May 1st: Education not Incarceration - Teach-in - Speakout

Education Not Incarceration Teach-in – Speak-out
Oakland Technical High School, 4351 Broadway
Saturday, May 1, 2004, 10AM – 3PM
(near the Macarthur BART and the Route 51 Bus Line)

Education not Incarceration Coalition (http://www.ednotinc.org) Teach-in – Speak-out to Further Our United Fight for Resources for Our Schools and Not for More Prisons

CARRY ON THE HISTORICAL AND FIGHTING TRADITION OF INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY, MAY 1ST.

Join Education not Incarceration’s day of teach-ins and speaking out!

Ø Learn more about the link between cuts to education and rising prison populations in interactive workshops where everyone will be given a chance to speak.

Ø Create graffiti art, spoken word and video for the afternoon speak out where you can raise your voice for education not incarceration to invited elected representatives and officials.

Ø Childcare and food will be provided.


How you or your organization can participate:

1. Endorse the event (individual or organizations)
2. Send this outreach e-mail to your friends/members
3. Send a flyer to your friends/members, available at http://www.may8.org/TeachAction/speakout.pdf (or go to http://www.may8.org and click on the flyer link)
4. Come to the next planning meeting on Monday April 12, 7-9PM at the Neibel Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave in North Oakland.
5. Organize your friends/ members to attend the event

To Endorse: please send your name, e-mail, phone #, address and expected # of friends/members you will bring to Demetria McCain at 510-986.0545 or Lisa Gutierrez Guzman at lggwwt [at] hotmail.com


Current Endorsers Include: Oakland Education Association; Oakland American Federation of Teachers; American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 257; All of Us or None; Oakland Parents Together; School of Unity and Liberation; Idriss Stelley Foundation; Free Battered Women; Teachers for Social Justice; Californians for Justice; California Prison Moratorium Project; Drug Policy Alliance; Priority Africa Network; Black Radical Congress - Bay Area; Low Income Families’ Empowerment Through Education; University of Creation Spirituality; Global Exchange; October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation; Gray Panthers of the East Bay; Critical Resistance; Vision Youthz; Oakland Community Action Network; Center for Third World Organizing; Metropolitan Greater Oakland Democratic Club; East Bay Community Law Center; People’s Grocery; Berkeley Bay Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority, Inc.; Bay Area Police Watch; Challenging White Supremacy Workshops; Reclaim the Commons; Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign; Greenwood Earth Alliance; Not in Our Name; Ecology Center; Oakland Catholic Worker; Youth in Focus; Progressive Communication; Socialist Unity Network (A Coalition of Committees of Correspondence for Democratic Socialism, Democrats Socialists of America, International Socialist Organization, Socialist Party, and Solidarity); Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu Jamal; San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Middle East Children’s Alliance; Women of Color Resource Center; Hayward DEMOS Democratic Club; Gay-Straight Alliance Network; Gray Panthers of Greater Oakland; Black Women’s Media Project; Women Standing in Love; International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; Books not Bars; Ella Baker Center for Human Rights; Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary; School of Social Justice and Community Development; Justice Now; Dan Siegel, President, Oakland School Board; Rena Rickles, Board Member, MGO; Cesar A. Cruz: ENDdependence Collective and March 4 Education Committee; Eric Mar, Vice-President, San Francisco School Board; Oakland City Councilwoman Nancy Nadel