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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: NOT A PENNY MORE FOR OPD!!
BBQ at 4:30 PM.
Rally at 5:30 PM.
Bring your family and plan to stay for the City Council Budget Hearing at 6:30 PM.
Wear your JAB shirt!
Dear Friends and Allies of the Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition:
Please join us at City Council 14th and Broadway on June 13th at 5:30 PM. The City Budget decision is fast approaching. The City of Oakland is holing several hearings about city funds and June 13th is the next one. The big question is what will the city council spend our money on: police or social services. The city workers in several unions (SEIU Local 1021, IFPTE Local 21, and IBEW local 1245) are fighting for more money for their contracts, and less for the department that takes up the lion’s share of the budget: namely the police. Just as many unions such as SEIU 1021 have endorsed the Justice for Alan Blueford Campaign, so too does the Justice for Alan Blueford Campaign stand in solidarity with city workers in their fight. Our fights are connected since we face the same enemy.
Why should money go to a police department that still has not fired and charged Alan’s killer, Miguel Masso?
– For more info about the police budget, OPD racism and the basics of Alan’s case:
Tell the City Council to stop Police Terrorism
Sign up to speak to the council show up by 6:30 or sign up ahead of time here:
Online speaker signup
Money for city workers not racist police murder!
Fire, charge and convict Officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford!
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website
Jail Diane Feinstein instead
START DATE: Friday June 14
TIME: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location Details: Rally & Chalk art 5pm at Dianne Feinstein’s Office, One Post St. near Montgomery BART station on Market St., San Francisco March at 4pm from Gezi Gardens, Laguna and Fell St. (formerly Hayes Valley Farm)
Protest RALLY AND CHALK ART TO SUPPORT NSA WHISTLEBLOWER EDWARD SNOWDEN AT DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S OFFICE AT ONE POST ST. NEAR MONTGOMERY BART STATION. BRING CHALK!!! 5PM RALLY AT FEINSTEIN’S OFFICE ONE POST ST. 4PM MARCH TO FEINSTEIN’S OFFICE FROM GEZI GARDENS, LAGUNA AND FELL ST. (FORMERLY HAYES VALLEY FARM, CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY ACTIVISTS TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT)
The government is watching you, yet we refuse to live in fear. Stand in solidarity with whistleblowers and those that speak truth to power! Edward Snowden, 29 year old whistleblower, exposed the illegal NSA/FBI surveillance system called PRISM which gives the government and private security firms direct access to the servers of Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Youtube, MSN, etc. as well as direct access to Verizon phone logs. Edward Snowden, like Bradley Manning and Daniel Ellsberg before him have done a great service to humanity by uncovering to the public the extent at which the government will go to spy on its citizens and deprive of our rights. Dianne Feinstein has called Snowden a traitor, yet she is the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence where she would have been briefed on these government programs that threaten our freedom and violate our fourth amendment rights. Rally at Feinstein’s office at 5pm, march to Feinstein’s office from Gezi Gardens at 4pm.
Come hear why we demand “U.S. hands off Syria, Iran, & Venezuela”. Join us afterwards to celebrate the opening of new
Workers World’s new Oakland office, with food and music by Redd Welsh.
Recent U.S. threats against these and other countries show that this time of capitalist economic crisis brings with it the danger of new imperialist wars and interventions. In late May the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution backing up Israel if it launches an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
On Friday, June 21st ACCE’s Riders for Transit Justice Bus Riders Union will be kicking off a monthly Movie Night & Fundraiser! We’re inviting friends & supporters to watch “Bread & Roses” the film inspired by the pivotal and groundbreaking “Justice for Janitors” Campaign! We’ll also be joined by a special guest, the one and only Jono Shaffer, a long-time labor organizer who served as the basis for the film’s main character!
We’ll be showing the film followed by a question & answer session with Jono! This will be our kickoff of regular movie nights where leaders from Riders for Transit Justice will host viewings of movement movies along with discussions about the topics presented in the movies.
We’re asking for donations to support ACCE, with a suggested donation of $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds!). We hope everyone can come and join us! Additionally, ACCE members will be cooking delicious and healthy food that will be available for sale.
Movies, delicious food, and a way to support ACCE – what could be better?!
Join us on Friday, June 21st at 5:30pm at the ACCE Oakland office for the movie.
RSVP by email.
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Saturday, June 22nd from 7:00 PM to morning!
Bring a sleeping bag.
Oscar Grant Plaza 14th Street & Broadway, OaklandFeast! Films! Music! More!
“This movement won’t end here. We’ve started something much bigger than the park. …After tis, I don’t think people will go back to being afraid of this government or any government.”
-Seyitt Cikmen, 19
Port of Oakland: Don’t Let OAK Fast Food Restaurants Break the Law!
Fast food workers at the Oakland Airport have spent the past year fighting for justice on the job – but their bosses are fighting back. The National Labor Relations Board just charged the OAK Subway and Jamba Juice 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.
On the one-year anniversary of the campaign for fair food at the Oakland Airport, stand with the workers as they call on the Port to enforce the law and protect workers’ rights in OUR airport!
What’s going on?
One year ago, non-union fast food workers at the Oakland Airport launched a campaign to win good jobs and safe, healthy working conditions. They demanded a fair process to decide whether to join a union, without intimidation from their bosses.
Now, the National Labor Relations Board just charged the Oakland Airport’s Subway and Jamba Juice with a host of labor law violations – including firing, disciplining and cutting hours for workers who support the union.
Meanwhile, a Port of Oakland investigation found that Subway and Jamba Juice violated the Port’s Living Wage laws and fired workers in retaliation for filing complaints. The Port ordered Subway and Jamba Juice to pay back wages and reinstate the fired whistle-blowers.
But months later Subway and Jamba Juice still have not complied with those orders. The Port has the power to impose additional fines and penalties on the restaurants, take them to court to enforce the orders, or terminate the underlying Port contracts, but it hasn’t done any of these things. A year after they were illegally fired for standing up for their rights, airport cashiers Hakima Arhab and Diamond Ford are still fighting to get their jobs back.
The Oakland Airport belongs to the people. It should provide good, secure jobs that strengthen our community – and workers shouldn’t be punished for saying so!
Come tell the Port of Oakland: take action NOW to make Subway and Jamba Juice respect their workers’ rights – and bring Hakima and Diamond back to work!
Original scenes from the Istanbul Gezi Park protests.
Put on by Turkish American Gezi Platform. An organization representing the Turkish American Community in support of the Gezi Movement.
Also Sunday, June 30th, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Recently, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee announced that openly gay Army whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning would be honored as a grand marshal for the largest gathering of LGBT (lesbian gay bisexual transgender) people and allies in the United States.
PFC Manning was selected for one of our community’s highest accolades because he helped reveal unpunished war crimes, the Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture, and other disturbing and previously secret foreign policies. PFC Manning has already pleaded guilty to charges that will carry a 20-year prison sentence. The military still pursues a life sentence.
Then, the SF Pride Board of Directors retracted the invitation, stating:
“Bradley Manning will not be a grand marshal in this year’s San Francisco Pride celebration. …. even the hint of support for actions which placed in harm’s way the lives of our men and women in uniform — and countless others, military and civilian alike —will not be tolerated by the leadership of San Francisco Pride.”
WHAT?
The SF Pride Board of Directors is parroting the US military, offering uncritical support for the military’s anti-Manning smear campaign. Most experts believe Manning’s actions endangered no one.
After being challenged by many members of the LGBTQ community, the SF Pride Board issued another statement explaining that the election of Bradley Manning as Grand Marshal was a procedural error. They did not retract the statement made earlier by the Pride Board President which was widely publicized.
Their statements are disgraceful. No matter who you believe should be Grand Marshal or what you think about Bradley Manning’s case, the SF Pride Committee’s unconditional support of the military should make your skin crawl.
The Dyke March has always opposed U.S. militarism, rejected corporate sponsors, and supported people who risk their lives to further freedom, transparency, and democracy.
The Dyke March has a working relationship with SF Pride. Like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, as well as some local businesses that serve the queer communities, Pride has provided financial support to the Dyke March. Nevertheless, we believe, as members of a family, we should be critical and express our opinions even when they differ. We cannot be silent regarding the unjust condemnation of Bradley Manning by SF Pride’s Board of Directors.
We honor LGBTQ people and all people who refuse to be silent in the face of oppression and repression.
Come Out for Our LGBTQ Whistle blower PFC Bradley Manning at the 2013 SF Pride Parade! You are invited to join our official, fabulous, and epic, contingent for the SF Pride People’s Grand Marshal Bradley Manning!
Music by Kaimera & the Brass Liberation Orchestra, Featuring Daniel Ellsberg (riding in a convertible), and a motorized cable car (for those who can’t walk).
Come celebrate the radical heritage and original spirit of Pride by joining the contingent in support of a heroic Queer army intelligence analyst who sacrificed everything so we could all know the truth about US wars and foreign policy by leaking classified information that revealed war crimes, torture, lies, corruption, spying, bribery, false imprisonment and much more to the Wikileaks whistle blowing website.
This year’s Pride falls in the midst of a military court martial this summer where PFC Manning’s entire life will quite literally be on the line. This will be the most crucial time to show support for this young hero, especially from the LGBTQ community. By marching with us we will not only be supporting Manning but challenging an entire system of oppression at home and abroad. LGBTQ liberation is integrally tied to the collective liberation of all oppressed groups. Despite the SF Pride Board publicly maligning and rescinding Manning as a Grand Marshal, members of the San Francisco LGBTQ, military veteran and activist community have named Bradley Manning the 2013 San Francisco Pride People’s Grand Marshal & we will be marching in solidarity & in mass. Free Bradley Manning, our communities and the world!
Manning is in prison for us! Let’s come out for him!
More contact info:
Lisa Geduldig (Publicist) • Ph: (415) 431-7363 • Cell: (415) 205-6515 • lisag@igc.org
Come Out for Our LGBTQ Whistle blower PFC Manning at the 2013 San Francisco Pride Parade!
With the Brass Liberation Orchestra & DJ set by Kaimera!
Endorsed by: Gay Liberation Network, Veterans for Peace & Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Come celebrate the radical heritage and original spirit of Pride by joining the contingent in support of a heroic Queer army intelligence analyst who sacrificed everything so we could all know the truth about US wars and foreign policy by leaking classified information that revealed war crimes, torture, lies, corruption, spying, bribery, false imprisonment and much more to the Wikileaks whistle blowing website.
Facebook Page. More information. RSVP.
An Art Exhibition Showcasing The Truth & Humor of the Turkish Resistance
Original scenes from Istanbul Gezi Park Protest
by
Turkish American Gezi Platform: An organization representing the Turkish American Community in support of the Gezi Movement
Saturday, June 29th, 4PM – 9PM
Sunday, June 30th, 11AM – 2 PM
Studio Location:
DILEKSEZEN
1933 Union Street, San Francisco, CA 94123
Sundays – 2:00 PM, Oscar Grant Plaza
Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally and has equal decision-making power. Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly uses a participatory decision-making process appropriately called, “Occupy Oakland’s Collective Decision-Making Process.” Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
Decision Making
Proposals are brought to the Facilitation Committee, either in person at their regular meetings (19th and Telegraph on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM and Saturdays at 4:00 PM) or through an email to: facilitation@occupyoakland.org, and then are brought to Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly. A proposal becomes a resolution only when it is approved through the mechanics of Occupy Oakland’s collective decision-making process. If the community passes a proposal, then it becomes an official Occupy Oakland resolution.
Autonomous Action & the General Assembly
The bulk of the work of Occupy Oakland does NOT happen in the General Assembly. It happens in various committees, caucuses, and associated groups that report back to the general assembly. Everyone participating in Occupy Oakland should be part of at least one associated group. Occupy Oakland encourages autonomous actions that do not require consensus from the General Assembly. This encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome
- Welcome Announcements
- Agenda Overview
- Forum
- Reports from Committees, Subcommittees, Caucuses, & Working Groups
- Overview of Process
- Proposal Queue
- Sample Proposal 1
- Sample Proposal 2
- Sample Proposal 3
- Action Announcements
- General Announcements
* An agenda is subject to change at the discretion of the Facilitation Committee or the facilitators of the GA.
Schedule and Records
Meeting notes, resolutions, and decisions are posted online so that participants can keep track of what is going on with the occupation.
GA Statements | GA Minutes | GA Agendas | GA Proposals | GA Resolutions
Facilitation Committee
Helps facilitate the operation of the General Assembly. The Facilitation Committee meets at 19th and Telegraph on Wednesdays at 12:00 PM and Saturdays at 4:00 PM. If you would like to join our committee, please email us at: facilitation@occupyoakland.org, or see our page on this website for more information: Facilitation Committee.
How to Make a Proposal
- Create a group of at least three people that have attended at least one Occupy Oakland General Assembly prior to drafting the proposal.
- Submit your proposal in writing to: facilitation@occupyoakland.org or during a Facilitation Committee meeting.
- Please include contact information for at least three members of your group.
Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford & SEIU pickets at the Eastmont Mall in support of SEIU civilian workers inside OPD and for civilianization and Internal Affairs reforms.
OPD is around the back of the mall. You can enter the parking lot from Foothill.
Pickets at City Hall and the other City administration buildings around OGP begin at 6:00 AM.
Major rally at Oscar Grant Plaza with speakers including elected officials, religious and community leaders, BART & City of Oakland workers.
Hear Sara Flounders, author of War Without Victory – The Pentagon’s Achilles Heel, Co-Director of the International Action Center and Workers World Party Secretariat, discuss:
* What is imperialism?
* Why must the working class break with its own ruling class on the question of imperialist war
* How do internationalism and solidarity strengthen the worldwide class struggle?
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!
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