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Get Angry! GOTV for No on Measure Y!
GET ANGRY!!! GET OUT THE VOTE FOR NO ON MEASURE Y!
(Schedule is below)
(Schedule is below)
If you are an Oakland resident, like me, you have received phone calls and mailings from every direction in the last day stating how Measure Y will stop the cycle of violence, how Measure Y will fund after school programs and help youth in need. The reality is that 60% of Measure Y's money will go to hiring 63 new cops. We all know that Oakland will pass any ballot measure focussed on social programs, but not focussed on cops; so what are they trying to hide??! Let's beat Measure Y and introduce a measure where for the next 10 years, the $10 million currently slotted for police will go to recreation and youth programs in our community instead!! Join us as we Get Out the Vote this weekend and Monday and Tuesday!!! More info at http://www.noonmeasurey.org
GET OUT THE VOTE!
Saturday, October 30th, we will be walking precincts from 10AM-2PM with Californians for Justice, meet at the CFJ office 1611 Telegraph Ave, Suite 317 at 10AM, near the 19th Street BART Station. They will also be passing out -Yes on Prop 72 (Increased Healthcare Coverage), and Yes on Prop 66 (3 Strikes Amendment), and those of us who agree will do so as well.
2-6PM We will be phone-banking along with Californians for Justice office (address above)
Sunday, October 31st, we will meet at the ACORN office at 3616 Fruitvale Ave at 10AM and go pass out flyers and our cool newspapers at the Dia de los Muertos celebration on International Blvd in Fruitvale- 10s of thousands of people from Oakland go to this festival.
2-6PM we will be phone-banking along with Californians for Justice (address above)
Monday, November 1st, we will meet at ACORN's office at 3PM and disperse throughout the city to do rush hour publicity. We will hold up signs at busy intersections and pass out flyers at BARTs.
Phone Banking with Bay Area Local Organizing Committee of the National Hip Hop Congress,
6-9PM Place TBA.
Tuesday, November 2nd,we will meet at ACORN's office at 6:30AM and again 3PM and disperse throughout the city to do rush hour publicity. We will hold up signs at busy intersections and pass out flyers at BARTs.
Noon – Meet at 14th and Broadway for a rally, spoken word, hip hop and march to the Court House reminding people to vote and to take back our community, No on Y, Yes on 66 with Bay Area Local Organizing Committee of the National Hip Hop Congress.
Victory Party!! 8PM, Location TBA
JOIN US TO CELEBRATE!!!
Saturday, November 6th - Sunday, November 7th - We're taking a "get-away" at the Point Reyes Youth Hostel, if you want to come hang out with us, go hiking, chill at the beach, this will be FUN trip to celebrate our victories in changing the debate about the role of police in making us safer and hopefully in defeating Measure Y! If you want to go e-mail Jonah at jzern1 [at] yahoo.com ASAP, include your phone # in the e-mail!! It is $16 for the night at the hostel, so by confirming we're expecting you'll cover this expense even if you have to bail on the trip. Anyone is welcome!
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
Mario Savio, December 3, 1964
GET OUT THE VOTE!
Saturday, October 30th, we will be walking precincts from 10AM-2PM with Californians for Justice, meet at the CFJ office 1611 Telegraph Ave, Suite 317 at 10AM, near the 19th Street BART Station. They will also be passing out -Yes on Prop 72 (Increased Healthcare Coverage), and Yes on Prop 66 (3 Strikes Amendment), and those of us who agree will do so as well.
2-6PM We will be phone-banking along with Californians for Justice office (address above)
Sunday, October 31st, we will meet at the ACORN office at 3616 Fruitvale Ave at 10AM and go pass out flyers and our cool newspapers at the Dia de los Muertos celebration on International Blvd in Fruitvale- 10s of thousands of people from Oakland go to this festival.
2-6PM we will be phone-banking along with Californians for Justice (address above)
Monday, November 1st, we will meet at ACORN's office at 3PM and disperse throughout the city to do rush hour publicity. We will hold up signs at busy intersections and pass out flyers at BARTs.
Phone Banking with Bay Area Local Organizing Committee of the National Hip Hop Congress,
6-9PM Place TBA.
Tuesday, November 2nd,we will meet at ACORN's office at 6:30AM and again 3PM and disperse throughout the city to do rush hour publicity. We will hold up signs at busy intersections and pass out flyers at BARTs.
Noon – Meet at 14th and Broadway for a rally, spoken word, hip hop and march to the Court House reminding people to vote and to take back our community, No on Y, Yes on 66 with Bay Area Local Organizing Committee of the National Hip Hop Congress.
Victory Party!! 8PM, Location TBA
JOIN US TO CELEBRATE!!!
Saturday, November 6th - Sunday, November 7th - We're taking a "get-away" at the Point Reyes Youth Hostel, if you want to come hang out with us, go hiking, chill at the beach, this will be FUN trip to celebrate our victories in changing the debate about the role of police in making us safer and hopefully in defeating Measure Y! If you want to go e-mail Jonah at jzern1 [at] yahoo.com ASAP, include your phone # in the e-mail!! It is $16 for the night at the hostel, so by confirming we're expecting you'll cover this expense even if you have to bail on the trip. Anyone is welcome!
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
Mario Savio, December 3, 1964
For more information:
http://www.noonmeasurey.org, www.ednotinc.org
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Education Not Incarceration
A coalition of teachers, students, parents and concerned community members
ednotinc [at] riseup.net http://www.ednotinc.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information:
Friday, October 29, 2004 No on Measure Y Campaign to Hold Press Conference and Rally
Before Beginning of the Re-Trial of the Oakland Riders
“No on Measure Y: Education, Housing, Jobs and Health Care Will Make Our Communities Safer, not 63 More Police” Campaign Slogan Resonates with Oakland Communities
WHAT: A press conference and rally prior to the start of the retrial of Oakland’s “Riders”
WHEN: Monday, November 1st, 2004, 9:30AM
WHERE: Outside the Rene Davidson Oakland Court House, 1225 Fallon Street
Oakland, CA The No on Measure Y Campaign will be holding a rally and press conference outside the Oakland Court House on Monday, November 1st prior to the opening remarks in the retrial of three former police officers accused of being law-breaking "Riders". The retrial will be a shorter version of the original, which lasted over a year before ending Sept. 30, 2003, with jurors acquitting the men of eight charges and deadlocking on the remaining 27. The Riders were known to many as a law-enforcement gang in West Oakland for false arrests, filing false police reports, planting evidence and kidnapping suspects in West Oakland in 2000.
Measure Y is the November ballot initiative in Oakland that puts funding police ahead of funding programs. Californians for Justice is the latest endorser of No on Y. The “No on Measure Y” campaign, headed by the Education Not Incarceration Coalition, has lit a spark in Oakland, for groups demanding public accountability and community control. Local groups and concerned community members, such as Councilwoman Desley Brooks, Wilson Riles, the Oakland Education Association, ILWU 10, SEIU 24/7, AYPAL (Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership), and the Xicana Moratorium Committee are currently mobilizing to defeat Measure Y, a November ballot initiative that will direct 60% of newly raised taxes to hire more police officers in Oakland.
Many feel that the Riders are representative of the Oakland police force, rather than exception to the rule. ”Increasing police presence within our city will not curb violence nor make anyone safer” said Aaron Shuman, Oakland organizer and a member of the Education Not Incarceration. “Oakland police are not accountable to the community which they serve. Most are from outside of the City, they are walking out of Police Review Board meetings and suing the City of Oakland in attempt to close these hearings to the public.”
”True violence prevention begins by investing in the people of our communities,” said Wilson Riles Jr. “We know that what builds strong, safe communities are the investments we make in education and other basic social services.”
“We need better trained police, not more police,” said Marylon Boyd, whose disabled son Cammerin Boyd suffered police brutality in Oakland, days before he was killed by police in San Francisco on May 5, 2004.
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A coalition of teachers, students, parents and concerned community members
ednotinc [at] riseup.net http://www.ednotinc.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information:
Friday, October 29, 2004 No on Measure Y Campaign to Hold Press Conference and Rally
Before Beginning of the Re-Trial of the Oakland Riders
“No on Measure Y: Education, Housing, Jobs and Health Care Will Make Our Communities Safer, not 63 More Police” Campaign Slogan Resonates with Oakland Communities
WHAT: A press conference and rally prior to the start of the retrial of Oakland’s “Riders”
WHEN: Monday, November 1st, 2004, 9:30AM
WHERE: Outside the Rene Davidson Oakland Court House, 1225 Fallon Street
Oakland, CA The No on Measure Y Campaign will be holding a rally and press conference outside the Oakland Court House on Monday, November 1st prior to the opening remarks in the retrial of three former police officers accused of being law-breaking "Riders". The retrial will be a shorter version of the original, which lasted over a year before ending Sept. 30, 2003, with jurors acquitting the men of eight charges and deadlocking on the remaining 27. The Riders were known to many as a law-enforcement gang in West Oakland for false arrests, filing false police reports, planting evidence and kidnapping suspects in West Oakland in 2000.
Measure Y is the November ballot initiative in Oakland that puts funding police ahead of funding programs. Californians for Justice is the latest endorser of No on Y. The “No on Measure Y” campaign, headed by the Education Not Incarceration Coalition, has lit a spark in Oakland, for groups demanding public accountability and community control. Local groups and concerned community members, such as Councilwoman Desley Brooks, Wilson Riles, the Oakland Education Association, ILWU 10, SEIU 24/7, AYPAL (Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership), and the Xicana Moratorium Committee are currently mobilizing to defeat Measure Y, a November ballot initiative that will direct 60% of newly raised taxes to hire more police officers in Oakland.
Many feel that the Riders are representative of the Oakland police force, rather than exception to the rule. ”Increasing police presence within our city will not curb violence nor make anyone safer” said Aaron Shuman, Oakland organizer and a member of the Education Not Incarceration. “Oakland police are not accountable to the community which they serve. Most are from outside of the City, they are walking out of Police Review Board meetings and suing the City of Oakland in attempt to close these hearings to the public.”
”True violence prevention begins by investing in the people of our communities,” said Wilson Riles Jr. “We know that what builds strong, safe communities are the investments we make in education and other basic social services.”
“We need better trained police, not more police,” said Marylon Boyd, whose disabled son Cammerin Boyd suffered police brutality in Oakland, days before he was killed by police in San Francisco on May 5, 2004.
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I would likt to attend the measure Y celibration party where will it be held at?
so when is this party going to be?
ok, now I am getting pretty upset. we worked on measure Y
and we where promised a thank you party for all of us who
put in time for this issue BUT NO now you are just blowing us off after all the work we did. this is not right. and we will not go away
and we where promised a thank you party for all of us who
put in time for this issue BUT NO now you are just blowing us off after all the work we did. this is not right. and we will not go away
after working our collective butt's off the sponsora of No on Measure Y! ditched their staff and slithered out of town. I FEEL TOTALY USED BY THESE JERKS.
It will be a cold day in hell befor I ever do this again. I am disgusted with the management for the treatment we have recived after they did not win.
It will be a cold day in hell befor I ever do this again. I am disgusted with the management for the treatment we have recived after they did not win.
actually the same person? If so, or even if not, why should we give a rat's ass for the opinion of someone who only works on a cause because they want an invitation to a party?
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