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February 2014

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						1 Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting 7:00 pm Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition Meeting @ The Alan Blueford Center for Justice Feb 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join us as we start a new year and plan a rally for February 13th demanding that Kamala Harris prosecute Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. Get up-to-date on the civil lawsuit that is proceeding against OPD and the City of Oakland. JAB has denounced the Domain Awareness Center and may have a speaker at the anti-DAC rally on February 4th. Come help us out in the fight for Justice 4 Alan and against police terrorism in general.54739
2	3	4 Open University Teach-in, Meeting via Occupy Cal 1:00 am Open University Teach-in, Meeting via Occupy Cal @ Sproul Plaza, Mario Savio Steps Feb 4 @ 1:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets Join the Open University @ Occupy Cal for our initial meeting of the semester on Monday Feb. 3rd 2014 on the Mario Savio steps. Campaigns: 1) Ax the Regents: The UC Board of Regents is the root of all evil for the UC system. This board consists of 18 members appointed by the state Governor for 12 year terms, 7 Ex Officio members, and 1 Student appointed for 1 year terms. None of the board members are democratically elected and some are/will be on their second 12 year terms if … Continued Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 2:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Feb 4 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which will protect the Post Office against various commercial uses. We need to stay on top of it. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need … Continued	5 DON’T SELL THE PEOPLE OF OAKLAND TO THE DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY! 2:00 am DON’T SELL THE PEOPLE OF OAKLAND TO THE DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY! @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre and City Council chambers Feb 5 @ 2:00 am – 9:30 am Tickets Stop the Domain Awareness Center before it gets built!!! Come on Out to Oscar Grant Plaza and City Council Chambers – Together We Say: DON’T SELL THE PEOPLE OF OAKLAND TO THE DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY! Outside: Feast! Music! Rally! Late Night Films! More. Facebook page & RSVP. Read about the Domain Awareness Center. The Oakland Privacy website. Reference: The DAC FAQ Twitter: @Oaklandprivacy. Also, sign the on line petition to stop the DAC. See Also: The Face of Quan. The Arms of Santana. The Body of OPD. Or, DAC Spelled Correctly is … Continued	6 GENERAL MEETING OF THE SAVE CCSF COALITION 1:00 am GENERAL MEETING OF THE SAVE CCSF COALITION @ Arts 217, CCSF Ocean Campus Feb 6 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am Tickets More info.54770 Strike Debt: Politics of Debt: New Currency Theory and Michael Hudson’s ‘The Bubble and Beyond’ 3:30 am Strike Debt: Politics of Debt: New Currency Theory and Michael Hudson’s ‘The Bubble and Beyond’ @ Public School Space (entrance on 22nd St, use buzzer) Feb 6 @ 3:30 am – 5:00 am Tickets This class will delve into the differences between Modern Monetary Theory and New Currency Theory (only recently devised). Does MMT hold the only solutions for monetary or banking reform? Or is NCT have better options? We’ll read this position paper from the latest Real-World Economics Review to understand the nuances of our debt based financial system: http://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/332386/0/0/www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue66/Huber66.pdf Michael Hudson’s ‘The Bubble and Beyond’ will also be mixed in the discussion. Chapter 3, ‘How Economic Theory Came to Ignore the Role of Debt’ and chapter 6 ‘The Financial Character of Today’s … Continued	7	8
9 Open Day at the Student Organic Garden. 6:00 pm Open Day at the Student Organic Garden. @ Student Organic Garden Feb 9 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Discussion to plan the next steps for Grow the Revolution.54809	10	11 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 2:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office (inside if it is really cold) Feb 11 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions … Continued Silent Protest in Support of Sex Workers Rights 5:30 pm Silent Protest in Support of Sex Workers Rights @ Outside the San Francisco Public Library Feb 11 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Participants will pass out fliers, wearing tape over their mouths to to point out the fact that when violence against sex workers is discussed by “experts” from a prostitution abolitionist perspective, sex worker voices and perspectives are not included. If you want, wear red or bring red umbrella The main goal of this protest is to ask that sex workers are included in the processes that affect us. A seat at the table for sex worker rights advocates Adult consensual sex workers should have a seat at the table when … Continued CODEPINK NSA Team Surveils Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco Home! 8:00 pm CODEPINK NSA Team Surveils Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco Home! @ Feinstein's House, Lyon &`Vallejo Feb 11 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Join the CODEPINK NSA program as we surveill and monitor the house of Senator Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday, February 11th at noon. Bring your surveillance equipment, magnifying glasses, tracking devices and drones as we monitor for any suspicious activities! The protest is being organized in solidarity with the Day We Fight Back day of action! Original IndyBay listing. Facebook event.54773	12	13 Protest Janet Napolitano at her Visit to UC Berkeley 6:00 pm Protest Janet Napolitano at her Visit to UC Berkeley @ Sutardja Dai Hall Feb 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets OBAMA: Pass the DREAM ACT! Spread the word! UC President Janet Napolitano is coming to UC Berkeley Thurs. Feb. 13 to Sutardja Dai Hall. No mass deporter and privatizer as UC President! Protest and make clear that we want the UC Regents to remove Napolitano and replace her with a great educator and champion of public democratic education. UC President Janet Napolitano is making her official campus visit to UC Berkeley on Thurs. Feb. 13. Students and community supporters reject Napolitano as the official head of the UC system and … Continued Kamala Harris: Do Your Job! Prosecute Killer Cops! 11:00 pm Kamala Harris: Do Your Job! Prosecute Killer Cops! @ State Building, behind Oscar Grant Plaza Feb 13 @ 11:00 pm – Feb 14 @ 1:00 am Tickets TELL CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS: PROSECUTE KILLER COPS IT’S YOUR JOB RALLY AND SPEAKOUT 3PM THURSDAY 2/13 1515 CLAY STREET, OAKLAND (STATE BUILDING BEHIND OSCAR GRANT PLAZA) Initiated by the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition. The Justice for Alan Blueford Coalition (JAB) submitted a letter to California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris at the State March Against Police Brutality on October 22, demanding that she do her job and prosecute Miguel Masso for the murder of Alan Blueford. Since then she has responded with a flat refusal to reopen … Continued	14	15 Raise the Minimum Wage to $12.25 with Paid Sick leave. 5:30 pm Raise the Minimum Wage to $12.25 with Paid Sick leave. @ Fruitvale Bart Station Plaza Feb 15 @ 5:30 pm – 11:00 pm Tickets Raise the Minimum Wage to $12.25. It’s time we make Oakland the kind of city that families can afford to put food on the table, keep a roof over our heads, and keep the lights on! Let’s ensure that workers can meet our basic needs. Join ACCE, EBASE, Raise the Wage East Bay, ROC the Bay, SEIU 1021, SEIU ULTCW, UFCW Local 5, and UNITE HERE 2850 to gather signatures for a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage and provide workers with paid sick days. 9:30 AM: Rally. 11:00 … Continued Protest Staples Taking Part in Privatizing the Post Office! 7:00 pm Protest Staples Taking Part in Privatizing the Post Office! @ Downtown Berkeley Staples Store Feb 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The American Postal Workers Union is organizing a protest at the Berkeley Staples store against the installation of Post Office stations inside Staples stores, staffed by low-wage non-union, no-benefit Staples workers instead of unionized Postal Service employees. For more information on APWU’s efforts contact: Rich Shelley @ 443-980-5586 APWU will provide leaflets to hand out. Berkeley Post Office Defenders, organized to defend against the sale of the downtown Berkeley Post Office and call attention to the evils of privatization in general, supports the APWU in its efforts to stop … Continued STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA MEETING: IDEAS INTO ACTION. 11:00 pm STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA MEETING: IDEAS INTO ACTION. @ UC Student-Workers Union (cross street Milvia) Feb 15 @ 11:00 pm – Feb 16 @ 1:30 am Tickets New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals talking about debt! Show up a half hour early at 2:30 PM for an informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com and let us know you’re coming.
16	17 Justice 4 Andy Lopez! – All Out For Andy! 9:30 pm Justice 4 Andy Lopez! – All Out For Andy! @ Old Court House Square Feb 17 @ 9:30 pm – 11:30 pm Tickets Andy’s Youth has decided to call a march demanding that the Santa Rosa Police Dept. show the public their findings and conclusion of The Andy Lopez Investigation. “The People have Lost Confidence, and No Longer Believe, that Jill Ravitch, along with the Sonoma County District Attorneys Office, can, with the Highest Level of Moral and Ethical Standards, Without Bias, and with Full Transparency and Impartiality, conduct any form of investigation. To assume that Jill Ravitch, or the Sonoma County District Attorneys Office can perform their duties, and Prosecute these Killer … Continued	18 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 2:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Feb 18 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against … Continued	19	20 Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. 3:30 am Strike Debt Bay Area Reading Group: Politics of Debt. @ Public School Space (entrance on 22nd St, use buzzer) Feb 20 @ 3:30 am – 5:30 am Tickets For the next Politics of Debt class we will be discussing ideas coming from the American Monetary Institute in Stephen Zarlenga’s brochure and Jamie Walton’s critique of Ellen Brown’s Web of Debt. We’ll try to understand what AMI believes about debt, money, and the Federal Reserve system as well as their proposed solution in monetary reform. Here are the three essays: Zarlenga’s brochure. Monetary reform FAQ. Review of ‘Web of Debt.’ 54831	21	22
23	24 Stop the Drones! Protest, Rally, Talks near Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento. 11:00 pm Stop the Drones! Protest, Rally, Talks near Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento. @ Beale Air Force Base, north of Sacramento Feb 24 @ 11:00 pm – Feb 25 @ 1:00 am Tickets Col. Ann Wright, peace activist “extraordinaire,” coming to Occupy Beale AFB this month. Please join us for one or both days! Together we can stop the War Machine and ground those drones for good! For three years activists have been gathering monthly at Beale AFB, near Marysville, CA. This month Col. (ret.) Ann Wright joins us to protest and will be speaking at several local events. Monday, February 24th Protest/Vigil: 3-5 p.m. at Wheatland Gate, (Intersection of So. Beale Rd. and Ostrom Rd.) 5:30 p.m. Teach-in and Encampment at Main Gate (N. … Continued	25 Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly 2:00 am Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Feb 25 @ 2:00 am – 3:30 am Tickets The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The City Council is on a path to pass some sort of Zoning Overlay which may protect the Post Office against various commercial uses, or be totally ineffective. We need to stay on top of it. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against … Continued	26 Solidarity with Korean General Strike! Hands Off Korean Workers 12:00 am Solidarity with Korean General Strike! Hands Off Korean Workers @ Korean Consulate Feb 26 @ 12:00 am – 1:30 am Tickets Hundreds of thousands of Korean workers are striking F25 to defend the basic right to organize unions and their right to strike. In December some 5000 police were sent to the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions headquarter; 138 unionists were arrested, rail workers were fired upon, and the union was fined millions of dollars for “obstructing business.” We demand: Free all jailed workers. No reprisals, rehired fired workers, drop charges and fines. Stop government repression against unions Defend the right to strike and stop privatizaion. 54908 Oakland Privacy Group: Privacy Policy & Coordination Working Meeting. 3:00 am Oakland Privacy Group: Privacy Policy & Coordination Working Meeting. @ Sudo Room (entrance on 22nd St, buzzer) Feb 26 @ 3:00 am – 4:30 am Tickets On February 26th (6pm-8pm) the City of Oakland will host a session in City Council Chambers for “Public Input to the DAC Privacy Policy Framework.” The Oakland Privacy Working Group will conduct a meeting the day before (Tuesday, February 25th 7pm) at the Sudo Room. If you are an active participant please attend this meeting. We will be discussing and solidifying our overall approach and plan for addressing City Council as one voice. Note: Our regular meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 28th, at 8:30 PM in the same … Continued March on Greed in SF: Housing is a Human Right. 7:30 pm March on Greed in SF: Housing is a Human Right. @ 24th St. BART, SF Feb 26 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets SAN FRANCISCO TENANTS’ GROUPS TO HOLD “MARCH ON GREED” IN PROTEST OF LOCAL LANDLORD AND “SERIAL EVICTOR” San Francisco – Next Wednesday, February 26, a coalition of tenants’ rights activists and and local economic justice groups, led by the rising direct action group Eviction Free San Francisco, will hold a march in protest of a local landlord Kaushik Dattani, who has been receiving increased notoriety as a “serial evictor” due to him recently being added to the “dirty dozen” by the Anti Eviction Mapping Project, for being one of the … Continued	27 Hoodies Up! 2 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin. 12:00 am Hoodies Up! 2 Years Since the Murder of Trayvon Martin. @ Fruitvale Bart Station Plaza Feb 27 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 am Tickets Rally & March. We Aer All Trayvon Martin. The whole Damn System is Guilty. Youth Are Not Suspects, They Are Human Beings. Facebook page & RSVP. The murder of Trayvon Martin was, and still is, a towering outrage. Remember: when the verdict came down many thousands rejected the call for “calm reflection” from Obama and others and took to the streets in outrage. Many more asked: Why does this happen? And, what can we do about it? There is a challenge before us: What kind of world are we going … Continued Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting 4:30 am Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting @ The Sudoroom Feb 27 @ 4:30 am – 5:45 am Tickets NOTE: We are meeting at 8:30 tonight so we can attend the first public meeting on the DAC “privacy” policy. http://oaklandwiki.org/Public_Meeting_on_DAC_Privacy_Policy Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. We aim to have 2 monthly meetings, every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at 6:30 at the SUDOROOM. Stop by and learn how you can help guard Oakland’s right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send … Continued Speak out against a proposed coal export terminal at Jack London Square 11:00 pm Speak out against a proposed coal export terminal at Jack London Square @ Port of Oakland Commissioners' Meeting (2nd floor) Feb 27 @ 11:00 pm – Feb 28 @ 1:00 am Tickets A Kentucky-based company called Bowie Resource Partners wants to turn Oakland’s Jack London Square into a hub for shipping dirty coal to Asia. CREDO activists have helped fight off similar proposals in Oregon and Washington over the past few years, but the coal industry is desperate to ship its dirty product overseas, so it is now targeting California for coal exports. The Port of Oakland’s Board of Commissioners will be discussing the proposal at its meeting on Thursday � and it wants to hear whatt local residents think. Can you … Continued	28

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