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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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Brought to you again by Fresh Juice Party. Check out their previous artwork.
What new beautiful design will be etched in chalk at OGP this time? Come find out and help out.
The Interfaith Tent will once again be handing out fliers, talking with people, and reading the names of those killed by police on July 5th @ OPD Headquarters on 7th and Broadway.
A group of us walked from the police station up Broadway and Telegraph, talking with people as we went. That was very effective. Our “Stop Police Violence” signs made people want to talk with us.
Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition members and Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity supporters calling attention to injustice both within prison walls and on the outside.
The SHU (Solitary Holding Unit) mockup is rumored to be making another appearance.
Come check it all out!
How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence.
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.”
Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family
Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia.
You may know Dominic Ware, a worker at the San Leandro Walmart and one of the most visible and active OURWalmart leaders in the Bay Area. Just this week he was out supporting the BART strike. And a few weeks ago he and many of his co-workers were on strike themselves.
Today, Dominic was fired. Walmart cited his absences as a result of the strike. Last week, Raymond from Richmond, Barbara from Sacramento and up to 40 strikers across the country were fired or disciplined. Dominic has been there for his co-workers, for BART strikers, for nurses fighting Sutter, for Oakland residents fighting displacement, for all of us in this movement.
It’s time to be there for Dominic and defend our freedom to speak out, stand up and live better.
10am – Action in support of fired strikers Raymond and Louis from Richmond Walmart (1400 Hilltop Mall Rd, Richmond, CA)
12pm – Action in support of #walmartstrikers at San Leandro Walmart (1919 Davis St San Leandro, CA)
2pm – Action in support of fired striker Dominic from San Leandro Walmart (15555 Hesperian Blvd, San Leandro, CA)
4pm – Action in support of #walmartstrikers at Fremont Walmart (44009 Osgood Rd, Fremont, CA)
Message: Stop firing #walmartstrikers – We call on you to end your illegal disciplinary actions and terminations and demand that you immediately reinstate all Walmart workers who were fired for simply exercising their rights.
How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence.
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.”
Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family
Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia.
Coffee Not Cops- Coffee & Snacks and Outreach in support of the Prisoner Hunger Strikers.
More info about the Hunger Strike.
Website for the Prisoner Hunger Strike supporters.
I’m not sure San Francisco – what with the BART strike and the holiday – has quite had a chance to come to terms with the magnitude of what the accreditingcommission overseeing City College has done to us.
This unelected, unaccountable body has shattered one of the most important public institutions in the city, damaging the economy, the workforce, and the hopes of tens of thousands of students. And it’s done so for the worst possible reasons.
March in protest next Tuesday! We march from the downtown campus at 4th and Mission to the Department of Education. Gather at Downtown Campus around 4 p.m., march at 4:30pm: (Campus is @ 88 4th Street @ Mission -2 blocks from Powell St. BART)
Memorial services will be held for Jodie Randolph on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 11 a.m. at First African Methodist Episcopal Church. There will be a viewing/quiet time between 9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on the same date.
For more on Jodie Randolph and the fight to save her house by the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group:
We Can No Longer #defendjodie.
Showing are at the Grand Lake Theatre. Showtimes are 1:00 PM, 3:30 PM, 6:00 PM, 8:15 PM and 10:30 PM.
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition may be handing out literature as later showings end.
In 2011, over 12,000 prisoners and their family and community members participated in statewide hunger strikes protesting the inhumane conditions in California’s Security Housing Units (SHU or solitary confinement). California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation promised meaningful reform as a result of those protests, but nothing meaningful has reached the people living in these cages. Prisoners have announced another hunger strike will begin July 8th because of CDCR’s failure to fulfill that promise.
On July 8, prisoners living in the SHUs at Pelican Bay and other prisons will resume their hunger strike and work stoppages if decisive action is not taken by the State before then.
On July 13, we will mobilize from around California to Corcoran State Prison—which isolates over 1,600 people in solitary confinement—to stand in solidarity with striking prisoners across the state. We must take this movement to the prison gates and show the Governor and the Department of Corrections that we support the prisoners and demand that the Governor meet with prisoner representatives immediately to negotiate their demands!
California currently holds nearly 12,000 people in extreme isolation. The state spends over $60 million per year on maintaining prisoners in isolation.
Demand the State of California stop the torture!
Rally at Corcoran State Prison on July 13th!
Caravans leaving from MacArthur BART in Oakland at 10:30 9:00 AM
Show your support for the hunger strikers!
Organize to help win their demands!
Occupy Oakland @OccupyOakland 16m
#hoodiesup. OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie.
OccupythePort @occupytheport 13m
#OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie.
#hoodiesup
OccupythePort @occupytheport 13m
Call has gone out in#Oakland: Meet 10PM at #OGP. Bring your hoodies. #JusticeForTrayvon
SUNDAY 7/14 ALL DAY
MOBILIZATIONS AT 7 AM, NOON, 5 PM
OAKLAND AIRPORT TERMINAL 2
“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. On Sunday, July 14, the workers will strike all day, with mobilizations at Oakland Airport Terminal 2 at 7 am, noon, and 5 pm.
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 14th and support these courageous worker leaders!
STRIKE MOBILIZATION TRANSPORT PLAN: To carpool to the airport, meet at the Alameda Labor Council parking lot (100 Hegenberger Rd, parking lot entrance on Airport Access Rd/Pardee Dr) 20 minutes before each mobilization: 6:40 am, 11:40 am, 4:40 pm. Please arrive on time! Contact Sarah at snorr@unitehere.org if you need a ride from BART).
Si se puede!
UNITE HERE Local 2850
If you are part of that side which upholds the right of the Trayvon’s of this world to live and have justice, YOU MUST ACT NOW. The racial profiling that led to the murder of Trayvon and has so many Black and Latino youth facing lives of going into and out of prison must be taken on and stopped. As Zimmerman walks free again, it is like a declaration of Open Season on Black youth! This is unacceptable and must not be allowed to go down without determined mass resistance.
Come out and demonstrate!
Justice for Trayvon!
The Whole Damn System is Guilty!
Original rally call out notice on IndyBay.
No Justice, No Peace. Join Oakland demonstration as part of national day to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the racist murder of Trayvon Martin.
All welcome to this protest. Speak out, bring signs and banners.