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Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples & Families Movement
National Conference 2016
September 9-10, 2016 – Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM – Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM (PDT)
Oakland, California
We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Families Movement, we have made real progress since our first meeting in Selma in 2011. As a movement, we need the opportunity to collectively discuss the progress that we have made. We also need the opportunity and space to determine where we should be going during the next Presidential Administration. In the past year, we have conducted several regional meetings where we presented expert panels of formerly incarcerated people and our family members. This National Conference will be an opportunity to explore our best practices and see what is being done across the country. We strongly encourage you join us for networking, sharing of resources, tabling and organizing opportunities, and we guarantee that you will meet some of the most interesting activists and people from our community.
We are also encouraging service providers, allies, foundations, and government officials to attend: this is a space in which formerly incarcerated people will be speaking in our own voices,sharing the wisdom and practical knowledge we’ve gained as activists and organizers over many years following incarceration, and discussing how best we can restore our rights and fully rejoin our communities.
Formerly Incarcerated People have elected to collectively and heavily invest in the conference. We have reserved the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel and we have set aside resources to provided scholarship support to formerly incarcerated people and their families. We must once again pose the critical question we first raised at Selma when organizing the next conference: “Will You Be There?”
FICPFM is a group of national organizations comprised of & led by formerly incarcerated people dedicated to ending mass incarceration, restoring our rights, & removing the barriers to employment, housing, & education.
A limited number of Registration Scholarships are available to formerly incarcerated people and/or family members. To apply please submit this short application & an organizer will contact you soon.
Those who qualify will receive a CODE for a Scholarship ticket.
STATEWIDE MOBILIZATION.
On September 9, the Stop Urban Shield Coalition and communities from across the state will be mobilizing to Pleasanton, CA, where the Urban Shield weapons expo will be held. Join us in saying no to militarization and policing in our communities!
**We are organizing buses and travel from across the state for people everywhere to be able to attend. Please let us know if you would like travel support.**
Current pickup locations: Pleasanton, Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Stop militarized policing. Stop #UrbanShield! Friday, September 9 in Pleasanton: https://t.co/yZpoZNAxhz pic.twitter.com/ysM8Uzwgum
— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) August 30, 2016
Urban Shield is an annual SWAT team policing training and weapons expo that brings together local, regional, and international police-military units – including those from the Apartheid State of Israel – to collaborate on new forms of surveillance, state repression, and state violence. It consists of extremely militarized policing trainings and war games that only seek to expand the power of law enforcement over our communities. As we continue to face and witness increased militarizaton and the violence of policing, we must resist programs like Urban Shield, and demand the resources that build our self-determination.
Stop Urban Shield is a broad based coalition of grassroots and social justice organizations that are working to put an end to Urban Shield. In 2014, our organizing and grassroots mobilizing led to Urban Shield being kicked out of Oakland. This year, with enough support from across the state, we can end it for good. Join us and spread the word!
Visit StopUrbanShield.org for more info.
Come build community power for resisting displacement in Alameda County!
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) hosts a night of food, music, conversation, and insurgent art.
AEMP reports back on a year of displacement data analysis and oral history in Oakland, Fremont, and Alameda. We are releasing a new narrative map along with project report writen with Tenants together.
The event honors those who participated in oral history interviews and the work of community partners: Oakland Creative Neighborhoods Coalition, Fremont RISE, Alameda Renters Coalition, Bay Area Video Coalition, and more!
AEMP will be providing transportation from Fruitvale Bart to Eastside Arts Alliance. contact: carlita.wo@gmail.com if you would like to ride with us!
About Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
September 9th at Mosswood #Oaklandpic.twitter.com/q3tkOSYNkC
— BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) August 11, 2016
Join us on Friday, September 9th at Mosswood Park (look for us by the amphitheater) for a BBQ, banner and sign making party, open discussion on the strike and the mobilization on the 10th, and also watch a film about the Attica Prison Uprising.
Oakland IWOC also stands in solidarity with our comrades organizing the Urban Shield protest in Pleasanton the same day as well as the FICPFM Conference. We encourage people to attend these other events and join us later in the day for the BBQ to report back and cross-pollinate.
Fore more information check out:
https://itsgoingdown.org/
Announcement of Nationally Coordinated Prisoner Work-Stoppage for Sept 9, 2016
Please RT and Plan Action pic.twitter.com/PRAeco119n
— POPE of JSIL (@mdp4202) August 30, 2016
On September 9, San Francisco Rocks Against the TPP!
RSVP and reserve your free ticket now.
San Francisco is set to Rock Against the TPP. This free concert is part of a nationwide uprising to sound the alarm about the biggest corporate power grab in history — the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
The San Francisco concert tour stop will feature legendary punk artist and former lead singer of the Dead Kennedys Jello Biafra, Grammy Award winning Latin Rock group La Santa Cecilia, Bay Area Indie Rock group Built for the Sea, Puerto Rican singer Tana Asili, and more.
Margrete Strand-Rangnes, a member of Sierra Club’s National Board of Directors, will also speak about the many environmental concerns we have with the TPP.
We’re ready to Rock Against the TPP! Are you in? RSVP now.
RSVP: http://sc.org/RATPPSF
If Congress approves the TPP, we’ll pay a heavy price. The trade pact would clear the way for more fracking and exports of liquified natural gas, expand the brutal practice of shark finning, and empower corporate polluters to sue governments in private tribunals over climate protections.
Are you ready to Rock Against the TPP in San Francisco? RSVP now for this free concert!
Together we can make a statement and show that people across the country are standing up against this corporate power grab.
On Wednesday September 14th Bay Area activists will drive to North Dakota to bring needed supplies and solidarity to the 4,000 Sioux, Lakota and other Native Peoples camped at Standing Rock. They are resisting the construction of the Dakota Access Oil pipeline. Their water is at risk. Our air is at risk. All our futures are at risk.
COME JOIN US for drinks and fundraising.
BOOTS RILEY will speak briefly about this fight, as well as those who will be hitting the road.
PLEASE BRING: Tents, blankets/sleeping bags, diapers, baby wipes, canned food. These items will be going to North Dakota to support our sisters and brothers. Solidarity!! See you FRIDAY!
********Endorsed by Bay Area Socialist Alternative********
IF you can’t make it, please go to https://www.gofundme.com/
Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted Peoples & Families Movement
National Conference 2016
September 9-10, 2016 – Friday, September 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM – Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM (PDT)
Oakland, California
We are at very unique moment in our struggle. The public discourse is filled with talk about ending mass incarceration by elected officials, academics, correctional officials, and funders. We are organizing this conference to specifically strengthen the voices of formerly incarcerated people and our families and to ensure that our ideas are included in the discourse. As the Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People & Families Movement, we have made real progress since our first meeting in Selma in 2011. As a movement, we need the opportunity to collectively discuss the progress that we have made. We also need the opportunity and space to determine where we should be going during the next Presidential Administration. In the past year, we have conducted several regional meetings where we presented expert panels of formerly incarcerated people and our family members. This National Conference will be an opportunity to explore our best practices and see what is being done across the country. We strongly encourage you join us for networking, sharing of resources, tabling and organizing opportunities, and we guarantee that you will meet some of the most interesting activists and people from our community.
We are also encouraging service providers, allies, foundations, and government officials to attend: this is a space in which formerly incarcerated people will be speaking in our own voices,sharing the wisdom and practical knowledge we’ve gained as activists and organizers over many years following incarceration, and discussing how best we can restore our rights and fully rejoin our communities.
Formerly Incarcerated People have elected to collectively and heavily invest in the conference. We have reserved the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel and we have set aside resources to provided scholarship support to formerly incarcerated people and their families. We must once again pose the critical question we first raised at Selma when organizing the next conference: “Will You Be There?”
FICPFM is a group of national organizations comprised of & led by formerly incarcerated people dedicated to ending mass incarceration, restoring our rights, & removing the barriers to employment, housing, & education.
A limited number of Registration Scholarships are available to formerly incarcerated people and/or family members. To apply please submit this short application & an organizer will contact you soon.
Those who qualify will receive a CODE for a Scholarship ticket.
#Oakland September 10th at Latham square pic.twitter.com/kKJZgpsg0t
— BlackOUT Collective (@blackoutcollect) August 11, 2016
#Oakland: Take The Streets In Solidarity With The September 9th Prison Strike pic.twitter.com/JphaoIByDw
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) August 5, 2016
ORGANIZED BY THE OAKLAND CHAPTER OF IWOC:
https://
ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH people across Oakland, the Bay Area, and Northern California in general, will converge in Downtown Oakland and rally and march in solidarity with the US wide prison work strike against prison slavery.
Slavery is legal in America. Written into the 13th Admendment, it is legal to work someone that is incarcerated for free or almost free. Since the civil war, tens of millions of people most arrested for non-violent offenses, have been used as slaves for the sake of generating massive profits for multi-national corporations and the US government. Today, prison labor is a multi-billion dollar industry which helps generate enormous wealth for key industries such as fossil fuels, fast food, telecommunications, technology, the US military, and everyday house hold products.
The strike, which starts officially on September 9th, the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, is historic. The strike is being led by groups such as the Free Alabama Movement, Free Texas Movement, Free Ohio Movement, Free Virginia Movement, Free Mississippi Movement, and many more. Prisoners have asked that supporters hold noise demonstrations outside jails and prisons, protest, disrupt, and demonstrate outside of corporations that profit from prison labor, and also support the strike that is happening across the US.
This is not just a prison strike for better wages or conditions, it is a strike against white supremacy itself.
Bring banners, signs, noise makers, friends, co-workers, neighbors, family members, and more! Gather at Latham Square next to OGP (Broadway and Telegraph Ave), 1pm. Also, be sure to join us the day before at our BBQ which will feature banner making, a film showing, and open discussion about the strike. See more info on that here: https://www.facebook.com/
#StrikeAgainstPrisonSlaver
#PrisonStrike
Contact Oakland IWOC:
https://
More info:
Strike Against Prison Slavery: https://itsgoingdown.org/
Let the Crops Rot in the Field: http://
Incarcerated Workers Take the Lead: http://
End Prison Slavery: https://
Join us at the downtown Berkeley Public Library for Homelessness in Berkeley: a Panel Discussion.
There are exciting and viable programs that can house the homeless in Berkeley! Panelists will provide a broad background on homelessness as well as specific conditions in Berkeley in order to demystify this important community issue and share proven solutions that have already worked in other cities. We will hear about solutions that are happening now and those that can be applied in Berkeley.
The panel includes experts on the subject, local service providers and case workers discussing their work in the streets, and people who have expericenced homelessness sharing the reality of life on the street. There will be plenty of time for discussion and Q&A. A reception with the panelists follows including tabling by various organizations.
Nationally known advocate Dr. Julie Winkelstein, PhD, MLIS, moderates the program. She will be joined by:
Sam Davis, UC Professor Emeritus, Department of Architecture
Gwen Austin, Development Associate/Community Builder-Organizer, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
Eve Ahmed, City of Berkeley, Homeless Outreach, Berkeley Mental Health Adult Services
Joseph, Advocate, Berkeley resident, formerly homeless
Other panelists to be anounced.
Pedie Perez had been drinking when he was arrested by Richmond officer Wallace Jensen. After waiting on the floor for a while, he got up to walk away. He was gunned down. He was unarmed. There are several witnesses that attest that he didn’t attack the cop or try to seize his weapon, but in the follow up investigation NONE of the actual eye witnesses testimony was even mentioned and Jensen was allowed to continue on his merry way without so much as a reprimand. But folks are organizing and fighting back. Now it is becoming an important issue and several members of the Richmond City Council are becoming actively involved. Stand up! Fight Back! You can read more about the situation on this web site as well as on this Faceplant page.
Saturday, September 10th there will be a BBQ commemorating the second anniversary of his murder at 5:30 PM at John F. Kennedy Park on Cutting Blvd. It will be followed by a candle lighting and walk to Uncle Sam’s Liquors where he was gunned down by a Peace Officer pledged to protect and server the citizens of Richmond.
Over five years, Hochschild got to know people in the Louisiana bayou country – stronghold of the conservative right. How, she wondered, could those in the poorest state in the nation disparage help from the federal government? How could residents of a highly polluted area resist the idea of regulating polluters? Most of all what was the appeal of Donald Trump?
Hochschild’s book explores what she calls their “deep story” and behind it, their fear of losing a familiar world, their dread of economic decline, and suspicion of government betrayal. Most of all, they understand themselves, she observes, as a forgotten and demeaned “minority group.” After her presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion.
http://www.RevolutionaryWorkers.org
Peace Bay Area Fam: Artists, Hip-Hop Heads, Mothers, Lovers, Leaders, Healers – people of the movement.
Tatu Vision & Sistar Cypher are coming through with another slammin’ collaboration… Second Saturday Open Mic / Dance Party / Sistar Cypher.
First off, big Love and big Thanks to Kaye Sweat for leading us in a room full of dance last Second Saturday! That was almost too much fun lol!
We still feel the rhythm in our bones and must express it forward! Who better to call than our dynamic dance organization ——–>
FEATURE ARTISTS : No Mirror Movement
Inspirations: No Mirror Movement uses a fusion of hip hop, contemporary, and waacking, because each of those dance styles are rooted in social change and empowering individuals to connect with their bodies, love their bodies, and express themselves in order to build community and challenge the status quo. These three cultures inspire No Mirror Movements literal dance movements. The director, SammyMac, also takes inspiration from her background in musical theatre by ensuring a full story is told, one that holds meaning and captures audiences hearts and minds. She is is also inspired by the personal stories of her dancers and her own history of overcoming a 10 year eating disorder. She believes dance should tell stories that bring important issues, such as body image and mental illness, to the fore front of people’s mind and helps communicate the immediacy of these issues through a language audiences hear rarely….the language of dance.
Beautiful.
Come through ready to share a piece on the mic, dance, cypher, or simply enjoy the vibe and support others. All ages, all by donation. Much love!
NOTE: Tatu Vision is performing in LA on October 7th! Therefore…there will be NO Second Saturday open mic and Sistar Cypher in October.
Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland.
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.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
Inside U.S. Imperialist Policy Today:
Syria, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Beyond
Speaker, Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action and Socialist Action’s 2016 candidate for President; Author, Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt; The Tragedy of Libya; Syria 2014; Marx Was Right: The Capitalist Crisis Today and Capitalism Damns the Environment; Director, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
The panelists and community discussion will focus on what Oaklanders are doing to fight displacement by struggling for African-Americans to obtain a fair share of the jobs in the city.
African Americans at present make up 28 percent of the city and have three times the unemployment rate of whites. Black people are only getting 5 percent of the hours on city-funded construction projects.
Speakers will discuss:
Winning decent paying warehouse jobs at the new Port of Oakland logistics project;
Ensuring city-funding of the job resource centers that are the major pipeline for jobs for many low-income workers
Working for Uber to institute a socially responsible jobs policy in Oakland.
Reinvigorating a city jobs policy that was passed in 2008 but not implemented.
Uniting to support the “Oakland Opportunity Challenge,” aimed at obtaining a fair portion of employment for African American residents in every workplace in every job category.
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
- Announcements
- (Optional) Discussion Topic
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
Liberated Lens Collective is a community media project based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We believe that story telling belongs to everyone. We do not depend on mainstream media or an expensive film school: we empower ourselves to make our own images!
We learn by doing. We teach eachother. We work horizontally, and operate by consensus. We make films in a spirit of collaboration, inclusivity and solidarity, maintain a film equipment library for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops, and host film screenings. In May 2015 we organized the Films 2 The People Short Film Festival.
To be updated about what we do, join our announce mailing list: Liberated_Lens.announce@lists.riseup.net
To get involved, come to our meetings! We’re open and happy to welcome you, no matter your experience level. Sometimes, the meetings turn into creative workshops!
The Alameda County Jail Fight Coalition is calling health care workers and community members to attend the Alameda County Mental Health Advisory Board meeting where they will be discussing the Sherffis proposal to build a new “mental health unit” at the Santa Rita Jail. The sheriff thinks he can get the Mental Health Adviory Board to rubberstamp his proposal – join us as we demand real accountability and real solutions to our county’s needs. We need to let the Mental Health Adviory Board know that the community and healthcare workers are opposed to the use of jail as mental healthcare.
Stand with us in our demands to:
1. Stop all construction plans for the new jail
2. Invest in alternatives to incarceration and community health
3. Divest from incarceration and policing
If you can’t make it, you can still take action:
Sign here to add your name to the growing list of healthcare providers who oppose this project.
https://www.change.org/p/board-of-supervisors-health-workers-in-bay-area-denounce-new-mental-health-jail
Sign here if you are a California resident opposed to this project.
https://www.change.org/p/alameda-county-board-of-supervisors-no-new-jail-in-alameda-county
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.