Who: Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly of veteran Oakland area labor organizers

What: Urgent Call to Alameda Labor Council for Labor Defense of Occupy Oakland

Why: Threat of Imminent Police Action to Attack and Evict Occupy Oakland

When: November 12, 2011



The following urgent proposal was unanimously adopted today at an ad hoc Labor Activist Assembly, and signed by more than 30 veteran labor activists:

We, the Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly, in light of the imminent threat of police action to evict Occupy Oakland, call on the Alameda Labor Council Executive Board to adopt and implement the following:

The Alameda Labor Council declares the Occupy Oakland encampment to be a sanctioned picket line. The Council's Executive Board calls on every one of its affiliates to immediately mobilize members to defend the encampment, dispatching pickets in shifts, beginning tonight (November 12) and continuing as long as the threat persists.

SIGNATURES (organizations listed for identification only)

Jack Gerson, OEA retired

Zev Kuithy, CFT

Susan Schacher, Peralta Federation of Teachers

Bob Mandel, OEA/AFT retired

Peter Brown, Peralta Federation of Teachers

Steve Miller, OEA

Loretta Franke, Operating Engineers retired

Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 retired

Stan Woods, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee

Richard Tan, Librarian

Pete Turner, IFTPE 21

Henry Johnson

Richard Mellor, AFSCME 444 retired

Robert Irminger, IBU/ILWU

Caray Dau,ILWU 6

Adam Balou, Occupy Oakland

Jenna Woloshyn, IBT 10

John Reimann, IWW

Matt Meyer, BFT

Marcus Holder, ILWU 10

Mary Beth Schuler

Mike Parker, UAW 1700

Bill Balderston, OEA

Bill Cherneau, SEIU 1021

Ruth Maguire, Grandmothers against the war

Ying Lee, BFT retired

Ann Weills, National Lawyers Guild

Michael Rubin, SEIU

Rosalind Makris OEA

Dave Welsh, Letter Carriers 214

Frank Martinez Campo, SEIU 1021