NYC: Oakland Calls - We Answer: All out in the Streets in Solidarity with Occupy Oakland- Wed., Nov. 2
Wednesday, November
2nd
4pm - Gather at Washington Square Park
March to Zucotti Park - 5pm Rally & March
In conjunction with call from Occupy Wall
Street****
Early Tuesday morning 900 police from a dozen police
agencies in the Bay Area, along with Homeland Security, brutally cracked
down on demonstrators who marched in support of Occupy Oakland. The
demonstrators were marching to reestablish the Oakland occupation, which was
shut down earlier in the day. At least one person was critically injured,
24 year old Iraq war veteran, Scott Olsen, who was struck in the face
with a projectile launched by police. In response to the violent
repression, which included the use of tear gas, guns that
use incapacitating bean bags, batons and the arrests of over 85 protesters, the
General Assembly of Occupy Oakland has called for a Mass Day of Action and a
General Strike in Oakland to take place on Wednesday November
2nd.
We support Oakland's call. In the wake of the
violence used by the police in Oakland, as well as in Atlanta, Chicago,
Denver, Boston, New York and elsewhere, we are asking students
and community organizations, unions, anti-war groups, all progressive
organizations and individuals across the country to take to the streets in
solidarity. Defend Oakland! Defend all the
occupations!
We Are
Oakland • Stop
Police Brutality • We Shall
Not be Moved
Supported by (list in formation):
Bail Out the People Movement, Labor-Community Forum/South Bronx
Community Congress; May 1 Workers & Immigrant Rights Coalition,
Cynthia McKinney; Clarence Thomas, Co-chair Million Worker March, Exec. Bd
member ILWU Local 10*, Bay Area; Council on American Islamic Relations,
New York Chapter (CAIR-NY); BAYAN USA, United National Antiwar
Coalition; The Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan NY (Majlis
Ash-Shura) Social Justice Committee; International Action Center; SEIU
Local 32BJ* Latino Caucus - Ed Figueroa-Chair; Charles Jenkins, VP
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Larry Hales, New Yorkers Against the
Budget Cuts; Mike Eilenfeldt-Delegate-NYC Central Labor
Council* Ramsey Clark - Awarded UN Human Rights Award, former U.S.
Attorney General, Teresa Gutierrez-International Migrant Alliance*; Lucy
Pagoada-Honduras-USA-Resistencia; La Peña del Bronx; Trabajadoras por La
Paz; Frantz Mendes, Pres. United Steelworkers Local 8751, Boston School Bus
Union; John Parker, President, Los Angeles Empowerment Congress Central Area
Neighborhood Council*; All Peoples Congress, Baltimore; Reverend C. D.
Witherspoon, President, Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference;
Andre Powell, AFSCME delegate, Baltimore Metropolitan AFL-CIO Council*; Puerto
Rican Alliance, Los Angeles; Carlos Montes, LA Committee to Stop FBI
Repression, Right to the City
*=for ID only
ALSO:
Wed Nov. 2 at 10 am
At: One Police Plaza, Demand that the cops who killed
Sean Bell be fired.
Attend NYPD disciplinary hearings.
Wed. Nov. 2 at 6:30 pm
At: The International Action Center,
55 W 17th St, Suite 5C, New York, NY
CAIR-NY continues the fight against discriminatory police spying
unit
2nd Strategy Meeting to discuss the NYPD-CIA “Demographics
Unit” spying in the New York Muslim community
CONTACT: CAIR-NY Civil Rights Manager Cyrus McGoldrick, Phone:
203-206-6883, Email:
cmcgoldrick@cair.com
REMINDER: Sat. Nov 5
A PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY ABOUT SPREADING THE OCCUPY WALL STREET
MOVEMENT
You are invited to a People’s Assembly
on ., November 5 at Hostos
Community College in the South Bronx. Sat
The Assembly will take place from 12 noon -
4pm at the College’s Savoy Manor, located at 149th Street
and Walton Ave., one block west of the 149th St. & Grand Concourse subway
station. (# 2, 4, 5, subway)
The November 5th Assembly will serve as a counter-meeting to the
G-20 Summit in France in the first week of November. The G-20 will be dominated
by leaders representing the super-rich of the world, including President Obama,
as well as the most powerful central bankers and financial officials in the
world. The main agenda item for the G-20 Summit will be agreeing on what new,
horrific austerity measures are to be taken to bail out the big banks of
Europe, and shore up the global capitalist financial system on the backs of the
poor and working-class people of the planet.
The Assembly will also be a timely opportunity for trade unionist,
community and student activists, as well as veteran activists who have been in
the trenches, fighting racism; or for the rights of immigrant workers; or
workers rights; or the rights of the homeless; or against budget cuts and for
jobs for the unemployed, to come together to assess the Occupy Wall Street
movement, and plan how it can be built on by the many who may not have been
involved at its beginning.
To be sure, as the OWS movement has grown, its weaknesses have come into
sharper focus. Is OWS capable of evolving from a social base dominated by
whites, to a broader social base that genuinely encompasses the Black,
Latina/o, Asian, Arab and Indigenous communities?
Will it develop a strong and independent, working class-centered
orientation with an understanding that inequality based on race, religion,
gender, sexual orientation and class are realities that must be confronted as
part of the process of forging real solidarity amongst the 99%?
At the same time, all of us have been inspired by the occupations; indeed,
many of us have already been working to spread them, and to defend them against
police repression.
Moreover, the impact that OWS has had on the labor movement is a clear
sign that the occupations have opened up political space for larger sections of
the working class and the poor to take initiative. Imagine the workers who are
now thinking about the possibility of occupying their work place to fight
layoffs and cutbacks. Imagine the students who are now thinking about occupying
their campuses to fight austerity. Are the unemployed workers now wondering
what could be occupied to dramatize the need for a real jobs?
It is with all of this in mind that we welcome all to participate in the
People’s Assembly. A new front in the struggle has been opened. Will
there be a second or third front? It may very well be up to you.
The People’s Assembly is co-sponsored by: Bail
Out The People Movement • South Bronx Community Congress •
Labor-Community Forum • Peoples Organization For Progress • Haiti
Liberte’ • BAYAN USA • May 1 Workers &
Immigrant Rights Coalition
Endorsed by: Wilfredo Pagan, President, District 12
PA Presidents’ Council • Ramon Jimenez, Bronx Freedom Party •
Charles Jenkins, Executive Bd of TWU Local 100 and VP NY-CBTU • Ed
Figueroa, Co-Chair of Latino Caucus, SEIU Local 32BJ • Teresa Gutierrez,
Deputy Sec General of International Migrants Alliance • Larry Hales, New
Yorkers Against the Budget Cuts • Sara Flounders, United National Antiwar
Coalition • Charlie Twist, Ass’t Shop Steward, NALC Branch 36
• Fred Fret, Shop Steward, DC37 Local 374* – NY Botanical Gardens
• Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March Movement-East Coast… and
many, many others
