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Join us 5pm Friday Jan. 25 at 24th & Mission to say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated coup in Venezuela #HandsOffVenezuela
Event page: https://t.co/KOWQOM5kmZ@answercoalition @MLNow @SFGate @Indybay @elteco @CubaVenezCte pic.twitter.com/KMo3aVV0MS— ANSWER Coalition-SF (@sfANSWER) January 24, 2019
This Saturday he so-called “Walk for Life” – which should be called the March for Female Enslavement & Forced Motherhood – will organize tens of thousands to march down Market Street to demand the end of the right to abortion for women.
We call for everyone to join with Refuse Fascism to oppose the “Walk for Life,” to stand up to the anti-abortionists, and to raise the demand that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! These people march every year – this year, the stakes are very high. We are two years into the Trump/Pence regime, which has packed the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, with anti-abortion judges, along with everything else it has done to attack women, enforce white supremacy, attack immigrants and refugees, assault the environment, and more. We refuse to accept a fascist America!
We also call for all Handmaids to come forward and join us in opposing the “walk for life” – to make the visual statement that if we do not stand up, the nightmare world of brutal and extreme subjugation of women so powerfully captured in the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the recent TV show will become reality. To join the ranks of ‘Handmaids,’ contact afong [at] jps.net or contact Refuse Fascism via Facebook Messenger.
Kamala Harris for President has chosen Oakland for her initial Campaign Launch Rally on January 27, 12:00pm.
What are you going to do, Oakland, when Kamala Harris sets up shop in our town to push her phony “progressive prosecutor” schtick? Her campaign slogan at this point is “Kamala Harris for the People,” but we know she is anything but a candidate for the people, all of the people, those who lost their homes to predatory banks, for instance. She claims to be “tough, principled, fearless,” but we know none of that is true. She’s certainly not tough on the wealthy and powerful. She’s just another ambitious corpocrat trying to pretend she’s further to the left than she’s ever actually been.
She’s pitching herself as “a lifelong public safety and civil rights leader” and it’s time we stand up to say, “hell no.” Jailing people of color does not equal public safety and prosecutors violating defendants’ rights is not civil rights. Among the early staff members she has chosen include her sister Maya Harris, who was a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. We don’t need any more establishment democrats, and definitely not in prosecutor’s clothing.
Her main campaign headquarters will be in Baltimore, but her West Coast operations will be run out of Oakland. Let’s literally run her out of Oakland by not letting her peddle her lies here unchallenged. She doesn’t get to claim her record has been “taking on the Wall Street Banks for middle-class homeowners” without being mocked in public.
This is not a listing for an organized protest at the campaign kick-off rally, but a call for concerned citizens and organizations to make plans to resist her campaign, starting at the very first event. Bare minimum, show up on January 27 with signs and literature to let Kamala stans know how unacceptable this cop is as a presidential candidate. Let her followers on social media know the truth when she spews lies.
When you see photographs of Harris laughing, remember she’s laughing at you, especially if you fall for her liberal claptrap.
Learn more:
A thread on Kamala Harris’s terrible record on criminal justice
https://twitter.com/Copmala/status/1085688776381419520
Kamala Harris: can a ‘top cop’ win over progressives in 2020?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/19/kamala-harris-2020-election-top-cop-prosecutor
Say NO to the CPUC! The California Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a surprise emergency hearing to allow PG&E to pursue debtor-in-possession financing.
Please come to the CPUC Auditorium at 505 Van Ness to speak against giving PG&E a $6 billion bailout and allowing it to duck its debts from last year’s Camp Fire.
The first item is to determine an emergency situation under which the normal 10-day agenda notice can be waived according to Gov’t Code 11125.5(b). The second and third items grant exemptions from PUC Code sections to allow PG&E to do this.
Videocast is at http://www.adminmonitor.com/ca/cpuc/
The Oakland School Board has just scheduled a special meeting (less than 72 hours notice) for 6pm on Monday with only one item on the agenda, a final vote in the closure of ROOTS Middle School. The school board can not be allowed to displace our students and families from their neighborhood school. We are asking everyone to help, even if you don’t live in Oakland.
1. Please email the Oakland School Board and ask them to keep ROOTS open and demand that any “redesign” of the school can not displace any of the current students.
Aimee.eng [at] ousd.org
Jody.london [at] ousd.org
Jumoke.hintonhodge [at] ousd.org
Gary.yee [at] ousd.org
Shanthi.gonzales [at] ousd.org
Roseann.torres [at] ousd.org
James.harris [at] ousd.org
2. Please sign and share the community petition. We want people outside of Oakland to also sign. There are already over 2700 signatures and we want to show maximum support when it’s submitted to the school board on Monday.
https://www.change.org/p/keeppublicschoolsopen-gmail-com-keep-our-neighborhood-public-schools-open-f805c663-e4b0-49d6-8837-bc1863c4a0ee?recruiter=926411481&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition
3. Attend Monday’s 6pm school board meeting at La Escuelita 1050 2nd Ave. The ROOTS closure is the only item on the agenda. You can also submit an Ecomment on the school board website: https://ousd.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
4. We need legal help and advice. If the school board votes to close ROOTS we will be filing an injunction and we’ll need some help and guidance.
Please help us save ROOTS and send a message to the school board that we will not accept the continued closure and displacement of our neighborhood public schools. Thanks.
#NoCutsNoClosures
#EraseTheBoard
#FailureByDesign
#WeChoose
Here’s the link to the presentation: https://ousd.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6991988&GUID=580873AF-48BE-4507-BF01-6E0C7CDBEF1D
And the resolution: https://ousd.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6991989&GUID=EF8774C2-43AA-418C-B2C7-3AAE5B440C7A
The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week:
Thursday 1/31
Friday 2/1
Thurs 2/7
Fri 2/8.We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation.
— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019
The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week:
Thursday 1/31
Friday 2/1
Thurs 2/7
Fri 2/8.We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation.
— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019
The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week:
Thursday 1/31
Friday 2/1
Thurs 2/7
Fri 2/8.We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation.
— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019
The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week:
Thursday 1/31
Friday 2/1
Thurs 2/7
Fri 2/8.We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation.
— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019
On January 22nd, supporters of People’s Park marched down Telegraph Avenue to Sproul Plaza to protest the University’s overwhelming police response to the protest defending the trees. This peaceful protest was interrupted by a reckless driver who pushed up on the protesters and struck a sleeping homeless man as he fled the scene. Police have refused to release the identity of the driver or respond to this blatant attack on the poor people of Berkeley.
We need your help! The Cambodian American community is under attack by ICE. ICE is scheduling check-ins for Cambodian Americans with deportation orders on March 13th at the San Francisco ICE building. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM DEPORTATION. We are hosting a rally in support of impacted folks and their families who have check-ins that day. We need folks to:
– Support folks with check-ins by showing up and letting them know there is a community that supports, loves, and will fight for them
– Support impacted folks’ families the day of check-ins to let them know we are there for them
– Show up in numbers to let ICE know they cannot tear our families apart
This event is in conjunction, and in solidarity with the Stand up to Trump in court, in the streets, and beyond happening on the same day. Link provided below.
https://www.facebook.com/events/290015418339666/
EVICTION SUPPORT NEEDED Thu & Fri starting 8am
All Lake Merritt camps getting booted. Bring coffee, bkfst, trashbags, lunch. Starting at columns @Lakeshore— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) February 13, 2019
Join us this Thursday at the BART Board mtg and next week to celebrate the people that made #ReclaimMLKOak possible .
Last month the Oakland City Council unanimously approved a resolution to name an unnamed street near Fruitvale Station as Oscar Grant Way. Join us and Oscar Grant’s family this Thursday at the BART Board of Directors meeting to make sure they approve the motion!
Huge THANK YOU to everyone that came out last month to support the 5th Annual People’s March to Reclaim King’s Legacy!
It was a beautiful day with about 3,000 people marching in the streets, an amazing people’s concert and a deep healing ritual lead by Lead to Life to close in the evening.
Check out more photos by the talented Amir Saadiq of that day.
We lifted up the demands of the people’s platform, held People’s Assemblies on housing, education, inter-communal violence, development, use of force, and sanctuary for all.
This Valentine’s Day, we’re turning up the pressure on Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase in San Francisco. Will you join us? Click here to RSVP.
- What: Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase: Break up with private prisons or we’ll break up with you (Rally and petition delivery)
Sixty percent of the immigrants the Trump administration locked up are being held in private prisons built by companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group. Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase finance billions of dollars of their debt. All these banks need to do is stop providing loans to these companies and the private prisons they run would not be able to function.
Now is the time to use our power as customers and consumers to force these banks to act. Join us to make our demands clear to Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase on Valentine’s Day.
If Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase don’t take action to help end the criminalization and detainment of Black and Brown communities, we will by pledging and encouraging others to break up with them and switch to banks that actually respect our communities.
Click the link below to RSVP for the action in San Francisco this Thursday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/395765747898393/
On Valentine’s Day, join Mujeres Unidas y Activas, La Colectiva de Mujeres, MomsRising, Bay Resistance, Candide Group, Hand in Hand, the national FamiliesBelongTogether Coalition and others to ask WellsFargo and JPMorgan Chase To Break Up with Private Prisons and Immigration Detention Centers!
While professing respect for human rights, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase continue to fund GEO Group and CoreCivic; the biggest operators of private prisons and immigrant detention centers. Let’s tell Jamie Dimon (Chase) and Timothy Sloan (Wells) that we’re not afraid to align our money with our values. If Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase don’t take action, we will — by pledging to, and/or encouraging others to, break up with Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase and switch to banks that actually respect our communities instead!
Can’t come on the 14th at noon, but want to take action- join a bank branch action near you on the 14, 15, or 15th by signing up here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/show-love-this-valentines-day
EVICTION SUPPORT NEEDED Thu & Fri starting 8am
All Lake Merritt camps getting booted. Bring coffee, bkfst, trashbags, lunch. Starting at columns @Lakeshore— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) February 13, 2019
Oakland’s First** Human Banner: “NO WALL!”
This protest is planned in response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency. Join in to protect the rule of law and our Constitution. On this Presidents Day holiday, stand to demand that our president respect the separation of powers.
City-wide rally at 11:30 a.m at Oscar Grant Plaza.
Oakland teachers are the lowest paid teachers in Alameda County.
Every year, 1-in-5 teachers leave the district, and on top of high teacher turnover, students are already under resourced with only one academic counselor per 600 students, and only 21 nurses for all 37,000 students.
Oakland teachers and our students deserve better! Sign up for a shift at the picket line!
What: Join a picket line near you!
When: Thursday, February 21 — Morning shift: 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Afternoon shift: 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.;
Where: There will be picket lines at ALL 86 school sites. Check out this map to see a list of priority schools. The city-wide rally will be at Oakland City Hall.
Teachers on strike are demanding smaller class sizes, more student support, no more school closures, and a living wage.
If you can’t support at the picket line, but still want to get involved, check out this list of other ways to help.