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Meet at 14th and Broadway and take the streets in solidarity with the three anti-racists who were stabbed in Anaheim when confronting a KKK rally on February 27th.
The klansman that stabbed the three comrades is reportedly from San Francisco. He was later let go while counter protesters are still held in jail. This is unacceptable! Let’s take a stand against the KKK and white supremacy in the Bay and everywhere!
This is happening at the same time as riots and demonstrations in the streets of Salt Lake City, Utah and Raleigh, North Carolina in the wake of yet more police shootings of black youth.
This is not a coincidence. The cops and the klan go hand in hand. The whole damn system is guilty.
#blacklivesmatter
Solidarity with those who fight back!
2016 International Working Women’s Day: Fight the Right, Deportations are Violence against Women!
This March 8th, join working women across the world to celebrate the resistance of immigrant women and stand up against right-wing attacks against immigrant families!
2 PM: Art and cultural Celebration [Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Lake Merritt Blvd & 12th St.]
March to the Federal Building [1301 Clay Street, Oakland] Vans provided to drive those with mobility needs
Rally: Immigrant Women speak out against Deportations and to stop the right wing attacks to immigrant women’s rights and survival!
Sponsored by ACUDIR, the World March of Women Bay Area Chapter, and GABRIELA USA.
The second of three community “listening sessions” to be conducted by the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, known by its acronym COPS, which was called in by police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee following the fatal shooting of Mario Woods on Dec. 2.
Our first film this year will be Salt of the Earth (1954), which was produced, directed and written by victims of U.S. Congressional blacklisting, (aka redlisting). Originally banned in the U.S., it was directed by Herbert Biberman, one of the Hollywood Ten. The cast is almost entirely workers who participated in the real-life strike that the film is based upon.
In a gritty mining town in New Mexico, Mexican-American workers go on strike to protest their dangerous working conditions and low wages. They meet with fierce opposition from company thugs and local deputies. After vicious beatings the wives and mothers of the striking workers take over the picket line in a final demand for justice.
Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Ctee
Wheelchair accessible.
What is the role of white allies in the movement for racial justice? The Future of Solidarity: How White People Can Support the Movement for Black Lives creates a space for this conversation.
Clare Bayard of Catalyst Project will moderate a panel with members of the Bay Area Chapter of Black Lives Matter:
- Robbie Clark, Housing Rights Campaign Lead Organizer, Just Cause/Causa Justa
- Devonté Jackson, Bay Area Organizer, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
- Janetta Johnson, Executive Director, Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project
The evening is sponsored by Catalyst Project, SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), WhiteNoise Collective, BASAT (Bay Area Solidarity Action Team) and the First Congregational Church of Oakland.
Click here to reserve tickets. Proceeds benefit Black Lives Matter Bay Area.
Childcare is available. Please email surjbayarea@gmail.com to make arrangements.
The First Congregational Church will be accessible to all types of mobility and will provide a scent-free area for attendees.
More information on Facebook.
Join us for an amazing panel discussion with four women activists with Black Lives Matter and associated organizations. Plus a documentary screening of “We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Chains!”
The future is up to us.
Join with activists, community, labor, students and faith-based groups to begin to formulate a vision, priorities and a plan of action for A BERKELEY FOR WORKING FAMILIES.
Berkeley can lead the way on expanding affordable housing, strengthening rent control, and creating livable wages, a healthy environment and expanded city services.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Minimum Wage Coalition.
Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage.
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.
Our work together encompasses:
(1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers,
(2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and
(3) Efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, 6:30-8:00 pm at the SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, 436 14th Street #200, Oakland, CA
Please love and support one another ~ We have a duty to fight ~ We have a duty to win!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568668586707336/
Department 110 on the 5th Floor.
This is the last day of court for the incident with the CHP from last September.
URGENT: Court support is needed TOMORROW (Thursday March 10th) for comrade being charged in the incident where undercover CHP officer drew a gun on protesters in December 2014. His trial resumes tomorrow morning at 9:30 at Wiley courthouse, department 110. It’s expected to be the last day of the trial, so let’s flood the courtroom in solidarity…
The District Attorney is currently prosecuting via a jury trial someone who was arrested by undercovers on December 10, 2014 after a protest. They are charging him with, among other things, resisting arrest. These undercovers pulled a gun on the crowd as they made the arrest. If anyone witnessed the arrest, please contact his attorney Kate Raven at 510-268-7405 or kate.raven@acgov.org to see if you can help in his defense.
“Good, stable jobs protecting the climate can help challenge the growing inequality and injustice of our society, but only if policy is designed to do so.”
Join us for a conversation with Jeremy Brecher, cofounder of the Labor Network for Sustainability and author, most recently, of the just-published Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival. He has received five regional Emmy Awards for his documentary film work and holds a PhD from the Union Graduate School.
“Good, stable jobs protecting the climate can help challenge the growing inequality and injustice of our society, but only if policy is designed to do so. Climate policy needs to include strong racial, gender, age, and locational hiring requirements to counter our current employment inequality and provide a jobs pipeline for those individuals and groups who have been denied equal access to good jobs. It needs to help remedy the concentration of pollution in low-income communities, the lack of transportation, education, health, and other facilities in poor neighborhoods, and other manifestations of discrimination.”
— Jeremy Brecher, Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement
This event is free and open to the public.
The US DoJ wants to hear your perspectives, concerns and suggestions concerning the San Francisco Police Department.
Pizza is being served for free provided by SEIU (Union).
San Francisco residents don’t miss our next community mtgs 3/8 & 3/10! We want to hear from you regarding the #SFPD. pic.twitter.com/A5dUpv4MD9
— COPS Office (@COPSOffice) March 2, 2016
THEY RELEASED THE CORONER’S REPORT. PRESS CONFERENCE ON TUESDAY.
Previous event notice:
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Richard Perkins’ family needs our support!
Richard Perkins’ family has asked for APTP’s help in obtaining the coroner’s report of his death. Perkins was killed by the Oakland Police Department on November 15, 2015, and the report still hasn’t been released – 3 and a half months later.
The Alameda County Sherriff’s office refused our demand letter on March 1st, 2016 asking the Sheriff’s office/Coroner to release the report to Perkins’ family or attorney.
Law enforcement are notorious for delaying the release of coroner’s reports as well as video surveillance in order to have as much time as possible to get their stories straight. We have no confidence in the Oakland Police Department nor the Alameda County Sheriff’s office and DEMAND the RELEASE of the CORONER’S REPORT now.
We will meet at the Coroner’s office out near the zoo @ 2901 Peralta Oaks Court. It is difficult to get there by public trans. Car pooling is encouraged.
March 11, 2016 is the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe that is still reverberating in Japan and around the world. The nuclear plants are still releasing thousands of tons of radioactive water and over 1000 tanks filled with contaminated radioactive water surround the broken nuclear plants.
The children and families continue to have a rising level of thyroid cancers and this uptick is taking place in other places in Japan. Despite these dangers the Japanese Abe government has said that the problem has been solved. They are demanding the the families and children return to Fukushima or lose subsidies for housing. The government is also claiming that they have “decontaminated” Fukushima and told the Olympic Committee that the problem had been solved.
The government has also raised the limits of allowable radiation to those of nuclear research facilities in Japan. The Japanese government has also passed secrecy laws threatening the journalists and investigators getting information out about the disaster and also seeks to militarize Japan by eliminating Article 9 of the constitution that limits wars and intervention. The government is seeking for the full militarization Japan including nuclear weapons despite mass opposition among the majority of the population. Hundreds of thousands of citizens have gone to the streets to demand an end to the restarting of Japan’s remaining more than 40 nuclear plants.
On March 11, 2016 people throughout the world including in San Francisco will be speaking out and calling for an end to the restarting of it’s nuclear plants, for the evacuation of the children and families in Fukushima and for the government to take responsibility for subsidizing housing outside the area.
We call for an end to the censorship laws and also against the elimination of Article 9 which will lead to further militarization and war.
We call for the closure of all nuclear plants around the world including Diablo Canyon in California which is also running on an earthquake fault like many nuclear plants in Japan.
Please Join Us and Speak Out
Initiated by No Nukes Action Committee
Endorsed by
Tri Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment), Livermore, Codepink Golden Gate Chapter, Occupy SF Action Council, Fukushima Response, Veterans for Piece- Chater #69,SF, Veterans for Peace East Bay Chapter #162, Asian Americans for Peace and Justice, EON (Ecological Options Network), BARK ( Barkers Agitating for Reactor Closure), PG&E Ratepayer Revolt, Mt.Diablo Peace and Justice Center, Walnut Creek, Sloths Against Nuclear State(反核ナマケモノの会), New York, Solar Justice, San Louis Obispo Mothers for peace, United Public Workers For Actionhttp://www.upwa.info, and more groups and much more individuals.
http://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/
Additional links:
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160216/p2a/00m/0na/010000c
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/24/the-great-fukushima-cover-up/
https://jfissures.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/on-fukushima-prefecture-and-hiroshi-kainuma/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/five-years-after-nuclear-meltdown-no-one-knows-what-to-do-with-fukushima/2016/02/10/a9682194-c9dc-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34565-radioactive-water-from-fukushima-is-leaking-into-the-pacific
Please join Friends of the Earth & Common Cause for a discussion about the growing national movement to reclaim a people centered democracy.
From Presidential candidates to Oscar winners, everybody is talking about the negative impact unlimited campaign money is having on our democracy. Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing we can do about it. But the truth is, we can reclaim our political system so that it represents our concerns for the environment, and not just those of corporations and the super-rich. Now is the time to take action. It has been six years since Citizens United opened the floodgates for anti-environmental mega-donors like Monsanto use their deep pockets to poison our planet. It’s clear that to make progress on the issues we care most about, we need to stand up and fundamentally change the way we do politics – locally and nationally.
What: Panel discussion and presentation on the state of our Democracy
I’ll be joined by Berkeley Council Member Kriss Worthington, who will talk about the city’s plans to address money in politics; UC Berkeley Common Cause member Celeste Alexandra Pylko, who will share about student’s work to get money out of politics on UC campus; and Helen Grieco from Common Cause who will talk about the upcoming Democracy Awakening mass mobilization on Washington DC.
Sign up HERE or via Face Book to reserve your space! Find out more about how the current state of our democracy blocks progress on the issues you care about, and how you can take part in the largest pro-democracy mobilizations our nation has seen in decades!
JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING
· Friday March 11, 8 PM – 11 PM
· Thursday March 17, 5 PM – 7 PM
· Saturday March 26, 8 PM – 11 PM
Since October 2015, Berkeley Copwatch has been holding “mass copwatch” events that invite folks to join us for a shift. It’s been fun and very empowering to have a group of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people.
This month we have three shifts scheduled. The Thursday shift will likely be a walking shift. Please join us; we will train you in the essentials of copwatching, how to document and how to stay safe!
Contact us at (510) 548-0425 or berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com to learn where we will be meeting.
Speak Out Now 2016 Revolutionary University
Tools for Changing Society
Join us for two days of presentations and discussion on some of the major questions of our time.
Come to all sessions or choose the ones that interest you.
(Note: Sunday is the first day of Daylight Savings time)
Saturday 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Syria and the Conflict in the Middle East
Prof. As’ad AbuKhalil,
Professor of political science at CSU Stanislaus and author of Saudi Arabia and the U.S.
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3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
The Life of Victor Serge: Learning from the Past – Looking to Our Future
Susan Weissman,
Professor of Politics at St. Mary’s College and author of Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope
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7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Capitalism –a System in Crisis
Robert Brenner,
Economist and Professor of history at UCLA and an editor of the socialist journal Against the Current, and New Left Review
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Sunday
10:00 am –11:30 am
France, the Worker’s Movement Faced with the Growth of the Far Right Toni Rouvel,
an activist in the French Trotskyist group Fraction L’Etincelle
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12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Mexico: Drug Wars and State Terror
John Gibler,
Mexico – based journalist and author of Tzompaxtle and To Die in Mexico
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2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The Environmental Crisis and the Working Class
Speak Out Now,
a Bay Area revolutionary organization.
Followed by time to discuss and socialize – refreshments provided.
Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland.
The Baha’i community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.
Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us.
Join us for the Bay Area premier of
Growing Resistance
and panel discussion
Growing Resistance, takes you to ground zero of extraction in California and shows first-hand how the drought, fracking, and climate change are impacting communities and exacerbating existing health issues, water scarcity, and poor air and water quality.
As the film shows, the Central Valley’s history of resistance hasn’t faded. Communities are rising up against the direct impacts they face and a hypocritical Governor who claims to be a “climate leader.”
Don’t miss the premier of Growing Resistance followed by a Q&A with the film’s director and four other panelist who are helping lead this movement. You’ll hear from experts in the field of law, community organizing, and public health.
RSVP: Click here to purchase your ticket! (Tickets are $5 plus a small processing fee)
All proceeds will go directly to The Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE) who are working in the Central Valley to ensure that all people have the right to live, work, play and pray in a healthy environment, regardless of their race, place or income.
The film interviews residents, activists, nurses, and lawyers to tell the story of extraction happening on farmland, near homes, and next to schools.
Get your ticket now for the premier of Growing Resistance in Oakland on March 13.
This is a crucial year to break California’s dependence on fossil fuels. Momentum is on our side and the time is now to double down on our efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Together we’ve built a strong movement and celebrated some crucial victories, but we still have to keep pushing. In May, we’ll be taking bold action against fossil fuels around the world and here in California.
Join us on March 13 to hear more and watch the film that tells the story of fracking in California.
In Rojava, Kurds brought a new life to an archaic communal form. Equality for women became a crucial aspect of a social revolution. See “Witnessing Revolution in Rojava” by Paul Z. Simons in current issue of News & Letters (newsandletters.org).
It is a contrast to the crucible of death that Syria has become at the hands of old counter-revolutionary nationalisms and imperialisms, the most vile of which is the Islamic State. All state players are united in trying to erase the revolutionary humanist challenge to Assad awoken by Arab Spring.
Can Rojava’s revolution afford to stop at Bookchin’s democratic confederalism, adapted by Ocalan as the opposite to the vanguardism of Marxist-Leninism? What about the revolutiona’s internal contradictions, for example, Kurd’s participation in Putin’s blitzkrieg against human forces fighting Assad in Syria? What do we need to finally break the cycle of revolutions that transfrom into their opposite?