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Aug
25
Sun
Oakland Greens Free Dinner & Movie : “Spotlight” @ It's Your Move
Aug 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

The Oakland Greens will present “Free Dinner & Movie Discussion Night.” This month’s screening will be “Spotlight” (2015) – a film that follows the riveting true story of the The Boston Globe’s investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests.

Watch the trailer here:  Spotlight Official Trailer #1 (2015) – Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton Movie HD.

As usual, the door will open at 6:30 p.m., a free dinner will be served at 7 p.m., and the movie will start promptly at 7:30 p.m.  Although a $20 donation is suggested, no donation is ever too big or small, and, as always, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

https://acgreens.wordpress.com/
Express your green ideas and “like” us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/greenpartyofalamedacounty/

Participation and/or donations appreciated!  https://acgreens.wordpress.com/donate/

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Aug
26
Mon
Public Banking Lobby Day @ State Capitol
Aug 26 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Public banking activists from allied cities and regions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, East Bay, North Bay, South Bay, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and San Diego will converge in Sacramento for a Lobby Day at the State Capitol!MEETING POINT AT 9AM: North Steps California State Capitol (10th St. and Capitol Mall between L St. and N St.)

This is our final Lobby Day session for the AB 857 campaign!

Join us for an action-packed day of citizens’ lobbying as we make the rounds to legislative offices for YES on AB 857! With our bill headed to the Senate floor and second Assembly floor in early September, it is absolutely critical that we get in front of our representatives and send a clear message: the people demand an end to reliance on unethical Wall Street banks! We need a public banking option for California!

Please fill out the registration form if you’re planning to join us for Lobby Day.

We look forward to seeing you in Sacramento!

-California Public Banking Alliance
calpba@gmail.com

FOR OVERNIGHT STAY IN SACRAMENTO:

If you’re interested in staying in a hotel, hostel or AirBnB with other public banking advocates, mark the option in the form and one of our organizers will reach out.

We are planning a group dinner and social hour in Sacramento on Sunday, August 25. Details TBD!

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30 Days of Actions to Close the Camps. Every day in August at Noon. ICE. SF @ ICE Offices, San Francisco
Aug 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.

Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs

A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm

WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111

WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK

Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups

Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember

Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families

Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism

Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)

Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights

Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators

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Beyond A Dream: All of us. Or none of us. @ New Parkway
Aug 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us for an evening of film and dialogue at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, CA.

iNation Media has partnered with Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and FirstPres Church to bring our communities together in allyship.

Watch a trailer to the film here: https://vimeo.com/291032168

After the screening of “Waking Dream” we’ll be joined by a panel for an engaging discussion that broadens immigration discourse beyond DACA, and provides concrete ways to act. The panel will include the filmmaker, directly-impacted community members and community organizations.

Panelists:

Javier Lopez Quintana (moderator) – DreamSF Fellow, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Javier Lopez Quintana was born in Michoacán, Mexico; at four years old, he migrated to the United States with his parents. Quintana got his B.A in Political Science and a Film and Media Certificate from UC Berkeley. His parents’ immigration status and his own led him to work at a shampoo factory for close to a year. Quintana saw the detrimental conditions laborers worked under, especially undocumented workers. This was a pivotal moment in Quintana’s life that influenced his decision to organize with immigrant communities for their collective safety and liberation. Quintana is currently working with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity as a Dream SF Fellow.

Borey (“PJ”) Ai – Reentry Navigator, Asian Prisoner Support Committee
PJ was born in a refugee camp in Thailand where his family fled to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. PJ and his family entered the U.S. as refugees when he was only 4-years-old. When PJ was 14-years-old he was tried as an adult for a crime and given a life sentence, making him one of the youngest “lifers” in California. While incarcerated, PJ transformed his life, and after serving 20 years in prison, he was granted parole. However, PJ was immediately transferred to ICE jails and spent 18 months incarcerated by ICE, fighting his deportation case. Although PJ was released on May 10th, 2018, he remains under ICE supervision and could be deported during the next round of deportations to Cambodia – a country he has never set foot in.

Miriam Noriega – State Program Director, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Miriam’s passion for immigrant justice derives from her personal experience of being a first-generation immigrant in the U.S. She has been involved in the immigrant rights movement since 2006, specifically the DREAMer movement, a historic youth-lead activist movement that won them the benefits of DACA. Her ministerial call is empowering immigrant communities to discover their innate source of healing in spirituality, and building bridges across different social groups.

Valeria Suarez – Community Organizer, CIYJA
Valeria Suárez is an undocumented queer organizer from Lima, Peru. During the past few years she has focused on supporting deportation defense cases to free undocumented community members from detention. She is currently a Summer Cultivator for the California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance. Her work is centered around creating spaces for undocumented youth to learn deportation defense models in order to protect themselves and their communities.

Theo Rigby – Director, Waking Dream
Theo Rigby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has been creating stories about the immigrant experience in the U.S. for over the last decade–he is the founder of iNation Media. www.inationmedia.com

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Aug
27
Tue
30 Days of Actions to Close the Camps. Every day in August at Noon. ICE. SF @ ICE Offices, San Francisco
Aug 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.

Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs

A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm

WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111

WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK

Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups

Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember

Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families

Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism

Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)

Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights

Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators

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Unite Against ‘Public Charge’ Rally @ Madison Park
Aug 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

The public charge final rule has been released, and will harm 26 million Americans, keeping them from accessing healthcare, food and housing assistance. Our communities will unite as #OneNation to protest this inhumane policy. Join us on Tuesday, August 27, at 5 PM at Madison Park (Madison & 8th St.) in Oakland to send a strong message that we condemn these attacks on our immigrant communities.

We encourage the use of public transportation to get to the rally, such as the nearby Lake Merritt BART Station.

Honorary Co- Host:
Assemblymember David Chiu, Assemblymember Rob Bonta, Supervisor Wilma Chan, Councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas 4 Oakland, Former Congressman Mike Honda

Organized by:
Asian Health Services, Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations, AAPI Progressive Action, Alameda Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) Chapter, Alameda Health Consortium, Asian Americans for Community Involvement, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), Asian Community Collaborative, Asian Law Alliance, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), Asian Prisoner Support Committee – APSC, Banteay Srei, Buena Vista United Methodist Church, CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, California Primary Care Association, Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), Chinese Progressive Association, EBALDC, East Bay Community Foundation, Filipino Advocates for Justice, Hella Heart Oakland Giving Circle, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, La Clínica de La Raza, National Council of Asian & Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP), North East Medical Services (NEMS) – 東北醫療中心, PIVOT – The Progressive Vietnamese American Organization, SEIU Local 1021, SEIU Local 2015, The Unity Council

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Aug
28
Wed
30 Days of Actions to Close the Camps. Every day in August at Noon. ICE. SF @ ICE Offices, San Francisco
Aug 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.

Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs

A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm

WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111

WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK

Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups

Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember

Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families

Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism

Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)

Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights

Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators

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THE CASE AGAINST FREE SPEECH: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent @ first Congregational Church of Berkeley
Aug 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

P. E. Moskowitz wrote the renowned bestseller, “How To Kill a City,” which revealed the systemic forces behind the gentrification ruining such major American cities as San Francisco, New York, New Orleans and Detroit. Now, with “The Case Against Free Speech” he exposes the powerful forces and political machinations currently defining free speech, a term that has been defined and redefined to suit those in power, to give them the right to push their agenda. What’s more, our investment in the First Amendment has long obscured an uncomfortable truth: free speech is impossible in an unequal society in which a few corporations joined with the ultra-wealthy can bankroll political movements that disenfranchise millions of voters, while our government routinely silences critics of racism and capitalism.

Weaving together history and reporting from Charlottesville, Skokie, Standing Rock and many college campuses, the author argues that all these flashpoints reveal much more about the dire state of our democracy than they do about simply who is allowed to say what. This daring book takes readers directly into the battle raging over this foundational concept, from the back rooms of think-tanks where the very definition of free speech is influenced by billionaires like the Koch Brothers, to “safe spaces” on college campuses, to neo-Nazi rallies protected by the police. Moskowitz dives into the history of how free speech rights have always been reserved for those in power.

Our current definition of free speech merely replicates power while dissuaging dissent. A bright new ideal emerges in “The Case against Free Speech” – as the author makes a clear case for using speech as a tool for exposing the truth, demanding equality, and fighting for all our civil liberties.

P.E.Moskowitz is the author of the bestselling “How To Kill a City,” and a writer for Al Jazeera, The Guardian, the New York Times, Wired, the New Republic and Vice.

Philip Maldari is host and producer of the popular Sunday Morning Show (9 Am – 11 PM) on KPFA Radio.

 

Benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM

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Aug
29
Thu
30 Days of Actions to Close the Camps. Every day in August at Noon. ICE. SF @ ICE Offices, San Francisco
Aug 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.

Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs

A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm

WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111

WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK

Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups

Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember

Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families

Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism

Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)

Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights

Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators

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DSA Beer & Roses Labor Social @ Telegraph Beer Garden
Aug 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

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.

 

 

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RPA Movie Night: POWER TO HEAL @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Aug 29 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

 

The RPA’s August movie night will feature “POWER TO HEAL,” which tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country practically overnight. Potluck starts at 6:30, followed by a screening at 7pm and discussion at 8pm.

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Liberate the Cages Voices @ Freedom and Movement Center
Aug 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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Aug
30
Fri
400 Years of African American History Symposium @ International House Auditorium
Aug 30 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

This day-long symposium will kick off a year of events at UC Berkeley to mark the 400 year anniversary of the beginning of slavery in North America. The events are being co-organized by the Haas Institute, the African American studies and history departments, the African American Student Development Center, and the Black Staff & Faculty Organization.

The symposium will include remarks by Haas Institute Director and African American studies professor john a. powell, plus several panels and performances detailed below.

Register here.

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30 Days of Actions to Close the Camps. Every day in August at Noon. ICE. SF @ ICE Offices, San Francisco
Aug 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.

Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs

A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm

WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111

WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK

Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups

Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember

Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families

Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism

Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)

Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights

Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators

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Vigil for Chelsea and Julian
Aug 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

SAVE CHELSEA & JULIAN

hI aLL HOPE TO SEE YA oRION
EVERY FRI 530PM TO 7PM “BASTA SAVE CHELSEA AND JULIEN ” VIGIL DEMO POTLUCK MUSIC (7PM AFTER PARTY/MEETING ) FRUITVALE &MACARTHUR OAKLAND

WE HOPE TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO OUR ON-GOING CAMPAIGNS IN THE BAY.

Here is a link to the bay area action for Julian which includes CHELSEA SUPPORT PLEASE SIGN UP
https://bayaction2freeassange.org
TELL EVERY ONE

Thanks for your letters you can write a letter directly to Chelsea here’s her address tell her who you are and why you want to save her don/t be shy
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TO CHELSEA (only hand written and no post cards no pictures do not write any thing on the outside of the letter to Chelsea Elizebeth Manning

William G Truedale Adult Detention Center
2001MILL ROAD
ALEXANDRIA VA 22314

also join the #LettersToJulian campaign,writejulian.com

WE NEED TO HIP PEOPLE TO THE YOU TUBE SHOWS AND WEB SITES AND TWITTER FEEDS
We find the BEST INFO IS FROM CHELSEA (xychelsea.is) AND JULIEN WEB SITES and twitter feeds YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER of TWITTER JUST TYPE IN twitter.com/xychelsea or twitter.com/defendassange and you/ll be able to read and see the latest INTERNATIONAL news and support via the links
also Consortium News ,HAS A Unity4J every friday on line LIVE STREAM vigil for Julian and of course support the work of ongoing wekileaks.org

PLEASE Google the following you tube shows ADD COMENTS ..AND TELL OUR FRIENDS

JIMMY DORE show and chelsea Manning 80,000 HITS SO FAR .. news flash now 90,000 hits
REDACTED TONIGHTt Julien Assange and Chelsea Manning
our own BAY ARE STEVE ZELTZER LABOR VIDEO project  Julien and Chelsea Manning
and SECULAR TALK & julien and Chelsea Manning
and CROSS TALK Julien and Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning/s Youtube site
TULSI 2020
VETERANS FOR PEACE
CODE PINK
BLACK AGENDA REPORTS
JILL STEIN
DANIEL ELSBERG
FLASHPOINTS KPFA 5PM EVERY DAY
BRITS LABOR PARTY LEADER JEREMY CORBIN
CHRIS HEDGES FORMER NYT JOURNALIST
Thanks Orion
BELOW IS THE LINK TO her letter she wrote to judge

https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-letter.

It’s an extreamly well researched LETTER TO THE JUDGE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SECRET GRAND JURIES Don/t ever forget about what she said in response to her 2nd Grand Jury Trail which they imposed a $500.00 daily fine after 30 days and a $1000.00 daily fine after 60 days “I/D RATHER STARVE THEN ANSWER YOUR SECRET GRAND JURY”

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What Happened to Dujuan? Premiere Screening and Panel @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland
Aug 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us for a benefit film showing and panel.
This fast-paced powerful documentary follows Barbara Doss’ search to discover the details of her son Dujuan Armstrong’s death in Santa Rita Jail. In June, 2018,23-year-old Dujuan Armstrong died while serving weekends for a 2014 burglary conviction. Thus began Barbara’s journey for truth and justice. The film documents her determined and courageous quest to find out what happened to her son. In her pursuit for justice she quickly runs into the resistance of the Gregory Ahern’s Sheriff’s Department and begins to learn of the opaque and powerful position of American sheriffs. The audience travels with her to the Board of Supervisors, the jail, the cemetery where Dujuan is buried, and one climatic confrontation with the sheriff himself.
Lucas Guilkey is a video journalist based in Oakland. His work focuses on important social issues from mass incarceration to climate change, and from budget cuts to reproductive healthcare. He is working on a feature documentary about what is the largest prisoner hunger strike in U.S. history, which took place in California in 2011 and 2013.
After the film there will be a panel with the filmaker Luca Guilkey and members of the Audit Ahern Coalition. Learn about what is happening in the local county jail, and what you can do to change it.
This is a benefit for the Audit Ahern Coalition and the family of Dujuan Armstrong. Donations will be accepted on a sliding scale, all are welcome.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. join us for desserts and refreshments.
Film starts promptly at 7:45.
This event is sponsored by The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, The Audit Ahern Coalition and the Ella Baker Partnership Team at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland.
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Aug
31
Sat
A Walking Tour of the 1934 SF General Strike @ Under the Clock Tower, SF Ferry Building
Aug 31 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Rally With Danny Glover Against Gentrification & A’s Stadium In Port @ Acts Full Gospel Church
Aug 31 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
sm_ilwu_8_31__flyer.jpg Join actor and activist DANNY GLOVER
for a community forum to keep the A’s in East Oakland
Food & drink served

WHAT WE NEED:
AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOOD-PAYING JOBS COMMUNITY INVESTMENT A WORKING PORT
WHAT WE DON’T NEED:
GENTRIFICATION
LUXURY HOUSING
JOB LOSS TAXPAYER-FUNDED WASTE

The A’s proposal to abandon the Oakland Coliseum for Howard Terminal is a land grab – threatening the thriving maritime industry and worsening gentrification with luxury condos and high-priced office space. Join our coalition to keep the A’s in East Oakland and invest in the neighborhood they have called home for decades.

The East Oakland Stadium Alliance is a coalition of local community, labor, and business leaders working to keep the A’s in East Oakland. Visit eastoaklandstadiumalliance.com to get involved.

City of Oakland says not so fast to sale of half the Coliseum site to the A’s

Phil Matier Aug. 4, 2019 Updated: Aug. 4, 2019 6:43 a.m.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/City-of-Oakland-says-not-so-fast-to-sale-of-half-14277040.php

The phone lines are burning up in the East Bay over a move by the Oakland City Council that could throw a wrench into the deal for the Oakland A’s new waterfront ballpark.

At issue is Alameda County’s half share of the 155 acre Oakland-Alameda Coliseum site, which it plans to sell to the A’s for $85 million.

The city of Oakland owns the other half and would retain its share in the site. But some City Council members say the county should sell its share to the city, even though it’s unclear if the city has the money to buy out the county.

The A’s have said that the revenues earned from developing the Coliseum site, where the team now plays, is a key component to financing the ballpark at the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal.

Nonetheless, sources said the Oakland City Council instructed the city attorney in a closed meeting before going on summer break to draft a letter to the county opposing the sale and raising the possibility of a legal challenge if the deal goes through.

To date however, no letter has been sent.

“I think they are rattling their sabers,” said Alameda County Supervisor Scott Haggerty.

Oakland council members we spoke with confirmed having voted to send the letter, but declined to comment publicly because the matter is still under discussion.

Oakland Port Privatization Scam By Billionaire John Fisher, Demos & Union Bureaucrats
https://youtu.be/1hu_s7A4Yc8

Bay Area ILWU Local 10 and Local 34 longshore workers held a press conference on June 13, 2019 to protest the privatization of the Port Of Oakland Howard Terminal for billionaire A’s owner John Fisher’s new stadium.

ILWU 10 former Secretary Treasurer Clarence Thomas and ILWU Local 34 president Keith Shanklin talked about the threat to not only union maritime jobs but the gentrification of West Oakland by the planned 4,000 condos for more than $1 million each.
They also attacked East Bay Democrats Rob Bonta and CA Senator Nancy Skinner for their “fast track” bills that would override zoning and health and safety protections for the A’s owner John Fisher. Fisher and his family including Doris Fisher also run the union busting charter chains Rocketship and KIPP which are siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars from public schools in Oakland and througout the state and country.

ILWU also challenged the role of the Alameda Labor Council leadership and that union bureaucrats who are pushing the stadium regardless of the fact that it would destroy the unionized jobs in the port of Oakland of all maritime workers who work at the port.

The Port of Oakland is the 3rd largest port on the West Coast and shippers would be driven out of the Port if this gentrifcation and stadium in built on the bay port property of Howard Terminal. The terminal is used by truckers and also to train longshore workers in the port.

The Oakland City council voted unanimously to support Bonta and Skinner’s bills to “fast track” the privatization of the port and the building of Fisher’s stadium and 4,000 $1 million dollar condos.
Additional media:

Who’s Selling Whom? The A’s Stadium, The Destruction of Howard Terminal In The Port Of Oakland & The Battle In Labor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sgYOaGbB7U&t=19s

“It’s Insane!” ILWU Longshore Workers & Truckers Challenge
Oakland A’s Billionaire Owner John Fisher’s Land Grab Of Howard Terminal
https://youtu.be/5A8uZpqSX_M

Maritime, Labor & The A’s Stadium At The Port Of Oakland Press Conference 5/13/19
https://youtu.be/ouL39ISDzBE

Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO Backs Howard Terminal Ballpark for Oakland A’s
https://www.mlb.com/press-release/alameda-labor-council-afl-cio-backs-howard-terminal-ballpark-for-oakland-a-s
Andreas Cluver
https://www.portofoakland.com/people/andreas-cluver-commissioner/

Maritime, Labor & The A’s Stadium At The Port Of Oakland Press Conference
https://youtu.be/ouL39ISDzBE
Sara Nelson AFA CWA President At May Day Oakland Howard Terminal
https://youtu.be/_inof_Hh5Bo

This Is Our Port-May Day 2019 Speakers At Oakland Howard Terminal
https://youtu.be/Y_WQNoEj1cY

On May Day 2019 OEA Pres Keith Brown On The Stadium, Port, ILWU & Public Education
https://youtu.be/uZB-hG5hw0c

On May Day, Canadian Native American ILWU 500 Unionist Joeen Karen Speaks In Oakland For Solidarity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jkz62YiRiE

ILWU 10, May Day 2019, The A’s Port Stadium, Privatization & Gentrification In Oakland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMd_NFNRtjU

A’s Billionaire Owner Fisher Loses Laney College Land Grab-Labor Community Speak Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMvg45CFGjU

Laney Land Not For Sale! Community, Students & Faculty Rally Against A’s Land Grab Of College Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx-tVzsl-Ck
Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org

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Culmination: Month of Momentum 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps @ ICE San Francisco
Aug 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

After 30 days of daily protests outside ICE to close the camps, we invite EVERYONE to attend a culminating protest on Saturday, August 31 at Noon.

Music by:
•Emma’s Revolution – https://emmasrevolution.com
•Diana Gameros – https://www.dianagameros.com
•Betsy Rose & Bonnie Lockhart – https://www.betsyrosemusic.org
•La Peña Chorus (with Lichi Fuentes) – https://www.lapenachorus.org

Speakers (TBA)

And food

More info to come.
Please follow this page for more.

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AFROHELLA: TECH + ENTREPRENEURSHIP + SOCIAL IMPACT @ The Five and Dime
Aug 31 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm

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