April 14 San Francisco Action Council Meeting
San Francisco
Action Council Meeting
Sunday, April 14th
2:00pm – 4:00pm
HERE/UNITE Local 2
215 Golden Gate Ave.
(between Hyde & Leavenworth Streets)
(Hall doesn’t have a number over it – door is next to 215 Golden Gate)
San Francisco
If you can’t attend, please ask someone from your group to. Look forward to seeing you on Sunday!
Related Announcement:
Saturday, April 13th – Noon
National Action Day against Drones:
U.S. Drones Out of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Here!
Rally
Powell & Market St.
San Francisco
ACTION: 2pm November 17 Occupy Chase to Prevent Homelessness, Foreclosures, and Evictions
What: Occupy Chase to Prevent Homelessness, Foreclosures, and Evictions with a soup kitchen, street theater, foreclosure and eviction fighters and other speakers
When: 2:00pm on Saturday, November 17
Where: We’ll announce the surprise! location in San Francisco the morning of the action at http://www.occupytheauctions.org/chase.
Who: So far, we’ve got bread donated from Arizmendi and Ryan and the Space Transformers folks are setting up a soup kitchen, Bob on transport, Lisa and David on signage, music including guitarists Francis Collins and Tommi Avicolli-Mecca.
Join Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/492628647435647.
Brought to you by Occupy Bernal, ACCE-SF, Occupy Direct Action Workgroup, Occupy Action Council of SF, Occupy SF Environmental Justice Workgroup, Community Not Commodity, Occupy Noe, San Francisco Tenants Union, Senior and Disability Action, Manilatown Heritage Foundation, Communities United in Defense of Olmsted, and others coming soon.
Protest the Annual Big BANKS Conference: No on 32
What: Bond Buyer’s 22nd Annual Public Finance Conference
When: Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 3 pm – 5:30 pm
Where: Hyatt Regency, SF (near corner of Drumm and California — l block from Embarcadero BART)
(On Boycott by UNITE HERE hotel workers Local 2)
- The big banks and their billionaires created the foreclosure crisis and the great recession by putting short-term profits ahead of the good of the community.
- Now, the banks have invited hundreds of government executives to teach them “how to PRIVATIZE” public services and about the “new loans” they can get.
- These are the same banks and billionaires who have profited from the crisis – bleeding the public sector of millions through interest rate swaps while causing layoffs, attacking pensions and decimating community services.
- Now, these moneyed interests are bankrolling Prop 32 to silence nurses, teachers and firefighters and eventually kill our unions.
Don’t let the banks silence you! No On 32!
For more information contact: Alysabeth Alexander SEIU 1021 415-412-1982, Alysabeth.alexander@seiu1021.org
Media Coverage of Occupy Wall Street 1 year Anniversary!
Below is some independent coverage (with a couple on NYC Wall St) followed by a sampling of the extensive corporate media coverage of the planned afternoon events.
INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Occupy San Francisco Marks its One-Year Anniversary, Anti-Foreclosure Actions Abound
The Pacifica Evening News
http://pacificaeveningnews.
Banks Threaten Elderly Veterans With Foreclosure
New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram
http://newamericamedia.org/
It’s Alive! Occupy Actions Across the Country Show the Movement’s Impact
Here’s our on-the-ground reporting from the East and West coasts.
AlterNet / By Sarah Jaffe, Alyssa Figueroa
Occupy San Francisco One Year Anniversary CNN Ireprot http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/
Occupy Wall Street 1-year Anniversary
by Liz Highleyman
http://www.indybay.org/
Occupy San Francisco One Year Anniversary
by D. Boyer
http://www.indybay.org/
Occupy’s 1st Anniversary Was a Party with Politics in San Francisco
Peter M., Indybay
http://www.indybay.org/
Rally demands banks stop foreclosing on veterans by: MARILYN BECHTEL
http://peoplesworld.org/rally-
#StrikeDebt: Occupy morphs into debt resistance movement
by Jerome Roos, ROARMAG.org http://roarmag.org/2012/09/
NYC S17: Celebration and Disruption, Mission Accomplished.
Occupy Bernal: Occupy at the local level By Jen Chien, KALW http://www.kalw.org/post/
Occupy Your Victories; Occupy Wall Street’s First Anniversary
TomDispatch.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
How Do You Measure a Dream?
http://www.yesmagazine.org/
CORPORATE MEDIA
Occupy protesters take to streets to mark movement’s anniversary
KTVU News
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/
http://www.ktvu.com/videos/
http://www.ktvu.com/videos/
Occupy SF Protesters Mark 1st Anniversary Of Movement
CBS News
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.
Activists gathered in front of the Wells Fargo building in SF’s Financial District
NBC News
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/
Occupy SF marks anniversary with peaceful rallies
The Associated Press
Read more here:
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/
Occupy protesters celebrate in S.F.
Justin Berton, Kevin Fagan and Michael Cabanatuan, SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/
Hundreds celebrate the birthday of Occupy in San Francisco
Thomas Pendergast, Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/
On anniversary, Occupy takes stock of movement
By Doug Oakley, Oakland Tribune
http://www.mercurynews.com/
Arrests mark Occupy anniversary
by Rick Hampson, USA TODAY
OCCUPY WALLS ST (WEST): 1 YEAR!
MON SEPT 17, 5pm, 2012
555 California St @ Kearny St, SF
Celebrate one year of occupy resistance.
Commit in the coming year to keep building a movement of the 99% to end the rule of the 1%.
5pm: CELEBRATE-MARCH
555 California (B of A and Goldman Sachs) @ Keary (Montgomery BART)
* Honor Foreclosure Fighters; Show love and support to those fighting the banks and winning–over 52 homes have been saved from foreclosure evictions and 300 auctions cancelled since January!
* Brass Liberation Orchestra
* March
* Casserole (Bring Pots, Pans and Spoons-like Argentina, Iceland and Quebec anti-1% austerity uprisings)
6-8pm: DEBT BURNING & STREET FESTIVAL
California @ Montgomery
* Debt Burning (Bring Debt Papers (BYOD) to Burn Symbolically),
* Guerrilla Movies of the last year, live update from Wall St/NYC
* Food (bring some to share), bring a blanket to sit on.
HELL NO, WE WON’T PAY! STRIKE DEBT!
Debt affects us all. Student debt, mortgage debt, health care debt, credit-card debt, and more: debt is the tie that binds the 99%, and it is a primary engine of Wall Street profits. Debt is ruining the lives of individuals, families, and communities while banks get bailed out. We say enough! Join us as we begin to build a people’s movement to strike debt, break the chains of debt, and to create new bonds of solidarity. –StrikeDebt.org, Occupy Wall St.
All Afternoon: OCCUPY THE BANKS! Speak out, move your money, take creative nonviolent action with your neighbors, group, friends, co-workers or classmates. Join one of the neighborhood bank action! Action are below and a full schedule is here:
24 HOURS–SUN 5PM TO MON 5PM: OCCUPATION OF 555 CALIFORNIA/BANK OF AMERICA/GOLDMAN SACHS
555 California Street between Montgomery and Kearny
Occupy Bay Area United will initiate a 24 hour occupation to protest financial malfeasance of corporations including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.
OBAU
12 NOON – 1PM: NOTICE TO BANKS: STOP FORECLOSING ON VETERANS AND SENIORS!
SUPPORT: Robert, a 92-year-old Navy vet has lived in his Vis Valley home since 1972. Don & Tina Baird have lived in their Redwood City home since 1966. Don served in the US Coast Guard in the Pacific, and will turn 90 this month, facing foreclosure Sept 24th. He has heart surgery on Sept 27th. Benjamin Reed, a Tuskegee Air Man, and his wife Irma have lived Twin Peaks for 27 years.
San Francisco War Memorial Building, 401 Van Ness Ave
occupybernal.org
1PM: MOBILE STREET PARTY
Gather @ Bradley Manning/Justin Herman Plaza, take to streets @ 2pm
http://occupyoakland.org/2012/09/occupy-oakland-presents-street-party
2PM: COMMUNITY NOT COMMODITY IN THE CASTRO
An afternoon of celebration and defiance; Divest from big banks, No More Evictions/Foreclosures–including those with HIV/AIDS!
@ 18th and Castro: Community speak out!
3pm-4pm: March on banks, sit-in at Harvey Milk Plaza to denounce Sit/Lie and the criminalization of homelessness.
facebook.com/events/277356195713167
bayoccupride.com/
3:00- 4:30PM: OCCUPY FORTRESS INVESTMENT GROUP
One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, San Francisco, CA 94105
A multi-billion-dollar corporation–who is throwing our neighbors out of their homes–run by vulture capitalists like Peter Briger, FIG Board Co-Chair, who developed their “Financial Services Garbage Collection” strategy. Who’s the garbage according to Briger? That’s homeowners in foreclosure, students who can’t pay their loans, etc. Bring a large garbage bag if you can!
occupybernal.org
3:30 PM: MOVER YOUR MONEY WITH OCUPELLA
Wells Fargo Bank, 2100 Fillmore Street (at California)
Occupella occupy with songs and info about moving accounts to credit unions. Meet on the other side of California Street–Royal Ground Coffee. We need both singers and folks to hand out Move Your Money fliers.
occupella.org
4:00PM: COMPOST YOUR DEBT!
PG & E, 245 Market St.@ Main St
OccupySF Environmental Justice Work Group will meet up at PG&E headquarters with our anti-fracking banner, Shut Down, Not Meltdown signs, and our “Compost your Debt!” flag. We will march to 555 California Street to join in the festivities and actions there beginning at 5 pm.
Sponsored by Foreclosure Fighters of Occupy Bernal, ACCE and Occupy Noe, Occupy SF Direct Action Work Group, Occupy Education–Northern California, Occupy Action Council SF, Occupride/Community Not Commodity, Occupy Monterey, Occupy Santa Cruz, Occupy Bay Area United, Occupy SF Environmental Justice Work Group, SF 99% Coalition, Occupy SF Housing Coalition
Occupy Anniversary on September 17
OCCUPY WALLS ST (WEST): 1 YEAR! MON SEPT 17, 5pm
Monday, September 17, 2012
555 California st @ Kearny st, San Francisco
Commit in the coming year to keep building a movement of the 99% to end the rule by the 1%
OCCUPY THE BANKS
All Day: Occupy, move your money, take creative nonviolent action to confront the banks’ theft and destruction of our communities, homes, environment, education, health care and democracy. Plan an action with your neighbors, group, friends, family, co-workers, congregation, or classmates. Let us
know when/where/what and we will include in our list of actions.
HELL NO, WE WON’T PAY! STRIKE DEBT
5PM MASS CONVERGENCE
Debt Burning (Bring Copies of Your Debt Papers to Burn Symbolically), March, Casserole (Bring Your Pots, Pans and Spoons in the tradition of Argentina, Iceland and Quebec rebellions against 1% austerity), Celebration, Music, Guerilla Movies…
“Debt affects us all. Student debt, mortgage debt, health care debt, credit-card debt, and more: debt is the tie that binds the 99%, and it is a primary engine of Wall Street profits. Are the promises we believed in order to take this debt — of prosperity, of stability, of enfranchisement — even worth the paper our statements are printed on? Debt is ruining the lives of individuals, families, and communities while banks get bailed out. We say enough! Join us as we begin to build a people’s movement to strike debt, break the chains of debt, and to create new bonds of solidarity.”
–from StrikeDebt.org in New York City
All occupy groups, allies and supporters are invited to join and mobilize.
Planning Meetings: The SF Occupy Action Council has agreed to be its organizing/planning hub. The SF Occupy Action Council meets every Sunday, 2-4pm at HERE/UNITE Local 2, 209 Golden Gate Avenue (between Leavenworth/Hyde).
Sponsored by (to date): Foreclosure Fighters of Occupy Bernal, ACCE and Occupy Noe, Occupy SF Direct Action Work Group, Occupy Education–Northern California, Occupy Action Council SF, Occupride/Community Not Commodity, Occupy Monterey, Occupy Bay Area United, Occupy SF Environmental Justice Work Group…
Occupy Anniversary: Mass Converge with Me 17 Sept 2012 #S17 from Peter Menchini on Vimeo.
Foreclosure and Eviction Track of S17 OccuAnniversary Events
The Foreclosure and Eviction Fighters of Occupy Bernal, Occupy Noe, and ACCE-SF consensed on the following three OccuAnniversary events at the regular Saturday 10am meeting:
EVENT#1) Occupy Senior and Veterans Foreclosures and Evictions
What: Press Conference and Protest
Time/Date: 12:00pm (noon) – 1:00pm on Monday, September 17
Venue: San Francisco War Memorial Building
Address: 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
Description: Please join the Foreclosure and Eviction Fighters and supporters of Occupy Bernal, Occupy Noe, and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) for a press conference on and protest of bank’s foreclosures and evictions of seniors, veterans, and disabled folks. The press conference and rally will take place at 12:00pm (noon) on Monday, September 17. This action is in cooperation with the OccuAnniversary events and the Occupy Action Council of San Francisco.
Contact: Occupy Bernal, info@occupybernal.org
EVENT#2) Occupy Fortress Investment Group
What: Protest
Time/Date: 3:00pm – 4:30pm on Monday, September 17
Venue: Fortress Investment Group Offices
Address: One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, San Francisco, CA 94105
Description: Fortress Investment Group (FIG) is a multi-billion-dollar corporation run by vulture capitalists like Peter Briger, FIG Board Co-Chair, who developed the corporation’s “Financial Services Garbage Collection” strategy. Who’s the garbage according to Briger? That’s homeowners in foreclosure, students who can’t pay their loans, etc. FIG owns 77 percent of Nationstar Mortgage, which has been purchasing distressed home mortgage debt and foreclosing on homeowners at an accelerating pace. Seven San Francisco homeowners, dubbed the “Nationstar 7″ face evictions and foreclosures by Nationstar at the moment, and FIG has a long history of poor treatment of tenants and alleged violations of tenants rights laws at Park Merced and elsewhere. Please join us to protest the billionaire “garbage” collectors like Peter Briger who are throwing our neighbors out of their homes. Bring a large garbage bag if you can! Brought to you by the Foreclosure and Evictions Fighters of Occupy Bernal, Occupy Noe, and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) San Francisco, in cooperation with the San Francisco Tenant’s Union, the Occupy SF Housing Coalition, and the Occupy Action Council of San Francisco.
EVENT#3) Occupy Anniversary Mass Convergence
What: Protest
Time/Date: 5:00pm – 7:00pm on Monday, September 17
Venue: Bank of America and Goldman Sachs Offices
Address: 555 California Street @ Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
Description: OCCUPY WALLS ST (WEST): 1 YEAR! MON SEPT 17, 5pm
Monday, September 17, 2012
555 California st @ Kearny st, San Francisco
Join us on Facebook!
Commit in the coming year to keep building a movement of the 99% to end the rule by the 1%
OCCUPY THE BANKS
All Day: Occupy, move your money, take creative nonviolent action to confront the banks’ theft and destruction of our communities, homes, environment, education, health care and democracy. Plan an action with your neighbors, group, friends, family, co-workers, congregation, or classmates. Let us
know when/where/what and we will include in our list of actions.
HELL NO, WE WON’T PAY! STRIKE DEBT
5PM MASS CONVERGENCE
Debt Burning (Bring Copies of Your Debt Papers to Burn Symbolically), March, Casserole (Bring Your Pots, Pans and Spoons in the tradition of Argentina, Iceland and Quebec rebellions against 1% austerity), Celebration, Music, Guerilla Movies…
“Debt affects us all. Student debt, mortgage debt, health care debt, credit-card debt, and more: debt is the tie that binds the 99%, and it is a primary engine of Wall Street profits. Are the promises we believed in order to take this debt — of prosperity, of stability, of enfranchisement — even worth the paper our statements are printed on? Debt is ruining the lives of individuals, families, and communities while banks get bailed out. We say enough! Join us as we begin to build a people’s movement to strike debt, break the chains of debt, and to create new bonds of solidarity.”
from StrikeDebt.org in New York City
All occupy groups, allies and supporters are invited to join and mobilize.
Planning Meetings: The SF Occupy Action Council has agreed to be its organizing/planning hub. The SF Occupy Action Council meets every Sunday, 2-4pm at HERE/UNITE Local 2, 209 Golden Gate Avenue (between Leavenworth/Hyde).
Sponsored by (to date): Foreclosure Fighters of Occupy Bernal, ACCE and Occupy Noe, Occupy SF Direct Action Work Group, Occupy EducationNorthern California, Occupy Action Council SF, Occupride/Community Not Commodity, Occupy Monterey, Occupy Bay Area United, Occupy SF Environmental Justice Work Group.
