Even during a global pandemic, our elected leaders keep throwing tenants under the bus. We demand: No more evictions! Cancel the rent! Decommodify housing! Housing is a human right!
Please wear a mask!
Contact us at 415-968-6090 for accessibility info.
Sponsored by: JDW Tenants Union, SMC Tenants Council, People’s Tenants Union, Madison Park Tenants Council, and PSL Bay Area – Cancel the Rents.
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JOIN US! Wednesday, June 16 at 12pm
Rally @ 12pm, Car Caravan @ 1pm, come with your car already decorated or use our supplies to decorate during the Noise Demo!SPEAK UP! TODAY at City Council at 6pm (Item #37)
Agenda/zoom link: https://t.co/83qEceVlmZ pic.twitter.com/eO612B5PYv— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) June 15, 2021
We are gathering every Wednesday at noon on the steps of City Hall to demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE Not Cops!
The City Manager is proposing a budget that INCREASES funding for the Berkeley Police from last year! This is despite the city’s supposed commitment to “reimagine public safety” and decrease funding to the police.
In advance of the final budget vote on June 29, we are gathering EVERY WEDNESDAY AT NOON on the steps of City Hall to make them hear us and demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE NOT COPS!
We cannot continue with business as usual. According to the City Audit, BPD stopped Black people at a significantly higher rate than their representation in the Berkeley population (34 percent compared to 8 percent). The data also shows that less than 1% of all calls for service were for violent crimes and that 55% of calls to Berkeley Police came in on their “non-emergency” line. BPD failed to even capture data on how many calls involved unhoused people or those with mental health issues.
We need to hold the City Council to their promise to reimagine public safety. We must divert our city funds to alternatives that: (1) are completely independent from the police, (2) are accountable to our most impacted community members, (3) don’t respond only during crises and then leave, and (4) are transparent to the public.
Join us and make noise on the steps of City Hall! Bring your pots, pans, noisemakers. We’ll have speakers and open mic. Tell Berkeley why this is important for everyone’s safety.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
For more info on the Care Not Cops campaign and our Five Demands for the Specialized Care Unit (SCU), go to: berkeleycopwatch.org/care-not-cops
Share the flyer! Share on social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter!
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Jun 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Jul 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
| Follow all and any current COVID guidelines | |
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Join us for a solidarity caravan followed by a community gathering of music, food, art, and friends!
What: Reimagine Safety Community Celebration & Caravan
When: Saturday, July 10, 2021
1pm: Caravan from Lake Merritt to Lowell Park
3 pm: Community Celebration at Lowell Park. pic.twitter.com/ajtrZSAcli
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) July 7, 2021
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Event by San Francisco Projection Department
Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/4t46Ou4lV
Join us for one hour:
GUERRILLA PROJECTIONS: SF Projection Dept will project Defund Line 3 art on Chase Bank.
POP-UP ART SHOW: Outdoor gallery opening gala exhibit of Defund Line 3 art by 11 artists featured in the Defund Line 3 Poster Art Newspaper.
STREET MURAL: Help paint a street mural with non-toxic clay and tempera paint.
MUSIC: songs by 1000 Grandmothers and other special guests.
POSTER ART DISTRO: Come pick up some poster art to put up, display or make signs with; Can we work together to plaster the Bay Area this week with beautiful art images of resistance to Line 3?
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Jul 15 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
What: Rally at Sen. Feinstein’s offices
On July 15th, Sunrise Movement is leading a protest to put the heat on Sen. Feinstein for her inaction on the climate crisis. Californians will come together to rally outside Feinsten’s offices at three different locations. Can you join the rally in downtown San Francisco to demand a bold and equity-based Civilian Climate Corps?
Organizers from Extinction Rebellion SF Bay are collaborating with Sunrise to help fill roles for the action. If you’d like to get involved with planning or support in any way, please email our Direct Action working group: dawg@xrsfbay.org.
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What: To protest Biden’s inaction on Line 3 and demand that he and the Army Corp of Engineers revoke the permit now.
Where: Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse
This is being organized by a coalition of Bay Area climate justice activists. Come help us bring the message to Biden and the Corp that it is time to Stop Line 3!
RSVP & info on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2PsKW4Fgi
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Jul 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
America is at a crossroads.
Six months have passed since the failed attack on our nation and our democracy on January 6th. Since that day, anti-voter laws have been passed in states all over the country and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings have made clear that it will not act to protect the sacred right to vote. This summer, Congressional districts risk being redrawn in a way that will allow politicians to choose their voters – rather than the voters fairly choosing who represents them.
We have reached an inflection point in which we must force our elected officials to act now or risk losing the very foundation of our republic.
But there is hope for us to stop this undercurrent of corruption and rebuild American democracy so that the freedom to vote is protected, billionaires don’t control our political systems, and our representatives actually respond to we the people.
To do this, we must pass the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and D.C. Statehood – and we can’t let anything, including the Jim Crow filibuster, stand in our way!
Join us for The Good Trouble Vigils for Democracy on July 17 – the one year mark of the passing of Rep.John Lewis – as we carry on his legacy by hosting candlelight vigils nationwide to demand that Congress act to protect our freedom to vote and rebuild our democracy.
We must and will win this Fight!
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Jul 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Come to rally just before city council: July 20th, 2021 1pm PST
Oakland City Hall Oscar Grant Plaza , 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA
Get on speakers list for city council meeting by contacting: committeeforlaborparty(at)gmail.com or For a Mass Labor Party in the USA @masslaborpartyusa on Facebook and Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa/
https://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com
On July 20th, 2021, Oakland City Council will take a vote on Oakland Athletics proposal for the development of a baseball stadium and accompanying condominium complex in the current Howard Terminal and connecting area to Jack London Square.
What does this means for maritime workers and the community in and around the port of Oakland?
Ultimately our livelihoods are at stake. More traffic congestion from mass sporting events and high end entertainment will surround the real estate portion of this proposed development. The developers argue any economic growth will benefit all workers and the community as it will inevitably spread out.
We know this not to be true. Just remember how conversion of the San Francisco Embarcadero from industrial maritime use to tourism was promoted over past decades. The loss of shipyards, maritime facilities and jobs such as scalers, boilermakers and machinists has lead to a steady eroding of union scale wages such that those who work in these areas can no longer afford to live anywhere near the city front.
The Oakland Athletics stadium proposal does not democratically consider workers at the port and the surrounding maritime community. Under the A’s proposed Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD) increases in property tax revenue on the development expected to rise from the current $30 million to over $12 billion by 2037 will be used for the area of the development itself. Infrastructure spending for schools, port facilities, and resources outside the specified EIFD area (Howard Terminal to Jack London Square) would be left out of this 30+ year projected tax revenue increase.
This type of exclusionary development planning is typical of public land privatization schemes, notably of the Fisher family (who own the A’s Franchise), which has gone on record as backing some of the biggest public land grabs for private profit in city history including AT&T park and the Charterization of public schools into the KIPP chain and Rocketship which their family controls.
Fishers enjoy bipartisan support from all corrupt politicians in the City. The Democratic Council members Ron Bonta and Nancy Skinner of Oakland City are among the foremost advocates for this privatization project. Most other Democrats and Republicans in the City or County have been silent on the issue at best, or supported this union-busting gentrification drive at worst. It is clear that we need a working-class alternative to defend our jobs, unions, residences, and environment.
Sailors, Longshore Workers, Truckers and Railroad Workers Unite! Stand with the working class and multi-ethnic communities against displacement! For well funded schools and public infrastructure through a participatory and democratic decision-making process of all who are effected and concerned!
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The Coalition for a Truly Public UC is a group of students, staff, faculty, and community members calling for justice and a truly public University of California. We come together as a group with the understanding that, although each of our respective struggles has its own unique details and dynamics, they are ultimately all rooted in the same foundation. In that spirit, we are uniting our efforts to expose and fight against the ongoing privatization of the University of California system, and accompanying exploitation of working class people in the form of real estate speculation, displacement, and militarized policing – not only within the state of California, but across the world.
We believe the UC has the potential to be an affordable, public university whose future is democratically determined by students, faculty and the surrounding communities and not the endless search for profit. However, we know that these aspirations are a far cry from the current reality. If there is to be any progress toward achieving them, we put forward the following demands:
1. We DEMAND a truly public (i.e. zero-tuition) higher education system, governed according to democratic process where regular people in the system have meaningful power and opportunity to impact major decision making.
2. We DEMAND the UC cease efforts to demolish and displace the 1921 Walnut st tenants and building on People’s Park as outlined in UC Berkeley’s 2021 Long Range Development plan. More generally, the University of California should cease ALL real estate acquisitions and real estate speculation, particularly such acquisitions that will displace people and other threatened species, and instead create housing options that are accessible to students and working class people, which necessarily means priced below the current market rate in most UC campus towns.
3. We DEMAND the demilitarization of and divestment from campus police, with reinvestment into services that actually benefit students. We call for the end to UCPD involvement in labor disputes and in harassing and displacing homeless people in the areas on and around UC campuses, such as People’s Park in Berkeley.
4. We DEMAND an end to the pattern of privatization, devaluation, and contracting out of UC labor across all 10 UC campuses.
5. We DEMAND an end to the UC’s ties to colonial and imperial projects. This means ceasing support of, and direct investment in, the Thirty Meter Telescope project on the sacred Mauna Kea in Hawaii. It also means actively supporting Indigenous-led efforts to rematriate stolen land, remains, and property held by the Regents and Anthropology Departments across the state.
JOIN US FOR A RALLY IN PROTEST OF THE UC REGENTS MEETINGS OCCURRING AT THE SAME TIME. THE UC DECISION MAKING PROCESS IS UNDEMOCRATIC AND THE REGENTS ARE HIDING FROM THE PEOPLE USING COVID RESTRICTIONS
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Aug 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Join the movement to #FreeDonziger! Tomorrow August 6, will mark 2 years of Steven Donziger's unprecedented house arrest for taking on @Chevron & demanding #EnvironmentalJustice for the Amazon.
=> SF Bay Area: Chevron Richmond Refinery, 4pm Friday
Learn more 👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/04UU574C8t— Sunflower Alliance (@SunflowerAction) August 5, 2021
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Aug 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Housing is a human right! March and rally on Thursday, August 12th 5pm at Downtown Berkeley Bart. Spanish translation will be available#ElPuebloUnido pic.twitter.com/jZKKol2pNF
— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) August 10, 2021
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Make calls together on Zoom to get killer cops off our streets!
Community,
Today at noon we’re making calls together on Zoom to get killer cops off our streets! Grab your lunch and join our SB2 Lunch POWER Hour.
Today at noon we’re making calls together on Zoom to get killer cops off our streets! Grab your lunch and join our SB2 Lunch POWER Hour.
While police officers continue to harm our community members without any accountability, California is only 1 out of 4 states that has no law to decertify cops that put our communities in danger.
Join us, Michelle and Ashley Monterrosa (sisters of Sean Monterrosa, who was killed by Vallejo PD in the wake of the George Floyd uprisings), and the Let Us Live coalition to demand change from Bay Area legislators!
WHAT: SB2 Lunch Power Hour
WHEN: Friday, August 20, 2021 from 12 to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Zoom : bit.ly/sb2powerhour0820
Register to join us!
Police officers engaging in anti-Black racism and abuse of their power creates unsafe communities. California has an obligation to ensure their badges are PERMANENTLY taken away when they commit serious misconduct, removing them from our streets and ensuring they can do no more harm.
Share this to get the word out. We want to get these dangerous cops off of our streets ASAP!
In solidarity,
Anti Police-Terror Project
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.
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Aug 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Bay Area: We are asking you to turn out for this tomorrow! Follow @AfghansTomorrow. #BayArea #Oakland #Afganistan #HousingIsAHumanRight https://t.co/lWFXMJW8oY
— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) August 21, 2021
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As socialists, we condemn US militarism and interference in foreign affairs, including in Afghanistan. We call for an end to the War on Terror, and acceptance of all war refugees.
This Sat, 8/28 at 2:00 p.m. at UN Plaza, we will show our solidarity with the Afghan people. pic.twitter.com/Q7zOrEkId0
— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) August 26, 2021
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Children and families in California frontline communities are sick and dying because the agencies that should be protecting them are in bed with corporate polluters and developers.
Join Sunflower Alliance and 22 other sponsoring groups to demand that CalEPA and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) take immediate action to protect environmental justice communities across California.
For Bay Area carpool info, email action@sunflower-alliance.org.
EJ communities from Laytonville to LA will converge on the CalEPA Building in downtown Sacramento to speak out and act up against these agencies’ refusal to follow science and protect the health of vulnerable communities.
A full bedroom set will be brought to the protest, with volunteers representing CalEPA, DTSC, lobbyists, corporate developers and polluters in bed, drinking champagne and smoking cigars.
Following the hour-long protest, we will gather at Cesar Chavez Plaza across the street for an optional EJ training by California Environmental Justice Coalition. We’ll be on our way home by 3 p.m.
You can learn more on the CA-EJ protest website, which includes information about the groups involved and the demands they’ll present to CalEPA and DTSC.
Masks and social distancing are required! Let’s be smart and safe.
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