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Come protest the new Sprouts “Farmers Market,” a racist, sexist, corporate, big box grocery store chain that has just moved into Oakland. Sprouts is NOT a farmers’ market, but in fact imports food from around the world and doesn’t treat their workers well. Stand against the gentrification of Oakland, in solidarity with Occupy the Farm and the Gill Tract Community Farm, and in support of local food economies and the real farmers markets and local markets owned and operated by the people of Oakland.

The newly emerging “Interfaith Committee in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter–Bay Area” is hosting a vigil and candle-lit funeral procession on the Friday afternoon preceding Martin Luther King Day weekend.

This solemn action will call on Oakland city officials and residents alike to see, connect with, and mourn the Black and Brown lives lost to police violence as well as the losses born by communities of color in Oakland as a result of over-policing, displacement, and gentrification. It will also put City Hall on notice that they can expect continued pressure from Oakland’s faith community to prioritize Black and Brown lives by reallocating money toward affordable housing and alternatives to over-policing.

If you can, please bring a small candle in a clear cup or glass to carry in the procession.

We will walk approximately 3/4 mile together.

*** This action is a response to the callout for 96 Hours of Direct Action to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy.

Meet in the Dimond district Safeway parking lot. Organized by SURJ

PUBLIC PANEL DISCUSSION DANGERS OF TASERS

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE

Jeremy Miller, anti-Taser activist, Idriss Stelley Foundation
(moderator)

Aram James, activist and former Palo Alto Public Defender,
and expert on nation-wide dangers of Tasers

La Mesha Stelley, Idriss Stelley Foundation

Marion Jackson, founder Officers for Justice,
retired Inspector, San Francisco Police Department

Jennifer Friedenbach Executive Director,
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco

Steve Zeltzer, United Public Workers For Action

Sponsored by
Idriss Stelley Foundation

TODAY: 10:45 meet @ Walgreen's, 51st&Tel to join us for Fast food worker action! #96Hours #RECLAIMMLK

— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) January 16, 2016

Sponsored by: COMMUNITY DEMOCRACY PROJECT

Street Convos for Racial Justice in Oakland

We will reach out and talk to people about racial justice, MLK, policing, and the city budget.

Carnival de Resistance happening at 30th & Broadway gentrifying Sprouts 'Farmers Market' 11:30am-1pm drums, costumes, stilts #FreeTheLand

— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 16, 2016

“Oakland is being touted as a #1 tourist destination spot. Under the Mayorship of Libby Schaaf, a mandate has been issued to make the City pretty for tourists and developers. This has meant an upsurge in police terror and murders in Oakland. In what we have dubbed Libby’s Bloody Era, string of Black men were murdered in Oakland in 2015. All of them declared “justifiable”.

As part of the 96 Hours of Direct Action, Join APTP at Terminal One of Oakland Airport where we will welcome people to Oakland – the nations third leading city it police murders – by reading a list of names of Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples murdered at the hands of law enforcement in Oakland – and across the country.

Meet inside Terminal One.

Ride Sharing is highly encouraged. Please see the Facebook page.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1958174034406838/

Venezuela: Eyewitness Report

What happened in Venezuela’s parliamentary elections on December 6? This report will convey the impressions and first observations from two recent trips to Venezuela by Rick Sterling.  What were the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution over 17 years? Why and how was it under attack?What are the prospects in the coming year?

Our Oakland airport action was very successful! The police were a no show and we had the run of the airport, and there were no arrests. Saturday is a light travel day and Oakland is a smaller airport….

So we’re going to try it again at SFO on a very busy travel day! Please bring signs this time! Lets make this even bigger.
We’ll meet at the International terminal, at the BART fare gates. Try to be on time, we may move around the airport.

BART goes right to the international terminal of the airport, but is relatively expensive. and there is parking if you want to carpool, and also other transit options: http://www.flysfo.com/to-from/public-transit.

Announcement for SFO #SayTheirNames tomorrow at 6pm, on day set for SF actions. Stay tuned to @APTPaction for exact location and details.

— Dave Id (@DaveId) January 17, 2016

#SayTheirNames #ReclaimMLK #96Hours @APTPaction tomorrow at #SFO is at 6pm Check Facebook for updates

— Terri Kay (@TKOakWWP) January 17, 2016

The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting.

Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city should run. They decide the city budget.

Democratic, community budgeting is a powerful step toward building strong communities, real democracy, and economic justice–and it’s being done all over the world.

The budget of the City Oakland totals more than $1 billion per year. Although part of the budget must be used for specific purposes, still over half of the budget–over $500 million per year–consists of general purpose funds paid by the taxes, fees, and fines of the people of Oakland. The Mayor and the City Council decide the city budget, with minimal input from the community.

Working together, we will not only get a seat at the table–we will REBUILD the table itself. Participatory democracy is real democracy–join us to say: Local People, Local Resources, Local Power!

A facilitated group discussion about racial justice, MLK, policing, and the city budget.

Liberated Lens is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, and organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops.

Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop!

We usually meet in our editing suite (2nd floor in the ballroom, to the left of the stage) and then work on projects. It’s open to all!

Planting Justice is teaming up with Community Check Cashing right outside of CCC in Fruitvale Plaza
Monday, Jan 18th,  9:30 AM as part of the #ReclaimMLK 96 Hours of Action Weekend:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1678077069118027/

Join us as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision around ending poverty in America.

The brothers and sisters of Moving Forward (an association of Planting Justice Staff) are teaming up with Community Check Cashing to create space on this sacred day around economic justice and empowerment in our community.

Join us as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision around ending poverty in America.

The brothers and sisters of Moving Forward (an association of Planting Justice Staff) are teaming up with Community Check Cashing to create space on this sacred day around economic justice and empowerment in our community.

Meet us at Community Check Cashing

We will read excerpts of Dr. King’s speeches around poverty eradication,
enjoy a brief meditation and hear from members of the community around their journey to regaining control of their finances and economic resources.

Refreshments including
green smoothies and healing herbal teas provided by Planting Justice urban gardens and students of Planting Justice.

Generous support provided by Community Check Cashing, America’s only not-for-profit check cashing spot designed to help move low income individuals and families out of poverty.

Pre-march protest in solidarity with the fighting people of Haiti:

Black Lives Matter from Haiti to the Bay

· Drummers

· Report from Haiti – By Pierre Labossiere

A part of the 96 Hours of Direct Action to Reclaim the Radical Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere!” We will march to join the 11AM rally and march at Oscar Grant Plaza

Haiti is in the streets almost every day – as tens of thousands turn out to demand that the stolen 2015 election be thrown out. The mass movement is telling the U.S./U.N. occupiers: “Don’t Steal Our Votes!” It is demanding “Reclaim Haiti’s sovereignty!” from foreign occupation.

Haiti’s struggle is our struggle. It’s now 50 years since the U.S. Voting Rights Act, but it’s been rolled back to systematically deny Black people the right to vote – again. In Haiti the 2015 elections were plagued by endless and well-documented ballot stuffing, vote buying, armed coercion, naked vote rigging – yet the U.S. ambassador gave his “OK” to the faked election results. In effect, whether it’s here or in Haiti, the U.S. rulers are deliberately interfering with the people’s right to freely choose the representatives that they want.

Haiti’s fight is our fight. Just as we in the Bay Area are fighting against police murder of Black people, so it is in Haiti. The State Dept wants to suppress the surging popular movement – using police terror against the people. During the 2015 elections, special US-financed police units sprayed machine gun fire into working-class neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince and Arcahaie to suppress the vote, killing scores of people.

The U.S. State Department is the main actor trying to push through the fraudulent elections – maneuvering to exclude Haiti’s most popular political party – Fanmi Lavalas – from any role in the next government. The U.S. wants to keep in power corrupt puppets who are willing to give away Haiti’s abundant mineral resources … privatize the mines and the electric company … and keep factory wages at US$3/day – continuing a long tradition of the U.S. and France stealing the wealth and the labor of the Haitian people.

Lighting the fires of struggle – Many have commented that the Haitian people, in their vast majority, are very aware of their history – proud inheritors of the Revolution of 1791-1804, when Haiti defeated the army of Napoleon, ended plantation slavery and declared independence from France. “It’s on every lip,” said one Lavalas activist. “People are saying that in rejecting this stolen election, we are lighting the fires of struggle, continuing the fight for equality and sovereignty that our ancestors fought for 200 years ago.”
****After the protest we will walk 2 blocks to join the 11:00 AM rally and march at Oscar Grant Plaza (14th & Broadway) to Reclaim the Radical Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. ****

For more information, connect with the Haiti Action Committee: www.haitisolidarity.net @HaitiAction1 and on Facebook

Facebook event with description here.

We are marching from Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway, to the Bay St Mall in Emeryville.

WE DEMAND:
The resignation of Mayor Libby Schaaf
The immediate termination of Chief Sean Whent
The immediate termination of Chief Greg Suhr
The immediate termination of the officers involved in the murders of Richard Perkins, Mario Woods, Yuvette Henderson, Amilcar Lopez, Alex Nieto, Demoriah Hogg and Richard Linyard
The immediate reallocation of city budgets: reduce police budgets and reallocate those funds to provide for affordable housing that allows Black, Brown and other people of color to remain in San Francisco and Oakland.

This year, we shut it down in the names of:
Yuvette Henderson
Nate Wilks
Richard Perkins
Richard Linyard
Demoriah Hogg
Yonas Alehegne
Amilcar Lopez
Mario Woods
Alex Nieto
#mlkshutitdown
#96hours
#reclaimMLK
“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reclaiming King’s Legacy

“Equality demands dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.”

“When you have mass unemployment in the Negro community it’s called a social problem. When you have mass unemployment in the white community it’s called a depression”

“We refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt”

– Martin Luther King, Jr

Last year, during MLK weekend, The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) answered a national call by initiating #96Hours of Direct Action that culminated in an historic march from Fruitvale Station to Coliseum City on Martin Luther King Day. Over 7,000 people took to the streets and reclaimed the radical spirit of King and celebrated his legacy of resistance! Since then, APTP has steadfastly been organizing to build a replicable and sustainable model for eradicating police-terror in communities of color.

In the months following that powerful weekend, the police and the state have taken more lives than ever before and our communities are facing accelerated displacement due to rapid gentrification that is supported and encouraged by our new Mayor and City Council members.

This year our MLK day march will be even bigger.

This is a family-friendly event and a celebration of King’s legacy, Black Lives and the struggle for social justice.

Last year we marched through areas in Oakland that are currently in development or are proposing development and we made clear demands to stem the tide of gentrification, end the displacement of Black and Brown residents, replace high-rise plans with affordable housing, and implement local-hiring practices all while demanding an immediate end to police terror in our communities.