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Copwatch Presents: the Copwatch DeCal Class on Community-based AccountabilityMondays 5-6:30pm. Open to all.
Registration and more info: https://t.co/LdbC7tEcUeThis class includes opportunities for direct field monitoring of police on duty. pic.twitter.com/gyi5Wr2KWC
— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) September 1, 2021
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: A Workshop Series
4 Sessions, Thursdays, 7 p.m. ET: Oct 28, Nov 18, Dec 9, Jan 20
Sponsored by BCRW, Fireweed Collective, and Survived & Punished NY
In this series, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), will present four interactive workshops designed for people working in mutual aid groups. Each workshop provides tools for addressing common obstacles and growth areas for people doing sustained work together to meet basic survival needs in their communities. The workshops are appropriate for people doing work in all-volunteer groups or in groups that have some staffing.
October 28: Workshop 1 – No Masters, No Flakes! (more info here)
Group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
November 18: Workshop 2 – Decision-Making (more info here)
Planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups.
December 9: Workshop 3 – Skills for Abolitionist Practice (more info here)
Giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.
January 20: Workshop 4 – Leadership (more info here)
What does leadership look like in mutual aid groups? Moving together and mobilizing while we fight to survive.
About the Presenter
Dean Spade has been working in movements to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).
What: Global Day of Action to Defund Climate Chaos and Fossil Fuels
Where: 400 Howard St., San Francisco
One of the world’s biggest financier of climate fires, climate chaos and deforestation, BlackRock investments have set the world on fire, from CA to the Amazon. On the eve of the Glasgow climate summit, let’s send them a message to stop funding Climate Chaos:
9am-1pm: STREET MURAL ACTION: Help paint a block-long street mural with paint made from California wildfire ashes and charcoal. Street Mural Action Initiated by: NDN Collective, Idle No More SF Bay, AIM Foothills Central California Chapter, CA MMIWP2S
10:30am-12:30pm: YOUTH MARCH: Join YouthVsApocalypse.org
See also the Facebook event here.
What: COP26 Rebellion March and Rally
Where: Meet at San Francisco Ferry Building
What to Bring: Yourself, Your Friends, Your Allies, Your Colleagues
On November 11 as the COP26 climate summit draws to a close, we must tell the powers that be that we are watching and depending on them to make the right decisions and commitments for our future. We will march with signs, hand crafted puppets, banners, a safety team and each other to demand a safe and healthy planet for future generations.
12:30pm- 1pm: Meet at The Ferry Building, grab signs and get ready to march.
1:00pm-2:00pm: March along the Embarcadero. The route is 2 miles, flat and wheelchair accessible
2:00pm-3:30pm: End march at Aquatic Park near Hyde St. Pier for a rally.
Commit now to showing up at this historic moment:
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: A Workshop Series
4 Sessions, Thursdays, 7 p.m. ET: Oct 28, Nov 18, Dec 9, Jan 20
Sponsored by BCRW, Fireweed Collective, and Survived & Punished NY
In this series, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), will present four interactive workshops designed for people working in mutual aid groups. Each workshop provides tools for addressing common obstacles and growth areas for people doing sustained work together to meet basic survival needs in their communities. The workshops are appropriate for people doing work in all-volunteer groups or in groups that have some staffing.
October 28: Workshop 1 – No Masters, No Flakes! (more info here)
Group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
November 18: Workshop 2 – Decision-Making (more info here)
Planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups.
December 9: Workshop 3 – Skills for Abolitionist Practice (more info here)
Giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.
January 20: Workshop 4 – Leadership (more info here)
What does leadership look like in mutual aid groups? Moving together and mobilizing while we fight to survive.
About the Presenter
Dean Spade has been working in movements to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).
We are the Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force (CEMTF) a Bay Area coalition of elected officials, city & county staff, nongovernmental organizations, youth, environmental activists, social activists, and front line communities addressing the inequities and causes of the climate emergency. We meet Fridays from 9am-noon, from July-November 2021.
Below are our planned meetings. Visit our website to learn more: https://www.cemtf.org/.
July 30th: Fossil Fuel Free Bay Area
August 20th: Clean and Just Transportation
September 17th: Ecological Protection
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: A Workshop Series
4 Sessions, Thursdays, 7 p.m. ET: Oct 28, Nov 18, Dec 9, Jan 20
Sponsored by BCRW, Fireweed Collective, and Survived & Punished NY
In this series, Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), will present four interactive workshops designed for people working in mutual aid groups. Each workshop provides tools for addressing common obstacles and growth areas for people doing sustained work together to meet basic survival needs in their communities. The workshops are appropriate for people doing work in all-volunteer groups or in groups that have some staffing.
October 28: Workshop 1 – No Masters, No Flakes! (more info here)
Group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.
November 18: Workshop 2 – Decision-Making (more info here)
Planning and making decisions together in mutual aid groups.
December 9: Workshop 3 – Skills for Abolitionist Practice (more info here)
Giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.
January 20: Workshop 4 – Leadership (more info here)
What does leadership look like in mutual aid groups? Moving together and mobilizing while we fight to survive.
About the Presenter
Dean Spade has been working in movements to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!,” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book is Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next).