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SEIU Sends Appreciation to Occupy Oakland For Assistance With Port Shutdown!

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Statement from Anna Bakalis, Communications Specialist, SEIU Local 1021 Demanding Retraction of Falsehoods Regarding SEIU’s actions toward Occupy Oakland, and Stating Their Appreciation of Our Efforts. I came across Alan Kurtz’s piece (11/20/12) about how SEIU Local 1021 hired security to keep Occupy folks out. This is simply not true. Our union did not hire “Rent-a-cops.” Since this is a contributor report, I don’t know if you have the same policies as regular media, but this simply must be retracted. Since the WHOLE story is based on this false assumption, … Continued

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Let’s Feast & Occupy the Plaza: 2nd Annual Occupresence Convivial, Nov 22nd

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Please Join us at Oscar Grant Plaza for our 2nd Annual Occupresence Convivial. This will be a day full of delicious foods, entertainment, the return of  “Grateful Mic”, and family fun to help celebrate each other, our friendships, and reaffirm our presence & commitment to community service. Help make Thursday, November 22nd, a fun loving day of gratitude, by sharing and bringing your favorite food dish, music makers and instruments, movies, videos, and anything else that will help make this day memorable for those who normally go without. Bring Friends … Continued

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Pickets Still Needed!!! It’s ALL Shutdown! No Work Happening Today @ Port of Oakland.

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The call is still out to come to the Port to maintain the picket lines and make sure the lines hold from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Here’s how the news first arrived: Mollie @missmollie33 BREAKING NEWS: #PortShutdown #Oakland #N20 report from union worker just now, it’s ALL shutdown, NO WORK is happening! After speaking with her on the phone, she confirms that trucks have started to turn around and leave the port without loading. Shut it down! Haulers lined up with nowhere to go. Here is the SEIU’s very … Continued

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Picket Lines Are Going Up At The Port Of Oakland and the Airport!

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SEIU 1021 Port Workers are Going on Strike against Unfair Labor Practices engaged in by the Port of Oakland. The Port of Oakland has a $37 million surplus, yet refuses to give workers the proper information that they are required to by law. This is one of the richest Port’s in Oakland, the Federal Government has invested in the expansion of the Port to create good jobs in Oakland SEIU was there at the General Strike on November 2nd, 2011. SEIU members walked with Occupy Oakland as we shut down … Continued

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FREE SYD! Wednesday, November 14th at Wiley Manuel Courthouse, Oakland

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Our dear friend Syd from the Holdout was picked up recently by the Oakland Police department on some bullshit charges. His arraignment is this Wednesday, November 14th, at 2:00 pm in Department 112 at Wiley Manuel Courthouse on 7th and Washington street. It would mean a whole lot for as many friends that can come out and support as possible to show up! Fire to the Prisons, Free All Prisoners! 44339

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#defendjodie Update Day 5

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Update Day 5 #defendjodie Nov 09 #defendjodie folks bring food and solidarity to the nearby Nob Hill picket!Updates: Our text alert system continues to grow. It has doubled in size over the last week and a half. We are fielding requests from local papers and blogs for interviews with Jodie, so stay tuned for more media on #defendjodie. Today also was a phone blast day to pressure Morgan Stanley to negotiate with Jodie. Congratulations everybody! When we last checked, John Sheldon’s phoneline at Morgan Stanley/SF shutdown because it was getting … Continued

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#defendjodie: Friday Phone Blast!

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#defendjodie Friday Nov 09 We’ve secured the house and marshalled support. Now we pile the pressure on the banksters attacking Jodie!   Pressure on the corporate offices is a crucial part of forcing them to the negotiating table, of forcing them to treat Jodie like a human being. We are calling on all our supporters today to CALL JOHN SHELDON Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in SF 415.576.2083 Call his office 10 times today! Tie up the lines! Shut his office down until they negotiate with Jodie! a sample script: … Continued

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FIGHT AUSTERITY! UCB Student Walkout 12:00pm PST Thursday, November 8, 2012

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Public education in California is facing a severe crisis. State budget cuts and austerity measures have accelerated administrators’ efforts to privatize our public colleges. This November, UC Regents and CSU Trustees plan to submit our universities to radical, privatizing reforms. Even if Prop. 30 passes, in the best-case scenario, it would only maintain the status quo; meaning excessive fees, under-funded programs, overcrowded classes, layoffs and pay-cuts for campus workers, and an ongoing process of privatization. And that’s the best-case scenario! This would preserve the UCs as inaccessible for tens of … Continued

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Occupy Oakland FDG Is Trying to Save Jodie’s Home! (And We Need Your Support)

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Jodie Randolph is a small-business owner in Alameda. Morgan Stanley’s earnings for the last three months were $7.6 billion dollars, or about $2.5 billion per month. Jodie Randolph is a breast-cancer survivor. Morgan Stanley is legally a person, but doesn’t have breasts. Instead, it has assets of $311 billion. Jodie Randolph is in treatment for colon cancer. Morgan Stanley doesn’t have a colon either. Instead, it takes care of its $311 billion in assets by shedding jobs — about 4500, or 7% of its work force, last quarter. Jodie Randolph … Continued

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