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Judge Alsup will hear arguments for and against the Postal Service’s motion to award them victory in the case without a trial.
Berkeley has rezoned the Civic Center District, including the Post Office property at Allston & Milvia, to not allow most commercial activities. The Postal Service claims this was unconstitutional.
Some background in various articles here.
3:16-cv-04815-WHA – United States Postal Service v. City of Berkeley
Motion for Summary Judgment
Motion to Strike
The City of Berkeley is moving to dismiss the First They Came for the Homeless lawsuit against Berkeley and BART for various evictions, raids, theft of property and failure to provide housing or any kind of legal status for homeless residents of Berkeley.
3:17-cv-06051-WHA – Sullivan et al v. Bay Area Rapid Transit
Motion to Dismiss
AB 1506 HEARING: REPEAL COSTA HAWKINS/ PROTECT RENTERS IN CALIFORNIA
After months and months of phone calls, letters, and meetings urging the Assembly to allow AB 1506 to be heard, the Assembly Housing Committee is scheduled to hold its’ first hearing and vote on AB 1506 which would repeal the state restriction on rent control – the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
The hearing will be held on Thursday, January 11th at 9:00am in State Capitol, Room 4202 at the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee meeting. It’s important to get there early so we can get seats in the hearing room (8:30am is advised). If you are interested in attending and need a ride from the Bay Area or somewhere else, please call the CARA office at 877-223-6107. We are looking into carpool opportunities. Everyone else should meet in front of room 4202.
If you cannot attend in person, please call these Assemblymembers who are on the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee. Call them all (these are Sacramento numbers) ESPECIALLY if you live in onee of these members’ districts. Thank you.
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee:
David Chui (Chair): 916-319-2017
Marc Steinorth (Vice Chair): 916-319-2040
Ed Chau: 916-319-2049
Steven Choi, Ph.D.: 916-319-2068
Ash Kalra: 916-319-2027
Monique Limon: 916-319-2037
The Interfaith Council of Alameda County (ICAC) is holding a meeting Thursday, Jan. 11th to propose a faith-based homelessness solution plan for the City of Oakland, County of Alameda and the community.
Attending with be Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, Landon Williams of the San Francisco Foundation and Alameda County Supervisors Nate Miley and Wilma Chan.
Also attending will be Oakland City Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Noel Gallo and Abel Guillén.
For more information, call Rev. Ken Chambers, ICAC president, at (510) 239-6969.
Open to the public.
Tomorrow! Please share widely #Resist #J20 #defendj20 #ReclaimMLK pic.twitter.com/gEJ6HMwQEu
— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) January 11, 2018
SURJ Bay Area’s Queer and Trans (QT) Committee is hosting a free screening of I Am Not Your Negro, a film based on the work of James Baldwin that dives deep into white supremacy and resistance. This will be the eve of APTP’s 96 hours of Direct Action to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy. Members of the QT Committee will encourage attendees to participate in actions January 12-15th, including the mass march on Monday, January 15th.
“Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.”
Accessibility Information
The Sierra Club is located at 2101 Webster Street between 21st and 22nd Street in Oakland. The Sierra Club Offices are on the 13th floor. There is a bank of elevators that go to the 12th floor and above.
Parking and Transportation: The closest BART station is 19th Street BART and the Sierra Club is 4 blocks from BART. If you come by Bart, head north on Broadway and then east (right) on 21st Street and left on Webster to the Building entrance. There will be a greeter in the lobby until 7:15, but please arrive well before 7 pm so we can begin promptly. If you are driving, please try to carpool and arrive early to leave time to find a spot.
Getting Into the Lobby: The doors for the Sierra Club building lock right at 7pm, so please do your best to arrive prior to 7pm. We will have someone stationed at the Webster entrance to the building until 7:15 for late arrivals. If you arrive after 7pm, please use the Webster entrance.
Building Accessibility: There are two entrances to Sierra Club Office building on Webster and 21st both of which are accessible for mobility devices. The building has an elevator, and the kitchen space, conference room, and restrooms can also all accommodate mobility devices.
Scents: The Sierra Club’s space endeavors to offer a scent free environment; however as the Club is currently transitioning towards the use of only scent free products, we cannot guarantee an entirely scent free space. We ask everyone to please arrive at meetings fragrance free to support access for folks who experience multiple chemical sensitivities and allergies. This means using only body products and laundry detergent that say “fragrance free” or “unscented” on the label and do not have scented ingredients.
Restrooms: Restrooms are currently labeled in a gender-binary way. The Sierra Club is working on changing this and has an office policy that all restrooms are available to anyone, regardless of lived or perceived gender identity. We ask that folks choose the restroom that is right for them, and that no one question a person’s chosen restroom.
For the 4th year in a row, the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) is calling on folks to come out in solidarity over the MLK Day weekend and say no to white supremacy, no to state-sponsored terror, no to development over people, no to misogyny, no to homophobia and transphobia, no to the targeting of immigrants and Muslims. #WeWillNotComply #96Hours
SURJ Bay Area will be kicking off its participation in the #96Hours to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy with a morning rally and human billboard at Rockridge BART.
We’ll be holding up signs and passing out flyers to morning commuters that focus on the theme of the day – state-sponsored violence – by highlighting alternatives to calling police, including BART police, as well as looking at their role in upholding white supremacy.
We’ll also be inviting people to come out for the 4th Annual March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy on Monday, January 15th.
Join SURJ for one shift or stay the whole time!
Rally to End State-Sanctioned Sexual Violence!
In Affiliation with #96Hours of #Noncompliance to #ReclaimMLK
**QTPOC & WOMXN MOST HONORED!**
#DefendDurham #96Hours #NonCompliance #ReclaimMLK
Join in solidarity with the 8 Durham comrades, whose trial starts 1/11 on multiple felony charges and their call for national days of action. Also join in solidarity with the Anti Police-Terror Project and their call for 96 Hours of action to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy.
Resistance SF is going to do projections on the SF Federal Building. Join us and bring your signs, voices, instruments and other noise making stuff.
On Aug. 14, Takiyah Thompson climbed a confederate monument and invited Durham to choose what side we’d be on: the side of freedom and liberation or the side of white supremacy and oppression. Durham chose freedom and liberation and pulled down the racist confederate monument that has been terrorizing Black and Brown people in front of the old courthouse since 1924. http://doitlikedurham.org/janweekofaction/
Since then, Takiyah and several others have been fighting felony and misdemeanor charges connected to the statue toppling. On Jan. 11, these brave anti-racist fighters return to court for trial. Will you stand in solidarity with Takiyah and the #DefendDurham arrestees? Learn more here about the national week of action to demand that all charges be dropped! Fighting white supremacy is not a crime! http://doitlikedurham.org/janweekofaction/
We will show the film: Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case For Reasonable Doubt.
This film showing will accompanied by a discussion (Q. +A., debate, and organizing strategies)
Donations will be shared with the OMNI (50/50)
Opening night of Lifer, a play based on the true life account of events that occurred during Glenn Baileys 52 years of incarceration in the California Penal System.
$5.00 discount if you mention APTP at the door.
Our neighborhood canvassing program has created opportunities for small, intimate canvassing groups to coalesce around neighborhoods in Berkeley and Oakland. There’s nothing more inspiring, though, than a room full of hundreds of socialists ready to hit the streets and canvass the whole East Bay, armed with clipboards and a materialist analysis of social antagonisms.
So in that spirit, we’re bringing back chapter-wide canvasses with the new year as we continue our single-payer campaign and think about the other campaigns we’re committed to as a chapter.
Dozens of DSA and community members will convene on January 13 to knock thousands of doors in a matter of hours. We’ll start with a training on how to canvass in support of single-payer, then break into teams to go out and have conversations with neighbors in and around Oakland about decommodifying healthcare. This event will double as the launch for our campaigns in support of Gayle McLaughlin for Lt. Governor and Jovanka Beckles for Assembly District 15. As we canvass, we’ll gather more than a thousand signatures to help secure a ballot line for Gayle.
This canvass will be a major step toward building a mass socialist political movement all over the East Bay. No experience necessary, and all are welcome. In 2018, the world is ours to win.
Feel free to contact externalorganizing@eastbaydsa.org with questions and be sure to RSVP!
Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland.
“Remember the saying: ‘Of all pilgrimages the greatest is to relieve the sorrow-laden heart.'” ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
The Baha’i community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.
Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. Simple breakfast will be served.
“Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy. Nearness to Thee is my hope, and love for Thee is my companion. Thy mercy to me is my healing and my succor in both this world and the world to come. Thou, verily, art the All-Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
Sun, Jan 14, 11am–noon
West County Detention Facility – Jail & ICE det. center
5555 Giant Highway, Richmond CA
Let Our People Go is a multi-faith, multi-racial protest held every 2nd Sunday, 11am–noon, at Richmond Detention Facility
Contact: letourpeoplego@kehillasynagogue.org. pic.twitter.com/tO1UjDj8wm— Indivisible Berkeley (@IndivisibleBerk) January 12, 2018
On Sunday January 14, 2018, actions that focus on Indigenous/International Solidarity.
Reclaiming MLK's Legacy of Militant Internationalism, Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California, 1433 Madison St, Oakland, 1 pm, by Third World Resistance
— CRC Media Corps (@CRCMediaCorps) January 11, 2018
Third World Resistance reclaiming the legacy of militant internationalism of #MartinLutherKing leading up to the #96 hours of action called for by @APTPaction to #ReclaimMLK. #ThirdWorldResistance #NoBanNoWallNoWar #MLKDay2018 pic.twitter.com/IHf5KtC10W
— AROC (@AROCBayArea) January 12, 2018
Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice.
SB 100 CA Climate Legislation: 100% renewable energy by 2045
Presentation on bill, current status, Q & A.