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Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford & SEIU pickets at the Eastmont Mall in support of SEIU civilian workers inside OPD and for civilianization and Internal Affairs reforms. OPD is around the back of the mall. You can enter the parking lot from Foothill.51766

Pickets at City Hall and the other City administration buildings around OGP begin at 6:00 AM.51767

Major rally at Oscar Grant Plaza with speakers including elected officials, religious and community leaders, BART & City of Oakland workers. SEIU strike calendar51765

Government Surveillance: Panel & Film Screening From Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers in 1971 to Edward Snowden’s NSA bombshell in 2013, whistleblowers have risked everything to leak dangerous government secrets. Explore Government Secrecy, Privacy, and Surveillance with us at The New Parkway Theater next Wednesday, July 31, for an evening panel and film screening. Panel discussion featuring: Nicole A. Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California Cindy Cohn, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation Judith Ehrlich, Director, Writer, Producer, The Most Dangerous Man in America Moderated by Declan … Continued

Worker’s General Assembly tomorrow after we support SEIU’s actions. Reference tweet51764

Hear Sara Flounders, author of War Without Victory – The Pentagon’s Achilles Heel, Co-Director of the International Action Center and Workers World Party Secretariat, discuss: * What is imperialism? * Why must the working class break with its own ruling class on the question of imperialist war * How do internationalism and solidarity strengthen the worldwide class struggle? Facebook event & RSVP51763

The politics of debt will continue to meet on Mondays at 7:00pm in the public school space (2141 Broadway, Downtown Oakland). The class is going to go back to a biweekly format to slow down and treat the text and topic carefully, or, to give more time for reading. We’ve had some lively discussions about David Graeber and Marizzio Lazzarato’s differing approaches to debt, economics, and politics that are never short on commentary! Don’t miss out on the chance to learn from each other on perhaps the most important topic … Continued

The first meeting took place on Saturday before the SEIU City workers went on strike for Monday. Come and find out what is what and talk about next steps.51778

Join us for the 1st Annual Declaration of Independence Protest Party at People’s Park in Berkeley, California, to show your support for the fight for restoring America. This event is designed to show that protest is patriotic and that the people coming together in unity can bring about effective change that’s needed right now instead of waiting on a government that has been polarized by the corruption from lobbyists and wall streets’ too big to fail banks. This event is a celebration of freedom with dance, music, food and the … Continued

It takes a lot of courage for non-union, low-wage workers to go on strike – especially when their co-workers have been fired for organizing. The workers are ready, but they need your support! Please join us on the 5th and 14th and support these courageous worker leaders! Non-Union Airport Fast Food Workers Ready to STRIKE! Strike Build-Up Actions at Oakland Airport Terminal 2: Friday, 7/5: 11:30 am -1:30 pm. Sunday, 7/14: 7 am, noon, 5 pm. It’s going to be a hot summer: as East Bay public workers struggle for … Continued

Brought to you again by Fresh Juice Party. Check out their previous artwork. What new beautiful design will be etched in chalk at OGP this time? Come find out and help out.51792

The Interfaith Tent will once again be handing out fliers, talking with people, and reading the names of those killed by police on July 5th @ OPD Headquarters on 7th and Broadway. A group of us walked from the police station up Broadway and Telegraph, talking with people as we went. That was very effective. Our “Stop Police Violence” signs made people want to talk with us.51517

Join Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition members and Prison Hunger Strike Solidarity supporters calling attention to injustice both within prison walls and on the outside. The SHU (Solitary Holding Unit) mockup is rumored to be making another appearance. Come check it all out!51777

How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence. A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.” Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia. 50057

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

How Philadephia’s police and DA actively manufactured Mumia’s guilt and suppressed his innocence. A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of “Mumia, Long Distance Revolutionary.” Speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, and a member of Mumia’s family Sponsors: Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Oakland Teachers for Mumia. 50058

Coffee Not Cops- Coffee & Snacks and Outreach in support of the Prisoner Hunger Strikers. More info about the Hunger Strike. Website for the Prisoner Hunger Strike supporters.51789

More info on hunger strike.51790

Final planning meeting for the Statewide March Against Police Brutality. 51793

Memorial services will be held for Jodie Randolph on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 11 a.m. at First African Methodist Episcopal Church. There will be a viewing/quiet time between 9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on the same date. For more on Jodie Randolph and the fight to save her house by the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group: With Heavy Hearts… We Can No Longer #defendjodie. OOFDG webpage. 51825

Showing are at the Grand Lake Theatre. Showtimes are 1:00 PM, 3:30 PM, 6:00 PM, 8:15 PM and 10:30 PM. The Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition may be handing out literature as later showings end.51829

In 2011, over 12,000 prisoners and their family and community members participated in statewide hunger strikes protesting the inhumane conditions in California’s Security Housing Units (SHU or solitary confinement). California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation promised meaningful reform as a result of those protests, but nothing meaningful has reached the people living in these cages. Prisoners have announced another hunger strike will begin July 8th because of CDCR’s failure to fulfill that promise. On July 8, prisoners living in the SHUs at Pelican Bay and other prisons will resume their … Continued

We are beginning a FACTS and LIES campaign to educate Oakland about the truth of what happened to Alan Blueford and the lies OPD and the DA promulgated and continue to promulgate. We are supporting the California prisoners’ hunger strike. Go to the rally (buses leave from McArthur Bart at 9:00 AM) but if you can’t make it come to our meeting! We are participating in the Rally against police violence: One Year After Anaheim on July 21st. We are discussing how we can aide other families who are victims … Continued

The press has been overflowing with reports on exploding student debt, and the payday lending industry is under increasing public scrutiny. Let’s take this momentum and radicalize it! Join Strike Debt Bay Area on Saturday July 13th for our next meeting. We will be discussing – A series of solidarity actions with the US Postal Service and Save the Berkeley Post Office Coalition. (See more info here and here for our Big Event). Hopefully to eventuate in public/postal banking!!!! – Campus organizing for the fall (UC Berkeley, Laney, CCSF, SF … Continued

Occupy Oakland ‏@OccupyOakland 16m #hoodiesup. OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie. OccupythePort ‏@occupytheport 13m #OGP @ 10 pm tonight. Bring ur hoodie. #hoodiesup OccupythePort ‏@occupytheport 13m Call has gone out in#Oakland: Meet 10PM at #OGP. Bring your hoodies. #JusticeForTrayvon51865

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, Oakland47972

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

INVASION BIOLOGY OR INTEGRATION BIOLOGY? Who is behind the deforestation and pesticiding of the East Bay Hills, from Richmond to Hayward?   **Slideshow with narration, followed by discussion** DAVID THEODOROPOULOS Conservation Biologist and Author: Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience + Update from Save Mt. Sutro Forest SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013, 6:30PM (doors open 6PM) Historic Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar (one block east of MLK, Jr. Way), Berkeley, California Hear about Invasion Biology from a different perspective of non-native species, based on Evolutionary Biology, and find … Continued

Public Banking: A Sustainable Solution to Problems Caused by Private Bankers Private banks are destroying our communities by funneling public funds out through a pipeline of rigged swap deals, municipal bonds, and pension investments. Schools in Oakland are shut down, while banks continue to be paid nearly 20% of the city’s operating budget in interest and fees. UC students are forced to pay ever higher tuition, while the banks are collecting $10 million a year from the UC. These private banking behemoths must be stopped. By arguing that they are … Continued

If you are part of that side which upholds the right of the Trayvon’s of this world to live and have justice, YOU MUST ACT NOW. The racial profiling that led to the murder of Trayvon and has so many Black and Latino youth facing lives of going into and out of prison must be taken on and stopped. As Zimmerman walks free again, it is like a declaration of Open Season on Black youth! This is unacceptable and must not be allowed to go down without determined mass resistance. … Continued

This class is discussing some theories of debt. We are reading recent texts that treat the creditor/debtor relationship as vital to social systems. The concept of Debt will be explored in historical, ethical, economic, and political contexts, including how it effects people today. All are welcome. More info. Location map. The entrance is on 22nd St. 51779

July 16, 2013 will mark the two year anniversary of the murder of Kenneth Harding Jr. who was murdered by San Francisco police at the age of nineteen for allegedly failing to pay a $2.00 transit fare. While the family still awaits information for an investigation of the police; the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation would like to call upon everyone to come together in solidarity to support a transit shut down against the San Francisco Municipal Transit. MUNI Transit has to take responsibility for their role in this horrific murder. … Continued

Tuesday, July 16, 5:30PM, City Council Meeting Council is seeking to pass a resolution to administer a $2 million payout to major defense contractor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) for needed software and infrastructure to integrate “Phase 2” of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) a mass centralized virtual data center for intelligence gathering in Oakland. If this gross violation of privacy has you concerned come out and voice your opinion on Big Oakland Brother the DAC to the Council. http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center Sign up to speak against increased government surveillance, Item 7.19: … Continued

Andres Thomas Conteris, CloseGitmo.net – Stop U.S. Torture in Gitmo and U.S. Prisons; Director, Program of the Americans of Nonviolence International — recently interviewed hunger strikers in Pelican Bay SHU Steven Czifra is a UC Berkeley student who spent a total of eight years in solitary confinement, including five in the Pelican Bay SHU. Along with other UC students and professors, he is taking part in a rolling solidarity fast in support of the prisoners and their demands. Larry Everest, covers the prisoner hunger strikes for Revolution newspaper and is … Continued

Who Owns Our Post Offices, and Who Sells Them While the Nation Sleeps? with Dr. Gray Brechin and Attorney Adam Ford Dr. Gray Brechin will update us on saving magnificent buildings, unique art works, and the postal system itself that Americans are now losing to privatization. National Post Office Collaborate attorney Adam Ford is part of the litigation team working to protect the Berkeley Post Office. Mr. Ford will give us information on the progress of the case. This event is a benefit to support the legal action by the … Continued

Hunger Strike Movie Night @ The Holdout Prisoners Hunger Strike Solidarity. Event link51985

Last night 8 year old Alaysha #Carradine was at Khamel Hardin’s apartment at a #sleepover for his age 7 daughter and 4 year old son along with his 64 year old grandmother when at 11pm a maniac opened fire on their apartment wounding the others and #killing #Alaysha. She becomes the 54th person to be murdered in #Oakland this year. Source. There is a rally for her at 6:30pm today, 3400 Wilson Ave, West Oakland. 52008

ONYX, Justice 4 Alan Blueford, Advance the Struggle, People’s Community Medics and the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation are calling for a rally, march and vigil on Friday at 6 pm. ALL OUT FOR ALL OUR BABIES will honor all of the young black and brown men and women killed as a result of state sponsored terrorism. Facebook event info and RSVP. 51980

The fight to get justice for Trayvon Martin continues! Al Sharpton’s National Action Network is organizing actions in over 130 cities across the country this Saturday to demand that the Department of Justice prosecute George Zimmerman for violating Trayvon Martin’s civil rights. The rally in San Francisco will be at 9am this Saturday at the federal building. While we stand in San Francisco, Trayvon Martin’s parents and many others will stand in New York and Miami and all across the country. Stand with them, and join us as we add … Continued

Thursday, July 18, 2013 (New York, NY)—Trayvon Martin’s parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin will stand with Rev. Al Sharpton and National Action Network for the “Justice for Trayvon” 100 city vigils this Saturday, July 20th. Sybrina Fulton and her surviving son Jahvaris Fulton will stand with Rev. Al Sharpton and NAN at One Police Plaza at Noon in New York, while Trayvon’s father Tracy Martin will join NAN’s Southeast Regional Chairman and Florida chapter a the Miami location for the “100-city Justice for Trayvon” vigil. In over one hundred … Continued

Marissa Alexander, mother of 3, was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, after firing a single warning shot into the wall to stop her husband from attacking her. She was prosecuted by the same attorney that initially refused to prosecute the murderer of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and was ironically denied protection under the Stand Your Ground law because she didn’t run away, but stood her ground instead. It’s not just Florida, it’s everywhere in America. The foundations of these systems that govern are bigoted; they are built … Continued

Let’s return to Wells Fargo CEO/President’s $5 million penthouse home to let him know that if our friends can’t go home due to Wells Fargo evictions, then he shouldn’t be able to go home either. Facebook event & RSVP. The Occupy the Auctions / Evictions campaign demands an immediate bank moratorium on all predatory or for-profit evictions or foreclosures of the 99% and a halt to all for-profit foreclosure auctions and evictions.52012

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

Come help out!52040

Austerity and greed have come together to make the sale of the Berkeley Post Office to private concerns imminent. A mass meeting of our community: – To update everyone on appeals & legal challenges to Stop the Sale – To organize for the July 27th Rally in direct defense of our historic Post Office (Location is near Ace Hardware and 2 blocks from Downtown Berkeley BART) We need your help to organize! We need your presence at the rally and defense! Sponsored by Save the Berkeley Post Office & Strike … Continued

Speakers: Michael Thurman of Courage to Resist, Elazar Friedman of the Oscar Grant Committee. Discussion: The importance of Bradley Manning’s and Julian Assange’s cases. Updates, film clips. The need for a united front. Comparison of charges of treason to US corporate elite’s wartime trading with Nazi Germany. Q&A with extensive audience participation.51872

July 24, 2008 marks the last minimum wage increase in California. While the cost of our basic needs–rent, groceries, healthcare, daycare, and gas–continue to increase, the minimum wage has remained at $8/hr for 5 years! The City of Berkeley is considering a city-wide minimum wage increase, but opponents say that Berkeley workers don’t need a wage increase, and that those who work in the restaurant industry should be excluded if any increase does take effect. No one who works hard should be living in poverty. We’re fighting to raise the … Continued

On Tuesday, July 30th the Oakland City Council will vote on whether to approve a $2 million dollar appropriation to implement phase 2 of the systems enhancements and integration of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC).  The center will act as a central aggregator for video feeds and real-time data from a number of sources around Oakland with possible components including CCTV feeds, license plate recognition, facial recognition, gait recognition and more, what could possibly go wrong? http://occupyoakland.org/2013/07/stop-the-oakland-dac-surveillance-city-speak-out-at-city-council-tuesday-july-30/ Members of Occupy Oakland and others will meet at the Sudoroom Thursday @ … Continued

Join us for a letter-writing, open mic, and live art night in solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike. Bring your energy and your passion, and use your creativity to help build and grow in power together. Set your words and your vision down on paper in response to issues that affect us on a daily basis: racism, police brutality, and imprisonment of our friends and loved ones. We will be mailing our pieces to prisoners on hunger strike who continue to respond with immense strength and resilience in the … Continued

Come joint us to raise funds for Dr. Alejandro Hurtado, who is studying medicine at the ELAM Medical School in Cuba. The mission of ELAM is to make competent and cooperative doctors with the degree of MD (doctor of medicine), the same degree which is offered to medical graduates all over the Americas. The Latin American School of Medicine is officially recognized by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and the World Health Organization. It is fully accredited by the Medical Board of California, which has the strictest … Continued

It is an “EMERGENCY SITUATION! WE HAVE TO KICK OUR SUPPORT OF THE HUNGER STRIKERS TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL!” Meet us at MacArthur BART at 7:30 am for a day in Sarcramento – Speaking out, leafletting, rallying, banner-ing, and going out to the people. CALL US (510-926-5207). Facebook. Statement by the Hunger Strikers. Greetings of solidarity and respect to all of our supporters, all people of conscience around the world, and all similarly situated prisoners. You should know that once again our peaceful protest is making history, bringing international … Continued

The ONYX Organizing Committee, Advance the Struggle, People’s Community Medics, the Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation, the Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition, Workers World, The Oscar Grant Foundation, Young Oakland, Healthy Hoodz and East Bay ISO call on the people to keep the pressure on the state. Not just for Trayvon but for ALL of the young Black and Brown lives that have been stolen by the state! We Need to STAY in these Streets!!!!! Facebook Event & RSVP.52063

Oscar Grant Committee Forum Series The War on Terror and the Attack on Civil Liberties Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA Friday, July 26, 2013 7 PMThe fraudulent “War on Terror” is linked to heightened domestic police repression and surveillance of millions of US citizens. All this is part of the US Government’s attempt to criminalize social justice activism. The Boston Bombing, and the locking down of an entire city under martial law, will be analyzed in depth as we figure out what’s coming our way in the … Continued

We are beginning a FACTS and LIES campaign to educate Oakland about the truth of what happened to Alan Blueford and the lies OPD and the DA promulgated and continue to promulgate. Perhaps you have seen our WANTED posters about town: We participated in the Rally against police violence: One Year After Anaheim on July 21st. We are supporting the California prisoners’ hunger strike. We are discussing how we can aid other families who are victims of police violence. We are making a difference! We can use all the help … Continued

A Rally in Direct Defense of our Post Office! Facebook event page & RSVP. Our heritage is being auctioned off to privateers, as austerity and Congressional mandates squeeze the US Postal Service to the point of breaking. The same forces that want to privatize Social Security and prisons are now in the process of selling off Post Offices across the United States. Come help save the Berkeley Post Office and send a message across the United States that our Post Offices – jobs, services, buildings and history – are worth … Continued

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, Oakland47972

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

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: It doesn’t rain in Oakland in August or September. OOFDG Website If you would like to help us monetarily with our work. We don’t need much, but we do keep a phone hotline active and do flyers and posters. Any little bit helps. 52046

PhatBeets web site with lots of info. Share your story. Tell us what a safe, healthy, just North Oakland looks like to you. Contact info.51870

• Are you Bogged Down with Debt? • Getting Calls From Debt Collectors? • Having Trouble Paying What you Owe? • Want to Know your Options? 10-11 for English Speakers 11-12 for Spanish Speakers The workshop will include a presentation about different types of debt and information about your options once you’re behind in payments. It will also give time for you to check in and ask questions to advocates and attorneys. Call (510) 548-4064 to Reserve your spot now! 52032

We will be discussing Christian Marazzi’s ‘The Violence of Financial Capitalism’ – first two chapters. I put up a free online version on the class blog. More info. Location map. The entrance is on 22nd St.51982

The City Council is considering whether to appropriate $2 million to implement phase 2 of the systems enhancements and integration of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC). The DAC is a central aggregator for video feeds & real-time data from a number of sources including closed circuit surveillance cameras both private and public, cameras & sensors on buses and BART, as well as at the Port, the Oakland Unified School District, the County Coliseum & Oracle Arena, to say nothing of traffic cameras and CalTrans sources.  This spy center will also … Continued