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Aug
17
Wed
Aug 17 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
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Aug 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose.
Lisa Epstein, Michael Redman, and Lynn Szymoniak did not work in government or law enforcement. They had no history of anticorporate activism. Instead they were all foreclosure victims, and while struggling with their shame and isolation they committed a revolutionary act: closely reading their mortgage documents, discovering the deceit behind them, and building a movement to expose it.
In Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, Fiscal Timescolumnist David Dayen recounts how these ordinary Floridians challenged the most powerful institutions in America armed only with the truth—and for a brief moment they brought the corrupt financial industry to its knees.
David Dayen is a contributing writer to Salon and a weekly columnist for the Fiscal Times, and he writes for publications including the New Republic, the American Prospect, the Guardian, Vice, the Intercept, and the Huffington Post. He lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.
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Aug
18
Thu
Aug 18 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
It is time for action! Join us in Sacramento on August 18th to demand that Peace Officers Bill of Right be repealed Come out to support families whose loved ones have been killed by Police. This is a Bill supported by Police and Law Enforcement Agencies to kill innocent citizens with impunity. It seems like there was a call for all white males to be deputized because there are 18000 law enforcement agencies in the United States. Even when there are black and/or brown in those positions they align themselves (by and large) with the Blue Wall of Silence. Yet some of these same Officers have been shot and killed themselves by White Officers.
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignoranceprevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
― Frederick Douglass
The ACLU of Southern California has been working to understand how many people have been killed by law enforcement in America’s most populous state. What they found is alarming. Over a six-year period that ended in 2014, California’s Department of Justice recorded 610 instances of law enforcement committing homicide “in the process of arrest.”
1. Whites were killed at 78 percent the rate one would expect if killings were distributed evenly across the state’s population.
2. Hispanics were killed at 115 percent the expected rate,
3. while blacks were killed at 280 percent the expected rate.
The killings described above are the ones recorded as police murders and does not cover suspected police killings of black and brown.
When not being killed out right we are wrongfully prosecuted and/or given disproportionate sentences to white offenders. We are demanding that the Legislature and Governor Brown take Action by repealing this racist Peace Officers Bill of Rights!
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Aug 18 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Pack the Court for the Preliminary Hearing!
New Video on the #LandAction4 – it's awesome. Watch this and support Aug 18th at Alameda Court Aug 18th https://t.co/pEEtgfueVx #LandAction
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) August 15, 2016
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Aug 18 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
My name is Isidoro Saravia Ramos. I worked for the Casino San Pablo for 15 years, and I’ve spent many years standing up for my co-workers as a union leader. I got injured – and then I got fired.
I have knee and back problems and I needed surgery. But the Casino only lets us take 3 months of medical leave. I couldn’t recover so fast, so I lost my job. (Please read more about my story and donate to help with my surgery if you’re able!) It’s terrible for pregnant women who work at the Casino. Management lets people smoke inside, so women have to take time off if they don’t want to breathe second-hand smoke while they’re pregnant. If a woman uses up her time off during pregnancy, she can’t take more after the birth – so she has to choose between breathing smoke and losing time with her new baby.
If a woman needs more than three months to care for her baby or recover from a cesarean, she can be fired!
Other California workers have more protections when they are sick or injured or have babies. But this casino is owned by a tribe, so we don’t have the same rights – to California pregnancy disability leave, California workers comp, or even a smoke-free workplace.
Join my co-workers and I for an action to show the Casino we deserve the same rights as other Californians!
In solidarity,
Isidoro Saravia Ramos
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Aug
19
Fri
The SF Unitarian-Universalist Center will show films on the environment every Friday this month. .
The next film, Aug 12, “Unacceptable Levels” tells the story of the inadequate federal measures to keep toxics out of our environment. A speaker from the EPA will help make sense of the situation and the new law recently passed.
In “Evolution of Organic,” showing Aug. 19, the story of the organic agriculture movement is told by those who built it – and looks ahead to the next generation of growers.
In “Bill Nye’s Global Meltdown” showing Aug 26, Nye goes to a psychoanalyst’s couch to struggle with his emotions about global warming and what to do about it.
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Aug 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Written and performed by
Charlie Hinton
Music by Bill Crossman
Directed by Mark Kenward
Charlie created Solitary Man based on letters and visits with prisoners in Pelican Bay SHU/solitary confinement. The show takes place in November, 2014, a year after the largest prisoner hunger strike in history.
This performance is a benefit for the coalition to Stop Urban Shield and militarized policing.
After the performance, we will have an update about Pelican Bay and discuss how and why people across California are mobilizing to stop the Urban Shield military expo and SWAT competition on September 9.
Sponsored by: School of Americas Watch East Bay; Stop Urban Shield Coalition; American Friends Service Committee.
Suggested Donation $10-15, no one turned away
Facebook: /solitarymantheplay
Parking Lot and offstreet parking available + 51B Bus to Derby from Rockridge BART
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Aug
20
Sat
Throughout the building.
Come find loads of great stuff for sale or service barter, from bookcases & chairs to building materials & printing machines; FREE stuff too!
– Learn about and get a tour of the Omni Commons
– Coffee & snacks by Agua Viva
– Watch how shirts are silk-screen printed by Art Bison Design Co-Op
– Come by and visit Liberated Lens’ new film editing studio in the basement!
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Aug 20 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
This high quality 38-minute film features more than forty voices advocating for reform, including business and labor leaders, activists, health policy experts, economists, physicians, nurses, and patients.
The film convincingly makes two points:
-Our health care system is headed for a crash
-There is way to fix it for businesses as well as individuals
Bay Area folks: @healthcareforCA will show the xlnt #singlepayer movie "Fix It", with Q&A, in El Cerrito on 8/20: https://t.co/5WZRl0zrVU
— RedwoodGirl (@RedwoodGirl) July 15, 2016
10:15 Doors open
10:30 Introduction
10:35 Movie Screening
11:15 Q&A with:
-Pat Snyder, PhD, RN – Health Care for All – Contra Costa County
-Dan Hodges – Health Care for All – Alameda County
Brought to you by Health Care for All – Contra Costa and Alameda Chapters
Co-sponsored by Contra Costa County District 1 Supervisor John Gioia
SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
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Aug 20 @ 1:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Film Screenings:
1:30 PM: Policing the Police
3:00 PM: Broken on All Sides
4:30 PM Solitary Nation
6:30 PM 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
Sponsored by SFUU Human Rights Group, Amnesty International, Stop Mass Incarceration Network
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The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe now running with its 57th season premiering “Schooled”
Education. It’s like the weather: everyone has an opinion but nobody does anything about it. That’s how Livina Jones feels about her son Tom’s new school, Eleanor Roosevelt High. With its old textbooks, crumbling classrooms, and racist treatment of kids just like hers Livina believes Roosevelt is exactly the sort of school that can benefit from a little free-market common sense. The nanny-state government has failed to see students as individuals, and failed to give them the real-world skills they’ll need to get ahead. So who says it isn’t time for some big money, for-profit schooling?
Ethel Orocuru, for one. She’s the long serving history/civics/American government/basketball coach at Eleanor Roosevelt, and she’s willing to fight for her version of education as long as her reconstructed hips will allow. But is she fighting for a system that can be fixed, or is she just too blind by her past to see how times have left her and her school behind? And when an efficiency expert, Mr. Babbit, is assigned to improve her class is it a sign that Ethel is behind the times, or a sign of something more sinister? And with privatization on the line, and a Wall Street heavy hitter lined up to fold the entire district into his conglomerate, suddenly the next School Board election is more about a hidden agenda than the open curriculum. And when did the hall monitors start wearing brown shirts and arm bands?
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Aug
21
Sun
Come build some secret art for the 5th Anniversay Occupy gathering to take place on October 8th. Come for a short time or come for a long time. we’ll have snacks and laughs. I’m (kelly) .7 mi from Ashby BART and we can come and give rides from there.
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Aug 21 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
KEEP THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION GOING!
A Working Meeting to Create Projects to Tap Into the Energy of This Moment
Come to a meeting where attendees may make pitches for any projects that they are ready to organize, as long as
they are concrete actions that speak to the unique opportunities of this short post-Bernie, pre-election period.
After proposals are described, we will break out into working groups to start on whatever projects attendees are drawn to. We will devote the bulk of the time to this part of the meeting.
Among the projects will be one by BeyondBernie.us, who have a proposal to re-unite those of us who were allies a month ago. We see a way to participate in either the Hillary Clinton or the Jill Stein campaign. It puts both within a broader project to identify and bring together those ready for dialog about the longer-term work of creating revolutionary change. And then the work can begin!
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The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe now running with its 57th season premiering “Schooled”
Education. It’s like the weather: everyone has an opinion but nobody does anything about it. That’s how Livina Jones feels about her son Tom’s new school, Eleanor Roosevelt High. With its old textbooks, crumbling classrooms, and racist treatment of kids just like hers Livina believes Roosevelt is exactly the sort of school that can benefit from a little free-market common sense. The nanny-state government has failed to see students as individuals, and failed to give them the real-world skills they’ll need to get ahead. So who says it isn’t time for some big money, for-profit schooling?
Ethel Orocuru, for one. She’s the long serving history/civics/American government/basketball coach at Eleanor Roosevelt, and she’s willing to fight for her version of education as long as her reconstructed hips will allow. But is she fighting for a system that can be fixed, or is she just too blind by her past to see how times have left her and her school behind? And when an efficiency expert, Mr. Babbit, is assigned to improve her class is it a sign that Ethel is behind the times, or a sign of something more sinister? And with privatization on the line, and a Wall Street heavy hitter lined up to fold the entire district into his conglomerate, suddenly the next School Board election is more about a hidden agenda than the open curriculum. And when did the hall monitors start wearing brown shirts and arm bands?
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The Iron Heel Theater Collective presents a “reader’s theater” adaptation of Jack London’s visionary anti-capitalist “The Iron Heel.”
Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, this production is a dramatic adaptation of the futuristic 1908 novel that accurately predicted the First World War, the rise of fascism, authoritarianism, rebellion, and suppression. It features human sized puppetry, giant hand-painted cantastoria illustrations of the story, and live music.
The production features Isolte Avila, David Bower, Paunika R. Jones, Antoine Hunter and Zahna Moss, all members of the Signdance Collective International, a dance/ music theatre company led by deaf and physically disabled dancers and artists, and the Urban Jazz Dance Company of Oakland. Noted saxophonist Andrés Soto will accompany this performance with an original score he composed specifically for this production.
The performance also features Jack London family members Tarnel Abbott, Chaney Delaire and Devin O’Keefe. Jack London’s great-granddaughter Tarnel Abbott reading the part of socialite-turned-revolutionary Avis Everhard. Abbott’s son Devin O’Keefe reads as the revolutionary Ernest Everhard. Zack Reiheld reads various roles, and Nina Ruymaker reads as the historian from the future era of the “Brotherhood of Man.” The cast will also include Artistic Director Regina Gilligan, Glynnis Fowler, Kathy Gurawaya, Patsy Byers, Liz Watts and Eduardo Martinez.
2016 marks the centennial of Jack London’s death at age 40. In recognition of his unique contributions as a renowned writer, adventurer, social activist, and innovator, The Iron Heel Collective is donating the profits from this production to the Richmond Progressive Alliance and Sunflower Alliance, to assist with their efforts to unite the community and combat climate change.
About the Iron Heel Theatre Collective:
Tarnel Abbott, Regina Gilligan, David Solnit, Devin O’Keefe and Nina Ruymaker are all activists, artists and community organizers. The Iron Heel Theatre Collective was formed in 2012 when Jack London’s Iron Heel was commissioned for, and premiered at, the Ankara (Turkey) Ethos International Theater Festival. This will be the sixth performance.
Suggested donation is $20, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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Aug
22
Mon
Please Join us along with APTP Monday Morning as we hold space for a Press Conference in front of the Oakland Federal Courthouse. As some of you know our Brother Teodoro Valencia Jr. was shot and killed in the back with an AR-15 assault rifle by a Newark, Ca Police Officer, Who is still un-named.
We are asking if you can come out to support us and you have a Justice for Teo shirt already please wear it.
Thank you!
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Aug
23
Tue
A moving account of four women sensationalized by the media as a “Gang of Killer Lesbians” reveals the role that race, gender identity and sexuality play in our criminal justice system. Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a ‘Gang of Killer Lesbians’.
trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-tcO18hYs
by blair dorosh-walther, 2015
free snacks and popcorn
discussion after the film
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Aug
24
Wed
Sponsored by Critical Resistance. No further information available. Source.
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Aug 24 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner
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Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice.
Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish!
Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning!
Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between 7 and 9pm. See the calendar for recurring meetups and upcoming events: https://sudoroom.org/calendar
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