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We will feature on the agenda our brothers and sisters from SEIU 1021 who have experience in signature collection campaigns for successful ballot measures. They will engage with us on lessons learned and we will discuss ways in which we might collaborate in our efforts to get our respective measures on the November ballot.
Homes Not Jails is a consensus-based collective of squatters and squat supporters who believe housing is a human right. Our goal is to open as much vacant housing as possible and to keep it open as long as possible. HNJ is a place to organize mutual aid among squatters and squat supporters and housing rights advocates in the bay. We actively fight to make our space inclusive and safe for everybody and combat oppression in all forms.
Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.
Join CURB on Thursday, February 18, from 12pm-1pm (PT) for a webinar about how the No New SF Jail Coalition stopped San Francisco’s proposed new jail, and learn valuable lessons on how to stop a jail in your town!
Since early 2013, CURB members and allies have fought tirelessly to stop plans for a new jail in SF, building an incredible network of allies and encountering obstacles of all shapes and sizes. Almost three years of organizing came to fruition in December when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected funding for the new jail.
While this was a historic victory, the fight is not over. SF won’t be building a new jail any time soon, but more than 40 other counties are still trying to build new jails, and the governor is looking to allocate another $250 million for jail construction in the upcoming state budget.
During this webinar, community leaders who have been at the center of SF’s jail fight will share their strategies, stories, victories, failures, and advice on what ultimately made their fight successful.
Panelists:
Mohamed Shehk, Critical Resistance
Lisa Marie Alatorre, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness
Roma Guy, San Francisco Taxpayers for Public Safety
Click here to register for the webinar.
We encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting.
Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its intention to enact an outright ban on coal exports. In fact, it passed a moratorium on the issuance of any permits for the terminal until the question has been resolved. Read details on the latest developmemts here.
(And for more background, see A Coaltastrophe Threatens Oakland on this website.)
The demand for justice is happening and needs you!
Join us for the Bay Area premiere of Dear Governor Brown, the film that will reignite the California anti-fracking movement.
California is an oil-producing powerhouse, and Governor Brown has ushered in a new era of fracking and extreme extraction, all the while claiming to be a climate leader. We’re building a movement in California to take power back from Big Oil and jumpstart a clean-energy future. But even as we’re fighting fossil fuels in communities from Porter Ranch to Livermore—yes, Virginia, there are oil wells in Livermore—Big Oil is expanding its reach.
Arriving at this crucial moment is Dear Governor Brown, a short film directed by Jon Bowermaster that exposes the governor’s oily record, challenges the climate legacy he’s so desperate to create, and pressures him to stop fracking and other extreme oil-extraction methods.
Admission is FREE, compliments of Californians Against Fracking. The film will be followed by a panel of experts and residents of frontline communities across the state. Seating is limited, so RSVP to reserve your seat now. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Please RSVP on Facebook.
Watch the trailer here.
DOORS 6:00PM – EVENT 7:00PM
FREE MOVIE! FREE POPCORN! FREE PRIZES!
SELMA chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.
This stirring historical drama highlights the courage of the marchers as they withstand racist and violent attacks by the police.
Selma tells the true story of the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his brothers and sisters in the movement that prompted change that forever altered history.
(enter through the Blue Door from back parking lot)
Q2 is a political project that bring people together around musica tropikal – cumbia, merengue, salsa, norteñas, banda y más! We raise funds to support organizations/collectives doing work on issues impacting the community.
We are all people of color, community organizers aiming to create a queer/trans friendly space that is open to chavxs, cumbierxs, and allies who support the struggle for justice in our hoods.
We are Festive. We are Fierce. We are the Qumbia Qrew!!!
Come support and enjoy the company, music, and dance.
- $15 by October, 2017.
- Sick leave standards equivalent to Oakland and Emeryille.
- Prevent tip theft.
Learn about the initiative and how you can help. Brief training for signature gathering. Join a team to go out and gather signatures. Get additional petitions.
Come celebrate Gigi’s birthday!
Friends, music and good cheer!
BBQ provided. Pot luck BYO drinks and side dishes.
Part of the day will be cleaning the Kitchens which is a first and easy step. That means cleaning out the fridge, sweeping and wiping down the area. Any food out in the open has to be either sealed in airtight containers or thrown out.
1. Volunteer your time on Sunday Feb 21st
2.Bring cleaning supplies if you have any to spare – garbage bags, cleaning supplies, gloves and even air filter masks if you’re sensitive to dust or cleaning supplies. Remember to wear clothes and shoes you are okay cleaning in.
3. Help Keep the Omni Clean Every Day – if you use the kitchen, please be respectful and clean up after you prepare food. This doesn’t mean just washing dishes and throwing away food but also, cleaning any surface or appliance you use. Also, please throw away food you may have left in the fridge.
This is only the first step towards cleaning and improving the Omni so please contact the Omni on how you can help with future projects to protect the Omni.
Thank you!
Your Omni Volunteers
Bismillah.
Please join us for a special event for El Hajj Malik Shabazz (RA) Sunday February 21st, 2016. 51yrs to the day of his martyrdom.
There will be presentations on the following topics:
“Malcolm the Muslim”
“Malcolm and the Youth”
“Malcolm the Family Man”
“Malcolm and the Media”
“Malcolm the Internationalist” and a special tribute to his grandson, the late El Hajj Malcolm Shabazz (RA)
Also OICC will be having a survival needs drive that will be distributed to houseless folks in West Oakland so please bring any hygiene items, feminine products,new socks/underwear and any other items to donate for this charitable cause ISA.
Last year, on November 15th, 39-year-old Richard Perkins was tragically murdered by Oakland police near 90th and Bancroft. Richard Perkins is the 5th person to be killed by OPD this year. His murder has been extremely difficult for the family and they have put out a call to the community for support.
We will be showing our support for the Perkins family at Eastside Arts Alliance where there will be performances, art, and speakers by the incredible voices of our community. We are asking for a $10 dollar donation at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will go to the Perkins family.
There is an option to donate online if you cannot attend:
https://www.youcaring.com/
Please share with you fam, friends, and loved ones.
PERFORMERS:
AFROFONIX
This event will be updated with more performers, vendors, and artist set to share their magical brilliance in the spirit of community love and solidarity.
organized by members of Anti Police-Terror Project & black.seed
OccupyForum presents…
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!
Malcolm X: Make it Plain
The early articulation of the global, anti-colonial struggle
Occupy Forum observes the 50th plus Anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with the screening of the film Malcolm X: Make It Plain.
Articulating concepts of race pride and black nationalism Malcolm X was an African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and ’60s. Dynamic orator and militant minister, and the leader and potential leader of the black power concept, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism “by any means necessary,” including violence.
Avoiding the life-of-a-saint tone that characterized much of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, this documentary is a careful exploration of Malcolm X’s life and thought. Directed by Orlando Bagwell, (The Great Depression and Eyes on the Prize), the film takes care to place Malcolm X’s political leadership in a context that includes not only the by-now-familiar run through his time spent as the zoot-suited hustler Detroit Red, but also his childhood as the son of Earl Little, a Michigan minister and organizer for the black-nationalist Marcus Garvey Movement. The complexity and contradictions of Malcolm X’s philosophy are discussed and debated by diverse interview subjects, ranging from Malcolm’s brothers to the New York police officer who infiltrated Malcolm’s Nation of Islam chapter in the hope of discrediting him.
After Malcolm X made the Hajj, the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during which he converted to traditional Islam, he placed the American Civil Rights Movement within the context of a global anti-colonial struggle, embracing socialism and pan-Africanism. “The true brotherhood I had seen had influenced me to recognize that anger can blind human vision,” he said. “America is the first country … that can actually have a bloodless revolution.”
Make It Plain is a first- rate piece of journalism, presenting a figure obscured by the historical context, and one who we do well to study in today’s racist emergency.
Q&A and Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum
to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away!
Come out and support our comrade Nailah who is currently facing charges after the wave of resistance in solidarity with Ferguson
Please join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity folks in Oakland at lunchtime as we hold banners and signs, speak with passers-by, and share information about the torture in CA prisons.
We are working to END solitary confinement and promote the Agreement to End Hostilities. For the past 6 1/2 months, people in Pelican Bay SHU (solitary) have been jarred awake 40-48 times a day, around the clock. We say, ” Stop the Sleep Deprivation Torture!”