Celebrating the Music and Art of Oakland four “must see events” on Thursdays, February 4, 11, 18, 25 2021 from 11-12pm. Presentations and performances by Street Spirit, Youth Spirit Art Work and others. Hosted by St. Mary’s Center Senior Advocates for Hope and Justice.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction,” returns to humanity’s transformative impact on our environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it is said we now live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In “Under a White Sky” Kolbert takes a hard look at this new world we are creating. She examines how the sorts of intervention that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.
“Under a White Sky” takes a clear-eyed look at the new world we are creating. She meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish – one that lives in a tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave Desert. She visits a lava field in Iceland, where engineers are turning carbon emissions to stone; an aquarium in Australia, where researchers are trying to develop “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe; and a lab at Harvard, where physicists are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere in order to reflect sunlight back to space to cool the earth. By turns inspiring, terrifying, and darkly comic, “Under a White Sky” is a thoroughly original view of the challenges confronting us.
Mark Hertsgaard is an American journalist, author and environmental correspondent for The Nation magazine. Formerly a cultural reporter for the New Yorker, he has written sevenbooks, including “Bravehearts: Whistle Blowing in the Age of Snowden, and “Hot: Living through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.”
This event features two outstanding environmental authorities discussing the future of our planet.
Video stream: https://t.co/qPu8dz9nae?amp=1
Join us this Friday for a #CuttingEdgeIssues guest lecture with Kate Raworth (@KateRaworth) who will be speaking on “Doughnut Economics: turning a radical idea into irresistible practice”. Stream the lecture on YouTube from 4pm: https://t.co/qPu8dz9nae pic.twitter.com/56bNDMyaVv
— LSE International Development (@LSE_ID) February 8, 2021
The Women of the Black Panther Party Mural Project is teaming up with East Oakland Collective’s Feed the Hood for a Drive Up Food Drive during Black History Month.
Help serve the community by donating shelf stable food, cleaning supplies, and PPE. Load your trunk or back seat with your donations, pull curbside at EOC’s office and a volunteer will safely collect your items.
This is being organized by Yusuf Gürsey with some other possible speakers.
Yusuf writes: “I am Turkish and born in Turkey but now residing in New Haven, CT. I am a member of of the US Peace Council and CPUSA and an associate of Communist Party of Turkey (TKP). I am a retired physicist from Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey but lately I have become an independent researcher in linguistics and history. I am also very knowledgeable about the struggles in other Middle East countries, particularly the Arab World and I am involved in Middle East Solidarity work. I had become first familiar with Left Movements in Turkey through the students of my parents in Middle East Technical University since 1967 when I was in junior high school and that was also the year I became a supporter of the Palestinian cause.
We have invited Ekim Kılıç an officer in the Labour Party (Turkey) of the Kurdish nationality and someone from the TKP
ICSS Member Mehmet Yazgan will join the discussion.
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Green Sunday – Green Party of Alameda County
If we are ever to have a government that actually responds to the needs of the majority of people in this country, we are going to need much more than a change of administration and Congress. We need a fundamental change of consciousness. We also need fundamental and systemic changes to our systems. The values and beliefs on which our country was founded – imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and capitalism – and our current systems are killing us and the life-support system of our planet and undermining our capacity to see each other as embodiments of the sacred and to celebrate the awe and wonder of our universe. We at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives have an approach to shift consciousness that can significantly contribute to the kind of transformative movement that is so badly needed. I will share how we got here and what progressives can do to help shift the tide.
Beyond promoting short-term fixes, we can and must promote a world based on a New Bottom Line, whereby we measure success by the extent to which we maximize our capacity to care for each other and care for the planet rather than by the extent to which we maximize money and power. In our time together, I will share bold proposals that could create lasting change and a strategy to build the movement we need to enact such change.
Cat Zavis is the Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives. In that role, she has trained over 600 people in spiritual activism, revolutionary love, and prophetic empathy. She is also a lawyer and mediator and has a master’s degree in Gender and Women’s Studies. She has over 17 years of experience in training, coaching, and mediation focused around empathic communication and has trained thousands of people, including parents, teachers, spiritual/faith communities, collaborative lawyers, mediators, therapists, and others.
(Followed by County Council business meeting at 6:30. All are welcome to attend)
Time: Feb. 14, 2021, 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Join us on Sunday, February 14th at 6pm to watch Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer together on Zoom!
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84443394573
After we watch the film people may stick around to discuss the film together!
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer is about three young women who face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8K8WRRzbQs
The Spring 2021 Critical Conversations series is organized around two themes: celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Barbara T. Christian, an architect of Black feminist criticism, a founding member of our Department and a gifted writer and teacher; and exploring the concept of “abolition democracy,” thinking creatively and collaboratively about the practice of abolition as necessary to building life-affirming institutions and robust democratic structures. Through both themes, we ask: what are the lessons of the Black Feminist, Black Radical, and Black intellectual traditions for our moment and what is the role of Black Studies in building more just futures?
We are joined in conversation by celebrated novelist, poet, and activist Alice Walker who will reflect on freedom, Black feminism/womanism, and writing in community. This event is the second in our series celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Barbara T. Christian
Darieck Scott and Ra Malika Imhotep will moderate a Q & A session with Alice Walker taking your questions.
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About Alice Walker, speaker:
Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award. Walker has written many bestsellers; among them, The Temple of My Familiar; By The Light of My Father’s Smile; Possessing the Secret of Joy; We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness; and The Color Purple. You can read her full bio here.
About Professor Darieck Scott, moderator:
Darieck Scott earned his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, and an M.A. in African American Studies and a J.D. from Yale. Before coming to UC Berkeley he taught in the English departments of the University of Texas at Austin, and UC Santa Barbara. His teaching and research interests include: 20th and 21st century African American literature; creative writing; queer theory, and LGBTQ studies; race, gender and sexuality in fantasy, science fiction, and comic books.
About Ra Malika Imhotep, moderator:
Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer + performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her intellectual + creative work tends to the relationships between queer articulations of Black femininity, vernacular culture & the performance of labor. She is co-convener of an embodied spiritual-political education project called The Church of Black Feminist Thought.
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BREAKING: Fast food workers nationwide are going on strike for $15 an hour, COVID-safe workplaces, and respect on the job February 16. #FightFor15 workers have been fighting too long for higher wages. https://t.co/gp6OuDrAHw pic.twitter.com/7F6i5nvCEO
— Fight For 15 (@fightfor15) February 12, 2021
DO NOT CROSS THE PICKET LINE
*MCDONALD’S, BURGER KING, AND WENDY’S* WORKERS ARE FIGHTING FOR A LIVING WAGE.
***DO NOT*** ORDER FROM ANY OF THESE PLACES ON TUESDAY, THE 16TH
Join Stop the Money Pipeline’s launch event for our rapid response campaign to #DefundLine3. The banks that are funding Line 3 are funding climate destruction –
we’re taking action to stop them.
Find out how you can get involved, from supporting the frontlines to pressuring the financial institutions into dropping Line 3. Check your email for confirmation once you complete your registration.
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KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a unique Zoom Event:
RASHID KHALIDI & Nora Barrows-Friedman
THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR ON PALESTINE
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917—2017
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A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
“A riveting and original work, the first to explore the war against the Palestinians on the basis of deep immersion in their struggle—a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict. —Noam Chomsky
Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.
Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, among them the award-winning Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and many other publications. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Nora Barrows-Friedman is a longtime broadcaster and journalist who has focused on Palestine and Palestinian rights issues for nearly 20 years. She was the co-host and senior producer of Flashpoints on KPFA from 2003-2010, and has since been an associate editor and reporter for The Electronic Intifada. Nora is the author of “In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine.”
Chevron’s recent spill of 600 gallons of an oil and gas mixture into SF Bay and the Pt. Richmond shoreline, and the continuing need for stronger air pollution controls at its Richmond refinery, will be taken up at the Richmond City Council meeting this Tuesday night. Public comment is hugely important: please come out and testify.
Chevron oil spill response is on the agenda as Item J-2. The city has asked representatives from Chevron, the Coast Guard, SF Baykeeper, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and the Office of Spill Recovery and Response to report on the causes, responses and probable impacts of the spill.
This is an important opportunity for the public and members of the city council to ask questions and demand answers.
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We can speak to both issues when we comment on Item J-2: express our anger and outrage at the spill, and demand facts about its cause and impact. At the same time, we can thank the council for passing H-10. This is also the ideal moment to tell the city council they need to direct staff to start working on a plan for a just transition in Richmond.
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TOMORROW! Community Ready Corps is hosting a special event featuring Fredrika Newton, Mama Akua Njeri, and Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr.
100% of the proceeds go to the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation. https://t.co/qbCgFwujgQ #JudasAndTheBlackMessiah
— Nikki (@nikkivpraze) February 16, 2021
During this special event, Carroll Fife will interview Fredrika Newton (widow of Huey P. Newton and co-founder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation), Mama Akua Njeri (widow of Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr.), and Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. (son of Chairman Fred Hampton, Sr.).
Ticket prices are sliding-scale (no one turned away for lack of funds), and 100% of the proceeds go to the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation.
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This event will take place as a Zoom webinar. Automated captioning will be provided.
Very few people build data products because they want to promote racist or sexist ideas; however, it’s very easy to fall into these traps, particularly when we fail to question the widely held belief in the “objectivity of evidence.” A working understanding of how to incorporate equity into data products, and knowledge of practical tools that embed equity in your research and data, is essential for anyone conducting data analysis, or making decisions based on data analysis.
This session, led by Heather Krause, founder of Datassist and We All Count, provides you with several shocking real-world examples of mistakes made when using data that led to biased outcomes, and a seven-step framework for identifying inequity and hidden bias in the data product lifecycle. As interest in equity in data grows, this framework provides actionable steps for making changes in the way you and your team use data.
Registered attendees for Data on Purpose will have access to this session as part of their registration. If you are not already registered for Data on Purpose and would like to attend this session at no cost, please sign-up by filling out this short Google Form. (Please note that this form will close on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time, or earlier, if we reach our capacity).
Celebrating the Music and Art of Oakland four “must see events” on Thursdays, February 4, 11, 18, 25 2021 from 11-12pm. Presentations and performances by Street Spirit, Youth Spirit Art Work and others. Hosted by St. Mary’s Center Senior Advocates for Hope and Justice.
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RSVP to jcastillo@stmaryscenter.org
In solidarity with Water Protectors on the frontlines on Anishinaabe lands in Minnesota, we are racing against Enbridge’s next big financial deadline, On March 31st, 18 banks have a $2.2 billion loan to Enbridge due for renewal. The 18 major banks involved in that loan have to make a decision whether to continue to support Line 3 or walk away from Enbridge and its toxic, colonial pipeline. You can help to send them a message: Stop Funding Filthy Fossil Fuels.
If enough of us take these actions together, we can make the companies funding Line 3 feel enough pressure that they will walk away from this toxic tar sands pipeline.
Your email will go directly to the inboxes of the CEOs at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, CitiBank and the fifteen other banks funding Line 3. There’s no time to waste, we need these CEOs to get the thousands of emails on Friday, February 19 — will you take the time to click to #StopLine3?
Prefer to use the phone? Click here for a phone script and link to urge Chase Bank execs to defund Line 3: https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/call-chase-defund-line-3/
With Love and Rage and Action,
Extinction Rebellion SF Bay Area
The evolution of racial and economic oppression has only been amplified in the last year, as seen through both the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent acts of sedition. As the new administration and Congress steps into power, we must hold these leaders accountable to the citizens, organizers, and communities who uplifted them in November and urge them to build a new, non-carceral paradigm for public safety that keeps all communities truly safe.
Against this backdrop, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund and Civil Rights Corps are hosting a Vision for Justice Summit on Friday, February 19, which marks a year and a half since the Vision for Justice platform was released.
The Vision for Justice Virtual Summit will be open to the public and serve as our opportunity to unite as a community, creating a collective strategy to design the future we want — a future rooted in restorative justice and equity. The summit will feature over thirty of the most respected, trusted organizers, civic leaders, activists and directly impacted people who have been doing the work to end mass incarceration.
