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The folks in this kettle rang in the New Year with arrests. Let’s show them 2015 will be full of solidarity!
Come out to Wiley Manuel on both Thursday, 01/29 and Friday, 01/30 at 9am in Department 107 for their arraignments!
Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes.
Deliver a message to Boston’s Mayor and the District Attorney on January 30 to:
“DROP THE OUTRAGEOUS ANTI-UNION FRAME-UP CHARGES AGAINST BOSTON SCHOOL BUS DRIVER STEVE KIRSCHBAUM and REHIRE THE 4 FIRED UNION LEADERS!”
This Friday is National Call-in day to Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and District Attorney Daniel Conley.
Team Solidarity – the voice of Boston’s school bus drivers – is asking supporters to call Suffolk County DA Daniel Conley at 617-619-4000 or fax him at 617-619-4210. Tell him to drop the frame-up felony charges against USW 8751 union leader Steve Kirschbaum.
If he is unavailable, be sure to LEAVE A MESSAGE. Just give your name and city and a message: “I’m calling about the anti-union felony charges against union leader Steve Kirschbaum. The charges should be dropped immediately.”
Please call the mayor too at 617-635-4500, fax him at 517-635-2851 or email mayor@Boston.gov. Tell him or leave a message such as: “The charges against Kirschbaum must be dropped immediately and all four unjustly fired school bus union leaders be rehired.”
One more step please: Add a Facebook comment describing the response you get.
6:00 pm and 8:00 pm screenings
KPFA Radio 94.1FM and International House, UC Berkeley, present:
THE THROWAWAYS
An award winning documentary film
With Bhawin Suchak (Director/Producer) & Ira McKinley (ex-felon & homeless filmmaker)
Tickets: 800-838-3006 or at independent bookstores, student discount at door, KPFA benefit
The Throwaways is a timely and provocative look at the impact of mass incarceration and police brutality on black men in America. Told through the eyes of homeless ex-felon Ira McKinley, the film documents his struggle to bring positive changes to his community in inner-city Albany, NY. As he strives to give voice to the people on the streets fighting for survival, McKinley confronts the stigma of being formerly incarcerated. More than an illumination of marginalized people in trouble, this film is a call to action, a narrative of engaging in the fight for justice.
“The Throwaways courageously explores the most pressing racial justice issue of our time: the mass incarceration and profiling of poor people of color.”
-Michelle Alexander, author, The New Jim Crow
WINNER Best Documentary, Long Beach Indie Film
WINNER New York Hi-Light, Harlem International Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION at eight other film festivals
Bhawin Suchak, Director/Producer
Sam Pollard, Executive Producer, an award-winning feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director whose career spans almost thirty years. He has edited several Spike Lee films (Four Little Girls, Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues) and served as the producer for Henry Hampton’s historical civil rights documentary Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads.
Website: http://throwawaysmovie.com
Tickets via Brownpapertickets.
Come hear about the struggles of many people and organizations to fight the huge corporations and governments behind the tar sands projects as Joshua Kahn Russell, editor of A Line in The Tar Sands: Struggles For Environmental Justice, reads from the book and discusses the latest progress in the effort to stop this giant carbon bomb. More details below…..
it’s happening at The Green Arcade (maybe San Francisco’s coolest book store and one that supports critical thinking about, well, everything) at 1680 Market Street @ Gough – 7pm, this Thursday – and it’s free!
Joshua Russell Kahn co-editor of
A Line in the Tar Sands:
Struggles for Environmental Justice
Despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to Indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. Including leading voices involved in the struggle against the tar sands, A Line in the Tar Sands offers a critical analysis of the impact of the tar sands and the challenges opponents face in their efforts to organize effective resistance.
“The tar sands has become a key front in the fight against climate change, and the fight for a better future, and it’s hard to overstate the importance of the struggles it has inspired.” –Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben
“The most important stories in the tar sands struggle are hidden by the media. This revelatory book tells of Canadian duplicity, Chinese capital, migrant workers, healing ceremonies, movement reflection and strategy, EU lobbying, the contradictions of NGO politics, Indigenous activism, and much more. The story of Greenhouse Goo is global. But so it its resistance: beautiful, complex, and rich. A Line in the Tar Sands is drawn with hope and righteous anger, celebrating the cosmologies that the tar sands industry and its politicians�would destrstroy.” Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
Joshua Kahn Russell is a core trainer, facilitator, and action coordinator with The Wildfire Project and the Ruckus Society. He currently serves as the Global Trainings Manager at 350.org, and has trained thousands of activists.
The folks in this kettle rang in the New Year with arrests. Let’s show them 2015 will be full of solidarity!
Come out to Wiley Manuel on both Thursday, 01/29 and Friday, 01/30 at 9am in Department 107 for their arraignments!
Always check Antirepression website and facebook for last minute changes.
Screening of ‘The Throwaways’ w/ discussion around police terrorism and related activism.
Note: Time is uncertain. Not listed in the original posting on the #BlackLivesMatter calendar, and not currently on the Omni calendar.
Long time occupier Kyle is having benefit show to raise funds for cancer treatment tomorrow night https://t.co/EbXGK41c2c Amnesia, SF 7:30pm
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 30, 2015
ALL $ FROM THE DOOR & some proceeds from the bar as well will be donated to Kyle to help him fight cancer.
The planting was a few weeks ago. The gardening work continues. Join us!
More information on the Berkeley Post Office Defense against the sale and privatization here.
Pictures and videos of the soil preparation and planting here.
LOL will be hosting a free Security and Privacy Workshop which will include practical sessions on phone security apps, operational security, risk assessment, and other tools you can use to enhance your safety and privacy across your devices.
Come protest landlord/speculator Ann Kihagi-Swain to get her to stop pushing out tenants in over 10 buildings, with harassment, fake notices, and multiple Owner Move Ins.
Lease violations evictions for minor things are way up in SF, especially from new building owners. Landlord Ann Kihagi-Swain is one of the worst; using multiple names she bought up over 10 buildings this last summer and fall. Soon after buying the buildings she has giving most tenants 3 day notices: for everything from shoes in the hallway, to illegal roommates for partners who have lived there over 10 years, to claiming an elderly tenant is selling drugs. Her and her lawyer, the infamous eviction lawyer Karen Uchiyama, give 3rd and final notices to tenants who never receiving a first notice. She sends tenants threatening texts at all hours and enters their units when they aren’t there.
Help us stop the harassment and keep teachers, seniors and families in their homes. We will meet at Harvey Milk Plaza and march to the landlords home.
In late November the Senate Report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of Torture was released. This report has since been swept under the rug and nearly forgotten.
The Mainstream media, the government and a complicit American public are prepared to forget about the Senate Report on CIA torture AND WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN!
Join organizations and individuals from across the political spectrum for protests, rallies, and gatherings on Saturday January 31st to make sure America and the US government do not go unchallenged.
WAKE UP THE PUBLIC TO TAX PAYER FUNDED TORTURE!
DETAILS:
1. This is Decentralized. Connect with activists in your community and plan rallies, protests, street theater, or reenactments of waterboarding or force-feeding. GRAB THE PUBLIC’S ATTENTION!
2. Create a FB event and post it on the coordinating Facebook page! We will add it to the list below.
3. Create memes, write blogs, contact local media, indy media, talk to friends and families! Use the Hashtag #EndTorture Do whatever you can to spread the word through social media and in real life!
4. INVITE! INVITE! INVITE! Let’s get the invite list over 50,000 people by January 30th. We can do this! Share on FB pages, twitter, and more!
5. Hit the streets, inform the public and change the global conversation.
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EVENTS as of 1/11/15. Check the Facebook page for updates.
Portland, Oregon
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Seattle, Washington
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Houston, Texas
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Leesburg Florida
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St. Pete, Florida https://www.facebook.com/
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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A careful & close analysis of the Haitian Revolution (the world’s first nation of Africans to overthrow slavery)! How does it connect to today?
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HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE
STUDY GROUP
We invite you to be apart of our monthly study group. We use films, texts, and speakers to explore Haiti’s history, current political situation, and make connections to parallel struggles throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Come to this month’s meeting!
The (Ongoing) Haitian Revolution
January 1st marked the 211th anniversary of Haiti’s independence. Join us as we analyze how Haiti gained its independence and discuss the connections to today.
Future Topics include:
The return to dictatorship; mass incarceration and political prisoners; sweatshops and privatization; the ongoing pillaging of Haiti’s resources; labor activism; COINTELPRO tactics in Haiti and the U.S.; racism; parallel struggles in Latin America; and many more!
What would you like to learn about? Send your suggestions!Got an idea for a study group topic? Let us know! Email us at action.haiti@gmail.com, Tweet us, or visit our Facebook page!
Sent by Haiti Action Committee
www.haitisolidarity.net and on FACEBOOK
Learn how to visit people incarcerated in California prisons. Participants will leave knowing how to request and conduct legal visits and social/family visits, and access support that exists for people traveling to prisons.
Please RSVP & complete this poll so we can customize the training: http://tinyurl.com/
This training series will focus on practical skills development for loved ones, activists, legal workers, and lawyers to understand the nitty gritty methods and best practices for supporting people on the inside.
Join us for our upcoming action to demand worker justice at HS Lordships!
As workers all across the U.S. and Bay Area are standing up to demand living wages and fair working conditions, restaurant workers in Berkeley are also defending their right to respectful treatment and healthcare in order to live dignified lives. At HS Lordships, workers have been without a contract for more than four years. At the restaurant, servers make $10 an hour and pay more than $500 per month for family insurance. The company is now proposing that workers pay $800 a month for family insurance. Workers are fighting for affordable medical insurance and saying “no more” to skyrocketing healthcare costs!
“My name is Rocio Ibarra and I have been working for HS Lordships restaurant since February 2000. Throughout these years, I have gained many rights as a result of becoming part of the union. In the last two years, my family, which includes my three sons and husband, has been living without health insurance. Over the last few years, the cost of health insurance at HS Lordships has gotten so high that I have to choose whether to pay for healthcare or rent and food for my children. It is urgent that HS Lordships respects our right to affordable health coverage. I humbly ask for your help in convincing HS Lordships to change its position on the issue. Together we can have a voice. Thank you.”
-Rocio Ibarra, hostess at HS Lordships
Questions or need a ride? Contact Nicole Zapata at nzapata@unitehere.org
www.facebook.com/unitehere2850
UNITE HERE Local 2850
Imani Keith Henry is a longtime activist in the anti-police brutality, anti-war and LGBTQ movements in the US. He is an organizer with The Peoples Power Assembly, which helped to coordinate emergency day of/day after actions in NYC and nationally in response to the Ferguson grand jury decision. Imani has travelled to Ferguson, MO twice and most recently took part in a 36-person civil disobedience action on December 4th in response to the Garner grand jury decision.
1305 Franklin, #411, Oakland 510-600-5800 Workers.org
More on Imani Henry: Imani’s writing has appeared in several publications including the Lambda award winning Does Your Mama Know (Red Bone Press), Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 years of Black LGBT Writing (Other Countries) and Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle, (World View Forum Publishing) and the newly released, Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You, (Against Equality Publishing).
Under the brand, OD For the People, Imani is an Organizational Development Consultant and Diversity Trainer who provides change management services specifically for nonprofits and universities. Imani has a Masters in Social Work from New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and a Masters in Public Administration from The Wagner School of Public Service. Follow Imani on Twitter Imani Henry
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Dear Citizens of the World,
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It has come to our attention that Beavercreek Officer Sean C. Williams has murdered a young, innocent, black man named John Crawford III, while he shopped at Walmart.
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As a result of the gun fire, Angela D. Williams had a heart attack & died. These two innocent people should be alive today.
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This injustice will not go unnoticed.
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The no indictment of the officer responsible has only furthered the indictment a broken system, a system that’s time has come to a close.
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Because of this, we have taken matters into our own hands.
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With the start of #FloodTheStreets, We are bringing an end to this current police state.
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We are calling for a mass protest on February 1st to show support against this tragedy caused by our own public servants.
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Starting at your local Walmart at 11:00PM EST, we will begin to flood the streets, all day, in an act of peaceful civil disobedience.
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Until the grip of the police force has loosened, our grip grows tighter.
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That is not a threat.
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That is a promise.
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This is not a fad, we are not going away.
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The mass protests will continue.
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The shut downs will continue.
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This is only the beginning.
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We are Anonymous.
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We are Legion.
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We do not Forgive.
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We do not Forget.
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Expect Us.
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– Anonymous
- Original Pastbin post.
Here’s your chance to address the Alameda County Board of Supervisors Committee which is hearing public comments on two important environmental topics:
- Fracking;
- how the community will be able to give input during the next several months into the design of the upcoming Community Choice program, which will provide clean energy and competition for PG&E.
Sponsored by MoveOn.
OccupyForum presents
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry
via Its Supply Chains
Climate Change, Direct Action & Community Solidarity
Empire Logistics will facilitate an interactive workshop for Occupy SF Forum where participants will brainstorm to find ways to create solidarity along fossil fuel supply chains
and will model ways for worker resistance, community solidarity, and direct action to flow from the point of extraction to the point of consumption, including the communities
which the energy commodities pass through. Our strength lies in everyone acting in unison with the common goal of stopping the earth’s destruction. We will facilitate a discussion
about how we can transition away from an oil economy and transform our mode of existence into an ecologically sustainable one.
On March 14, 2015, Empire Logistics will join Railroad Workers United, as well as over 30 environmental and community groups, and labor unions and other workers’ associations, for the first “The Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community, and Environment” Conference in Richmond, California (the second conference will be on March 21 in Olympia, Washington). The purpose is for railroad workers to teach others in the fossil fuel industry about safety issues from the inside, and those supply chain workers will learn about community concerns over the extreme dangers from the greatly increased transportation of fossil fuels; both groups will strategize about how to transition away from fossil fuels and to create an environmentally healthy world.
This Monday’s workshop is an opportunity for Occupy SF Forum to learn about these issues by discussing them directly. Empire Logistics will provide all necessary maps and flowcharts of fossil fuel supply chains, and guide this interactive exercise.
See Labor Notes for a description of the Richmond conference on March 14, 2015:
http://labornotes.org/blogs/2015/01/rail-workers-and-environmentalists-teach-each-other
or visit the website: http://www.railroadconference.org/
Gifford Hartman is a participant in the Empire Logistics mapping project, as well as a co-founder of the Global Supply Chains Study Group. He is an adult education teacher, labor trainer, historian, and the Bay Area contact for the Future of Railroads Conference.
According to the Contra Costa Times, “Recommendations from the meeting ((The #BlackLivesMatter City Council forum held on January 24th)) will be considered ((at the February 3rd City Council meeting)) .”