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Voting rights: Then and now
In 1964 Alabama, thousands of African American voters were denied their rights and kept away from the polls through intimidating and unconstitutional tactics. As a result, less than 7% of all African American voters were registered even though the community made up a majority of the population.
All of that changed during Freedom Summer�10 memorable weeks where over 700 volunteer students teamed up with local leaders in an historic effort to shatter the foundations of racism in one of the nation’s most segregated states.
Join Bend the Arc, the Berkeley NAACP, the Alameda County Paul Robeson ACLU Chapter, the Berkeley North East Bay ACLU Chapter, and Firelight Media for a special screening of “Freedom Summer,” a film about those who bravely stood up for justice 50 years ago.
Arrive early to secure a seat!
Your voting rights are once again under attack
Following the film, there will be a panel discussion with two participants in “Freedom Summer,”” Linda Halpern and Phil Hutchins, who will speak about past efforts. They will be joined by current leaders in the voting rights movement, Robert Rubin from Bend the Arc and Mansour Id-Deen from the Berkeley NAACP.
Dedicated people acted together 50 years ago to secure our rights and we need to act together again to protect the victories we fought for and won.
Recent revelations of the massive surveillance apparatus of the NSA and U.S. government have raised debate around privacy and security, reinvigorating long standing liberal notions about civil liberty violations. While mainstream America is concerned at the extent of government surveillance, there is very little alarm and in fact a great deal of public support for the continued surveillance of Muslim communities as a potential fifth column of “radicalization” and subversion in a post-9/11 climate.
This conversation will discuss how fears around “extremism” have impacted diverse Muslim communities (Black, Asian, Arab, etc.), and how this fear has reinvigorated the deeper criminalization of non-Muslim black and brown communities in the U.S. In addition, we will explore these concerns and place them within a longer history of government surveillance such as COINTELPRO, and how these policies and practices today have narrowed the scope of dissent.
�What role does race play in understanding government surveillance, and how have these policies masked state violence domestically and abroad?
�How have communities challenged these forces historically and how are they doing so today?
$5-20 suggested donation.
Occupy Monsanto: Action Against Genetic Biohazards.
With music by Fresh Juice Party, Occupella and more.
On Friday, we’ll turn in our signatures to the Oakland City Clerk’s office. We will be holding a press conference beforehand on the City Hall steps and we’d like you to be there.
When our signatures are validated, we will be the first community-run campaign to qualify a ballot initiative in Oakland in five years. That’s quite an accomplishment.
We know that the only way toward raising the minimum wage regionally is for Oakland to lead the way. The damaging proposal in Richmond and the watered down measure in Berkeley shows that only by direct citizen action can we lift up our communities and create a wage were workers can make ends meet.
Thank you again for your efforts. Together we will raise Oakland’s minimum wage to the 12.25 an hour, require paid sick days, and make sure service fees reach the workers performing the service.
The Lift Up Oakland Campaign
If you are one of the 100,000 workers and students that shut down the Port Of Oakland November 2nd, 2011 we are asking you to defend the Bulb with a peaceful picketline. PS: There will also be autonomous actions. Dare to struggle, dare to win! What kind of pie? Occupie.
Orion (510) 541-3835
A single top earner could buy housing for every homeless person in the U.S. Join us for a film screening & panel discussion on how community organizations & labor unions are fighting inequality in the Bay Area.
Presented by the Student Labor Action Project. More on Inequality for All: http://tinyurl.com/m73ssze
Join us to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the bombing of Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. We will gather at 11:30 AM at E. 33rd and Park Blvd in East Oakland (where the car bomb went off) and mark the moment at noon. Speak out, sing out, and pay respects.
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO WATCH THE POLICE!
LEARN WHAT YOU CAN DO!
Can cops just do whatever they want?
Not if you’re WATCHING!
Come to the COPWATCH TRAINING and PRACTICE
– Protecting your neighbors by watching and documenting what police do
– Preventing abuse to yourself by using your legal rights.
– Recognizing and responding to police manipulation techniques
FREE!!
Hosted by Berkeley Copwatch
� Protect our food supply
� Support local farms
� Protect our environment
� Promote organic solutions
� Expose the cronyism between big business and the government (Agribiz)
� Bring accountability to those responsible for the corruption
Please join us on Sunday at 10 AM as the Salinas Community Unites to PEACEFULLY Protest against the Salinas Police Department.
There have been 3 homicides within the last 90 days! Two of which were committed within these past 11 Days!!
The two young men were farmworkers and had their farmworker tools when they were fatally shot multiple times including the face.
We will be gathering today (5/22) at ROSA DE SARON CHURCH at 6:30pm to prepare for Sunday’s March.
Please join us! OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS US! WE MUST ALL COME TOGETHER IN SOLIDARITY!
THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW!!
SALINAS, Calif. (KGO) –Thousands of people are expected in Salinas this weekend for a massive protest against police. Local activists have been demonstrating since Tuesday, after officers shot and killed a man and it was all caught on video.
Protesters believe the shooting was not justified and they point to recent history. This is the third, fatal officer shooting in Salinas since late March…
“Sunday we expect thousands of supporters from outside Salinas coming from the Northern California region, Southern California, leaders from out of state as well, they said their thoughts and prayers are with us,” said Salinas City Councilman Jose Castaneda.
A community meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday at Closer Park.
A BARBECUE FOR HERBIVORES AND CARNIVORES ALIKE
When:
Sunday, May 25
Noon to 10:00PM
Where:
Mike’s house:
3413 Belmont Ave., El Cerrito 94530
Why?
The time of year cries out for a backyard party to ring in the outdoor season, and there’s no more benevolent use for carbon as a fuel than a barbecue. Also, we’ll be saying “Keep in touch” to our great friend Hannah who will be leaving in June for Gomorrah – the City of Angels – with her family.
AND we’re anticipating a visit from Occupy Oakland’s candidate for Mayor – Einstein! Come and meet the candidate and hear his views on Jean Quan, squirrels, and cows!
There will be plenty of music from Mike’s disturbingly eclectic collection. Food will be provided by Eat Don’t Worry, but please – if you can – bring something to share.
The time of year cries out for a backyard party to ring in the outdoor season, and there’s no more benevolent use for carbon as a fuel than a barbecue. Also, we’ll be saying “Keep in touch” to our great friend Hannah who will be leaving in June for Gomorrah – the City of Angels – with her family.
AND we’re anticipating a visit from Occupy Oakland’s candidate for Mayor – Einstein! Come and meet the candidate and hear his views on Jean Quan, squirrels, and cows!
There will be plenty of music from Mike’s disturbingly eclectic collection. Food will be provided by Eat Don’t Worry, but please – if you can – bring something to share.
A BARBECUE FOR HERBIVORES AND CARNIVORES ALIKE
The time of year cries out for a backyard party to ring in the outdoor season, and there’s no more benevolent use for carbon as a fuel than a barbecue. Also, we’ll be saying “Keep in touch” to our great friend Hannah who will be leaving in June for Gomorrah – the City of Angels – with her family.
For more details please visit: https://occupyoakland.org/ai1ec_event/oo-barbecue-herbivores-carnivores-alike/?instance_id=260928
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The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets Sundays, 2-4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. “If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 2:00 PM we meet inside at the Sudoroom, 2141 Broadway, the entrance is on 22nd St between Telegraph and Broadway. Ring the buzzer and say you are here for the OO GA. Directions
We have met on a continuous basis for almost two and a half years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
The bulk of the work of Occupy Oakland does NOT happen in the General Assembly. It happens in various committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives voluntarily come to the GA and report on past and future actions. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
- Announcements
- Discussion Topics
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Occupy Oakland Kitchen Committee: (kitchen@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders: http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Justice 4 Alan Blueford: justice4alanblueford.org
Oakland Privacy Group: oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Albany Bulb Defense: sharethebulb.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: sudoroom.org
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
Protest the cancellation of the Morning Mix, a radio show on KPFA during morning drive time, which was hosted by diverse programmers who are based in the local community. It is being replaced with a show, with one radio personality, that will be piped in from Los Angeles.
Only some Morning Mix segments have been rescheduled, and at times of the day when most working people are at work and unable to listen, including the labor show Work Week Radio (https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio), and Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org/category/radio/).
This removal of the Morning Mix from drive time is part of a larger, ongoing coup, which you can read about here: http://www.unitedforcommunityradio.org/
Support the Morning Mix hosts and real Community Radio.
Rally in front of KPFA:
Monday, May 26, 2014
7am
1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, California
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/23/18756199.php
May 23, 2014
For Immediate Release
Stand Up And Fight Back For Free Speech Radio
“This is Miguel Gavilan Molina. It has come to my attention that this past Wednesday – the same day that Pacifica’s new interim executive director was introducing the staff of KPFA to the three finalists for the general manager position – KPFA’s outgoing interim manager was slashing and scattering the Morning Mix and removing it from the morning.
Whose idea was it to make major changes and have them put in place by a manager in his last days at KPFA? Regardless of who decided this, what reason was there to rush it through, with no prior notice to listeners, instead of waiting for the new manager to come in?
The co-hosts of the Project Censored Show, part of the Morning Mix on Friday mornings, were told by the interim General Manager last Friday that they were pre-empted for the final week of the fund drive, but were moved to the 1 P.M. slot for that week only, and that no program changes would be implemented until a new manager was in place.
I ask, as a former child farmworker, who toiled in the fields of misery, and as a producer on Pacifica for over thirty years: Who is running KPFA? Who is making the decisions?
And what do those people who are killing the Morning Mix, think they are doing to the morale for our newest group of emerging producers? Once again, mostly white people are deciding for the entire KPFA community—mostly black and brown – how things are to be run at KPFA.
It is time to defend this station or lose it: the white-minority ruling group does not have the right to drive through their own changes, which now include destroying the Morning Mix.
One of the Morning Mix crew, Sabrina Jacobs, is now calling for support by the black, brown, Asian, and progressive white staff and the community, to rIse up and support the Morning Mix.
I quote our colleague, Sabrina Jacobs:
“The People of Color that are affiliated with KPFA and Pacifica Radio will not be silenced until the questions of all those concerned are answered. The world outside of this “bubble” that has been created where white supremacy reigns will cease to exist when the necessary changes are made and our demands to be treated equally are heard and executed, post haste.”
Dr. Marc Sapir, a long time generous supporter of KPFA, and a long time activitist said in a widely distributed statement: “The stepping forward of minority programmers along with the rest of the Mix staff can be a signal that this resistance is possible and this could lead to a much improved station and network…”
STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK FOR FREE SPEECH RADIO: LONG LIVE THE MORNING MIX.
This is Miguel Gavilan Molina standing strong for Free Speech Radio, KPFA Pacifica”
After this statement on air Miguel continues to discuss this with Dennis Bernstein on his program; hear more at http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/103089 ; statement at about 28 minutes and 35 seconds into the program.
ACTION PLANNED:
Come to KPFA at 7:00am Monday morning (or as soon afterwards as you can) to support the Morning Mix hosts in objecting to their treatment by KPFA.
1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way at Berkeley Way in Berkeley.
police terrorism that was the main reason people left
may 26th with a overnite camp out and autonomous actions into tuesday may 27 also a BULB LOVERS peacefull picket line tues the 27th noon to 3pm and at 7pm to 9pm a BULB AUTONOMOUS ZONE pot luck music and yak join us if you can . more info at our public access facebook.com/sharethebulb also sharethebulb.org
thanks orion 510 541 3835
youtub.com/orionorion99
The regularly scheduled meeting has been postponed until next week, Monday, June 2nd, at 6:00 PM, at the Downtown Berkeley Post Office at 2000 Allston Way.
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!“There are Solutions”:
Hear from 5 Green Party Candidates
for the June 3rd Election
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The Green Party is the largest political party in the world. In other countries, the candidates are included in all of the debates and are regularly elected to local, state and federal offices. Green Party candidates do not ever take money from corporations.
In the U.S., Green Party Candidates are routinely blocked from participating in debates in and the media ignores their press releases. There are 58 Greens currently in elected positions in California but none of them are at the state level.
Come hear what the media doesn’t want you to hear. You will be delighted and amazed that there are some very basic solutions to our many serious issues right now, as well as the people who know how to carry out those crucial ideas.
� Ellen Brown, candidate for California State Treasurer
� Laura Wells, candidate for California State Controller
� Jena Goodman, candidate for California State Lieutenant Governor
� Luis Rodriguez, candidate for California State Governor
� Barry Hermanson, candidate for US Congress, District 12/San Francisco
Ellen Brown, candidate for California State Treasurer: Our state has the financial ability, right now, to fully fund education, support small business, rebuild our infrastructure, protect homeowners from Wall Street predatory lending, become a leader in protecting our environment while saving money on energy, and significantly expand low-cost public transportation. With a state-owned, public bank we can make all these changes and more. Ellen has written 2 recent books on these issues.
Laura Wells, candidate for California State Treasurer: Laura Wells is a Green no-corporate-money candidate for Controller. She advocates for a State Bank to invest in California not Wall Street. She would “follow the money” with a call to tax the rich (duh); audit the good and bad of old Prop 13; and apply solutions to the problem of California having both the most super-rich people and the highest poverty rate of any state in the USA. She ran for Governor in 2010 and was arrested outside a gubernatorial debate for “trespassing at a private party.”
www.laurawells.org www.nocorporatemoneycampaign.org
@WellsController
Jena Goodman, candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California. Goodman served over 7,000 students as president of the Associated Students of Napa Valley College from 2012-2013. She is also former chair of the Solano County Green Party. She is currently a student at UC Davis studying biodiversity and ecology. Serving as president of the Associated Students of Napa Valley College exposed her to the issues faced by students within the California Community College, University of California, and California State University systems. Goodman believes California’s public schools, colleges and universities hold the key to fixing many of the problems facing California.
Luis Rodriguez, candidate for California State Governor
LA Weekly in 2012 named Luis J. Rodriguez one of the 60 most fascinating people in Los Angeles. Luis is the author of fifteen books in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s literature, including the 1993 memoir, Always Running,� La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. Luis has received recognition for his writings from numerous literary societies and publications including PEN Oakland, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, the Sundance Institute, KCET-TV and others. The Union Bank of California also designated Luis a “Hero of the Community” for his work co-founding and helping run the nonprofit cultural space Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore.
Luis has received recognition as an “Unsung Hero of Compassion” from the Wisdom in Action Foundation, presented by his Holiness, the Dalai Lama. After removing himself from gangs, crime and drugs which he had been exposed to since age 11, Luis at 19 years old embarked on a life-long path of revolutionary organizing, thinking and writing.� In 1976, at age 22, Luis ran for the Los Angeles Unified School Board, impacting future board races for Latinos and progressives. In 2012, he was the Justice Party’s candidate for Vice-President with Presidential candidate and former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. Luis is married to Maria Trinidad Rodriguez and has four grown children.
In October 2013, Luis embarked on an independent campaign for California Governor.
Barry Hermanson, candidate for U.S. Congress, District 12, San Francisco asks: How is it possible that any politician, like Nancy Pelosi, once elected, never again appears before constituents in a candidate forum or debate? There has been no debate in this Congressional District 12 since 1987. Because of the “top two” primary, only one other candidate will appear on the November 2014 ballot as an alternative to Pelosi. Barry Hermanson intends to be that alternative. He is a long-time activist who played a key role in successful local initiatives such as raising the minimum wage, is championing a platform of global living wages, an improved Medicare for All, and no tuition at all community colleges and public universities in California. He currently serves on the SF Green Party County Council.
http://barryhermanson.nationbuilder.com/
police terrorism that was the main reason people left
Join the
Protest the cancellation of the Morning Mix, a radio show on KPFA during morning drive time, which has been hosted by diverse programmers who are based in the local community. KPFA management wants to replace it with a show, with one radio personality, that will be piped in from Los Angeles.
Only some Morning Mix segments have been rescheduled, and at times of the day when most working people are at work and unable to listen, including the labor show Work Week Radio (https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio), and Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org/category/radio/).
This removal of the Morning Mix from drive time is part of a larger, ongoing coup, which you can read about here: http://www.unitedforcommunityradio.org/
With the support of the community, the Morning Mix hosts are continuing to broadcast in spite of attempts to remove it from the air. You can listen to Monday’s broadcast at http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/103151
Support the Morning Mix hosts and real Community Radio.
Rally in front of KPFA, and Direct Action to Keep the Morning Mix on the Air:
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
7am
1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, California
If you can’t make it to the station in the morning, call in during the show between 8am and 9am, at 510-848-4425, or toll free at 800-958-9008, and let the Morning Mix hosts and KPFA management know that you support real community radio and diversity during drive time.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/23/18756199.php
May 23, 2014
For Immediate Release
Stand Up And Fight Back For Free Speech Radio
“This is Miguel Gavilan Molina. It has come to my attention that this past Wednesday – the same day that Pacifica’s new interim executive director was introducing the staff of KPFA to the three finalists for the general manager position – KPFA’s outgoing interim manager was slashing and scattering the Morning Mix and removing it from the morning.
Whose idea was it to make major changes and have them put in place by a manager in his last days at KPFA? Regardless of who decided this, what reason was there to rush it through, with no prior notice to listeners, instead of waiting for the new manager to come in?
The co-hosts of the Project Censored Show, part of the Morning Mix on Friday mornings, were told by the interim General Manager last Friday that they were pre-empted for the final week of the fund drive, but were moved to the 1 P.M. slot for that week only, and that no program changes would be implemented until a new manager was in place.
I ask, as a former child farmworker, who toiled in the fields of misery, and as a producer on Pacifica for over thirty years: Who is running KPFA? Who is making the decisions?
And what do those people who are killing the Morning Mix, think they are doing to the morale for our newest group of emerging producers? Once again, mostly white people are deciding for the entire KPFA community—mostly black and brown – how things are to be run at KPFA.
It is time to defend this station or lose it: the white-minority ruling group does not have the right to drive through their own changes, which now include destroying the Morning Mix.
One of the Morning Mix crew, Sabrina Jacobs, is now calling for support by the black, brown, Asian, and progressive white staff and the community, to rIse up and support the Morning Mix.
I quote our colleague, Sabrina Jacobs:
“The People of Color that are affiliated with KPFA and Pacifica Radio will not be silenced until the questions of all those concerned are answered. The world outside of this “bubble” that has been created where white supremacy reigns will cease to exist when the necessary changes are made and our demands to be treated equally are heard and executed, post haste.”
Dr. Marc Sapir, a long time generous supporter of KPFA, and a long time activitist said in a widely distributed statement: “The stepping forward of minority programmers along with the rest of the Mix staff can be a signal that this resistance is possible and this could lead to a much improved station and network…”
STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK FOR FREE SPEECH RADIO: LONG LIVE THE MORNING MIX.
This is Miguel Gavilan Molina standing strong for Free Speech Radio, KPFA Pacifica”
After this statement on air Miguel continues to discuss this with Dennis Bernstein on his program; hear more at http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/103089 ; statement at about 28 minutes and 35 seconds into the program.
It is a common belief amongst politicians, the public, and even top environmentalist leaders that “clean,” renewable, alternative energy sources can almost completely replace our use of fossil fuels in the foreseeable future — thus allowing global industrial society to continue pretty much as it is. All we have to do is ramp up and perfect the use of renewables such as wind, solar, and hydro power. Not so!
We will discuss the aspects of these methodologies that make it highly unlikely that any one, or any combination of them, can replace fossil fuels. For our discussion we will focus primarily on two articles written by the energy and financial analyst Gail Tverberg, shown below, and other sources will be included as well.
Eight Energy Myths Explained
Ten Reasons Intermittent Renewables (Wind and Solar PV) are a Problem
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street