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Occupy Oakland mother asks for letters of support to regain custody of her son from State of Nevada on her son’s birthday 5/23/12

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Nevada State not letting Oakland Occupy seven years old boy come back to California, mother pleads for help. 5/20/2012

  On Sunday May 20, 2012 during the Occupy Oakland General Assembly, Karla (name maybe misspelled) mother of a eight years old, Phenix  pleaded for help so that the State of Nevada releases her son and let him return to California. Phoenix birthday is on May 23rd. Please send him a letter or presents in sign of support. He is one of ours that you may have seen with a Mohawk. Please watch the video for more information. I consider this a time sensitive case, so please act as soon as you can. … Continued

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Occupy Oakland – Occupy AC Transit Press Conference Video 5/16/12

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Re-Posted from IndyBay Objecting to a never-ending stream of increasing fares, reduced service, and concessions by transit workers, Occupy Oakland and a rank-and-file AC Transit driver held a press conference outside of the Fruitvale BART station on May 16th. Austerity measures by AC Transit fall hardest on those who can least afford it, low-income riders and drivers who are pushed to do more for less, creating a less safe transportation system that ill serves those who need it most. While noting that the campaign intends to escalate over the long … Continued

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Occupy the Farm Planter Box Rally • Saturday 5-19-12 3PM

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Followed by a Community Forum on Visions for Food Sovereignty and Food Justice 3 PM – Gather at the Gill Tract South Side: Monroe St. at San Pablo Ave The Planter Box Rally will highlight that land access is fundamental to growing food in an urban environment. UC Berkeley may have forced the public off of the Gill Tract, yet still we farm. The community forum will contextualize the Gill Tract within the larger scope of food sovereignty and food justice issues that affect people throughout the Bay Area and … Continued

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UPDATE: Saturday 5/19/12 3pm – Occupy the Farm Planter Box Rally

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Followed by a Community Forum on Visions for Food Sovereignty and Food Justice 3 PM – Gather at the Gill Tract South Side: Monroe St. at San Pablo Ave The Planter Box Rally will highlight that land access is fundamental to growing food in an urban environment. UC Berkeley may have forced the public off of the Gill Tract, yet still we farm. The community forum will contextualize the Gill Tract within the larger scope of food sovereignty and food justice issues that affect people throughout the Bay Area and … Continued

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Occupy AC Transit Announces Extended Bus Transfer Campaign

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On Wednesday 5/16/12 , Occupy Oakland and rank-and-file AC-Transit drivers announced a campaign that will pressure the MTC to make transportation more accessible for low-income communities and to reverse concessions forced on transit workers. This campaign kicks off today by asking drivers to honor transfers for multiple use and up to 3 hours. Riders and drivers stand in solidarity in this demand for a just transportation system. Next year, another round of fare increases is scheduled to go into effect. This is in addition to service cuts disproportionately applied to … Continued

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Occupy protesters take on AC Transit fare transfers

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Re-posted from KTVU.com Posted: 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2012 OAKLAND, Calif. — Occupy Oakland, working with Alameda-Contra Costa Transit bus operators, launched a campaign Wednesday asking drivers to honor transfers in ways that will ease the financial pain felt by the system’s riders. Before the last round of service cuts, it was AC Transit policy to honor transfers for up to three hours. Currently, transfers are only valid for two hours. At the campaign announcement outside the Fruitvale BART station this afternoon, an Occupy Oakland organizer said that service … Continued

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Occupy Transit! Transit Workers & Occupy Movement Team Up

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APRIL 5, 2012 3:18PM Re-posted from open.salon.com Calling mass transit “a genuine civil rights issue,” the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), which represents transit workers across the nation, joined with the Occupy Movement, community organizations and transit riders to demand a revitalization of our transit systems. Citing such problems as “older vehicles,  deferred maintenance and longer wait times for overcrowded buses and trains,” the ATU was also critical of service cuts and higher fares which have hit working class riders the hardest. ATU national president Larry Hanley was inspired to ally ATU with … Continued

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lies by your ‘leaders’

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the new media committee has just published a statement The Occupy Oakland Media Committee (OOMC) is a committee of Occupy Oakland* (OO) that makes use of the press, social media, multimedia, and other forms of media to connect with supporters by promoting actions events, workshops, and nurturing political dialogue. The OOMC will develop and adhere to policies regarding the following responsibilities: Connecting outside press inquiries to current and relevant sources of information – rotating “spokespersons,” contacts within committees, or document archives – primarily within OO but also within the greater … Continued

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I’ve uploaded my photos of Occupy the Farm (Gill Tract), here: http://bapd.org/120422-reclaiming-the-gill-tract.html Click on any of those medium-sized images to go to the page for the individual full-sized image for downloading. The images at the very end are outtakes of the CBS5 video of the 2012-05-14 police raid. The others are photos by me.  My photos just before the raid show the seedlings coming along nicely the evening before the raid. Ken Cheetham http://bapd.org/ken.html ken.cheetham@comcast.net 31185

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