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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
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.
Final planning meeting for the Statewide March Against Police Brutality.
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!
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
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
Public Banking:
A Sustainable Solution to Problems Caused by Private Bankers
Private banks are destroying our communities by funneling public funds out through a pipeline of rigged swap deals, municipal bonds, and pension investments. Schools in Oakland are shut down, while banks continue to be paid nearly 20% of the city’s operating budget in interest and fees. UC students are forced to pay ever higher tuition, while the banks are collecting $10 million a year from the UC. These private banking behemoths must be stopped. By arguing that they are necessary to economic survival, these banking giants get ever more public funds through bailouts. Public Banking is an alternative system to financing that has the potential to greatly diminish the power of the private banking elites. Public Banking is a sustainable and local banking solution that has garnered support world-wide. Join us for a forum where we will discuss Public Banking theory and practice.
Jane Smith will talk about how public banks actually function. An Occupy activist with a focus on Wall Street, Jane is trained in mathematics and economics, and is involved with education efforts concerning finance and banking. As a member of the Ideological Liberation Working Group (ILWG), she writes for the www.OBAU.org website.
Susan Harman will highlight efforts to institute a Public Bank in California, and how to talk to politicians about starting a public bank, focusing on interest and fiduciary responsibility. In addition to being a volunteer with the Public Banking Institute, Susan is active with CodePink and Move to Amend.
Jack Wagner will discuss his experience in organizing and educating about Public Banking in Sonoma County as a volunteer with the Public Banking Institute.
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