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We held a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. See photos here.
We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted. In light of the recent upheavals in the Oakland Police Department, we are renewing our calls for the firing of Masso and justice for Alan. We held a press conference to this effect on Thursday, May 16th.
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!
Jutice 4 Alan Blueford website
Come hear why we demand “U.S. hands off Syria, Iran, & Venezuela”. Join us afterwards to celebrate the opening of new
Workers World’s new Oakland office, with food and music by Redd Welsh.
Recent U.S. threats against these and other countries show that this time of capitalist economic crisis brings with it the danger of new imperialist wars and interventions. In late May the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution backing up Israel if it launches an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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 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
On Friday, June 21st ACCE’s Riders for Transit Justice Bus Riders Union will be kicking off a monthly Movie Night & Fundraiser! We’re inviting friends & supporters to watch “Bread & Roses” the film inspired by the pivotal and groundbreaking “Justice for Janitors” Campaign! We’ll also be joined by a special guest, the one and only Jono Shaffer, a long-time labor organizer who served as the basis for the film’s main character!
We’ll be showing the film followed by a question & answer session with Jono! This will be our kickoff of regular movie nights where leaders from Riders for Transit Justice will host viewings of movement movies along with discussions about the topics presented in the movies.
We’re asking for donations to support ACCE, with a suggested donation of $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds!). We hope everyone can come and join us! Additionally, ACCE members will be cooking delicious and healthy food that will be available for sale.
Movies, delicious food, and a way to support ACCE – what could be better?!
Join us on Friday, June 21st at 5:30pm at the ACCE Oakland office for the movie.
RSVP by email.
Please tell us:
Your name:
How many people you are bringing:
Your phone #:
Saturday, June 22nd from 7:00 PM to morning!
Bring a sleeping bag.
Oscar Grant Plaza 14th Street & Broadway, OaklandFeast! Films! Music! More!
“This movement won’t end here. We’ve started something much bigger than the park. …After tis, I don’t think people will go back to being afraid of this government or any government.”
-Seyitt Cikmen, 19
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
Port of Oakland: Don’t Let OAK Fast Food Restaurants Break the Law!
Fast food workers at the Oakland Airport have spent the past year fighting for justice on the job – but their bosses are fighting back. The National Labor Relations Board just charged the OAK Subway and Jamba Juice 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.
On the one-year anniversary of the campaign for fair food at the Oakland Airport, stand with the workers as they call on the Port to enforce the law and protect workers’ rights in OUR airport!
What’s going on?
One year ago, non-union fast food workers at the Oakland Airport launched a campaign to win good jobs and safe, healthy working conditions. They demanded a fair process to decide whether to join a union, without intimidation from their bosses.
Now, the National Labor Relations Board just charged the Oakland Airport’s Subway and Jamba Juice with a host of labor law violations – including firing, disciplining and cutting hours for workers who support the union.
Meanwhile, a Port of Oakland investigation found that Subway and Jamba Juice violated the Port’s Living Wage laws and fired workers in retaliation for filing complaints. The Port ordered Subway and Jamba Juice to pay back wages and reinstate the fired whistle-blowers.
But months later Subway and Jamba Juice still have not complied with those orders. The Port has the power to impose additional fines and penalties on the restaurants, take them to court to enforce the orders, or terminate the underlying Port contracts, but it hasn’t done any of these things. A year after they were illegally fired for standing up for their rights, airport cashiers Hakima Arhab and Diamond Ford are still fighting to get their jobs back.
The Oakland Airport belongs to the people. It should provide good, secure jobs that strengthen our community – and workers shouldn’t be punished for saying so!
Come tell the Port of Oakland: take action NOW to make Subway and Jamba Juice respect their workers’ rights – and bring Hakima and Diamond back to work!
We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted. In light of the recent upheavals in the Oakland Police Department, we are renewing our calls for the firing of Masso and justice for Alan. We held a press conference to this effect on Thursday, May 16th.
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 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 making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Jutice 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 June 29th for our next Ideas Into Action meeting.
Bring your ideas and/or plug into ongoing projects:
– reading groups on debt & capitalism
– the seeds of some exciting debtors union tactics, both locally and nationally
– a series of solidarity actions with the US Postal Service and Save the Berkeley Post Office Coalition. (See more info here). Hopefully to eventuate in public/postal banking!!!!
– beginning to think about campus organizing for the fall (UC Berkeley, Laney, CCSF, SF State, CCA, etc)
Come join these efforts and bring your own ideas…
solidarity, you are not a loan
Strike Debt Bay Area
Original scenes from the Istanbul Gezi Park protests.
Put on by Turkish American Gezi Platform. An organization representing the Turkish American Community in support of the Gezi Movement.
Also Sunday, June 30th, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Recently, the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee announced that openly gay Army whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning would be honored as a grand marshal for the largest gathering of LGBT (lesbian gay bisexual transgender) people and allies in the United States.
PFC Manning was selected for one of our community’s highest accolades because he helped reveal unpunished war crimes, the Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture, and other disturbing and previously secret foreign policies. PFC Manning has already pleaded guilty to charges that will carry a 20-year prison sentence. The military still pursues a life sentence.
Then, the SF Pride Board of Directors retracted the invitation, stating:
“Bradley Manning will not be a grand marshal in this year’s San Francisco Pride celebration. …. even the hint of support for actions which placed in harm’s way the lives of our men and women in uniform — and countless others, military and civilian alike —will not be tolerated by the leadership of San Francisco Pride.”
WHAT?
The SF Pride Board of Directors is parroting the US military, offering uncritical support for the military’s anti-Manning smear campaign. Most experts believe Manning’s actions endangered no one.
After being challenged by many members of the LGBTQ community, the SF Pride Board issued another statement explaining that the election of Bradley Manning as Grand Marshal was a procedural error. They did not retract the statement made earlier by the Pride Board President which was widely publicized.
Their statements are disgraceful. No matter who you believe should be Grand Marshal or what you think about Bradley Manning’s case, the SF Pride Committee’s unconditional support of the military should make your skin crawl.
The Dyke March has always opposed U.S. militarism, rejected corporate sponsors, and supported people who risk their lives to further freedom, transparency, and democracy.
The Dyke March has a working relationship with SF Pride. Like the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, as well as some local businesses that serve the queer communities, Pride has provided financial support to the Dyke March. Nevertheless, we believe, as members of a family, we should be critical and express our opinions even when they differ. We cannot be silent regarding the unjust condemnation of Bradley Manning by SF Pride’s Board of Directors.
We honor LGBTQ people and all people who refuse to be silent in the face of oppression and repression.
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
Come Out for Our LGBTQ Whistle blower PFC Bradley Manning at the 2013 SF Pride Parade! You are invited to join our official, fabulous, and epic, contingent for the SF Pride People’s Grand Marshal Bradley Manning!
Music by Kaimera & the Brass Liberation Orchestra, Featuring Daniel Ellsberg (riding in a convertible), and a motorized cable car (for those who can’t walk).
Come celebrate the radical heritage and original spirit of Pride by joining the contingent in support of a heroic Queer army intelligence analyst who sacrificed everything so we could all know the truth about US wars and foreign policy by leaking classified information that revealed war crimes, torture, lies, corruption, spying, bribery, false imprisonment and much more to the Wikileaks whistle blowing website.
This year’s Pride falls in the midst of a military court martial this summer where PFC Manning’s entire life will quite literally be on the line. This will be the most crucial time to show support for this young hero, especially from the LGBTQ community. By marching with us we will not only be supporting Manning but challenging an entire system of oppression at home and abroad. LGBTQ liberation is integrally tied to the collective liberation of all oppressed groups. Despite the SF Pride Board publicly maligning and rescinding Manning as a Grand Marshal, members of the San Francisco LGBTQ, military veteran and activist community have named Bradley Manning the 2013 San Francisco Pride People’s Grand Marshal & we will be marching in solidarity & in mass. Free Bradley Manning, our communities and the world!
Manning is in prison for us! Let’s come out for him!
More contact info:
Lisa Geduldig (Publicist) • Ph: (415) 431-7363 • Cell: (415) 205-6515 • lisag@igc.org