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8 years! Stay tuned for list of virtual events. join us for car caravan on 1/17 starting @ the port at 11 am. This year we unite families impacted by street & state violence – knowing deeply that ALL violence is state violence and when we end state violence- we end ALL violence pic.twitter.com/2MRMY3AUwf
— Cat Brooks (@CatsCommentary) January 7, 2022
Enough Is Enough!
No Public Funded Stadium In The Port Of Oakland
For Billionaire A’s Owner John Fisher
(Wear your masks)
It is time to call a halt to the A’s billionaire owner John Fisher’s plans for a stadium in the Port of Oakland. Why are Oakland politicians and some union officials pushing spending $700 million for a privately owned stadium, hotels and 4,000 million-dollar condos for the wealthy? We need to stop this racist gentrification project at the port.
On January 19th, there will be another environmental hearing to approve the EIR that this project will follow the environmental rules. This is another charade. State politicians Nancy Skinner and Rob Banta with the support of Governor Newsom changed the rules to allow the port to be destroyed by the billionaire’s development and for it to be funded by hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money.
While thousands are homeless in Oakland, they want Fisher who also owns the GAP and controls the KIPP and Rocketship charter school chains to take more control of the Oakland Community. Community activists and trade unionists will be speaking out against public money for this billionaire’s development scheme.
This project will also destroy 80,000 maritime jobs of ILWU and other maritime unions at the port which is critical to the Bay Area. Where will the thousands of trucks park but in the West Oakland neighborhoods. The mayor and the Port Commission and it’s chair Andreas Cluver who is also head of the Alameda Building Trades really don’ t care since they are taking orders from Fisher.
It is time to stop this scam and con game by billionaire Fisher and his rubber stamps.
Reject the EIR Report
No Union Busting In The Port Of Oakland
Working Class Housing With Public Funds
Stop Allowing Billionaires to Rip Off The People of Oakland
Initiated by United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP
Endorsed by Melody Davis
https://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa
Environmental Advocate Margaret Gordon Turns Against Oakland A’s Development
https://www.postnewsgroup.com/environmental-advocate-margaret-gordon-turns-against-oakland-as-development/
Speak out against an unnecessary war with Russia which could possibly lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
If the war starts before Feb. 1, this action will still take place, to voice our opposition.
Emergency Action to say “Negotiate, Don’t Escalate: No War With Russia”
February 1, 2022 at 11:30- 1:30pm (PST)
Ferry Bldg., San Francisco
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/26/18847610.php
There will be banners, flyers asking people to call the White House and their member of Congress, and an info table. Capitol Hill: 800-826-3688
We are on the brink of a massive war between the US and Russia�two nucclear-armed states. The time to speak out is now!
The Russian people don’t want war; the Ukrainian people don’t want war. And we don’t want our soldiers to die in an unnecessary war with Russia!
Biden just ordered 8,500 US troops to be on heightened alert for possible deployment to Eastern Europe, as the dangerous escalation at the Russian/Ukrainian border standoff intensifies. Biden is also considering sending more warships and aircraft, and has already delivered more “lethal aid” to Ukraine. The $500 million Congress is set to pass through a fast-track vote, could and should be used on communities and climate. The Pentagon has said that there is the possibility of sending as many as 50,000 troops!
Join the Feb 1 emergency action to say “Negotiate, Don’t Escalate: No War With Russia.”
Sponsored by CODEPINK
Endorsers: Green Party of Alameda County, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee
CODEPINK’s recent webinar with Medea Benjamin and Larry Wilkerson: “Is the U.S. going to war with Russia over Ukraine?”
http://www.GP.org
PLANET PEOPLE PEACE
before profit!
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The U.S. and Russia have 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons. Call on Congress, the White House and the media to listen to the people of Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. who Don’t Want War, don’t want NATO expansion, don’t want to further enrich the war industry or risk nuclear annihilation.
Instead, we want universal healthcare, quality education, eco sustainability, housing for all. green jobs!
Bring signs or borrow Code Pink’s. Hold a sign and/or pass out flyers urging people to email and call the White House and Congress.
Cheryl Davila and a few others will speak briefly at a short rally on the grass just west of the peace wall fountain in the park.
Then we’ll spread out along MLK Jr Wy with signs, banners, informational action flyers, also outside the Farmers Market entrance.
Click below for more info or to please RSVP:
Berkeley, CA: No War with Russia Rally
As you’re all aware, for the last several years I’ve been intimately involved in our MH “system”. It’s horrid and dysfunctional. In fact the WHO refers to the good old USof A, as being the worst place on the planet to be seriously mentally ill. Although it’s hard to, I believe them.
For three years now I’ve been helping to organize a very grassroots family organization – Families Advocating for the Seriously Mentally Ill (FASMI). We have lobbied, advocated, found allies, spoken up and educated and organized ourselves. Now we’re just plain fed-up and are taking our issues public as best we can.
On February 13th, Sunday, at 1:00 we will be rallying on the steps of the Board of Supervisors and some of us will stay and sleep there till their meeting Tuesday afternoon. Pamela Price and Loni Hancock will be speaking (briefly) among others – most importantly, families telling their stories (again briefly).
We’ll have art and music. Please join us and spread the word to whomever you think would be interested. I’m attaching our press release and flier.
HOSPITALS AND HOMES NOT JAILS AND STREETS
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28,2022
Event: Rally for HOSPITALS AND HOMES, NOT JAILS AND STREETS
for our Community Members with Serious Mental Illness
Alameda County Behavioral Health Department ignores State funds earmarked for
improving and expanding mental health infrastructure, while Supervisors vote to pour
money into Santa Rita Jail, which will conOnue to be the default warehouse of people
with mental illness.
Organized by Families Advoca.ng for the Seriously Mentally Ill (FASMI)
On Sunday, February 13, the day before Valen’ne’s Day, beginning at 1:00 p.m., a broad-based
group of family ac’vists will gather on the plaza in front of the Board of Supervisors office
building at 1221 Oak Street in downtown Oakland to demand that Alameda County redirect
resources away from incarcera’on and into desperately needed community-based facilities
and services for those with Serious Mental Illness. There will be music and speakers, including
Alameda County District AQorney candidate Pamela Price, and former State Senator Loni
Hancock, throughout the aUernoon.
Participants will remain in the plaza un’l Tuesday, when the Supervisors meet, to demand a
public mee’ng to discuss recent funding decisions taken by the BOS and Alameda County
Behavior Health.
At a ‘me when the State of California is flush with tax revenue, and when the governor has
signaled that he intends to release funds to tackle the related problems of homelessness and
untreated mental illness, it is essen’al that elected officials listen to those who live with the
consequences of untreated mental illness. Families demand that all available resources are
sought and that they are allocated in a way that will make a difference in the lives of their
loved ones.
The State Legislature has already enacted the Behavioral Health ConOnuum Infrastructure
Program (BHCIP), which makes $2.2 billion in grants available to coun’es who apply for them
to “construct, acquire, and expand proper’es” that serve individuals with Mental Illness. These
funds can be used for much needed acute and/or sub-acute facili’es and suppor’ve housing.
Yet, to date, Alameda County Behavioral Health has declined to apply during the first rounds of
grants. These funds are once in a genera’on opportuni’es to create a decent con’nuum of
mental health care in the community. There are also other grants that can be used to subsidize
staffing and other needs.
At the same ‘me that the County is ignoring the opportunity to build more and beQer
community-based treatment centers, the Board of Supervisors has voted to allocate $300
Million to Sheriff Ahern for mental health facili’es at Santa Rita Jail, which has been sued for
its inhumane treatment of mentally ill prisoners. Ac’vists agree that jail condi’ons for those
with mental illness are deplorable, but they reject the idea that jail remain the default for
dealing with untreated mental illness. Public Defender Brian Bloom, who has been a fellow
advocate along with many others calling for “Care First, Jail Last” policies, said of the recent
seQlement, “Of course I want mentally ill individuals to be treated well in jail. But there’s only
so much money (and so many clinicians!) to go around: every penny that is spent in jail is a
penny not spent on keeping someone out of jail. “ Individuals frequently wind up in jail for
minor infrac’ons or innocuous behaviors simply because there is no other place to take them:
our hospitals and outpa’ent agencies are over-burdened. Jails are the beds that never say no.
Elected officials must step up and for’fy our Mental Health System so that it delivers for the
most vulnerable and overlooked members of our society: those with serious mental illness.
The demonstra’on is sponsored by Families Advoca.ng for the Seriously Mentally Ill (FASMI), a
coali’on of family members, caregivers and supporters of those with severe neurobiological
disorders (aka SMI) such as schizophrenia, schizoaffec’ve disorder and bipolar disorder. FASMI
advocates for changes to public health funding, laws, policies and prac’ces that fail to
adequately help those with these illnesses. Families are the frontline of care and sustenance
for the mentally ill, but without the support of our ins’tu’ons and laws we are helpless to
protect our loved ones, and our family members become society’s problems.
We need folks to show up to the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland again to demand care, not incarceration for James Ramsey.
James Ramsey, a young Black Oakland resident with severe mental illness is being held on trumped up charges at Santa Rita for the alleged assault of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce President Carl Chan. James needs care, not incarceration.
James Ramsey has a history of mental illness and was living unhoused when the incident occurred. Both prosecution and defense agree that mental illness is an important factor in this case.
He has never received adequate mental health services or the support needed for his disabilities. Instead, he’s been funneled to the carceral system and subjected to punishment for incidents that likely stemmed from his mental illness, further traumatizing him. The state failed him at every turn, and now it wants to punish him for its failure.
Please join us at the courthouse this Thursday at 9:30 am to demand care and housing for James Ramsey, not incarceration!
Instructions: Participants are invited to go inside the courthouse to support. The building is wheelchair accessible. Bring a mask.
This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities.
Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it.
By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a surveillance-free future. Lessons will cover: data colonialism, race and policing, immigration enforcement, border militarization, global migration, organizing tools, and more.
Alongside key speakers, you will engage with selected readings, reflection questions, and meet other people thinking through these issues of 21st century technologies in their own communities. Join us every two weeks for one hour as we learn together and continue to build a path that centers communities targeted by the detention and deportation machinery, policing, and military operations.
We know that left unchecked, we will be facing down a new world order designed and controlled by big tech and enabled by the government.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!
Session Dates
Live sessions will take place biweekly on Wednesdays for one hour at 3pm PST/5PM CST/6pm EST. Lesson materials and content for each lesson will be unlocked prior to the live session.
Session 1: February 23rd
Session 2: March 9th
Session 3: March 23rd
Session 4: April 6th
Session 5: April 20th
Register to join our first responders training
For over ten years APTP has provided support to families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.
Our First Responders team leads this work, and will be hosting a training Saturday, February 26th! This session will focus on training you on copwatching and investigating incidents of police terror.
We need folks to join our First Responders teams in Oakland and Sacramento to help provide critical support to families impacted by police terror and more. Future trainings will become available to cover family and jail support.
Where: Zoom � Register to join at bit.ly/aptp-0226
Accessibility: Auto-generated captions will be available
Register to Join
Here’s an overview of what this training will cover:
- Independent Investigations: This part focuses on conducting independent people’s investigations including considerations on how to build your team, security and Know Your Rights considerations, required skills and infrastructure, preparation, identifying witnesses, trauma-informed interviewing, cultural humility, collecting evidence, and documenting investigations. We will use case studies from our investigations in Oakland, and provide time for knowledge and skill sharing, and discussion.
- CopWatching: In the great tradition of our Oakland’s Panthers, Brown Berets, and other radical grassroots community groups, we need to Police the Police! Learn how to observe and document police harassment in our communities, advocate for someone under arrest, and deescalate police intervention.
Join us to learn from organizers and community members who have been doing this work for years!
Thursday 3/3: No War with Russia/No NATO Expansion/Fund Communities, Not Warhttps://t.co/9tXkEPNgSo
— Indybay (@Indybay) February 28, 2022
But ten schools is still too many.
School closures are part of a long-term plan by corporations to increase their profits by destroying public education – converting public scchools into charters, or selling them off to real estate developers. These closures disproportionately impact Black and brown communities and students receiving special education services.
The Anti Police-Terror Project is in strong solidarity with the students, families and teachers who continue to fight against these plans!
Please join us tomorrow, March 5 in East Oakland to rally and march against these racist school closures!
What: SHUT DOWN THE TOWN: East Oakland March Against School Closures
When: Saturday, March 5
- Rally at 10 AM;
- March leaves at 11 AM;
- March arrives at 1 PM;
- Performances and speeches from 1-2:30 PM
School board directors Gary Yee, Sam Davis, Shanthi Gonzales, Aimee Eng, and Clifford Thompson have all voted in favor of school closures, making it clear that they serve corporations and billionares, not Oakland students and families.
Join us tomorrow at 10 AM to demand:
- No closures, no cuts
- Cancel the debt and fund our schools
- Show us the money
- No state take-over
In solidarity,
APTP
P.S. The campaign to fight against school closures is accepting Venmo donations at @ShutDownTheTown.
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.
We need all hands on deck for this coming Tuesday, to demand the termination of Vallejo PD’s badge benders and to protest borrowing $30M for a police station upgrade we already voted against. #PoliceBrutality #Vallejo #PoliceReform pic.twitter.com/42B0ZzsyH6
— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) March 6, 2022
This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities.
Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it.
By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a surveillance-free future. Lessons will cover: data colonialism, race and policing, immigration enforcement, border militarization, global migration, organizing tools, and more.
Alongside key speakers, you will engage with selected readings, reflection questions, and meet other people thinking through these issues of 21st century technologies in their own communities. Join us every two weeks for one hour as we learn together and continue to build a path that centers communities targeted by the detention and deportation machinery, policing, and military operations.
We know that left unchecked, we will be facing down a new world order designed and controlled by big tech and enabled by the government.
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!
Session Dates
Live sessions will take place biweekly on Wednesdays for one hour at 3pm PST/5PM CST/6pm EST. Lesson materials and content for each lesson will be unlocked prior to the live session.
Session 1: February 23rd
Session 2: March 9th
Session 3: March 23rd
Session 4: April 6th
Session 5: April 20th
This training will take participants through many of the strategies, tools and considerations of direct action, including power and privilege, de-escalation, blockades, legal, direct action organizing models, and the opportunity to form affinity groups. This training will be an important place to get plugged into for upcoming actions in 2022.
COVID Protocols:
- Please stay home if you have tested + for COVID, have COVID symptons or have been exposed to someone who has tested + for COVID.
- We’ll be in an inside/outside space. Part of the time in a warehouse with high ceilings with a large rollup door and lots of ventilation. But, we’re asking people to still practice social distancing and wear a mask. We’ll provide masks for folks who need one.
- If lockdowns, etc. occur due to the new variant, we may cancel.
Co-sponsored by Mt. Diablo Rising Tide, Oil and Gas Action Network, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, Green and Red Podcast and Direct Action Everywhere.
SPONSORED BY
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
MARRIOTT – STOP YOUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA! DEMONSTRATE AT THE MARRIOTT HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN OAKLAND SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1 PM
Hundreds of international corporations have suspended their business operations in Russia. Coca Cola stopped business with this statement: “Our hearts are with the people who are enduring unconscionable effects from these tragic events in Ukraine.” Starbucks said on Tuesday it is suspending all business activity in Russia, including shipment of its products and closing cafes. But there are many corporations that continue to do business in Russia. The Marriott Hotel chain is one of them. Why hasn’t Marriott Hotel pulled out?
Join us for a demonstration and vigil outside the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel at 1001 Broadway, two blocks south of the downtown Oakland BART station, on Sunday the 13th.
| Gather at Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland—bring your friends and party favors. Masks are great for more than one reason |
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Public Service Loan Forgiveness is a broken promise. On Oct. 6, 2021, the Biden administration announced a limited waiver intended to finally fulfill the promise of loan cancellation for millions of public servants. So far over 100,000 have gotten their debt cancelled because of the PSLF waiver, but many others are encountering problems.
The Debt Collective is co-hosting a webinar with the Student Borrower Protection Center that will focus on how to troubleshoot those problems.
6 p.m. ET Monday, March 21: Troubleshooting the PSLF Waiver
We will cover some of the unwritten rules about how to fill out the form that might trip up or delay the process, how to tell if a message you have gotten is false or misleading, and what steps to take if you think there is a problem. Our goal is to make sure that everyone gets the cancellation they were promised.