No on Measure Y Steps Up Campaign

The No on Measure Y Campaign - saying NO to 63 new cops in Oakland will be stepping up its campaign over the next few weeks. I coordination with some of the campaigns newest endorsers, including the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality and the Suppression of a Generation and the Bay Area Local Organizing Committee of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, the No on Measure Y campaign will be launching a more visable media campaign to defeat Measure Y over the next few weeks. This campaign will include public actions, press conference and outreach events.

More to follow. Here is a current list of No on Measure Y endorsers...


Organizations
Bay Area Local Organizing Committee of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention
SEIU 616
Alameda County Green Party
Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party
Global Exchange
Just Cause Oakland
Oakland Education Association
Education Not Incarceration
Prison Activist Resource Center
Oakland Community Action Network
Bay Area Policewatch
Poor Magazine/Poor News Network
Proyecto Common Touch
Out of Control Committee to Support Lesbian Political Prisoners
All of Us or None
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Justice Now
Data Center
Critical Resistance
Black August Organizing Committee
Copwatch
International Peoples Democratic Uhuru Movement
African People Solidarity Committee
Xicana Moratorium Committee
October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality and the Suppression of a Generation

Individuals
(organizations listed after names for identification purposes only)
Wilson Riles
Patricia Loya, Centro Legal de la Raza
Councilmember Desley Brooks
Fannie Brown, state co-chair, ACORN
Steve McClenathan, president, SEIU 24/7
Ericka Huggins
Dwayne Wiggins
Ricardo Barba
Jumoke Hinton Hodge
Greg Hodge
Jane Jackson, founder, Mayor's Commission on Persons with Disabilities
Imam Keith Muhammad
Eric Mar, San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner
Estria Miyashiro, owner of Tumi's Design