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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Fremont High School at 3:00 PM
OUSD building, Oakland at 4:30 PM
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“Acceleration TSA”–an idea whose time has come?
- Teachers told they must reapply for their current jobs!
- Or is it another hastily designed OUSD experiment on flatland students of color?
OEA members across the district have varying opinions on the merits of this idea.
BUT WE AGREE THAT:
NO member should accept the unlawful method by which Superintendent Smith unilaterally imposed yet-to-be-described working conditions upon our fellow members.
NO member will question that by refusing to communicate, collaborate, and problem solve with those democratically elected to safeguard our best interests, Superintendent Smith has made it easier to ignore member’s rights in the future. If we fail to answer these divide and conquer techniques that undermine our collective strength, then we fail our bargaining team, and more importantly, we fail our kids.
NO member should suffer the indignity of having to apply for a job already held.
Your OEA bargaining team is preparing for negotiations with the OUSD for a new contract. How will you add strength to their efforts?
OEA SOLIDARITY ACTIONS
Join one or both actions on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.
3:00-4:00 – Fremont High School: 4610 Foothill at High Street, Fremont
4:30-6:00 – OUSD School Board Meeting – OUSD Building: 1025 2nd Avenue, Oakland
Honor joint OEA/OUSD agreements! Support your OEA bargaining team! Reject unilateral actions by Tony Smith! Wear OEA green on Wednesdays!
Protest the US massacre of Afghans and end the US war and militarism. No more killings. No more apologies.
Friday, March 30th, 2012
2:30pm – Meet at the Fremont BART.
3:00pm – March to the Army Recruiting Center (39194 Paseo Padre Parkway).
Why:
1) Protest the US massacre of Afghans in Panjwai, Kandahar, as well as all other atrocities related to this war.
2) Protest the US military recruitment of poor people in this country.
3) Raise awareness about and rally support against the “US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement.”
We’d like to clearly state that this is a NONVIOLENT direct action.
Organized by: Afghans for Peace, Autonomous Afghans, and SF Bay Area Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Endorsed by: Courage to Resist, Decolonize Oakland, Education Not Incarceration, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Occupy Oakland, San Jose Peace and Justice Center, and World Can’t Wait SF Bay.
For more info: www.AfghansForPeace.org, www.facebook.com/AfghansforPeace,https://www.facebook.com/events/372239879462997.
Occupy Oakland is hosting its third Neighborhood BBQ this coming Saturday at 52nd and MLK in North Oakland. The BBQ will last from 2pm to 6pm and is in support of the North Oakland Neighborhood Assembly & the fight to save Santa Fe Elementary. HEPAC will be providing free HIV tests on site and passing out condoms and safe sex kits! + Workshops from the People’s Community Medics, Foreclosure Defense Committee and more.
FOLLOWING THE BBQ AT 6PM:
MARCH to TAKE BACK the TOWN
one month countdown to May 1…
• From 52nd & MLK
• To Santa Fe Elementary
one of five Oakland schools set to close in 2012
• To Oscar Grant Plaza
no more stay away orders!
free all occupy political prisoners!
part of the Spring Offensive 2012
STRIKE! OCCUPY! DECOLONIZE!
in conjunction with FTP 14a & 14b
Organized by the Occupy Oakland BBQ Assembly
Come support the Occupy Oakland Press Conference on the DA’s targeted prosecutions and stayaway orders and help spread resistance! Hear statements from the Attorney for the IceCream 3; the attorney for victims of hate crimes frustrated at city’s indifference in non politicized cases; a ‘stayaway’ activist from UCB, and much much more!
We need your support, as does everyone facing repression from the OPD and the ACDA!
A Day of Action to protest Alameda County District Attorney O’Malley’s stay-away orders, specifically those against UC Berkeley students but also all those who have been given stay-aways in relation to Occupy events.
A press conference and march are tentatively planned.
Updates:
From 9 am there will be cellphone stations on Sproul Steps with lists of phone numbers to call and request that the DA drop the charges against the “Sproul 13” Occupy Cal protesters.
A press conference will be held at 11:00 am. Afterwards, the absurdity of the 100 yards stay away orders will be put on display via maps that carve out that region.
Celebrate James and Portest Police violence!
Join family and friends in remembrance of James Rivera, Jr., the 16 year old boy murdered by Stockton Police and County Sherrifs on July 22nd, 2010.
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012. Meet at Stockton Court house, 222 E Weber Ave, with a march to city hall at 5pm.
Buses will be leaving from oakland, at 19 th andTelegraph at 11:30 am and will be returning form Stockton at 6pm, jsut in tiome to make the 6 month Birthday Party of Occupy Oakland at Oscar Grant Plaza that evening!
Donations are requested for a headstone on James’ Grave.
Sponsored by Mothers Cry for Justice, a group of family members, friends, and concerned community members seeking justice for James Tivera, Jr. and all victims of police abuse and violence! We are all Oscar Grant!
On Tuesday, April 10, 2012, Occupy Oakland is having its Six Month Anniversary Party at Oscar Grant Plaza!
Come down to Oscar Grant Plaza and enjoy the atmosphere of the camp and the amazing experiences we have all been through together, with a concert, speak-out, feast, and picture and movie slideshows of Occupy Oakland!
The evening will end with a dance party, as we re-occupy for one night to honor the space we have all fought so hard for.
Get in touch with the Events Committee for more information, and if you have pictures/performers/food to donate, please email:
events@occupyoakland.org
BANK ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY!
We have been meeting with Richard Harris, a homeowner in the Fruitvale who is facing foreclosure and who has just been denied a loan modification. An ex-state police officer and an ex-SF firefighter, he has been in his home for 25 years and the bank thinks he is just another entry on their balance sheets. They think they are going to sell his home from out from underneath him in a month. The system is rigged, his old unions are absent, and the banks are giving him the same old paperwork runaround while the clock ticks. Time for Occupy to step in and take this fight public.
WHAT: SAVE RICHARD HARRIS’ HOME!! Bank Action and Street Canvass
WHEN: Wednesday, April 11, 2:30-4:00 pm
WHERE: Fruitvale BART to gather and hold a pre-action briefing before we leave for the bank.
WHAT: We will be delivering a demand letter to the branch manager, seeking to initate good faith negotiation and escalation of Mr Harris’ case as well as holding an informational picket outside the bank and street canvassing on foreclosures in the neighborhood. This isn’t a bank closure although the banks often try to close rather than deal with their own customers. Livestreamers will respect our media parameters or will be deemed “hostile” and be dealt with accordingly. This is a disciplined action with a set of agreements that will be discussed at the pre-action briefing.
See you there!!
This is a public fight now!!
Stand and join a march with the workers who dedicate their lives to operating and maintaining the Golden Gate Bridge, and the buses & ferries that take fans to Giants games.
Tell the Bridge District to keep its promises. Don’t let them break their promises by: Reducing vested retiree benefits; Reducing current employees’ benefits, making quality health care unafforable for families; Rewarding non-union employees with raises while punishing union workers.
Meet @ Market Street & the Embarcadero (across from the Ferry Bldg) at 4 PM for rally. March to AT&T Park.
No war on Iran, End all wars!
On this tax day, REFUSE your give your tax money for continuous wars & occupations, including the threatened invasion of Iran!
Redirect our resources! Bring yourselves along with your tax dollars, food, books, plants, bicycles, medical supplies, sings, etc. – any of the things you want our taxes to go for – to the Oakland Federal Building and help distribute our resources to the people, NOT to wars, occupations, genocides!!!
Stand with CodePINK, Occupy Oakland, Northern California War Tax Resistance, BAY-Peace, Courage to Resist, Afghans for Peace, Women in Black, IVAW, Stanford says NO to Wars, Global Exchange, Grandmothers and all concerned US folks to insist NO NEW WARS AND END ALL WARS!
Street theater, music, food, visuals: wherever our tax money is going, our war economy and military attacks on other countries (off the US Land mass) since 1798!
Last Organizing meeting, Saturday, April 14th, 11am -1pm, Mudrakers Cafe, 2801 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley.
www.bayareacodepink.org
info@bayareacodepink.org
ATTENTION!!!!
ALL MAIL HANDLERS AND POSTAL WORKERS!
The National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the American Postal Workers Union are working together on Tax Day April 17th on a very important informational leafleting to the people!
We as postal workers along with support from our community will be outside Oakland Main Post office 1675 7th St from 8:30 am until 10:30pm. There will be a speak out/rally from 3:30pm until 7:30pm.
Together we can stop the fraudulent, disastrous & totally unnecessary attack on our postal service and its workers!
The Postmaster General wants to kill the Postal Service: slash 200,000 + jobs, delay the mail, and close 3,700 Post Offices.
Most shutdowns are in poor and rural communities, where jobs and service are needed most.
The postal service is NOT in financial crisis. It is subject to ridiculous and unfair requirements imposed by Congress in 2006.
This could be the last chance before a bill comes from Congress for us to lift OUR voice and stop the back door PRIVATIZATION of the postal service.
Take a day of leave or come to work a few hours early or stay after work for a few hours this is YOUR chance to fight for your Job.
SEE YOU OUT THERE!!!
DAY OF ACTION!
Occupy the Post Office!
Stop the fraudulent, disastrous & totally unnecessary attack on our postal services!
The Postmaster General wants to kill the Postal Service: slash 200,000+ jobs, delay the mail, and close 3,700 Post Offices.
Most shutdowns are in poor and rural communities, where jobs and service are needed most.
The postal service is NOT in financial crisis. It is subject to ridiculous and unfair requirements imposed by Congress in 2006.
Let your voice be heard:
No reduction in postal service – keep 6-day delivery!
No Post Office Closings – expand the postal service, don’t destroy it!
Stop PRIVATIZATION of the P.O. –postal services belong to the people!
Demand a government-funded Jobs program at union wages for all, regardless of immigration status
Jobs for Youth – NOT JAILS!
Join with the postal workers’ unions to Save the People’s Post Office:
DATE: April 17, 2012 (Tax Day)
Place: Main Post Office Speak Out / Rally 1675 7th St Oakland CA, 94615
Time: Speak Out / Rally 3:30 pm until 7:30pm
(There will be an event going on all day from 8:30 am until 10:30 pm come out for an hour or all day stand with postal workers and help save the Peoples’ Post Off
TUESDAY, APRIL 24TH AT 10AM
Meet at Justin Herman Plaza
Near the Embarcadero BART where Market St. ends at Stuart
March to Merchants Exchange Building 465 California St.
Wells Fargo profits at the cost of our communities:
- America’s Biggest Tax Dodger – Hoarding billions of tax dollars that should be paying for public services and putting America back to work
- Leads in Foreclosure – Continuing to foreclose on families in an economy it helped to ruin
- Predatory Lender – Targeting those who can least afford it with exploitive mortgages and payday lending,especially low-income communities of color
- Corrupting our Democracy – Protecting its profits by quadrupling spending on lobbying since the financial crisis began
- Prison Profiteer – Profiting from increased incarceration by investing heavily in for-profit prison corporations and anti-immigrant legislation
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4PM – Rally and Truth Mob at Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway
5PM – March to Federal Building, then to:
6PM – Putting the Injustice System on Trial at 19th and Telegraph. Charges include: Mass Incarceration, Police Brutality and Murder, Inhumane Treatment of People in Prison, and more.
This action is in solidarity with the Occupy the Justice Department protest happening in Washington DC on April 24th, Mumia Abul-Jamal’s birthday. Occupy4Prisoners joins the growing list of endorsers.
HELP US TIP THE SCALES!
occupy4prisoners.org/occupythejusticedepartment.com
occupy4prisoners@gmail.com
International Worker’s Day and Immigrants’ Rights Day. Occupy Los Angeles has called for a General Strike on May 1st, an action which Occupy Oakland has endorsed.
Posters and flyers here and here.
Synposis:
6AM:
Occupy the Golden Gate bridgepicket with Golden Gate Labor Unions or attend a rally near the Golden Gate Bridge.
Meet at 19th & Telegraph to occupy the Golden Gate Bridge. Buses will be available. More info here and here.
9AM – NOON: 3-4 morning actions, Some events here.
NOON – 1PM: Everyone Converge on Downtown
1PM – 3PM: Themed Actions & Marches Around Downtown
3PM: March for Dignity and Resistance
All are encouraged to join the march starting at Fruitvale BART station at 3pm.
More info here and here and here.
6PM – 7PM: Reconvergence downtown to coincide with the march arrival
Stand up for ATU Members, Stop Cuts in Para Transit!
Called by the ATU 192 who represents the workers there in Para Transit: as part of a campaign against Substandard conditions, contract concessions, arbitrary discipline & firings, and service cuts.
Support by Occupy AC Transit
as part of a campaign for transit equity and organizing to unite AC workers and transit riders to stop budget cuts, oppose concessions,and make the Banks pay. Passengers and Transit workers Unite. Free passes for the working poor and youth.
Directions: Bart to Hayward Station
AC Bus 86 towards W Winton (about 13 minutes)
Stop at W Winton and Corsair.
Clawiter is across from Corsair, walk left on Clawiter to A-Para Transit
In response to the May 1st vandalism of small businesses and private property in this largely working class neighborhood, we at the Brooms Collective are planning on gathering at the 16th Street Mission BART Station at 11:30 on Saturday morning to participate in a neighborhood clean-up and outreach action. Many people seem to believe that these deplorable actions were attributable to supporters of the Occupy Movement, and even Occupy Oakland in particular. Many of us in the Brooms Collective found this truly senseless destruction wholly out of step with our beliefs, political, social or otherwise, and we believe that many others feel the same way. An action such as this is the only way that we could even hope to repair the damage that was done in the name of a movement that many of us believe would never have condoned it in the first place.
This Friday, May 11th, there will be an action in front of the OPD Station at 7th and Broadway to protest and bring light to the murder of 18 year old Alan Bluford this past weekend. It will begin at 5pm and will include such speakers as Jack Bryson from Occupy Oakland amongst others.
This Saturday, May 12th, there will be a march at 3pm from the corner of 90th and Birch in East Oakland and will go to the Eastmont Pol ice Substation at 73rd ave and MacArthur. Alan’s family has called for the march and has asked for a peaceful assembly and march.
Alan was shot in the back by Oakland police last Sunday. The family is asking why the OPD has changed their story of what happened 3 times, why they consider the offer competent after he shot himself in the foot and a young man who posed no threat to the officer as he was running away, and why this same officer is on paid leave.
Supplies to make picket signs will be available at 11am Saturday at Arroyo Park.
The family of Alan Blueford has asked allies to come to the Oakland City Council Meeting at 6 pm on Tuesday to demand justice for the OPD killing of their son! Get there by 6 pm to demand a real investigation into the circumstances of the killing! The police officer should not be on paid leave, beyond that, what is his name, and why are they still on the force?