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CALL THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON SEPTEMBER 6TH!
From the Bay Area to the east coast and beyond, join us in letting the Alameda County Board of Supervisors know that their Sheriff’s war games are harming communities everywhere, and we demand that they put an end to it.
On Tuesday, September 6 beginning at 10am Pacific Time, we are calling on people everywhere to call and email the Alameda County Board of Supervisors throughout the day. We are demanding that they use their leadership to rein in the Sheriff’s unchecked attempts at increasing the militarization and policing of our communities, and to put an end to Urban Shield.
Supervisor Haggerty shawn.wilson@acgov.org (510) 272-6691
Supervisor Valle christopher.miley@acgov.org (510) 272-6692
Supervisor Chan jeanette.dong@acgov.org (510)272-6693
Supervisor Miley anna.gee@acgov.org (510)272-6694
Supervisor Carson rodney.brooks@acgov.org (510)272-6695
Sample script:
“Dear Supervisor _________,
I am writing to urge you and all Alameda County Board of Supervisors to take leadership in putting an end to the militarization of police and disaster preparedness represented by the annual Urban Shield exercises and weapons expo, funded by DHS through the Urban Areas Security Initiative. For too long, the Sheriff has gone unchecked in amassing militarized weaponry, surveillance technology, and hosting highly controversial trainings like Urban Shield that result in the further marginalization of our communities. Urban Shield’s emphasis on SWAT teams as the response to emergencies – including natural disasters – as well as the extremely militarized scenarios, diminishes resources for responding to the ordinary emergencies community members face every day. Alameda County should not be hosting war games funded by the Department of Homeland Security, which involve not only nine Bay Area counties, but teams from around the United States. That is why I ask you to exercise your leadership and reject any future funding and hosting of Urban Shield, and to stand with Alameda County communities, and people across the country.
Official Title: #UpliftHerSafety: An Art Protest & Self-Defense Rally Resisting State Violence Against Women of Color in California
“We are women of color and allies committed to the safety and human rights of Black, Brown, Indigenous and API women and condemn the multi-layered state violence targeting women and girls of color in California such as police brutality, sexual assault, abuse in prisons/immigration detention centers, historical revisionism and institutional disregard for the deceased.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors return from recess for their first post-break Supervisors meeting on September 6th which is also the time and place where we’ll take to the steps of City Hall to call attention to six incidents of state violence against women of color and list six correlating demands, detailed in our ‘6 Demands on the 6th’ statement.
In honoring Kayla, Korryn and all women of color we’ve lost to state violence we’ll hold a prayer vigil and also offer healing spaces for those in need. Our ‘Art Protest’ will feature visual art, spoken word, poetry readings and other mediums which will either speak to the urgent issues raised above or will affirm the humanity of women and girls of color.”
7:00 & 9:30
Q&A will follow the 7:00 show (at approximately 9pm)
Attendees for the 9:30 show are invited to attend the Q&A (space permitting)
Award winning independent documentary filmmaker Bo Boudart’s newest release is the feature documentary film, Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson . The film tells the story of S. Brian Willson’s courageous attempts to promote peace through nonviolent actions, as well as the struggles and activism of other American veterans and civilians. The documentary features other notable peace advocates such as Daniel Ellsberg, Blase Bonpane, Martin Sheen, Colonel Ann Wright, Ron Kovic, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, Camilo Mejia, Mike Prysner, Bruce Gagnon, David Hartsough, David Swanson, and Alice Walker.
S. Brian Willson, is a former Air Force Vietnam Veteran turned Peace Activist, who lost both of his legs during a peaceful demonstration when he was struck by a munitions train that was speeding 3 times over the legal limit toward the protesters at the Concord Naval Weapons Station, California. Consequently, thousands of antiwar demonstrators converged at the site and ripped up the railroad tracks blocking all trains for the following 865 days in protest of all munitions shipments to the US government backed wars in Nicaragua or El Salvador. Congress had subsequently passed legislation that prohibited funding the covert US backed wars to overthrow democratically elected governments in Central American countriesespecially Nicaragua. But even then, the Reagan administration illegally continued to support the Contra war.
The film also depicts actions and other spokespersons of today’s peace movement, the ongoing – U.S. wars of aggression in multiple countries. The film shows why current antiwar activists challenge a perpetual war profiteering economy calling for an end to supporting America’s illegal wars.
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
Note: At our November meeting we changed our meeting date from the first Tuesday of the month to the first Monday, starting December 5th
2004, by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
Free snacks and popcorn.
You are invited to a special public event featuring Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3
Finally free after 43 years in solitary confinement!
Albert Woodfox, the last of the prisoners known as the Angola 3 was finally released from prison on his birthday, February 19, 2016, after serving 43 years in solitary confinement, most of those years in the infamous Angola State Prison in Louisiana. He and his comrades Robert King and the late Herman Wallace, were subjected to horrific abuse for decades for organizing a chapter of the Black Panther Party inside Angola. Albert has joined Robert King in speaking across the nation and internationally, calling for an end to solitary confinement and mass incarceration.
Join us in welcoming this heroic fighter for justice to San Francisco!
Wheelchair accessible. Refreshments provided.
Open as many homes as possible…
Hold them as long as possible…
KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents:The Best Democracy Money Can Buy The Bay Area premiere of Greg Palasts brilliant new documentary film, with live appearances by S.F. comic Will Durst, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, actress Rosario Dawson, producer Greg Palast and surprise guests single screening only!!! Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and an investigative journalist for the BBC and the British newspaper The Guardian. Like Michael Moore, he is also a documentary filmmaker. His reports can be seen on BBC Television Newsnight. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and Armed Bandits as well as The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. “His work is funny, heartbreaking, and loaded with facts like hand grenades,” “Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else has the guts to dig up.” Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad. His uncanny investigative skills as well as his no-holds-barred style have made him an anathema among magnates on four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his devoted readership. Will Durst, who will open the show, is acknowledged by peers and press alike as one of the premier satirists in America. The New York Times called him, “quite possibly the best political comedian working in the country today.” Currently he writes a nationally syndicated humor column and is a frequent contributor on CNN, MSNBC & Fox News. Award-winning investigative reporter Greg Palast is the number one enemy of Jim Crow in the 21st century. Palast made history when he broke the stealing of the 2000 presidential election by Bush 2, by illegally disenfranchising tens of thousands of Black voters in Florida. And Palast is back again in 2016 fighting the good fight, with a new major documentary, a new book, and major articles for Rolling Stone. For the last 25 weeks, Palast has teamed up with the KPFA Flashpoints crew to create an historic 30-part investigative series called the Elections Crimes Bulletin–which has repeatedly gone viral– in which Palast does what he does best: unmasks the continuing and unrelenting Jim-Crow attempts to prevent Black, Brown, and poor people from exercising their constitutional right to vote. |
Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice.
Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish!
Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning!
Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between 7 and 9pm. See the calendar for recurring meetups and upcoming events: https://sudoroom.org/calendar
Come be part of the #NoDAPL Global Weeks of Solidarity Action, supporting the frontline, indigenous led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We will meet for a rally at 1 pm and then march in downtown SF. The Camp of the Sacred Stones and Red Warrior Camp, currently defending against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, are calling on allies across the world to take action from September 3-17 on the pipeline companies and financial institutions working to build the pipeline.
Solidarity rally/march with Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline
15 Years After 9/11, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance presents the 12th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival
Films include:
Incontrovertible – British documentary produced by Tony Rooke that features his case, a refusal to pay fees supporting “Terrorism,” or the BBC, who announced the demise of WTC 7, before it happened. Rooke makes a strong case about the crime of 9/11 and the subsequent crimes that have hinged upon the unquestioned belief of the official narrative. Filmmaker, Tony Rooke will also speak.
9/11 Decade of Deception– Canadian documentary chronicling The Toronto Hearings in 2011, highlighting the best evidence presented by expert witnesses and the conclusions of an international panel of distinguished judges who agree that there has not been a genuine investigation of 9/11 and that a real investigation is needed.
The Demolition of Truth–Psychologists Examine 9/11
– Produced by Charles Ewing Smith American documentary looking at the psychological impact of 9/11, individually and collectively, what the social sciences tell us about healing the healing processes. Filmmaker, Charles Ewing Smith will also speak.
Speakers include:
Graeme MacQueen– Author of The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy, and steering committee member of The Toronto Hearings, Co-editor of The Journal of 9/11 Studies, Phd from Harvard in Buddhist Studies, taught for 30 years at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Peter Phillips, Phd. – has published fourteen editions of Censored: Media Democracy in Action, as well as, Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (2006). He has received numerous awards for his work and continues to write op-ed pieces for independent media nationwide . He is co-host with Mickey Huff on the hour long weekly Project Censored on KPFA.
Mickey Huff– Mickey Huff, current director of Project Censored and on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation, a professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College and co-chair of the history department. Huff is co-host Dr. Peter Phillips of the Project Censored Show. He has been a co-editor, editor, and/or contributor to the award-winning Censored annual book series from 2008 to the present. He teaches courses in the social sciences and US history, including “History in the Making: Contemporary Historiography, Mass Media, and the Rough Draft of History” or “America, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Case Studies in Media Myth-Making and the Propaganda of Historical Construction.”
John Meaders – Amazingly, John was born in Brooklyn, New York City on September 11, 1950. He is the youngest of five and attended elementary school on Staten Island, one of the boroughs of NYC, and High School in the East New York section of Brooklyn. He joined the United States Army in 1975 for a four year enlistment. He attained the rank of Specialist Fifth Class or “buck Sergeant”. He was an Electronic Missile System Repairer. He joined the California Highway Patrol in 1981 and after five months of academy training, he began patrolling the freeways and county roads in the South Los Angeles area. He obtained his bachelor of science degree from California State University at Los Angeles in criminal justice in 1988. He was highly honored for his heroism within the CHP. After promoting to sergeant on the California Highway Patrol in 2007, he transferred to Tracy California and then retired in June of 2009 from the Tracy California area office as a Sergeant. He and his wife, Donna, currently live in Loveland, Colorado and enjoy involvement in politics and political action.
Tony Rooke -Tony Rooke is from Chichester in the South of England. He has worked as a screenwriter and composer in both mainstream TV and the independent film world. He woke up to 9/11 around 2005, and like most was very alarmed by the collapse of WTC Building 7. Tonys says: “I come from a family full of police officers. My father, my sister, my brother-in-law were all cops.
Even I was going to be a cop but colour-blindness ruled me out of qualification. Nobody in my family trusts the official 9/11 story”. He despises most politicians with the exception of Cynthia McKinney whom he hails as the new Martin Luther King.
Charles Ewing Smith – Charles Ewing Smith currently lives in Los Angeles county and has been working in the film industry a long time. He was a primary editor for 9/11 Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out which became one of the most viewed 9/11 documentaries ever on PBS’s website. He could not resist making The Demolition of Truth–Psychologists Examine 9/11, as he felt its compelling message could not be scrapped or edited into the dustbin. A seeker of truth and justice, he has devoted much of his time and energy to raising the public consciousness on important issues.
Mistress of Ceremonies – Bonnie Faulkner, Host of Guns and Butter, A radio program that investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics, heard on KPFA.
“Babel” is a 2006 drama by Academy Award winning Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, considered a masterpiece by some critics. The film shows there are consequences and redemption for our actions. And though cultures differ in language and values, the multi-narrative stories highlight that we are all connected as one human family. Beautifully filmed over three continents. There are no heroes, just victims of fate and circumstance.
Sponsored by the BFUU SJC.
http://www.revolutionbooks.org/2016/08/thu…
Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples & Families Movement
National Conference 2016
September 9-10, 2016 – Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM – Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM (PDT)
Oakland, California
We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Families Movement, we have made real progress since our first meeting in Selma in 2011. As a movement, we need the opportunity to collectively discuss the progress that we have made. We also need the opportunity and space to determine where we should be going during the next Presidential Administration. In the past year, we have conducted several regional meetings where we presented expert panels of formerly incarcerated people and our family members. This National Conference will be an opportunity to explore our best practices and see what is being done across the country. We strongly encourage you join us for networking, sharing of resources, tabling and organizing opportunities, and we guarantee that you will meet some of the most interesting activists and people from our community.
We are also encouraging service providers, allies, foundations, and government officials to attend: this is a space in which formerly incarcerated people will be speaking in our own voices,sharing the wisdom and practical knowledge we’ve gained as activists and organizers over many years following incarceration, and discussing how best we can restore our rights and fully rejoin our communities.
Formerly Incarcerated People have elected to collectively and heavily invest in the conference. We have reserved the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel and we have set aside resources to provided scholarship support to formerly incarcerated people and their families. We must once again pose the critical question we first raised at Selma when organizing the next conference: “Will You Be There?”
FICPFM is a group of national organizations comprised of & led by formerly incarcerated people dedicated to ending mass incarceration, restoring our rights, & removing the barriers to employment, housing, & education.
A limited number of Registration Scholarships are available to formerly incarcerated people and/or family members. To apply please submit this short application & an organizer will contact you soon.
Those who qualify will receive a CODE for a Scholarship ticket.
STATEWIDE MOBILIZATION.
On September 9, the Stop Urban Shield Coalition and communities from across the state will be mobilizing to Pleasanton, CA, where the Urban Shield weapons expo will be held. Join us in saying no to militarization and policing in our communities!
**We are organizing buses and travel from across the state for people everywhere to be able to attend. Please let us know if you would like travel support.**
Current pickup locations: Pleasanton, Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Stop militarized policing. Stop #UrbanShield! Friday, September 9 in Pleasanton: https://t.co/yZpoZNAxhz pic.twitter.com/ysM8Uzwgum
— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) August 30, 2016
Urban Shield is an annual SWAT team policing training and weapons expo that brings together local, regional, and international police-military units – including those from the Apartheid State of Israel – to collaborate on new forms of surveillance, state repression, and state violence. It consists of extremely militarized policing trainings and war games that only seek to expand the power of law enforcement over our communities. As we continue to face and witness increased militarizaton and the violence of policing, we must resist programs like Urban Shield, and demand the resources that build our self-determination.
Stop Urban Shield is a broad based coalition of grassroots and social justice organizations that are working to put an end to Urban Shield. In 2014, our organizing and grassroots mobilizing led to Urban Shield being kicked out of Oakland. This year, with enough support from across the state, we can end it for good. Join us and spread the word!
Visit StopUrbanShield.org for more info.
Come build community power for resisting displacement in Alameda County!
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) hosts a night of food, music, conversation, and insurgent art.
AEMP reports back on a year of displacement data analysis and oral history in Oakland, Fremont, and Alameda. We are releasing a new narrative map along with project report writen with Tenants together.
The event honors those who participated in oral history interviews and the work of community partners: Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition, Fremont RISE, Alameda Renters Coalition, Bay Area Video Coalition, and more!
AEMP will be providing transportation from Fruitvale Bart to Eastside Arts Alliance. contact: carlita.wo@gmail.com if you would like to ride with us!
About Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
September 9th at Mosswood #Oaklandpic.twitter.com/q3tkOSYNkC
— BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) August 11, 2016
Join us on Friday, September 9th at Mosswood Park (look for us by the amphitheater) for a BBQ, banner and sign making party, open discussion on the strike and the mobilization on the 10th, and also watch a film about the Attica Prison Uprising.
Oakland IWOC also stands in solidarity with our comrades organizing the Urban Shield protest in Pleasanton the same day as well as the FICPFM Conference. We encourage people to attend these other events and join us later in the day for the BBQ to report back and cross-pollinate.
Fore more information check out:
https://itsgoingdown.org/
Announcement of Nationally Coordinated Prisoner Work-Stoppage for Sept 9, 2016
Please RT and Plan Action pic.twitter.com/PRAeco119n
— POPE of JSIL (@mdp4202) August 30, 2016
On September 9, San Francisco Rocks Against the TPP!
RSVP and reserve your free ticket now.
San Francisco is set to Rock Against the TPP. This free concert is part of a nationwide uprising to sound the alarm about the biggest corporate power grab in history — the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
The San Francisco concert tour stop will feature legendary punk artist and former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra, Grammy Award winning Latin Rock group La Santa Cecilia, Bay Area Indie Rock group Built for the Sea, Puerto Rican singer Tana Asili, and more.
Margrete Strand-Rangnes, a member of Sierra Club’s National Board of Directors, will also speak about the many environmental concerns we have with the TPP.
We’re ready to Rock Against the TPP! Are you in? RSVP now.
RSVP: http://sc.org/RATPPSF
If Congress approves the TPP, we’ll pay a heavy price. The trade pact would clear the way for more fracking and exports of liquified natural gas, expand the brutal practice of shark finning, and empower corporate polluters to sue governments in private tribunals over climate protections.
Are you ready to Rock Against the TPP in San Francisco? RSVP now for this free concert!
Together we can make a statement and show that people across the country are standing up against this corporate power grab.
On Wednesday September 14th Bay Area activists will drive to North Dakota to bring needed supplies and solidarity to the 4,000 Sioux, Lakota and other Native Peoples camped at Standing Rock. They are resisting the construction of the Dakota Access Oil pipeline. Their water is at risk. Our air is at risk. All our futures are at risk.
COME JOIN US for drinks and fundraising.
BOOTS RILEY will speak briefly about this fight, as well as those who will be hitting the road.
PLEASE BRING: Tents, blankets/sleeping bags, diapers, baby wipes, canned food. These items will be going to North Dakota to support our sisters and brothers. Solidarity!! See you FRIDAY!
********Endorsed by Bay Area Socialist Alternative********
IF you can’t make it, please go to https://www.gofundme.com/
Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples & Families Movement
National Conference 2016
September 9-10, 2016 – Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM – Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM (PDT)
Oakland, California
We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Families Movement, we have made real progress since our first meeting in Selma in 2011. As a movement, we need the opportunity to collectively discuss the progress that we have made. We also need the opportunity and space to determine where we should be going during the next Presidential Administration. In the past year, we have conducted several regional meetings where we presented expert panels of formerly incarcerated people and our family members. This National Conference will be an opportunity to explore our best practices and see what is being done across the country. We strongly encourage you join us for networking, sharing of resources, tabling and organizing opportunities, and we guarantee that you will meet some of the most interesting activists and people from our community.
We are also encouraging service providers, allies, foundations, and government officials to attend: this is a space in which formerly incarcerated people will be speaking in our own voices,sharing the wisdom and practical knowledge we’ve gained as activists and organizers over many years following incarceration, and discussing how best we can restore our rights and fully rejoin our communities.
Formerly Incarcerated People have elected to collectively and heavily invest in the conference. We have reserved the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel and we have set aside resources to provided scholarship support to formerly incarcerated people and their families. We must once again pose the critical question we first raised at Selma when organizing the next conference: “Will You Be There?”
FICPFM is a group of national organizations comprised of & led by formerly incarcerated people dedicated to ending mass incarceration, restoring our rights, & removing the barriers to employment, housing, & education.
A limited number of Registration Scholarships are available to formerly incarcerated people and/or family members. To apply please submit this short application & an organizer will contact you soon.
Those who qualify will receive a CODE for a Scholarship ticket.