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On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.
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: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Please join the Civil Liberties Committee of the SF 99% Coalition and the Unitarian Universalists for Peace-SF for a free workshop on NSA surveillance and what we can do about it.
Government surveillance affects our activism on many issues, but especially campaigns relating to US foreign policy and wars. It is unconstitutional, counter-productive to legitimate antiterrorism work, and an outrageous waste of our tax dollars. End the Surveillance State and Restore the 4th!
Goals for this fast-paced 2 hr workshop include: share info on actions already taken in response to NSA revelations; plan for coordinated, strategic actions; role play how to respond to the “I have nothing to hide so why should I worry” conversation; brainstorm and start to create handouts and other materials; sign on to a statement of support for Edward Snowden; prepare a joint calendar of actions and events for the fall.
Short presentations by attorneys and organizers on the NSA revelations, lawsuits, and organizing methods will be followed by breakout groups around specific demands and actions, including plans for the ongoing August congressional recess.
Confirmed speakers include National Lawyers Guild attorney Sharon Adams (also of the Coalition for a Safe Berkeley) and attorney Joe Nicholson. Please come with your ideas, a folder for written materials, and your commitment to our constitutional rights. Note: laptops are welcome but there is no Wi-Fi available. RSVP to: sf99percent@gmail.com
City College provides an excellent education to tens of thousands of students, yet the ACCJC accreditation commission is threatening to close our school in 2014. We will not let this happen! CCSF must remain open and accessible to the Bay Area’s diverse communities. Students will march on City Hall to pressure Mayor Ed Lee to demand the immediate reversal of the ACCJC’s unjust decision, which is currently under appeal. If the Mayor actually supports CCSF and its students, he needs to join with us to take action against the ACCJC — an illegitimate, out of control body — and its imposition of cuts and privatization.
Come help plan and organize this big day in Oakland and called-for protests across the country.
Facebook event for August 28th
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN –
JAIL ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
End the murder of Black & Brown youth
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS INCARCERATION!
Support California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
END RACIAL PROFILING OF ALL FORMS!
Including Stop-and-Frisk!
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR
Drug test killer cops
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NOW
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
Stop Urban Shield & surveillance of our communities
A LIVING WAGE & UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE & ALL WORKERS!
Are you outraged that California will start FORCE FEEDING people soon??
Come out and show your support for the thousands of prisoners who have participated in this peaceful hunger strike since July 8!
Come show your opposition to the recent ruling that prisoners can be force fed against their wishes!
They need our support NOW more than ever. We cannot remain silent while California denies these people’s humanity.
We will meet to rally at 5pm, then march to Jerry Brown’s condo on Telegraph and 27th!
PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS AND SHARE WIDELY!!
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
Great news – three fired Oakland Airport worker leaders are headed back to work! Join them as they stand up for good jobs and organizing rights for themselves and other OAK fast food workers!
“I can’t wait to go back to work at the airport,” said Subway cashier Hakima Arhab. “My co-workers are feeling so strong – they understand now that we can stick together and stand up for our rights, and win!”
On August 12, the airport’s Subway and Jamba Juice franchises agreed to reinstate Hakima, Bikram Thapa, and Diamond Ford, who were fired last summer after they spoke out against injustices and labor law violations on the job.
Subway also agreed to restore the schedule of Hayat Selmani, who lost work hours after she began participating in the campaign (Hayat was one of the workers who struck to protest unfair labor practices at the airport on July 14). All four workers will receive back pay.
In May, the National Labor Relations Board issued complaints against Subway and Jamba Juice for retaliating against workers for organizing. The reinstatements are part of the settlement of that case.
But the airport workers’ fight isn’t over. Workers at Subway, Jamba Juice and four other airport fast food restaurants are demanding a card check agreement – so they can decide whether to unionize without fear of retaliation. Unionized fast food workers at the airport enjoy job security, living wages, and affordable family health care.
Join the workers for an action inside and outside Terminal 2 – and show the restaurants that the community is standing up for good jobs at OAK!
On Saturday, August 24th at 5pm join us at Oscar Grant Plaza to march in solidarity with the California prisoners on the 48th day of their hunger strike. As they organize behind the closed doors of solitary, let our support ring loudly through the streets. Let us voice the demands of the prisoners and demand justice for Guero, the first prisoner to die participating in the hunger strike (may he rest in peace.)
Come ready to make some noise!!
Sponsored by the Anti-repression crew.
Israel Hernandez was an artist who used a variety of mediums, including graffiti, under the name Reefa. On the morning of August 6th, Hernandez was tasered to death by Miami Beach police, who proceeded to high-five and congratulate each other. This sick incident of police brutality is nothing new, and the list of people slain by police gets longer and longer.
The evening of August 24th we will gather to seek justice for yet another wrongful death at the hands of the state, and decorate the city how Reefa did when he was murdered.
Original call for action on IndyBay.
More info on the murder from the Miami Herald.
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: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September.
If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps.
Direct Action.
DEFY Rotten #NSA Contractor #CSC AT #VMWorld2013.
Also Tuesday and Wednesday, same time, same place.
Come help plan and organize this big day in Oakland and called-for protests across the country.
After this last organizing meeting there will be a banner and sign making jamboree!
Facebook event for August 28th
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN –
JAIL ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
End the murder of Black & Brown youth
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS INCARCERATION!
Support California Prisoners’ Hunger Strike
END RACIAL PROFILING OF ALL FORMS!
Including Stop-and-Frisk!
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR
Drug test killer cops
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NOW
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
Stop Urban Shield & surveillance of our communities
A LIVING WAGE & UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE & ALL WORKERS!
We’ve been discussing theories of money and our debt crisis lately, and Brown is a backer of the public bank option. It will be interesting to see where she connects and/or clashes with other theories of Capitalism and Debt. See you there!
(Entrance is on 22nd St, just off Broadway. Ring bell (not intercom!) to left)
During the 2012 Mayday protests in Oakland, the OPD switched up it’s normal crowd control tactics and sent in ‘snatch squads’ to remove people who they perceived to be planning unlawful actions. Without any warning, groups of officers marched in formation directly through the crowd in search of their targets. Prince was one of the activists to be targeted and arrested early in the day. More than three officers assaulted Prince, before one used their tazer to bring him down. It’s more than clear that there was no reason for any of these arrests to be made, as no illegal activity (on the part of the protesters) was taking place. Prince was held for 72 hours, brutalized, and released with no charges. The DA quietly filed charges later, and issued a warrant for his arrest.
Two of the officers involved in Prince’s brutal arrest on MayDay have been identified as Officer Fukuda and Officer W. Burke. Officer Burke was seen on Mayday, multiple times, pointing his rifle at people in the crowd, and waving it around carelessly. Officer Burke was also fired at one point, for falsifying search warrants, but was rehired in arbitration.
Lets show support for our comrade in the face of outrageous charges.
STOP THE WAR ON YOUTH OF COLOR
JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN –
JAIL ZIMMERMAN!
OVERTURN ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS!
JOBS & EDUCATION
NOT MASS INCARCERATION!
END RACIAL PROFILING OF ALL FORMS!
STOP RACIST POLICE TERROR INCLUDING STOP-AND-FRISK!
IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NOW
STOP DEPORTATIONS!
A LIVING WAGE AND UNION RIGHTS
FOR LOW-WAGE AND ALL WORKERS!
Stop Urban Shield Militarization & Surveillance of Our Communities
On Wed., August 28, after we’ve marched in Washington on Aug. 24 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the great march against racism in Washington, D.C., led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the People’s Power Assembly Movement calls on activists across the U.S. to hold local JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN ASSEMBLIES, including rallies, speak-outs, marches in public squares or in front of federal buildings or local police headquarters.
Webpage for the national call for this event.
Local Endorsers: ILWU Local 10, ONYX Organizing Committee, Dignidad y Resistencia, Oscar Grant Foundation, Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition, Malcolm X Grass Roots Movement, Kenneth Harding Foundation, Peoples Community Medics, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Workers World Party, Urban Black Men United, Tsega Center, IWW, Peoples Database Project, Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee-Berkeley , Monterey Peace & Justice Center, Dan Siegel – attorney, Anne Weills – attorney, Shane Hoff – UTU Local 1741
On July 31st after midnight the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to approve allocating $2 million to continue to develop the Domain Awareness Center that would integrate surveillance cameras from all over the Port of Oakland, the city, BART, AC Transit, traffic cameras, and other sensors into a local ‘fusion’ center that could effectively track private citizens movements throughout the region. Video and data feeds from all over Oakland are to be aggregated and monitored at the DAC, then analysed with license plate recognition software, thermal imaging and body movement recognition software, possibly facial recognition software, and more, all with absolutely no privacy or data-retention policies in place, or substantive debate at the committee or council level about the program.