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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, … Continued

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. … Continued

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 … Continued

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!48938

The UC raided and bulldozed the farm we worked so hard to till and plant last weekend, plowing all of our starts under. So we’re going to replant it. Meet at 11 AM on Saturday, and bring gardening tools, gloves, sunscreen, water bottles, sleeping bag and tent. If you can’t come on Saturday, please come Sunday at 11 am. Folks are gathering at San Pablo & Monroe in Albany, CA at 11 AM on Saturday, May 18th to replant.  Bring tools & food to share. There may be more information … Continued

Members of Gays Without Borders and the Bradley Manning Support Network are organizing a rally and speak out for this year’s edition of International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Friday, May 17th in San Francisco, CA. IDAHO is an annual event marking the day the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its classification of diseases in 1990. What: IDAHO Rally Why: Declare Bradley Manning the People’s Grand Marshal of SF Pride The reason why Gays Without Borders is proudly partnering with the Bradley Manning Support Network for the rally … Continued

Protest at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Conference Sunday, May 19, 2013 11:30am-5:30pm Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco   http://occupypsychiatry.net/occupyapa2013/130513OccupyAPANewsRelease.pdf   CONTACTS: Matthew Morrissey   (415) 722-6317   mattmorr21@yahoo.com Jim Gottstein   (907) 274-7686   jim.gottstein@psychrights.org American Psychiatric Association Protest May 19, 2013 — San Francisco FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2013 On May 19th, MindFreedom International, the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®), and the California Client Action Workgroup, organized under the Occupy Psychiatry banner, will protest of the American Psychiatric Association’s 2013 Annual Conference at the Moscone Center, 747 … Continued

Members of the SF Commune and Students at San Francisco State University are calling for a direct action at 2PM on Tuesday, May 21st. Organizers say that the action, which will take place on Malcom X Plaza on the SF State campus, is a response to the brutalization and detainment of five individuals who were arrested while visiting students in the SF State dorms on Thursday evening. More information, photos, video via Political Fail Blog.49486

See poster and FB page here. Main Facebook page here.48723

A Film by Darryl Cherney and Mary Laz Thomson. Free Outdoors Event/Action.48939

Rally & March. Poster and Facebook page. Main Facebook page.48724

Stockton Courthouse 222 Weber St. @ 2pm BUS FROM Oscar Grant Plaza TO STOCKTON AT 12:00 NOON (get there early) Facebook page50051