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The Brooms Collective has been meeting Saturday mornings at 9 AM or 10 AM for a year now at a tiny park at 32nd and San Pablo in Oakland. To commemorate this auspicious anniversary folks will be meeting there at 11 AM Saturday, February 9th to sweep away late-capitalist decay and maybe have a little fress at noon, as well. Bring a little food to share, there will be paper plates and utensils and maybe some gelatinous Ed-chow if we are unlucky.
We are planning our actions for the new year in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
We are launching a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We will be having a rally March 5th to kick this off.
We are protesting the imminent imposition of Stop & Frisk within the confines of Oakland. We made our presence known, along with other groups, at the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee meeting two weeks ago and the City Council meeting last week, where they discussed the hiring of William “Stop&Frisk” Bratton as a high-priced consultant to further terrorize the denizens of the city. We will be discussing what next steps we should take.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s Compliance Director for the Oakland police.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are putting together support from Labor Unions, students, people of faith and everyone else who is opposed to injustice with respect to policing our country. The Alameda Labor Council just endorsed a resolution calling for the firing and prosecution of Officer Masso, the OPD officer who shot Alan Blueford.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
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
After our very successful Debtor’s Assembly on Saturday, come help us organize our next moves. We will be holding a strategy session this coming Saturday, and we will be planning for that along with disussing other things we might do.
Within the next few weeks, one of the worst banks we know is trying to foreclose on three homeowners–Gaylynne, a laid-off OUSD educator; Jill–a single mother, working finally after a long bout of unemployment; and Gloria, a 78 year old woman with no place else to go; and Carnell and his family a laid-off Auto Worker.
Tell the bank that we will not accept this–putting people out of their homes rather than working with them to reach an affordable mortgage and market-rate principal is inexcusable!
Meet at the Downtown Berkeley BART, UNDERGROUND at the bottom of the Escalators at Shattuck and Center at 3:30 PM.
Why: This is our city, our homes, and our community, and we can’t let this bank take over any more than they already have.
On Thursday, February 14th, at 1:00PM, the Public Protection Committee of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will be holding a hearing on the potential acquisition of a drone by Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern. The meeting will take place at the Alameda County Administration Building, located on 1221 Oak Street Room 512, Oakland, CA.
While drones are particularly notorious for their use in targeted killings overseas, they can be deployed for surveillance purposes as well. In addition, they can be armed with weapons such as tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets. They also crash frequently, increasing their danger to public safety. Sheriff Ahern wants a drone with live video capabilities, high definition cameras, infrared, license plate readers, and laser radar. He wants to further militarize his police force, but we know that Alameda County does not need more policing. It needs money for schools and community services.
Say no to militarization of the police. Say yes to an Alameda County that is safe for all!
Facebook page
Sign the petition against drones.
Join Alameda County Against Drones and BORDC Legal Fellow Nadia Kayyali at the Committee Meeting. For more information about Alameda County Against Drones, check out: https://nomby.wordpress.com.
“From the folks who brought you the West Coast Port Shutdown.”
We will be brainstorming our next major action, an attempt to raise holy hell over the fact that people are not being page a living wage and that the minimum wage in Oakland is still $8.00, while in San Francisco it is $10.55 and in San Jose it is $10.00. (Plus Oakland is willing to insist on its own workers and those with contracts to the city being paid a living wage but not private sector workers.) Please come join us and add your voice!
We are planning a ‘Livable Wage Assembly’ for late February 28th as a first step. We could use your help! Please join us!
We will also be discussing local Labor related efforts such as the Mi Pueblo workers’ struggle, ILWU and ILA happenings, plus Drone Coalition actions and what’s happening with the SF19.
WHAT: Bring an open heart, and material support to offer inmates who may be released during this time and any loved ones who may be there visiting current inmates.
WHEN: Every Friday from 7pm-10pm, unless otherwise specified
(…and also other times/dates that folks suggest!)
WHERE: Outside of Santa Rita Jail
HOW: Some suggestions include bringing food, drinks, smokes, cell phone to make calls, clothes, info/resources for both immediate and ongoing needs post-incarceration, ears to listen, BART/bus fare, an extra sweater/jacket/shirt, etc.
WHY: FtP! Fuck the Prison industrial complex and all tools of oppression!!!
Mutual aid, because “inside or outside, we’re all on the same side.”
Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/326826344086214/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
We are planning our actions for the new year in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
We are launching a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We will be having a rally March 5th to kick this off.
We are protesting the imminent imposition of Stop & Frisk within the confines of Oakland. We made our presence known, along with other groups, at the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee meeting and City COuncil some weeks ago, where they discussed the hiring of William “Stop&Frisk” Bratton as a high-priced consultant to further terrorize the denizens of the city. We will be discussing what next steps we should take.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s Compliance Director for the Oakland police.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are putting together support from Labor Unions, students, people of faith and everyone else who is opposed to injustice with respect to policing our country. The Alameda Labor Council just endorsed a resolution calling for the firing and prosecution of Officer Masso, the OPD officer who shot Alan Blueford.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford website.
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
New schedule and additional location!
Bi-Monthly meetings to organize and publish web content for occupyoakland.org.
We meet the first Thursday of the month at The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave Oakland,CA 94612 @ 6PM
And the third Sunday of the month at 19th Street / Rashida Muhammad Street (one block away from 19th Street/Telegraph avenue) @ 2PM
If interested on helping us out, please come and join us!
Web@occupyoakland.org
We will be brainstorming our next major action, an attempt to raise holy hell over the fact that people are not being page a living wage and that the minimum wage in Oakland is still $8.00, while in San Francisco it is $10.55 and in San Jose it is $10.00. (Plus Oakland is willing to insist on its own workers and those with contracts to the city being paid a living wage but not private sector workers.) Please come join us and add your voice!
As the first step we are holding a ‘Livable Wage Assembly’ on February. We could use your help! Please join us!
Please come join us for our on-going clean-up at St. Andrew’s Park in West Oakland, in collaboration with the San Pablo Corridor Coalition. We will have plenty of equipment and safety gear. We’re there from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM on Saturdays, and those who wish to will have the opportunity to move on to other clean-up sites once we’re done at St. Andrew’s.
We are planning our actions for the new year in our search for Justice 4 Alan Blueford. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
We are launching a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We will be having a rally March 5th to kick this off.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s yet-to-be-appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are putting together support from Labor Unions, students, people of faith and everyone else who is opposed to injustice with respect to policing our country. The Alameda Labor Council just endorsed a resolution calling for the firing and prosecution of Officer Masso, the OPD officer who shot Alan Blueford.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
Join us as we mark 1000 days of wrongful confinement and demand justice for Bradley Manning!
Speakers, Visuals, Performers, Art, Action
BRADLEY MANNING, a 25 year old, openly gay, US army intelligence analyst is facing life in prison and has been held in pre-trial confinement for nearly 1000 days without a court martial. He endured torture and solitary confinement for the first 10 months of his incarceration. He is accused of sharing with the following with the Wikileaks whistle blowing website: the “Collatoral Murder” video of the killing of civilians by a US helicopter in Iraq, the Guantanamo Files, the Afghan War Logs & revealing US diplomatic cables. In short, he’s been charged with blowing the whistle on war crimes & telling us the truth about US foreign policy.
For anyone interested in preforming, speaking or for further details and questions, please contact michael@couragetoresist.org.
“The current society, stuck between economic crisis and over consumption, is gradually invaded by the technologies of surveillance.
This diffuse invasion insinuates itself into our daily life : the social networks or the connected objects are the most blatant examples. Facebook, the most popular social network, analyzes the information, the links and the photos posted by its members to adapt advertisements for the users. “Smartphones” are of fabulous tools : we receive the advertisements of the store near which we pass, we take a photo during the last barbecue between friends and we post it on the Internet with the localization of the event, or we obtain real time maps to have a walk…
In our cities, we cross every day more and more numerous cameras. In purposes of ” video protection ” of the citizens, we are filmed many times a day.
“INDECT-FP7, Trapwire, CleanIT, SOPA, PIPA, CETA… Many acronyms make regularly their appearance. Behind these terms are hidden systems of control and surveillance of the citizens. The inspection of the contents to reveal forgeries in certain cases; the analysis of the communications detecting possible terrorist activities on others; using a global system re-cutting the available data on the Internet (social networks, blogs, chats) with the pictures from cameras of video surveillance, from governmental databases, or from banking data (etc.).
“February the 23rd will take place the first International Day for Privacy #IDP13.
“We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not forget
We do not forgive
Expect us !”
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