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Join the Coalition against Urban Shield for a Press Conference at 4:00 PM and immediately afterwards a Rally. Tell the Marriott we don’t appreciate their holding the Urban Shield Conference, an event which glorifies the militarization of police. Let Oakland and Oakland’s politicians know that in light of events in Ferguson, there is absolutely no excuse to arm the police with the weapons of war.
Join us in commemorating the suspension of the largest hunger strike in U.S. history-begun on July 8, 2013 by over 30,000 people.
At great cost to their health, dozens of incarcerated people in CA fasted nonviolently for 60 days, ending on September 5, 2013.
The 2013 hunger strike-the third since 2011-aimed to win 5 demands and end CA’s arbitrary and inhumane policy of isolating individuals in solitary confinement indefinitely- based on mere association without regard to actual conduct.
Food at 1:00 PM.
RSVP: bit.ly/RSVPSept6
Carpooling arranged from:
Southern CA (714) 290-9077
Northern CA PeoplesARC@gmail.com / (707)442-7465
Santa Cruz tashnguyen@gmail.com / (408) 499-7912
Speakers: Anita Wills, Chris Kinder, Carol Denney and Mansour Id-Deen.
Sponsored by the Peace and Freedom Party.
Oakland Nights Live will be having our next show a week from Saturday.
It will be the 1st part of a 2 month series covering the Oakland mayor’s race.
WHO:
BRYAN PARKER – bryanparker.org
JOE TUMAN – joetuman.com
EINSTEIN – einsteinforoakland.org
Report from the frontlines of the Ferguson rebellion.
Making plans for a massive demonstration on October 22nd in Oakland.
Trial is scheduled Monday – Thursday.
One writeup from 2006:
Kahlil Sullivan hasn’t had time to do much lately other than plan for his younger brother’s funeral. He hasn’t even had time to find out exactly why his brother is dead.
“We feel like we’re lost,” he said over the phone a week after his cornered and unarmed brother was shot and killed by the San Francisco Police Department.
The cops have offered two stories as to why officers fired a still-undisclosed number of bullets into the body of Asa Sullivan on June 6. And neither one seems to make much sense or explain why they shot Sullivan.
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Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!
To honor Thursdays non-violent direct action at Kinder Morgan, Occupy Forum presents the film:
Just Do It.
This Thursday, more than a dozen Bay Area citizens (our comrades from Sunflower Alliance, OccupyOakland, and others in this affinity group) chained themselves to a gate at the Kinder Morgan rail terminal in Richmond to stop operations. The citizens risked arrest to protest mile-long oil trains that threaten the safety of area residents and are a massive new source of air and carbon pollution in the region.
Among the demonstrators were residents of Richmond, Rodeo, Martinez, and Benicia, all towns that currently see dangerous oil trains moving through residential areas. Earlier this year the regional air quality agency, known as the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, changed an existing permit to allow oil trains at the rail facility. Demonstrators contend that the agency broke the law when it modified the existing permit without additional environmental and safety review. “Bomb Trains” are an environmental justice issue, a climate issue, and one of the most reckless, heedless gambits Big Oil has thrown our way.
In honor of our sisters and brothers who are leading the way for us all in the Bay Area and around the country, OccupyForum will screen the film “Just Do It – A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws” by Emily James. The documentary follows climate activists as they blockade factories, attack coal power stations and glue themselves to the trading floors of international banks despite the very real threat of arrest and abuse. It seems the time has come for everyone who can muster up the courage to put our bodies on the line.
Discussion and Announcements will follow.
link to video of our comrades locking down to the gate at Kinder Morgan
On September 10th, sites across the web will display an alert with a symbolic “loading” symbol (the proverbial “spinning wheel of death”) and promote a call to action for users to push comments to the FCC, Congress, and the White House. Note: none of these tools actually slow your site down; they tell your visitors about the issue and ask them to contact lawmakers.
How to participate:
- Do have a website or blog? Get the code, and run it all day on September 10th.
- Know anyone with a popular iPhone or Android app? Ask them to send a push notification.
- Is social media your biggest audience? Change your avatar to a spinning wheel of death. Or share these images on Facebook.
Be creative! Grab peoples’ attention with a loading symbol, and link to tools for emailing and calling lawmakers (e.g. battleforthenet.com). Whatever you decide, tell us you’re participating, announce it publicly, and commit to getting *one* person or company with a *bigger* reach than you to join in as well. Got a question? Contact us.
Let’s fill the room and make sure the Ordinance – more than a year after it was proposed – gets passed! It will rezone the downtown Historic District to prevent usages of the buildings or land for other than civic purposes, thereby rendering a sale of the Post Office or the other historic buildings around the downtown park to a developer not worth it to the developer, who won’t be able to build a twenty story office building with a McDonald’s at street level.
Come lend your support and speak about preserving the public commons!
If you have never come before, come and get involved!
If you have been participating, come and get re-energized!
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Although we have made tremendous gains, the fight is not over. We are still fighting for the college we want and the college all of our students deserve. We agree with the City Attorney who says that the issue at City College is the principle of open access education for all versus success for a few.
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COME TO HEAR UPDATES
Restoration, the legal suit, Board of Trustee status and elections, etc.
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COME TO SET DIRECTION AND PLAN ACTIONS
To influence the BOT race, to lobby the Board of Governors to bring back our democratically elected BOT, etc. etc
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COME TO HELP SAVE OUR CITY COLLEGE
Keep our college a community college!
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AGENDA
5:00 – 5:30 pm
Short history and where we are at this point
5:30 � 6:00 pm
Reports from students, lobby committee, etc.
6:00 � 6:15 pm
Entertaining skit
6:15 – 6:45
Brainstorming for activities of Coalition for Fall and beyond.
6:45 – 7:15
Discussion of Coalition structure.
7:15 – 7:30
Announcements and wrap up.
7:45 � 8:00 pm
Slide show
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The purpose of our tour is to generate audiences under one roof that want to get big $$$ out of politics with folks that want to reboot America led by renewables with those wiped out thanks to ’08.
Following is a brief description of the film:
Patrick Lovell is an accidental filmmaker/activist. Lovell was in the midst of living his American Dream when suddenly his world caved in. The Lovell’s would find themselves in the midst of the collapse of Americas middle class and like millions would eventually lose their home to foreclosure. Patrick figured out a way to make a film using his story as the entry point to broader truth that America is no longer a Democracy, that free markets have been overrun by global monopolies and the American Dream is Dead! Lovell crisscrossed the country surfing the Occupy Wall Street Wave to discover America is corrupt, defunct and unsustainable, but more importantly, how we can turn the tables on the dark forces that are undermining the American ideal to reboot the American Dream.
Starring Bernie Sanders, Van Jones, James Hansen, Jeremy Rifkin, Mary Boyle, Jeffry Sachs, Music by Michael Franti and a slew of ordinary Americans rising becoming extraordinary. �
Here’s some recent radio:
http://kboo.fm/content/forward13wakinguptheamericandreamadocumentaryaboutfo
Here’s some national TV interviews:
http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/waking-up-the-american-dream-226604099690
Mortgage Crisis Gets Personal <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctr77TgXVTo>
Berkeley in the Sixties” is kicking off the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement this week at the Pacific Film Archive.
Veterans of the Free Speech Movement will be there.
Oakland California, to Ferguson, Missouri
FUCK THE POLICE MARCH
Wear all Black
Ferguson, Missouri.
To the good people of Ferguson, resisting fascism – and taking your streets: You are not alone. We will continue to take the streets here in Oakland in solidarity!
On August 31st, @LostVoices14 found a noose hanging in the Ferguson camp, showing the KKK are alive & well.
(video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWiUqcSWD_c)
We will take the streets behind an Anti-Fascist banner. We will march against the fascism of racist police forces everywhere, and the racists they empower. KKK impunity ends with the barbaric acts of Aug 31 and the finding of a hanging noose.
Oakland California!
The time has come for more than state justice for these atrocities. The time has come to draw a line in the sand and say “no more racist police killings or beatings.”
Newly awoken resistance groups across the USA, Anonymous, Occupy alumni, East Bay radicals, and many others are drawing a line in the sand that runs right down the middle of Main Street in Ferguson, Missouri. We will no longer watch the powerful oppress the downtrodden without letting our anger sing. We are simply defending ourselves and our sisters and brothers against racism and abuse of power.
Feed each other, keep each other safe – and stay in the streets until we are totally victorious in all our demands!
Rising Tide co-founder, environmental campaigner and
renowned author George Marshall will talk about his new book
“Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to
Ignore Climate Change”
It’ll be right before the climate march in NYC and our solidarity actions in the East Bay and SF, and we expect lively conversation about dynamics in the movements to address climate change and climate justice.
RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1462038400737108/
DONATIONS: $5-15 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
This event is a Rising Tide production.
About the book:
Why, even with overwhelming scientific evidence, do most people still not feel or accept the full threat of climate change – or even talk about it?
What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? In this groundbreaking and engaging look at one of the most important issues facing us today, George Marshall, world renowned for his work on the psychology of climate change denial, shows that even when we accept that climate change is a dire problem, our human brains are wired to ignore it and argues that we can overcome this.
With engaging stories and drawing on years of his own research, Marshall confirms that humans are wired to respond strongest to threats that are visible, immediate, have historical precedent, have direct personal impact, and are caused by an “enemy.” Climate change is none of these – it’s invisible, unprecedented, drawn out, impacts us indirectly, and is caused by us. Taking the reader deep into our evolutionary origins, Marshall argues that once we understand what excites, threatens, and motivates us, we can rethink and reimagine climate change. In the end, his book is both about climate change and about the qualities that make us human: our limitations, our strengths, and how we can grow as we deal with the greatest challenge we have ever faced.
Interfaith prayer meeting for healing, dedicated to the survivors and victims of violence and police brutality in Oakland.
We are organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.
Please feel free to bring quotes or passages to share
All are welcome
We will serve simple breakfast.
Film and Speaker:
The Ghosts of Jeju
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The Ghosts of Jeju is an award-winning documentary directed by Regis Trembly about the struggle of the people of Jeju Island, South Korea. Set in the context of the American presence in Korea after World War II, the film reveals horrible atrocities at the hands of the U.S. Military Government of Korea. Jeju Island is off South Korea and has three International Heritage Sites.The United States is building a huge Naval Base on the island. The film describes the brave, peaceful resistance of the indigenous people to the base today and the history of the genocide of native people during the “Korean War.” The spirit of the villagers and those who have joined their resistance movement is inspiring.
Using previously secret and classified photos, film and documents, this is the first English-language documentary about the struggle of the brave people of Gangjeong Village who are opposing the military advance of the United States, just as their parents and relatives did in 1947. As then, they are being arrested, jailed, fined, and hospitalized for resisting the construction of a massive naval base that will accommodate America’s “pacific pivot” and will destroy their 400 year old village and their UNESCO-protected environment.
The United States is a war-based economy and has been one since WW I and reconfirmed by WW II, the Korean War, the Vietnam wars and up to, and including the Gulf War in Iraq and the Afghanistan War. Sadly, the vast majority of Americans have been conditioned to accept our serial wars and to “Support Our Troops” without questioning.
Our speaker has previously spoken OccupyForum. Discussion and announcements will follow. Donations accepted; no one turned away.
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/64077154
Background: http://subversivepeacemaking.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-ghosts-of-jeju.html
On this day 3 Years after the birth of Occupy Wall Street we welcome all of those who participated in OWS and those are or may be interested in joining/rejoining the movement.
During this time of our anniversary we also welcome people and group to mix, mingle, network and build/rebuild relationships that may have been lost due to time or to start new ones that will help re-build community and connect to one another on deeper levels.
Schedule of events at Zuccotti Park.
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee is having a rally at Oakland City Hall on the 17th.
There will be first person report backs from Ferguson, including one from Nadia Kayali, a lawyer with the EFF.
There will be a handful of speakers followed by music from a PA and food and an opportunity for people circulating in parallel, yet disconnected, circles to meet one another and expand the organizing potential across the greater Bay Area.