Calendar - Occupy Oakland

Hands Off Venezuela Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza

Feb 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join the International Action Center and Spring Action Coalition for a day of action against US intervention in Venezuela.

We will hold a rally at 14th and Broadway in Oakland to protest the Trump administration’s support for the coup against the Maduro government, and the long history of sanctions and threats against the Venezuelan people.

We demand an end to hostile actions against Venezuela!

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Rally to Demand Justice for Willie McCoy @ Taco Bell

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Feb 23 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Join us at a rally to demand justice for Willie McCoy, murdered by Vallejo PD. We’ll gather at the Taco Bell where he was murdered. Bring posters, candles, and your voices to support Willie’s family.

If you’re coming from Oakland and either need a ride or have space in your car, please meet us at 12:15 at the APTP office at 1201 Martin Luther King Jr Way.

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Feb

25

Mon

Oakland Teachers Strike

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Feb 25 all-day

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Feb

26

Tue

Urban Shield Fate to be Decided at Alameda County Board of Sups @ Alameda County Administration Building, 5th Floor

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Feb 26 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm

POLICE REFORM: Alameda County Urban Shield/UASI Task Force

For six years, Bay Area activists have pushed to repurpose Homeland Security disaster preparedness funds away from the hyper-militarized training exercise Urban Shield. Finally the Alameda Board of Supervisors agreed and convened a task force to end “Urban Shield as we know it”. The task force has provided dozens of recommendations to do exactly that.

There is lots of pushback and lots more coming, according to the SF Chronicle, which announced the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is “primed for battle“. But this is our taxpayer money to protect us and help us recover from disasters like catastrophic wildfires. We get a say in how it is spent.

You can view some of the proposed recommendations here and here. The recommendations follow years of problems with racial profiling, right wing vigilantes, and environmental abuse. Your physical presence on the 26th is important, but you can also use this easy action alert to tell the Supervisors not to buckle to the pressure and really change Urban Shield. Now:

Easy Action Alert

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Feb

28

Thu

Oakland Teachers Strike Solidarity Sick-Out @ Oscar Grant Plaza

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Feb 28 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

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Mar

7

Thu

Unite Against the Sweeps at City Hall – San Francisco @ Outside San Francisco City Hall

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Mar 7 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

On Thursday, March 7th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is having an “exploratory” hearing into the City’s cold weather policy. The Government of the City of San Francisco has endlessly harassed folks with nowhere to go. The San Francisco Police Department has confiscated peoples tents in the rain, arrested people for creating shelter and not offering more than a temporary stay in a shelter or a cot.

The People of San Francisco and the Bay Area must come together to resist these attacks on working people. Join activists from other Bay Area cities in this action against the attack on the poor and learn about local struggles and ways we can work together to fight back.

This event is sponsored by: The United Front Against Displacement, Democratic Socialists of America: San Francisco chapter, POOR Magazine, and the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance

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Mar

9

Sat

March & Rally: Hands Off Venezuela! NO coup – NO war – NO sanctions! @ UN Plaza

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Mar 9 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us on March 9 for a march and rally against the Trump administration’s effort to engineer a coup in Venezuela and a new devastating war there. The aggressive policy against Venezuela repeats the ugly pattern of wars for regime change in the oil-rich countries of Iraq and Libya.

National Security Advisor John Bolton is reading from the same script, declaring a “troika of tyranny” in Latin America (like George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”) as a precursor for regime change first in Venezuela, and then Cuba and Nicaragua. Trump officials are openly talking about seizing Venezuela’s vast oil reserves — the largest in the world.

It is time to stand up and with a clear voice say NO to the newest example of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which the U.S. government has used for over two centuries to repeatedly invade Latin America and Caribbean, control its politics and extract its resources.

The White House aims to overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro and replace him with Juan Guaidó. Guaidó is a U.S.-trained operative who was unknown to the vast majority of Venezuelans before he proclaimed him-self president — at Vice President Mike Pence’s urging. Although Guaidó has the backing of Trump, the CIA, and the Republican and Democratic Party leaderships alike, huge numbers of Venezuelans have marched to reject this coup and defend their independence.

The San Francisco action will be held in conjunction with the National March on Washington on March 16.

Initial Signers of the National March:

ANSWER Coalition • CodePink • Black Alliance for Peace • Veterans for Peace • Alliance for Global Justice Popular Resistance • Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee • Haïti Liberté International Support Haiti Network • Popular Education Project • Abby Martin, journalist, The Empire Files • Dr. Jill Stein, 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jared Ball, Prof. of Communication Studies, Morgan State Univ., imixwhatilike • Medea Benjamin, CodePink • Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox • Berthony Dupont, Director, Haïti Liberté • Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, constitutional rights attorney • Max Blumenthal, journalist • Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer, Black Alliance for Peace • Mike Prysner, Iraq War veteran, producer, The Empire files • Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, author • Dr. Anthony Monteiro, Saturday Free School • Dr. Jodi Dean, Prof. of Political Science, Hobart & William Smith Colleges • Gloria La Riva, National Coordinator, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee • Kim Ives, journalist • Anoa Changa, host, The Way With Anoa • Dan Cohen, journalist and filmmaker • Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice • Eugene Puryear, Stop Police Terror Project • Jeanette Charles and Lucas Koerner, Venezuela Analysis • Margaret Flowers, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance • Kevin Zeese, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance • Dan Kovalik, author and human rights lawyer • Mahdi Bray, National Director, American Muslim Alliance (AMA)

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Mar

12

Tue

Justice for Stephon Clark! Occupy the Police Station! @ Sacramento Police Station

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Mar 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

FIRE TERRENCE MERCADAL!
FIRE JARED ROBINET!
TAKE THEM OFF OF OUR STREETS NOW!!

THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TILL THERE IS JUSTICE!!

COME WHEN YOU GET OFF WORK
COME IF YOU AINT GOT NO JOB
COME WHEN YOU GET OUT OF CLASS
OR SKIP WORK AND SCHOOL TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
JUST BRING YA A$$!

Meet us at the police station at 3pm!!

JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK!

Hosted by Black Lives Matter Sacramento

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Youth Climate Strike

Mar 15 all-day

On March 15, students across the US and the world will be going on strike, because decades of inaction have left us with only 11 years to avoid the worst effects of climate change. We’ll be striking to demand a Green New Deal, because we deserve good jobs and a livable future!

Sign up here if you want to participate in, or help to organize, a school strike in your area!

You can find out more information about the US Youth Climate Strike movement here: https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/

Also see the Facebook pages for

California Youth Climate Strike

San Francisco Youth Climate Strike

North Bay Youth Climate Strike

“We, the youth of America, are striking because decades of inaction has left us with just 11 years to change the trajectory of the worst effects of climate change, according to the Oct 2018 UN IPCC Report. We are striking because our world leaders have yet to acknowledge, prioritize, or properly address our climate crisis. We are striking because marginalized communities across our nation —especially communities of color, disabled communities, and low- income communities— are already disproportionately impacted by climate change.

We are striking because if the social order is disrupted by our refusal to attend school, then the system is forced to face the climate crisis and enact change. With our futures at stake, we call for radical legislative action to combat climate change and its countless detrimental effects on the American people. We are striking for the Green New Deal, for a fair and just transition to a 100% renewable economy, and for ending the creation of additional fossil fuel infrastructure. Additionally, we believe the climate crisis should be declared a national emergency because we are running out of time.”

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Global Climate Strike – Berkeley @ Civic Center Park (MLK Park)

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Mar 15 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

March 15th, Global Climate Strike For Future! Call to the youth of the world.

In 2015, our governments committed in Paris to protecting our future by providing a safe pathway well below 2C with Social and Climate Justice..
Three years have passed, and our future looks bleaker than ever!
The greedy guess that 3C warming is ok. Climate scientists have evidence that even 2C will cause massive starvation, drought, fire tornados, floods, wars and death.

All because today’s adults do not care about tomorrow. They are stealing our future right in front of our eyes!
The adults are not mature enough to tell it how it is, even this they leave to us children!

And why should we be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future? And what is the point of learning facts when the most important facts clearly means nothing to our society?
What use is education when our governments are not listening to the educated?
Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed.

Greta Thunberg has inspired us, by striking every Friday in front of her Swedish parliament.
Since August, 2018, many thousands of students, have been striking in front of 300 parliaments and town halls in over 30 countries worldwide.

And now on March 15, we will all create a Deep strike together! To show the Climate Crisis is a Crisis! Join Us!

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Mar

16

Sat

March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ PF Chang's parking lot

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Mar 16 all-day

Join the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom, ending with a rally and nonviolent direct action at the San Francisco headquarters of Big Oil’s favorite banker, Oily Wells (Fargo). The direct action will be the conclusion of a three-day, 34-mile march from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

Indigenous people and other faith leaders will lead the march in prayer and contemplation. The march will make twelve “stagecoach stops” along the way – one for every year that remains to take urgent action on climate change – and arrive at the bank’s world headquarters just in time to crash their annual founding day celebration. Marchers are welcome to join for the entire length or portions of the route that meet their abilities and availabilities. (“Day trippers” are welcome!)

The direct action will underscore the seriousness of the climate crisis and the strength of our resolve to combat it.

GET INVOLVED

Sign up to participate in direct action
— by risking arrest or by playing a supporting role (such as jail support, police liaison, social media person, etc.)

Register for the march

Invite friends to donate to sponsor your participation =

Volunteer to help prepare for the march

HELP PREPARE

ART BUILD

March 9, 10 AM – 4 PM
911 Riverside Dr., San Jose

TRAINING IN NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION (PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE)

March 10, 1 – 4 PM
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609

THE MARCH

Saturday morning, March 16 – Monday afternoon, March 18

March will start in Palo Alto, at PF Chang’s parking lot, in the Stanford Shopping Center, corner of El Camino Real and Quarry Road. The march continues north on El Camino until it becomes Mission Street in South San Francisco, and continues straight into downtown San Francisco. with overnight stays in Burlingame and San Francisco’s Excelsior District.

RALLY AND DIRECT ACTION AT OILY WELLS

(including a performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe)

Monday, March 18, noon
Meet at Montgomery BART Plaza
598 Market St., San Francisco

On Facebook

The March for Fossil Fuel Freedom is hosted by 350 Silicon Valley and cosponsored by the Sierra Club, Sunflower Alliance, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More SF, and more.

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No Coal in Richmond Canvassing @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center

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Mar 16 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

If you learned that coal dust containing arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium was blowing through your neighborhood, wouldn’t you want to take action? Come help No Coal in Richmond reach out to as many residents as possible between now and late March or early April. That’s when the Richmond City Council will vote on an ordinance to prohibit new coal or pet coke facilities, prevent the Levin-Richmond Terminal from expanding, and phase out existing coal handling and storage.

We have less than a month to reach the most affected Richmond residents about the massive amounts of coal-for-export coming through their neighborhoods in 100-car trains of open rail cars and sitting in uncovered piles next to the Bay, just blocks from homes, schools, and workplaces.

We’re door-knocking every weekend between now and late March or early April to
collect emails and signatures on a letter to the council demanding the strongest
possible ordinance.

And talk about gratifying! Nearly all those who answer the door say, “No coal in
Richmond? Where do I sign?” and proceed to thank you profusely for doing this.
Check out the new and improved No Coal in Richmond website for background, up-
to-the minute news, and other ways you can fight this climate and public health
menace in Richmond.

RSVP: ACTION@SUNFLOWER-ALLIANCE.ORG

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Mar

18

Mon

March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ Montgomery BART Station

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Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom, ending with a rally and nonviolent direct action at the San Francisco headquarters of Big Oil’s favorite banker, Oily Wells (Fargo). The direct action will be the conclusion of a three-day, 34-mile march from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

Indigenous people and other faith leaders will lead the march in prayer and contemplation. The march will make twelve “stagecoach stops” along the way – one for every year that remains to take urgent action on climate change – and arrive at the bank’s world headquarters just in time to crash their annual founding day celebration. Marchers are welcome to join for the entire length or portions of the route that meet their abilities and availabilities. (“Day trippers” are welcome!)

The direct action will underscore the seriousness of the climate crisis and the strength of our resolve to combat it.

GET INVOLVED

Sign up to participate in direct action
— by risking arrest or by playing a supporting role (such as jail support, police liaison, social media person, etc.)

Register for the march

Invite friends to donate to sponsor your participation =

Volunteer to help prepare for the march

HELP PREPARE

ART BUILD

March 9, 10 AM – 4 PM
911 Riverside Dr., San Jose

TRAINING IN NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION (PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE)

March 10, 1 – 4 PM
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609

THE MARCH

Saturday morning, March 16 – Monday afternoon, March 18

March will start in Palo Alto, at PF Chang’s parking lot, in the Stanford Shopping Center, corner of El Camino Real and Quarry Road. The march continues north on El Camino until it becomes Mission Street in South San Francisco, and continues straight into downtown San Francisco. with overnight stays in Burlingame and San Francisco’s Excelsior District.

RALLY AND DIRECT ACTION AT OILY WELLS

(including a performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe)

Monday, March 18, noon
Meet at Montgomery BART Plaza
598 Market St., San Francisco

On Facebook

The March for Fossil Fuel Freedom is hosted by 350 Silicon Valley and cosponsored by the Sierra Club, Sunflower Alliance, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More SF, and more.

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Mar

21

Thu

March Against the Berkeley RV Ban @ People's Park

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Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

March from People’s Park to Old City Hall, protesting Berkeley’s imminent ban on RVs from parking on City streets overnight, effectively banishing Berkeley residents.

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Mar

24

Sun

No Coal in Richmond Canvassing @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center

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Mar 24 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

If you learned that coal dust containing arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium was blowing through your neighborhood, wouldn’t you want to take action? Come help No Coal in Richmond reach out to as many residents as possible between now and late March or early April. That’s when the Richmond City Council will vote on an ordinance to prohibit new coal or pet coke facilities, prevent the Levin-Richmond Terminal from expanding, and phase out existing coal handling and storage.

We have less than a month to reach the most affected Richmond residents about the massive amounts of coal-for-export coming through their neighborhoods in 100-car trains of open rail cars and sitting in uncovered piles next to the Bay, just blocks from homes, schools, and workplaces.

We’re door-knocking every weekend between now and late March or early April to
collect emails and signatures on a letter to the council demanding the strongest
possible ordinance.

And talk about gratifying! Nearly all those who answer the door say, “No coal in
Richmond? Where do I sign?” and proceed to thank you profusely for doing this.
Check out the new and improved No Coal in Richmond website for background, up-
to-the minute news, and other ways you can fight this climate and public health
menace in Richmond.

RSVP: ACTION@SUNFLOWER-ALLIANCE.ORG

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Mar

26

Tue

SHOW UP SPEAK OUT: Rise for Berkeley RV Neighbors! @ City Council

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Mar 26 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

ON TUESDAY, MARCH 26th,
Berkeley City Council will vote on “Managing Recreational (RV) Parking:”

Berkeley Municipal Code 14.40.120 bans “parking between two a.m. and five a.m” for ALL RVs and VAN and CAR CAMPERS. City Council already voted on February 28th to PASS THIS ORDINANCE with a 6-3 vote.

TUESDAY, March 26th is the final vote.

It’s time for Berkeley residents to show up and demand their neighbors not be displaced! We will protest at city council and demand our voices be heard. Sanctuary for who? The many not the few!

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Mar

30

Sat

5th Annual Shut Down Creech! SPRING 2019 @ Creech Air Force Base

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Mar 30 all-day

National Mobilization to Peacefully Stop U.S. Drone Wars
March 30 – April 5, 2019
(Saturday through Friday)

Our beautiful, weeklong peaceful convergence in the Nevada Desert is almost here! We can’t wait to see you all, and work together to GROUND the DRONES!

Please register HERE, so we can best serve everyone.

This is a special year because it marks the 10th anniversary of Bay Area CODEPINK’s twice yearly resistance to killer drones at Creech Air Force Base. It is also marks the 5th annual national mobilization known as “SHUT DOWN CREECH.” Help us make this push for peace exceptional! Be there!

Special theme: In solidarity with the national call to action to protest the 70th anniversary of NATO Summit in Washington DC, we will devote one day at Creech promoting: “ABOLISH NATO, DE-MILITARIZE NOW!”

Please come for part or all of this amazing Peace Convergence to nonviolently resist the illegal U.S. drone targeted assassination program. Stay at the newly relocated CAMP JUSTICE peace encampment, set up on the “Goddess Temple” grounds, 3 miles from Creech AFB. Most meals provided. We will send you a transportation form after you register with us, to coordinate ride shares to/from Camp Justice & Las Vegas. Click on tabs at the top of this page for detailed info about: Housing, Transportation, Camp Justice, Meals, Sponsorship, Registration, etc.

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No Coal in Richmond Canvassing @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center

Tickets

Mar 30 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm

If you learned that coal dust containing arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium was blowing through your neighborhood, wouldn’t you want to take action? Come help No Coal in Richmond reach out to as many residents as possible between now and late March or early April. That’s when the Richmond City Council will vote on an ordinance to prohibit new coal or pet coke facilities, prevent the Levin-Richmond Terminal from expanding, and phase out existing coal handling and storage.

We have less than a month to reach the most affected Richmond residents about the massive amounts of coal-for-export coming through their neighborhoods in 100-car trains of open rail cars and sitting in uncovered piles next to the Bay, just blocks from homes, schools, and workplaces.

We’re door-knocking every weekend between now and late March or early April to
collect emails and signatures on a letter to the council demanding the strongest
possible ordinance.

And talk about gratifying! Nearly all those who answer the door say, “No coal in
Richmond? Where do I sign?” and proceed to thank you profusely for doing this.
Check out the new and improved No Coal in Richmond website for background, up-
to-the minute news, and other ways you can fight this climate and public health
menace in Richmond.

RSVP: ACTION@SUNFLOWER-ALLIANCE.ORG

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Mar

31

Sun

Hands Off Venezuela @ Federal Building

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Mar 31 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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Apr

4

Thu

Demand that Barr immediately release the full Mueller report @ El Cerrito Plaza, on San Pablo Ave

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Apr 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Attend one of the 300 actions around the country demanding that Barr immediately release the full Mueller report and underlying evidence.

Last night, Donald Trump’s hand-picked attorney general, William Barr, missed the deadline set by Congress to release the full Mueller report.

That’s why tomorrow, Thursday, April 4 at nearly 300 events around the country the Nobody Is As Above the Law coalition is joining together to demand that Barr immediately release the full report and supporting evidence.

Click here to check out a map of the actions and RSVP to join a “Release The Report” event near you tomorrow, Thursday, April 4.

As Rachel Maddow reported live on her show Monday night, these #ReleaseTheReport actions will be critical to getting the backs of congressional Democrats who are subpoenaing the full report and underlying evidence and pushing back against Barr and Trump’s stonewalling.

We’ll be gathering with friends and neighbors to hold signs, chant, grab local and national media attention, and amplify our demand that Barr to release the report – and that Congress to use all its power to obtain the full report if Barr fails to act.

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