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DESCRIPTION:STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA has formed a coalition with SAVE THE BERKELEY POST 
 OFFICE to oppose the sale of the historic main facility of the USPS at 2000 
 Allston Way in Berkeley. The intent is two-fold: to prevent the sale of a 
 beautiful publicly-owned building containing Depression-era murals and to 
 raise awareness of the ruthless asset-seizure pursued by the 1%, which is 
 provoking the sale of post offices all over the country and is depleting 
 the ability of the USPS to provide adequate service.\n\n\nThe coalition of 
 SDBA and SBPO is planning action that cannot be ignored to defend the post 
 office and oppose privatization. We need your help. We need activists on 
 the street, and we need organizers to provide critical support.\n\nPlease 
 come to the Occupy Oakland General Assembly at Oscar Grant Plaza – 14th 
 St. and Broadway - on Sunday, June 9 at 2:00PM to find out more about tasks 
 you can help us with in preparation for opposing the privatization of our 
 only publicly-controlled means of communication. \n\nSTRIKE DEBT BAY area 
 is determined to reveal all manifestations of debt-culture with the purpose 
 of creating the consciousness that debtors form a very powerful social 
 class. Almost every one of us is in some kind of debt, and community 
 organizations that provide essential and humane services have had to borrow 
 – not for expansion, but just to pay current operating expenses. As the 
 prices of things we need have risen, and as our real wages have declined, 
 we have had to put up more of what we have – our property and our labor 
 power – as collateral, and more of this collateral is being possessed 
 outright by the creditors of the 1%. Our municipalities are cutting 
 services and selling public property to indifferent and far-removed 
 financial capitalists in desperate attempts to make ends meet.\n\n\n\nThe 
 United States Postal Service has done an exemplary job of resisting the 
 predatory tactics of the 1%, but now they are on the brink of bankruptcy 
 because they are being forced by Congress and the President to pay $60 
 billion over ten years to cover health benefits for their retirees for the 
 next 75 years – an unjustifiable burden never-before imposed on any 
 enterprise, public or private. Privatization of the post office – 
 dismantling its extensive service structure and selling off its buildings 
 – poses grave consequences for low-income people and those concerned 
 about privacy. (These arguments are framed in an article linked 
 here.)\n\nFor more information about STRIKE DEBT BAY AREA, visit our 
 website and our Facebook page.\n\nSAVE THE BERKELEY POST OFFICE WEBPAGE\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/05/18738005.php
SUMMARY:Call for Action: Save the Berkeley Post Office is about more than saving the Berkeley PO
LOCATION:Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th & Broadway, Oakland, CA, just outside of City Hall.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/05/18738005.php
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