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Apr
27
Sat
Wild Bill Bailout (Dave Lippman) concert at the BFUU Friday April 26th at 7PM @ Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship
Apr 27 @ 2:00 am – 3:45 am

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/

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SAN FRANCISCO ACCE BANK ACTION & GG PHONE BLAST
Apr 27 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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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Apr
28
Sun
Benefit Show Featuring The Coup @ Oakland Marriot City Center
Apr 28 @ 5:00 am – 6:45 am

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.

Buy tickets

RSVP via Facebook

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People’s Park 44th Anniversary @ People's Park
Apr 28 @ 7:00 pm – Apr 29 @ 1:00 am

Hey, you’re People. So come celebrate YOUR park in Berkeley! People’s Park 44th Anniversary!

Source: Facebook notice

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Apr
30
Tue
Bradley Manning Supporters to Protest at SF Pride Office @ SF Pride office
Apr 30 @ 12:00 am – 1:00 am

Facebook page, RSVP

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.”

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Occupy SF Forum Presents “Outing the Oligarchy Part II” with Victor Menotti @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor
Apr 30 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am

What does it take to get millions into the streets? Last time, we began to discuss “unifiers” – What is the commonality uniting and mobilizing the movement? Ideas from “reclaiming our democracy” to “compassion and love for our brothers and sisters” to “fighting for the planet” and more are on the table as we consider the mandate to organize at this crucial time.

A detailed description here.

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May
1
Wed
Stop the BPD Cover Up in the Matter of the Death of Kayla Moore @ Berkeley City Hall
May 1 @ 1:00 am – 5:00 am

“We demand that BPD allow the release of the Coroner’s report and the police report of what happened that night.”

“The city leadership has allowed the police to function without accountability…”

Rally at 6:00 PM and speak out at 7:00 PM.

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March for Immigrant and Worker Rights: Healthcare is Human Right @ 24th St. BART, SF
May 1 @ 10:00 pm – May 2 @ 12:00 am

March with us in SF on May Day. We will assemble at 24th and Mission at 2:45 and march to Civic Center. We will be carrying banners that say


Healthcare is a Human Right
Support HR 676
Medicare for All

Single Payer Now

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May
2
Thu
May Day: Fight For $15! @ Oscar Grant Plaza
May 2 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am

Last year Burger King made $117,000,000 in profits. Walgreens made $253,000,000.

Downtown Oakland workers deserve a raise!

Hundreds of fast food workers in NYC recently participated in a strike to demand $15/hr. It is time to bring the Fight for Fifteen campaign to Oakland.

With the cost of rent driven up by gentrification, plus childcare, healthcare and other bills, $8/hour is not enough to survive in Oakland. Mayor Jean Quan says Oakland is “rising” but the lowest paid workers, who are more likely to be people of color and women, are left behind.

$15/hr livable wage for all Oakland workers!

Rally, march and noise demo throughout downtown Oakland, exposing the practices of corporations who thrive off of low wage labor.

Website

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Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley @ North Berkeley Senior Center
May 2 @ 1:00 am – 5:00 am

Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley.

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Malcolm X and Fighting Racism Today. With Jeralyn Blueford & Brian Jones. @ Laney Art Center Room 110
May 2 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am

Racism and oppression are alive and well in the US. From the attempts of politicians to rob African-Americans of the right to vote in the latest elections, the millions trapped in the prison system, to the epidemic of police murders that have claimed the lives of Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, and Alan Blueford, the New Jim Crow is out of control.

In celebration of what would have been his 88th birthday, the International Socialist Organization will hold a discussion about the revolutionary ideas of Malcolm X. As revolt and struggles of the oppressed grow all around the globe, activists can learn many lessons from Malcolm X’s ideas and struggles. From his legacy of struggle against racism, firm belief in the right of the oppressed to defend themselves, to his internationalism, Malcolm X still has much to offer a new generation of activists.

More information.

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May
5
Sun
BAMN MARCH for Full Citizenship Rights for All!
May 5 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

TELL JEAN QUAN:
OAKLAND IS NOT ARIZONA!

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 more deportations.
Make all young people brought by their parents full citizens now.
No fines for the millions of people without papers who are here now.
Stop long probationary periods for people to gain citizenship. Create a quick and cheap pathway to citizenship for all undocumented people.
Pass the Federal DREAM Act Now!

More information here.

12PM: March from 98th Ave. + International (Oakland)
2PM: Rally & Celebration at 34th Ave. + International (near Fruitvale BART)

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May
6
Mon
ANARCHO-SPECTIVE: Political Art Show @ La Pena Cultural Center
May 6 @ 12:30 am – 5:00 am

Photos and Art by TRISTAN ANDERSON. Free Event! Free Food! 40 THIEVES Revolutionary Hip Hop, NEPANTLER@S Queer Chicano Punk, Slideshow on the OAXACA COMMUNE…. and more! Between LA PENA and The LONG HAUL on both sides of the street!

RSVP on Facebook.

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Candlelight Vigil: We Remember and Honor Alan Dwayne Blueford @ Sunnyside Park (Verdese Carter Park)
May 6 @ 1:30 am – 3:30 am

Meet at Sunnyside Park and walk to 9200 Birch St where Alan was killed. (Candles provided).

Rest in Power, Alan. 20 Dec 1993 – 6 May, 2012.

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Justice 4 Alan Blueford Website.

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May
7
Tue
Halt the Heist of the Berkeley Post Office! @ Berkeley Post Office
May 7 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm

It’s not just the post office
that’s being privatized.
Our schools, our public spaces,
parks and services are all at risk.
Join Us!

Help save our public commons!

Come to the rally!

More information.

The USPS wants to sell Berkeley’s historic main post office. Citizens to Save the Berkeley Post Office is a grassroots group that has come together to block the sale of our heritage, stop service cut backs, and preserve living wage postal jobs.

Our fight is not unique. Thousands of post office closures across the country mean the largest private auction of public history our nation has ever seen.

Join the movement and spread the word. Our post office is not for sale.

48992
May
11
Sat
Occupy The Farm: Land Occupation! @ Albany City Hall
May 11 @ 7:00 pm – May 12 @ 6:45 am

You’re Invited To A Good Old LAND OCCUPATION With Your Friends At

Occupy The Farm

Liberate the Land!
Celebration! Skill Share! Work Party! Campout!

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DRONE WARFARE: The Reality on the Ground in Pakistan @ Ecumenical Peace Institute Office
May 11 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm

2:00 PM Refreshments with Swedish Nyckelharpa and Fiddle music by Toby Blome, Marilyn Jackson & friends

2:30 PM Presentation by Toby Blome

Last October, Toby Blome joined 33 other Americans on the CodePink Peace Delegation to Pakistan, to learn firsthand about the consequences of drone warfare in Pakistan and to
support the growing resistance to U.S. drone strikes. She will report on
first hand accounts about life under daily drone surveillance in Waziristan,
Pakistan, the civilians lost to hellfire missiles, the survivors’ stories, and
the many ways everyday life throughout Pakistan has been seriously altered by
the U.S. War on Terror.

Learn the full story of how Obama’s secret wars, using remotely controlled unmanned
planes to carry out illegal targeted killing, have caused significant
collateral damage and are ultimately counterproductive by inciting anti-American
rage and animosity.

Toby Blome, a physical therapist and former educator, is an organizer with the San Francisco chapter of CODEPINK, a women-led peace & social justice organization. She has been very involved in the drone warfare resistance movement in the U.S. since 2009.

RSVP as seating is limited!

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Hands Off Assata Shakur and Welcome Home GP Resistance BBQ @ Defemery (Lil' Bobby Hutton) Park
May 11 @ 10:00 pm – May 12 @ 3:00 am

The placing of Mama Assata Shakur on a terrorist list is the United States latest and most egregious attack on the freedom fighter who has inspired so many of us to do the work we do.

These new and dangerous attacks require an unprecedented demonstration of unity among all of the different groups working for justice in the Bay Area. The ONYX Organizing Committee & Anarchists of Color invite you to join us for a “Hands Off Assata” Speak Out and “Welcome Home GP” BBQ.

This POTLUCK BBQ will offer us a chance to speak out against State Terrorism, network with other like-minded people doing the work and bring attention to the need for unity in our struggles.

More info and RSVP at Facebook Page

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May
14
Tue
Arraignments of four arrested at #occupythefarm @ Wiley Manuel Courthouse room 107
May 14 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Come stand (well sit) in solidarity with the four arrested at Occupy The Farm on Monday.

49302
May
16
Thu
Kenneth Harding Jr. Wrongful Death Trial Hearings to Begin @ US Federal Courthouse
May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Civil trial hearings for the murder of Kenneth Wade Harding Jr. will begin May 16th @ 9:00am @ the US Federal Building in SF 450 Golden Gate – court room #5 on the 17th floor – Judge Edward Chen.

Facebook page of Justice 4 Kenneth Harding

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