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You're invited to an
EVICTION RESISTANCE PARTY
The evening of Tuesday, Oct. 24
through Wednesday morning,
as long as necessary.
The camping community HERE/THERE has been practicing consensus government and responsible urban camping at its present location for more than nine months. Multiple members of City Council have called us "a model community". So why has "someone" in the city government told BART to get rid of us?
We were only given three days notice: they will seize our property and force us onto the street some time on Tuesday. This eviction order is illegal. Help us resist it by coming out to shout at the pigs and enjoying a potluck Eviction Resistance Party. Tuesday evening through Wednesday morning, as long as necessary. Also, you can contact Lateefah Simon, the BART board director for our district, through https://www.lateefahforbart.com/contact and Rebecca Saltzman, chair of the BART Board of Directors whose district represents many people in Berkeley and Oakland:
Rebecca Saltzman, Chair, BART Board, Director, District 7 Rebecca.Saltzman@bart.gov @rebeccaforBART 510 464-6095
COPS GO HOME
Bring a camera. This is also a good time to donate food, water, and any kind of survival equipment.
If they do manage to evict us, we're going straight to City Hall, where we're going to raise a hell of a ruckus. In that event, we will need help with transport and temporary storage of property. So maybe bring a pickup or a van, just in case?
We are calling upon sober activists to begin the process of camping out, and helping out the campers in any and all ways possible. It's becoming a protest occupation again, although there is legal precedent for legal camping at above said location. Because of the death of a Trans woman on the other side [literally,] of the BART tracks and the separatist camping of that group which is noted by almost all of the resident and commercial citizens in that neighbourhood. [Merely the distinction, the activist camp of F.W.C.F.T.H. most notably requires sobriety.] This seems like yet another Oscar Grant moment for the activist community, of which there have been many, however much fewer relative to recent activity by BART, at least in the East Bay. We are expecting the authorities to arrive Tuesday morning, although it is thought that there is some possibility of the BART authorities honouring the 6 pm time-line of Tuesday, October 24th. It should be noted that the encampment has lasted in that location for ten months, and that the more nomadic chronology is at least a few years on going. Genocide is a tactic of the 1%. We demand an alternative camping location. We demand to know what is the contextualization for the trespassing notice, given legal context to the contrary in recent history. We demand not to be corralled like slaves and chattel. Because of that specific camp and it's location homeless activists have, received housing, found jobs, created social continuity, received food and some psychological relief to the nightmare that is economic inequality's first victim of consequence. The poor, the houseless. The banks can evict whoever they want because they are tools of the 1% / oligarchy. Their foreclosure homes can lay vacant for decades while others freeze outside, or in the summer suffer from heat exhaustion. The banks received an economic slap on the wrist for their part in the financial crisis. Local government should evict the banks from bank owned vacancies and lend a hand to the disenfranchised because greed and avarice are actually crimes. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
3350 Adeline Street, Berkeley
63rd Street & Adeline
about 5 blocks south of Ashby BART station
west side of the BART tracks just north of the Oakland/Berkeley border
near the Sweet Adeline bakery
at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 24
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