Poor Peoples Decolonize (Occupy) from Oakland to San Francisco

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Tiny
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p emOn Thursday, November 10th , poor, indigenous, span data-scayt_word="mamaz" data-scaytid="1"mamaz/span, span data-scayt_word="daddyz" data-scaytid="3"daddyz/span, sons, daughters from POOR Magazine/span data-scayt_word="Prensa" data-scaytid="5"Prensa/span span data-scayt_word="POBRE" data-scaytid="6"POBRE/span and span data-scayt_word="folx" data-scaytid="7"folx/span in solidaritynbsp; with Occupy Oakland and Occupy SF marched, spoke, and peacefully span data-scayt_word="DECOLONIZED" data-scaytid="8"DECOLONIZED/span! - the span data-scayt_word="govt" data-scaytid="9"govt/span spaces and places poor, landless and indigenous span data-scayt_word="mamaz" data-scaytid="2"mamaz/span, span data-scayt_word="daddyz" data-scaytid="4"daddyz/span, youth, span data-scayt_word="im" data-scaytid="10"im/span/span data-scayt_word="migrante" data-scaytid="11"migrante/span workers, elders and ancestors struggle with, get criminalized, incarcerated, deported and harassed by and are occupied with on the daily in span data-scayt_word="AMerikkka" data-scaytid="12"AMerikkka/span. /emWe *span data-scayt_word="Decolonized" data-scaytid="13"Decolonized/span because these lands on turtle island are ALREADY Occupied, colonized and stolen indigenous land!/p p nbsp;/p p strongspan data-scayt_word="Decolonize" data-scaytid="14"Decolonize/span #1 Oakland span data-scayt_word="Po'Lice" data-scaytid="15"Po#39;Lice/span station - 7th n Broadway/strong/p p From the span data-scayt_word="Po'Lice" data-scaytid="16"Po#39;Lice/span who criminalize, arrest, incarcerate and/or harass span data-scayt_word="po" data-scaytid="18"po/span folks, workers and youth for sitting, sitting, standing, working or convening in public while span data-scayt_word="po" data-scaytid="19"po/span#39; black, brown or young... Who cooperate with ICE#39;snbsp; (immigration Customs Enforcement) racist, fascist span data-scayt_word="S-COMM" data-scaytid="20"S-COMM/span law even span data-scayt_word="tho" data-scaytid="21"tho/span Oakland is supposedly a sanctuary span data-scayt_word="city...and" data-scaytid="17"city...and/span who occupy#39; and perpetrate murder in our poor neighborhoods of color under the guise of safety and security.../p p nbsp;/p p strongspan data-scayt_word="Decolonize" data-scaytid="22"Decolonize/span #2 Housing Authority/HUD/strong/p p To Housing Authority/HUD who have thousands of span data-scayt_word="houseless" data-scaytid="24"houseless/span families and elders on section 8 and public housing wait-lists for 5, 10 and 15 years, in San Francisco and Oakland and all across Turtle Island - who instituted the One strike law to assist in the public housing span data-scayt_word="GetntriFUKation" data-scaytid="25"GetntriFUKation/span project - span data-scayt_word="ie" data-scaytid="26"ie/span evicting and removing families from public housing so they could be span data-scayt_word="re-devil-oped" data-scaytid="27"re-devil-oped/span into affordable public/private housing units that are only affordable to some span data-scayt_word="people...and" data-scaytid="23"people...and/span whose already stripped and hardly existent budget now faces a 30% budget genocide cut which like our span data-scayt_word="compas" data-scaytid="28"compas/span at WRAP (Western Regional Advocacy Project) have reported many times, will mean there is nothing left in the housing budget AT ALL/p p nbsp;/p p strongspan data-scayt_word="Decolonize" data-scaytid="29"Decolonize/span # 3 Alameda County Social Services (Welfare)/strong/p p To Social span data-scayt_word="SErvices" data-scaytid="33"SErvices/span who have already cut general assistance( welfare) down to 9 months for single, jobless adults ( so we starve for the rest of the 3 span data-scayt_word="mos" data-scaytid="34"mos/span of the year)nbsp; to endless paperwork and obstacles thrown at poor families to discourage us from even pursuing welfare like our span data-scayt_word="compas" data-scaytid="30"compas/span at Homeless Action Center (span data-scayt_word="HAC" data-scaytid="35"HAC/span) advocate span data-scayt_word="po" data-scaytid="31"po/span folks thru to the proposed budget genocide of the Food stamps program and span data-scayt_word="Calworks" data-scaytid="36"Calworks/span- both of which enable span data-scayt_word="po" data-scaytid="32"po/span families to feed our babies and without which we could not survive .../p p nbsp;/p p strongspan data-scayt_word="Decolonize" data-scaytid="37"Decolonize/span #4 Immigration, Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Francisco/strong/p p To ICE which systematically separates, criminalizes, profits and incarcerates millions of poor workers, mothers, fathers, elders and children caught up in the span data-scayt_word="diaspora" data-scaytid="38"diaspora/span of false borders created based on white supremacist, colonizer created maps across span data-scayt_word="Pachamama" data-scaytid="39"Pachamama/span/p p nbsp;/p p Love n respect to International Indian Treaty Council, span data-scayt_word="Idriss" data-scaytid="40"Idriss/span span data-scayt_word="Stelly" data-scaytid="41"Stelly/span Foundation, Education Not Incarceration, Homeless Action Center, Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) San Francisco Bay View, span data-scayt_word="Sf" data-scaytid="42"Sf/span Living Wage Coalition, POOR Magazine, Peoples of color Caucus at Occupy Oakland,nbsp; United span data-scayt_word="Playaz" data-scaytid="43"Playaz/span, span data-scayt_word="Dignidad" data-scaytid="44"Dignidad/span span data-scayt_word="Rebelde" data-scaytid="45"Rebelde/span, and all the removed, silenced and landless peoples across span data-scayt_word="pachamama" data-scaytid="46"pachamama/span/p
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