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DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME IS COMING TO THE NEW PARKWAY THEATER!
The New Parkway is hosting our first-ever Drag Queen Storytime—Come for the hair, the glitter, the glamour, and the stories!
Drag Queen Storytime can be enjoyed by everyone; whether you’re a kiddo yourself or a kid at heart, this event is for you!
In November, we are proud to feature award-winning local drag artist Coco Buttah, with books donated by Out and About Books.
Drag Queens and Kings serve as positive role models who encourage kiddos to be themselves and express their individuality without fear of judgment – and Drag Queen Storytime combines entertainment with education by using family-friendly books to convey messages of diversity, inclusion, self-confidence, and self-expression, making learning fun and engaging for children.
Join us on the Mezzanine as we kick off this unique monthly event.
Tickets are $5 per family/party; the proceeds go to support our guest Drag Artist.
Hear from health and environmental experts.
Japan has begun the release of over a million tons of radioactive water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. Many experts have stated that this is a dangerous way to dispose of the waste.
On July 11, 2023, the Berkeley City Council abstained on a proposal from the Peace and Justice Commission to oppose the discharge. Since then Japan has twice released water from the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant into the Pacific Ocean. The public will hear from prominent scientists, environmental experts, and health professionals, as the world faces the first-ever release of massive amounts of radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, over the next 40 years.
This event is free, wheelchair accessible, and open to all. For more information email fukushimaberkeley@gmail.com. Come learn why this issue matters to people in Berkeley.
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Today at 3pm folks are mobilizing to turn out to the Oakland City Council meeting to pressure city officials to pass a resolution that calls for a ceasefire & an end to the genocide in Gaza
Join in on this autonomous effort to tell the world that Oakland stands against genocide! pic.twitter.com/ORLSfqtJoD— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) November 7, 2023
Musicians, Poets, Magicians, Comedians, Storytellers, etc.:
Sign-ups begin 6:30. Perform or just come to enjoy! Show time 7pm
Host: Phoebe Thomas Sorgen
Phoebe is an activist/organizer and singer. She teaches/coaches vocal technique.
Featured Artist: Dave Welsh
Dave “Redd” Welsh is a labor and blues pianist/singer http://www.reddwelsh.com/
Suggested donations of $10 – $20 will benefit the BFUU & help cover expenses.
No one is turned away for lack of funds! Volunteers appreciated!
Sponsored by BFUU Social Justice Committee http://www.bfuu.org/social-
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Calling all Bay Area families! Join us for a kid-friendly action and teach-in at the Oakland Federal Building! We will have art, music, a chance to record messages to children in Gaza, storytime for younger kids, a teach-in for older kids, and more. This is a great action to share with friends or family who are less comfortable bringing kids to big protests! Tell your neighbors, classmates, cousins, daycare families, and everyone else!
We demand:
1. An immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
2. Let in sufficient humanitarian aid to Gaza.
3. Human rights and self-determination for all families in Pales
Speaker: Al Sargis.
This talk will cover from the late 1970s to present, with main focus on the past few years. Two aspects: far rightwing direct action (e.g., direct attacks on racial, religious, gender, communist and other political attacks) and legislative rollbacks on the same groups (e.g., Moms for Liberty attempts to promote reactionary education policies).
Also, it will cover various groups and their ideologies, chief social traits and international interconnections among them. Finally, some proposals to counter them.
Our speaker, Al Sargis, is the founder of the Friedrich Engels Institute of Marxist War and Military Analysis (FEIMWAMA).
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We will be celebrating the very first Global Donut Day!
Global Donut Day is a day of local, community-led festivals centred around Doughnut Economics, distributed and connected across the world! It is a unifying day of local action and global connection.
Global Celebration
Want to see where your nearest festival is being held? Global Donut Day is being held both online and in-person worldwide. Check out our current list of Local Donut Festivals.
The Global Online Programme
In addition to the many local, community festivities happening around the world, there will be a global programme of online events that you can attend for free, wherever you may be, made up of events offered by local event organisers and sessions hosted by the DEAL Team.
Highlights include:
- An introduction to Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
- DEAL sessions on business, education, communities, accessibility and tools you can use in your place
- The screening of Biocentros, a feature documentary on biomimicry
- Panel discussions with biologist and biomimeticist Janine Benyus and ecological economics researcher Timothée Parrique
- Learnings from the cities of Glasgow, Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne, Brussels, Porto Alegre, Middlesbrough and Hamburg
- Setting up a European Research Collaboration
- Donut Economics and the Economy of Francis and Clare, as envisioned and promoted by Pope Francis
- Dialogue on how to use Doughnut Economics by civil society organisations in the Global South
- Four sessions from CIVIC SQUARE’s neighbourhood-scale action in Ladywood, Birmingham
See the schedule of events here
Register here for more details and access links
See you there!
Come join your neighbors in connecting, learning and resource sharing!
This month’s theme is Collaborative Communities – exploring different ways people live, work and steward together locally and globally.
BRING: things you have in abundance…some extra garden harvest, clothes, books, tools…
AND/OR: a dish or beverage to share (and your utensils/plate) or just your interest in building a resilient community – all are welcome!
(Note: please be responsible for taking items or food you bring if they are left at the end of the event)
Event info: click here
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Last Thursday, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights heard testimony on the use of “less lethal” weapons by police throughout the Americas. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has called for a prohibition on munitions used by police that fire multiple projectiles – what we call “scattershot” – because they are indiscriminate.
Yet the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has 900 of these munitions – and is asking for approval to keep using them, including in Santa Rita Jail. This month the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will make decisions on Alameda County Sheriff’s military equipment � including dangerous scattershot munitions used by sheriff deputies and unregulated use of drones in the county. We urge you to weigh in through emails and public comments.
Specifically, the Sheriff’s Office will hold a “community engagement meeting” on its military equipment use this Friday, November 17 at 6pm at the Castro Valley Public Library (near BART). Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez has indicated she expects to be present. Please join us and other community members to ask questions and express your concerns. If you can’t make it, send a question about scattershot munitions, drones or other military equipment for the sheriff to answer.
We expect the Board of Supervisors to take up military equipment at its meeting on Tuesday, November 28, beginning at 10:45 am. Please join us in writing to the Supervisors in the coming week, and giving public comment at the (hybrid) public hearing.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite.
For our October meeting we are reading Parts 5 and 6 of Jackson Rising Redux: Building the Future in the Present. (PM Press, Amazon). For our November meeting we are reading Parts 7, 8 and the Afterwords.
Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in this new and revised collection of essays. Cooperation Jackson, founded in 2014 in Mississippi’s capital to develop an economically uplifting democratic “solidarity economy,” is anchored by a network of worker-owned, self-managed cooperative enterprises. The organization developed in the context of the historic election of radical Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, lifetime human rights attorney. Subsequent to Lumumba’s passing less than one year after assuming office, the network developed projects both inside and outside of the formal political arena. In 2020, Cooperation Jackson became the center for national and international coalition efforts, bringing together progressive peoples from diverse trade union, youth, church, and cultural movements. This long-anticipated anthology details the foundations behind those successful campaigns. It unveils new and ongoing strategies and methods being pursued by the movement for grassroots-centered Black community control and self-determination, inspiring partnership and emulation across the globe.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth, Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn of Everything A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, Less is More, Cannibal Capitalism, Debt, the First 5000 Years , Poverty, By America,, and End Times.
Speaker: Mark Albertson
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The 200-year history of the Monroe Doctrine is a history of US imperialism. Among Washington’s recent junior partners, Israel stands out as an accomplice to the US imperial project not only in the old world but in this hemisphere as well.
Beginning with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the course of what is labeled Manifest Destiny (term was applied in 1845) will be charted through the 19th century. The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 is a continuation of the planned expansion across the North American continent. As the 19th century proceeded apace, the North defeated the South during the 1861-1865 Revolt of the Planters. Industrialization of the United States together with the eventual linking of Chesapeake Bay with the Golden Gate instilled a dynamic America, an allure to become a willing participant in what President Monroe’s document urged the Europeans not to repeat here, Imperialism. Historical parallels will be made with such efforts as the Catholic Church and Spanish Army in the Philippines, the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, and the present situation in Gaza.
Our speaker, Mark Albertson, is a frequent presenter at the Library. In fact, according to his blog, in each of the last three years, he has logged 200-plus appearances. Mark is a military historian with a commanding knowledge of geo-politics. He is the historical research editor at Army Aviation magazine and is the historian for the Army Aviation Association of America. He has authored several books: USS Connecticut: Constitution State Battleship; They’ll Have to Follow You! The Triumph of the Great White Fleet; On History: A Treatise. He is at work on a two-volume history on the saga of Army aviation. Mark teaches history at Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Suggested background reading:
Elier Ramírez Cañedo, 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine: History and Present, https://resumen-english.org/2023/07/200-years-of-the-monroe-doctrine-history-and-present/
Or check out this informative video:
Ben Norton, Israel’s destruction of Gaza is West’s fascistic plan for Global South, warns Colombia’s president, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8YMcHn9nE
Connect with us at an upcoming event hosted by Bay Resistance as well as the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), the Center for Political Education, and the Anti Police-Terror Project. Please save the date for a #CEASEFIRE mass meeting on Sunday, November 26 and RSVP here.
This is the moment where all of us should be joining together to move into immediate action to stop the genocide in Gaza. This is an opportunity for us to come together, to find clarity in the midst of uncertainty, and to deepen our shared understanding of the world around us.
In this critical moment, AROC and allied organizations are offering this mass meeting space to get clear on messaging and deepen our shared understanding of organizing strategy. There will be space for political education, training on essential organizing skills, action planning, and spaces for the healing power of arts and culture.
RSVP HERE
This invitation is extended to everyone looking to plug in, including those who want to learn more about this movement and activists who want to find ways to do more. In acknowledgment of the diverse roles we play in our communities, we have arranged special breakout sessions for families and parents organizing in schools and districts.
Once you RSVP we will send the exact location early next week. It will be in Downtown Oakland near Bart. Please forward this email to 10 friends. Your presence and support would mean a lot.
The Howard Zinn Book Fair returns as an in-person event on Sunday, Dec. 3, at the City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus. The organizers describe this year’s theme as “Against Amnesia”:
Sessions in the struggle against the attacks on people’s history. Far-right projects such as book bans, so-called “anti-woke” campaigns, “don’t say gay” legislation, and the dismantling of Ethnic Studies serve to build a historical and political amnesia as our opponents work to warp our sense of the past and sabotage our ability to imagine a future of collective liberation.
We are against amnesia. But what do we remember? What truths do we tell about past social movements that provide lessons for today’s organizers and activists? How will the work we are doing now be remembered in the future?
Propose a session or register to have a table at zinnbookfair.org.
This week, Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library will cover the attacks on the pro-Palestine, anti-genocide movement that are being made in the name of “fighting antisemitism,” A group discussion will follow several short presentations on the subject.
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This year we are sending cards & updates to over 10,000 people who are currently incarcerated💛
💌 In addition to having our volunteers pick up holiday mail kits, we are having an *in-person & covid safe* mail night! (Masks are requred indoors)
💌RSVP: https://t.co/pHush3ncwa pic.twitter.com/4ZgISsWjN4
— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) November 14, 2023
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Join Greenaction and Save the Bay for a discussion by frontline community activists and an academic expert on sea level rise, focusing on how rising groundwater and sea levels caused by climate change will flood and spread toxic and radioactive contamination along San Francisco Bay, threatening the health and environment of communities and the entire bay ecosystem.
As sea level rises, shallow groundwater will be pushed to the surface, causing more widespread flooding. This will impact infrastructure, homes, and communities in ways that we are just beginning to understand. Thousands of toxic sites that currently border the San Francisco Bay are also at risk of inundation by groundwater and sea level, which could put tens of thousands of residents at risk, especially low-income communities and communities of color.
Panelists:
Kamillah Ealom is Greenaction’s Bayview Hunters Point Community Organizer/Policy Advocate and Program Coordinator and a lifelong resident of Bayview Hunters Point.
Ms. Terrie Green is the Executive Director of the Marin City Climate Resilience and Health Justice program. She will share how her community is being impacted by climate change and how they are organizing to respond.
Dr. Kristina Hill is a UC Berkeley professor and expert on groundwater rise, emphasizing environmental justice as a focus for climate resilience planning.
Moderator: Ezra David Romero, KQED Radio climate reporter who helped bring this issue to public attention.
WHEN
Tuesday, December 5, 5 – 6 PM
WHERE
Online Register here.