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***Note: Dates are tentative. Stay tuned to this page for any changes!***
Show up this Oct. & Nov. to support the Moore family as they finally have been granted their days in court, after over four years of seeking a fraction of accountability from the City of Berkeley and BPD.
Stay tuned for more details about each day of court.
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WHEN:
Wednesday, October 18 – final pre-trial hearing
Tuesday, November 6 – FIRST DAY OF TRIAL
November 7,8,9,10 – Trials Dates
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About Kayla Moore
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Kayla Moore was a Black trans woman with a mental health disability – schizophrenia – who was born, raised and living in Berkeley. She was a poet and loved to cook, dance and help people – her neighbors, friends and even strangers on the bus.
On Feb. 12, 2013, Kayla was in her home when a friend of hers called 911 to request a mental health wellness check. When officers showed up at Kayla’s door, however, they didn’t offer assistance or support. Instead, they immediately tried to arrest her on a false and unconfirmed warrant, wrestling her onto the ground and restraining her violently until she passed away with six police officers on top of her. Since then, no one involved has seen any consequences.
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About the family’s court case
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In 2016, the Moore family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City and the BPD officers involved. After many delays and attempts by the City to have the suit dropped, the family finally has confirm trial dates: October 23-27, 2017. The lawsuit will center on holding the cops and the city accountable for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to accommodate Kayla’s mental health disability, and, instead, treating her as a criminal because of it. We know that disability is NOT a crime and being a black trans woman is NOT a crime.
The Moore family’s court case could set a major precedent for other cities and police departments by re-affirming that cities and police must comply with the American’s with Disabilities Act when responding to mental health crises.
To the Justice 4 Kayla Moore Coalition, it’s common sense that crisis is not a crime and a militarized police response is not the way that cities should offer “support” to people experiencing mental health crises. The Moore family’s court case is a call to action for Berkeley and all cities: it’s time to build alternative, ADA-compliant crisis responses that truly support and honor Black people, people of color, trans people and queer people with disabilities.
To discuss, publicize, and work for the liberation of the political prisoners now being held in the US.
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!TREASURE ISLAND:
Carol Harvey’s Update on Environmental Injustice,
the Homelessness Catastrophe, and Big Development
on Treasure Island
Treasure Island, the former radioactive-waste dump site off the coast of San Francisco, is turning into a $5 billion housing development for big profits.
Treasure Island, a man-made island off the coast of San Francisco, looks more like a post-apocalyptic wasteland than a Bay Area suburb. But as demand for housing in the area continues to climb, developers including Lennar now thee largest homebuilder in the US turned to Treasure Island in hopes of creating the next big real-estate destination.
In 2011, the city of San Francisco approved a proposal to add 8,000 homes, 500 hotel rooms, 300 acres of parks, 140,000 square feet of retail, and 100,000 square feet of office space to the island over 15 years. The island’s population is expected to grow from 2,500 to about 20,000 by 2032, when the final stages of development wrap. Most of the existing buildings will be demolished to make room for new developments. The development project comes with a price tag of $5 billion. With construction on infrastructure underway, we are learning that there’s more to this former toxic-waste site than meets the eye.
Like the Bayview, these landfills were used by the Navy to decommission its radioactive ships and for other toxic work. In 1993, the Navy decommissioned Treasure Island, moving sailors’ families out. The 1994 federal Base Closure Community Redevelopment and Homeless Assistance Act,“A bill to revise and improve the process for disposing of buildings and property at military installations under the base closure laws,” opened national floodgates to environmental racism. Men, women and children are stricken with tumors and cancers from exposure to radiation, chemicals and lead the Navy dumped into island soil during 50 years training sailors for nuclear war, as well as lung disease from asbestos and mold in the walls of military housing.
A 1997-1998 city government report announced, “Three hundred housing units on TI [Treasure Island] are expected to be occupied in October or November of 1998 under an interim housing plan. TIDA has contracted with the John Stewart Company to rehabilitate and manage these units. This interim plann is intended to preserve the housing stock which deteriorates rapidly with lack of use, and to provide an income stream.”San Francisco began to use HUD subsidies for maintenance and eventual island redevelopment.
As mayor, veteran of 30 years in the state Assembly and 15 as the all-powerful speaker, Willie Brown used his pull to deprive Treasure Islanders of San Franciscans’ equal rights to rent control, subjecting them to no cause evictions. Additionally, he crafted a consortium of collaborating organizations.
� The Treasure Island Development Authority Board (TIDA), which serves at the mayor’s pleasure
� Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative (TIHDI), an umbrella organization of nonprofits, which provides rehabilitation services for marginalized people
� The John Stewart Co., California’s largest poverty pimp, which manages HUD-subsidized and market rate housing
� The Navy arm of the consortium, following federal law, which began radiation and chemical cleanup.
By 2017, 18 years of subsidy money and intimidation have elapsed. As the cartel prepares the toxic soil for lucrative high-rise condos and hotels, homeless families’ incomes are no longer required. Redevelopment has begun. With three generations of subsidies in its coffers, John Stewart Co. is quietly launching evictions. Ill from chemical and radiation exposure, their offsprings’ DNA forever transformed, targeted families are, as planned, being returned to City streets.
Carol Harvey will share with us the history, and the damning revelations she continues to unearth, and what we can do about it.
Carol Harvey is a San Francisco political journalist specializing in human rights and civil rights.
http://sfbayview.com/2017/09/death-camp-treasure-island/
Time will be allotted for announcements.
The Middle East Children’s Alliance Presents
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
DR. MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI
Speaking on
100 Years after the Balfour Declaration:
The Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine
Mustafa Barghouti is General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative & President of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
Introduced by linguistics professor Dr. Khalil Barhoum, Stanford University
Interviewed by Dr. Samia Shoman, Palestinian-American educator whose research was on a sovereign Palestinian state
Benefit for the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
Wheelchair Accessible
Tickets: $10 – $100, available now through Eventbrite
$100 ticket includes seats reserved up front
To avoid the service charge, buy tickets directly from MECA: email Susan@mecaforpeace.org, or call Sue 9am-4pm, Tuesday-Friday at 510-548-0542.
$15 tickets available at these East Bay bookstores: Moe’s, Laurel Books (cash and checks only), Walden Pond, and East Bay Booksellers (formerly Diesel).
Cosponsored by KPFA 94.1 FM, Friends of Sabeel, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Palestinian Youth Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace, and more!
Against Police Brutality and State Repression
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
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.
In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.
We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to
oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Rally to Save Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants
The Trump administration is threatening to remove TPS from Salvadorans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Syrians, and Haitians and send them back to situations of life-threatening violence. Many came to the United States because of wars and natural disasters and have been here for years, and for some, even decades. Removing Temporary Protected Status will put hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation. Sending them back to countries where there are ongoing conflicts or economic instability is a human rights disaster.
Meet us in the First Floor Multipurpose Room for a showing of the powerful documentary, Now Is The Time Healthcare for Everybody.
With the future of the Affordable Care Act in serious doubt, millions may lose their health insurance. Medicare and Medi-Cal are under attack. This documentary explains what single payer healthcare is and how it saves money. It shows what behind-the-scenes heroes are doing to clear the fog of misperceptions that has kept us from moving forward.
Q&A and Discussion about State Senate Bill 562,The Healthy California Act (Lara/Atkins).
Link to flyer: https://drive.google.com/
Join Indivisible East Bay to protest the TRUMP TAX SCAM. Bring a “check” payout to the top 1% protest sign or be creative with another sign! Please sign up using form http://goo.gl/fBKHRq
We need you to turn up tomorrow to support Lamesha Smith and others from Marcellus Toney’s family as we rally at OPD headquarters to tell them “We want answers!” In conjunction with the family, we are gathering to demand answers from #OPD . He was killed as a result of being tased by OPD on 9/28 at 42nd Ave and Foothill Blvd. Please come out to support his family in demanding answers about his death. Please bring signs.
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Dear Anti Police-Terror Project members, supporters, friends and allies,
APTP Co-founder Cat Brooks’ birthday is November 10 and she is asking for just one thing – that we as a community raise $5,000 for the Anti Police-Terror Project. Let’s come together to make this happen in just 5 days!
The Anti Police-Terror Project began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee. We are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. Founding coalition members include the Black Power Network, Community Ready Corps, Workers World, and the Idriss Stelley Foundation.
This work is so needed at this time and APTP relies on community support in order to do the work. Please contribute whatever you can towards our goal of 5K IN 5 DAYS FOR CAT’S BIRTHDAY – then come celebrate with us at our follow up happy hour next week!
Please visit our website and hit the “DONATE NOW” button to contribute today: antipoliceterrorproject.org
Single-Payer Social, North Oakland
Canvassing door to door isn’t the only way to meet people interested in joining the fight for a healthcare system free from capitalism. Each district canvassing group also organizes a monthly happy hour.
Come out to the patio at Eli’s Mile High Club in North Oakland to meet with people in these districts and talk about single-payer over a beer or some food.
East Bay comrades! There's a @jacobinmag reading group on Berkeley's campus next week, we hope to see you there 🤓✊🏾📕 pic.twitter.com/aMiJHJmkQW
— Bay Area ISO (@norcalsocialism) October 30, 2017
Canvassing door to door isn’t the only way to meet people interested in joining the fight for a healthcare system free from capitalism. Each district canvassing group also organizes a monthly happy hour.
Come out to the patio at Eli’s Mile High Club in North Oakland to meet with people in these districts and talk about single-payer over a beer or some food.
Zionism, Fascism and the Free Speech Debates: A Fundraiser for the Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi Defense Fund
Appetizers and Drinks Will be Provided
Sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Co-Sponsors: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA), International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
Among the speakers will be Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, the San Francisco State University professor publicly accused by AMCHA and seven other Zionist organizations of “egregious misuse of university and taxpayer funds” and “meetings with terrorists” after a 2014 academic trip to Jordan and Palestine. In 2016, she was targeted by the David Horowitz “Freedom Center,” which posted fliers on SFSU’s campus reading “Rabab Abdulhadi: A leader of the Hamas BDS Campaign, Collaborator with Terrorists, San Francisco State Profesor, #JewHatred.” Despite SFSU’s investigation finding that AMCHA’s claims had no merit, Professor Abdulhadi was then subjected to a lawsuit this year by the Lawfare Project–whose director has repeatedly denied the existence of Palestinians–and mega-firm Winston & Strawn LLP. Last month, Professor Abdulhadi and her attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against her.
Speakers will also include NLG attorneys and others.
Pack the court on November 8th for antifascists facing charges from 6/26/16 nazi shutdown in Sacramento pic.twitter.com/jT9cPd7Syj
— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) November 2, 2017
Locations:
- 7th & Market St.
- 51st & Telegraph
- Spash Pad Park (Macarthur and Grand)
- 35th & Macarthur
- 98th and International
- 66th and International
We Demand: The Resources our students deserve! This is not our mess: Take $ from admin and private contracts. No Cuts to Schools or Essential Staff!
- Support a teacher contract that Oakland Families and Teachers deserve.
- The state ran up OUSD’s debt. It’s not our fault.
- No state takeover under any conditions.
- No school closures. No more charters.
- No more cuts: CA underfunds education.
- We’re 46th in student spending out of 50 states.
- CA is the 5th largest economy in the world. Make the banks and corporations pay.
If you’re still energized afterwards, then MOBILIZE TO THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING: 5:30 – 6:30
Meeting was moved to this day and time from its normal first Thursday of the month date.
Agenda:
1. 5:00pm: Call to Order, determination of quorum
2. 5:05pm: Review and approval of October meeting minutes
3. 5:10pm: Open Forum
4. 5:15pm: Discuss and take possible action on Oakland Police Department Immigration Policy No. 415
5. 5:45pm: Receive staff status update on Surveillance Equipment Ordinance labor discussions and take possible action.
6. 6:00pm: Subcommittee status update on ALPR policy conversion project
7. 6:05pm: Further discussion of citywide Privacy Initiative and Privacy Program (Seattle)
8. 7:00pm: Adjournment
Learn what you should do at work, home, in school or on the streets if you are ever confronted by immigration officers.
Oakland Centro Legal De La Raza
Karen Isaacs and Daniel Roth founded the program Solidarity of Nations – Achvat Amim to help young diaspora Jews engage with anti-Occupation work on the ground in Jerusalem. Dedicated to the principle of self-determination for all people — Achvat Amim offers young activists a way to find their place in the struggle for freedom and dignity for both Palestinians and Israelis.
Until recently, Achvat Amim received funding from Masa Israel Journey (an organization funded by the Jewish Agency). But after recent pressure from the far-right-wing organization Ad Kan, Masa Israel withdrew its funding, further silencing the voices of anti-Occupation Jews. But we know the stakes are too high to stand idly by now: not as Palestinians live the nightmare of the Occupation daily, and not as Israelis face the horrors of upholding it.
Karen and Daniel are on the road to raise emergency funds and talk about their work, and we’re really excited to host them, and take up the mantle of leadership Masa has dropped in this important moment.
And we have so much to talk about with them, because Karen + Daniel (partners in life + activism) are way more than co-founders of Achvat Amim. They co-founded All That’s Left: Anti-Occupation Collective and This is Not an Ulpan, and were crucial actors in the coalition of Palestinians, Israelis, and diaspora Jews behind the صمود : مخيم الحريه Sumud: Freedom Camp צֻמוּד: מחנה חירות.
Let’s hang and snack as we hear what’s up with these amazing organizers, how they’re responding to right-wing attacks, and how coalition building can make the movement to end the Occupation — and to build a just peace — more diverse and powerful than it’s ever been before.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1971761666…
District 4 Councilwoman Kate Harrison will speak at a town hall meeting on police reform. Harrison will be part of a speakers panel along with George Lippman, the District 4 member of the Police Review Commission, and Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance.
“Police are often depicted as separate from the government but, ultimately, as elected representatives, the (City) Council and its appointees on the Police Review Commission are responsible for setting broad police policies and evaluating police performance,” an announcement from Berkeley Citizens Action, the event sponsor, reads in part.
Among the focuses of the event will be initiatives by Harrison’s office and the commission “to promote transparent, de-escalated, and equitable policing that reflects our community values,” and a discussion of “plans to proactively update Berkeley Police Department policies to ensure transparency in police operations,” according to the announcement.
Subjects to be addressed include:
- Current and planned initiatives for use of force by police.
- Better reporting and assessment of differences in police stops in parts of the community (stops, citations and arrests).
- A proposed Surveillance Ordinance.
- Policy guiding the police in demonstrations.
- Introduction of body cameras.
- Increasing oversight by citizens and the Berkeley Police Review Commission.