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Pack the Court 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Rally on the Court steps at 12:00 noon.
Support anti-colonial, anti-capitalist comrades.
Come pack the court on September 10 as pretrial begins for the ACAC 19! The ACAC 19 are comrades who were arrested at an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist demonstration on Columbus day weekend last year. This is the last chance to pressure the DA to drop charges before trial. Pack the court from 9am – 4pm. Rally in front of the courthouse at noon. Bring signs, court allowable attire and solidarity! Even though a year has passed, comrades are still facing a slew of charges and it appears that the DA is intent on bringing them to trial. The state would like nothing more than to quietly convict and punish opponents of its colonial, capitalist rule. Don’t let them! The ACAC 19 need your support.
1:00 pm: Press Conference
2:00 pm: Fill the Federal Courtroom
We urge all supporters of public education, civil rights, and free speech to attend this hearing! The UC Administration and police are trying to get the $15 million dollar lawsuit filed on behalf of Occupy Cal protesters dismissed. They are hoping to convince a federal judge to shield them from being held accountable for ordering police to brutally beat and attack peaceful protesters on Nov. 9, 2011 as part of the Occupy Cal protest.
This Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 2 pm, we need to fill the courtroom and make clear that we won’t let UC Berkeley and the police off the hook for their actions. This is the first hearing on this case — therefore it’s vital that we show our determination to win justice.
We need to show the judge that this is not a business as usual case where it’s only lawyers from the two sides to arguing it out in front of the judge. The judge needs to see the people who are most affected by the issues at hand — students and the community that make UC Berkeley a public university — are directly participating by attending the hearing. BAMN plans to use this case to put the UCB administration on trial, expose the role UCB privatization played on November 9, 2011, and strengthen the movement to defend public education.
Attend the hearing this Tuesday and tell everyone you know!
2:00pm: Hearing before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, 2nd floor, Courtroom 5
Via ACCE Oakland:
The fight for widespread principal reduction is on, in Richmond California, and we need your help! The City, together with our community/labor/faith coalition, have a real shot at successfully standing up to Wall Street and launching a new Local Principal Reduction strategy that, once it spreads, could provide significant relief to tens of thousands of struggling homeowners.
As you’ve probably heard, Wall Street is throwing its full weight against Richmond in an attempt to stop the city from reducing the mortgage principal of underwater homeowners via the lawful use of eminent domain. Over the past 6 years, Wall Street’s reckless practices have devastated millions of lives and our national economy, and now the big banks are spreading truly absurd lies in an effort to intimidate Richmond into backing down and abandoning its plan. (They’re sending direct mail, launching deceitful websites, filing lawsuits, and trying to pressure the city financially).
On September 10, the Richmond City Council will take a crucial vote about moving forward. It is essential that we win this vote.
We need to show our allies (and the swing voters) on the Richmond City Council that we’ve got their backs. Every public expression of support will bolster their confidence in the face of intimidation tactics by Wall Street.
OCCUPY THE CIVIC CENTER STEPS
TO STOP STRIKES AGAINST SYRIA.
There will be painting, chalking, speak-outs over the bullhorn and solidarity.
Bring art supplies, signs, cardboard.
Come by any time during the day and evening. Occupy is there now, and
no one’s leaving any time soon.
A film in honor and memory of war victims and refugees especially women and children. The film is called ‘Female Faces of War: The Untold Story.’ It is a 49 minute documentary about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Suggested Donation $5- $10 will go to nonprofits Middle East Children’s Alliance for Peace and women veteran programs operated by SF’s Sword to Plowshares.
Powerful 50-minute documentary on the impact of the Iraq War.
Post-screening discussion with Executive Producer Moni Law regarding the current crisis in Syria and ongoing effects of the Iraq War.
From Palestine to California to Guantanamo.
A discussion of how to build our until and the challenges and possibilities for doing so across movements against repression, policing, incarceration and militarization and for self-determination.
Join us for a discussion amongst panelists and with audience members.
Please join Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio & Long Memory Productions
in support of the Alan Blueford Coalition
with an ADVANCED SCREENING of
OCCUPY OAKLAND: The Movie.
A Socialist Action Forum.
Speakers: Walter Riley, Jeff Mackler, Emma Cape, Scott Braley, Vanessa Aldrich, Zahra Billoo.
Sponsored by Bay Area Socialist Action.
Come help us prepare for the next year in the struggle to get Justice for Alan!
Reports on the end of the Prisoners’ Hunger Strike and First Friday Outreach.
Discussion of where we go next.
PLEASE CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR MEETING PLACE BEFORE YOU COME. IT MAY CHANGE.
Come to the first-ever anti-war Bridge Walk (literally, a historical “first”). Let’s show what we think to the people here and around the world, including the Syrian people:
“How to Get To That Stunning New Bay Bridge Bike Path?” KQED gives easy driving/parking, BART, and bicycle info here.
PLAN TO ARRIVE at either of the two walk/bike path entry points by 12 Noon (Emeryville or Oakland). Bicyclists can BART to W. Oakland or MacArthur, then bike there. Cars can park in Emeryville or Oakland near these “trailheads.”
Together we’ll walk, and talk, and send up our message:
WE don’t want OUR GOVERNMENT to bomb Syria!
WE don’t want any more of OUR GOVERNMENT’s endless wars based on lies!
WE say NO to OUR GOVERNMENT’s war crimes!
WE know that even if Congress, the U.N., and every government in the world say “Yes” to this war — it’s still immoral, illegal and wrong!
Everyone is welcome, and your presence will be seen and heard: students, activists, elders – people of faith, community members – revolutionaries, veterans, writers and creative artists – those who fight for the people’s rights already, and those who’ve never taken part in an independent political action before.
The new Bay Bridge includes a beautiful pedestrian+bicycle path along the eastern span (it ends just short of Treasure Island). When you drive out of San Francisco, right next to you are people of all ages walking and biking back and forth, enjoying the incredible vistas.
WORD – Women Organized to Resist and Defend is holding a rally for Marissa Alexander.
Marissa Alexander is serving a 20-year sentence for defending herself against her abusive husband by shooting a warning shot into a wall. No one was hurt, and she is currently in prison.
Support for Marissa Alexander are banding together to hold rallies all over America on Saturday, September 14th.
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: 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.
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
Angela Davis, activist, writer, and UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus, and Margaret Burnham, activist, civil rights lawyer and Northeastern University School of Law professor, will speak at a 50th commemoration of the Birmingham bombing.
Tickets: $25 per person, available at www.alumni.northeastern.edu/CRRJ
Community Gathering and Public Forum.
Oshan Anand was sentenced to more than 12 years on charges of selling psychedelics.
End the drug wars, stop the targeting of creative art and music festivals!
6:00 PM: Reception.
7:30 PM: Forum and Panel.
9:00 PM: Music, Dance, DJs.
Help plan and organize our next rally on September 21st. Learn the latest about the fight the save the Berkeley Post Office and against privatization in general.
Jill Stein
Green Party 2012 Presidential Candidate and President of the Green Shadow Cabinet
speaking on
The Green Shadow Cabinet and Strategies for Movement vs. Money Politics
The Green Shadow Cabinet includes nearly one hundred prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, grassroots activists, cultural workers, veterans, and more, and provides an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C. The Green Shadow Cabinet demonstrates that another way is possible.
The Green Party in its rejection of corporate funding is structurally different from the political establishment. Is the Green Party, with its key values (including long-held pillars of economic and social justice, non-violence, ecological wisdom, decentralization and local control), relevant to movements rising up to address our systemic problems, and implement urgently needed life-saving, job-saving and planet-saving solutions?
Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party Presidential Candidate of 2012, will discuss the creation and intent of The Green Shadow Cabinet and current political dynamics and strategies for “how we can create good jobs, end student debt, bring peace, develop democracy and rescue the planet right now – with our voices, our bodies and our votes!”
Jill Stein was the Green Party 2012 candidate for president of the United States. She is a mother, physician, and pioneering environmental-health advocate who has been on the front lines of battles to stop tar sands oil, fracking and nuclear power, and to create 25 million healthy, green jobs instead. She has worked to get big money out of politics, to provide health care and education as human rights, to end student debt, home foreclosures, wars for oil, Wall Street bail outs, and tax giveaways for the wealthy.
Jill now serves as President of the Green Shadow Cabinet, which watchdogs and debunks the corporate-sponsored political establishment, and raises the bar for solutions that are available to us right now. Jill is a Harvard trained clinical doctor who served for decades as an instructor in internal medicine. Now she practices “political medicine”, addressing the “mother of all illnesses” – the moribund political system that needs emergency resuscitation to start healing all the all the other things that are literally killing us.
San Francisco State University Constitution Day Panel:
“Civil Liberties and National Security in the Age of Big Data”
With panelists: Former military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg, known for leaking the Pentagon Papers; ACLU attorney, Matt Cagle; SFSU Professors, Ambassador David Fischer and Sarah Crabtree.