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Riseup, a Worthwhile Cause to Support

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Riseup.net

Since the early days of our movement, the Web Committee and many others in Occupy Oakland have received valuable free services from the activist collective at Riseup.net. Riseup provides secure and stable communications tools for free to social revolutionaries and groups around the world. We in the Web Committee have long benefited from our group’s email list, one of the valuable services that Riseup provides. Other committees, caucuses, and groups have taken advantage of this service to facilitate efficient communication amongst their members. Additionally, Riseup allowed us to use their … Continued

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Drones In Alameda: Alameda County Board Meeting Tuesday Nov. 6

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Administration Building, Board Chambers, 1221 Oak Street, 5th Floor, Rm 512, Oakland, CA 94607 The Alameda County Against Drones (ACAD) coalition, together with our supporters and allies, will introduce ourselves to the Board of Supervisors. Please join us in letting the supervisors know that the people of our county do not want the sheriff to purchase a drone. The Board of Supervisors is not used to having a full house. Let’s show them that the people care strongly about this important issue. You can just come to the meeting, or … Continued

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Resisting Grand Juries and State Repression Nov 11

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  This will be a full day event with short presentations from folks with Grand Jury experience–Kristian Williams (author of Our Enemies in Blue), Richard Brown from the SF8, and others. We will have short panel presentations broken up by small group discussions about: – the current Grand Jury cases in the Northwest/environment of repression – engaging the media and the public perception – security culture/know your rights, learn what to expect in the case of a Grand Jury – child-related legal support – trauma care. We will also provide child … Continued

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OO Foreclosure Defense Group Closing In On Victory! Zaki Gets A Loan Modification!

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Zaki Alshalyan came to the Occupy Oakland Foreclosure Defense Group more than a month ago, looking for assistance in staying in his home after the Bank of America had threatened him with foreclosure and eviction. This is his story, from the time before he became a US immigrant from war-torn Iraq, to the time he got rolled by BofA. First there was an action by the OOFDG at a local Bank of America branch, then continued pressure by Zaki and some OOFDG peeps on the bank official responsible for the … Continued

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Solidarity With Milan Foreclosure and Eviction Defenders.

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On Friday, October 26th, 2012, Boots Riley, in Europe on tour, forwarded the following message from a foreclosure and eviction defense group in Milan, Italy, to Occupy Oakland’s Foreclosure Defense Group. Monday morning in Milan – Italy. In the blocks of San Siro the police and the military police corp Carabinieri carried out an eviction against a family that, as a lot of families in this time of crisis, couldn’t pay a location and so had occupied a house for need. It was a violent eviction: policemen and carabinieri assaulted … Continued

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For Immediate Release – Take Back OGP

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On October 25 of last year, the Oakland Commune at Oscar Grant Plaza was raided with enough brutal force to gain international attention. Since then, continuous state repression and police brutality have sought to divide Oakland and keep its residents from reclaiming public space in a time of local, national and global austerity. The Oakland Commune served as a socio/political refuge for Oakland residents. It was open and free to all and provided a space where people could traverse race and class divides in order to share food, discussion and … Continued

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Confronting the Many Faces of Repression

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Rethinking Repression Over the past year, we have experienced many forms of overt police repression, from the camp eviction and night of tear gas on October 25th, to raids on the vigil, to snatch and grab squads on May Day.  We have come to expect the riot-clad police, with their batons and chemical weapons, although repression comes in other forms as well.  As a community, we have not been sufficiently attuned to these other faces of repression.  As the Anti-Repression Committee (ARC), we too have focused primarily on the overt … Continued

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Say No To Drones In Alameda County!

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Local Residents and Civil Rights Organizations Resist Sheriff’s Attempts to Deploy Drones Over Alameda County Press conference to highlight concerns including invasion of privacy, militarization of police forces, restriction of free speech and political expression At a press conference to be held on the steps of Oakland City Hall on Thursday, October 18, at 11:00 a.m., Alameda County residents and legal advocacy organizations will announce their efforts to resist the Sheriff’s announced plans to deploy aerial surveillance “drones” for undisclosed law enforcement purposes. “Community members intend to pursue city and … Continued

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“Something Evil Is Going On.”

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On October 16th, at 5:00 PM, the Justice 4 Alan Blueford Coalition held a press conference on the steps of the County Courthouse, exposing the lies, unfounded allegations, willful bias and shoddy investigative procedures of the District Attorney’s report into the death of Alan Blueford at the hands of Officer Miguel Masso. A detailed, 10-page response to the DA’s report was also handed out (see below). The powerful video of this event is here. Speaking are Anne Weills, civil rights attorney, John Burris, civil rights attorney and the Blueford family’s … Continued

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