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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 1^st Monday of each month
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The time to strike is approaching and Oakland teachers are calling on Oakland City Council to show where they stand! Are they with the Oakland community or the billionaire privatizers taking over the district? Join teachers as they put pressure on city council members to back their demands for lower class sizes, living wages, student support, and stopping school closures. Oakland teachers and their allies across the East Bay will rally in front of Oakland City Hall before entering the city council meeting where the resolution to support Oakland teachers will be put to a vote.

Meeting at OUSD offices: 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. at 1000 Broadway
March to City Hall: 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Rally at City Hall: 5:00 – 5:15 p.m. at Oscar Grant Plaza (Frank H. Ogawa Plaza) in front of Oakland City Hall
Oakland City Council Meeting: 5:30 p.m.

JOIN US TO SUPPORT OAKLAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

OEA ASKS OAKLAND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS: _”WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?”_
OAKLAND STUDENTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE EAGER TO
LEARN WHERE YOU STAND IN THE FIGHT TO SAVE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN OAKLAND!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, THE OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER
A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT OEA’S CONTRACT DEMANDS, STAND AGAINST SCHOOL
CLOSURES AND FULLY FUND OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED.
PLEASE JOIN OAKLAND TEACHERS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT
THIS CRITICAL RESOLUTION AS WE GEAR UP FOR A POTENTIAL STRIKE.

GATHER AT CITY HALL PLAZA FOR A RALLY AT 4:30PM BEFORE WE HEAD INTO THE
COUNCIL MEETING AT 5:30PM.

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO OEA WEBSITE:
HTTPS://OAKLANDEA.ORG/EVENT/CALL-ON-THE-CITY-COUNCIL-TO-SUPPORT-OAKLAND-TEACHERS/

CR Oakland and Public Health Justice Collective (formerly Occupy Public Health) are excited to invite you to join us for a learning and strategy session for ending the violence of policing in our communities.

Snacks will be provided.

PLEASE RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/PE96N1PDg6OvMkpT2

What does the fact that the American Public Health Association (APHA), a network of over 25,000 public health professionals, overwhelmingly adopted a policy statement that identifies the violence of policing as a public health issue? How can we use this statement and its recommendations for decriminalization , divestment from law enforcement, and alternatives to policing to strengthen our campaigns? Join us to learn more about this win and identify how we can use as an organizing tool.

We particularly invite people involved in campaigns against policing and criminalization to join us and to bring folks organizing with you!

Progressives and socialists have sometimes won state power in liberal, democratic regimes, and used it to rein in the worst excesses of capitalism. But, due to their structural power, capitalists exercise disproportionate control over the state, often allowing them to prevent or roll back such reforms.

Please join the Socialist Night School on Tuesday, February 5 for a discussion of the capitalist state and the sorts of reforms possible under capitalism.

Required Readings

See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.

Oakland teachers are gearing up for a likely strike to win the schools their students deserve! But they need your support to win—and you can help through the Bread for Ed campaign.

Bread for Ed will provide meals at solidarity schools, food trucks at picket lines, and more. There are 37,000 students and around 3,000 members of the Oakland Educators Association in this fight to defend the public school in Oakland. The vast majority of these students depend on free or reduced lunches, so this project is a critical show of solidarity with the Oakland community.

Come to a Bread for Ed organizing meeting to learn more and get involved with this effort to keep Oakland kids fed! You can also donate to the Bread for Ed food fund at: https://donorbox.org/breadfored

The meeting space is on the second floor but accessible by elevator.

Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006
or Pegasus (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s
$15 door

For decades one of the most farseeing, outspoken public intellectuals in the United States has been Robert B. Reich. Now he provides us with The Common Good, his sixteenth book, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto urging the recentering of our national economics and politics on the profound idea of the common good. Responding to the prevailing uproar of divisiveness, cynicism and blind self-interest, Reich makes a powerful case for expanding America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good not only exists, but in fact is the very essence of any functional society or notion. Societies, he asserts, undergo varying virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine It – one of which this country has been experiencing for the past five decades. This can and must be reversed.

First we must weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how as a country we should relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth and the meaning of leadership.

This is a heartfelt statement from a major political thinker devoted to saving America’s soul.

Robert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books, including The Work of Nations, Saving Capitalism and Locked In the Cabinet. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washingon Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is currently chair of the national governing board of Common Cause.

Kathryn Horsley is a retired public health researcher and civil servant who worked on demographic and reproductive health research in Bolivia, East Africa and the Middle East for 16 years. More recently she worked for Seattle-King County Public Health and Alameda County Public Health Departments on community assessment and mapping of health outcomes regarding infant and maternal mortality, teen pregnancy, etc. Kathryn has done community outreach for KPFA Radio, and over the past three years has co-produced benefit events for KPFA.          

KPFA benefit

The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week:
Thursday 1/31
Friday 2/1
Thurs 2/7
Fri 2/8.

We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation.

— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019

Hosted by the Ecology Center, StopWaste and City of Berkeley, with the generous support of BayREN.

Why? Our homes and buildings are the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. But thanks to local Community Choice Energy providers, electricity in the Bay Area is clean, and is getting cleaner and greener every year. We can vastly reduce our carbon footprint by getting off natural gas in our homes and electrifying everything. Not only does electrification reduce GHGs, it also makes our homes healthier and safer.

What?

• Watch induction cooktop demos
• Talk with local residents who are electrifying homes and apartments
• Meet local contractors installing all-electric appliances
• See super-efficient heat pump water heaters & space heating/cooling systems
• Learn more at workshops with international electrification expert Sean Armstrong. Limited seating – advance registration required.
• 3:30-5:00pm – Building Professional Workshop (Plumbers, Electricians, Contractors, Architects, HVAC Installers)
• 6:00-7:30pm – Renter & Homeowner Workshop

Agenda:

3. 5:10pm: Open Forum
4. 5:15pm: UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic – introduction and discussion of scope of work, including drafting of Privacy Principles.
5. 5:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Exigent Use of Surveillance Technology report, and take possible action.
6. 5:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report – review and take possible action.
7. 6:00pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – presentation of inaugural annual reports (FBI/JTTF, ATF, DEA task forces), and take possible action.
8. 6:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Body Worn Camera Anticipated Impact Report – review and take possible action.

How does the dream of a college degree become a reality for low-income students?

Please join us for East Bay Community Conversations
Higher Education and the California Dream: Myth or Reality

These and many other issues facing students desiring a higher education degree in California are critical topics for a two-part series hosted by the KQED Community Advisory Panel.

Hear from and share your thoughts with higher education administrators, faculty, students, and elected officials.

Panelists include:

Dr. Marie Elaine Burns, President, Merritt College
Dr. Jowel Laguerre, Chancellor, Peralta Community College District
Dr. Kimberly Mayfield. Dean of Education, Holy Names University
Dr. Chinyere Oparah, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Mills College
The Honorable Loren Taylor, District 6, Oakland City Councilman
Merritt College Student Representative

Janet Miller Evans, Moderator, KQED Community Action Panel
LaNeice Jones, Host, KQED Community Action Panel

Event details:

Doors Open at 5:00PM

Looking for more: Join us on March 20, 2019 at Mills College for the second part of the conversation. Details here. 

The encampment at E 12th & 23rd Ave got eviction notice, happening over a week:
Thursday 1/31
Friday 2/1
Thurs 2/7
Fri 2/8.

We’re asking for folks to come for eviction support at 8 am each day – bringing coffee, breakfast, and doing copwatch/documentation.

— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) January 29, 2019

Contra Costa hearing on whether police misconduct and lethal use of force records will be released retroactively (#SB1421) Case # N19-0109.

Media Alliance, as with many Bay Area media outlets, filed public record requests after the January 1, 2019 enactment of Senate Bill 1421 which allowed the release of police misconduct and use of force records. Our requests to the cities of Antioch and Richmond are tied up in litigation from the police unions, which will be heard in the consolidated Contra Costa County case Walnut Creek Police Officers Association vs City of Walnut Creek

Please be on time, so we can start the meeting early. We’ll be discussing and planning our next direct action for the month of February, and sharing community updates.

On January 22nd, supporters of People’s Park marched down Telegraph Avenue to Sproul Plaza to protest the University’s overwhelming police response to the protest defending the trees. This peaceful protest was interrupted by a reckless driver who pushed up on the protesters and struck a sleeping homeless man as he fled the scene. Police have refused to release the identity of the driver or respond to this blatant attack on the poor people of Berkeley.