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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

Town Hall on Drones: Informing Policy in Berkeley.48473

We will be holding a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. We have launched a campaign to convince California Attorney General Kamala Harris to indict officer Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. We kicked it off with a rally on March 5th. We held a solidarity rally against the execution of Kimani Gray in Brooklyn by NYPD and police violence in general. We have issued a Statement of Solidary with the family of Kayla Moore, dead in the custody … Continued

Come to wheel chair accessible door, press intercom for ARC. Near the Lake Merritt BART station. —– Strike Debt Bay Area, loosely affiliated with Strike Debt (check out their latest video) and Occupy, is dedicated to educating people about and organizing resistance to debt, and finding alternatives to our current system of debt slavery. We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February) and debating future actions. Join us! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We will first meet all together and … Continued

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, Oakland47972

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 46745

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

The May 1st march and noise demo for $15/hr was the first step. What’s next? Come help make it happen!49129

We held a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. See photos here. We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted. We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly appointed Compliance Director for the Oakland police, Thomas Frazier. We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims of police violence. We are making a difference! We can use all the help we can get! Come … 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

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, Oakland47972

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 46745

Join us! All Are Welcome! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We are organizing our next Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), scheduled for May 18th in San Francisco, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Unite Here, Local 2, near Civic Center BART, 209 Golden Gate Avenue. We are also planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on … Continued

Held every 2nd & 4th Monday of the month. 5.30pm The Holdout  2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA The Occupy Oakland (OO) Finance Committee works inclusively to make our process transparent, our membership requirements clear, and to develop clear communication and financial reporting available to associated groups and to OO as a whole. Our commitments to Occupy Oakland as a whole: We commit to report back to the GA. We commit to regularly updating our page onoccupyoakland.org with monthly bank statements, meeting notes, summaries of check reimbursements and general OO Finance … Continued

Plan the next steps in the Fight for a $15/hr livable wage in Oakland, our manifestation of a national campaign that has already seen actions in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago and New York City.49283

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

We held a vigil on the evening of May 5th, the one year anniversary of Alan Blueford’s death. See photos here. We are figuring out how to get Miguel Masso, the officer who killed Alan Blueford, fired and prosecuted. In light of the recent upheavals in the Oakland Police Department, we are renewing are calls for the firing of Masso and justice for Alan. We will have held a press conference to this effect on Thursday, May 16th. We are formulating how we should interact with Judge Thelton Henderson’s newly … Continued

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, Oakland47972

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 46745

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

Occupy4Prisoners ‏@Occupy4Prisoner Hey! A bunch of rad folks are having a strategy mtg to discuss supporting people in CA prisons as they prepare to go on hunger strike! (1/2) Occupy4Prisoners ‏@Occupy4Prisoner Hunger strike support mtg: Mon 5/20 6-8p, 499 14th Street, Oak (Siegel & Yee) 49458

Come to the very first session of The Politics of Debt reading group on Monday, May 20th at 6:30! Darwin Bond-Graham will help kick off the discussion and present on public debt as it relates to our personal lives and public institutions. Together we will help shed light on the variety of ways that the debt economy subjects individuals and communities to moral and financial burden. After the initial talk we will break into a general group discussion and lay out the vision for the class. More info.49417

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

A reading group focused on graeber’s Debt. The plan is to have this be a long discussion covering about a chapter a month so that it will be accessible for those with other commitments. We will have our first meeting on Wednesday may 22 at 7pm. We’re meeting at Research on Collective Art at 2331 international Blvd. 49489

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

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, Oakland47972

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 46745

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, Oakland50026

Join us! All Are Welcome! You Are Not a Loan! Or Alone. We held our second Debtor’s Assembly (watch a video from our first one in February), May 18th in San Francisco. We are planning our next general get-together wherein our five current subgroups: Direct Action, Debtor’s Union, Outreach and Education, Alternative Institutions, and Research, will meet, organize, plan and report back. It will be held on June 1, 518 Valencia St, near the Mission St. BART in San Francisco 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. We will be discussing our … Continued

Tasers, spit hoods, pepper spray, hog-tie and “the Wrap” : Is this what Berkeley means by the term “Mental Health Services” ? Numerous incidents in Berkeley show that the “compassionate care” we thought was beging given by mental health care professionals has deteriorated into the systematic use of brute force against those in crisis. SPEAKERS VIDEO CLIPS WORKSHOP Join us for a public examination of Berkeley’s Emergency Mental Health Services and whether Police should even be involved as responders.49427

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