Occupy Movement

FIGHT TO KEEP ALL OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPEN! The Oakland School Board is scheduled to vote THIS WEDNESDAY on leasing Santa Fe Elementary to the Emeryville School District, and turning Lazear Elementary over to the Charter School Operators!  We will NOT allow this to go through! Take Direct Action! There is Power in our NUMBERS [...]

Thanks to Occupy Oakland Media for initially hosting this article. FREE SPEECH IS ON TRIAL at the home of the Free Speech Movement, the University of California at Berkeley. On November 9, 2011, the burgeoning Occupy movement spread to the university  campuses, when thousands of UC-Berkeley students rallied to fight fee hikes and the privatization [...]

On March 20, 2012 BAMN leader Yvette Felarca slammed the political witchhunt against her and other Occupy Cal protesters, after being arraigned and issued a stay-away order to be more than 100 yards away from UC-Berkeley campus and all UC property. (Video and transcript below.) YVETTE FELARCA: My name is Yvette Felarca, and I’m with [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Movement celebrates victory today: UC-Berkeley chancellor forced to resign Students also demand that Birgeneau withdraw the criminal charges filed against Nov. 9 protesters before he leaves PRESS CONFERENCE Tuesday, March 13th, 3:30pm MLK Student Union, outside Tully’s Cafe (Bancroft + Telegraph, Berkeley) BAMN and other movement activists will hold a press conference [...]

VICTORY! Monteith Branch Library is Re-opened! 1 down, 3 to go! Build the New Civil Rights Movement – Save Dr. King’s Vision for Detroit We Demand Lincoln, Richard and Mark Twain Libraries be re-opened NOW  and Stop the Decimation of Our Neighborhoods and City! Defend Our Dignity! COME OUT AND USE THE POWER OF OUR [...]

MEDIA RELEASE: The UC-Berkeley library occupiers won their demand to fully restore  the library hours to Fall 2011 levels and hire a full-time new librarian to permanently staff these hours. At about 7:30PM Saturday night, the administration signed a written agreement that fully met the occupation’s demands. The administration signed the following agreement: “1. On Monday, January [...]

NO CUTS TO THE UCB ANTHROPOLOGY LIBRARY OR ANY CAMPUS SERVICES! Our movement is fighting to win. We voted on demands and we intend to win them. Join the occupation of UC-Berkeley’s Anthropology Library! It’s in Rm. 230 of Kroeber Hall, at the intersection of Bancroft + College. The occupation of the Anthropology Library to [...]

VICTORY! Monteith Branch library will reopen next month! Build the New Civil Rights Movement – Save Dr. King’s Vision for Detroit There is Power in Our Numbers–Join BAMN Now is the time for students, young, old and in-between, from Mason, Persing, Nolan, the churches, block clubs, neighbors and everyone to organize and mobilize to keep [...]

Tuesday, January 17:  12 NOON Rally at the Main Library(Cass Side) 1:30 pm: Pack the Library Commission Meeting This Tuesday, January 17, at noon, we have an opportunity to drive forward our fight to victory. If we turn out a large crowd for our rally and fill up the Library Commission meeting room and assert our will, we [...]

Our movement is fighting to win. We voted on demands and we intend to win them. Why we must mobilize to the January 19th UC Regents Meeting: Our enemies are relying on the month long Christmas break to have quelled our movement. They know that when we went home to our families, many of our [...]