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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)
Final planning meeting for the Statewide March Against Police Brutality.
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!
We are beginning a FACTS and LIES campaign to educate Oakland about the truth of what happened to Alan Blueford and the lies OPD and the DA promulgated and continue to promulgate.
We are supporting the California prisoners’ hunger strike. Go to the rally (buses leave from McArthur Bart at 9:00 AM) but if you can’t make it come to our meeting!
We are participating in the Rally against police violence: One Year After Anaheim on July 21st.
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!
Justice 4 Alan Blueford website.
The press has been overflowing with reports on exploding student debt, and the payday lending industry is under increasing public scrutiny. Let’s take this momentum and radicalize it!
Join Strike Debt Bay Area on Saturday July 13th for our next meeting. We will be discussing
– A series of solidarity actions with the US Postal Service and Save the Berkeley Post Office Coalition. (See more info here and here for our Big Event). Hopefully to eventuate in public/postal banking!!!!
– Campus organizing for the fall (UC Berkeley, Laney, CCSF, SF State, CCA, etc)
– Progress on first steps towards a debtors’ union.
– Ripoff Payday loan and check cashing services; how to put them out of business.
– Your ideas!
Come join these efforts and bring your own ideas…
solidarity, you are not a loan
Strike Debt Bay Area
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
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: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
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.
INVASION BIOLOGY
OR INTEGRATION BIOLOGY?
Who is behind the deforestation and pesticiding of
the East Bay Hills, from Richmond to Hayward?
**Slideshow with narration, followed by discussion**
DAVID THEODOROPOULOS
Conservation Biologist and Author:
Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience
+ Update from Save Mt. Sutro Forest
SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013, 6:30PM (doors open 6PM)
Historic Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar (one block east of MLK, Jr. Way), Berkeley, California
Hear about Invasion Biology from a different perspective of non-native species, based on Evolutionary Biology, and find out about the native plant restoration movement’s connection to the pesticide industry.
**Please refrain from using scented products prior to attending
**Wheelchair accessible
Co-sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert (http://www.dontspraycalifornia.org) (see wildfire pages) & the Social Justice Committee of BFUU (http://www.bfuu.org)
More info and photos: http://www.milliontrees.me
JOIN US and USE YOUR POLITICAL POWER!
Let’s make 30,000 PHONE CALLS for the 30,000 HUNGER STRIKERS!
DAY 8 of the Hunger Strike: CALL GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN
Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Suggested script:
I’m calling in support of the prisoners on hunger strike. The
governor has the power to stop the torture of solitary confinement. I
urge the governor to compel the CDCR to enter into negotiations to
end the strike. RIGHT NOW is their chance to enter into clear,
honest negotiations with the strikers to end the torture.
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity callout for 30,000 calls page.
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!
Endorsed by: Advance the Struggle, Tsega Center, ONYX, Oscar Grant Committee, ISO, Nuestra Nueva América, FMLN Educacion and more to be announced.
This class is discussing some theories of debt. We are reading recent texts that treat the creditor/debtor relationship as vital to social systems. The concept of Debt will be explored in historical, ethical, economic, and political contexts, including how it effects people today.
All are welcome.
More info. Location map. The entrance is on 22nd St.
July 16, 2013 will mark the two year anniversary of the murder of Kenneth Harding Jr. who was murdered by San Francisco police at the age of nineteen for allegedly failing to pay a $2.00 transit fare. While the family still awaits information for an investigation of the police; the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation would like to call upon everyone to come together in solidarity to support a transit shut down against the San Francisco Municipal Transit.
MUNI Transit has to take responsibility for their role in this horrific murder. They request for police officers to conduct fare inspections within the impoverished areas and upon the “impoverished” youth and people of color. We want free transit for all youth; no one should have to worry about losing their life for not having transit fare, and/or not paying transit fare. No one should be racially profiled, stopped and frisked, and/or have their rights violated to determine if they have paid transit fare. Everyone should have the right to ride transit without fear of losing their life.
We are asking for full support and cooperation from all unions especially transit, organizations, movements, and our community members. We want mothers who have lost their children to step up and speak out with us on this day and allow your cries to be heard. We want to affect the city of San Francisco’s economic system in order to allow our voices to be heard. We are asking those who stand in solidarity against police brutality and those who would like to help organize and/or endorse the shutdown to contact the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation at (415) 505-6331 or you can email justice4kennethhardingjr@gmail.com
We are all still Kenneth Harding Jr., Alan Blueford, Derrick Gaines, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Rhamarley Graham, Raheim Brown, James Rivera Jr., Gary King Jr., Mario Romero, Ernest Duenez Jr., and so many more…
THEY TAKE US DOWN WE SHUT THEM DOWN!
Tuesday, July 16th NOON – Community Bar B Que – MLK PARK 5701 3RD ST
Tuesday, July 16th 4:00pm – Muni Transit shutdown – San Francisco, Ca.
(SAME PLACE MEET AT THE SAFEWAY ON CHURCH AND DUBOCE)
Tuesday, July 16th 6:30pm – Vigil for Kenneth Harding Jr. on Kenny’s Korner @ Third St. & Oakdale
Tuesday, July 16, 5:30PM, City Council Meeting
Council is seeking to pass a resolution to administer a $2 million payout to major defense contractor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for needed software and infrastructure to integrate “Phase 2” of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) a mass centralized virtual data center for intelligence gathering in Oakland. If this gross violation of privacy has you concerned come out and voice your opinion on Big Oakland Brother the DAC to the Council.
http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
Sign up to speak against increased government surveillance, Item 7.19:
http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373
Last night 8 year old Alaysha #Carradine was at Khamel Hardin’s apartment at a #sleepover for his age 7 daughter and 4 year old son along with his 64 year old grandmother when at 11pm a maniac opened fire on their apartment wounding the others and #killing #Alaysha. She becomes the 54th person to be murdered in #Oakland this year.
There is a rally for her at 6:30pm today, 3400 Wilson Ave, West Oakland.
ONYX, Justice 4 Alan Blueford, Advance the Struggle, People’s Community Medics and the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation are calling for a rally, march and vigil on Friday at 6 pm. ALL OUT FOR ALL OUR BABIES will honor all of the young black and brown men and women killed as a result of state sponsored terrorism.
