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Last night 8 year old Alaysha #Carradine was at Khamel Hardin’s apartment at a #sleepover for his age 7 daughter and 4 year old son along with his 64 year old grandmother when at 11pm a maniac opened fire on their apartment wounding the others and #killing #Alaysha. She becomes the 54th person to be murdered in #Oakland this year.
There is a rally for her at 6:30pm today, 3400 Wilson Ave, West Oakland.
ONYX, Justice 4 Alan Blueford, Advance the Struggle, People’s Community Medics and the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation are calling for a rally, march and vigil on Friday at 6 pm. ALL OUT FOR ALL OUR BABIES will honor all of the young black and brown men and women killed as a result of state sponsored terrorism.
The fight to get justice for Trayvon Martin continues! Al Sharpton’s National Action Network is organizing actions in over 130 cities across the country this Saturday to demand that the Department of Justice prosecute George Zimmerman for violating Trayvon Martin’s civil rights. The rally in San Francisco will be at 9am this Saturday at the federal building. While we stand in San Francisco, Trayvon Martin’s parents and many others will stand in New York and Miami and all across the country. Stand with them, and join us as we add our voices to the chorus of outrage against racism and the cries of justice for Trayvon!
Endorsed by the San Francisco NAACP
Thursday, July 18, 2013 (New York, NY)—Trayvon Martin’s parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin will stand with Rev. Al Sharpton and National Action Network for the “Justice for Trayvon” 100 city vigils this Saturday, July 20th. Sybrina Fulton and her surviving son Jahvaris Fulton will stand with Rev. Al Sharpton and NAN at One Police Plaza at Noon in New York, while Trayvon’s father Tracy Martin will join NAN’s Southeast Regional Chairman and Florida chapter a the Miami location for the “100-city Justice for Trayvon” vigil.
In over one hundred cities across the United States, NAN is organizing “Justice for Trayvon” vigils on Saturday, July 20th to press the federal government to investigate civil rights charges against George Zimmerman. Hundreds of national preachers, led by Rev. Al Sharpton and NAN will hold prayer vigils and rallies in front of federal buildings calling on the Justice Department to investigate the civil rights violations made against Trayvon Martin.
Marissa Alexander, mother of 3, was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, after firing a single warning shot into the wall to stop her husband from attacking her. She was prosecuted by the same attorney that initially refused to prosecute the murderer of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and was ironically denied protection under the Stand Your Ground law because she didn’t run away, but stood her ground instead.
It’s not just Florida, it’s everywhere in America. The foundations of these systems that govern are bigoted; they are built broken so they can break us.
We won’t stop, can’t stop, until prisons are emptied of women defending themselves from violence, of black and brown people, and of poor people. We will fight for Marissa, we will fight to defend ourselves, and we will fight for liberation!
Free Marissa Alexander – Oakland.
Let’s return to Wells Fargo CEO/President’s $5 million penthouse home to let him know that if our friends can’t go home due to Wells Fargo evictions, then he shouldn’t be able to go home either.
The Occupy the Auctions / Evictions campaign demands an immediate bank moratorium on all predatory or for-profit evictions or foreclosures of the 99% and a halt to all for-profit foreclosure auctions and evictions.
Come help out!
Speakers: Michael Thurman of Courage to Resist, Elazar Friedman of the Oscar Grant Committee.
Discussion:
The importance of Bradley Manning’s and Julian Assange’s cases. Updates, film clips.
The need for a united front. Comparison of charges of treason to US corporate elite’s
wartime trading with Nazi Germany.
Q&A with extensive audience participation.
July 24, 2008 marks the last minimum wage increase in California.
While the cost of our basic needs–rent, groceries, healthcare, daycare, and gas–continue to increase, the minimum wage has remained at $8/hr for 5 years!
The City of Berkeley is considering a city-wide minimum wage increase, but opponents say that Berkeley workers don’t need a wage increase, and that those who work in the restaurant industry should be excluded if any increase does take effect.
No one who works hard should be living in poverty. We’re fighting to raise the floor for our lowest paid workers and to keep good paying, middle class jobs that allow us to support our families.
JOIN US! RALLY AND MARCH FOR THE MINIMUM WAGE!
5PM: Rally and March at Downtown Berkeley BART station
7PM: Berkeley Labor Commission meeting
North Berkeley Senior center – 1901 Hearst
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Initiating organizations: EBASE & FAME; Restaurant Opportunities Center; SEIU 1021; SEIU ULTCW; Unite Here 2850; ATU 1555; Our Walmart; Raise the Wage East Bay (RWEB); ACCE
Join us for a letter-writing, open mic, and live art night in solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike. Bring your energy and your passion, and use your creativity to help build and grow in power together. Set your words and your vision down on paper in response to issues that affect us on a daily basis: racism, police brutality, and imprisonment of our friends and loved ones.
We will be mailing our pieces to prisoners on hunger strike who continue to respond with immense strength and resilience in the face of increasing deprivation. The representatives of the hunger strike are being subjected to extreme conditions of solitary confinement in Ad Seg and especially need our support and correspondence at this time.
“As the California prison hunger strike enters its 3rd week, reports of retaliation against strikers have increased. Last week it was reported that prison officials had moved at least 14 strikers from the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay to Administrative Segregation (Ad-Seg), confiscated confidential legal documents, and forced cold air into their cells. Later in the week, legal advocate Marilyn McMahon and one of her paralegals were summarily banned from visiting any California prison. Reports that strikers have been moved to Ad-Seg or to entirely different facilities have also been coming from Corcoran State Prison. The denial of medical care to strikers, especially those with preexisting health conditions, remains a widespread concern for families and advocates.”
For more information: http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
This event is the first in an ongoing series. Supplies will be provided. We’ll see you there!
Come joint us to raise funds for Dr. Alejandro Hurtado, who is studying medicine at the ELAM Medical School in Cuba.
The mission of ELAM is to make competent and cooperative doctors with the degree of MD (doctor of medicine), the same degree which is offered to medical graduates all over the Americas. The Latin American School of Medicine is officially recognized by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and the World Health Organization. It is fully accredited by the Medical Board of California, which has the strictest US standards — which means that qualified US graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine are eligible to apply for residency placements in any state of the US.
It is preferred that ELAM students come from the poorest communities with the intent of returning to practice in those areas in their countries. Initially only enrolling students from Latin America and the Caribbean, the school has become open to applicants from impoverished and/or medically underserved areas in the United States and Africa.
Preference is given to applicants who are financially needy and/or people of color who show the most commitment to working in their poor communities.
Please bring items which can be hard to obtain in Cuba like dental floss (not readily available), vitamins, study snacks like power bars & jerky, and the like.
$15 Minimum Suggested Donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
It is an “EMERGENCY SITUATION! WE HAVE TO KICK OUR SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER STRIKERS TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL!”
Meet us at MacArthur BART at 7:30 am for a day in Sarcramento – Speaking out, leafletting, rallying, banner-ing, and going out to the people. CALL US (510-926-5207). Facebook.
Statement by the Hunger Strikers.
Greetings of solidarity and respect to all of our supporters, all people of conscience around the world, and all similarly situated prisoners. You should know that once again our peaceful protest is making history, bringing international attention to our collective efforts to bring an end, once and for all, to the inhumane conditions and torture of indefinite solitary confinement.
We are being tortured each day by state officials (Governor Brown, his appointee CDCR Secretary Beard, and all his underlings). Increased retaliation has been perpetuated upon defenseless and starving prisoners who only seek what any human being strives for—humane treatment, dignity, equality, and justice for our families, loved ones, and ourselves. These are the fundamental rights of all people, including those incarcerated by the state. We are doing all we can, together with our outside supporters, to bring about a positive changes. Gov. Brown is not above the will of the people of California, and if he refuses to recognize the legitimacy of our human and civil rights struggle against the practices of this prison system, then it is the responsibility of the federal government and President Obama to use their powers to stop the harm being done to thousands of prisoners being held in solitary confinement.
CDCR officials are attempting to undermine the voluntary actions of prisoners who truly want better treatment and living conditions by wrongfully accusing us of forcing tens-of-thousands of prisoners across California, along with our supporters in the free world, to participate in our protest. Prisoners across the state are participating because of the inhumane conditions they are being subjected to. As HUMAN BEINGS prisoners are collectively resisting such treatment, and they are doing so peacefully. The attempted repression of our protest has not broken our spirits. In fact it has only helped to strengthen each of us—individually and collectively. Despite CDCR’s retaliations and propaganda, we remain steadfast in our commitment. We will see our peaceful hunger strike through to victory, even if this requires us to endure the torture of force-feeding. We believe at this point in our struggle we are prepared to do what is necessary in order for Gov. Brown and the CDCR to realize how serious we are, and how far and long we are willing to go to have our reasonable demands implemented.
We are hopeful that all those brave men and women across the state who are participating in this strike—all who are able health-wise—will be encouraged to issue public statements of their own, via media outlets across the country, letting the world know why they have taken part in this historic, collective struggle.
In closing, we want to inform the world that this hunger strike is far from over. We are in it for the long haul. Thus, we strongly urge Gov. Brown to return from his “get-away” vacation overseas and deal urgently with this crisis before more prisoners suffer serious health damage or death. If any deaths do occur, the responsibility for them will fall squarely on Brown and the CDCR in their callousness and inaction.
We believe that we will prevail.
In Solidarity,
PBSP-SHU Short Corridor Representatives
– Todd Ashker, C-58191, PBSP-SHU, D4-121
– Arturo Castellanos, C-17275, PBSP-SHU, D1-121
– Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry), C-35671, PBSP-SHU,D1-117
– Antonio Guillen, P-81948, PBSP-SHU, D2-106
The ONYX Organizing Committee, Advance the Struggle, People’s Community Medics, the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation, the Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition, Workers World, The Oscar Grant Foundation, Young Oakland, Healthy Hoodz and East Bay ISO call on the people to keep the pressure on the state. Not just for Trayvon but for ALL of the young Black and Brown lives that have been stolen by the state! We Need to STAY in these Streets!!!!!
Oscar Grant Committee Forum Series
The War on Terror and the Attack on Civil Liberties
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library6501 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA
Friday, July 26, 2013
7 PM
The fraudulent “War on Terror” is linked to heightened domestic police
repression and surveillance of millions of US citizens. All this is part of the US
Government’s attempt to criminalize social justice activism. The Boston Bombing, and
the locking down of an entire city under martial law, will be analyzed in depth as we
figure out what’s coming our way in the near future. The methods used by Obama’s
administration was a trial balloon to test the American people’s resolve to resist such
a massive unwarranted response.
Recently the FBI ratcheted up their war against the American people by
cynically designating Assata Shakur as a terrorist, and as part of the rationalization
for increasing the bounty on her head to $2,000,000.
The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to attend this forum.
A Rally in Direct Defense of our Post Office!
Our heritage is being auctioned off to privateers, as austerity and Congressional mandates squeeze the US Postal Service to the point of breaking. The same forces that want to privatize Social Security and prisons are now in the process of selling off Post Offices across the United States.
Come help save the Berkeley Post Office and send a message across the United States that our Post Offices – jobs, services, buildings and history – are worth saving!
– Starting at 1:00 pm at 2000 Allston Way (1 block from Berkeley BART), with speakers, music and dance, street theater, public forums, and a Birthday Cake to celebrate the founding of the Post Office in July 1775.
– We need everyone’s help to mount a defense that cannot be ignored.
– National Weekend of Action to save the Post Office, including actions at threatened post offices in the Bronx, New York; Portland, Oregon; Berkeley; Tacoma, Washington; and at the Southern Calif. offices of Rep. Darrell Issa, who’s leading the Congressional effort to dismantle and privatize the Post Office.
Help plan and run this event: Come to the organizing meeting. We need everyone’s help
Sponsored by: Direct Defense Action Team to Save the Berkeley Post Office in coalition with Strike Debt Bay Area.
PhatBeets web site with lots of info.
Share your story. Tell us what a safe, healthy, just North Oakland looks like to you.
• Are you Bogged Down with Debt?
• Getting Calls From Debt Collectors?
• Having Trouble Paying What you Owe?
• Want to Know your Options?
10-11 for English Speakers
11-12 for Spanish Speakers
The workshop will include a presentation about different types of debt and information about your options once you’re behind in payments. It will also give time for you to check in and ask questions to advocates and attorneys.
Call (510) 548-4064 to Reserve your spot now!
We will be discussing Christian Marazzi’s ‘The Violence of Financial Capitalism’ – first two chapters. I put up a free online version on the class blog.
More info. Location map. The entrance is on 22nd St.
Please show up at the City Council meeting at 6:30 PM, July 3oth on the third floor of City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland and tell the City Council what YOU think.
Fill out a speaker card on Agenda item 35 so you can let your voice be heard at the City Council meeting.
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373
Read more here.
