Calendar

APTP is launching its campaign Invisible Victims of State Terror: Women of Color on 5/21.

We have chosen this date for our launch in solidarity with the national call by The Black Youth Project to uplift the Black women who are murdered by law enforcement agencies across the country.

The Invisible Victims campaign was born in February in response to the murder of #yuvettehenderson by the Emeryville Police Department on February 3, 2015.

On 5/21, we will gather in the Home Depot parking lot (where the events leading to Yuvette’s murder began) for a brief rally and program.

Immediately following, we will distribute thousands of flyers detailing the stories of Black women who have been stolen by state violence.

The average life expectancy for Black trans women is 35 years. An estimated 25.1 percent of Black American women live in poverty – a higher rate than any other ethnic group.

Black women and girls, trans* and cis, are routinely harassed by police and abused by the state. While we’ve witnessed entire cities rise up to resist the murders of Black men, the murders of Black women continue to go largely ignored.

Silencing the pain of our sisters only perpetuates this violence. #BlackSpring is here: it’s time to remember and lift up the most marginalized victims of state brutality.

Join BYP100’s Bay Area Chapter this Thursday for a National Day of Action to demand #JusticeForRekia and ALL Black women and girls. Together, we’ll paint the town Black with their names, faces and stories.

*Black folks meet-up, 6PM @ Alan Blueford Center* (2434 Telegraph Ave)

#JusticeForRekia #SayHerName #BlackSpring #SayTheirNames #BlackLivesMatter

WHAT: Mass vigil at sunset against mass surveillance – happening in 50 cities across the U.S

BRING: A cell phone, laptop, tablet, and candles with the protestsign.org already pre-loaded. Make a big sunset sign and write “Sunset the Patriot Act”.

WHY WE NEED YOU:
This is the week when we have a chance to sunset the PATRIOT Act!

The PATRIOT Act could end this week if Congress fails to reauthorize it by this Friday ahead of its June 1st expiration. So, on Thursday May 21st, people are organizing a mass vigil in 50 cities across the U.S. to demand their Senators let the Patriot Act expire.

And we’ve set it up so its super easy to get involved:

Gather as the sun is setting
Load protestsign.org on your phone, tablet or laptop
Take a picture of your group with signs outside of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office.

Post your pictures to the Sunset Vigil Facebook page and on Twitter with the hash tags #sunsetpatriotact #sunsetvigil and your @SenFeinstein.

You can also sign the online letter at http://sunsetthepatriotact.com/

This protest is being organized by your friends at Demand Progress, Restore the Fourth, Credo, MoveOn.org, Free Press, and Fight for the Future.

 The City of Berkeley’s Fair Campaign Practices Commission will consider whether to recommend that the Berkeley City Council establish a public financing system – one of the best tools we have at our disposal to fix our broken electoral process.

As public officials are being bought and sold by billionaires and wealthy special interests, the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform is more urgent now than ever.

Sign up to attend and testify in support of public financing!

Public financing allows candidates to rely on small dollar donations and aims to accomplish two primary goals: 1) Candidates should be able to campaign without the cloud of corruption that comes from over-dependence on money from outside interests and 2) Grassroots candidates with strong community ties should be able to run competitive campaigns.

In solidarity with the global movement to take back our food, that is… REAL FOOD FROM REAL SEED as Mother Nature and human evolution intended…

Please save the date and take part in the groundswell of PEOPLE RISING in defense of unadulterated SEEDS, PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY, RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF THE SOIL, ETHICAL PRACTICES, TOXIN FREE FOOD SYSTEM AND THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE WE ALL WANT.

Millions of years of natural evolution and diversity of seeds are being wiped out in a generation if we don’t leverage our collective outrage to DIVEST from systematic poisoning of HUMANITY and PROTECT our children’s future.

Join us as we MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO!

11:30 – Meet Up & Welcome at Frank Ogawa / Oscar Grant Plaza
12:00 – March begins
1:00 – Reassemble at Lake Merritt Pergola Area for RALLY!

http://www.labelgmos.org/realfoodforall

A note from OccupyTheFarm:

Occupy the Farm organizer Vanessa Raditz will be speaking tomorrow at the rally following Oakland’s March Against Monsanto! Come on out and join the Occupy the Farm contingent! We will have a banner so you can find us at Frank Ogawa Plaza before the march takes off.

Global Unity for a Sustainable Future.

Come dressed as your favorite pollinator (Bees, Butterflies, Etc)

Monthly rally to end Solitary Confinement.

Privacy Workshop

It’s easy to succumb to privacy nihilism. That’s the idea that digital security and privacy are simply impossible. But that’s simply wrong. Better security and more privacy are possible. It is true that trying to protect yourself from 100% of the threats you face 100% of the time is a recipe for failure. But perfection is not the goal of digital security. Each person is faced with different threats—potential events that could undermine your efforts to defend your data. By determining what you need to protect and whom you need to protect it from, you can figure out how to counter the threats to your data.

The first step to good security is doing a threat modeling assessment. Using EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense materials, EFF Activist Nadia Kayyali will talk about some of the threats to your privacy and security, walk you through modeling your own threats, and give a basic overview of some of the most commonly used tools.

EFF is a proud co-sponsor of The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers, a transbay visual art exhibition about housing security and digital privacy at Random Parts in Oakland and Incline Gallery in San Francisco. This digital security workshop is part of a series of events. For more information, check out the exhibition page.

Talking Richmond, Talking Politics!

Our focus this month: Talking Housing
The RPA Housing Action Team reports. Learn about the work the HAT’s doing on affordable housing, in lieu fees, city planning & neighborhoods.

And much more…

Participate and guide RPA Standing Committees and possible new Action Teams.

The Membership Committee wants your input
Health Action Team (HAT: DMC/Health related),
Education Action Team (EAT);
Police/Community Action Team (P-CAT: Pedie Perez/Justice/Community Safety) ,
Global Campus.

And we’ll revisit RPA’s mission statement: What’s our aim?

Facebook event.

BYP100: Bay Area , in collaboration with The BlackOut Collective , #BlackLivesMatter Bay Area, Anti Police-Terror Project, The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, and Onyx Organizing Committee are putting out a call to action on the behalf of all Black women and girls everywhere!

On the night of Thursday, May 21st, while marching and chanting, and standing up for the lives of all Black women everywhere, Oakland Police Department informed us that there was a new ordinance in place: not only were we told that we are not longer allowed to march at night, but we were not allowed to march in the streets. Who’s streets?! Our streets! They chose the national day of action for the rights of Black women against police violence to enforce aggressive policing of our right to peacefully convene and protest.

They want for us to go into the shadows. They want for us to be silent, to bow down, to forget the lives of so many Black women who have been stolen from us by police. They want us to give up, to ignore the trauma caused by the ways our Black women bodies have been violated, policed, harassed, exploited, demoralized, dehumanized, beaten, abused, raped, and murdered…but they are sadly mistaken. We will not back down; we will fight harder! We will wage war until our lives are valued. #BlackLivesMatter Black women’s lives matter. They always have and they always will. #sayhername #blackspring

We are sending out a call to action for all Black people and allies to come together TONIGHT at Oscar Grant Plaza/OGP. We will hold space as a declaration that the rights of Black women and girls WILL BE upheld.

We ask that you join us TONIGHT!

Please wear ALL BLACK.
Bring a white candle.
Bring a scarf.
Tell all of your family friends and comrades.

Please be advised that this is a peaceful protest but diversity of tactics is respected and honored.

See you in the streets!

San Francisco is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors June 19th, 2015 – June 22nd.. Around 250 Mayors will be in attendance. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us.

• Black Lives Matter
• Gentrification
• Homelessness
• Privatization
• Homophobia and Transphobia
• Immigration
• The Environment
• Corporate Greed
• Wars not People

All are welcome to help plan for actions.

Sunday, May 24, 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the attack on “Earth First!” activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney by car bomb in Oakland in 1990 as Redwood Summer dawned. We will commemorate this in several ways.

At 7 pm doors to Historic Fellowship Hall will open for a Judi Bari Day evening event sponsored by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists (BFUU) Social Justice Committee.

NOTE: Earlier in the day of Sunday, May 24, people will gather to mark the moment of the bombing itself where the bomb blew up Judi’s car with Darryl and Judi in it. The location is across from the intersection of E. 33rd and Park Blvd, in front of Oakland High. Gather at 11:30 am sharp. Bring signs, songs, drums for a speak out and commemoration.

Following the film, the audience can join in the discussion for a Q & A session.

Volunteers appreciated!

Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Committee, www.bfuu.org/events

People of faith and goodwill, come out Sunday night in solidarity with #blacklivesmatter #sayhername #justiceforrekia and all those fighting for black and brown liberation in the streets of Oakland. Together we will sing, pray, meditate, and drum for justice while claiming the streets of Oakland for the people of Oakland.

Last night, the Oakland Police Department, acting on orders from Mayor Libby Schaaf, used tear gas and flash bang grenades on protestors and then violently arrested a group that was seated, holding candles and singing in solidarity with #blacklivesmatter and #sayhername movements. The mayor has declared street protests illegal after sunset. We will resist this move with nonviolent direct action and militant love, defying the Mayor’s attempts to divide our movements into day and night, tolerated and repressed.

Bring candles and drums.

Facebook event.

Within the principles of deep econology and biocentrism, DefendKnowlandPark has formed to protest the autonomy of the largest remaining wild space in the East Bay through direction confrontation with the affront of civilization.

There is a 9 pm call to action at 14th & Bway for a protest in Oakland against the Oakland ban on nighttime protests. Who’s coming with me?

— \m/ Ⓐrmageddon \m/ (@OaklandElle) May 25, 2015

9 PM march, #Oakland in Oscar Grant Park #FTP Fuck The Police & #BreakTheCurfew

— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) May 25, 2015

If you are going, be aware that OPD targets protester-looking people in the area with petty infractions. Red light violation is $480.

— Dave Id (@DaveId) May 25, 2015

Come support a comrade arrested protesting the city’s recent crackdown on Black organizing.

NOTE: court is set for 9 am but COULD be pushed to 1 pm…so check here you cant come in the morning but can make it out in the afternoon!

After a period of public comment, the Oakland Public Safety Committee will again take up recommendations from the ad hoc Committee on the Domain Awareness Center Privacy Policy.

(This was postponed from May 12th, to provide time for things to be forumulated into an ordinance)

— a strong privacy policy in place for the DAC.
— creation of a privacy policy for the City of Oakland
— a surveillance equipment acquisition ordinance, demanding open and transparent processes before acquiring such devices.

The Oakland Privacy Working Group asks you to come and stand and speak in support of these proposals, which will make Oakland a model for privacy across the nation.

The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.

We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall in downtown Oakland at 6:30 PM.

Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent, and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life. We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.