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DESCRIPTION:STOP PRIVATIZING OAKLAND!\nNO STADIUM AT HOWARD TERMINAL!\nNO SCHOOL 
 CLOSURES! NO CUTS!\nThe billionaires are after our public resources here in 
 the City of Oakland. The Oakland School Board has recently voted to close 
 11 public schools, despite overwhelming opposition from the community. 
 School closures disproportionately harm communities of color. They are part 
 of a long-term plan by corporations to destroy public education – selling 
 them off to real\nestate developers or converting them into charter 
 schools. Oakland does not have “too many schools,” as the district 
 says. Oakland has too many charter schools!\nMeanwhile, the City of Oakland 
 is planning to spend $855 million in taxpayer money to construct a new A's 
 stadium and condo complex at Howard Terminal, which is crucial to the port 
 of Oakland. These privatization schemes are part of the gentrification of 
 Oakland — attacking working-class\ncommunities, destroying union jobs, 
 and displacing\nlow-income residents of the Bay Area.\nWe must come 
 together and fight back! This year May Day (International Workers Day) 
 falls on a Sunday, so our action will be two days earlier, on April 29. The 
 ILWU Local 10 has informed the port that they will be having Port Shutdown! 
 School Shutdown!\n2pm - Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza / City Hall 3pm - March 
 to 1000 Broadway\n@slapbayarea SCHOOLS & LABOR AGAINST PRIVATIZATION\n A 
 stop work day on this day in support of Oakland teachers.\n\nSchools & 
 Labor Against Privatization:Mission Statement \n\nSchools and Labor Against 
 Privatization (SLAP) was formed in direct response to the organized efforts 
 of The Fisher Family, various Oakland elected officials, the Oakland school 
 board and various Bay Area labor officials to privatize our public schools 
 and public land/shipping ports. As a collective we understand that Oakland 
 is not the only American city under attack from billionaires attempting to 
 privatize/gentrify for personal monetary gain. We understand that Black and 
 Brown communities across the country continue to be disproportionately 
 affected by the resulting wealth gap epidemic. We also understand the 
 continued effect privatization and gentrification have on the working class 
 as a whole. The wealth disparity between the very rich few and the majority 
 working class is larger than it has ever been in this country's history. 
 The main reason for this phenomena is that our elected representatives 
 continue to give the rich and corporate America access to public resources 
 and wealth at an alarming rate—resources and wealth created by the poor 
 and working class. \n\nWe say NO to the closing of public schools in 
 Oakland, which provide education and jobs to disadvantaged communities, to 
 pave for the Fisher family and other privatizers to take them over as 
 private charter schools. We say NO, to the Fisher family’s attempt to 
 benefit financially by acquiring industrial public land that creates good 
 union-paying jobs and tax revenue for our communities to build private 
 multi-million dollar condos and a baseball park. We say YES to 
 redistributing corporate wealth to fund high quality public education and 
 services, adequate and affordable housing, and high quality union jobs for 
 all working people.\n\nWe shall organize to forge a social, economic and 
 political movement for all working people—employed and unemployed—in 
 our own name. We shall spread awareness, influence elections (governmental 
 and union) to once and for all provide a voice for the working class, 
 independent of influence by either of the corporate-dominated political 
 parties. We shall work in conjunction with any organization(s) in which the 
 purpose is to put an end to the oppression and exploitation of the poor and 
 working class.\nW shall hold any elected official (labor or governmental) 
 accountable for catering to the interest of the rich few instead of the 
 majority working class that elected them. We will achieve this by using 
 class-struggle methods to expose and eradicate all efforts to 
 privatize/gentrify any and all public resources for the financial benefit 
 of billionaires, oligarchs or those who in any way represent corporate 
 greed. We shall oppose all tactics used to divide the working class, both 
 outside and inside the labor movement. And finally we shall create a voice 
 and space for all people regardless of race, sex, age, gender, sexual 
 orientation, ability, nationality, religion or work status.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/04/16/18849087.php
SUMMARY:Stop Privatizing Oakland! Day Of Action By Teachers & ILWU Longshore Workers
LOCATION:Oakland teachers will be striking and joining with ILWU longshore workers 
 on April 29 against privatization and closures of Oakland schools and the 
 privatization and destruction of the Port Of Oakland by the Mayor and 
 Democratic Party City Council supported by the leadership of the Alameda 
 Labor Council and Alameda Building Trades. There will be a rally at 2PM at 
 Oscar Grant Plaza and march through Oakland.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/04/16/18849087.php
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