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Her Resilience Part I: Mural Unveiling & Ceremony presented byMamacitas Cafe and Her Resilience: A Mural for Women Affected by Violence in Oakland
Featuring Mona Webb as Emcee
Nuri Nusrat & Robert Castro – Circle Facilitators
– Calpulli Huey Papalotl Danza Opening Ceremony
-Community Dialogues on Safety and Resiliency
-Childcare by Liliana Hurtado of YOLOTL COLLECTIVE
– Face painting by Melody Sage
– Healing Circles for All Genders
– Tamales by Tamales La Oaxaqueña
– Coffee, Drinks, and Donuts by Mamacitas Cafe
Special thanks to Akonadi Foundation for event support
(Notes on accessibility: This is an outside garden space. the garden is entrance is level to the ground. The top portion of the garden can only be accessed by the stairs, about 15-20 steps. Both levels will have tables+chairs+pillows)
Next Saturday the art activists of Animals Against Extinction will unfurl a striking banner at the pedestrian overpass at University Avenue at I-80, Berkeley. The banner will focus the attention of thousands of drivers on the ongoing threats that climate change poses to all living species.
If you’d like to be a part of this action, please gather at noon Saturday, March 21 at Sea Breeze Cafe at the foot of University and Frontage Road, immediately west of I-80.
This action will also serve as a dress rehearsal for actions at First Friday in Oakland, and the Earth Day celebration in Martinez (at the site of Shell and Tesoro) on April 18th. We will expose Big Oil’s murderous role in contributing to the climate crisis.
Join us at Whole Foods.
We’ll be rallying for higher minimum wages at noon in front of the store. Drop by if you’re interested in helping out or if you have any questions. An increase in the Berkeley minimum wage doesn’t just make economic sense—it’s a necessity for workers, who literally can’t afford to pay rent in this city on less than $15/hour!
The planting was in January. Now the garden is in full bloom. The gardening work continues. Join us!
More information on the Berkeley Post Office Defense against the sale and privatization here.
Join ~20 Bay Area activist groups on Saturday, 12th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, to say no to endless war. pic.twitter.com/aReDdWLFmQ
— Not Frantz Fanon (@violentfanon) March 16, 2015
The premier of “Amor for Alex.”
The one year anniversary of the unlawful killing by SFPD of Alex Nieto.
Join us on Sunday March 22nd for the 17 month anniversary Park Clean-up, Vigil & Stargazing at Andy’s Park / Andy Lopez Memorial. From 9am to 12 Noon come out and help clean up the park…At 9:00pm there will be a candlelight vigil and a telescope will be available to look at the stars
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School is the opposite of education, a study to release us from our confinement
In this time of trying to grasp disintegrating vestiges of our commons, it’s difficult to formulate the calls for structures for our benefit without resorting to lapsing into requesting our Owners to let us have what we’ve been taught is our commons. So we call for jobs, schools. The fact is our jobs are all about profiting our Owners, and school is about getting us all in line to do that.
The last session we did on this subject subsided into consciousness raising, school having been so harmful to us, so painful, that we sought relief, relinquishing the challenge to delve into positing how we want to learn, teach, study. This time let’s try that instead; try finding the other way – not home school, not the many reformations of school, but how to not school….
Suggestion: read/print out https://njfhar.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/structural-objective/ for discussion.
Our discussion will be led by Norma Harrison, a former candidate for the Berkeley Board of Education and a member of the State Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party.
Info at: https://njfhar.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/table-of-contents
The North American Anarchist Studies Network is holding its sixth annual conference on March 20, 21, and 22 at the California Institute for Integral Studies, in San Francisco, California—the homeland of the Ohlone people. Attendance is free and open to the public.
You can view and/or download a preliminary schedule here:http://bitly.com/19cGhGI
There are about 70 talks planned, as well as poetry, films, and several workshops. Friday’s opening plenary features Chris Carlsson, Andy Cornell, and Kenyon Zimmer presenting on “Hidden Histories of Bay Area Anarchism,” followed by discussion, and then a trip to a local watering hole. On Saturday and Sunday there will be panels scheduled from late morning to early evening, with plenty of breaks for sustenance and conversation.
Hope to see you there!
The Free Marissa Caravan is back after traveling almost 4000 miles in 3 weeks from Oakland to Jacksonville FL for the hearing which was to determine if Marissa spent more time imprisoned in jail, imprisoned in her home, or pardoned for firing a warning shot into the ceiling, injuring no one, to ward off the man who was beating and threatening to kill her.
We’d like to tell you about our travels through-out the country, the women we met, and the experiences we shared as we worked to make Marissa Alexander a household name across our land, and her fight for freedom our “Stand up, Fight Back” cause!
And about where Marissa is at right now & what we intend to do about it!
Please bring an organic (if possible) dish to share, your loved ones, friends, allies!
Or just be there! Together we will free Marissa now!!
Co-sponsored by the Free Marissa Caravan, and the BFUU Social Justice Committee.
Wheelchair accessible.
7th Open Circle ~Connect & Collaborate on Ending Police Brutality,
Systemic Racism and Disenfranchisement of Black People & People of Color
Let’s kick this meeting off with a potluck at 3:00 pm followed by the Open Circle at 3:45 pm. Please bring a dish or snacks to share!
Open circle will begin with report backs and announcements of upcoming actions followed by reflection and dialogue around the current state and thoughts or approaches on how to effect change.
We will end with breakout group topics and time to connect with folks with similar interests. Some great affinity groups have formed out of the breakout groups segment. Solidarity is afoot so bring your ideas!
Notes from last meeting:
omnicommons.org/connect
Restore The Fourth SF and Pow Magazine present
DON’T SPY ON US!
A Musical Event promoting our opposition to mass surveillance and state violence.
Musicians:
- Jimmy Dias
- Jordannah Elizabeth
- DEAR MANNY
- The Spiral Family
- Coywolf
Let’s make a public show of our commitment to stop the torture!
Leafleting and speakers (you). This fight is not over!
Cosponsors: California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC); Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community (PARC); Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS); Project: Pollinate; Sin Barras.
PHSS and many other co-sponsors and endorsers are conducting actions statewide in CA, nationwide, and internationally. These actions coincides with proposals for action from Pelican Bay State Prison Hunger Strikers, which calls for “designating a certain date each month as Prisoner Rights Day. [when] supporters would gather throughout California to expose CDDCR’s actions and rally to support efforts to secure our rights.”
We choose the 23rd of each month for the 23 or more hours every day that people are kept alone in 7 by 11 foot concrete cells.
Endorsers: Ramona Africa and The MOVE Organization; Cabrillo College Justice League; Cafe Intifada; California Peace and Freedom Party; Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA) Restorative Justice Institutions; Darrell and Karen Darling; Family of Frank Alvarado Jr., killed by Salinas Police, July 10, 2014; Free Our Minds, Free Radio Santa Cruz; Rabbi Borukh Goldberg; Justice for Palestinians, San Jose; LA Laborfest; Dylcia Pagán, former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner held in US prison; Leonard Peltier Support Group Silicon Valley; Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC); South Bay Committee Against Political Repression (SBCAPR); Donna Wallach; Anti-Racist Action-LA
Questions or want to be added as co-sponsor or endorser? phssreachingout@gmail.com
http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com
@CAHungerStrike
Find us on Facebook: Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
OccupyForum presents
Film and discussion with SF anti-gentrification activists
When development officials announce a controversial plan to tear down and remake the Fulton Mall, a popular, bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district just blocks from Anderson’s apartment, she discovers that the Mall, despite its run-down image, is the third most profitable shopping area in New York City with a rich social and cultural history. Anderson must confront her own role in the process of gentrification and investigate the forces behind it more deeply.
Anderson meets with government officials, urban planners, developers, advocates, academics, and others who both champion and criticize the plans for Fulton Mall. Only when Anderson meets Brooklyn-born and raised scholar Craig Wilder, who explains his family’s experiences of neighborhood change over generations, does Anderson come to understand that what is happening in her neighborhoods today is actually a new chapter in an old American story. The film’s ultimate questions become how to heal the deep racial wounds embedded in our urban development patterns, and how citizens can become active in fixing a broken planning process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkA6PO_gC1k
Discussion and Announcements to follow.
Get involved with the fight against solitary confinement.
Become a human rights pen pal: Contact cws@igc.org
Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons.
The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-mcdonald, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-mcdonald backed out of the deal in early december.
Get an overview of the sale announcement here. Here’s a good more general overview piece.
There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th.
Their will have been another hearing on March 19th. The federal judge will decide whether the lawsuit will continue or be dismissed – he’ll decide sometime after March 19th. We’ll be discussing the judge’s decision if he’s made it at this meeting, and our response.
Check out the Community Garden at the Post Office.
Also check out our website and the Save the Berkeley Post Office website, and First they Came for the Homeless Facebook for updates.
BPOD is an offshoot of Strike Debt Bay Area, which itself is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and a chapter of the national Strike Debt movement, which is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
Please come to court in San Francisco to support our 2 comrades who were arrested by the during #BARTFriday.
BART police and SF Sheriffs retaliated against these two brave individuals while they were in custody. Particularly severe pain and trauma was caused to one of our arrestees, whose cane was stolen by BART PD, and despite repeated requests for mobility assistance, she was denied any help and police mocked her as they forced her to move about the BART station and jail without assistance.
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We still demand:
1. Disband the BART police
2. Restitution for the people: Low-income ticket discounts
3. Drop charges and ransom against the Black Friday 14
“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”
— Martin Luther King
#BARTFriday was an autonomous action planned in response to the “Reclaim King’s Legacy” callout for a weekend of actions. This callout came from the Anti-Police-Terror project, a multi-racial, multi generational coalition, led by the most impacted communities, working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
On Tuesday, March 24th the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will finally vote on the county’s public safety realignment budget.
For the past six months, the Ella Baker Center has been campaigning for the supervisors to set aside more funding for community-based re-entry programs and services—instead of giving most of the money to the sheriff.
Our community-backed budget proposal is based on the reality that less people are returning to jail, and more are in need of programs and services to help them when they come home.
Come to the Board of Supervisors Meeting and make public comment to let the supervisors know that you support a Jobs Not Jails budget!
