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We’re standing together on November 10 to say, “We need a raise!” People across the country will be standing up with fast-food workers and all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15, because it’s time for $15 for all workers. Together we’re turning the tide in favor of working people and our families. And we’ll need everyone’s help — including yours — to make this a reality.
RSVP here to receive email updates: http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/november-10-rsvp/
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We’ll call on corporate CEO’s to raise pay and respect our right to form unions without retaliation. And we’ll call on our elected representatives to stop letting the wealthy and powerful write the rules in their favor.
Together we can work to end racism and oppression, create a path to citizenship for immigrants, and fight for wages that strengthen our communities.
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Join Black Workers, Labor Unions, the Fight for $15, and more to tell Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley: DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST THE BLACKFRIDAY14!
Workers from across the Bay Area unite on this National Day of Action for the Fight for $15 to say: Black Workers’ Lives Matter, and ALL Black Lives Matter.
We won’t stand for O’Malley’s racist prosecution and criminalization of Black folks. From the targeting of Black churches and African drummers, to the displacement of longtime Black Oakland communities, and police terror and murder of Black folks, there is a WAR on Black Lives, and so far, Nancy O’Malley is on the wrong side.
On November 28, 2014, the BlackFriday14 chained themselves to two BART trains at West Oakland Station, shutting down service as a call to action nationwide for folks to step up and put an end to the war on Black Lives.
Now the BlackFriday14 face criminalization of their own actions demanding justice.
District Attorney O’Malley has the power to drop all charges against the BlackFriday14 by just saying the word.
Workers stand with the BlackFriday14.
People of conscience stand with the BlackFriday14.
When will D.A. O’Malley stand on the side of justice?
Join us for a Black Worker Speakout, rally, and more to demand that D.A. O’Malley DROP ALL CHARGES NOW!
Afterwards, we will march to Oscar Grant Plaza to join the 4pm Fight for $15 Rally: https://www.facebook.com/
#BlackFriday14 #BlackLivesMatter #Fightfor15 #DroptheCharges
We’re standing together on November 10 to say, “We need a raise!” People across the country will be standing up with fast-food workers and all 64 million underpaid workers making less than $15, because it’s time for $15 for all workers. Together we’re turning the tide in favor of working people and our families. And we’ll need everyone’s help — including yours — to make this a reality.
RSVP here to receive email updates: http://fightfor15.org/s-petition/november-10-rsvp/
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We’ll call on corporate CEO’s to raise pay and respect our right to form unions without retaliation. Andf we’ll call on our elected representatives to stop letting the wealthy and powerful write the rules in their favor.
Together we can work to end racism and oppression, create a path to citizenship for immigrants, and fight for wages that strengthen our communities.
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During the accreditation crisis, City College students and workers fought alongside our community for CCSF. Now Administration intends to shrink classes by 26%, layoff more than a quarter of the faculty, and refuses to negotiate a fair faculty contract. Help us defend a City College for everyone!
1:30 PM: MARCH for CCSF
from CCSF Downtown (88 4th St. @ Mission)
to CCSF Civic Center (1170 Market St. @ UN Plaza)
2:00 PM: RALLY for CCSF
6pm Protest will follow earlier events in the day.
Bring your voices and instruments for a long night
New anti-homeless ordinances are being introduced to City Council at the November 17th meeting. Come and stand in solidarity with Berkeley’s homeless and against the ordinances.
90th and Bancroft 1pm. Walkout solidarity against police murder in Oakland. Wear all black #FTP #ACAB
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) November 17, 2015
Today! #Oakland pic.twitter.com/HcbhWQq0NN
— FireWorks (@FireWorksBAY) November 17, 2015
Nine months ago we flooded the BART Board meetings twice in a row, overwhelmed them with hours and hours of public comments, surprise banners, chanting, and general people power, and forced BART to drop the restitution against the Black Friday 14!
Now, as we approach the one-year anniversary of the Black Friday action that was a call to action nationwide for people of conscience to step UP to end the state-sanctioned War on Black lives, it is time for us all to return to BART and demand that they urge D.A. Nancy O’Malley to#DROPTHECHARGES NOW!
Start practicing your speech, cuz it’s time again to flood the BART Board meeting with public comments and show BART that we’re still here, we’re still fighting, we still stand with the #BlackFriday14, we still remember their racist and deadly legacy, and it’s time they took steps to get on the right side of history!
7pm Action tomorrow! #FruitvaleBART to #OPD hq This Fri 11/20 fight back against #Oakland killer cops! pic.twitter.com/QgsgyQrZU6
— thc (@nysrene) November 19, 2015
Please join workers and community members as we continue to challenge Walmart for $15 and Full Time. You can find more information on the national actions at www.protests.blackfriday. See you on Black Friday.
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE HOMELESS IS ORGANIZING
Occupy the Sidewalks
DON’T STAND FOR SIT LIE
Stop the war on the poor
Section 168 of the San Francisco Police Code, makes it unlawful, with certain exceptions, to sit or lie on a public sidewalk, or on an object placed on a public sidewalk, between 7AM and 11PM.
(4) participating in or attending a parade, festival, performance, rally, demonstration, meeting or similar event conducted on a sidewalk under and in compliance with a street use or other applicable permit;
Protesting the law allows you to sit. The constitution guarantees you’re right to peaceably assemble in the commons. Remove their ability to prosecute and persecute the homeless. The commons belong to all!
The sidewalks of San Francisco have been a battleground if you are homeless. Sit lie is used to shuffle the poor out of sight. We take the shopping district on black Friday.
Join us for a speakout and rally against the recent white supremacist shootings against #4thPrecinctShutDown and #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators in North Minneapolis and in solidarity with the ongoing protests in Chicago in the wake of Laquan MacDonald horrific murder by police in 2014. From the growing white nationalism of Trump’s campaign to the now over 1,000 people shot down by law enforcement in 2015 alone, such systemic white supremacy has ushered in a new phase of the black liberation struggle. Now is the time to take sides and get organized.
Big ups to our comrades in Berkeley and East Oakland who have walked out of school and stood firm in the face of police terror.
Bring signs, banners, and noise makers!
Various community speakers will address the crowd as well as guests calling in from Minneapolis and Chicago!
#Oakland solidarity rally for #Justice4Jamar #Chicago #LaquanMcDonald #4thPrecinctShutDown. Fri November 27 5pm. pic.twitter.com/v2TyW1WcrD
— FireWorks (@FireWorksBAY) November 25, 2015
Rally on the Old City Hall Steps beginning at 4:00 in support of the Homeless Occupation and Protest now ensconced on the grounds, in support of #BlackLivesMatter and against Berkeley’s participation in Urban Shield, an annual militarized police training and military-style equipment show.
Items concerning these issues will be on the City Council Agenda this evening – three anti-homeless ordinances, a spineless report about the Berkeley Police and their actions during the Black Lives Matters protests a year ago when people were tear gassed, shot at with bean-bag rounds and struck with batons, and something to continue Berkeley’s relationship with UASI, the funder for Urban Shield.
There will be a march commencing at 6:00 PM to the Longfellow School at Derby & Sacramento; there will be a press conference at 6:30 PM; and then the regular City Council meeting will begin at Longfellow at 7:00 PM.
Hit the Streets tomorrow 9am-noon Montgomery BART in SF for the #climate & against #policeshooting in #SF by #SFPD https://t.co/JSBykhk7LO
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 3, 2015
In conjunction will the rally in solidarity with Climate Change protesters in Paris.
MARCH in Oakland #JusticeForMarioWoods 4pm Sat Dec 5th 14th & Broadway #Oakland #MarioWoods fuck #SFPD fuck #OPD pic.twitter.com/Su1iibykUX
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 4, 2015
Since December 9th 2014 the Community Dinner Project (a group of concerned citizens and volunteers who are working on building a more unified, compassionate and just community), have fed the hungry, distributed needed clothing and toiletries, and provided other assistance to them as needed or requested, in front of Sacramento City Hall every week. We feed around 75-130 people a week! The homeless people who line up and gather near City Hall, are fed a nutritious organic meal by the volunteers, who by feeding said homeless people, are in violation of a local ordinance that criminalizes said feeding. The local ordinance requires a permit to feed that costs over $300.00. This is a sum that exceeds the financial wherewithal of many people and groups, but more importantly, places an inhumane financial burden regarding people in need.
Following the healthy organic meal, a number of concerned citizens and some of the homeless people themselves, enter City Hall to address the city council during their weekly meetings to discuss issues of homelessness and the effects on their lives. We all have been vigilantly advocating for the repeal of the anti-homeless laws in Sacramento (especially the unlawful camping ordinance), and standing in solidarity to discuss and bring to the forefront other important community issues (police brutality, Black Lives Matter, Nestle’ water profiteering, the right to grow your own food (urban gardening), reopening the city park bathrooms, more effort towards housing first (rapid rehousing), raising the minimum wage, and more affordable housing, etc. We believe that by uplifting those who have been ignored by society with healthy food, a positive environment, and a supportive group to help them find a voice to speak out against injustice, we can help usher in a more unified and compassionate City of Sacramento!
On August 6, 2015 the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), issued a statement of interest concerning a federal case over a camping ordinance in Boise, Idaho. In this case, seven individuals are suing the city over their conviction for the “crime” of camping. This case has been ongoing for over two years, and now the Obama administration has weighed in stating that the ordinance in question violates the 8th Amendment of the Constitution of The United States! This is a significant decision regarding the issue of homelessness in our country and we think that the time is ripe to press the City of Sacramento to undo its draconian ordinance that criminalizes homelessness and the right to feed the homeless.
There is also an advisory statement released by the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. This statement was to advise communities to stop breaking up homeless encampments. Their reasoning was it makes building productive relationships harder, which in turn makes getting people connected to services to help them get off the streets.
Then there is HUD. In coming months, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected to ask local homeless services officials to educate their communities against criminalization ordinances. Communities who do not comply will risk losing funding!!
In light of the federal governments stance, and the fact that we have been advocating for the repeal of our local camping ordinance, on December 8th, We (@Community Dinner Project) intend to occupy Sacramento City Hall to demand that City Council repeal the Unlawful Camping Ordinance.
Please join us in ending this assault on our fellow human beings and rather than punish those less fortunate, let us be a model city and demonstrate caring and compassion, and social justice for all and find more sustainable solutions for homeless people.
There are three levels of support we are asking for:
First, is to agree that the city should repeal, or place a moratorium on, the unlawful camping ordinance. This simply entails calling, writing, or emailing your council member to let them know you do not want your tax dollars (which is in the millions here in Sacramento) spent on criminalizing homelessness, and would prefer the city take a more active role with rapid rehousing!
Second, is as an active supporter which would include helping with supplies or food, coming down to talk with those who are occupying, jail support if necessary, etc.
Third, is to join the occupation by camping with us, and others, on the lawn at city hall, which is the civil disobedience portion.
http://www.latimes.com/
Demands:
- Public apology from Suhr to Mario’s mother
- SF pay for Mario’s funeral
- SF pay for Federal Investigation
- Identify all officers who fired weapons
- Fire all officers who discharged weapons
- Fire Police Chief Suhr
This Wednesday at 5 pm @ San Francisco City Hall: Demand Justice for #MarioWoods, murdered by #SFPD. pic.twitter.com/2bYKIzuP2K
— CRC Media Corps (@CRCMediaCorps) December 7, 2015
#ShutItDown #JusticeForMarioWoods #SanFranciscoWalkoutForMario pic.twitter.com/1AIKvvplu9
— Michael McBride (@pastormykmac) December 11, 2015
This is being organized in Davis as part of a nation-wide day of action:
“On December 19th , let’s join a billion others around the globe in issuing a mandate:
WE DEMAND A 1% TAX ON ALL STOCK TRADE TRANSACTIONS!
Money in the capitalist casino needs to slooooowwww dooowwwn before it runs us off a cliff.
One week following the Paris COP21 climate talks, one billion of us will flood the streets. We will no longer accept such a mockery of an effort to respect the earth! If you’re in office, stop pretending we can adequately address climate change at a conference funded by fossil fuel companies!
Let’s meet at the North end of Central Park (past the carousel) at noon, then demand some real change from the bottom up. Make a sign. Put on your boots. Bring drums or other instruments to march with. Practice your dance moves. Get indignant!
Bring your love, leave your hate.
This action is in solidarity with a global call for a Billion People March by the Adbusters Media Foundation (the same folks that inspired Occupy Wall Street). More information on the call can be found at BillionPeopleMarch.org.”
Rally today for #TamirRice at 14th and Broadway #Oakland 1pm-7pm The cops who killed #Tamir were let off. #BlackLivesMatter #MarioWoods #SF
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 28, 2015
#Oakland: Today #Dec28 #tamirrice Rally @ 14th & Broadway 1pm-7pm https://t.co/cNhRhncIgU
— SHOWERPROMOTION (@SHOWERPROMO) December 28, 2015
Bay Area rises up in solidarity with Tamir Rice’s family one year after Cleveland police officers killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Please join Black Lives Matter Bay Area, Black Lives Matter and the Last 3 Percent Coalition as we gather in solidarity with the family of Tamir Rice and Black Lives Matter Cleveland, and to uplift all of the families of those we have lost to police violence.
This is a black led ceremony that is centered in Black love, Black healing and Black rage. We invite allies to join us under the direction of our elders.
We support the family’s demands:
1. The immediate termination of Officer Loehmann and Officer Garmback.
2. A Federal Department of Justice investigation of Timothy McGinthy, and his removal as Cuyahoga County prosecutor.
3. A Federal Department of Justice investigation of the shooting and murder of Tamir Rice.