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Global Day of Climate Action.
Demonstrations and manifestations will take place all across the globe, adjusted according to Covid-19 circumstances.
Weekly protests to follow.
TOMORROW! The long standing Wood St encampment is being threatened with an illegal eviction as early as 5 am but going on all day. Show up to help residents and watch cops. #ftp #homesanddignityforall pic.twitter.com/U75bGHoLJP
— The Village, Oakland (@VillageOakland) October 12, 2020
ACCORDING TO AN EMAIL FROM BERKELEY COPWATCH THE EVICTIONS ON OCT 13th HAVE BEEN CANCELLED (NOT SURE IF THAT IS PERMANENTLY…)
Berkeley's largest unhoused encampment is facing eviction and its residents are willing to face arrest to defend their right to occupy space! We need copwatchers and witnesses to come to Seabreeze cafe 7a this Tues 10/13 and possible dates after to film any evictions and arrests. pic.twitter.com/JgOaKvxyhH
— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) October 8, 2020
=> NO COAL ON THE RICHMOND CITY COUNCIL!
The Levin-Richmond Terminal has joined developers, several local building trades unions, and the Richmond police union in trying to buy seats on the Richmond City Council.
Levin has donated $25,000 to candidates opposing the Richmond Progressive Alliance candidates endorsed by No Coal in Richmond partners Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Communities for A Better Environment, Sierra Club, and Sunflower Alliance. The terminal is hoping that the new council will overturn the hardwon legislation phasing out coal and petcoke operations at the terminal, which the council adopted after a successful 2-year campaign by No Coal in Richmond and currently in litigation.
WHERE: Levin Richmond Terminal, S. 4th St. and Wright Ave., one block south of Cutting Blvd. (Harbour Way S. Exit from I-580 West).
Meet at the Burger King on the south side of Cutting Blvd. at Hoffman Blvd.
City Hall Plaza
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Global Day of Climate Action.
Demonstrations and manifestations will take place all across the globe, adjusted according to Covid-19 circumstances.
Weekly protests to follow.
Saturday 10/17: Women's March SF: March for Our Rights! Demand Equality, Repro Freedom, & Save SCOTUShttps://t.co/xjKHySUaj4
— Indybay (@Indybay) October 8, 2020
Saturday 10/17 event has been moved from Dolores Park to Civic Center. Spread the word and make sure everyone knows the new location!!!!!!!! 🖤❤️ pic.twitter.com/5O1NKKToHE
— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) October 16, 2020
Sat October 17
12pm noon
Wear black pic.twitter.com/HGHRIaUEK3— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) October 8, 2020
there’s another protest against Oakland’s proposed Homeless People Displacement er i mean Encampment Management Policy this upcoming Monday and here’s a flyer about it… pic.twitter.com/DurVS0s9kR
— Zack Haber (@ZZZZZZZZZZZack) October 15, 2020
The proposed “Encampment Management Policy” uses people’s lack of housing to deny basic human rights like water, sanitation, health services, garbage pickup and will criminalize folks trying to survive in 95% of Oakland! #STOPEMP #HousingIsAHumanRight #AbolishThePolice
— House the Bay (@housethebay) October 19, 2020
When Black families are under attack – what do we do?
ACT UP FIGHT BACK!
Join us on Monday, Nov 3 @ 10:30 AM @ 3359 Brookdale Ave to stand with our friend Fred, his wife, & 3 young children who are facing eviction – in the middle of a pandemic – due to a predatory foreclosure.
— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) October 30, 2020
The family, members of @CalOrganize and the Black Housing Union, will host a press conference outside their home to send a strong message to the landlord that they will not be leaving their home and to let all other tenants at risk of eviction that ACCE has their back. BE THERE!
— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) October 30, 2020
As we approach the November election, the multiracial working class is facing multiple crises: dangerous school reopenings, no pandemic relief, continued police violence and repression, climate change crashing down upon us, and a potentially chaotic General Election looming before us.
But we know that collective action in the streets is still the best antidote to the anger and fear we face daily. As democratic socialists, we must be a visible and committed force fighting for democracy and building a mass movement of the working class.
That means — whatever the status of the election — we need to be ready to mobilize on November 4th. Join East Bay DSA and coalition partners from across the Bay Area as we rally to demand that every vote is counted, and to begin organizing to grow DSA and our movement in the coming months. We’ll convene at Oscar Grant Plaza starting at noon for a mass rally and day of action. RSVP below!
Facebook will play a key role in enabling–or preventing–disinformation about the election results from disrupting our democracy.
Millions of people throughout the US will take to the streets on Wednesday, November 4th if Donald Trump refuses to concede after losing the presidential election or claims victory before all the votes are counted. Facebook will play a key role in enabling–or preventing–disinformation about the election results from disrupting our democracy.
That’s why the Protest Facebook coalition has organized a November 4th Protect the Results protest outside of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park to insist that Facebook stop misinformation from candidates, campaigns, and others who declare victory on Facebook before the final election results are in.
This will be a short, visual action during which we’ll display a human billboard that says TRUTH MATTERS.
We are holding the event at 4 PM so that participants have time to join other local Protect the Results actions that start later in the evening. We hope this protest won’t be necessary, but we’ll be ready in case it is.
Please register for the event so we can provide you with any last-minute updates.
This event, which is among the more than 400 Protect the Results events scheduled across the country, is sponsored by the Protest Facebook coalition, which is co-led by San Francisco Bay Area pro-democracy and media accountability organizations Media Alliance and Global Exchange. Learn more at www.protestfacebook.org.
Can’t get to Menlo Park? You can still Protect the Results. Cyber voter suppression poses a major threat to voter access, which is why we need grassroots power to provide voter support and to disrupt disinformation.
Submit all the misinformation and disinformation that you find as tips at https://reportdisinfo.org/
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We literally cannot do it without you.
Our work is done on behalf of our members. All the time. Pandemic or no pandemic.,
Become a member of Media Alliance or renew. Low-income annual memberships are $35, standard memberships are $60, supporting memberships are $120, and anchor memberships are $300. Other amounts welcome. You can set up monthly recurring debits for $5, $10 or $25 monthly.
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Every day on Facebook, Donald Trump lies with impunity about the outcome of the 2020 elections. His posts, including recent ones claiming, “I won the election,” and calling the election fake, rigged, and a hoax, have been shared literally hundreds of thousands of times.
By providing a megaphone for these lies to be spread and amplified with minimal correction, Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have undermined our social fabric for profit.
Please join us outside of Mark Zuckerberg’s house in San Francisco on Saturday to say we’ve had it.
Since Election Day, our rejected, soon-to-be ex-President and his enablers have been swamping Facebook with lies and conspiracy theories about his defeat in the election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has only made half-hearted and anemic efforts to slow the onslaught.
Changes to Facebook’s algorithm could have been made long ago to stop it from amplifying posts that contain disinformation about both the election and coronavirus. Instead, these posts have generated billions of views – putting the public’s health and democratic rights at rissk. That’s why it’s high time San Francisco took his name off of our general hospital,”
Sponsored by Global Exchange, Media Alliance, Protest Facebook Coalition, CodePink Golden Gate, SumofUS, Diablo Rising Tide, Indivisible SF Peninsula and CA-14, Raging Grannies Action League, MediaJustice, Resistance SF, SF Green Party and others.
NOTE: During this event, we will wear masks, practice social distancing, and respect SF public health rules re COVID19..
“If Trump is the criminal, then Mitch McConnell is the get-away driver. With McConnell and Trump’s other enablers, it’s about lust for power and greed, but also fear of what the nation is becoming. We need a massive turnout in Georgia now to put McConnell in the backseat.”
-Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II
The #PoorPeoplesCampaign protest livestream returns on November 23 at 11:30 AM PT
(2:30 PM ET), with a special Moral Monday Car Caravan Protest on McConnell!
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SACRAMENTO CAR CARAVAN PROTEST
Monday, November 23rd. Email to join and receive exact time & directions
Join the California Poor People’s Campaign’s Car Caravan on November 23rd in Sacramento to demand an immediate and just stimulus package, and to support voter turnout in Georgia for the runoff senate election!
Inspired by the powerful Moral Monday Caravans organized by the Kentucky and Washington DC Poor People’s Campaign, states across the nation are taking the fight to their Senators’ offices with caravans and a massive call-in campaign to all US Senators demanding they stop McConnell’s Meanness, Misery and Mayhem now!
We need just and full policies at the state and federal levels that remembers the loss of our loved ones, our jobs, and our housing. In the richest country ever to exist we deserve more than crumbs, we need a stimulus package that ensures poor and low-income people survive the pandemic.
We are not of those who shrink back and we won’t be silent because everybody has
a right to live!
To participate please e-mail us to receive directions: california [at] poorpeoplescampaign.org
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SAFETY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
NOTE: Mask & Social Distancing Required
If you have the following symptoms, please DO NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 but have these symptoms, please refrain from in-person actions:
–Fever
–Shortness of breath
–Cough
–Headache
–Loss of smell or taste
CDC: Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing serious complications from COVID-19 illness.
CDC COVID-19 link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
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VIRTUAL PROTEST LIVESTREAM & DIGITAL ACTION
Monday, November 23 @ 11:30 AM – 1 PM PT
Poor People’s Campaign livestream here:
https://www.facebook.com/anewppc/
or
https://vote.poorpeoplescampaign.org/
Digital protest actions on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell here:
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/moral-monday-mcconnell/
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CALL TO ACTION
Flood the phones of Majority Leader McConnell to demand a full and just relief package.
Call and demand passage of the HEROES Act now!
PPC special phone calling link (esp. for those outside of Kentucky):
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/moral-monday-mcconnell
The system will call your phone and patch you through.
PLEASE HAVE YOUR PHONE READY.
OR
317 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510
ph: (202) 224-2541
fax*: (202) 224-2499
general switch board: (202) 224-3121
*Anyone can send a faxed letter from any state. No need to be in Kentucky.
ALSO CALL OR EMAIL YOUR SENATORS & REP:
Tell your senators you support them to keep fighting for the HEROES Act which remains stuck on McConnell’s desk, and that you protest McConnell’s Meanness, Misery and Mayhem!
Senator Kamala Harris: https://www.harris.senate.gov/contact
Senator Dianne Feinstein: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact
Find your Congress House member here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
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WHY: COVID Pandemic Relief is Needed Now!
The HEROES Act was passed by the House of Representatives back in May, but Majority Leader McConnell has not allowed the bill to be taken up by the Senate.
The HEROES Act would grant a second round of $1200 stimulus checks including to noncitizens/immigrants who file yearly income taxes, extends the $600 weekly unemployment enhancement benefit through January 2021, has an eviction moratorium & emergency rent payment assistance, and allocates funds for safe, secure voting during COVID as well as US Postal Service funds.
Then, the House passed the separate Delivering for America Act to at least protect and fully fund the USPS in time for the November election. That legislation was completely stalled by McConnell, as well.
Instead, McConnell and GOP Senators back the Senate HEALS Act which does not extend the federal moratorium on evictions, has inadequate housing relief, would cut the unemployment enhancement down to $200, allocates enormous sums for the military, and has ZERO provisions for safe voting or the US Postal service.
Under Mitch McConnell’s leadership, Senate Republicans have proposed a bill that will leave citizens and states with fewer protections and funds. However, no second stimulus relief package has been passed so far.
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