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We’ve been discussing theories of money and our debt crisis lately, and Brown is a backer of the public bank option. It will be interesting to see where she connects and/or clashes with other theories of Capitalism and Debt. See you there!
(Entrance is on 22nd St, just off Broadway. Ring bell (not intercom!) to left)
During the 2012 Mayday protests in Oakland, the OPD switched up it’s normal crowd control tactics and sent in ‘snatch squads’ to remove people who they perceived to be planning unlawful actions. Without any warning, groups of officers marched in formation directly through the crowd in search of their targets. Prince was one of the activists to be targeted and arrested early in the day. More than three officers assaulted Prince, before one used their tazer to bring him down. It’s more than clear that there was no reason for any of these arrests to be made, as no illegal activity (on the part of the protesters) was taking place. Prince was held for 72 hours, brutalized, and released with no charges. The DA quietly filed charges later, and issued a warrant for his arrest.
Two of the officers involved in Prince’s brutal arrest on MayDay have been identified as Officer Fukuda and Officer W. Burke. Officer Burke was seen on Mayday, multiple times, pointing his rifle at people in the crowd, and waving it around carelessly. Officer Burke was also fired at one point, for falsifying search warrants, but was rehired in arbitration.
Lets show support for our comrade in the face of outrageous charges.
On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.
The press has been overflowing with reports on exploding student debt, and the payday lending industry is under increasing public scrutiny. Strike Debt Bay Area has OCCUPIED THE BERKELEY POST OFFICE to oppose privatization in coalition with Berkeley activists, and City College of San Francisco is under attack by privatizers.
Join Strike Debt Bay Area on Saturday, August 31th for our next Ideas Into Action meeting. We will be discussing our ongoing big action at the Berkeley Post Office, and planning continuations or followup actions.
Also
- student debt resistance in light of Congress’ horrible legislation to raise future student loan interest rates.
- Postal Banking
- national Strike Debt connections & media strategy
- putting the payday lenders out of business
- next debtors’ union steps
Come join these efforts and bring your own ideas…
Solidarity.
You are not a loan
Strike Debt Bay Area
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
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: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
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
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: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Come talk about and help plan our next moves in the struggle to save the Berkeley Post Office from greedy moneygrubbers like Richard Blum and privateers scheming to sell off our roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, Post Offices and more all across the country.
The Post Office bureaucrats could announce the sale of the downtown Berkeley Post Office as soon as October 5th, and we need to be ready!
Possible topics for discussion include:
– Discuss continuing strategies that address the – possibly – imminent next moves by the Board of Governors to sell the Post Office
– Volunteers for
Information table
Future teach-ins
Music and entertainment events
Citizen empowerment training and resource sharing:
Know your rights
Cop Watch
Updates on privatization
Mental and physical health resources
Empathic listening circles
Training in nonviolent civil disobedience tactics and communication
Clothing and crop swaps
Banner and sign-making workshops for a variety of political actions
– Discuss our relationships with City of Berkeley officials
– Discuss the terms of ongoing mutual support of our defense of the post office/service and of future coalitions.
– Results of 9/4 Planning Commission meeting to rezone district in which Post Office is located.
Relevant websites:
(Entrance is on 22nd St, just off Broadway. Ring bell (not intercom!) to left)
Via ACCE Oakland:
The fight for widespread principal reduction is on, in Richmond California, and we need your help! The City, together with our community/labor/faith coalition, have a real shot at successfully standing up to Wall Street and launching a new Local Principal Reduction strategy that, once it spreads, could provide significant relief to tens of thousands of struggling homeowners.
As you’ve probably heard, Wall Street is throwing its full weight against Richmond in an attempt to stop the city from reducing the mortgage principal of underwater homeowners via the lawful use of eminent domain. Over the past 6 years, Wall Street’s reckless practices have devastated millions of lives and our national economy, and now the big banks are spreading truly absurd lies in an effort to intimidate Richmond into backing down and abandoning its plan. (They’re sending direct mail, launching deceitful websites, filing lawsuits, and trying to pressure the city financially).
On September 10, the Richmond City Council will take a crucial vote about moving forward. It is essential that we win this vote.
We need to show our allies (and the swing voters) on the Richmond City Council that we’ve got their backs. Every public expression of support will bolster their confidence in the face of intimidation tactics by Wall Street.
Come help us prepare for the next year in the struggle to get Justice for Alan!
Reports on the end of the Prisoners’ Hunger Strike and First Friday Outreach.
Discussion of where we go next.
PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR MEETING PLACE BEFORE YOU COME. IT MAY CHANGE.
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
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: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Help plan and organize our next rally on September 21st. Learn the latest about the fight the save the Berkeley Post Office and against privatization in general.
IMPORTANT Justice 4 Tristan meeting.
We need to figure out how care is going to work for Tristan while I am away (Ayr will be taking on A LOT) and we need to organize around the trial in a way that reflects our real politics. We know our power’s not in some courtroom, it’s in the streets! J4T needs help this Fall.
Please support if you can, stay tuned for upcoming news and events…
On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.
http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/oakland-moves-forward-with-citywide.html
The Oakland Privacy Working Group and others are continuing to organize against these encroachments upon our liberty and privacy.
The entrance to The Sudoroom is on 22nd Street a few doors west of Broadway, up some stairs. There is a buzzer if the door is not open.