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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 15, 2013
CONTACT:
Andrea Prichett (Berkeley Copwatch)
Phone: (510) 229-0527 email: prichett@locrian.com
Diana Bohn (Coalition for a Safe Berkeley)
Phone: 510-525-5497 or 926-5871 email: nicca@igc.org
Who: Berkeley Copwatch, Coalition for a Safe Berkeley
Event Remembering/ Celebrating the life of Kayla (Xavier) Moore on her birthday
What: Birthday Memorial Celebration
When: 5:00pm, Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Where: 2116 Allston Way (near Shattuck Ave.) in Berkeley
and
What: Press Conference and delivery of the Public Records Act Request to the police station.
Where: 2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley
When: 6:15 PM
On what would have been Kayla Moore’s 42nd
birthday, we invite all justice (and fun) loving people to join us for a
remembrance and get-to-know you event in celebration of her life. You see,
we are also forging a movement to demand justice for Kayla Moore. Since the
night of February 12, 2013 when police claimed to be responding to a call about
a “disturbance” on the 5th Floor of the Gaia Building in downtown
Berkeley, the BPD has provided almost no information about what happened
that night. According to the Coroner’s office, the BPD has asked that a “hold”
be placed on the release of the autopsy report. They say it could take 6-8
months to release.
Quote by Elysse Paige- Moore, stepmother: “Xavier had
a very difficult life, but an indomitable spirit. He suffered with mental
illness from an early age, struggling throughout his life with paranoid
schizophrenia and posttraumatic stress syndrome. He also had a near genius I.Q.
and a photographic memory. He was a poet and a gifted singer and oh could he
dance, even at 350 lbs! He was generous, and often took in homeless friends
giving them shelter and cooking 3 course gourmet meals for them. Despite his
challenges, he was resilient and resourceful. His spirit was unbreakable and
served as an example to everyone he touched.”
Demands of the Berkeley Police Department:
Release the police reports on the incident that took place on February 12-13th, 2013.
Release the Coroner’s Report.
Publish the investigation results.
Background:
As details of the tragic death of 41 year old Berkeley
resident Xavier Christopher Moore in police custody begin to emerge, residents
are asking why this person died and why police are slow to release information
in this case.
According to Berkeley Police, officers were dispatched for a
mental health evaluation at about 11:50 pm on February 12, 2013, although
neighbors on the same floor heard no disturbance until the police
arrived.
After officers appeared at Moore’s residence the situation
escalated, and shortly thereafter Moore died in police custody. Neighbors
observed officers carrying Moore on a gurney, unconscious and in restraints,
out of the building. In a city that is known internationally for disability
awareness, social consciousness and protection of civil liberties, it is
unacceptable that a mental health evaluation should end in death. The District Attorney says that since this is not an officer
involved shooting, they are not even investigating the case. We find all of
this unacceptable.
We are calling on the Berkeley Police Department to release
the police reports and the Coroner’s Report, and to publish the investigation
results on the incident that took place on February 12-13th, 2013.
If misconduct has occurred, officers must be disciplined. If it was a failure
of policy and administration, the public must be allowed to analyze the case
and to assist in addressing this breakdown in city services. In any case, we demand that the
Berkeley Police Department comply with Public Records Act requests and that
they make information about that night’s events available to the public as
quickly as possible.
SHUTDOWN US BANK SAT APR 20 MONCLAIR 10M TO NOONISH. Meet at US Bank in Montclair, 1998 Mountain Blvd, Oakland.
If you cannot make it please call US Bank branches between 10:00 AM and noon that are open today in the Oakland area:
Montclair: 510 339 5900
Alameda: 510 747 1657
I am ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my friend, Gwen Winter, who you evicted from her home at gunpoint at 1415 Allman Street, Oakland, CA on Friday morning, April 19. I demand you call off the sheriffs, let her back into her home, lower her principal and treat her fairly and equitably! Don’t try to tell me that it isn’t your loan, because all the lawsuits are from your lawyers, who call themselves: US Bank NA as trustee for Chevy Chase Bank. Her loan number is (Chevy Chase Bank) #0555083294.
Scheduled artists include Voyaj, Upside Drown, Shake Your Peace!, Future Twin and Michael Zeligs.
On Earth Day of last year, Occupy the Farm first broke into the Gill Tract to protest a proposed development neighboring land also owned by the university.
Join many on Earth Day, 4/22, to tell the White House, Congress, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop protecting polluters. It is time to start protecting our climate, our health, and our communities!
Meet in front of the U.S. EPA Region IX Office at 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco at noon on 4/22.
March to State Department at 1:45 PM to protest the Keystone Pipeline. More info.
Join us in Support of a resolution to Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to Scomm (Secure Communities, i.e., Deportation) in the County!
We will gather to share food at 10:30am, will have a press conference/rally at 11am and at 12 Noon we will head inside to the 5th floor to give testimony in support of a resolution that the Board of Supervisors will be voting on calling for an end to S-comm in the County. Join us, together we can “Keep Families Together, Restore Due Process and Put an End to S-comm in the County”!
Last year, over 2,000 folks took over the Wells Fargo Share holder’s meeting San Francisco. This year, Wells Fargo is on the run: to Salt Lake City Utah. But it doesn’t mean we can’t leave them a message for when they come back!!! Join ss and make sure John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo, hears us all the way in Salt Lake City Utah, from San Francisco.
gg and orion invite you to join the ACCE demo against Wells fargo and USBANK april 23 tuesday meet 9am at ACCE OFFICE 2501 INTERNATIONAL BLVD @ 25TH OAKLAND THEN BART TO SAN FRANCISCO TO SHUT DOWN WELLS FARGO BANKS IN SAN FRANCISCO in support of actions IN SALT LAKE CITY AGAINST SHARE HOLDERS MEETING AND ALSO SHUT DOWN US BANK FOR GG/S FIGHT TO RESCIND HER EVICTION.
Non-union fast food workers at the Oakland Airport have been calling for justice on the job for over nine months. The Port of Oakland found that two worker leaders were FIRED in retaliation for speaking out – and that Jamba Juice and Subway weren’t following the Port living wage law.
We told the Port Commission last Thursday that this injustice cannot stand at the Oakland Airport. Next Wednesday we will raise our voices so that everyone in the airport knows how unfair Subway and Jamba Juice are.
We will also be joined by a special delegation of union activists from Tunisia and Morocco! You’ll definitely want to hear stories of their struggle and how we can work together for international solidarity.
In solidarity,
UNITE HERE! Local 2850
Join Reverend Billy and the Choir of Stop Shopping for their performance of “Extinction Revolution”, the latest from the singing radicals.
In the new song “Extinction Revolution” the choir, led by Musical Director Nehemiah Luckett, rejoices that the climate-changed killed Golden Toad returns from the dead to haunt Jamie Dimon’s dreams and regulate Wall Street.
Special guests, Chalkupy. Facebook Event: RSVP
Earlier this month, a call to action* was made for a week of solidarity with the PNW Grand Jury resistors. This week is the week leading up to May Day, the day the FBI is using as an excuse to engage in their anarchist witch hunt.
So Friday, April 26th we are calling for a rowdy noise demonstration/street party in solidarity with those facing repression from the Seattle grand jury (and everywhere else, too!) Repression will not keep us down!
Bring noisemakers of all sorts, from fireworks to casseroles. Contact us if you have a mobile sound system you’d be willing to bring to the demo at bayarearac [at] tormail.org
* http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/content/call-coordinated-week-action-grand-jury-resisters-april-24-may-1st-2013
Article about the Seattle Grand Jury Resisters:
This Is How A Police State Operates: Solitary Confinement For Contempt of Court.
Friday: Challenging Capitalism’s Inherent Evils.
Glen Ford, Vanessa Aldrich, Ann Montague, Jeralyn Blueford
Saturday
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Capitalism’s Crises: The 99% vs. the Corporate Elite.
Jack Rasmus, Bruce Pardoll, Nighsnow Vogt
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Civil Liberties Under Attack. The Emerging Police State.
Ann Weills, Mark Ostapiak, Vanessa Aldrich
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Imperialist Wars.
Glen Ford, Daniel Alley, Anthony Battey
Sunday
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Leninist Theory
Jeff Mackler
2:00 PM: BBQ ($5, no one turned away for lack of funds)
Dave Lippman and his ego alter Wild Bill Bailout are singing Friday night April 26th at the Berkeley Fellowship Of Unitarian Universalists in Berkeley at 7 PM.
Wild Bill, AKA George Shrub is the “Bard of the Bankers.”
Check out some of his songs here.
1924 Cedar Street at Bonita, Berkeley, CA
http://occupyoakland.org/2013/04/48673/
Oakland-based, political hip-hop group, The Coup, are putting on a benefit show for the National Lawyers Guild.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
The Coup’s latest album, Sorry to Bother You, is available now.
Prior to the show the NLG will be honoring Boots Riley’s father, Walter, at our Annual Testimonial Dinner. For more information about attending the dinner, visit nlgsf.org.
Hey, you’re People. So come celebrate YOUR park in Berkeley! People’s Park 44th Anniversary!
What does it take to get millions into the streets? Last time, we began to discuss “unifiers” – What is the commonality uniting and mobilizing the movement? Ideas from “reclaiming our democracy” to “compassion and love for our brothers and sisters” to “fighting for the planet” and more are on the table as we consider the mandate to organize at this crucial time.
“We demand that BPD allow the release of the Coroner’s report and the police report of what happened that night.”
“The city leadership has allowed the police to function without accountability…”
Rally at 6:00 PM and speak out at 7:00 PM.
March with us in SF on May Day. We will assemble at 24th and Mission at 2:45 and march to Civic Center. We will be carrying banners that say
Healthcare is a Human Right
Support HR 676
Medicare for All
Last year Burger King made $117,000,000 in profits. Walgreens made $253,000,000.
Downtown Oakland workers deserve a raise!
Hundreds of fast food workers in NYC recently participated in a strike to demand $15/hr. It is time to bring the Fight for Fifteen campaign to Oakland.
With the cost of rent driven up by gentrification, plus childcare, healthcare and other bills, $8/hour is not enough to survive in Oakland. Mayor Jean Quan says Oakland is “rising” but the lowest paid workers, who are more likely to be people of color and women, are left behind.
$15/hr livable wage for all Oakland workers!
Rally, march and noise demo throughout downtown Oakland, exposing the practices of corporations who thrive off of low wage labor.
Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley.
Racism and oppression are alive and well in the US. From the attempts of politicians to rob African-Americans of the right to vote in the latest elections, the millions trapped in the prison system, to the epidemic of police murders that have claimed the lives of Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, and Alan Blueford, the New Jim Crow is out of control.
In celebration of what would have been his 88th birthday, the International Socialist Organization will hold a discussion about the revolutionary ideas of Malcolm X. As revolt and struggles of the oppressed grow all around the globe, activists can learn many lessons from Malcolm X’s ideas and struggles. From his legacy of struggle against racism, firm belief in the right of the oppressed to defend themselves, to his internationalism, Malcolm X still has much to offer a new generation of activists.
TELL JEAN QUAN:
OAKLAND IS NOT ARIZONA!
OUR DEMANDS:
Full citizenship rights for all people who live here, go to school here, work here, and otherwise contribute to this society. Latina/o, black, Asian, Arab, Native American, white, immigrants with and without papers—we are ALL Americans.
Open the borders—give people the same rights that NAFTA provides to the corporations for unrestricted passage across borders.
No more deportations.
Make all young people brought by their parents full citizens now.
No fines for the millions of people without papers who are here now.
Stop long probationary periods for people to gain citizenship. Create a quick and cheap pathway to citizenship for all undocumented people.
Pass the Federal DREAM Act Now!
12PM: March from 98th Ave. + International (Oakland)
2PM: Rally & Celebration at 34th Ave. + International (near Fruitvale BART)