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Moderator: Dr. Crystallee Crain
Speakers:
- Emmett Till Family Representatives.
- Airicka Gordon-Taylor
- Ollie Gordon
- Wanda Johnson (mother of Oscar Grant)
- A member of the Blueford family.
- Walter Riley (civil rights attorney)
- George Calvis (community organizer)
- Clarence Thomas (labor organizer)
- Steve Pitts
(from the UC Berkeley Labor Center)
Co-sponsored by: Prophetic Justice Ministries, ISO, Black Workers Center, Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice, UC Berkeley Black Student Union, Bay Area Black Student Alliance.
Organized by: Till Family Organizing Committee.
We held our Town Hall meeting to discuss the need to get rid of the Alameda County Sheriff and District Attorney on Tuesday, November 5th.
Now it’s time to talk about the nuts and bolts of such a campaign.
Bring your organizing hat, your ideas, and your friends!
Let’s replace Ahern and O’Malley with real progressives, dedicated to the welfare of all Alameda County residents.
Join us in telling President Obama that he needs to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline!We will be rallying by Sather Gate at 12:30pm on Tuesday, November 19 in solidarity with communities across the country. Listen to speakers discuss the perils of the pipeline and pledge to take ACTION to stop this pipeline.
This would be game over for climate change, and we have no Planet B. Let’s show Obama how much Cal Students care about indigenous communities, safe water supplies, and climate change.
Cosponsored by Cal Dems, EVP Nolan Pack, CalSERVE, sTeam, Fossil Free UC, 350 Bay Area, IFG, SERC, Sierra Club Bay Area, Senator Caitlin Quinn, the ASUC Office of Environmental Sustainability, Calpirg, SERC, and the Center for Biological Diversity.
Prime Minister Lamothe & Sean Penn do NOT Speak for the Haitian Majority
Protest the Lies about Haiti in SF
On Tuesday, November 19 in San Francisco, Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and actor Sean Penn (named “Ambassador at Large for Haiti”by Michel Martelly), will spread the false message of the fraudulent Martelly government. Join Haiti Action Committee to protest against these lies, as well the corruption and repression of the Martelly/Lamothe government.
The people of Haiti are still in the midst of an occupation instigated by the United States and United Nations in 2004. As supporters of the Martelly government, which is in the process of bringing back dictatorship to Haiti, Prime Minister Lamothe and actor Sean Penn DO NOT speak in the interests of the Haitian majority.
Come stand in solidarity with the Haitian grassroots, who will be demonstrating the day before in Haiti, on the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Vertières (one of the last battles that sealed the victory of the Haitian Revolution).
Come stand in solidarity, to echo the demands of the Haitian majority:
•To protest the CORRUPTION and ILLEGALITY of the Martelly/Lamothe government.
•To protest the government’s widespread repression of the poor.
•To protest the INJUSTICE of the nearly 10-year-old US/UN occupation and the suffering it inflicts on the Haitian people.
•To support the right of the Haitian majority to fully participate in the running of their country, FREE from repression and terror.
•To support the right of Haitian children, women, and men, to have free access to education, food, jobs, housing, and healthcare.
Much valuable background information is available in Ten Steps to Dictatorship: Why the Grassroots Movement is Taking to the Streets Against President Michel Martelly by Charlie Hinton
*This shameful event is part of the Dreamforce Conference, an annual event of the cloud computing company Salesforce.com.
Purpose:
To brainstorm how to implement the principles and practices of Restorative Justice throughout the City of Oakland that will facilitate Oakland becoming a restorative city. To develop a plan of action designed to empower citizens, eradicate violence, and build community and relationships by introducing, utilizing, implementing, and maintaining ongoing restorative justice circle processes in neighborhoods, schools, families, churches, synagogues, government, justice system, hospitals, unions, and workplaces citywide until it becomes a way of life. To have restorative conversations become the cornerstone for addressing conflict and harms, promoting understanding and collaboration, celebrating Oakland’s rich diversity, and changing the culture throughout the City of Oakland and beyond.
Please join us at this initial meeting to indicate your interest, lend your voice and ideas, suggest who else needs to be a part of the discussion, and to strategize about next steps in the development of a plan of action. We will discuss a proposal that this project become a collaborative effort of the Alameda County Restorative Juvenile Justice Task Force.
Judge Gail Brewster Bereola
Alameda County Superior Court of California
There will be gathering at the Valencia Gardens entrance for a march to the 17th Valencia police station for a press conference demanding the release of both individuals, demanding all charges dropped & demanding the undercover Narcotics officer that beat DJ & 3 other individuals be fired. Please join us!
RALLY AT OAKLAND CITY HALL (OSCAR GRANT PLAZA) THIS TUESDAY AT 5:30PM, TO STOP THE CITY COUNCIL FROM CREATING A MASSIVE SURVEILLANCE CENTER FOR OPD AND DHS!!!
The Department of Homeland Security and Oakland Police are building a massive surveillance center to videotape, track, and log the movements of all Oakland residents and visitors! The Domain Awareness Center (DAC) as its called, is an unprecedented attack on our civil liberties, giving the police department unlimited access to our whereabouts. This includes a computer system that aggregates information from thousands of surveillance cameras and license plate readers, and in the future may include facial recognition software and social media data mining.
The NY Times made Oakland’s new surveillance center national news in a front page article warning Americans of its implications as similar technology spreads to other cities. This is another OPD and DHS attack on our rights, essentially criminalizing our every day lives as we are forced to live under constant surveillance as if in a prison complex.
WE CAN STOP THIS! LET’S SHOW THE CITY COUNCIL THAT THE PEOPLE OF OAKLAND ARE AGAINST WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE AND POLICE INTRUSION INTO OUR LIVES!!!
RALLY AT CITY HALL AT 5:30 PM THIS TUESDAY, NOV 19th. SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL YOUR LIST SERVS AND GROUPS. CITY HALL MEETING BEGINS AT 6:30pm
The Oakland City Council will be considering two controversial actions: Giving the City Administrator authorization to select a new Domain Awareness Center contractor in light of SAIC’s ineligibility to be that contractor because of its nuclear weapons testing involvement; and issuing a statement in support of Richmond’s efforts to help homeowners with underwater mortgages using principal reduction with the threat of eminent domain.
The former needs to be defeated. A large coalition is organizing (see the rally at 5:30). The latter needs to be supported. Strike Debt Bay Area, ACCE and other organizations have come together to make this happen.
Debt keeps us isolated, ashamed, and afraid – of becoming homeless, of going hungry, of being crippled or killed by treatable illness, or of being trapped in poverty-level jobs. Those facing foreclosure, medical debt, student debt, or credit card debt feel alone, hounded by debt collectors, and forced into unrewarding work to keep up with payments.
Join us for Strike Debt Bay Area’s (website and Facebook) third Debtors’ Assembly, where we will come together to understand debt in this modern society of ours and how to fight it collectively. This event is generously sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee.
This Debtors’ Assembly will be an opportunity for people to come together, gain an understanding of how debt works, share their own debt experiences, and work on various ways to change the unjust debt system and begin to organize debt resistance.
ORGANIZATION INFO: Strike Debt Bay Area is the local chapter of Strike Debt, an international movement of groups working to build popular resistance to all forms of unjust debt. Strike Debt has organized the Rolling Jubilee, the Debt Resistors Operations Manual, and local debtors’ assemblies.
Strike Debt supports the creation of just and sustainable economies, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence. We owe the financial institutions nothing. It is to our friends, families and community that we owe everything.
Artwork and design by Sandy Sanders.
Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting: Saturday, 11/23, 6pm @ Sudo Room
Join us for a meeting of the Oakland Privacy Working Group:
When:
Saturday
November 23, 2013
6pm
Where:
Sudo Room
2141 Broadway
Oakland
Directions
Organize to stop the Oakland Domain Awareness Center!
The City Council meeting may have been a joke (as we expected), but seventy people showed up in the drizzling rain to rally at 5:30 last Tuesday against DAC and then many stayed it out to speak truth to power at midnight!
There is more to do!
Come help us plan our next steps.
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the weeks tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Our weekly open meeting for members and supporters to discuss the week’s tasks and projects. Come get plugged into ongoing housing defense work! We have abundant and varied work for all folks in any number of meaningful projects.
Rain location: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Obama’s drone policy is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in Pakistan and Yemen — countries we aren’t even at war with. Since Obama has taken office, deadly drone strikes have increased, causing more drone bases to pop up across the country and across the globe to engage in surveillance and targeted killing. Join us to say stop the killing!
On the eve of President Obama’s high-roller fundraiser, CODEPINK, World Can’t Wait and others will screen the film Unmanned: America’s Drone War or Wounds of Waziristan or both outside the SF JAZZ Center in Hayes Valley. . Join in!
Join the Facebook event page.
The Free Land Project Presents: A night of art and culture celebrating Indigenous resistance.
Corrina Gold, Wicahpiluta Candelaria, Iamani I. Ameni, Michelle Steinberg, GoodShield Aguilar, Mignon Geli, Rico Pabon, DJ Free Leonard and Bear Fox.
Hosted by Ariel Lucky.
Join CODEPINK, World Can’t Wait and others as we protest against President Barack Obama use of deadly drones! President Obama will be in San Francisco to attend a high-roller luncheon at the new SF Jazz Center in Hayes Valley.
Obama’s drone policy is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in Pakistan and Yemen — countries we aren’t even at war with. Since Obama has taken office, deadly drone strikes have increased, causing more drone bases to pop up across the country and across the globe to engage in surveillance and targeted killing. Join us to say stop the killing! Bring your own signs, props, costumes etc.
We understand that others may have a long list of grievances against the President’s policies. We welcome other signs, groups and issues!
March to the SF Jazz Center at 11:30am where will have an outside presence against US/CIA drone strikes. Be flexible because we might have to move locations.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
Seven weeks ago we learned that perfidious Post Office Executives, who only the week before had sent a letter to the Berkeley City Council offering to negotiate until at least November 12th, had CBRE (Richard Blum’s company) list the downtown Berkeley Post Office for sale.
A couple of weeks ago the Planning Commission passed on to the Berkeley City a proposed Zoning Ordinance that would make the Post Office property less desirable to potential purchasers of the capitalist variety. We are still waiting for action on this from the City Council.
Help us organize a public meeting on Debember 5th about what’s happening with our Post Office!
Come and help plan our next actions in defense of our post office and against privatization. We want to send a message to CBRE, the Post Office and Berkeley politicians that the sale will not be tolerated!
Check out the video of Peter Byrne’s talk at our latest Save the Post Office Rally!
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
OccupyForum presents…
Revolutions
The word “revolution” is used a lot in Occupy, often with little or no context. Ethan Davidson and Ryan Smith hope to fill that gap. How do revolutions happen? What are the short- and long-term effects? How do they improve and how do they not improve the societies they happen in? Whether you advocate or oppose revolutions, these are questions worth considering.
Ryan Smith will talk about the American and Russian revolutions. Ethan Davidson will talk about the revolutions and post-revolutionary histories of France and Cuba.
Ethan Davidson has been an activist since 1977. He has traveled widely, including two months in Guatemala, three weeks in France, and one month in Cuba. Ryan Smith is a longtime Occupy activist and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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are encouraged; no one turned away!