Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Stopa deportation of Occupy Oakland activist Pancho!

Free Pancho now!

Demand that Barbara Lee order ICE to lift the immigration ban on Pancho!
Sign the petition now: http://www.change.org/petitions/free-pancho-now.

For more information and actions you can take click here (PDF).


Free Pancho Now

Pancho while being arrested

Francisco “Pancho” Ramos-Stierle was arrested while meditating at the Oscar Grant Plaza during the second early morning raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment on November 14th. He is currently being held by the Oakland Police Department on $10,000 bail and they plan to turn him over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for immediate deportation. He could be sent to Arizona as soon as tommorrow morning. That means we need to act now!

Pancho is an Oakland resident and a powerful community organizer. He was recently pursuing his PH.D in astrophysics at UC Berkeley but resigned from the program when he learned that his work would be used to promote “safer nuclear weapons.” Pancho has continued his service to the Oakland community through promoting community gardens and organizing against divisive programs such as the ICE-coordinated “Secure Communities”.

As a mediator and activist, Pancho has become an icon of peaceful protest against the unnecessary force the city of Oakland is using against the 99%. Join us in demanding that Senator Barbara Lee intervene forcing ICE to drop the immigration hold on Pancho immediately and that they stop the unjust surveillance of immigrants in Oakland.

The photo of Pancho meditating–as riot police arrest him–has gone viral on Twitter, and Facebook and has been a source of incredible inspiration to many around world. In a note from jail Pancho wrote to us saying, “Just tell them I love them all. Great space to meditate!” Now it is time to demand the freedom of our brother as we speak out against police crackdowns, unjust U.S. immigration policies and support this growing movement against Wall Street greed.

Saturday, November 05, 2011

Angela Davis speaks on Occupy Oakland - General Strike 02-11-11

Video footage of Angela Davis giving one of the opening speeches on the morning of November 2, 2011--The day of the first General Strike in Oakland since 1946.

Her speech is followed by an announcement stating that the Longshoreman's Unions has shut down the Port of Oakland in solidarity with the Strike.




Thousands went on the streets an shut down the port...





and the day ended this way....

Traveler's Aid Building Takeover and Police Response