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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.
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: SF Pizza, 1500 Broadway, Oakland
Oakland will MARCH on California’s Cesar Chavez Holiday — Monday, April 1, 2013 — to demand FULL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS FOR ALL! These are 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 RESTRICTIONS to gaining citizenship should be placed on young people brought by their parents.
NO FINES for the millions of people without papers who are here now. No more deportations.
CLEAR, DEFINITE TIMELINES should be set for people to gain citizenship — not indefinite probation.
Pass the DREAM Act Now!
Rally at 12:00 PM. March at 1:00 PM.
StrikeDebtBayArea peeps will be talking about their projects at the Occupy SF Forum on April 1st.
Cassie Thorton, of one SDBA’s founding members,
will present three years of research and art making about debt
and its relationship to contemporary notions of work, behavior,
emotions and the unconscious. In this talk Cassie will explore the
nature of debt as a tulpa, which, in Tibetan mysticism, is a being or
object created out of a shared willpower, attention, focus, and
ritual. If enough people think it, believe it, and have fear of it,
the tulpa manifests as a powerful physical thing. How do we shift the
collective idea of debt so that it doesn’t create fear and shame?
Others will join her to talk about other SDBA projects, foreclosure and its
relationship to debt, the Rolling Jubilee, etc.
Time will be allotted for Q&A and open discussion.
Monday April 1st 6 – 9 pm.
2017 Mission Street, 2nd Floor (push: 200 to be buzzed in), near Mission/16th Street BART
Oakland City workers will take their message for a fair, no concessions contract to City Hall.
The rally will be the highlight of a day-long hearing on the city’s budget, where we will tell city leaders to cut elsewhere than the hard-working members of SEIU Local 1021.
Workers have given back wages, benefits and jobs since 2008, but now livelihoods are at risk. Enough is enough.
Wear purple to show solidarity.
“Join activists from CREDO, 350, Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity and others, to send President Obama a big message: Stop Keystone XL!
The last time we protested the President’s San Francisco fundraiser we shocked the President with a huge crowd of 1,000 people. We know from insiders that we caused a big buzz in the White House, and our pressure worked. Now, with the President again considering Keystone XL, we need a huge crowd outside his San Francisco fundraiser to deliver the message: Stop Keystone XL.”