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Join us for the April 13 National Day of Action to say, “U.S. Drones Out of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Here!”
Having killed more than 4,700 people through U.S. drone strikes in Central Asia, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, the U.S. government is now putting all of Africa in the crosshairs…
Inside the U.S., drones are being used by many police agencies. The U.S. government has deployed drones along the US-Mexico border as part of the campaign to arrest and deport over 1.5 million immigrants since President Obama took office four years ago.
Free food!
The Justice 4 Alan Blueford coalition is hosting a community BBQ in Arroyo Park on Saturday, April 13th. We hope you’ll come out with friends and family to eat, play, and connect as we build the strength of our community.
Expect delicious home-cooked food, great music, powerful speakers, kid-friendly activities, a nurse’s station – all donated to this community event in honor of Alan Blueford, a Skyline High School student who was murdered by OPD Officer Miguel Masso almost one year ago on May 6th, 2012.
Please join us in demanding the arrest of Officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford, and an end to racial profiling and violent, unaccountable police in Oakland.
Officer Masso must be fired because factual evidence exists that:
– he participated in an illegal ‘Stop & Frisk,’ precipitating Alan’s death
– he did not activate his lapel camera as required by OPD protocols
– he executed Alan Blueford, firing three shots at someone who was unarmed
– he lied after the fact about the events of May 5th & May 6
– he should never have been hired in the first place because of his NYPD record
– he refused a prisoner medical treatment, as documented by NYPD Internal Affair
– he is not psychologically fit to be a police officer, as evidenced by his own statements in the District Attorney’s report
Banks don’t pay taxes but most people do!
Banks don’t pay their debts but we are hounded if we don’t!
Why must we pay income tax when banks and corporations don’t have to? They use accounting gimmicks, offshore headquarters and other scams to avoid paying their fair share. Is it fair that taxpayers bailed out the big banks, but they continue to profit at our expense? Why must we be crushed under the weight of debt for medical, educational, housing AND income tax obligations while those who have made a mess of our communities and our planet freeload at our expense?
On Tax Day, April 15, Strike Debt Bay Area will demonstrate our opposition to debt culture. We will reach out to indebted taxpayers with remedies to a life of financial servitude. Join us to spread the word about our activities.
STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA is beginning to organize for mass debt resistance. Collectively, we can decide that we’ve paid more than enough already for the blunders of the wealthy 1% and we can bill them for the debt they owe us and our communities.
Join us at the Federal Reserve, 3:00PM on Monday, April 15. Bring your voices. Bring your stories of debt persecution. Find out about STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA’s programs for debt resistance.
Strike Debt Bay Area is loosely affiliated with Strike Debt which created the Rolling Jubiliee.
RSVP via Facebook and more info
Mario Romero was 23 years old ,Just 16 days shy of his 24th birthday.He and his brother-in-law had just returned home following the celebration of the two just getting new , promising jobs that would help them better support their families, wives and 3 three children between the both of them. upon returning home they placed a call to open the front door; upon ending the call Mario’s sister went outside to scare them like she always did but upon her arrival to the side of the building she was stopped by a blinding bright light that was shone onto Mario’s car followed by officers exiting from their vehicle yelling “put your hands up!” and a shots fired by one gun before the sentence of “put your hands up!” was finished.
Witnesses recall seeing both men with their hands us pleading for their lives to be spared. family members pleaded with officers to stop shooting the unarmed men. a sort while into the shooting one officer jumped onto the hood of Mario’s car and began to continue shooting to insure that both men were dead.
30+ bullets were unloaded into Mario’s car has he and his family pleaded for Vallejo police to stop. their was NO return fire!..Mario was unarmed. He was shot in the face, in the mouth, hands, wrists,chest, and underarms. following his being shot he was cut from his seatbelt and mutilated by the murdering officers knife, resulting in a gaping hole in his body big enough to put a whole arm and fist into. he was dragged onto the ground , his hands were then zip-tied as the officer pushed his blood from his body. Mario’s dead body which was then removed from the scene of the crime before the coroner could arrive, following the removal of his body a fake gun was planted inside of Mario’s car by Vallejo Police Corporal Stanley Eng, who also stole Mario’s bullet filled & cut seatbelt. The gun that was planted was not just any gun it was a police issued training gun that only law enforcement can be issued. Mario’s body was hidden from his family for a month , delaying his burial, Mario’s family has experienced an abundance of intimidation tactics by the Vallejo Police who have attempted to silence their request for accountability, Vallejo Police have refused to interview witnesses, have admitted that they do not drug test their officers at all following being hired, nor do they psychologically evaluate them.
The Vallejo police have followed, arrested, intimidated, threatened witnesses and friends of Mario with false charges in an attempt to get them to make false stories about Mario. They have illegally raided homes without warrants, with officers tearing down pictures of Mario off of friends walls and urinating on them. The officer that murdered Mario is still patrolling the streets of Vallejo racially profiling and taking pictures of people with his personal cellphone. This officer had a dark past long before he murdered Mario, He arrested a 5 year old boy against the parents will, took him to a mental hospital where he was put on a suicide watch
he has also worked at Vallejo high School where he harassed students, used excessive force as well as tazed multiple stuudents.
Vallejo Police admit that they did not identify themselves, they claim they wanted to make contact with the men
THEY NEVER KNEW WHO MARIO WAS BEFORE THEY MURDERED HIM
VALLEJO POLICE CHIEF LIED ON MARIO CALLING HIM A PAROLEE WHO WAS AFRAID OF GOING BACK TO PRISON WHEN HE KNEW THE STATEMENT WAS A LIE.
THIS IS NOT A CASE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE…NO FORCE WAS NEEDED..IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO SIT IN FRONT OF YOUR HOME AT ANYTIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT! YOU SHOULD BE FREE FROM BEING PREYED UPON BY BLOOD THIRSTY, UNDRUGTESTED COPS!
MARIO LEAVES BEHIND A 3YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WHO WAS HIS WORLD
WE DEMAND JAIL FOR DUSTIN JOSEPH NOW!
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.
GG is not being allowed into her home to get her possessions. She has only the clothes on her back. After an action on Saturday, GG and friends will be back again demonstrating at the Montclair, Oakland branch of U.S. Bank on Monday, April 22 from noon to 2pm.
Phone Blast at the same time:
Local U.S. Bank: 510 339-5900
I am ___________________, and I am calling on behalf of my friend, Gwen Winter, who you sent sheriff’s deputies to evict 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.
Other numbers you can call:
Corporate U.S. Bank: 612 872-2657
Realtor: Phi Nguyen, 415 412-5923, phi@realestaterealloan.com
To sign up for text alerts for GG’s fight and others, text
“OOForeclosure” to 69302.
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/
SF ACCE BANK ACTION (LUPITA 503 816 4593) SAT APRIL 27. BANK AMERICA, CHASE AND US BANK.
MISSION AND 30TH STREET 11 AM.
GG CONTINGENT FROM EAST BAY WILL MEET AT WEST OAKLAND BART 10AM LEAVE 1030.
IF U CAN/T MAKE DEMO CALL 10 TIMES TO SHUT DOWN US BANK AT 11 AM APRIL 27th.
USE THIS SCRIPT AND DON/T FORGET TO VIRAL THE U TUBE VIDEO OF GG/S GUNPOINT EVICTION.
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO. THANKS ORION
PHONE BLAST SCRIPT FOR GG’S
US Bank: 2001 16th and mission Phone: 575 2800
I am _____________________, and I am calling on behalf of my neighbor, Gwen Winter, who your sheriffs evicted at gunpoint from her home at 1415 Allman Street, Oakland CA. She’s been fighting you in court to no avail. I demand you rescind the eviction, lower her principle and give her an affordable mortgage now! Your lawyers call themselves: US Bank NA as trustee for Chevy Chase Bank. Her loan number is (Chevy Chase Bank) #0555083294.
(DON’T LET THEM TRY TO GET YOU TO CALL ANY OTHER NUMBER. SAY, “YOU KNOW WHO TO CALL , IT’S YOUR JOB!!)
ON’T LET THEM TRY TO GET YOU TO CALL ANY OTHER NUMBER. SAY, “YOU KNOW WHO TO CALL , IT’S YOUR JOB!!)
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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!
A group of gay activists has called a protest against the San Francisco Pride Committee’s rescinding of naming as a Grand Marshal openly gay whistleblower, Bradley Manning, a US Army soldier who was arrested in 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website Wikileaks. Manning was charged with a number of offenses including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy. The 25 year old’s trial is expected to begin in June 2013.
The action is being organized by gay peace and social justice activists Michael Petrelis, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, and Lisa Geduldig. “Our message to SF Pride is that they should make Manning a Grand Marshal of this year’s Pride March and Celebration because of his brave act of whistleblowing against the military industrial complex,” said Petrelis. “We are fed up with marriage and military concerns sucking the oxygen out of what used to be a queer movement and Pride March and Celebration about social justice for queers,” Petrelis added. Some don’t think Manning should be a Grand Marshal of the parade, albeit in absentia—that he doesn’t represent or further the causes of LGBT people. Co-organizer Geduldig points out, “He’s an antiwar hero, a whistleblower who is gay. He was lipsynching to Lady Gaga while downloading classified documents. It doesn’t get more gay than that.”