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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

Hey there! As a fun way to get ready for may day, we will host a wonderful medic l.a.r.p.ing event.

This event might be more useful if you have already been a street-medic, and or you have been trained. We will not go over a whole training at this event, this is just to  practice your skills and for us to hangout and have fun!

Please bring: Clothes you will get dirty in! supplies to share! A lunch or money/ebt etc to get one. friends who want to be lovely actors, your awesome skills,

Tentative schedule:

9am-12pm workshop skill share discussion, social, maybe breakout groups for detailed workshops

12-1pm lunch and social and supply swap!

1 til 4pm scenarios, feedback, and live action role playing.

4 til 5pm socialize

5pm end of the event!

First come First on the list. Limited room. Please RSVP to bayareastreetmedics@gmail.com

With May Day approaching in less than two weeks, the Safer Spaces committee invites activists and allies together for a two and a half hour panel and skill share session on:

*Basic tips for a sustainable street action

*Emotional First Aid: trauma education, emotional self care tips for pre, during and post action

*First Aid: simple street medic tips, physical self-care for pre, during and post action

*Coping with activist burnout and keeping the movement connected

When: 4/29/12 (Sunday)

Time: Noon-2:30 (hope everyone is ok with a slight overlapping of the GA)

Where: 19th and Telegraph

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

More info

For  individual or group trauma support, mediations and anti-oppression advocacy, please contact Safer Spaces:

Tel: (510) 502-9466

Email:saferspaces@occupyoakland.org

Healing can take place in the form of reconnecting with Mother Earth.

It can be little steps like birdwatching, hiking, going to the beach or eating freshly picked berries. Ask your five senses what do I see, hear, taste, touch, smell?

Have you tried gardening? Or are you already a gardener? What does your body, mind and soul experience when you dig that dirt, plant the seed, water, trim the weeds, ask the ladybugs to kindly tell some insects to be nice to your plants and watch the phenomenon of  seeds turning into fruits,vegetables or flowers? What does it feel like to struggle with a plant that won’t thrive but one day you go out and it turned into something beautiful? What does it feel like when you can be sustainable and self-efficient through this entire process? What does it feel like to share stories and tips with your fellow Green Thumbs? What does it feel like when you can share your harvest with your friends, family or community?

Healing from trauma is about your body regenerating and flourishing much like  plants. Sometimes you may have to become  a seed again in order to recover. There may be ups and downs but because you are part of Mother Earth, you have the resilience and strength to overcome, no matter how difficult. You are also your own gardener. What can you do for your garden? Our movement went from seeds to the bountiful harvest that it is now because of the care, faith and dedication you  and your comrades gave to it.Take care and be kind to yourself. Take care of each other. We can heal as a community.

On that note, there’s some beautiful healing going on at Occupy the Farm today! Please come if you can.

When: Thursday, May 3

Event Schedule:
“Occupy the Farm”: Permaculture workshop and Maypole 
Join Starhawk and friends to support the wonderful farm being created on a piece of vacant land in the East Bay by the Occupy movement.
Permaculture workshop, 3:00 p.m: Learn some of the basic ethics and principles of permaculture as we put them into practice at this reclaimed farm site.
Maypole celebration, 6:00 p.m.: Dance the Maypole to celebrate the rising tides of life, the diverse forms of love, and the power of regeneration.

Bring food to share.  Donations of seeds and starts for the farm are much appreciated.
Cost: Free! Kids welcome.
Location: Marin between San Pablo and Jackson streets, Albany, California
For more information: http://www.takebackthetract.com/

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?

March from San Pablo Park (Ward and Mabel) to Bayer (Grayson and 7th) in Berkeley to protest production of pesticide that is killing off the bees!

Castlewood workers have been locked in a dispute over health care benefits for more than two years now. Last winter Occupy Oakland supported their cause and helped organize a march and rally. Now they would like our help again:

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Walmart Supplier Plans to Cross Our Picket Line!

Join us on the line – Monday, 5/21, 12:30 pm

Acosta Sales and Marketing is having a golf
tournament at Castlewood on Monday, May 21st.
Acosta is a national food brokering company
for Walmart and other stores.

Come join us on the picket line and add your voice to the struggle.
Tell Acosta to respect the workers’ boycott of Castlewood!

Valley Course, Castlewood Country Club
(Castlewood Drive between Pleasanton-Sunol Rd. and Foothill Rd.)

Questions or Rides? Contact Sarah Norr at (510) 502-5344 or norr.sarah@gmail.com

Come out, come out wherever you are!!! Please, please, please join us
to picket the Bank of America next Monday, May 21, 5-6pm at the Albany
Branch, Solano at Neilson, next to Safeway. Nine of us, mainly
community senior citizens ranging in age from the early 60s to 85
years asked for a meeting with the manager. After he consulted with
his superiors he refused to give us any appointment. Instead, we
should submit our questions on paper without expecting a meeting
afterward. In fact, the manager wouldn’t even give us his business
card. When we tried to explain why we wanted to talk with him, his
only response was to insist that we leave immediately.

On May 30th, people will travel from around the world to descend on San Ramon, CA and confront Chevron at its annual shareholder meeting.

Join us for a colorful and fun rally outside Chevron’s headquarters in support of human rights, environmental, economic and climate justice, and more!

DIRECTIONS
From Berkeley or SF, take 80 to 24 (Caldicott Tunnel). Then 680 South. Off at Bollinger Canyon. Make a left onto Bollinger over bridge. Chevron HQ on right.
Drivers will have to park in Whole Foods parking lot across the street or at San Ramon Central Park (on left after Bishop Ranch One E).

From 580, take 680 N. Make a right at Bollinger Canyon Exit.

Chevron HQ is between Walnut Creek and Dublin Pleasanton BART stations. There are buses from these stations that go to Bishop Ranch (the corporate business park that Chevron HQ is located in).

Carpooling can be arranged at
http://www.facebook.com/events/317844888283134/

There’s also a teach in the night before in Berkeley.  Tuesday, May 29, 7pm David Brower Center  2150 Allston Way.   Community and Union leaders will travel from Ecuador, Angola, Nigeria, Brazil, Texas, Richmond and more to expose the True Cost of Chevron and encourage us to join them in fighting back.  Please come to hear these and other accounts and to join the discussion on what you can do.

May Day! May Day! Shut down Stockton! Come out May 31 to Stockton, California and help shut down the town to protest racist police murders, criminally greedy banks and a corrupt and incompetent city government!

Justice for James Rivera!
Justice for Luther Brown
Justice for the People of Stockton!

1-130pm– Meet-up/drop off point-Eden Park (El Dorado St)
2-3pm– Rally @ MLK park (El Dorado & Fremont)
3-5pm– Bank Shutdown Parties and Justice for the
Families march through Downtown Stockton
5-8pm– “the Right–to-Assemble” Street Dance Party

All-day BBQ and Services @ Fremont & Sutter St

Free buses leaving Oakland
14th and Broadway 11am
19th & Telegraph 11:30am