Calendar
The politics of debt will continue to meet on Mondays at 7:00pm in the public school space (2141 Broadway, Downtown Oakland). The class is going to go back to a biweekly format to slow down and treat the text and topic carefully, or, to give more time for reading. We’ve had some lively discussions about David Graeber and Marizzio Lazzarato’s differing approaches to debt, economics, and politics that are never short on commentary! Don’t miss out on the chance to learn from each other on perhaps the most important topic for our times.
The first meeting took place on Saturday before the SEIU City workers went on strike for Monday. Come and find out what is what and talk about next steps.
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 5th and 14th and support these courageous worker leaders!
Non-Union Airport Fast Food Workers Ready to STRIKE!
Strike Build-Up Actions at Oakland Airport Terminal 2:
Friday, 7/5: 11:30 am -1:30 pm.
Sunday, 7/14: 7 am, noon, 5 pm.
It’s going to be a hot summer: as East Bay public workers struggle for justice on the job, non-union workers at Oakland Airport fast food restaurants are preparing to strike!
“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. At Thursday’s Port Commission meeting, workers announced a strike deadline of July 11th. While the strike date itself was not announced, workers are calling for a picket on Friday, July 5th, and a full day of action on Sunday, July 14th.
Si se puede!
UNITE HERE Local 2850 Facebook Website
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
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