Ahmed Salah was imprisoned, tortured and nearly killed by the Egyptian authorities. After making it out of the country he was born in, by sheer luck, Salah’s memoir of co-designing and implementing the Egyptian revolution during the “Arab Spring” was published on April 4th, 2016. Salah will discuss his newly released book, and field questions and dialogue.

For more event information: https://www.facebook.com/events/115739705491611/

OTU’s Mission

The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.

Monthly Meetings

The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.

If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.

The Assassination Complex reveals stunning details of the government’s secretive and horrific drone warfare program, based on documents supplied by a confidential source in the intelligence community.

Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. Proponents of drone warfare, however, prefer the term “targeted killings.” But drone strikes Frequently kill people who are not the intended target. Unless it can be proven otherwise, the government refers to these unintended victims as “enemies killed in action.” These deaths – all too often of women and children – dwarf the number of actual combatants who have been murdered by drones. They have generated among foreign populations intense anger toward the U.S., and they have become a recruiting tool for jihadists.

Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues on The Intercept obtained a cache of classified slides from a source within the intelligence community that provides a startling window onto the Inner workings of the U.S. military’s drone operations. These documents make it possible to begin the necessary, long-overdue debate about this 14-year campaign of targeted killing that has been deliberately hidden from the public, and exactly why it is conducted so ruinously in so many places.

Jeremy Scahill, one of the three founding editors of The Intercept, is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, author of the internationally bestselling books Dirty Wars and Blackwater, and twice a recipient of the George Pol Award.  He will also discuss The Intercept, the investigative web magazine founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, a publication of First Look Media.

Brian Edwards-Tiekert, host of this one-time event, is the daily host of UpFront, KPFA’s popular hour-long news magazine with a strong focus on state and local issues.

Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition With John Burris Law Office, Jeff Adachi, Alex Nieto Coalition Frisco 5, Amilcar Perez Lopez Coalition, SEIU 1021…

Facebook event.

Wed at 5:30 police commission meeting. Everyone come out. #FireChiefSuhr #BlueRibbon pic.twitter.com/GJEUSDWunP

— mary mad (@marymad) May 10, 2016

SF POLICE COMMISSION MEETING

Tonight, 5:30pm, SF City Hall#frisco5 #frisco500 #firechiefsuhr

— Equipto (@EQUIPTO) May 11, 2016

Personally let Chief Greg Suhr and the Police Commission know you proudly and courageously stand in solidarity with and support the FRISCO 5’s demand. Calling all FRISCO 500. This is a public meeting to hear and speak to Police Chief Greg Suhr and the SF Police Commission. Come get informed and involved. Support your community and let your voices be heard loud and clear. Spread the word.

This might turn out to be our last meeting EVER due to recent developments.
Please make attending a priority.

Agenda:
1.    Council process for placing our measure on the ballot and OPOA/City
Attorney push back
2.    Signature gathering
3.    Coalition effectiveness: how are we doing? What needs to change moving
forward? Can we unite with the Black Lives Matters folks to mobilize large
numbers?

Join a discussion on the Sanders campaign, capitalist elections, socialism and the mass movement.
We will start by reviewing an article published in the Workers World Newspaper entitled “Two sides of the Sanders Campaign” by Fred Goldstein: http://www.workers.org/2016/03/21/two-sides-of-the-sanders-campaign/

Liberty City, the protest organized by First They Came for the Homeless against anti-homeless ordinances considered and ultimately passed by the Berkeley City Council, was swept away by the Berkeley Police in late December.

The Police Review Commission will take up the matter. Details to follow.

THURSDAY: #FRISCO5 PRESS CONFERENCE at Mission Station 630 Valencia St, SF, CA. 10:30 AM @ShaunKing #FIRECHIEFSUHR #RECALLEDLEE

— OccupythePort (@occupytheport) May 11, 2016

“This Changes Everything” is the great critically acclaimed film inspired by Naomi Klein’s book and directed by Avi Lewis about how the challenges of climate change can lead us to a post-fossil fuel, post-capitalist future. This is an ultimately encouraging film, which everyone must as most if not all people do care about justice.

The film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.

Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.

MAY COPWATCH DAYS AND TIMES

– FRIDAY 5/6 – 8pm
– FRIDAY 5/13 – 8pm
– SATURDAY 5/21 – 8pm
– FRIDAY 5/27 – 8pm

You’re invited to join Berkeley Copwatch on one of our weekly copwatch shifts. We’ll be out in the streets witnessing and documenting police activity and doing outreach. No experience is required – we’ll train you in the essentials for documenting police activity and staying safe in the process.

DETAILS:
* Please RSVP (no deadline) by calling/texting 510-224-5950 or emailing CRivka@sonic.net to let us know which day(s) you plan to come. That way we can update you if we make any changes to the schedule.

* If you are able to bring a car and be a shift driver, that would be GREAT! Please let us know when you RSVP.

* Dress prepared for being outdoors

May 14, May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25, 1-5pm

Using news photographs, memorabilia, reconstructed objects, documentary fragments, and original documents, contemporary artist Kate Haug re-tells the story of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last monumental social protest prior to his assassination. The exhibition features images and objects culled from Haug’s extensive research in the archives of the Associated Press, the popular press, and eBay, which have not been seen together before, bringing to life the complex ambition of King’s vision.

King began organizing the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) in 1967 to unify America’s poor across class rather than racial lines, believing that economic parity was key to African American equality within the United States. The PPC culminated with a 3,000 person shanty town named Resurrection City, constructed on the National Mall in Washington DC. Resurrection City drew people from all over the country, was the nineteen sixties version of the 1932 Bonus March and a predecessor to “Occupy”. The exhibition time frame for this show mirrors many of the actual dates of the campaign, tracing the Resurrection City’s opening day to its final destruction.

The PPC echoes aspects of current social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Fight for Fifteen, and Our Walmart. In San Francisco, a city with one the highest rates of income inequality in the United States, King’s work asks pointed questions about the contemporary social contract and the democratic promise of America.

News Today: A History of the Poor People’s Campaign in Real Time runs from April 9, 2016 to June 25, 2016.

Gallery Talks:
Sat May 14, 2pm:
Justin Gomer Ph.D., Lecturer, American Studies, UC Berkeley
A discussion of the images in News Today as they relate to the shifting political landscape in the years after 1968.

Sat May 21, 2pm:
E.C. Feiss, Ph.D. Student, Art History, UC Berkeley
The Politics of Display

Film Screening: El Canto del Colibrí

El Canto del Colibrí es un nuevo documental que explora las relaciones entre padres Latinos inmigrantes y sus hijxs y familia LGBTQ. Ven a disfrutar comida deliciosa, ver el documental, conectarte con organizaciones LGBTQ en Oakland, y platicar sobre temas importantes en nuestras comunidades.

The film El Canto del Colibrí is a new documentary exploring the relationships between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBTQ family members. Come enjoy delicious food, watch the documentary, meet LGBTQ Latinx organizations in Oakland, and talk about important topics in our communities.
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The next general meeting of the Oakland Justice Coalition. Join us to talk politics in Oakland, endorsements, campaigns, elections, ballot initiatives, canvassing, the Renters’ crisis in Oakland and next steps.

PETITION DRIVE COORDINATION AND TRAINING –
WE NEED YOU!

SATURDAY 2:30PM, May 14
FIREFIGHTERS’ UNION HALL 

2027 Clement Street, Alameda.
YES, WE NEED MORE SIGNATURES AND VOLUNTEERS!

Liberated Lens hosts 2 days of films.

Liberated Lens in collaboration with the Land Action 4 hosts 2 days of films, workshops and fun!! Bay Area social justice, activist organizations will be sharing their knowledge and experience throughout the festival and holding hands on activities in between the films.

Films screening:
1) Shelter
2) Edible City: Grow the Revolution
3) Occupy the Farm

A 2 day mini film fest benefit, showing a total of 4 activist/social justice films about various projects in the Bay Area. Directors and Producers of the films will hold Q&A after each screening. Various Social Justice groups will be tabling and workshops will be held as well. A dinner will be served at 6pm. The benefit is held to pay back the bail money borrowed to get Patrick Xu out of jail.