5:30PM, City Council Meeting
Council is seeking to pass a resolution to administer a $2 million payout to major defense contractor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for needed software and infrastructure to integrate “Phase 2” of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) a mass centralized virtual data center for intelligence gathering in Oakland. If this gross violation of privacy has you concerned come out and voice your opinion on Big Oakland Brother the DAC to the Council.
http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
Sign up to speak against increased government surveillance, Item 7.19:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373
Andres Thomas Conteris, CloseGitmo.net – Stop U.S. Torture in Gitmo and U.S. Prisons; Director, Program of the Americans of Nonviolence International — recently interviewed hunger strikers in Pelican Bay SHU
Steven Czifra is a UC Berkeley student who spent a total of eight years in solitary confinement, including five in the Pelican Bay SHU. Along with other UC students and professors, he is taking part in a rolling solidarity fast in support of the prisoners and their demands.
Larry Everest, covers the prisoner hunger strikes for Revolution newspaper and is the author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. (See Revolution Interview: Carol Strickman, from Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Prisoners’ Struggle Against “Cruel and Unusual Punishment Amounting to Torture”)
Michael Montgomery is a reporter for KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting who has covered California prison issues.
Danny Murillo was arrested at 16 years young, and sentenced to 15 years in state prison. 17 months were spent in Administrative Segregation (the hole) and six years in the Security Housing Unit (the SHU). Currently an undergrad student at UC Berkeley in the Ethnic Studies department and a George Miller Scholar.
On July 8, California prison authorities admitted that over 30,000 prisoners had joined the hunger strike by refusing meals. The Los Angeles Times said this “could be the largest prison protest in state history.” Prisoner representatives from the Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Short Corridor Collective Human Rights Movement said, “our nonviolent peaceful protest of our subjection to decades of indefinite state-sanctioned torture, via long-term solitary confinement will resume…consisting of a hunger strike/work stoppage of indefinite duration until CDCR [California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] signs a legally binding agreement meeting our demands, the heart of which mandates an end to long-term solitary confinement (as well as additional major reforms).” See statement here .
Co-sponsored by Revolution Books and the Stop Mass Incarceration Network-Bay Area
and Who Sells Them While the Nation Sleeps?
with Dr. Gray Brechin and Attorney Adam Ford
Dr. Gray Brechin will update us on saving magnificent buildings, unique art works, and the postal system itself that Americans are now losing to privatization. National Post Office Collaborate attorney Adam Ford is part of the litigation team working to protect the Berkeley Post Office. Mr. Ford will give us information on the progress of the case. This event is a benefit to support the legal action by the Berkeley-based National Post Office Collaborate. Come and help us raise funds for this important legal challenge! Save our Post Offices!
Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post Office
P.O. Box 805
Berkeley, Ca 94701