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Recently hundreds of fast food workers participated in a wildcat strike in New York City to demand $15/dollars per hour. Now it looks like workers in Chicago are going for it as well. We need to Fight for Fifteen in Oakland!
Rampant gentrification and exploitation abounds in Oakland, with stores run by massively profitable corporations thriving off the labor of workers barely making minimum wage or more, but we know we can’t survive in this town on $8/hr. Bring this class tension to the forefront by fighting for a livable wage!
The May Day Fight for Fifteen assembly is planning for and publicizing a noise demo through downtown Oakland on May 1st aka May Day, the traditional holiday to commemorate workers’ struggles.
And, as we all know, whatever they do in New York, we can do better in Oakland.
This is a project of the Livable Wage Assembly, originally initiated by Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity.
Join Reverend Billy and the Choir of Stop Shopping for their performance of “Extinction Revolution”, the latest from the singing radicals.
In the new song “Extinction Revolution” the choir, led by Musical Director Nehemiah Luckett, rejoices that the climate-changed killed Golden Toad returns from the dead to haunt Jamie Dimon’s dreams and regulate Wall Street.
Special guests, Chalkupy. Facebook Event: RSVP
Earlier this month, a call to action* was made for a week of solidarity with the PNW Grand Jury resistors. This week is the week leading up to May Day, the day the FBI is using as an excuse to engage in their anarchist witch hunt.
So Friday, April 26th we are calling for a rowdy noise demonstration/street party in solidarity with those facing repression from the Seattle grand jury (and everywhere else, too!) Repression will not keep us down!
Bring noisemakers of all sorts, from fireworks to casseroles. Contact us if you have a mobile sound system you’d be willing to bring to the demo at bayarearac [at] tormail.org
* http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/content/call-coordinated-week-action-grand-jury-resisters-april-24-may-1st-2013
Article about the Seattle Grand Jury Resisters:
This Is How A Police State Operates: Solitary Confinement For Contempt of Court.
Friday: Challenging Capitalism’s Inherent Evils.
Glen Ford, Vanessa Aldrich, Ann Montague, Jeralyn Blueford
Saturday
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Capitalism’s Crises: The 99% vs. the Corporate Elite.
Jack Rasmus, Bruce Pardoll, Nighsnow Vogt
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Civil Liberties Under Attack. The Emerging Police State.
Ann Weills, Mark Ostapiak, Vanessa Aldrich
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Imperialist Wars.
Glen Ford, Daniel Alley, Anthony Battey
Sunday
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Leninist Theory
Jeff Mackler
2:00 PM: BBQ ($5, no one turned away for lack of funds)
Dave Lippman and his ego alter Wild Bill Bailout are singing Friday night April 26th at the Berkeley Fellowship Of Unitarian Universalists in Berkeley at 7 PM.
Wild Bill, AKA George Shrub is the “Bard of the Bankers.”
Check out some of his songs here.
1924 Cedar Street at Bonita, Berkeley, CA
http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/48673/
We will be holding a vigil on May 5th on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Oakland-based, political hip-hop group, The Coup, are putting on a benefit show for the National Lawyers Guild.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
The Coup’s latest album, Sorry to Bother You, is available now.
Prior to the show the NLG will be honoring Boots Riley’s father, Walter, at our Annual Testimonial Dinner. For more information about attending the dinner, visit nlgsf.org.
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
Hey, you’re People. So come celebrate YOUR park in Berkeley! People’s Park 44th Anniversary!
Join us! All Are Welcome!
You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco (exact location TBA).
We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on May 4th, at ARC, 900 Alice St, Oakland, CA @ 3:00 PM on May 4th.
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
What does it take to get millions into the streets? Last time, we began to discuss “unifiers” – What is the commonality uniting and mobilizing the movement? Ideas from “reclaiming our democracy” to “compassion and love for our brothers and sisters” to “fighting for the planet” and more are on the table as we consider the mandate to organize at this crucial time.
“We demand that BPD allow the release of the Coroner’s report and the police report of what happened that night.”
“The city leadership has allowed the police to function without accountability…”
Rally at 6:00 PM and speak out at 7:00 PM.
March with us in SF on May Day. We will assemble at 24th and Mission at 2:45 and march to Civic Center. We will be carrying banners that say
Healthcare is a Human Right
Support HR 676
Medicare for All
Last year Burger King made $117,000,000 in profits. Walgreens made $253,000,000.
Downtown Oakland workers deserve a raise!
Hundreds of fast food workers in NYC recently participated in a strike to demand $15/hr. It is time to bring the Fight for Fifteen campaign to Oakland.
With the cost of rent driven up by gentrification, plus childcare, healthcare and other bills, $8/hour is not enough to survive in Oakland. Mayor Jean Quan says Oakland is “rising” but the lowest paid workers, who are more likely to be people of color and women, are left behind.
$15/hr livable wage for all Oakland workers!
Rally, march and noise demo throughout downtown Oakland, exposing the practices of corporations who thrive off of low wage labor.
Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley.
Racism and oppression are alive and well in the US. From the attempts of politicians to rob African-Americans of the right to vote in the latest elections, the millions trapped in the prison system, to the epidemic of police murders that have claimed the lives of Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, and Alan Blueford, the New Jim Crow is out of control.
In celebration of what would have been his 88th birthday, the International Socialist Organization will hold a discussion about the revolutionary ideas of Malcolm X. As revolt and struggles of the oppressed grow all around the globe, activists can learn many lessons from Malcolm X’s ideas and struggles. From his legacy of struggle against racism, firm belief in the right of the oppressed to defend themselves, to his internationalism, Malcolm X still has much to offer a new generation of activists.
We will be holding a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general. We have issued a Statement of Solidary with the family of Kayla Moore, dead in the custody of Berkeley Police in February, 2013.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Come to wheel chair accessible door, press intercom for ARC. Near the Lake Merritt BART station.
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Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February) and debating future actions.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We will first meet all together and then divide up into groups that will look something like this:
Study & Research Groups (people interested in tackling specific research questions, reading books together, etc.)
Outreach & Education (people interested in getting our message out – to community groups, churches, etc.)
Direct Action (people interested in organizing Wells Fargo and other actions)
Debtors’ Union (tactical work for collective organizing against private and public debt)
Alternative Institutions (Alternative currencies, public banking, communal living, and more!)
Follow StrikeDebt (NYC) on twitter.
Latest StrikeDebt Analysis: Death By For-Profit Health Care.
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