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The Atlas of the Albany Bulb is a participatory oral history and mapping project that aims to capture the natural and cultural history of this unique spot on San Francisco Bay. The collection of narratives about this former landfill will grown into a quilt of diverse stories and imagines over time as more people contribute.
(The exhibit actually runs from February 12th – March 14th)
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.
Dare To Divest!
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Join 350Marin on Valentine’s Day: Do you have the courage to break up with oil/gas/coal and meet some renewables? Hear Jody Timms, Chair, Divest~Invest, “Stranded Assets-Stranded Ethics,” and J. Patrick Costello, “Green Investing: More Than Being Socially Responsible.”
- 350marin.org
- organizing for public banking in Oakland and elsewhere.
- advocating for Postal banking.
- saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs
- working with the City of Richmond and other municipalities for eminent domain seizure of underwater mortgages from the banksters
- ongoing study group
- student debt resistance
- helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
- our famous Strike Debt radio program
- and much more!
PROTEST, MARCH, DANCE!!!
On Saturday Feb 14th there will be a Sea of Red – Remembering the Stolen Lives march gathering at the Oscar Grant Plaza 14th & Broadway at 5:30pm.
The event organizers are asking folks to wear red for the march to create a sea of red as we march to symbolize the blood OPD has shed in our streets.
The march will go from the plaza to OPD HQ at 7th & Broadway where names of stolen lives will be read, from there the sea of red will go from OPD HQ to Alan’s House, aka The Alan Blueford Center For Justice where there will be a night of revolutionary love & dancing.
Facebook event for the dance party.
While millions will be celebrating their love, many families will still be grieving the loss of their loved ones who were ripped away from them.
4MileMarch has called for a nationwide action to recognize the black lives stolen from their families by police violence with the Sea of Red Action
The Oakland Sea of Red will start with a rally at Oscar Grant Plaza then march to OPD for a vigil and a reading of the names of the Stolen Lives. The march will continue on to The Alan Blueford Center For Justice for the Revolutionary Love Dance at Alan’s House! Because it ain’t a Revolution unless we’re dancing!
Please dress in red, bring candles, and red ribbons with the names of lives you would like to honor. We’ll be tying them to the trees and posts beginning at the steps of the OPD and along the path of the march. The route will be a Sea of Red to mark the bloody trail that police violence has left behind right up to Alan Blueford’s front door.
In Solidarity we unite. In Solidarity we grow strong.
#SeaofRed #NoJusticeNoLove #BlackHistoryMonth # BlackLivesMatter
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” – Che Guevara
OAKLAND PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MURAL / off the wall series; Art Forces, the Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC) and Nor Cal Friends of Sabeel invite you to join us for an evening of dance, refreshments, and activism:
REVOLUTION IS LOVE
a benefit for AROC’s Boycott, Divestment, Sanction organizing
at the Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural Project
VALENTINE’S DAY
Saturday, February 14, 2015
6:30 – 7:30 Cocktails, Music, and Performances
Adhamh Roland, Young Gifted and Black, Chris Kazaleh, Lubna Morrar, Al-Juthoor Dabke Dance Troupe and other surprises
7:30 – 8:30 Dancing at the Wall
Tango Lessons by Jonas Aquino and Monza Lui from Abrazo Queer Tango
and Music at the Oakland Palestine Solidarity Mural
8:30 DJ Rumorosa Dance Party and Celebration
“If I can’t dance, then I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” – Emma Goldman
Another march tomorrow in #Emeryville #YuvetteHenderson @GonzOakland pic.twitter.com/ySjfeukzh5
— David DeBolt (@daviddebolt) February 14, 2015
PARTY LIKE IT’S 1984!!
• Learn security techniques & software.
• Understand why responsible security is important.
• Meet with other proactive residents!
Bring your laptop! Bring your phone!
All skill levels welcome, from novice to expert!
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A DATE IN THE INDEFINITE FUTURE. STAY TUNED.
THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE HAPPENING ON FEBRUARY 15th!!
The City Council Public Safety Committee will next discuss the Privacy Policy et al in early April at the earliest.
Domain Awareness Center Teach-In
Here are video highlights from the last teach-in on January 18th.
KPFA Benefit: $12 advance tickets, $15 /door. Tickets available in Berkeley: Pegasus (3 locations), Marcus Books, Moes, Walden Pond, Diesel a Bookstore In S.F: Modern Times.
Radical economist Richard Wolffs most recent book, Capitalism Hits the Fan, is a passionately concerned response to current events, chronicling Wolffs brilliant public response to what he sees as an unworkable economic system. He closely monitors international economic shifts, much as Noam Chomsky does political happenings, and presents us with clear new perspectives.
Richard Wolff is the leading social economist in the country. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transformation of the ailing capitalist economy. Cornel West
A powerful and challenging vision that takes us beyond both corporate capitalism and state socialism. Richard Wolff at his best!
—Gar Alperovitz, author American Beyond Capitalism
Professor of Economics Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Wolff is a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York. In recent years he has been delivering public lectures at colleges and universities, and community centers and trade union gatherings. His speaking style has become famous for its charismatic wit, frankness, and sardonic charm.
Richard Wolff is the author of many books, including Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism, Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism, as well as Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He hosts the weekly hour-long radio program Economic Update on WBAI (Pacifica Radio) and writes regularly for The Guardian, Truthout.org, and the MRZine.
TONIGHT’S PROGRAM STARTS AT 6:00 sharp!
on all sides of these critically important issues!
OccupyForum Presents
The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP)
“Housekeys Not Handcuffs”
The HBR campaign is more than an effort to pass state legislation. It is a way of working collectively with groups possessing different talentsto address the injustices that we face in our communities. Even if there isn’t an immediate victory, we are building the power to create a social justice movement that will eventually enable a more decent society.
Laws that segregate, that make criminals of people based on their status rather than their behavior, or that prohibit certain people’s right to be in public spaces are not just sad relics from the past: Today, numerous laws infringe on poor people’s ability to exist in public space, to acquire housing, employment, and basic services, and to equal protection under the law.
Our Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign (HBR) stands on the shoulders of social justice campaigns of the past to alleviate poverty and homelessness while protecting homeless and poor people from unjust laws and ensuring all people’s right to exist in public spaces. — WRAP
Donations to OccupyForum gratefully accepted. No one turned away.
Q&A and Announcements will follow.
| Join ACS for an illuminating brown bag panel discussion on the First Amendment and the criminal laws that threaten it. Attorneys Nancy Hollander and Vincent Ward (civilian counsel for Chelsea Manning) join Trevor Timm (Exec. Dir., Freedom of the Press Foundation) to discuss the expansion of the Espionage Act to prosecute journalists under the Obama Administration, the threat to journalists during the Ferguson protests, the selective prosecution of individuals for government leaks, and more. Professor Ghappour to moderate. Sponsored by ACS. |
new Authorization for Use of Military Force
& support for non-military responses to ISIL
Speakers include Stephen McNeil of AFSC, Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal Foundation, Paul Cox of Veterans for Peace, Janet Weil of CODEPINK, and others.
Indybay Reporter Arrested for Making Photos of John Crawford Stickers at Oakland Walmart
David Id of IndyBay was detained (twice), handcuffed, searched & charged with California PC602.1, misdemeanor interfering w/ a business, for making photographs of stickers that had been placed on product packaging inside Walmart during the #BlackLivesMatter protests. His court date is Wed, Feb 18, 9am at Wiley Manuel courthouse on 7th Street.
BAAQMD meeting to oppose crude-by-rail in Richmond
The Air Board staff has refused to rescind the permit of the Kinder Morgan crude-by-rail operations in Richmond. It has flatly denied appeals by the City of Richmond and numerous community groups, asking that this process be conducted through an open CEQA process, not through a closed-door ministerial action. Attend the next BAAQMD meeting and let the directors and staff know that the refusal to rescind the permit is unacceptable.
A car pool is leaving from the Bobby Bowens Center in RIchmond at 8:00 AM. If you wish to join the car pool, please email Andrés Soto.
The first of eight meetings is January 28th.
This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.
Tom Steyer, Business Leader & Investor
Governor Jennifer Granholm, Distinguished Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law & Goldman School of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy
Join Tom Steyer, advanced energy advocate, investor and philanthropist, for the 6th Annual Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics & Public Policy. Moderated by Governor Jennifer Granholm.
All Audiences
All Audiences
Seating is first come first serve. RSVP online.
Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, surveillance systems from facial recognition to license plate readers, Urban Shield and other invasions of privacy by our militarized police and benighted City Government.
We are currently pushing to get a strong privacy policy for the DAC enacted by the City Council, for the Council to create a privacy committee that will create a private policy for all of Oakland, and for a surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance which provides transparency and prior notification before such technology is obtained to be passed.
Stop by and learn how you can help guard Oakland’s right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
For more information on the DAC check out
System Change not Climate Change hosts a screening of the documentary “Who Bombed Judi Bari?”. That question immediately leads to a more important one: Why? Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney were targeted because they represented a viable populist challenge to the corporate control of environmental resources; in this case, the redwood forests of California’s North Coast.
For background information, see the Judi Bari website. You may also want to read chapters from Steve Ongarth’s book, Redwood Uprising: The Story of Judi Bari and Earth First!, available on the book’s website.