NOTE LOCATION CHANGE AGAIN THIS WEEK!!!

May 25, Saturday 11:00 am (meet at Union Square, SF)

12:00 Noon March to Bradley Manning Plaza

March Against Monsanto

Calling for Labeling of GMOs so that consumers can make informed decisions. Repealing relevant provisions of the US’s “Monsanto Protection Act.” Calling for

further scientific research on the health effects of GMOs. Holding Monsanto-supporting politicians accountable through direct communication, grassroots journalism,

social media, etc.

https://www.facebook.com/events/561714507193261/

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE THIS WEEK!!!

The SF Commune, a community center and social space for organizers in the Ocean View district of the city, was raided early this morning, Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. Over twenty people were evicted from their home and social center and four arrested as SWAT team and SFPD moved into the before abandoned building to push people to the curb and maintain homelessness in the city.

Tonight, the SF Commune and all in solidarity with direct action to alleviate the housing crisis and homelessness will march throughout the Ocean View neighborhood to call for an end to evictions and foreclosures in San Francisco by banks and police.
Gather at Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center at Capitol Avenue and Lobos Street, San Francisco at 5pm to get ready to march at 6pm through the Ocean View and call for an end to evictions and foreclosures by banks, developers, and the police.

When the SF Commune moved into 200 Broad Street over a year ago on Easter Sunday the building was filled with needles, broken glass, and buckets of human feces. The group worked for weeks cleaning up the building, moving out all the hazardous materials and disposing of them properly, and turning the building into a livable home and organizing space. With freshly painted walls, cleaned floors, a rebuilt kitchen, working electricity and running water, the group started to put their attention to the neighborhood beyond themselves. Participating in and organizing free food programs, art projects, community gatherings, and social justice activism, the SF Commune found themselves with their need met and now able to address the needs of others.

see the whole article

http://publicbankinginamerica.org/conference-2013.htm

OccupyForum presents…

Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!

Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue

on all sides of these critically important issues!

The Bradley Manning Support Network and Courage to Resist:

Update on the Trial of Bradley Manning 

Occupy Forum continues Monday, May 13th 6:00 – 9 pm at Global Exchange

2017 Mission Street (at 16th St) second floor near the 16th Street BART Station

 “If you had free reign over classified networks… and you saw incredible things, awful things…

things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored

in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do?” 

Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning, a 25-year-old Army intelligence analystwho released the Collateral Murder video that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. Manning also shared documents known as the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and a series of embarrassing US diplomatic cables. These documents were published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and they have illuminated such issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq along with a number of human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy. Given the war crimes exposed by these documents, PFC Bradley Manning should be given a medal of honor. Not a single person has been harmed by the release of this information. Yet the Obama administration has chosen to persecute the whistle-blower rather than prosecute the war criminals who were exposed.

 After more than three years of imprisonment, including nine months of torture, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Bradley Manning’s trial is finally scheduled to begin June 3, 2013 at Fort Meade, Maryland. The outcome of this trial will determine whether a conscience-driven 25-year-old WikiLeaks whistle-blower spends the rest of his life in prison. Bradley believed that the American people have a right to know the truth about what our government does around the world in our name. We the People must send a message to the military prosecuting authority and to President Obama that Bradley Manning is a patriot and heroic truth-teller.

June 1st is the International Day of Action to Support Bradley Manning on the eve of his court martial. OccupyForum will educate and mobilize us to join with the Bradley Manning Support Network to free Bradley Manning. The Bradley Manning Support Network is a grassroots effort involving thousands of people and organizations around the world advocating for the freedom of WikiLeaks whistle-blower PFC Bradley Manning by raising money for his legal fees, promoting public education, and organizing creative actions to gain media attention and influence our officials.

Emma Cape, Campaign Organizer – Emma, an advocate for social justice, human rights and environmental protections, believes that saving Bradley is as important as anything she’s worked on, because the information attributed to him sheds light on a system of foreign policy that routinely hides abuse from public scrutiny. Freeing Bradley is key to holding our leaders accountable and creating a more just and sustainable future.

Farah Muhsin Al Mousawi, Assistant Campaign Organizer – Farah was born and raised in Iraq. She has been living in the United States since 2008. Farah joined the Iraqi Student Project in 2007 and is a member of the Civilian Soldier Alliance. She is the recipient of the Martin Luther King Junior award presented by the Human Rights Commission in Marin County.

Michael Thurman, Campaign Support  – Michael Thurman is a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) era Air Force veteran. Michael’s military experience, specifically working with surveillance aircraft, led him to oppose our nation’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. With the help of Courage to Resist, Michael received an honorable discharged as a conscientious objector. Today Michael is a Courage to Resist staff organizer working in support of accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and national special events.

Time will be allotted for Q&A and open discussion. Monday May13th: 6:00 – 9 pm.

2017 Mission Street, second floor #200, near Mission and Sixteenth Street BART

Donations to OccupyForum to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away!

The second Strike Debt Bay Area Debtors’ Assembly will be held in San Francisco on Saturday, May 18. The Debtors’ assembly will meet from 2 to 5 pm at the office of Unite Here, 209 Golden Gate Avenue, near Civic Center BART.  Strike Debt is starting to break down the shame, fear and isolation surrounding debt.  The Debtors’ Assembly is a chance to talk with other people, sharing personal experiences and developing ideas for collective action in response to debt.  The assembly will also include an introduction to the Strike Debt movement and a presentation putting personal and municipal debt into the context of modern capitalism.  For more information go to strike-debt-bay-area.tumblr.com

Anonymous OpUSA begins May 7th

OpUSA is a cyber campaign to deface and release emails from US government and bank websites for War Crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The hacking operation was said to begin on May 7th, but things got started a day early with over 1000 websites having already been defaced as of midnight. Here is a list of the early hacks.

Compared to typical Anonymous Ops, OpUSA appears to have a large group of Islamic hacking cr3ws participating.

One month ago, on April 7th, OpIsrael was launched with over $3 billion in damage, hacking 100,000 Israeli websites, 40,000 Israeli Facebook accounts and 30,000 Israeli bank accounts.

The Department of Homeland Security issued an unclassified internal warning, stating “The attacks will likely result in limited disruptions and mostly consistent of nuisance-level attacks against publicly accessible web pages and possibly data exploitation,”, according to  KrebsOnSecurity.com.

The FBI’s Cyber Division issued a memo, obtained by ABC News, warning that 140 banks were among the targets.