NO ON Y: Police Chief and Wilson Riles Jr. to Debate Saturday!!

NO ON MEASURE Y CAMPAIGN TURNS UP THE HEAT, AS POLICE CHEIF WARD AND FORMER CITY-COUNCILMEMBER WILSON RILES DEBATE
Saturday, 10AM, Peralta Elementary School, 460 63rd Street in North Oakland, just East of Telegraph Ave.

PLEASE COME AND BRING SIGNS!!
Sign-making will be Friday at 5-8PM 991 61st Street, between Sacramento and San Pablo in North Oakland.

What a perfect setting for our message: Healthy Communities (ie education, health care, jobs, etc), Will Make Our Communities Safer, Not 63 More Police

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NO ON MEASURE Y CAMPAIGNS STEPS UP ITS MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Tuesday, October 6, 2004
For more information:
Wilson Riles Jr., Community Organizer, 510-530.2448
Jonah Zern, Education not Incarceration Coalition 510.654.8613

"No on Measure Y" Coalition Steps Up its Campaign to Fight Against Misleading November Ballot Initiative

¡§Services, Not Police, Will make our Communities Safer¡¨ Campaign Slogan Resonates with Oakland Communities

Oakland, CA - The "No on Measure Y" Coalition, currently mobilizing to defeat Measure Y, the November ballot initiative in Oakland that puts funding police ahead of funding programs, will be stepping up its campaign over the next few weeks.

In coordination with some of the campaign's 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 visible media campaign to defeat Measure Y over the next few weeks. This campaign will include public actions, press conferences and community outreach events.

Current "No on Measure Y" organizational endorsers include: 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, Justice Now, 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, 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

Current "No on Measure Y" organizational endorsers include (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; and Estria Miyashiro, owner of Tumi's Design.

No on Measure Y Campaign outreach is held Saturdays meeting at ACORN's (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) office at 3166 Fruitvale Avenue for community outreach beginning at 10AM. A special event will be occurring this Saturday, October 9, location TBA. For more information, please call 510-530-2448 or visit http://www.noonmeasurey.org.

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