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UC BERKELEY: SHOW PALANTIR THEY’RE NOT WELCOME HERE!
On September 24, the tech giant that powers ICE, Palantir Technologies, plans to visit UC Berkeley for a so-called “Ethics & Tech Panel” to recruit Berkeley tech students. Palantir is working hand-in-hand with ICE to build tools to surveil, detain, and deport migrants and keep kids locked in cages — and UC Berkeley’s EECS department has a $20,000 a year contract with the corporation, meaning this institution is directly complicit in ICE terror.
THE TIME TO STAND UP TO PALANTIR AND ICE IS NOW. Our tuition fuels deportations.
We’re demanding Berkeley cancel the info session:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/bears-against-ice-tell-eecs-to-cancel-info-session-with-palantir-the-tech-giant-behind-ices-deportation-machine
If they don’t, be ready to join us in protest outside the event on campus — MEETING TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Palantir’s surveillance technology is “mission critical” to ICE’s operations, according to the agency itself, and the company relies on the labor of EECS, CS, and Data Science graduates to develop it. These tools explicitly enable ICE to detain and deport immigrants with ruthless efficiency.
This year, Palantir technology was used to arrest at least 443 mothers, fathers, and other family members and sponsors when ICE investigated children who crossed the border alone. Palantir was shown to be intimately involved in the workplace raid this month that arrested almost 700 people in Mississippi, the largest such raid in a decade. These raids have increased by 650% under President Trump, targeting thousands annually for arrest and deportation. Without the Palantir technology that enables ICE to live track families, these numbers would be far lower. The company has faced outcry this year, calling for it to stop facilitating the ICE deportation machine.
Cal’s engineering and data science curricula parade “ethics” as a required component of our education. Collaborating with Palantir not only abandons our university’s commitment as a so-called sanctuary campus to protect our undocumented students, but directly contradicts its own curriculum. Members of our community study long and hard with the eventual goal of using these skills to improve society through technology’s potential. Palantir is attempting to recruit us to do the opposite.
Fellow students: don’t be complicit! REFUSE to work with Palantir or attend the info session. Join hundreds of tech workers saying #TechWontBuildIt, pledging they will not build tools for immigration enforcement:
https://action.mijente.net/petitions/tell-palantir-to-drop-its-contracts-with-ice-uc-berkeley-students
DEMAND the event is cancelled:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/bears-against-ice-tell-eecs-to-cancel-info-session-with-palantir-the-tech-giant-behind-ices-deportation-machine
If it isn’t, STAND WITH US on the 24th! We are calling on all those who denounce ICE’s reign of terror to join in action. More details to come!
Join hundreds of tenants/renters…
We are not prey, and we fight to stay.
Veritas, property V// branding icon, HRC rebrands Veritas with a V identifying the V with the image of Vulture as Veritas is San Francisco’s largest predatory landlord and renters have become the corporate landlord’s prey to swallow up SF’s housing stock for financial greed. SF Renters are super heros united using their super people power toward creating greater public awareness for progressive change.
When a young man mysteriously dies in Santa Rita jail, his mother, Barbara Doss, begins a determined quest to find out what happened to him, but quickly runs into the opaque and powerful position of American sheriffs.
********* OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL *********
(Preceded by the short film Table Stakes, followed by a panel discussion with Lucas Guilkey)
$10 (tickets)
Despite what the U.S. Administration is doing to deny the effects of Climate Change, people around the country are doing something about it. National Geographic’s film Paris to Pittsburgh shows inspiring stories of local, private sector, and community leaders across the U.S. who are continuing to take action to transition to a clean energy economy—regardless of federal inaction.
Bring your family, friends and neighbors and join us!
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-from-paris-to-pittsburgh-tickets-66526144489
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Hosted by Barbara Chan on behalf of BFUU’s Social Justice Committee and Social Justice Ministry Task Force
Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next is an excellent new book by Timothy Faust that passionately details the need and fight for a federal universal single-payer, comprehensive healthcare plan, i.e. Medicare for All. Please join the Medicare for All Committee of East Bay DSA, along with other representatives from the chapter, in welcoming Timothy at Wolfman Books for an engaging reading and discussion! Plus, East Bay DSA members will get 10% off when buying the book!
Accessibility Information:
advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or
Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s
$15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM
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Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?
In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. The task of saving the planet will involve a great reckoning with ourselves―with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. We have, he reveals, turned our planet into a farm for growing animal products, and the consequences are catastrophic. Only collective action will save our home and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat―and don’t eat―for breakfast.
“Foer’s message is both moving and painful, depressing and optimistic… it will force readers to rethink their commitment to combating ‘the greatest crisis humankind has ever faced.’”
When a young man mysteriously dies in Santa Rita jail, his mother, Barbara Doss, begins a determined quest to find out what happened to him, but quickly runs into the opaque and powerful position of American sheriffs.
Oakland International Film Festival
(Followed by the feature documentary Iron Grit, about the 1979 campaign of the Richard Arrington, Jr, the first black mayor of Birmingham, Alabama)
$15 (tickets)
[Event] Strike for Climate Justice! San Francisco Direct Action, Sept 25https://t.co/pugqreLTna
— Indybay (@Indybay) August 28, 2019
Strike for Climate Justice!
This September, millions of people will take collective action to demand climate justice.
Join us in San Francisco for a mass non-violent direct action to confront the corporations and governments responsible for this crisis.
DISRUPT: THE CLIMATE WRECKERS IN THEIR CORPORATE SUITES: We have identified and will take nonviolent direct action to disrupt key locations of climate of corporations, financial institutions and government offices along or near Montgomery St.We’re asking affinity groups to take nonviolent direct action and disrupt these locations.
CREATE: SOLUTIONS IN THE STREETS: We will paint 20 circular street murals of solutions to climate chaos and injustice along Montgomery St., together with music and popular education about solutions, transforming “Wall St West” (Montgomery St) into a positive vision of solutions. There is a Bay Area tradition of large scale community street murals for climate justice, culminating last Sept in 50 street murals of solutions in the streets around SF Civic Center.
We are asking affinity groups–and mural teams from our communities–to commit to one mural. Music and education is also encouraged along the streets.
SUSTAIN: We will not just show up for an hour or two, but like other catalytic climate justice actions around the world. We will sustain our action for the full workday, beginning at 7am and continuing to 5pm.
Everyone is welcome to join.
Read the full Call to Action here.
Initiated by Idle No More SF Bay, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations, and the Society of Fearless Grandmothers
For more info: https://www.climatejusticesf.org/
When: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Where: Brasilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94104-1901
We are declaring that WE LOVE THE AMAZON! We love her and we envision a world and future where love and respect are given to all living beings and the Amazon flourishes with all the incredible variety of life there is within her.
Look for the big trees and you’ll know you’re in the Amazon! In front of 300 Montgomery Street in SF there will be a mini Amazon. We will be painting a mural and an Amazon River to create our vision of the future for the Amazon.
We will be listening to the sounds of the Amazon, screaming (literally) all we have inside of us out to allow for healing and hope to flow, building an altar for offerings people have been bringing (you are all invited to bring whatever offerings you’d like, like flowers!), playing music, dancing and in general lifting up the glory and vibrancy that we know is the true Amazon. An Amazon and world free of destruction, extraction where the earth is abused, and where all humans live freely and safely.
We would like to invite you to come dressed or painted or whatever as your favorite Amazon animal or tree. Be creative!! We’re excited to see what we see. (Please note: do not dress up as an indigenous person.)
Join us for our monthly general body meetings to learn more about us, pressing topics/issues in East Oakland and how you can take action!
OBJECTOR (the feature documentary) is complete and ready to be shared with our dear Bay Area community!
Please join us for this exclusive PRE-PREMIERE SCREENING and fundraising party.
Witness the story of Atalya Ben-Abba, an Israeli 18-year-old imprisoned for refusing to serve in the Israeli army, sweeping her family and surroundings into a journey of political transformation.
After the screening, we will talk about the Impact Project accompanying the film, and how you can get involved in supporting the mission of Israeli conscientious objectors and local organizing for a just peace for all Palestinians and Israelis.
Check out the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/
Doors open at 7pm, and film will start at 7:30pm. It runs 75 minutes. The space is wheelchair accessible. Delicious goodies will be served.
We have big plans for OBJECTOR – help us realize them: tax-deductible contributions to support the film’s distribution are available at: https://objectorfilm.com/
Please feel free to invite folks who you think would be interested in attending this screening and supporting the project.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Molly, Atalya, Amitai, Sue, David, and the rest of the OBJECTOR family and crew.
Join the East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses social. Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in EBDSA Labor Committee & learn how you can get involved.
Accessibility Information:
Venue is on ground floor and there is a ramp that leads into the patio, venue has an ADA bathroom.
https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Police-Commission-9.26.19-CANCELLATION-NOTICE.pdf
Berkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green New Deal, explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. Joining Naomi in conversation is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, Clara Jeffery.
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Please note: This event is ticketed. Tickets, including discounted book bundles, are available in advance here: https://onfire.bpt.me/
Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here, general admission tickets will be available at the door.
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On Fire shows why Naomi Klein was described by the New Yorker as the most influential figure on the American left and why leading environmentalist Bill McKibben calls her the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal — which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now.
For more than a decade, the acclaimed journalist and ground-breaking thinker has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal — a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate, she argues that only this kind of bold, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time.
These long-form essays, based on her extensive research and reporting, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism and more, this is a rousing call to transformation — and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act.
With dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change, Klein paints a vivid picture of both social and ecological breakdown — as well as the people and movements rising to turn humanity’s greatest disaster into our greatest opportunity.
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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, reporter for Rolling Stone, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap.
Clara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards, including for general excellence, reporting, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way, she also won a PEN award for editing, became a mom, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery.
About Mother Jones: Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization recently honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education, climate change, and food/agriculture. We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website, social-media presence, videos, podcasts, email newsletters, and print magazine. Our fellowship program is one of the premier training grounds for emerging investigative storytellers. Founded in 1976, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington, DC, and New York. We are independent (no corporate owners) and are accountable only to you, our readers. Our mission is to deliver hard-hitting reporting that inspires change and combats “alternative facts.”
This event is co-presented by The Leap, Sunrise Movement, and The Intercept.
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– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference.
– Signing and additional details coming soon.
– This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of On Fire, order below and put your request in the special field. If you’d like to request signed copies of any of Naomi’s other books, order here and be sure to add your request in the special field: https://www.booksmith.com/book/9781982129910
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses,” Utah Phillps.
Join youth and allies on September 27th to protest Chevron, one of the world’s biggest polluters headquartered here in the Bay Area. Chevron knowingly pollutes the Richmond area, the Central Valley, the earth, and many other communities. Chevron is one of the top climate polluters in history – one of four fossil fuel companies that are the highest emitters of carbon since 1988 and one of the top 100 companies that are responsible for 71% of all global emissions. We will be demanding that Chevron gets off of fossil fuels by 2025 and that they stop using their influence to harm frontline communities and our future. We also demand that Governor Newsom hold Chevron accountable.
Meet at the entrance of Chevron’s global headquarters for a vibrant, powerful action, demanding that Chevron’s CEO speak to the youth whose future is jeopardized because of Chevron’ drive for profit at the expense of our air, water and climate.
JOIN US TO SAVE CHELSEA & JULIAN EVERY FRIDAY
SAVE CHELSEA AND JULIAN FROM TORTURE AND DEATH
NEWS LETTER 10/11/19
Please sign up for our emails and alerts at:
https:/bayaction2freeassnge.org and watch “XY CHELSEA” go to SHOWTIME
“XY CHELSEA” clk free 7 day suscription.or free @
https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea
The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!!
There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and Julian were two of
the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth about USA’s illegal,
immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST countries in history,
killing, wounding, and forcing emigration on millions of folks (did you know there
are 65 million migrants?) all over the world!!
Saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! To the Working
class and it’s Allies.They told us the truth about the wars! And all the NEW
McArthyism (phony Russia Gate conspiracy led by the New York Times) is
blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem from
the honesty of Chelsea and Julian!! That’s why the RULING CLASS imprisoned
them and want’s them DEAD.
Please write letters to Chelsea (only hand written and no post cards or
pictures, or anything written on the outside of the letter) Write to: Chelsea
Elizabeth Manning, William Truesdale Adult Detention Center, 2001 Mill Road,
Alexandria Va. 22314. Also write julian writejulian.com
We need to hip people to YouTube shows, web sites and twitter feeds ie. –
twitter.com/xychelsea, twitter.com/defendassange, and wikileaks.org
– Definitely check out these specific links, and add comments and tell your friends:
– Real News Network – “Federal judge continues Chelsea Manning’s confinement
and $1000/day fine” https://youtub.be/qjywz_U_x1c
– The Jimmy Dore Show – “Chelsea Manning jailed again for
protecting journalism” https://youtu.be/bTqVNKXZYAY (89,000 hits)
– Chelsea Manning “Abolish ICE” https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
-Orion song”WE will keep fightin everyday even though our tears won’t
go away!” youtube/DnF6pvX4478
– Chelsea’s scathing 7 page letter to the judge about the history of the SECRET GRAND
JURIES: – https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-letter
—this Fri. eve, Sept. 27th
Please consider coming to a presentation by Reclaim Our Vote�s Founder and Director, Andrea Miller. Andrea is the spiritual/moral/intellectual powerhouse behind the Reclaim Our Vote Campaign (a project of the Center for Common Ground, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 organization based in Virginia).
At this session, Andrea will offer an overview of the voter-suppression landscape in the United States in 2019, and talk about our campaign’s plans for the next year and two months to contact millions of voters of color. RECLAIM OUR VOTE is a volunteer-driven, nonpartisan voter outreach campaign to fight voter suppression, (re)register voters, and turn out the vote among people of color.
Reclaim Our Vote is organized by the Center for Common Ground and works with the NAACP, Black Voters Matter, VoteRiders, DemLabs, Mi Familia Vota and other organizations.
Come find out what Reclaim Our Vote is doing right now, our plans for 2020, and how you might participate.
Light refreshments provided. Tickets are $20 and up; no one turned away due to lack of funds.
Click here for details and to RSVP:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/reclaim-our-vote-east-bay-info-session-fundraiser?source=email&
When a young man mysteriously dies in Santa Rita jail, his mother, Barbara Doss, begins a determined quest to find out what happened to him, but quickly runs into the opaque and powerful position of American sheriffs..
Oakland International Film Festival
(Followed by the feature documentary Decade of Fire, about the history of the South Bronx)
$15 (tickets)
A Night for the Buffalo: Buffalo Field Campaign 2019 Road Show presentation
Marking 22 years of front line action for the wild buffalo, the 2019 Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow is coming to the Bay Area on September 27.
When: Friday, Sept. 27, 7 pm 
Where: the Art House Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley
Buffalo Field Campaign co-founder and field organizer Mike Mease brings captivating stories and striking film footage direct from the land of the buffalo, in a multi-media presentation, with Indigenous soul music by flutist Mignon Geli..
The Buffalo Field Campaign works to end the slaughter and harassment of the last wild herds of buffalo in their native habitat in West Yellowstone, Montana.
BFC used video documentation, non-violent direct action, education and lobbying to change archaic laws targeting buffalo. Volunteers from around the world spend every day, sunrise to sunset, monitoring, documenting and running patrols on skis, snowshoes and other means to defend buffalo as they migrate in their traditional winter habitat.
They bring new stories every time they come to the Bay Area, so come on out on Sept. 27 for a very special event!
We ask for donations at the door, NOTAFLOF. Wheelchair accessible.
Info: bach [at] headwaterspreserve.org, buffalofieldcampaign.org or 510-548-3113.
Communities for A Better Environment (CBE) presents…
East Oakland Toxic Tour
11 AM sharp
Please bring your own water bottles, and pen and dress weather pending, bring sun visors, umbrellas, sunscreen, etc.