EVERY MONDAY IN MARCH FROM 600-800 PM AT THE QILOMBO.

THIS WILL BE AN ONGOING STUDY SESSION EXAMINING THE HISTORY OF THE ONGOING ZAPATISTA STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION.
SESSION I: First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle http://www.struggle.ws/mexico/ezln/ezlnwa.html

Future sessions will likely be described at the Facebook event.

The west coast of Canada is home to several indigenous territories whose lands have come under threat as the fossil fuel industry seeks to transport its product to empty tankers via numerous new pipeline projects. Freda and Toghestiy of the Wet’suwet’en nation decided 4 years ago to take action in helping their people stop the destruction of their lands. Exercising their right to practice their cultural customs on their land, they chose to build right in the path of the pipeline projects setting the stage for an ongoing blockade and reclamation of their lands at the Unis’tot’en camp.

In the ensuing years, they have confronted numerous pipeline employees who have come onto their lands, often without permission and by helicopter, to do surveying and other exploration activities. Support for the camp has been growing steadily in nearby towns and all across Canada as the camp raises the bar for what a non-violent resistance effort can achieve.

A website for the camp has been created and can be viewed here: http://unistotencamp.com/

First and foremost, the camp supports an effort to bring Wet’suwet’en people back to their lands to live traditionally and begin healing their families from the destruction wrought by western society on their culture. The plan for the future is to build homes and places of tribal gathering for those who wish to return to the land that sustains them. In order to make this happen, the camp needs the support of settlers and other indigenous tribes to hold off the development efforts of fossil fuel giants TransCanada, Enbridge, Chevron, and others. The camp organizers are opening their doors to anybody willing to provide their time and resources to building and maintaining the efforts at the blockade.

At tonight’s Forum, hear from a supporter who stayed at the camp for 3 weeks in February of this year, and how you or someone else can help get involved. Discussion and pictures of daily life at the camp will be shared. Success at the camp relies on spreading of information, fundraising, solidarity actions, and networking with other groups to find people willing to provide their labor on the grounds at the camp. There is a year round need for supporters at the camp with a couple specialized events planned for the summertime — an action camp for sharing skills and strategy, and a separate work camp for building new structures and implements needed at the camp. The continued organized effort will be desperately needed as pipeline crews converge on the eastern and western borders of the Wet’suwet’en territory sometime this year.

Other camps have started to emerge across Canada with the newest one going up only a few hundred kilometers north of the Unis’tot’en camp. This new blockade, known as Madii Lii, stands in the way of a new LNG project proposed by TransCanada. They will undoubtedly need the same outpouring of support to be successful. The continued existence of these ecosystems rests on the shoulders of those willing to put their bodies in the path of fossil fuel tycoons.

Folks up at #AfrikaTown feeding the community this morning. This is beautiful. #WestOakland pic.twitter.com/csq99wMSL1

— Minister Flashes (@Federal_flashes) March 11, 2015

AntiRep calendar entry.

Always check there and their Facebook page for last-minute changes.

More info about Dante.

March 11, 2015 people throughout the world will be acting to protest the continuing danger at Fukushima.
The Japanese pro-war Abe government has announced that the tanks surrounding Fukushima are full and they will release thousands of tons of radioactive water.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201412130042
They also are intent in reopening the nearly 50 nuclear power plants that were shutdown after the earthquake. They are also exporting nuclear power plants to Turkey and throughout the world to make more profits in this industry.

The government is also ordering families and children back to Fukushima telling them that it has been decontaminated despite continuing radiation and a growing epidemic of thyroid cancer cases. The government refused as well using a newly passed secrecy law to release information on cancer surgeries in the Fukushima region.

Reading of letters will start at 2:30 PM from around the world. Also there will be a march to PG&E on 245 Market St. near Spear St. San Francisco demanding the closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

The 32nd NNA Monthly Rally-The Fukushima Fourth Anniversary Rally
2 :30 pm The letters to PM Abe will be read loud
3 :00 The speaking out begins
Aroud 3:30 Some more letters will be read loud by actual writers.
4 :00 We start to march to the PGE headquarter on the Market St. to demand the closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

4 :30 Rally Ends
Please wear something yellow, scarf, cap and whatever!
Please bring many people, many signs and your energy!

Sponsored by No Nukes Action Committee, Fukushima Response
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www.upwa.info

Speaker: Congressman Barney Frank
Sponsor: Goldman School of Public Policy

5:30 p.m. Reception with Refreshments
6:00 p.m. Presentation and Q&A

First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank represented Massachusetts’s 4th District for 32 years. He is known as a superb legislator and a pragmatic politician whose sharp intellect and sense of humor has made him one of the most influential and colorful figures in Washington. While in Congress, Frank worked to adjust America’s spending priorities to reduce the deficit, provide less funding for the military and more for important quality of life needs at home. As chair of the House Financial Services Committee, he adopted sweeping financial regulations to prevent a recurrence of the financial crisis and was a key author of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Registration.

Prof. Xiao is inviting a special guest, Stanislav Shalunov, co-founder of FireChat, to his class Internet Freedom on Thursday, March 12, 4-6pm.

FireChat in recent news: FireChat — an ‘off-the-grid’ smartphone app — emerged this month as the technological glue holding Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests together and a powerfulweapon in the hands of mass movements, dissidents and protesters. The app works by creating its own network outside the internet, relying simply on the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi link that exist between one phone and another (source).

RETALIATE AGAINST WORKER INTIMIDATION BY FAST FOOD CORPORATIONS AND POLICE

Remember two Fridays ago in San Lorenzo, CA when Jack in the box fired a worker unjustly, then called the county sheriffs when she came back with her union comrades demanding her job back???

We are fighting back with a weekly “EFF YOU FRIDAY” picket at various local Jack stores. We gotta send the message to corporations and police that we will not back down from fighting to improve workers’ lives.

WE WILL BE CONTINUING THESE ACTIONS EVERY FRIDAY AT DIFFERENT JACK-IN-THE-BOX LOCATIONS WITH THE SAME OWNER.

FRIDAY THE 13TH: Good Luck Comes to Good Bosses!

Join us for our picket line to support our union brothers and sisters at HS Lordships!

Workers at HS Lordships have been bargaining for a contract for more than four years. These longtime workers are asking for a fair contract, but management continues to propose drastic cuts in medical benefits. Workers have offered to give up sick days and vacation time and participate in a new healthcare plan with an increased deductible and reduced benefits. The restaurant, however, continues to propose making it harder for workers to qualify for healthcare.

At the restaurant, servers make $9 an hour and pay more than $500 per month for family insurance. Workers are fighting for affordable medical insurance and saying “NO MORE” to skyrocketing healthcare costs!

“I have worked at HS Lordships restaurant for ten years. I am a mother of six boys, and my family needs medical insurance in order to provide for and protect our children so they can grow and develop in the healthiest way possible. We need medical insurance that is accessible and affordable so that our basic needs can be met.”
-Adelaida Cisneros, Pantry Cook

Questions or need a ride? Contact Nicole Zapata at nzapata@unitehere.org

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UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612, Tel. 510-893-3181

A panel discussion with:

Michael Parenti, internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. Parenti is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. His most recent books include: The Face of Imperialism (2011), Waiting for Yesterday (2013) and Profit Pathology and Other Indecencies (2015)

Charlotte Silver, independent journalist formerly based in the West Bank, Palestine. Silver’s work appears in Al Jazeera English, Electronic Intifada, Alternet, The Nation and VICE News, among many other publications.

Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action; Admin. Comm., United National Antiwar Coalition; Director, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; author, Free Palestine!, Ukraine in Turmoil & Revolution & Counter-revolution in Egypt

This will be the greatest Pi Day ever in the American history, spread the word! pic.twitter.com/am1fdrmZyu

— SciencePorn (@SciencePorn) March 6, 2015

This is a Call for Support.

Facebook event.

In the early morning of Thursday, February 26th, UC Berkeley’s office of Capital Projects brought in a huge demolition team and police force to clear-cut 60 trees on the south side of the historic Gill Tract. For 20 years, the local community, students, and faculty have attempted to create a visionary research and education center on this public land. In 2012 Occupy the Farm’s successful land occupations pushed out Whole Foods from the development, and saved 10 acres for 10 years. But 5-6 acres of the southern half of the Gill Tract is now under threat of imminent development, and our ability to create a 20 acre community-driven living laboratory for a just transition could disappear in an instant. See our website for a complete update: http://occupythefarm.org/everything-can-change-in-a-second-we-build-from-here/.

Why focus on Sprouts?

We’ve kicked out Whole Foods, and we can kick out Sprouts. Sprouts “farmer’s market” is a big-box, union-busting corporate chain supermarket that perpetuates industrial agricultural and food system injustices. Their greenwashed use of the “Farmer’s Market” term and imagery is an assault on our efforts to create a just local food system. See more:http://occupythefarm.org/boycott-sprouts/

What can you do right now?
1. Please join Occupy the Farm for a #GillTractDefense Rally and Press Conference at the Sprouts “Farmer’s Market” in Walnut Creek on March 14th at 1pm. This is a call out for support.

2. Call and Email Ted Frumkin, Sprouts’ Senior Vice President of Business Development. Tell him: “DON’T BUILD YOUR NEW STORE ON THE GILL TRACT!” tedfrumkin@sprouts.com; 602-682-1556

3. Join our social media campaign. Take a photo of yourself with your definition of a farmer’s market, and tweet: @sproutsfm Don’t pave over the Gill Tract for your greenwashed, union-busting supermarket! #BoycottSprouts #GillTractDefense #OccupyTheFarm

4. Join the Emergency Bulldozer Response Team:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14ca3kz0dCt47XRXZ-kwoD8JEVyOWUuBH1-Y9AxILVqM/viewform?usp=send_form

We are trying to remain proactive in our strategy and response, but we are aware that the bulldozers may come any day to scrape away the top soil and lay concrete. We are preparing for active resistance on the land.