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DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Groups Unite to Say Stop the Violence in Oakland; Just Say No to 
 Cops!  WHEN: Tuesday, July 20th, 5pm  WHERE: Oakland City Hall, Frank Ogawa 
 Plaza, @ 14th and Broadway  WHO: The Education Not Incarceration Coalition  
  BACKGROUND:  On Tuesday, July 20th, at the Oakland City Council meeting, 
 the City will renew its declaration of a local emergency due to the AIDS 
 epidemic and will consider major redevelopment projects. Also on the agenda 
 is the City Council's plan to put a measure on the November ballot that 
 calls for more money to hire more police, in the name of violence 
 prevention.   Education Not Incarceration is mobilizing for the meeting to 
 demand that the city commit itself to acknowledging that more police will 
 not bring health, safety, education, and jobs to Oakland.   Instead of 
 throwing more police at the city's problems, Education Not Incarceration 
 demands real investment in the real community-based peacemakers, people in 
 Oakland who have made something out of nothing and are building 
 organizations to transform their communities. Education Not Incarceration 
 demands that the city stop investing in a war on gangs and a Drug War that 
 has already failed to curb the city's murder rate, and instead create real 
 economic opportunity by creating real jobs for the people of Oakland.   
 Community leaders will testify on the ways in which local policing has 
 broken up communities, demonized local youth, people of color, 
 working-class people, and the poor, and permanently subjected them to 
 discrimination by marking their record.   As California chooses to increase 
 prison spending while cutting funding for UC and CSU outreach programs, and 
 Oakland closes public schools, Education Not Incarceration says the 
 decision on who the next generation of educators will be is being made 
 right now, and the city needs educators who reflect the diversity of 
 Oakland, with the language skills to communicate with students and their 
 parents.   This rally is a step towards the Peace & Justice Community 
 Summit organized by All of Us or None, to be held in Oakland at the First 
 Unitarian Church on July 31st, which will put the voices of the formerly 
 incarcerated and their families first, to address the needs of people in 
 communities devastated by mass incarceration, and to challenge the many 
 barriers to justice that people confront when coming out of prison.   
 Education Not Incarceration (ENI) is a coalition of students, teachers, 
 parents, prison activists, and concerned community members that seeks to 
 restore funding for education and essential social services by reducing the 
 number of people in prison and the number of prisons throughout the state.  
  For more information, visit http://www.ednotinc.org   .    \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/07/19/43323.php
SUMMARY:Groups Unite to Say Stop the Violence in Oakland; Just Say No to Cops!
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall, Frank Ogawa Plaza, @ 14th and Broadway
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/07/19/43323.php
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