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Debtors’ Assembly Saturday! Strike Debt Bay Area Says: “You Are Not a Loan!”

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We came together for the first time on November 15th. Since then we have formed a working committee, an offshoot of the original NYC-based Strike Debt, dubbed Strike Debt Bay Area. Now we’re hosting a Debtors’ Assembly, where we hope people will come together to learn about a debt system that is strangling us; where we will talk about ways to support each other against it; and where we will brainstorm ways to fight it on both local and national levels. It will take place at the way cool Eastside … Continued

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SATURDAY: CHOWCHILLA FREEDOM RALLY

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CHOWCHILLA FREEDOM RALLY Join our statewide mobilization to Chowchilla to protest the unconstitutional overcrowding in California’s women prisons and show our support for our loved ones inside who are struggling to survive as the conditions worsen. As a result of the conversion of Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW), one of the remaining women’s prisons has now reached 179% capacity. A woman recently transferred to CCWF informed us that they were given clothes and bedding that “you wouldn’t want even your dog sleeping on.” Another person confirmed, “Everything we rely on … Continued

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Court Support needed tomorrow January 23rd

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COME SUPPORT ADAM WEATHERS  tomorrow at 9am Dept 11 at Rene C. Davidson courthouse (by the lake). This will be a bail reduction hearing and community support  can play an important factor in the judges decision.   Adam was arrested on J28 in front of the YMCA  with hundreds of other comrades while serving as a medic. He was brutalized by police, including being kicked in the head by his arresting officer. It has long been a practice of OPD to stick those they brutalize most with the most severe … Continued

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This Is What Solidarity Looks Like. Labor, JAB and OOLSC.

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In the wee hours of the cold, wet morning of November 20th, 2012, as a cadre of SEIU Local 1021 workers in Oakland prepared to shut down the Port of Oakland in search of a contract without clawbacks they had been without for more than a year, a man wearing a Justice 4 Alan Blueford T-shirt — who has never been a member of a union — arrived. That man is Adam Blueford, father of Alan Blueford, executed by Oakland Police Officer Miguel Masso on May 6th, 2012. What would … Continued

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Strike Debt Bay Area Says: “You Are Not a Loan!”

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We came together for the first time on November 15th. Since then we have formed a working committee, an offshoot of the original NYC-based Strike Debt, dubbed Bay Area Strike Debt. Now we’re hosting a Debtors’ Assembly, where we hope people will come together to learn about a debt system that is strangling us; where we will talk about ways to support each other against it; and where we will brainstorm ways to fight it on both local and national levels. It will tape place at the way cool Eastside … Continued

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A Trio of Rileys

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Imagine that as a young man you had participated in the lunch-counter protests that catalysed the civil rights movement. Imagine yourself now an esteemed civil rights lawyer, about to emcee an event centered around the murder of a young black man. Imagine that you will be introducing Angela Davis, sixties icon and now crusader against mass incarceration and police violence. Then imagine that thirty minutes before the event is to start, you receive a phone call that your nephew has been arrested, a police officer is wounded, and the officer’s … Continued

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“As a Long Time Resident of Oakland I Feel Personally Responsible for Having Allowed The Police of This City to Continue Their Practices of Racist Violence…”

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Angela Davis spoke to a standing room only crowd at Laney College last night. She was the keynote speaker at Celebrating Alan Blueford & Resisting Police Brutality, organized by the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition and the Laney College Black Student Union. Ms. Davis’ first statement, after an introduction paying homage to Alan Blueford’s short life, was “As a Long Time Resident of Oakland I Feel Personally Responsible for Having Allowed The Police of This City to Continue Their Practices of Racist Violence…” One of the last times Angela Davis … Continued

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SEIU Local 1021 Shut Down Port With OO, J4AB Help, Now Wins Big Contract Victory.

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SEIU Local 1021, consisting of 200+ port workers at the Port of Oakland, had been without a contract for more than a year. The Port’s management had demanded concessions on health care benefits and was proposing other take backs as well, all the while showing massive surpluses while having their executives caught “entertaining” at strip clubs and falsifying the expense reports. The Local decided a couple of months ago that enough was enough (or not enough, as it were). Knowing that their membership wasn’t single-handedly capable of pulling off a … Continued

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Quorum Sunday for Occupy Sandy

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Occupy Oakland Seeking Quorum Sunday for Occupy Sandy Solidarity Efforts Occupy Sandy is a volunteer effort of people from Occupy Wall Street, Interoccupy.net, 350.org, recovers.org, and others who have organized substantial help for victims of the big storm in New York and New Jersey, including providing supplies and helping with cleanup. Thousands of Occupiers have served perhaps 1.5 million meals, even feeding the FEMA workers, filling a void left by government and private charities like the Red Cross. Instead of thanking these volunteers Mayor Bloomberg is threatening to shut down some of these relief efforts. We … Continued

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Help Save the Berkeley Post Office and Stop Privatization of the USPS

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The USPS proposes to sell Berkeley’s beautiful Main Post Office, constructed in 1914. Our grandparents and great-grandparents paid for this building and countless others in this country that are on the USPS hit list. Over 3700 post offices are in danger of sale or closure. The USPS was established by Article I of the Constitution. Benjamin Franklin was our first Postmaster General. Until 1971 the Post Office was under Congress and funded by taxpayers. The media reports that the USPS has defaulted on their annual payments. But no one reports … Continued

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