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DESCRIPTION:‪\n\n"Stop the sale" Celebration! Saturday, Dec. 20, starting at 1:00 
 PM\nSteps of the Post Office - Allston Way & Milvia - 1 block from Downtown 
 Berkeley BART\n\n Music, poetry, Christmas decorating ... lots of Good 
 Cheer & Solidarity   \n\n\n \n\nDear Defenders of the Berkeley Post 
 Office,\n\n \n\nSaturday December 20 marks the 50th day of this year's 
 24/7 occupation at the Berkeley Main Post Office, under the auspices of 
 First They Came for the Homeless and Berkeley Post Office Defenders. The 
 current occupiers have long since eclipsed the 33-day record of the 
 well-publicized 24/7 Tent City at the Berkeley P.O. in August 2013. Their 
 goal: Stop the sale of the Post Office to greedy privateers.\n\n \n\nAnd 
 they've maintained the encampment through many cold days and nights of 
 drenching rain and driving wind, and putting up with multiple harassment 
 visits by the Postal Police and postal inspectors. Saying no to the 
 privatization and dismantling of our public treasure, the Post 
 Office.\n\n \n\nIt's been 15 months since we first claimed this Post 
 Office as public space, paid for by the people and held in trust since Ben 
 Franklin's day. As of today, the information table and big tent are still 
 standing at the historic 100-year-old Post Office at 2000 Allston 
 Way.\n\n \n\nOur banner "Welcome - Our Post Office is Open - Let's Keep it 
 That Way" was confiscated by postal police -- but the handsome "First 
 Amendment" poster remains defiantly wheat-pasted on one of the columns of 
 this beautiful building. After the people of Berkeley mounted a legal 
 challenge and a favorable new zoning ordinance, the Post Office so far 
 remains in the public domain.\n\n \n\nSo why don't we have a celebration 
 on the Post Office Steps to mark the 50th day of the people's 
 camp??\n\n \n\nBe there on the steps, starting 1:00 PM Saturday. Bring 
 yourself, your talents, food and supplies for everyone and for the people's 
 camp. For more information go to the Facebook page of First They Came for 
 the Homeless.\n\n \n\nWeather Report for Saturday - NO RAIN\n\n.\n\n\nThe 
 Depression-era mural inside the downtown Berkeley Post Office:\n \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/18/18765756.php
SUMMARY:"Stop the Sale!” and Christmas Decorating Party at the Berkeley Post Office
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley Post Office\n2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/18/18765756.php
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