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The March 14 action is placing three demands on SF elected representatives:
1) Use the power of your office to ensure that Prop A funds be used as the voters intended: to reverse cuts to classes, services, staff, and faculty.
2) Commit to filling any budget gap by advancing funds to CCSF. Call on Sacramento to reverse spending priorities. (California is currently 49th in public education spending and 1st in prison spending.)
3) Call on the Department of Education to take immediate action to stop the ACCJC’s unjustified show cause sanction against CCSF.
Endorsers of Rally (partial list):
Save CCSF; Associated Students Mission Campus; AFT 2121; United Educators of SF; SF Labor Council; Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern CA; Arab Resource and Organizing Center; Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club; Poor Magazine/Prensa Pobre; Socialist Organizer; Gray Panthers of SF; Senior Disability Action; California Alliance for Retired Americans; The Potrero Hill Democratic Club; Veterans for Peace SF Bay Area Chapter; CFT Local 4681 of San Mateo Adult School; Save The Berkeley Post Office; Friends of Deir Ibz’a; SF for Democracy; Marc Krizack; Federation of Retired Union Members; SF Older Women’s League;Answer Coalition; Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition; International Brother of Teamsters 2010; The Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club; Freedom Socialist Party; Radical Women; Ann Wettrich Consulting
DEFEND OUR COLLEGE! CITY HALL MUST TAKE ACTION TO SAVE CCSF!
City College of San Francisco (CCSF) is widely acknowledged to be one of the best community colleges in the country. The current crisis is largely the joint creation of two groups: the accreditation commission (ACCJC), an unaccountable rogue body that has ties to for-profit colleges and the student loan industry; second, interim administrators who have no long-term commitment to the school. Both are abusing the accreditation process to impose an agenda to downsize the college, funneling students into private and online schools that will saddle them with crushing debt. This is an attack on tens of thousands of Bay Area residents, particularly from low-income, people of color, and immigrant communities.
We, the people of San Francisco, want to save our school and reverse the cuts to classes, programs, staff, and teachers. Join us on March 14 to call on the city’s elected officials to take immediate action. City Hall must ensure that Prop A funds are used for education — as the voters intended. It must fill any extra budget gap by advancing the funds to the college . And it must call on the Department of Education to stop the ACCJC’s unjustified “show cause” sanction against CCSF. Education is a right, not a privilege. Through united action we can stop the corporatization of City College and protect public education for all.
1pm Walkouts on each campus
2pm March from the Mission Campus (22nd and Valencia)
4-6pm Rally at SF City Hall (Civic Center)
Invite your friends to the Facebook event
Please spread the word!
Get involved: saveccsf.org – info@saveccsf.org – #saveccsfnow – facebook.com/saveccsf
Since June 2012, non-union food service workers at the Oakland Airport have been demanding a fair process to decide whether to form a union. They have since called for a boycott of airport shops, and participated in multiple rallies over the past seven months to highlight injustices and retaliatory firings.
Come stand with workers as they continue their fight for justice! We will be inside the terminals near baggage claim, as well as outside Terminal 2.
If you haven’t already, be sure to sign the boycott pledge.
For more information, visit our website.
UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612, Tel. 510-893-3181, Fax 510-893-5362
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
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
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
Debt is affecting all of us! Come join us to fight against unjust and crushing debt burdens.
At this Sunday’s meeting we will debrief from last week’s Ideas Into Action session, and talk about the role of the organizers group going forward now that we have five other affinity groups:
Direct Action;
Outreach & Education;
Debtors Union;
Research & Study;
Alternative Institutions.
We will also talk about outreach and organizing for the upcoming Direct Action on tax day – April 15th.
Stop Donahoe from dismantling and privatizing our public Post Office! Keep 6-day Delivery! No Closures, no cuts! Our communities depend on liveable wage postal jobs!
Rally 9:15 AM in plaza in front of Moscone Center West
* Endorsed by local postal unions: American Postal Workers and Mail Handlers Union, by Committee to Save the Berkeley Post Office, and by Communities & Postal Workers United (www.cpwunited.com), a national network fighting to Save the Post Office.
Oakland based civil rights attorney James Chanin will discuss the
federalization of Oakland police and the recent movement to hire William
Bratton, the champion of “Stop and Frisk” policing. With over 40 years in the
struggle for police accountability, from the establishment of the Berkeley
Police Review Commission to the Negotiated Settlement Agreement (NSA) that
guides Oakland’s police, James Chanin is a leading voice in the fight to stop
police abuse.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Kimani Gray was shot seven times by two NYPD undercover cops — thrice in the back — on March 9th in Brooklyn. The officers who shot him, Mourad Mourad and Jovaniel Cordova, have a record of civil liberties violations.
For five consecutive nights last week protests against this police murder have been held in New York City. The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition calls for a rally in solidarity with these ongoing protests and against police brutality — the same brutality which resulted in the death of Alan Blueford — here in Oakland.
Kimani’s mother spoke out a few days ago:
“Why was Kimani been murdered, and slaughtered? Why was Kimani begging for his life? Why was Kimani saying [those things] if he had a weapon? … He’s my angel, and my baby, and he was slaughtered, and I want to know why. After the first shot, why the second bullet, why the third bullet? … Just walk in my shoes, please, and understand my grief… I want justice, for his civil rights, for being an American citizen.”
As usual, the Police have published their lies about what happened, inventing witnesses who no one else seems able to find (much as they did in Alan’s case), and as usual, the media has simply reprinted the lies straight from NYPD’s mouth as if they are truth.
The JAB Coalition does not accept these lies, we do not accept the racial profiling and stop and frisk policies that led to the two police jumping out on Kimani, and we do not accept the continued slaughter of young men of color with the platitude that police were just doing their job. If the job of the police is to provoke a response and then kill a teenager, then we do not need them to keep doing that job. Far from keeping the community safer, the police only bring more violence and more loss of life, and the people have had enough.
Come join together in one voice on Thursday to tell the world that this must stop!
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition stands in solidarity with the family of Kimani Gray and the Brooklyn protesters who have endured assaults by NYPD for five nights running in their attempts to express their grief.
The murder of unarmed Kimani Gray – who begged the police not to kill him as they fired a hail of bullets – can’t help but remind us of the death of Alan Blueford who died telling his executioner “I didn’t do anything.”
The deaths of young men of color at the hands of the police have gone on far too long. It must stop, and stop now! One more death is 10,000 too many.
Rest in power Kimani Gray.
Call for rally by the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition.
Facebook page for the Oakland rally.
‘We Want Justice for Kamani Gray’ Facebook Page.
We recognize the rage in the community as this killing closely resembles so many other killings by police in Oakland, including the murder of Alan Blueford, but out of respect for Kimani’s family, we ask that this event not be a place for window smashing. We know that it is the police who generally bring physical violence and need no provocation, but we ask that participants come not with the intent to provoke that response but rather with their own expressions of solidarity for Kimani’s friends and family as well as the dozens of people who have been arrested in Brooklyn for protesting his killing.
Organize to bring a livable wage to everyone (in Oakland, in Alameda County, in California…).
Note: This meeting will likely not start until after the solidarity rally for the family of Kimani Grey and the Brooklyn protesters is over.
Please check back here in case plans change.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We will have just held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
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
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February).
We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on April 6th, place yet to be determined, probably in San Francisco.
Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery.
Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone.
This month we are focusing on repression against
women in revolutionary movements. We will be
focusing specifically on Polish/German
Communist Rosa Luxemburg, Assata Shakur of
the Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army,
Anna Mae Aquash of the American Indian
Movement, and (Karen Pickett of Earth First will
be with us to present on) the FBI repression and
bombing of Judi Bari. As usual, we will be
dissecting the repressive tactics used, as well as
discussing lessons to be learned from these cases,
in order to strengthen our practice in the face of
ongoing efforts to neutralize our movements.
Location Details:
1415 ALLMAN STREET OAKLAND 94602
CROSS STREET IS BEAUMOUNT ST NEAR PARK BLVD AND 580
Event Type: Party/Street Party
COFFEE, DONUTS AND FRUIT AND A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE SHERIFF
ORIGINAL EVICTION DATE WAS 6 AM FEB 23
JUDGE GRANTED 30 DAY OF STAY OF EVICTION UNTIL MAR 23, SO SHERIFF COULD COME AT ANY TIME
WE WANT TO HAVE A GOOD SHOWING TOMMORROW BECAUSE IT/S THE MOST LIKELY DAY FOR THE EVICTION
Coffee dounuts and fruit and peaceful demonstration against Sherriff eviction. The original eviction date was 6 AM Feb. 23. The judge granted a 30 day stay until March 23rd.
We want to have a good showing tommorrow because it’s the most likely day for the eviction.
1415 Allman Street, Oakland, 94602
Cross Street Is Beaumount Street near Park Blvd
“Thank You So Much Occupy & Friends” Pancake Brunch, Friday at 11 AM.
We heard this from our friend Nick at the RCA Squat that there is soon to be a banner on our home “IT’S NOBODY’S FAULT BUT THE BANKSTERS.”
PS: WE NEED occupiers and any help, media etc. if you want to volunteer call Orion at 510 541-3835 As little or as much time as you can, no guilt trips.
Gather on the SF court house steps this Friday at Noon to support the ACAC 19! Our comrades will be in court for what will likely be the pivotal pretrial day that could be the final before a trial date is set. Please join the ACAC 19 support committee in an anti-repression rally and speakout over the Friday lunch hour and show your solidarity with our comrades.
We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th.
We just held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general.
We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier.
We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence.
We are planning an outreach barbeque on April 13th! (Yum!)
We will be holding a vigil on the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death, May 6th.
We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come join us!
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Poster design and production by Sandy Sanders.