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May
3
Tue
Call to Action: Abortion Rights Now! Bans Off Our Bodies! @ Federal Bldg
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May 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

WOMEN’S MARCH: NATIONWIDE CALL TO ACTION for ABORTION RIGHTS

Let’s be clear: Abortion is health care

That’s why in light of the dire news that SCOTUS has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, we’re showing up for abortion rights.

We’re horrified, saddened, and livid. If you are too, then now is the time to show up and show them our movement won’t back down from protecting our reproductive rights.

Show up at your courthouses, federal buildings or town square to say bans off our bodies and demand elected officials take action before SCOTUS overturns Roe.

Bring your families, your signs, your stories, your heart, and your commitment to
save Roe and access to safe & legal abortion for all who need it.

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Rally to Defend Reproductive Rights @ Oakland Federal Bldg
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May 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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May
11
Wed
Close California Prisons! @ California State Capitol Building - Steps on West Side
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May 11 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Each year in early May, Governor Newsom releases the May Revise budget after receiving input from state government bodies and community members. While the 2022-23 proposed budget (released in January) contained many positive investments, it also allocated $18.6 billion to corrections and included no plans to close more prisons in California, despite historically low, downward trending prison populations

It’s time for Governor Gavin Newsom and elected officials to do what’s right and commit to a smart plan to close prisons in California, like The People’s Plan for Prison Closure, that demands at least 10 prisons be closed by 2025. A serious plan for prison closure must include deep investments in prison towns to move them toward new, healthy economies, as well as toward healthcare, education, reentry services, and housing for  justice impacted families communities.

We are showing up outside the California State Capitol on May 11th to demand Governor Newsom close at least 8 prisons by 2025 and adopt a final budget that reflects the values and needs of ALL Californians by investing in communities NOT prisons and policing.

When: Wednesday, May 11th at 9AM (Register To Receive Important Updates)

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May
12
Thu
Oppose “A Place For All” @ SF City Hall, Rm 250
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May 12 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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May
14
Sat
Mass Protest:  We Refuse to Let the Supreme Court Take Away Abortion Rights! @ 24th St. BART
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May 14 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The Supreme Court stands poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established the right of women to abortion.  Forced motherhood is female enslavement.  When women are not free, no one is free.

Our only way forward and our best way forward is to resist.  NOW is the time to rouse thousands and soon millions in struggle so that we can look every woman and girl in the eye with the promise in word and deed that they will have a future as full human beings.  NOW  is the time to stand up, together, as if our lives depend upon it – for, in fact, they do.

Wear & DISPLAY #GREEN4Abortion

Green is the color worn by millions of women in Argentina, Colombia, and other countries to express their fierce determination to legalize abortion. We are inspired by their example!  Wear green and display green everywhere � on campuses, on the job, on public trannsport, on social media.

PLANET PEOPLE PEACE

before profit!

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May
18
Wed
Solidarity with Buffalo @ Oscar Grant Plaza
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May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

On Saturday, May 14th, a self proclaimed white supremacist drove 200 miles to the predominantly Black town of Buffalo, NY and shot 13 people. 10 died. As Black people in this country continue to experience anti-Blackness via violent white supremacy in the streets and by the state – we must continue to hold, heal, love, fight for and defend one another. Join APTP and allies for a vigil, healing circle and prayers.

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May
21
Sat
Anti-Chevron Day @ Gate 14, Chevron Oil Refinery
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May 21 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-chevron-day-tickets-330052785767

Anti-Chevron Day

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Protest Against the War in Ukraine @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater
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May 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
We demand:
– NO escalation from the US
– NO Russian aggression in Ukraine
– Peace talks instead of arm shipments
– Disbandment of NATO

The United States is escalating its involvement in the war. The US military is providing logistical support, US leaders are promising unconditional support, and billions of our tax dollars are being sent over in the form of “lethal aid”. The US elites are using Ukrainians as a pawn against Russia, sacrificing them and their country in an attempt to bog Russia down in a multi-year war. The people suffer while Russia and the US duke it out. Join us in calling for an end to the war!

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May
24
Tue
No Breaking the Boycott, Jesse!
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May 24 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

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May
25
Wed
No to the Policing of Unhoused Neighbors @ SF City Hall
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May 25 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

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Jun
5
Sun
Justice 4 Derrick Gaines @ Wesborough Park
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Jun 5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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Jun
6
Mon
Hands Off People’s Park! @ California Hall, UC Berkeley
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Jun 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

RALLY AND SPEAKOUT
TELL CHANCELLOR CHRIST: HANDS OFF PEOPLE’S PARK!

People’s Park Council is hosting a rally and speakout for groups and individuals who oppose UCB’s plan to destroy People’s Park. DEMAND OPEN SPACE!

The situation is increasingly urgent as UC administration and the City of Berkeley make plans to suppress community opposition to the impending invasion of People’s Park. Tensions are rising as deadlines and rumors of deadlines circulate through the park. The placement of large dumpsters in the park; the opening of the new Rodeway Inn specifically for the residents of People’s Park and anecdotal accounts of police warning campers that it is “illegal” to trespass, all indicate that the UC will attempt to take the park soon. Despite the fact that just this week the park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, decades after it was named a City of Berkeley Landmark, UC is amassing its forces to attempt take People’s Park once and for all.

Our opposition is to the construction of ANY housing on People’s Park no matter who it is for. While the pandemic emergency required that we use public places to respond to an emergency, People’s Park is meant to be a place for all people. We all need open space and a place to be.

For the sake of the climate, for our health which depends on green spaces and trees for good air quality, for the sake of our mental health, and for the sake of our children who by nature need to have open space to explore and grow. For the sake of our history and the movement that not only built People’s Park, but also made Berkeley known internationally. We must prevent needless desecration of that sacred space. The University community and administration need to honor our rich tradition of resistance and let People’s Park remain as a community park.

Our history AND our future depend on People’s Park.

WHO: People’s Park Council
WHAT: Rally and Speakout

More information: www.peoplespark.org

 

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Jun
9
Thu
End the Gas Car Era – Sacramento @ Cal EPA
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Jun 9 @ 8:30 am

June 9 in Sacramento: End the Gas Car Era

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) must step up for climate action. Join a climate justice rally outside the June 9th CARB hearing to push the Board to do the right thing and speed the transition to 100% electric vehicles. CARB’s latest clean cars proposal allows huge numbers of new dirty, gas-burning cars to be sold after 2030 and fails to ensure equitable EV access for low-income communities of color. We can’t achieve equity without a stronger 2030 sales target and mandatory provisions that support communities hit first and worst by high gas prices, tailpipe pollution and the climate crisis.

The rally will feature powerful speakers, chants, and performance art to show our collective power as we pressure CARB to take the urgent action needed. Following the rally, supporters will be encouraged to bring our policy demands inside the hearing and make public comments.

Event co-hosts include the Center for Biological Diversity, Let’s Green California, 350 Sacramento, Climate Center, Oil & Gas Action Network, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, 350 Bay Area, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, 350 Silicon Valley, Climate Hawks Vote, Plug in America, and California Interfaith Power & Light.

Ready to rally in Sacramento? RSVP at this link.

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Jun
10
Fri
We need Pelosi to fight! @ outside the courtyard of the Federal Building
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Jun 10 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

We need a fight!


As we await Decision Day (Day X) that will more than likely overturn 50 years of legalized abortion in the US, we continue to see the Democratic Party establishment do nothing serious to fight back against this assault on bodily autonomy. Working people across the country are wringing their hands while Democratic lawmakers sit on theirs. On May 25, our comrades in New York led a sit-in at Chuck Schumer’s office calling out the gross inaction of the Democrats and demanding an immediate end to the filibuster and the codification of Roe v. Wade into law.

Here in the Bay Area, we have been planning a demonstration of our own at Nancy Pelosi’s office in San Francisco, with a similar message – we have not surrendered in this crucial fight, and we deserve leaders who won’t give up either! Baring white flags sprawled with our message of “No Surrender,” we will be calling on Speaker Pelosi to take action and end the filibuster, codify Roe, expand the Supreme Court, literally anything serious, to protect abortion rights.


Sign our petition: Democrats, No More Excuses!

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Jun
11
Sat
San Francisco: March for Our Lives to End Gun Violence 2022 @ Welcome Center at Golden Gate Bridge Plaza
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Jun 11 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am
More info & RSVP: https://secure.everyaction.com/Mxhr1C3aYUqPRXAe-YZWHw2

MFOL website: https://marchforourlives.com/

Text MARCH to 954-954

Come protest with us in the city of San Francisco as we demand END GUN VIOLENCE,
with people rising up in the San Francisco Bay Area, throughout California and across
the United States.

Together, we rose up 4 years ago across the coutnry. 1 million of us demanded change. We built a movement. We voted for new leaders. And the gun deaths increased. Now is the moment we march again in 2022.

We are marching again in Washington D.C. and in 100+ local marches nationwide. We need as many people as possible to show that the American public wants a nation free of gun violence.

Can we count on you to be there June 11? Text MARCH to 954-954 to learn more.

WHY WE ARE MARCHING

May 26th marked the one-year anniversary of the San Jose VTA mass shooting in 2021, the deadliest in Bay Area history and less than two years after the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting in 2019.

Two days before the first anniversary of the VTA massacre, there’s been yet another mass shooting — this one at a Uvlade, Texas elementary school that ended the lives of 21 people on May 24th.

Only a couple weeks ago, there was the mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York in a predominately Black neighborhood, a crime reported as being racist-hate motivated.

And the next day after Buffalo, there was a church shooting that left one person dead and five others injured at a meeting of Asian churchgoers in Laguana Woods, Southern California.

All these more recent events are part of a long, but ever growing history of gun violence taking and wounding the lives of American family members, including children. Everywhere we look, gun violence is decimating our families and communities.

Whether it’s the mass shootings in shopping malls, concerts, schools, and places of worship, the retaliatory gun violence in urban neighborhoods haunted by the legacy of economic disinvestment, racism, and poverty, or the solitary suicides committed nationwide with increasing frequency, gun violence adds up: over 100 Americans die from it every day.

That’s 100+ lives lost every single day. We started March For Our Lives (MFOL) to say, “Not One More.”

END GUN VIOLENCE NOW!

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Jun
22
Wed
Protest March on SCOTUS for Abortion Rights @ Livestream
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Jun 22 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

We are rallying at the U.S. Supreme Court to stop reversal of Roe v. Wade. Join us!

NASW is the largest individual membership organization of social workers in the world.
The NASW organization advocates for policies that support individuals, families
and communities.

NASW supports Roe v. Wade. Join us at the U.S. Supreme Court to help us support reproductive rights for all.

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/naswsocialworkers/

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Jun
23
Thu
Protest US Escalation in Ukraine! No More Weapon Sales @ Barbara Lee's Office
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Jun 23 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
On Thursday June 23 we will be gathering outside Rep Barbara Lee’s office in Oakland to protest her recent vote for $40 billion for the war in Ukraine. This demonstration is in conjunction with the International Day of Action for Peace in Ukraine called by the Peace in Ukraine Coalition.

This massive funding package represents a clear escalation of the war in Ukraine by the government of the United States using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder in a proxy war with Russia. It will prolong the war, resulting in thousands more Ukrainian and Russian deaths, at the very least. It risks escalating and widening the scope of the war – up to and including nuclear war.

Despite promising just two months ago to “work relentlessly toward de-escalation” of the war in Ukraine, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee voted in lockstep with every Democrat in Congress behind President Biden’s war policy without voicing such questions or concerns and without a single mention of diplomacy or de-escalation. Billions in funding for the war serves the interests of weapons manufacturers and military contractors who are making huge profits from this war and not those of working and oppressed people worldwide, who now face even more dire prospects from food and fuel shortages than before the onset of this war.

Join us at Barbara Lee’s Oakland office to say:

– Vote NO on the next weapons supplemental for Ukraine and support oversight hearings on prior weapons shipments.

– Urge President Biden to back a negotiated settlement that recognizes the security interests of all stakeholders and to lift key sanctions in return for concessions from Russia.

– “Work relentlessly for de-escalation” and not for more war.

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Anti-SWEEPstakes Showdown
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Jun 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
NO COPS IN PRIDE (or anywhere)
STREET SWEEPS KILL QUEERS

‘Love Will Keep Us Together,’ but only for the state.

Mayor London Breed sweeps houseless queer and trans youth from the Tenderloin just in time for corporate Pride’s open air beer garden. The preparation is a community affair as Urban Alchemy, case managers, and Karen “safety” snitch have rubbed their fingers raw by calling 911. Two million people scamper in to attend San Francisco’s massive LGBTQ+ themed blue lives matter march— a dress rehearsals for death squads. It’s no secret that policing is a sign of fascism, and Supervisor Rafael Mendlemn just can’t get enough. 500 more, 500 more! Meanwhile in the Mission, business owners clear tents to make way for outdoor dining “parklets” that are locked up at night to assure no one can use them for shelter. Breed’s police state won’t be taking Pride weekend off from its “Care Court,” where “care” means torture for those that don’t have the celebrity to fight off their conservatorship. DPW won’t sweep up the Pride afterparty but they will boost your HIV meds if it’s in a tent and SFPD cleans up, if by clean up you mean make off with the COVID money while it’s impossible to find a testing site.

Despite a 2 year hiatus where we tore down colonizer statues, dispossession is still at the heart of rainbow capitalism’s colonial catastrophe. Looting keeps us together~~~<3

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Jun
24
Fri
Abortion Rights Protests @ Oscar Grant Plaza
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Jun 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Jun
25
Sat
Abortion Rights Protests @ Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
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Jun 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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