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The strategy meeting for how to keep tasers out of Berkeley. We’ll talk about how to run this campaign and what’s our strategy. Sponsored by Berkeley Copwatch.
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Featuring scenes from the recent May Day march in Havana, “May Day in Havana 2014,” is a short video presentation produced by Jonathan Nack.
Steve Martinot will speak about contemporary developments in Cuba and its international relations. Mr. Martinot has been involved in Cuba solidarity work since 1960 and has led tours to Cuba. His talk will examine the U..S. embargo and the origins of U.S. hostility to Cuba; and will present an overview of the inner social dynamic of political process and political changes on the island. .
Following that, there will be ample time for audience participation in an open discussion in which experiences, views, and ideas about Cuba and solidarity with its struggles.
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. KPFA management is replacing 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/
On Monday, with the support of the community, the Morning Mix hosts continued to broadcast in spite of attempts to remove it from the air, but was not able to reenter the studio the following day. 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:
Saturday, May 31, 2014
10am
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.
A rally to support the Salinas Police Department has been organized for Sat. from 11am-2pm. This is a response to that rally. The Direct Action Monterey Network and our comrades in Salinas are mobilizing for a counter demonstration because a pro-cop rally in response to what’s been going on is a pro-murder-of-Latino-farmworkers rally and can not be left unanswered.
This is not about specific cops or their personal attitudes and beliefs. This is about exposing the Salinas PD for being the violent, oppressive institution that it is. Their daily intimidation and harassment, as well as these recent murders, reinforces a racist, exploitative system. We are standing up to them, as well as to those members of the community who are voicing their support for such an institution.
http://www.facebook.com/events/824296990931334/
OAKLAND: BUS FROM OAKLAND, MEET AT OGP 11:00AM
For all those who have suffered police brutality
please join us, and speak out about the corruption in San Joaquin county that affects us all.
When?
Saturday May 31st 2014 for the 3rd annual Speak out for victims of police violence/brutality. Bring your friends, invite your friends. In 2010 16 year old James Rivera Jr, was driving a mini van that was violently forced off of the road by multiple Police units. The vehicle was forced to crash, going through two residential garages, rendering the vehicle immobile. Stockton Police officers Gregory Dunn and Eric Azarvand, with deputy Sheriff John Nesbit, got out of their patrol cars and within seconds opened fire on James. A total of forty eight rounds entered the childs body from the sides and behind, killing him at the scene. Eric Azarvand, is said to have been firing with an AR-15 assault rifle. James’ family still has not received the police reports, video or picture evidence, or James’ personal property. Join his family and other members of the community who support the family or have been victims themselves.
Speakers for other families who have been victimized by the Police are expected to be attending, as well as our brothers and sisters from the East Bay area who will be coming out to support these families, and give some educational speeches about the commonalities of police violence taking place almost daily, and all around us.
If you are against Police Violence, if you or a loved one has ever been subject to non warranted police attacks, you need to be here on the 31st of May, and have your voice heard.
JUSTICE FOR JAMES RIVERA JR
JUSTICE FOR DONALD RAY HAYNES
JUSTICE FOR ANGEL SAUCEDA.
END POLICE TERRORISM.
If the Government Won’t, the People Will…..
STOP CRUDE OIL BY RAIL SHIPMENTS TO RICHMOND!
Stop pollution of our communities and our climate!
PROTEST AT KINDER MORGAN’S RAIL YARD
SHUTTLES WILL PROVIDE RIDES FROM RICHMOND BART — 12:15-12:30 pm
Meet at Castro St. entrance to Kinder Morgan train yard between entrance to Chevron Refinery/Hwy 580 &
Hensley Street, close to Hensley across Castro Street from General Chemical’s entrance at525 Castro Street.
(Closet parking is up Hensley Street)
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a permit to Kinder Morgan to operate its crude-by-rail project to import highly explosive and toxic crude oil into Richmond, a low income community of color already burdened by pollution caused by the fossil fuel industry. BAAQMD issued the permit without public notice or opportunities for public comment. The number of trains carrying crude oil has risen dramatically due to increased drilling in both the Alberta tar sands in Canada and the Bakken shale oil area of North Dakota, and the number of serious accidents has also increased.
We the people must raise our voices and send a loud and clear message that more pollution from dirty crude oil and tar sands is not acceptable in the bay area or anywhere else.
KEEP THE OIL IN THE GROUND!!
Sponsors: West County Toxics Coalition, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Sunflower Alliance, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More/SF Bay, ANSWER/SF, Communities for a Better Environment, Environmental Justice Air Quality Coalition, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Global Community Monitor, Forest Ethics
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Policy brainstorming to generate specific recommendations for community-based public policies.
FREE! DELICIOUS FOOD! CHILD CARE!
party live bands pot luck protest against police terrorist 4 am eviction of last residents this week consisting of assault weapons dirt bikes vans residents weresent to santa rita prison even though tey were on charged with campinglater that day Elliot Huges was snached by albany police and charged with 2 fellonies and 56000 bail.check out sharethebulb.org and facebook,com/sharethebulb
Lots of reasons to stop by the farm this Sunday June 1st!
The 1.5 acres of the farm we planted out on April 26th are taking off, and right now we are producing many pounds of delicious greens. Lettuces and kale, chard, mustard greens, etc. Perfect for salad and stir frys! We’ll be weeding and harvesting! And you can take some fresh and healthy food home with you (bring paper bags if you have them!).
Also this Sunday, two of your favorite farmers will be celebrating a joint birthday party, with a bbq grill and possibly some a fiddling or other music. And on a sadder note, one of your other favorite farmers will be leaving us and is moving away for good. So come down to say “happy birthday”, “goodbye”, or “nice to meet you” 🙂
Regular open hours are 3:30pm-7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10am-4pm on Sundays. Updates and more can be found on gilltractfarm.wordpress.com.
UPDATE:
There are some places in this world that are too good to be true, and when they are true, when those places exist, it is almost inevitable that groups of powerful people will want control over them. It is almost inevitable that they will do anything in their power to prevent these places from being enjoyed by those they deem unworthy. It is almost inevitable that these places will be commodified, bought and sold. It is almost inevitable that these places will cease to exist…almost. The Albany Bulb is a place that is too good to be true, and yet, there it sits in very true beauty. It looks across the San Francisco Bay through its wild plant life and painted surface past curved rebar and steel. The sun shines on its face as this old landfill exists as a free space, a space where people and animals come to find some peace, some air. In the wake of the City of Albany’s decision to evict Bulb residents and to continue its war on poor people, residents and supporters have rallied together to defend this space. They have fought the eviction of residents on many levels and continue to fight even after most of the residents have left. Supporters and residents have defied the almost inevitable odds of keeping this space alive.
In the last few days, they have been faced with another inevitable reality. The repression of the City, its Police and its (in)justice system have begun to target residents and supporters. On the evening of Tuesday, May 27, a vocal supporter was arrested in the city of Albany and remains in custody. The repression continued when on Thursday May 29, 12 officers came in at 4 in the morning to roust 2 residents and 1 supporter.They arrested them and their animals and destroyed their home of 7 years. The 3 were later released and the residents are now struggling to pick up the pieces of the place they have called home for so long, the place that was too good to be true. This malicious act was a reaction to growing resistance to the eviction of residents. It became clear that the city was targeting those who had shown resistance when police arrested another Bulb supporter who was also not on the Bulb at the time. That person remains in custody as well.
There are many almost inevitable story, the story of repression is one of them, but the other almost inevitable story is that when a place is too good to be true it is worth defending. And people who defend those places are worth supporting. Together we are stronger than the inevitable, we are greater than the impossible. The struggle to save the Bulb needs your support, and here are some ways you can help:
1- we have supporters still in jail who need money for bail, please visit this site and donate, any amount helps:
http://www.gofundme.com/9pkg6c
2- check out sharethebulb.org for upcoming events and come out to them
3- come out to the Bulb! it’s beautiful!
This activist was snatched up by police may 28th preventing further work with bulb residents .
On may 29 the next day the 4am police terrorist attack that involved over 20 cops from the Alameda Sheriffs berkley and albany with dirt bikes ,vans ,asault weapons etc. happened .
listen to kpfa archives sat may 31 last story on the 6pm news for more details of Bulb struggle also facebook.com/sharethebulb and sharethebulb.org
Elliot, an active labor organizer and Bulb supporter, was arrested on the Albany Bulb on Thursday. He is charged with
“Prisoner MFG Weapon/Etc”
“Furnish Escape Equipment”
“Appropr Lost Prop – $400”
whatever those things mean. He is being / has been held at Santa Rita over the weekend.
It is unknown at this time whether he has a lawyer or will be assigned a public defender or, really, what is going to happen.
Friend and comrade Elliot was arrested Thursday evening as he left the Albany Bulb, located near Berkeley CA in the east bay area of California. Elliot is a longtime organizer and has been involved in a variety of struggles and campaigns. Recently, Elliot, along with others, have been working with residents of the Albany Bulb, a squattter encampment that is been under attack from the police and local government. Learn more at sharethebulb.org.
Elliot’s capture comes in the wake of the arrest of two of the last bulb residents and the destruction of their house, as well as the arrest of two other Bulb supporters. Elliot is being hit with multiple trumped up charges, including possessing tools to escape from jail and possession of weapons, both felonies, as well as two misdemeanors. His bail is set at $65,000, which means that we need $6,500 to bond him. Please support!
To donate, go to: www.gofundme.com/9pkg6c
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
And we’re fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard.
All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion to include postal banking, and to oppose subcontracting and privatization of services. The California Federation of Teachers passed a resolution in support of opposition to Staples. We need to continue the pressure on Staples and encourage other unions to pass resolutions denouncing the Post Office’s agreement with Staples.
And we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a sale! The Advisory Commission on Historical Preservation came out with its report, recommending that sales of Historic Post offices be halted until the USPS conforms with historical preservation law. Here is our response. Also the Office of Inspector General’s report on the sale of Historic Post Offices came out recently – anything could happen now since Congress’ “request” that no historic Post Offices be sold until it had come out has been honored and no further Congressional request or mandate has come down. Come help us plan our response.
We have joined with other activists in Berkeley to put a ballot initiative on the ballot to rezone the Berkeley Post Office and other areas in the Historic District to prevent privatization, and also to insure a better Downtown Berkeley. We succeeded in getting the necessary signatures; it may be voted on in November.
Encouraging articles have come out recently about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. We held a forum on postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum
Conversation
with David Korten
David Korten will join us to share his current work on a new book and engage in conversation around the central theme – changing our story from one of “sacred money and markets” to one of a “living economy on a living Earth”. He is interested in exploring this theme with members of the Occupy Forum to test the extent to which this frame has potential broad resonance:
“Our defining cultural story determines what we most value as a society and how our institutions structure our relationships with one another and nature. We are in terminal crisis because we have our story badly wrong. To find a path to a viable human future, we must replace the “sacred money and markets” story around which we currently organize with a” sacred life and living Earth” story that acknowledges our nature and reality as living beings born of a living Earth born of a living universe.”
David Korten’s seminal book and international bestseller, When Corporations Rule the World, is considered by many to be the “bible” of the global Living Democracy Movement, and helped explain globalization to thousands. � It has become a modern classic with a message that seems increasingly prophetic with each passing day. Its central message is a clear and unequivocal wake-up call to humanity. Korten also wrote The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism; The Great Turning:
From Empire to Earth Community; Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth
� to Real Wealth,� among others.
Time will be allocated for announcements.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Staff Attorney Mark Rumold will argue before a judge that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) must release key legal opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) regarding Section 215 of the Patriot Act—the law the National Security Agency (NSA) uses to collect telephone records on a massive scale.
Judge: Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers presiding.
Walmart Associates will be on strike to protest Walmart’s illegal retaliation against Associates who have spoken up about inequality and have gone on strike.
We’ll be talking to customers and asking them to support Walmart Associates who continue to highlight the issue of Walmart’s poverty wages deepening income inequality and the impact it has on its workers, customers, and communities as a whole and call on Walmart to raise workers’ wages to $25,000 per year.
Zaki Manian and Janet Weil will host a discussion on a year since Snowden and planning future activism efforts.
Discussion of a year of activism against mass surveillance structured around video clips of significant journalism..
Space is Limited. Please RSVP.
Look for the Strike Debt Bay Area booth somewhere between 24th & 5th streets on Telegraph.
Come hang out and learn about debt! Pick up a copy of the Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual and learn how to fight against your and others debts.