Benicia residents who helped win the battle against Valero’s plan to bring crude oil by rail into their town will talk with us about how they did it. Plus updates on our campaigns. We need your participation and your voice! Come early to share a potluck lunch.
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9896
Nov
16
Wed
Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community READY Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.
61985
Nov
17
Thu
61992
Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! 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
61760
Nov 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Noura will speak about “From Occupation to Warfare: How Israel Expanded its use of Force and Diminished Palestinian Resistance.”
With Special Guest Palestinian musician Yara Mubarak
Tickets: $10 low income, $15 general, $25 supporter, $50 freedom fighter, $100 change-maker!
NOURA ERAKAT is a human rights attorney, activist, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an ezine on the Middle East and an Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. While an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Noura helped launch the first university divestment campaign in 2001. Upon graduating from Berkeley Law School, she helped seed BDS campaigns throughout the country as the National Organizer with the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
Noura has served as Legal Counsel to a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives as well as the Legal Advocacy Officer for the BADIL Resource Center for Refugee and Residency Rights. Most recently, she released a short multimedia documentary, Gaza In Context, that rehabilitates Israel’s wars on Gaza within a settler-colonial framework. She also produced the short video, Black Palestinian Solidarity. Currently Noura is writing a book tentatively titled, Law as Politics in the Palestinian-Israel Conflict.
Benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, wheelchair accessible.
$10.00 – $100.00, sliding scale.
61953
Nov
18
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61997
Nov 18 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members from 12:00 – 2:00 every Friday
to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder
who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.
Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER!
We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.
Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.
61924
James “Nate” Greer was killed by Hayward and BART Police on May 23, 2014. Please support us in love and solidarity for our fight for his justice at a rally and candle light vigil on Friday November 18, @ 5:00 pm. We will all meet outside the Lake Merritt Bart Station in Oakland.
We welcome other coalitions, families and activists to share their stories as well and memorialize the loss of their loved ones, who were killed by police. Feel free to bring posters, banners. We are all in this fight together
Same rules apply: This is a peaceful event
For more info on the wrongful death of James Nate Greer, please follow us at
https://www.facebook.com/
61931
Nov
19
Sat
Free thanksgiving meals for the community this Sat. Spread the word for those who might need it! @LibbySchaaf @Abel_Guillen @Kaplan4Oakland pic.twitter.com/NMR9GenItT
— Oak Life Church (@oaklifechurch) November 15, 2016
61994
For all those engaging in direct action against the machine, this is a primer on civil disobedience, legal rights, first aid at protests, and digital security. Free admission, all welcome – come for the day or for a single session.
11-11:15am: Welcome – Omni Commons
Intro to the day’s agenda, space logistics, etc
11:15am-1pm: Direct Action Workshop – Krystof Lopaur
Overview of direct action tactics, security culture, and basics of civil disobedience.
1-2:30pm: Legal / Know Your Rights – Ben Rosenfeld
Encounters with cops, knowing one’s rights in the legal system, and some infosec as it relates to protests or cops.
2:30-3pm: Lunch (TBD) + Brief presentation on Radical Photojournalism
3-4:45pm: Street Medic Workshop – Michael Terry & Margaretha Haughwout
What to bring, how to play the part of a medic; and focus on a few common types of injuries: teargas; blunt injuries to the head and lacerations; stab wounds; agitation/anxiety/panic; bruises and broken bones. WIll also cover trauma and PTSD and a simple herbal first aid kit for protest situations.
4:45-6pm: Cryptoparty / Digital Security Workshop – Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) & Sudo Room
Threat modeling, mobile phone security; surveillance self-defense. Hands-on workshop will be held in Sudo Room, Omni’s hackerspace. Bring your phone and/or laptop!
The Omni Commons is located at 48th & Shattuck in North Oakland, 1/2 mile from the MacArthur BART station. The ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift in the entrance hall, which also connects to a wheelchair-accessible bathroom. This is the first trial run of what we hope to become a series of trainings for Bay Area activists. If you’d like to get involved in future trainings, or host your own organizing meeting / workshop in the space, please send an email to organize AT omnicommons DOT org!
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2049587848600892/
Further information and links to handouts can be found at https://omnicommons.org/
62003
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
There is just under a week left before the No New SF Jail Coalition’s upcoming town hall on our next steps towards a jail-free city.
On December 1st, the SF Board of Supervisors will review a series of proposals put forth by the city’s work group on alternatives to the jail at 850 Bryant. Though we successfully advanced recommendations of bail reform, supportive housing and services, we will need to keep up the pressure in order to move the city away from its reliance on jails.
While we have a lot of ideas to uplift, we also need to stay vigilant against efforts to re-entrench jailing and policing as solutions to unmet needs in our communities.
On Saturday, we’ll present the concrete steps behind our vision, which we’ve also published in tools like 8 Steps to a Jail-Free San Francisco and the San Francisco Community Health Initiative. This will be your chance to learn how you can get involved in the next steps of this city-wide fight.
We hope you can make it!
Lunch will be provided.
If you would like Spanish interpretation at the Town Hall, please email us at nosfjail@curbprisonpending.org and we will be sure to provide it.
See you there!
61993
Fight Back Against Racism, Sexism, and Bigotry!
Donald Trump is the next President of the United States. His racist, sexist and bigoted program offers false solutions for a real crisis. He will continue the same policies of the establishment and elites that he claimed to be pushing back against.
The same Democratic Party elites that spent the majority of the campaign painting a Trump presidency as a catastrophic threat to the world are now demanding that we unite behind him. They aren’t going to stand in the way of the racist, sexist, bigoted forces let loose by Trump’s campaign. They aren’t going to stand in the way of the plans of a Trump presidency. Only a people’s movement can do that.
It is of the utmost urgency that all progressive people take to the streets in defense of immigrants, Muslims, women and all people of color. We take to the streets to advance an alternative vision. A vision of unity and solidarity in the struggle against the ravages of a system that has left half of the country in poverty and the 99% under the boot of an administration threatening to deny climate change, rights for immigrants, women and LGBTQ people, and all historically oppressed communities.
Join us in the streets to continue building a sustained mass movement fighting to take power to the people!
Initiated by the ANSWER Coalition
61990
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join SURJ at Grand Lake Famers’ Market corner of Lakeshore and MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland, rain or shine, to call attention to injustice and demonstrate solidarity.
Throughout the East Bay and nationally, folks have been holding weekly gatherings on prominent street corners and freeway overpasses, holding signs and making visible our support for Black communities in these critical times. These gatherings – or “human billboards” – have been a simple yet effective way of channeling anger and sadness over injustice into collective action by demonstrating solidarity.
61950
If you feel a drive to do something about the environment, immigrants’ rights, healthcare, Black Lives Matter, indigenous rights, reducing bullying, increasing a culture of peace and inclusion, or any other issues to make this community better, please come to this gathering and learn about the ways you can participate! Whether you are a long time activist or have never attended a rally in your life, your contributions matter!
Confirmed organizations (more to come!):
* Anti-Assault & Hate Crime Intervention Trainings
* Arab Resource and Organizing Center
* Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Asian Law Caucus
* Beyond Separation
* CAIR- Council on American-Islamic Relations
* Centro Legal de la Raza
* CFGF Consulting (restorative justice services for communities, families, government & faith-based agencies)
* CircleUp Education
* Community Democracy Project
* East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
* Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy
* First Christian Church of Oakland
* Food First
* The Green Life at San Quentin
* Healthcare for All- California
* HeartMath Trainings
* Jewish Voice for Peace
* Mustard Seed Immigration Law
* Network for Spiritual Progressives
* Niroga Institute
* Nueva Esperanza
* Oakland Peace Ambassadors
* Oakland Peace Center
* Oakland Women’s Center (of Women’s Centers International)
* Peer Counseling Collective at the Berkeley Free Clinic
* The Rotary Club Boat House
* Soul Shoppe
* Sunflower Alliance
* SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Oakland/Bay Area
* United Roots
* Urban Peace Movement
* White Awake
62008
Nov 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
What can we learn from this election? Was this a protest vote by part of the working class? Is it a racist backlash? We need to untangle myth and reality in order to respond to this situation.
Join us for a presentation and discussion on the election from a socialist perspective.
61995
Benefit show for the Land Action 4 legal defense fund. The courts are really dragging us through the wringer…. So far, our estimated out of pocket expense is about $10k and that is with all of our lawyers donating all of their time!!
So, what do we do? Throw a parrrrrty!!!!!
Come out for some slammingly stellar musical performances, drinks, friends and all the good stuff.
$8-$28 Suggested and highly appreciated donation
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The line up:
Leftover Crack
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Mystic Priestess
https://www.facebook.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
Kicker
http://kickersucks.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
Rapid Decline
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Aninako (formerly Eskapo)
https://www.youtube.com/
61825
You are invited to the next lecture featuring Civil Rights Lawyer, Mr. Fred Gray from Tuskegee, Alabama. Mr. Gray was the lawyer for Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Improvement Association. He was also Dr. King’s personal lawyer. Mr. Gray continues practicing law today, and he has been integrally involved in the struggles to transform public schools, colleges, and universities into exemplars of educational democracy.
61798
A benefit for NEED (Berkeley’s needle exchange) and the Radical Mental Health Collective.
- Space Toilet
- Skank Bank
- Film: OASIS… One Mission: Nobody Dies From Hep C” followed by Q&A with filmmaker
- I-MAN BANJO
- Invisible Cinema
61928
Host: La Peña and the Free Land Project
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Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving is an annual cultural arts event that brings Native and non-Native artists, activists and communities together to explore the complex history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the legacy of U.S. colonialism and genocide against Native Americans.
More Info
There’s also a program for kids & families, 10:00 – 11:00 am
61936
Nov
20
Sun
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
Alchemy and Social Change
A new attitude towards the material world emerged in late antiquity through the strange theories and practices of the alchemists. Did their attempts of achieve the elixir of life, the philosophers stone, and the transmutation of metals help give birth to science and the modern world? Our ICSS member, Lew Finzel, asks, What if Alchemy Lives? Implications for: ECOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, LITERATURE, SEXUALITY, PHARMACOLOGY.
Seating is limited, so plan to come early. We start promptly.
FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML
About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been for the past.
For info or to subscribe to our weekly announcements,
For our full schedule, go to icssmarx.org
61996
Nov 20 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
61988
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