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It had been one month since the horrific murder of Andy Lopez. One month and we as a community have been completely alienated by those whom are supposed to serve and protect us.
Demands for a transparent investigation have fallen on deaf ears, as no new information has been released by the SRPD. Our District Attorney has done nothing to address this murder in an attempt to let the flame for justice die down.
Join us as we march from City Hall to the District Attorney’s office.
This march is very important to the Lopez family as it will take place on the one month anniversary of their son’s murder. There is no excuse, be there. Be there to honor this child who’s life was taken far to early. Be there to show your respects to the family. Be there, to let all know we will continue to fight for justice. Justice in the form of an immediate arrest of sheriff, Erick Gelhaus.
NO ARREST = NO ELECT
Can cops just do whatever they want?
Not if you’re WATCHING!
Come to the COPWATCH TRAINING and…
–Protecting your neighbors by watching and documenting what police do
–Preventing abuse to yourself by using your legal rights.
–Recognizing and responding to police manipulation techniques
FREE!!
Debt keeps us isolated, ashamed, and afraid – of becoming homeless, of going hungry, of being crippled or killed by treatable illness, or of being trapped in poverty-level jobs. Those facing foreclosure, medical debt, student debt, or credit card debt feel alone, hounded by debt collectors, and forced into unrewarding work to keep up with payments.
Join us for Strike Debt Bay Area’s (website and Facebook) third Debtors’ Assembly, where we will come together to understand debt in this modern society of ours and how to fight it collectively. This event is generously sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee.
This Debtors’ Assembly will be an opportunity for people to come together, gain an understanding of how debt works, share their own debt experiences, and work on various ways to change the unjust debt system and begin to organize debt resistance.
ORGANIZATION INFO: Strike Debt Bay Area is the local chapter of Strike Debt, an international movement of groups working to build popular resistance to all forms of unjust debt. Strike Debt has organized the Rolling Jubilee, the Debt Resistors Operations Manual, and local debtors’ assemblies.
Strike Debt supports the creation of just and sustainable economies, based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence. We owe the financial institutions nothing. It is to our friends, families and community that we owe everything.
Artwork and design by Sandy Sanders.
Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting: Saturday, 11/23, 6pm @ Sudo Room
Join us for a meeting of the Oakland Privacy Working Group:
When:
Saturday
November 23, 2013
6pm
Where:
Sudo Room
2141 Broadway
Oakland
Directions
Organize to stop the Oakland Domain Awareness Center!
The City Council meeting may have been a joke (as we expected), but seventy people showed up in the drizzling rain to rally at 5:30 last Tuesday against DAC and then many stayed it out to speak truth to power at midnight!
There is more to do!
Come help us plan our next steps.
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
Obama’s drone policy is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in Pakistan and Yemen — countries we aren’t even at war with. Since Obama has taken office, deadly drone strikes have increased, causing more drone bases to pop up across the country and across the globe to engage in surveillance and targeted killing. Join us to say stop the killing!
On the eve of President Obama’s high-roller fundraiser, CODEPINK, World Can’t Wait and others will screen the film Unmanned: America’s Drone War or Wounds of Waziristan or both outside the SF JAZZ Center in Hayes Valley. . Join in!
Join the Facebook event page.
The Free Land Project Presents: A night of art and culture celebrating Indigenous resistance.
Corrina Gold, Wicahpiluta Candelaria, Iamani I. Ameni, Michelle Steinberg, GoodShield Aguilar, Mignon Geli, Rico Pabon, DJ Free Leonard and Bear Fox.
Hosted by Ariel Lucky.
Join CODEPINK, World Can’t Wait and others as we protest against President Barack Obama use of deadly drones! President Obama will be in San Francisco to attend a high-roller luncheon at the new SF Jazz Center in Hayes Valley.
Obama’s drone policy is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in Pakistan and Yemen — countries we aren’t even at war with. Since Obama has taken office, deadly drone strikes have increased, causing more drone bases to pop up across the country and across the globe to engage in surveillance and targeted killing. Join us to say stop the killing! Bring your own signs, props, costumes etc.
We understand that others may have a long list of grievances against the President’s policies. We welcome other signs, groups and issues!
March to the SF Jazz Center at 11:30am where will have an outside presence against US/CIA drone strikes. Be flexible because we might have to move locations.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
Seven weeks ago we learned that perfidious Post Office Executives, who only the week before had sent a letter to the Berkeley City Council offering to negotiate until at least November 12th, had CBRE (Richard Blum’s company) list the downtown Berkeley Post Office for sale.
A couple of weeks ago the Planning Commission passed on to the Berkeley City a proposed Zoning Ordinance that would make the Post Office property less desirable to potential purchasers of the capitalist variety. We are still waiting for action on this from the City Council.
Help us organize a public meeting on Debember 5th about what’s happening with our Post Office!
Come and help plan our next actions in defense of our post office and against privatization. We want to send a message to CBRE, the Post Office and Berkeley politicians that the sale will not be tolerated!
Check out the video of Peter Byrne’s talk at our latest Save the Post Office Rally!
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
OccupyForum presents…
Revolutions
The word “revolution” is used a lot in Occupy, often with little or no context. Ethan Davidson and Ryan Smith hope to fill that gap. How do revolutions happen? What are the short- and long-term effects? How do they improve and how do they not improve the societies they happen in? Whether you advocate or oppose revolutions, these are questions worth considering.
Ryan Smith will talk about the American and Russian revolutions. Ethan Davidson will talk about the revolutions and post-revolutionary histories of France and Cuba.
Ethan Davidson has been an activist since 1977. He has traveled widely, including two months in Guatemala, three weeks in France, and one month in Cuba. Ryan Smith is a longtime Occupy activist and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
 Donations to OccupyForum to cover our costs
are encouraged; no one turned away!
Oakland is receiving federal money to build a Domain Awareness Center with cameras, audio recording devices and other technologies that will make it possible for the police and other government agents to monitor the movements and affiliations of all residents and visitors to the city.
http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center
We are planning to educate people about this process with a presence at the Oakland First Friday event on December 6th with a table, fliers, perhaps our own set of intrusive video cameras and street theater. Join us Tuesday evening to help plan this action. If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv send an email to this address:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
The meeting will be at the sudoroom, 2141 Broadway, but the entrance is actually on 22nd Street upstairs.
Facebook event, read more & RSVP.
Port of Oakland Truckers Association (POTA) members voted unanimously late Friday evening to stop work at the port on Wednesday, November 27. They’ve met with city, state and federal regulators, terminal managers, and Port of Oakland officials many times since their August 19 work stoppage, but have not made any gains on their demands. On November 13, truckers met with Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, Deputy Mayor Sandré Swanson, Port Executive Director Chris Lytle, as well as California Air Resources Board (CARB) members, expecting to bring offers of an extension from CARB or funding from the City and Port, but were forced to return to their membership without any offers to present.
“The Mayor said she was going to help us, but during the meeting she seemed more interested in her phone than in what we were saying,” said POTA board member Jorge Esparza.
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We need folks with cars to volunteer to shuttle people from West Oakland BART from 4:30am to 5:30am. This job pays in coffee, perhaps donuts, but mostly satisfaction that you are lending needed material support to some really inspiring workers!
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Excellent article on the Port Truckers’ situation by Dave Firestein: “Tired of Carrying the Load.”
Now the time has come to fight back. This Wednesday, the truckers are taking the last action available to them. They are putting their bodies on the line and risking their livelihoods to get the attention of the Port the only way they can. If you can get to the port on Wednesday morning to help support their lines, that will be helpful. Whether or not you can make it to the pickets, please give what you can to the strike fund. Every dollar helps, but it’s gonna take a lot more dollars than what they have now in order to sustain a lengthy strike, should one happen.
Leafleting ALL DAY: 6 am – 7 pm
Mobilizations at 7 am, noon, and 5 pm
OAKLAND AIRPORT FOOD AND RETAIL WORKERS ARE STANDING UP FOR THEIR JOBS, THEIR RIGHTS AND THEIR FAMILIES! ON THE BUSIEST TRAVEL DAY OF THE YEAR, STAND WITH THEM!
RIDES AVAILABLE FROM ILWU Local 6, 99 Hegenberger, beginning 20 minutes before each mobilization. Call Sarah Norr at 510-502-5344 if you arrive and don’t see a shuttle.
Part of the ReFund Oakland Coalition’s Week of Action: A Hand Up for Workers, not Handouts for Corporations!
In the old days, workers were thankful to have a good union job in food service at the Oakland Airport. But now their employer, HMS Host, is going backwards in negotiations and proposing a contract would plunge many of the workers’ families into poverty. The proposal would slash vacation and sick days; eliminate pensions, paid meal breaks, and even overtime pay on shifts longer than eight hours; cut pay for new hires and freeze longtime workers’ wages for five years; and take away workers’ affordable health insurance plan.
“Host is going so far backwards in bargaining that now they say they want to charge me $899 a month for Kaiser for my family. I only make $12.64 an hour – if I pay that much for health care, how can I pay rent in the Bay Area?” said Monica Guzman, who’s been a retail clerk at the airport for 21 years.
On the day before Thanksgiving – the busiest travel day of the year – join the workers for a daylong action at the Oakland Airport. Mobilizations and picketing are at 7 am, 12 noon, and 5 pm – or come by and help leaflet any time. For questions or rides, contact Sarah Norr at snorr@unitehere.org or 510-502-5344.
(Last Thursday, the airport workers announced plans to go on strike sometime during this holiday season to protest Host’s Unfair Labor Practices. The strike date has not yet been announced.)
Airport workers are part of a growing national movement of low-wage workers standing up for their rights! This action is part of a Week of Action sponsored by the ReFund & ReBuild Oakland Community-Labor Coalition (ACCE, EBASE, the East Bay Organizing Committee, UNITE-HERE Local 2850, OUR WALMART, SEIU 1021, & SEIU ULTCW).
Also on Wednesday the 27th, join our friends at OURWalmart for a community action calling for reinstatement for fired strikers, respect at Walmart, a $25,000 a year salary and full-time hours. 9 am at 44009 Osgood Road, Fremont. Spend your whole day standing up for worker justice!
In solidarity,
UNITE HERE Local 2850
www.facebook.com/UniteHere2850
www.unitehere2850.org
UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612, Tel. 510-893-3181, Fax 510-893-5362
Friday, November 29th:
9am – Morning Meeting/Workshop announcements and proposals – The Amphitheatre
10am – 3pm – Workshops.
11am – CopWatch – The Cove
1pm – Worker organizing and class struggle in the Bay Area – IWW – The Amphitheatre
3pm – Direct Action Training – The High Road
4pm – Art Tour of the Bulb. Featuring Amber and Osha. Explore the art and history of the Bulb with two seasoned guides. – Meet at the Cove
5pm- Music by DJ Neon Leon – The Cove
6pm- Music by Woodspider – The Cove
7pm – Bum’s Paradise Film Screening. (The story of people living on the Bulb before and during the eviction in 1999). – The Cove
Solidarity Potluck: 12:00 noon and 4:00 PM.
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| The Albany Bulbhttps://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=albany+bulb&fb=1&gl=us&hq=the+albany+bulb&cid=5591627028123502950&ei=GSCVUqXRIa7nigKBl4DACw&ved=0CJ8BEPwS | |
| Event Type: | Protest |
| Come join us for The No Thanks Resistance Festival and three day Camp-out to defend the Albany Bulb from Eviction! See the Flyer for the schedule of events! Schedule updated to the event page tonight!FB Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/events/405870986212443/
FB Event Page for the No Thanks Anti-Colonial Potluck – http://www.facebook.com/events/547036912048234/ FB Event Page for the Artwalk of Friday and Saturday! – http://www.facebook.com/events/587362084664394/
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Thursday, November 28th:
4pm – No Thanks Anti-colonial potluck feast. – The Beachfront/Entrance Aka The Cove
5 pm discussion on Post-Colonialism and Autonomy – The Cove
7pm – Buried Voices Film Screening. (Details struggles of Ohlone and Miwok peoples regarding sacred sites). – The Cove
Each day will conclude with a campout on the Bulb. Bring water, warm clothing, tents, and camping gear. Potlucks will take place on Friday – Sunday at 12pm and 4pm.
| Title: | No Thanks Resistance Festival this weekend at the albany bulb! |
| START DATE: | Thursday November 28 |
| TIME: | 4:00 PM – 4:00 PM |
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| The Albany Bulb https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=albany+bulb&fb=1&gl=us&hq=the+albany+bulb&cid=5591627028123502950&ei=GSCVUqXRIa7nigKBl4DACw&ved=0CJ8BEPwS | |
| Event Type: | Protest |
| Come join us for The No Thanks Resistance Festival and three day Camp-out to defend the Albany Bulb from Eviction! See the Flyer for the schedule of events! Schedule updated to the event page tonight!FB Event Page – http://www.facebook.com/events/405870986212443/FB Event Page for the No Thanks Anti-Colonial Potluck – http://www.facebook.com/events/547036912048234/
FB Event Page for the Artwalk of Friday and Saturday! – http://www.facebook.com/events/587362084664394/ Existing workshops include: Know your rights training – Labor, the Working Class, and Housing – Towards An Ecological General Strike – Tarsands Blockade – Direct Action Training – The IWW EUC, The BLF Green Bans, and Working Class Strategies to Halt Gentrification and Ecological Destruction – ect. Please forward to anyone or organizations you think would be interested! For more information about the struggle to save the Albany Bulb visit us at: http://www.facebook.com/ShareTheBulb or http://www.sharethebulb.org! |
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Provided gratis by Food Not Bombs, in cooperation with the Berkeley Post Office Defenders. All are welcome!