Stand in solidarity with the overwhelming majority of Haitians, whose
continued resistance to an illegitimate, US-backed regime has given rise
to years of sustained protest against stolen elections, government
corruption, poverty, land grabs, rising prices, and 15 years of UN/US
military occupation. These are the conditions that drive people to leave
Haiti and immigrate elsewhere seeking a means to survive. $4.2 BILLION
has been stolen from government revenues. The international media has
either ignored this struggle or reported in a way that blames the
demonstrators for “violence.”

As resistance to this regime intensifies, so does repression. Police and
paramilitary forces have responded with bullets, teargas, imprisonment
and increasingly, massacres, aimed at wiping out Haiti’s grassroots
_Lavalas_ movement. Over several nights in November, 2018
state-sponsored armed forces tortured, and/or murdered several hundred
people, raped women in front of their families and burned homes in
Lasalin, a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince with a history of resistance.

The U.S. arms, funds and trains Haiti’s military and police, and only
with U.S. support can this corrupt regime remain in power. The people of
Haiti deserve to live without the daily threat of state-directed
violence. It is time for the U.S. to be held accountable for its
continued support of the repressive regime now in power in Haiti.

—

sent by Haiti Action Committee

In this academy-award-winning documentary, viewers are transported to the front lines of the class struggle as militant striking coal miners and their families in Southeastern Kentucky go to battle against their tyrannical bosses.

Even today, workers in Harlan County are fighting back. This summer, miners employed at the Blackjewel Mine camped out on the railroad tracks to demand their stolen wages. https://www.labornotes.org/2019/07/kentucky-miners-are-camped-out-railroad-tracks-blocking-coal-train-demanding-their-stolen

ABOUT SOCIALIST NIGHT SCHOOL
Socialist Night School is a rolling open course that provides opportunities for East Bay DSA members to ground their political work in the rich theoretical and historical traditions of the socialist left.

Classes are down-to-earth, inclusive spaces that give East Bay comrades a chance to grow their politics together, regardless of background knowledge or affiliation. You don’t have to have been to a night school before and you don’t have to RSVP to join us! You don’t even have to be a member of East Bay DSA—everyone is welcome.

Join us for a work and action planning meeting on Wednesday October 2 as we push forward the #AuditAhern campaign. 

The Cambodian American community is under attack by ICE AGAIN. ICE is scheduling check-ins for Cambodian Americans with deportation orders on October 3rd at the San Francisco ICE building. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM DEPORTATION. We are hosting a rally in support of impacted folks and their families who have check-ins that day. This is a nationwide collective action in support of other Cambodian community members that have check-ins.

Hosted by Asian Prisoner Support Committee – APSC

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join our call on October 3rd and then invite a friend?

Over 7.6 million and counting took action during this past week of Global Climate Strikes. This is one of the largest coordinated global protests in history – and many of you were part of this historic event. More than 6,100 events were held in 185 countries with the support of 8,500 websites, 3,000 companies, and 73 Trade Unions. We truly demonstrated the power of our movement.

But, participating in the biggest climate mobilization in history is simply not enough. We have the momentum, and we need you to help us turn this moment into a tipping point. As the science about the climate crisis becomes more dire and urgent, our movement must take bold, escalated action to build political will and local solutions for the transformation we need.

On Thursday, October 3rd at 8 PM ET/ 5 PM PT, we are hosting a next steps call in the United States called: We Are Unstoppable: Building a Movement to Shut Down Fossil Fuels. We will discuss our ongoing campaigns, how to get involved in a local group near you, and share how together, we can make sure the Global Climate Strikes were just the beginning of the end of the age of fossil fuels. Will you join our call on October 3rd and then invite a friend?

To win this fight, we need a movement that’s more powerful than the fossil fuel industry. This work is not easy but we are going to give this everything we’ve got and we hope you will join us in this epic fight for a just and equitable world.

Join our call to find out how you can be a part of the movement fighting for our lives, our families, our communities and our climate.

Relevant Agenda Items:

4. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – ShotSpotter Impact Report and proposed Use Policy – review and take possible action

Campaign for Community Power to Decide OPD’s Military Equipment

Community Town Hall
Thursday, October 3, 7:00 pm program

First Congregational Church, 2601 Harrison St., Oakland

Many communities are concerned about police departments’ acquisition and deployment of military-grade equipment in events ranging from public protests to parades and service of drug warrants. In Oakland, the use of grenade-like projectiles, armored vehicles, and military-grade assault weapons by OPD officers has resulted in harm to residents, controversy, and costly lawsuits. In March 2018, Oakland police used the tank-like BearCat armored vehicle as a shooting platform and AR-15 rifles in the killing of Joshua Pawlik.

Oakland PD uses force disproportionately against black residents. And several studies conclude that police departments that acquire military-grade equipment are more likely to use violence and are no more successful in reducing crime.

Yet Oakland has no policy for the acquisition or use of militarized equipment. Oakland PD can acquire and use military equipment of all kinds – anywhere, at any time, with no policy for its use or public reporting of what is has or how it is used.

Now Oakland has an opportunity to exercise community control over the militarization of policing in Oakland, by adopting an ordinance that will require approval by the City Council for the acquisition of military equipment, and use policies and reporting for military equipment that OPD has or obtains.

The proposed ordinance will require that the civilian Oakland Police Commission review proposed acquisitions and use policies for armored vehicles, assault weapons, weaponized aircraft, battering rams, sonic weapons, and flashbang grenades. This will apply to equipment that OPD acquires with grants or with purchases from the city budget. The proposal is modeled on Oakland’s surveillance equipment ordinance.

Supporting organizations (list in formation): 67 Sueños; ACLU; American Friends Service Committee; Anti Police Terror Project; CURYJ; Human Impact Partners; Oakland Privacy Working Group; Restore Oakland; Secure Justice; Urban Peace Movement; Urban Strategies.

Contact: John Lindsay-Poland, American Friends Service Committee,
510-282-8983,
jlindsay-poland@afsc.org.

You can examine the draft of the proposed ordinance here. You can download libreoffice for free if you can not read the open document format.

This is the sign-on message being sent to the Oakland City Council.

To: Members of the Oakland City Council and members of the Oakland Police Commission

Dear Council Members and Commissioners:

We urge you to support a local ordinance that empowers the Oakland Police Commission and City Council to protect our communities against unnecessary police militarization and requires transparency for the equipment that the Oakland Police Departments acquires and deploys.

The acquisition and use of military-grade equipment by civilian law enforcement agencies does not reduce crime,1but it does contribute to substantial fear in the community and a warrior mentality among officers. Several studies conclude that police departments that acquire military-grade equipment are morelikely to use violence.2

Last year, Oakland police used aBearCat armored vehicle as a “shooting platform” for officers armed with AR-15 assault rifles. Police used this equipment to kill an unconscious man. During the 2011 Occupy protests, the OPD fired “specialty munitions” atScott Olsen and other activists.Olsen suffered a fractured skull, and his injuries prompted a lawsuit that the City resolved with a $4.5 million settlement. The OPD deploys military-grade equipment during public protests, parades, local street festivals, and while serving warrants.

There is almost no publicly-available information about what military-grade equipment OPD possesses or how it is used. There is no established process for community representatives to set policy for the equipment OPD should use moving forward, and there is little policy in place to provide oversight for the military-grade equipment that the OPD has already acquired.

It’s time for the community to know what equipment OPD has and have a say in whether and how it will be used. The proposed ordinance empowersthe Police Commission to review and approve OPD requests for military-grade acquisitions, and mandates that the OPD submit use policies to the Commission for equipment that the department already has. Oakland has an equivalent ordinance for surveillance equipment that functions well. A similar ordinance on military equipment will provide the City Council, Police Commission and the public with important tools to oversee the police working in our neighborhoods and to place appropriate restrictions on counterproductive uses of militarized equipment.

Oakland has a chance to set a precedent for transparency in the use and acquisition of military-grade weapons for civilian law enforcement. We urge you to advance this legislation.

Sincerely,

Attachment: Draft Proposed Ordinance on Military Equipment

1Jonathan Mummolo, “Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 11, 2018 (37) 9181-9186.

2Casey Delehanty, Jack Mewhirter, Ryan Welchand Jason Wilks, “Militarization and police violence: The case of the 1033program,” Research and Politics, April-June 2017, 1-7; and Edward Lawson Jr., “Police Militarization and the Use of Lethal Force,” Political Research Quarterly, 2018, 1-13.

Come by our open Delegates Meetings! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

This meeting usually happens in the Ballroom, but the the location may change depending on the access needs of people attending and other events taking place in the building.

JOIN US TO SAVE CHELSEA & JULIAN EVERY FRIDAY

SAVE CHELSEA AND JULIAN FROM TORTURE AND DEATH
NEWS LETTER 10/11/19

Please sign up for our emails and alerts at:
https:/bayaction2freeassnge.org and watch “XY CHELSEA” go to SHOWTIME
“XY CHELSEA” clk free 7 day suscription.or free @
https://archive.org/details/XYChelsea

The Main Stream Media (MSM) is so full of lies, it’s got the masses confused!!
There are only a few places we can get the truth.Chelsea and Julian were two of
the most important WHISTLE BLOWERS to tell the truth about USA’s illegal,
immoral WARS. USA is one of the largest TERRORIST countries in history,
killing, wounding, and forcing emigration on millions of folks (did you know there
are 65 million migrants?) all over the world!!

Saving Chelsea and Julian is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! To the Working
class and it’s Allies.They told us the truth about the wars! And all the NEW
McArthyism (phony Russia Gate conspiracy led by the New York Times) is
blaming Julian for being a puppet of Russia. So much of all our issues stem from
the honesty of Chelsea and Julian!! That’s why the RULING CLASS imprisoned
them and want’s them DEAD.

Please write letters to Chelsea (only hand written and no post cards or
pictures, or anything written on the outside of the letter) Write to: Chelsea
Elizabeth Manning, William Truesdale Adult Detention Center, 2001 Mill Road,
Alexandria Va. 22314. Also write julian writejulian.com

We need to hip people to YouTube shows, web sites and twitter feeds ie. –
twitter.com/xychelsea, twitter.com/defendassange, and wikileaks.org

– Definitely check out these specific links, and add comments and tell your friends:
– Real News Network – “Federal judge continues Chelsea Manning’s confinement
and $1000/day fine” https://youtub.be/qjywz_U_x1c
– The Jimmy Dore Show – “Chelsea Manning jailed again for
protecting journalism” https://youtu.be/bTqVNKXZYAY (89,000 hits)
– Chelsea Manning “Abolish ICE” https://youtu.be/R7qpQGGQqa8
-Orion song”WE will keep fightin everyday even though our tears won’t
go away!” youtube/DnF6pvX4478

– Chelsea’s scathing 7 page letter to the judge about the history of the SECRET GRAND
JURIES: – https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-letter

Three documentaries will screen outside on the plaza at National Nurses United headquarters .
The art exhibition “Recognition: Labor Meets Art in Explorations of Social Justice and Identity,” will be open to the public during the screenings.

The films feature three locations where Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN) volunteers have deployed to provide direct relief and response to humanitarian, environmental, and social injustice: Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Standing Rock, and rural Arizona. RNRN volunteers will introduce the films with stories of how RNs have intervened to provide direct care in support of social justice.

Undeterred: Border Militarization and Community Resistance

Undeterred is a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Since NAFTA, 9/11, and the Obama and Trump administrations, border residents have been on the frontlines of the humanitarian crisis caused by escalating border enforcement. This intimate portrait shows how Arivaca residents have mobilized to provide aid to injured, oftentimes dying people traveling across the desert. Directed by Eva Lewis, an Arivaca resident and member of People Helping People in the Border Zone (PHP). Screens as part of “Recognition and Response,” National Nurses United’s fall outdoor documentary film series.

A big event involving tiny houses is coming to Richmond this fall.

The Tiny LIVING Festival California is set to bring tiny homes, vintage campers, con­verted buses (skoolies), tear­drop trailers and more, along with live music and all sorts of family-friendly activities.

The festival will include live music and entertainment, a kids area that includes fun activities with Circus for Pur­pose, speakers, presentations and notable members of the tiny house community.

The event will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Founded by John and Fin Kernohan, the festival serves two main purposes: to raise awareness about the tiny house movement, and to help raise funds for good causes in com­munities where the festivals occur.

This is the 14th tiny house event by the United Tiny House Association that has thus far given over $600,000 in proceeds to over 70 charities, nonprofits and other causes.

For the Richmond festival, the United Tiny House As­sociation has partnered with Richmond-based Tentmakers Inc., a nonprofit that creates innovative affordable housing solutions in the Bay Area.

For more than seven years, the Kernohans have been liv­ing in a 304-square-foot, off-grid home and travel the coun­try their towable 148-square -foot tiny house, called “Tiny Firehouse — Station No. 9,” which is a tribute to firefighters and emergency responders and supports fire station fundrais­ing.

Join SURJ San Francisco in a human billboard outside the Ferry Building demanding justice for immigrants.

We will be working on signs at 10 am starting at 10am at 1270 Sanchez Street (see https://www.facebook.com/events/2483115868436862/ for more info), and then traveling to the Ferry Building together.

Join us for either or both.

Join Abby Martin for the one-night-only theater screening in San Francisco! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Gaza Fights For Freedom on the big screen. (Doors open at 5:30; film starts promptly at 6pm)

This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the film through the blockade.

This collaboration shows you Gaza’s protest movement like you’ve never seen before. Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.

The documentary tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. Victims are heard from the ongoing massacre, including journalists, medics and the family of internationally-acclaimed paramedic, Razan al-Najjar.

Watch the trailer. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/gazafights/353967955?autoplay=1

Purchase advance tickets $15 to $75
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gaza-fights-for-freedom-sf-film-screening-w-abby-martin-qa-tickets-71936962391?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR2jbDHFvcDPwbiLizZLx0IAb_rljoZ_rcy8ySFdGuvPPgNIDE3rpBxiHew

Sponsored by Empire Files and ANSWER Coalition.

Sea Level Rise: Fact and Fiction

Speaker: John Englander, Oceanographer and Climate Expert

–Three minutes walk from the Lake Merritt BART Station.
–Parking at Laney College lot on East 8th Street; $2 all day.

Have you ever wondered how sea level rise will impact Lake Merritt, and all of Oakland? Are you aware that existing heat in the oceans will cause the seas to rise for centuries, no matter how much carbon emissions are reduced today? Do you have an inkling of why ocean levels are rising but want to know more, and how we can prepare for it?

If so, join The Lake Merritt Institute and co-sponsors, the Frederick E. Hart Foundation for Educational Opportunity, and St. Paul’s Episcopal School for a rousing presentation by John Englander, an expert on sea level rise and its societal and financial impacts.

A considerable range of estimates have been made regarding how high the tides will rise, and when. These projections are based on periods of rise in the geological past, current measurements, and projections based on computer models incorporating our growing knowledge of how fast the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps are melting.

Unfortunately, most model projections have greatly under estimated the rate of melting. Even though we cannot predict how much and how fast the waters will rise, we can, and must, begin to plan for the future. To not do so is to subject our children, and theirs, to unconscionable expense, loss of property, and questions about why we did this to them.

Flatlands Threatened by Sewage: To learn about how sea level rise impacts sewage overflows, read this report by Climate Central: https://www.climatecentral.org/news/sea-level-rise-oakland-sewer-17567

Poorest Communities most Threatened: https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/oaklands-poorest-neighborhoods-will-the-most-susceptible-to-flooding-due-to-climate-change-and-sea-level-rise/Content?oid=6401808

To hear John Englander’s TED talk, go to https://www.johnenglander.net/

This is the meeting for anyone who would like to get plugged into XR in advance of the October rebellion on the 16th. Would you like to help coordinate art, music, or food? Are you interested in joining direct actions such as swarming or a die-in, building costumes or props, or joining the Red Rebel Brigade?

Join us and add your voice to the October 16th action, which will call out state government on its soft approach to the fossil fuel industry.