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Speciesism’s effect on the world is unfathomably destructive. Like other forms of oppression and prejudice, it ranges from interpersonal microaggressions, to downright bigotry, to entire societal institutions that thrive off direct or indirect exploitation and violence. It’s an issue that’s widely underrecognized so please WEAR BLACK CLOTHING and join us Saturday afternoon, August 27th to take part in the 8th annual World Day for the end of Speciesism where we’ll march a portion of the highly trafficked Bay Bridge in hopes of drawing attention to the issue along with other actions happening on the same day around the world.
At times we’ll highlight the speciesist practice of prosecuting humans who help anyone who isn’t a human escape from situations of distress and certain death. One of our current organizers (Paul Darwin Picklesimer) and one of our co-founders (Wayne Hsiung) will stand trial in Utah on September 9th for helping two piglets get to a vet and are facing up to over a decade in prison if convicted.
After marching, we’ll return to the meeting point to reflect on the day and enjoy free, delicious, plant-based food from P and A Vegan Catering.
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ACCESSIBILITY: Some marching (as much as 4.6 miles) and standing. Some chairs will be on hand for sitting as needed. Sun protection and comfortable footwear may be helpful. Smoke flares may be present so please be aware in order to distance yourself from them in case they might bother you.
WHO: Everyone is welcome! However, please do not come if you have or recently had symptoms of or exposure to COVID-19. If you’re nervous, you can come observe or hold a sign quietly.
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Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is a grassroots network of animal rights activists. Through open rescue, demonstration, and disruption, we help build a world where every animal is safe, happy and free.
DxE cultivates a welcoming and supportive community. We ask that all those who attend our events (online and offline) respect our Code of Conduct which can be reviewed at dxe.io/conduct.
To learn about our vision, goals, strategy and more check out the San Francisco Bay Area chapter Activist Handbook here: dxe.io/handbook
Thank you to everyone who came out to Wood St encampment last week to provide support to residents during this violent displacement. Wood St encampment is home to an estimated 200 to 300 individuals, some who have lived here over a decade.
With little to no resources or support from the state, we need to keep showing up for our unhoused neighbors! Please show up again this Monday and Tuesday anytime between 6:30 am to 5 pm at 34th and Wood St in West Oakland.
This is the largest encampment in the Bay Area, and even though Libby Schaaf is on record saying Oakland does not have the beds for everyone living here, they’re going forward with the sweeps anyway. The encampment spans for blocks, and their plan is to do it in sections, with two week breaks in between each section. Keep reading below for more details on joining us!
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Thank you to everyone who came out to Wood St encampment last week to provide support to residents during this violent displacement. Wood St encampment is home to an estimated 200 to 300 individuals, some who have lived here over a decade.
With little to no resources or support from the state, we need to keep showing up for our unhoused neighbors! Please show up again this Monday and Tuesday anytime between 6:30 am to 5 pm at 34th and Wood St in West Oakland.
This is the largest encampment in the Bay Area, and even though Libby Schaaf is on record saying Oakland does not have the beds for everyone living here, they’re going forward with the sweeps anyway. The encampment spans for blocks, and their plan is to do it in sections, with two week breaks in between each section. Keep reading below for more details on joining us!
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🚨Eviction Support Needed All Week For Wood St. Residents🚨 pic.twitter.com/IYcuN95zaI
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) September 27, 2022
🚨Eviction Support Needed All Week For Wood St. Residents🚨 pic.twitter.com/IYcuN95zaI
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) September 27, 2022
🚨Eviction Support Needed All Week For Wood St. Residents🚨 pic.twitter.com/IYcuN95zaI
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) September 27, 2022
With the current Wood St.evictions, community & residents still have nowhere to go!
Join the Oakland City Council meeting TOMORROW, Tues., Oct 4 @ 10am to make public comment in support of opening up vacant city land to Wood St residents!
Go to https://t.co/Ael19TBimD to join! pic.twitter.com/kiVJ4jaYV5
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) October 3, 2022
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Workshop
Are you a student loan borrower? And do you work in public service (like the government or a nonprofit)? Then you may be eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)! Because of your service to our nation, with PSLF you could get your remaining student debt wiped away. THAT’S HUGE! 👏👏
On top of that, with temporary changes to the PSLF program, millions of borrowers are closer than ever to getting their debt cancelled! But the deadline to apply for PSLF under these changes is fast approaching (October 31st 2022) 👀👀
That’s why we’re holding another Public Service Loan Forgiveness Workshop to go over navigating the application process, pitfalls to avoid, and how to make it as easy as possible for you to apply. And at the end, we’ll be sure to answer your burning questions about PSLF, the temporary waiver, and how to get the cancellation you deserve!
RSVP Today for our Public Service Loan Forgiveness Workshop at 7pm-8pm Eastern (4pm-5pm Pacific) Tuesday, October 4th
And if you’re wondering if you qualify for PSLF, we’ll cover eligibility too! If you’re not a borrower yourself, feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone in your life who might need it! We want to help as many people as possible.
Meet us in Oscar Grant Plaza for a march and action led by two local organizations: Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) and Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA). The action will lift up both organizations’ campaigns around divesting from systems of harm and investing in healing, wellness, and community-controlled grassroots power. This will include a flashmob that we learned from our Chilean feminist friends. We will close with a dinner and rally at the Chinatown Resilience Hub that Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) has fought for and developed over many years.
Local Planning Committee
- About Face
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
- Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)
- Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA)
- PODER
- Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
- Chinese Progressive Association (CPA)
Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ) is an alliance of over 60 US-based grassroots organizing (GRO) groups comprised of working and poor people and communities of color. GGJ brings GRO groups into a long-term process of relationship building, political alignment and transformational leadership development. We weave and bridge together US-based GRO groups and global social movements working for climate justice, gender justice, an end to war, and a just transition to the next economy. At our 7th Membership Assembly in 2018, the membership of GGJ refined our framework for a holistic approach to building grassroots global justice: No War, No Warming, Build a Just Transition to a Feminist Economy, echoing the framework of Dr. Martin Luther King’s philosophy of the Triple Evils of Poverty, Racism and Militarism and integrating the current day pressing issues of climate change and feminism.
Eviction support needed this week! Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30a-4:30p @ 26th and wood street — be prepared to take the lead from residents, recommend bringing a charged phone to document, protective shoes, gloves if able to lift items, & mask for dust/covid https://t.co/hYmNtNgTa3
— APTP First Response (@aptpresponse) October 11, 2022
Eviction support needed this week! Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30a-4:30p @ 26th and wood street — be prepared to take the lead from residents, recommend bringing a charged phone to document, protective shoes, gloves if able to lift items, & mask for dust/covid https://t.co/hYmNtNgTa3
— APTP First Response (@aptpresponse) October 11, 2022
Just saw this on the facebook page of a Wood Street resident. Looks like residents and supporters plan to rally tomorrow in front of city hall to demand access to the nearby land on the Northgate parcel to relocate them since they're facing eviction from CalTrans… pic.twitter.com/rbXFACH7dL
— Zack Haber (@ZZZZZZZZZZZack) October 17, 2022
This week, a federal judge sided with political groups and blocked President Biden’s debt cancellation plan. This is not the end. The Biden administration has appealed the decision and advocates are fighting to protect borrowers.
That is why we’re hosting an EMERGENCY TOWN HALL online to explain the status of debt cancellation, where we go from here, and how to get involved!
Student Debt Cancellation: Where We Stand and What is Next
We know this is a very confusing, frustrating, and uncertain time for you all. We understand, hear, and empathize with you. But, we need your voice and strength now more than ever.
It took millions of Americans pushing for debt cancellation to get to this point. It will take us coming together to protect it. If you want to learn about the newest updates and how to get involved, click here to RSVP for Thursday’s town hall.
Can’t make it? You can take action right now.
Together, our movement cannot be defeated!
See you Friday 3PM at the Campanile! Solidarity forever! #FairUCNow pic.twitter.com/CV6QpoaHNL
— Berkeley Tenants Union #CancelRent #FairUCNow (@BerkeleyTenants) November 18, 2022
Reposting this call from undergrads in support of the strike. Monday 11/21, shut down the UC! A day of autonomous blockades and occupations on all 10 UC campuses. #StrikeMeansStrike #BlockadeTheUC pic.twitter.com/LktyaBeeUJ
— UC Davis #CopsOffCampus (@UCDavis_COC) November 19, 2022
Oil companies are exploiting a global crisis to jack up prices at the gas pump and rake in massive profits while driving a cost of living crisis for Californians. They blame California’s environmental protections, but we know it’s polluter greed sending prices sky high, plain and simple.
This Monday will be a day of action (organized by Last Chance Alliance) across the state to enact a windfall profits cap proposal that will be voted in the CA legislature in the week of December 5th. In the Bay Area, activists will gather at the Chevron station at 5500 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland at 4:00pm to encourage Governor Newsom’s support of the tax and to shift the narrative around gas prices to one that frames big oil greed as the problem.
If you’re free, come join us at 4pm on Monday to hold signs and make our voices heard. Support the action on social media with hashtags
#PolluterGreed #TheyProfitWePay and #PollutersPayUp and tag @LastChance_CA, @CAGovernor and @GavinNewsom.
No Dirty Deal: Make the Call
In September, activists stood up to Senator Manchin and Senator Schumer and defeated a dirty side deal that would undermine one of our bedrock environmental laws, fast-track fossil fuels, and sacrifice fence-line communities Unfortunately, during the final weeks of this Congress, lawmakers are now poised to revive the dirty deal. Can you take a few minutes to call your congressperson to say this dirty deal has go to die?
Call 917-791-2257 to be connected to your member of Congress.
Suggested script:
“Hi, my name is ____, & I’m from ____. I’m deeply concerned about the Energy Independence and Security Act and any legislation that would fast-track fossil fuel projects and undermine the public’s ability to give input on new energy projects. As your constituent I’m calling to demand that you publicly oppose this dirty deal and do all you can to stop it from being attached to must-pass legislation and passing!”
With Love and Rage and Action,
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area
https://www.xrsfbay.org
Calling out volunteers!✨
Mutual aid request Link in the bio!
Omni Commons is opening their facilities to support those in need of safe dry shelter. We need volunteers to support the infrastructure of the building!
The shelter will open FRIDAY 1/6at 6pm til WEDNESDAY 1/11 noon. pic.twitter.com/pv82f5hdYl— Omni Commons (@omnicommons) January 5, 2023
Help end racial profiling in San Francisco!
We have exciting news to start the year: the San Francisco Police Commission will be voting to limit racially based traffic stops and consent searches on Wednesday, January 11, at 5:30 PM. San Francisco has a tremendous opportunity to advance anti-racist policy, and you have a part to play.
Can you please support in any or all of the following ways?
- Submit an organizational letter of support by COB on Tuesday, January 10. As endorsers of this campaign, a letter from your organization is urgently needed before the vote.
- Attend the press conference at City Hall on Wednesday, January 11, at 10:00 AM,� to rally for the vote with the Coalition to End Biased Stops and supporting community leaders.
- Give public comment the evening of Wednesday, January 11: sign up here. To help with your public comment, here is an action guide with talking points, call-in information, template email, call script, and a social media toolkit. An associated flyer is attached for you to post and distribute.
- Share this email with your allies, organizations, and coalition partners. Urge them to act. To ensure we are able to get an effective policy passed by the Police Commission, we need as much broad community support as possible.
Thank you for taking action!
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Tell the San Francisco Police Commissioners to approve DG0 9.07. and end pretext stops now! Meeting time: 5:30 p.m. Jan. 11. Location: Police Commission at City Hall. 1 Dr Carlton B. Goodlett Place, room 400.
— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) January 9, 2023