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Come support the SHU prisoners’ class action lawsuit against solitary confinement! CDCR has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, and on February 14th a federal judge will decide whether to allow the case to go to trial or dismiss it.
JOIN US for a RALLY outside the courthouse to put pressure on the court to hear our case!
After the rally, PACK THE COURTHOUSE! Bring your state ID and join us in the courtroom to show our solidarity with those inside, and show the judge and CDCR that we hold them accountable!
Finally, stick around for a PRESS CONFERENCE to raise awareness about this issue. We need to amplify the voices of the thousands of men and women inside the SHU who are silenced!
The March 14 action is placing three demands on SF elected representatives:
1) Use the power of your office to ensure that Prop A funds be used as the voters intended: to reverse cuts to classes, services, staff, and faculty.
2) Commit to filling any budget gap by advancing funds to CCSF. Call on Sacramento to reverse spending priorities. (California is currently 49th in public education spending and 1st in prison spending.)
3) Call on the Department of Education to take immediate action to stop the ACCJC’s unjustified show cause sanction against CCSF.
Endorsers of Rally (partial list):
Save CCSF; Associated Students Mission Campus; AFT 2121; United Educators of SF; SF Labor Council; Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern CA; Arab Resource and Organizing Center; Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club; Poor Magazine/Prensa Pobre; Socialist Organizer; Gray Panthers of SF; Senior Disability Action; California Alliance for Retired Americans; The Potrero Hill Democratic Club; Veterans for Peace SF Bay Area Chapter; CFT Local 4681 of San Mateo Adult School; Save The Berkeley Post Office; Friends of Deir Ibz’a; SF for Democracy; Marc Krizack; Federation of Retired Union Members; SF Older Women’s League;Answer Coalition; Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition; International Brother of Teamsters 2010; The Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club; Freedom Socialist Party; Radical Women; Ann Wettrich Consulting
DEFEND OUR COLLEGE! CITY HALL MUST TAKE ACTION TO SAVE CCSF!
City College of San Francisco (CCSF) is widely acknowledged to be one of the best community colleges in the country. The current crisis is largely the joint creation of two groups: the accreditation commission (ACCJC), an unaccountable rogue body that has ties to for-profit colleges and the student loan industry; second, interim administrators who have no long-term commitment to the school. Both are abusing the accreditation process to impose an agenda to downsize the college, funneling students into private and online schools that will saddle them with crushing debt. This is an attack on tens of thousands of Bay Area residents, particularly from low-income, people of color, and immigrant communities.
We, the people of San Francisco, want to save our school and reverse the cuts to classes, programs, staff, and teachers. Join us on March 14 to call on the city’s elected officials to take immediate action. City Hall must ensure that Prop A funds are used for education — as the voters intended. It must fill any extra budget gap by advancing the funds to the college . And it must call on the Department of Education to stop the ACCJC’s unjustified “show cause” sanction against CCSF. Education is a right, not a privilege. Through united action we can stop the corporatization of City College and protect public education for all.
1pm Walkouts on each campus
2pm March from the Mission Campus (22nd and Valencia)
4-6pm Rally at SF City Hall (Civic Center)
Invite your friends to the Facebook event
Please spread the word!
Get involved: saveccsf.org – info@saveccsf.org – #saveccsfnow – facebook.com/saveccsf
Since June 2012, non-union food service workers at the Oakland Airport have been demanding a fair process to decide whether to form a union. They have since called for a boycott of airport shops, and participated in multiple rallies over the past seven months to highlight injustices and retaliatory firings.
Come stand with workers as they continue their fight for justice! We will be inside the terminals near baggage claim, as well as outside Terminal 2.
If you haven’t already, be sure to sign the boycott pledge.
For more information, visit our website.
UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612, Tel. 510-893-3181, Fax 510-893-5362
Stop Donahoe from dismantling and privatizing our public Post Office! Keep 6-day Delivery! No Closures, no cuts! Our communities depend on liveable wage postal jobs!
Rally 9:15 AM in plaza in front of Moscone Center West
* Endorsed by local postal unions: American Postal Workers and Mail Handlers Union, by Committee to Save the Berkeley Post Office, and by Communities & Postal Workers United (www.cpwunited.com), a national network fighting to Save the Post Office.
Kimani Gray was shot seven times by two NYPD undercover cops — thrice in the back — on March 9th in Brooklyn. The officers who shot him, Mourad Mourad and Jovaniel Cordova, have a record of civil liberties violations.
For five consecutive nights last week protests against this police murder have been held in New York City. The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition calls for a rally in solidarity with these ongoing protests and against police brutality — the same brutality which resulted in the death of Alan Blueford — here in Oakland.
Kimani’s mother spoke out a few days ago:
“Why was Kimani been murdered, and slaughtered? Why was Kimani begging for his life? Why was Kimani saying [those things] if he had a weapon? … He’s my angel, and my baby, and he was slaughtered, and I want to know why. After the first shot, why the second bullet, why the third bullet? … Just walk in my shoes, please, and understand my grief… I want justice, for his civil rights, for being an American citizen.”
As usual, the Police have published their lies about what happened, inventing witnesses who no one else seems able to find (much as they did in Alan’s case), and as usual, the media has simply reprinted the lies straight from NYPD’s mouth as if they are truth.
The JAB Coalition does not accept these lies, we do not accept the racial profiling and stop and frisk policies that led to the two police jumping out on Kimani, and we do not accept the continued slaughter of young men of color with the platitude that police were just doing their job. If the job of the police is to provoke a response and then kill a teenager, then we do not need them to keep doing that job. Far from keeping the community safer, the police only bring more violence and more loss of life, and the people have had enough.
Come join together in one voice on Thursday to tell the world that this must stop!
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition stands in solidarity with the family of Kimani Gray and the Brooklyn protesters who have endured assaults by NYPD for five nights running in their attempts to express their grief.
The murder of unarmed Kimani Gray – who begged the police not to kill him as they fired a hail of bullets – can’t help but remind us of the death of Alan Blueford who died telling his executioner “I didn’t do anything.”
The deaths of young men of color at the hands of the police have gone on far too long. It must stop, and stop now! One more death is 10,000 too many.
Rest in power Kimani Gray.
Call for rally by the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition.
Facebook page for the Oakland rally.
‘We Want Justice for Kamani Gray’ Facebook Page.
We recognize the rage in the community as this killing closely resembles so many other killings by police in Oakland, including the murder of Alan Blueford, but out of respect for Kimani’s family, we ask that this event not be a place for window smashing. We know that it is the police who generally bring physical violence and need no provocation, but we ask that participants come not with the intent to provoke that response but rather with their own expressions of solidarity for Kimani’s friends and family as well as the dozens of people who have been arrested in Brooklyn for protesting his killing.
Location Details:
1415 ALLMAN STREET OAKLAND 94602
CROSS STREET IS BEAUMOUNT ST NEAR PARK BLVD AND 580
Event Type: Party/Street Party
COFFEE, DONUTS AND FRUIT AND A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE SHERIFF
ORIGINAL EVICTION DATE WAS 6 AM FEB 23
JUDGE GRANTED 30 DAY OF STAY OF EVICTION UNTIL MAR 23, SO SHERIFF COULD COME AT ANY TIME
WE WANT TO HAVE A GOOD SHOWING TOMMORROW BECAUSE IT/S THE MOST LIKELY DAY FOR THE EVICTION
Coffee dounuts and fruit and peaceful demonstration against Sherriff eviction. The original eviction date was 6 AM Feb. 23. The judge granted a 30 day stay until March 23rd.
We want to have a good showing tommorrow because it’s the most likely day for the eviction.
1415 Allman Street, Oakland, 94602
Cross Street Is Beaumount Street near Park Blvd
“Thank You So Much Occupy & Friends” Pancake Brunch, Friday at 11 AM.
We heard this from our friend Nick at the RCA Squat that there is soon to be a banner on our home “IT’S NOBODY’S FAULT BUT THE BANKSTERS.”
PS: WE NEED occupiers and any help, media etc. if you want to volunteer call Orion at 510 541-3835 As little or as much time as you can, no guilt trips.
Gather on the SF court house steps this Friday at Noon to support the ACAC 19! Our comrades will be in court for what will likely be the pivotal pretrial day that could be the final before a trial date is set. Please join the ACAC 19 support committee in an anti-repression rally and speakout over the Friday lunch hour and show your solidarity with our comrades.
Oakland will MARCH on California’s Cesar Chavez Holiday — Monday, April 1, 2013 — to demand FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL! These are our demands:
FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, white, immigrants with and without papers — we are ALL Americans.
OPEN THE BORDERS — give people the same rights that NAFTA provides to the corporations for unrestricted passage across borders.
NO RESTRICTIONS to gaining citizenship should be placed on young people brought by their parents.
NO FINES for the millions of people without papers who are here now. No more deportations.
CLEAR, DEFINITE TIMELINES should be set for people to gain citizenship — not indefinite probation.
Pass the DREAM Act Now!
Rally at 12:00 PM. March at 1:00 PM.
Oakland City workers will take their message for a fair, no concessions contract to City Hall.
The rally will be the highlight of a day-long hearing on the city’s budget, where we will tell city leaders to cut elsewhere than the hard-working members of SEIU Local 1021.
Workers have given back wages, benefits and jobs since 2008, but now livelihoods are at risk. Enough is enough.
Wear purple to show solidarity.
“Join activists from CREDO, 350, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity and others, to send President Obama a big message: Stop Keystone XL!
The last time we protested the President’s San Francisco fundraiser we shocked the President with a huge crowd of 1,000 people. We know from insiders that we caused a big buzz in the White House, and our pressure worked. Now, with the President again considering Keystone XL, we need a huge crowd outside his San Francisco fundraiser to deliver the message: Stop Keystone XL.”
Come to our phone blast AND ORGANIZING party!
lunch – pot luck, bagels and cheese. beer, wine, and soda
ACOUSTIC MUSIC
LEARN HOW OR TEACH OTHERS THE TEDIOUS JOB OF PHONE BLASTING
if u can/t make phone blast party do a phone blast on ur own and forward this
u can phone blast any time on thursday april 4th.
please help us to PHONE BLAST IT IS A SUCCESSFUL TACTIC
call 10 times THAT DAY leaving a message
we give u the script to read just like those annoying phone soliciters
it usually shuts down there system but before the system shuts down
they get the Message and then they realize GG is not alone.
PHONE BLAST SCRIPT FOR GG’S HOME:
US Bank: Phone: 510-891-2990
My name is ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my neighbor, Gwen Winter, who you are trying to evict from her home at 1415 Allman Street, Oakland, CA. She’s been fighting you in court to no avail. I demand you stop the eviction, lower her principal and give her an affordable mortgage now! Your lawyers call themselves: US Bank NA as trustee for Chevy Chase Bank. Her loan number is (Chevy Chase Bank) #0555083294.
You are invited to a FRIDAY BANK DEMO in oakland, april 5 330pm. we meet and decide which bank CALL me orion 510 541 3835 for meeting location. the demonstration will be run by ACCE: ALLIANCE OF CALIF0RNIANS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT. I HAVE BEEN TO 5 acce BANK ACTIONS – NOBODY GETS ARRESTED AND IT/S TONS OF FUN AND extremely empowering . WE BASICALLY DEMAND TO TALK TO THE MANAGER TO restructure loans or stop the sale of homes etc. there will be 3 other home owners besides gg.
Even if u don/t go in the bank u should come to the demo to stand out side and be witness. Bring signs if u like – I especially like ITS NOBODYS FAULT BUT THE BANKSTERS. Learn and enjoy how ACCE puts fire to the feet of the 1%.
WHAT KIND OF PIE ? OCCUPY ! VIVA LA HUELGA GENERAL QUE VIVA
FUCK THE POLICE MARCH
14 and broadway 7:00pm
FTP 3.0 – FUCK THE POLICE Take our pigs for a walk. They need the exercise. And it only costs the city $50K a week!
*** This event is being called by the Occupy Oakland Tactical Action Committee. It might continue weekly.
The Tactical Action Committee was approved by Occupy Oakland’s GA to perform autonomous actions at their discretion. In that sense it is not an “official” Occupy Oakland event, in the sense that it was not directly, but indirectly, approved through the GA.***
IMPORTANT NOTE: NV folks are welcome, this is a peaceful protest — whatever that means.
FTP March, Iteration – Tactical Parameters
Due to the fact that most of our internal issues on each march and action to date have come from a lack of information on what the tactical parameters of a particular action are expected to be, TAC will be calling for tactical parameters on this and all future FTP marches that may change as we learn and practice our skills in the streets.
Note that these are the wishes by the callers of the march. In the interests of solidarity please respect these parameters. These are being called for this march only. This goes both ways — please be respectful enough of the event to not pursue certain actions at this time if they are being put on the “please don’t” list; likewise, if you are uncomfortable with someone performing an action that is acceptable within the march parameters DO NOT INTERFERE with them. This is respect for diversity of tactics, and also proper solidarity in the face of our common enemy. There will come a day that this practice, discipline and restraint will serve us well as a unit.
If you cannot follow the parameters DO NOT ATTEND. They will be read before the march during the rally. People will be given the opportunity to back out if they feel they cannot respect the tactics, with no loss of face.
So, for this march, TAC is asking for the following:
SHIELDS: If you have the capability and the will to march in the front line, make a shield to carry for this Saturday’s action.
NO DAMAGE TO PRIVATE PROPERTY of any kind — people’s cars, any Oakland businesses (especially small businesses – but the Starbucks that was hit last time actually gives free coffee and food to our vigil so we prefer to leave all of them out at this time).
PROPERTY THAT IS FAIR GAME IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED – police vehicles and equipment. The police are not our friends, never have been, and never will be.
NO FRONTAL ASSAULTS ON THE POLICE – i.e., no bottle throwing. Defensive actions are fully accepted and encouraged. Shields, unarresting, disarming cops that are beating comrades, etc. MAKE THE POLICE STRIKE THE FIRST BLOW.
SPLIT-OFF MARCHES AND AUTONOMOUS ACTIONS ARE NOT DISCOURAGED. If you do decide to go your own route, please respect the above parameters. Large banks, huge international corporations that run this city with their money, political organization HQ such as the Democrat campaign office or the chamber of commerce are not considered private property for the purposes of the parameters. If you decide to split off, do your autonomous actions away from the main march, not right next to it.
We are not encouraging anyone to attack any property whatsoever, but some property is more acceptable than others if you really must risk your freedom by doing something of that nature.
FIRE CAN BE FUN – if you want to burn a usa flag in the street (that isn’t somebody’s car) then more power to you. If someone is burning a flag in the street then DO NOT INTERFERE.
BLOC UP: If you hear the shout, “Bloc up!” Or “Tighten up!” It is in your best interest to clump together with the main group in tight formation. Be aware of distance and do not string out along the march route. Do not give the police an opportunity to snatch you and plant evidence on you to conflate charges with.
And to repeat:
NO INTERFERING IN OTHER PEOPLE’S ACTIONS EVEN IF YOU DO NOT PERSONALLY AGREE WITH THEM. Do not yell stop. Do not grab your comrades. If you feel unsafe, move away. The parameters listed above are for our own use so that we can hold one another accountable afterwards for things that may not have gone according to plan. But in the face of the enemy WE SHOW FULL SOLIDARITY. Afterwards we can argue about stuff. Not during the action.
We are all adults. We are all comrades. We have a common enemy and we will have to learn to work as a unit. Following the action parameters on each FTP march should mitigate the fighting and problems we have consistently had after every action to date.
Thank you for your cooperation.
***
The Oakland Police Department has harassed and brutalized Occupy Oakland and participants in the vigil. Camps and liberated foreclosed buildings have been raided and shut down. OOers at the vigil have been arrested for as little as standing nearby when the police decide to raid, all the way up to the ridiculous charge of lynching. People have been physically assaulted by those supposed to protect and serve, but only do so in the interests of the 1%.
With dozens of our comrades having been arrested in the past couple of weeks, and culminating in the city’s revocation of the vigil’s permit and the immediate threat of another police raid to clear the plaza, the time has come to rise up and let them know what we think of them and that we will no longer meekly accept their violations of our civil and human rights.
Spread the word, send the invite, join us as we march in solidarity against police repression.
Wear black Bring shields if you are able and willing
Rally at 7:00 pmMarch on OPD HQ at 9:00 pm
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING OCCUPY OAKLANDSOLIDARITY
We are Anonymous,
We are legion,
We never forgive,
We never forget,
Expected us.
We are meeting at the First Congregational Church of Oakland on Friday, April 12th at 11 AM to cook for the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition BBQ on Saturday, April 13th at 1 PM at Arroyo Park. Come join us chopping and roasting our way to justice. The cooks are meeting up the stairs from the stairway on the parking lot on the Harrison side of the complex.
Event: http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/justice-4-alan-blueford-coalition-bbq-april-13-100-pm-500-pm-arroyo-park/
NOTE: Due to a senior-moment by the poster this action was originally listed as happening from 1 PM on the calendar (although correctly listed at 11AM in the text in the body of the Event listing). I promise to try to do better next life-time.
Join us for the April 13 National Day of Action to say, “U.S. Drones Out of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Here!”
Having killed more than 4,700 people through U.S. drone strikes in Central Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, the U.S. government is now putting all of Africa in the crosshairs…
Inside the U.S., drones are being used by many police agencies. The U.S. government has deployed drones along the US-Mexico border as part of the campaign to arrest and deport over 1.5 million immigrants since President Obama took office four years ago.
Banks don’t pay taxes but most people do!
Banks don’t pay their debts but we are hounded if we don’t!
Why must we pay income tax when banks and corporations don’t have to? They use accounting gimmicks, offshore headquarters and other scams to avoid paying their fair share. Is it fair that taxpayers bailed out the big banks, but they continue to profit at our expense? Why must we be crushed under the weight of debt for medical, educational, housing AND income tax obligations while those who have made a mess of our communities and our planet freeload at our expense?
On Tax Day, April 15, Strike Debt Bay Area will demonstrate our opposition to debt culture. We will reach out to indebted taxpayers with remedies to a life of financial servitude. Join us to spread the word about our activities.
STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA is beginning to organize for mass debt resistance. Collectively, we can decide that we’ve paid more than enough already for the blunders of the wealthy 1% and we can bill them for the debt they owe us and our communities.
Join us at the Federal Reserve, 3:00PM on Monday, April 15. Bring your voices. Bring your stories of debt persecution. Find out about STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA’s programs for debt resistance.
Strike Debt Bay Area is loosely affiliated with Strike Debt which created the Rolling Jubiliee.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2013
CONTACT:
Andrea Prichett (Berkeley Copwatch)
Phone: (510) 229-0527 email: prichett@locrian.com
Diana Bohn (Coalition for a Safe Berkeley)
Phone: 510-525-5497 or 926-5871 email: nicca@igc.org
Who: Berkeley Copwatch, Coalition for a Safe Berkeley
Event Remembering/ Celebrating the life of Kayla (Xavier) Moore on her birthday
What: Birthday Memorial Celebration
When: 5:00pm, Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Where: 2116 Allston Way (near Shattuck Ave.) in Berkeley
and
What: Press Conference and delivery of the Public Records Act Request to the police station.
Where: 2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley
When: 6:15 PM
On what would have been Kayla Moore’s 42nd
birthday, we invite all justice (and fun) loving people to join us for a
remembrance and get-to-know you event in celebration of her life. You see,
we are also forging a movement to demand justice for Kayla Moore. Since the
night of February 12, 2013 when police claimed to be responding to a call about
a “disturbance” on the 5th Floor of the Gaia Building in downtown
Berkeley, the BPD has provided almost no information about what happened
that night. According to the Coroner’s office, the BPD has asked that a “hold”
be placed on the release of the autopsy report. They say it could take 6-8
months to release.
Quote by Elysse Paige- Moore, stepmother: “Xavier had
a very difficult life, but an indomitable spirit. He suffered with mental
illness from an early age, struggling throughout his life with paranoid
schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress syndrome. He also had a near genius I.Q.
and a photographic memory. He was a poet and a gifted singer and oh could he
dance, even at 350 lbs! He was generous, and often took in homeless friends
giving them shelter and cooking 3 course gourmet meals for them. Despite his
challenges, he was resilient and resourceful. His spirit was unbreakable and
served as an example to everyone he touched.”
Demands of the Berkeley Police Department:
Release the police reports on the incident that took place on February 12-13th, 2013.
Release the Coroner’s Report.
Publish the investigation results.
Background:
As details of the tragic death of 41 year old Berkeley
resident Xavier Christopher Moore in police custody begin to emerge, residents
are asking why this person died and why police are slow to release information
in this case.
According to Berkeley Police, officers were dispatched for a
mental health evaluation at about 11:50 pm on February 12, 2013, although
neighbors on the same floor heard no disturbance until the police
arrived.
After officers appeared at Moore’s residence the situation
escalated, and shortly thereafter Moore died in police custody. Neighbors
observed officers carrying Moore on a gurney, unconscious and in restraints,
out of the building. In a city that is known internationally for disability
awareness, social consciousness and protection of civil liberties, it is
unacceptable that a mental health evaluation should end in death. The District Attorney says that since this is not an officer
involved shooting, they are not even investigating the case. We find all of
this unacceptable.
We are calling on the Berkeley Police Department to release
the police reports and the Coroner’s Report, and to publish the investigation
results on the incident that took place on February 12-13th, 2013.
If misconduct has occurred, officers must be disciplined. If it was a failure
of policy and administration, the public must be allowed to analyze the case
and to assist in addressing this breakdown in city services. In any case, we demand that the
Berkeley Police Department comply with Public Records Act requests and that
they make information about that night’s events available to the public as
quickly as possible.