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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.
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
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)
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