On the first and third Mondays of the month, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project holds its data viz and oral history meetings related to our project in Alameda County.
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To guarantee access to indoor sessions, we recommend that you purchase a Priority Admission Ticket for only $8. Otherwise, you can purchase a General Admission Wristband for $15 for the whole weekend, with first-come, first-served admission after Priority Ticket holders are let in. Outdoor sessions — at the San Francisco Chronicle Stage in the Park and the Showtime Stage for families — are free, with first-come, first served seating.
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Jun 3 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Monthly Vigils
Interfaith Vigils to Support Immigrant Detainees
1st Saturdays of every month.
We invite you to join our vigils each month as we gather to pray and bear witness to the pain, suffering, and separation of immigrant detainees, and to call for real and immediate immigration reform. We invite you to join us to pray, sing, and act for just immigration solutions. Please bring a noisemaker for our sacred Moment of Noise– where we let the detainees know that we have not forgotten them.
Why we vigil at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond
We do this to stand in solidarity with the (150-300) people being held here for deportation and thousands in the other 250 detention centers across the country. We know that many have not been convicted of any “crime”, but are charged with a civil immigration offense. We know that detained here and facing deportation are asylum seekers, green card holders, and long term residents. Often the chief breadwinner is taken away, putting children and families in economic jeopardy. We know that ICE’s implementation of our immigration laws makes communities insecure. THEREFORE…
We come here each month, to call attention to our government’s wasteful spending of resources, deporting 315, 943 in FY 2014 (865 people a day), while failing to address root causes of migration. We seek to stop this system of detention and deportation and change our nation’s policies.
We know that all the deportees held here have families, most came not just for a better life, but to survive and support families. Many have fled terrible violence and now face it here, in another form. And now, the children have come, many to reunite with families already here…. and even they, face expedited deportation processes.
We do this to give moral and spiritual support to the families whose loved ones are being held here. We know their trauma can be deep and their lives filled with fear. We seek to give practical advice and counsel on legal, medical, food and housing issues and to be a friendly face. And we also do this to provide opportunity for people directly impacted by our detention and deportation policies to share their truth – to give their testimony so that they know, they are not alone.
We pray together for a just and fair immigration policy closer to what our Statue of Liberty proclaims “Mother of Exiles … Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
We pray, knowing that all our faith traditions call upon us to welcome strangers and aliens, for they are our sisters and brothers and our families, like them, we were once strangers and aliens in this land.
For more information about immigration detention, go to: Detention Watch Network, CIVIC.
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Jun 3 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
A key to the success of the resistance in California is people from the Bay Area going to swing districts! Congressman Denham of nearby Modesto voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (after telling his constituents he wouldn’t) and to leave millions of Americans without healthcare. Over the next two months the Senate will debate and vote on healthcare repeal, followed by a House vote on the final bill. We need to bring the fight for affordable healthcare and accountability to the voters in areas like Modesto.
RSVP now for a free spot on the bus. Buses leave from San Francisco and Oakland at 9am and return by 530pm. Or meet us in Modesto by 11am. Box lunch provided. Please RSVP!
Sponsored by Bay Resistance and SEIU California
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Jun 3 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
— jeralynn (@mommablueford) June 2, 2017
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More than $70 million had been cut from the Alameda county’s mental health care budget since 2007. Yet, Alameda County has the highest per capita incidence in the state of involuntary holds placed on individuals experiencing a mental health emergency.
While the overall number of people locked up in Santa Rita Jail is decreasing, the percentage of people with mental health issues who are imprisoned there is on the rise. This disparity is caused by our failure to provide mental health services in the community, and the criminalization of mental illness.
Join Alameda County Jail Fight Coalition for a Town Hall envisioning what it would look like to provide #CareNotCages to members of our community with mental illness.
A space for learning and discussion for directly impacted people, their family and friends, service providers, activists, and all others concerned with incarceration of people with mental illness, especially here in Alameda County.
Envisioning Community Care for People with Mental Illness
If you are in need of childcare, please contact acjailfightcoalition@gmail.com to RSVP.
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Jun 3 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join Alameda County Jail Fight Coalition for a Town Hall envisioning what it would look like to provide #CareNotCages to members of our community with mental illness.
A space for learning and discussion for directly impacted people, their family and friends, service providers, activists, elected officals and all others concerned with the over incarceration of people with mental illness.
If you are in need of childcare, please contact hollydelanycole@gmail.com to RSVP. Please includes the number and ages of kids, any allergies, if they will do best with a 1 on 1 aid, and anything else you think is important to share.
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June 3 @Alameda_Renters Coalition General Meeting @thealamedapoint w/#Alameda CM Ashcraft. #TenantRights #AlaMtg https://t.co/Hi39MNu7Yq pic.twitter.com/DmsUJW1s9k
— Alameda Renters (@Alameda_Renters) May 30, 2017
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Jun 3 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
There is more than sufficient cause for alarm about the role Russian state-led hacking and information warfare played in the 2016 election, and there are crucial unanswered questions about the relationship between the Russian state and Donald Trump, his associates and his campaign. The legitimacy of the United States government may hinge on the answers to these questions. If the President was elected even in part due to collusion with a foreign effort to interfere in our democratic process, then the will of the people has been subverted.
We call for a #MarchForTruth to raise our voices and let our elected leaders know that American citizens want answers. The legitimacy of our democracy is more important than the interests of any party, or any President. So, we will rise together to call for a fair and impartial investigation, for the pursuit of truth, and for the restoration of faith in our electoral system and the Office of the Presidency.
Our goals are simple:
1. Congressional investigations should be properly resourced and pursued free of partisan interests, or an independent investigation must be established;
2. As much information should be made available to the public as possible, and as soon as possible;
3. Donald Trump should release his tax returns to clarify his business interests and obligations to any foreign entity;
4. If crimes were committed or if collusion is discovered, it must be prosecuted.
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To guarantee access to indoor sessions, we recommend that you purchase a Priority Admission Ticket for only $8. Otherwise, you can purchase a General Admission Wristband for $15 for the whole weekend, with first-come, first-served admission after Priority Ticket holders are let in. Outdoor sessions — at the San Francisco Chronicle Stage in the Park and the Showtime Stage for families — are free, with first-come, first served seating.
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Join Indivisible East Bay for resistance and brunch on Sunday, June 4th. Learn about our work from the past month, participate in upcoming actions, and hear from other local groups resisting here in the East Bay.
New members welcome! We hope you can join us!
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Jun 4 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
SHOW UP FOR FOLSOM PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE Please join us to rally outside Folsom Priosn and show that we support prisoners’ efforts to strike for humane”
RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE at Folsom To Support Hunger Strikers
On May 25th, prisoners in Folsom State Prison B4 ASU (Administrative Segregation Unit) began a hunger strike to peacefully protest the inhumane conditions of their confinement in the administrative segregation unit. Prisoners have exhausted all reasonable remedies and have attempted to open lines of communication with administrative officials, and have been met with only resistance, silence, and now retaliation.
We cannot say exactly how many people are refusing meals, but we know that there are roughly 30 people in the unit that announced the strike.
- Check for Hunger Strike updates HERE
- Read Hunger Strikers’ Media Release (includes Demands and Grievances)
- Contact Officials to Support the Hunger Strikers
by prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity
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The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months, once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
- Welcome & Introductions
- Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
- Announcements
- (Optional) Discussion Topic
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
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Rally to stop the deportations of Hugo Mejía and Rodrigo Núñez are both fathers – and community volunteers – with deep roots in the Bay Area. They’ve been trapped in detention since May 3, cut off from their families and communities.
More details about their story:
ICE put Rodrigo and Hugo in chains after they reported for a construction project at a hospital, sparking a huge outcry that made headlines.
The men didn’t know the project was located inside Travis Air Force base. When they gave their information at the gate, the base turned them over to Trump’s deportation force. ICE might deport both Rodrigo and Hugo without them ever having the chance to tell their story to a judge. Just this week, The Trump administration denied both men a hearing on their request for asylum.
Join Centro Legal de La Raza, The Venetia Valley Family Center, SIREN, CIYJA, Bay Resistance, Jobs with Justice and other local organizations. Today we rally for Hugo and Rodrigo, in hopes to set them free back to their family. Together we can stop the deportations of our community!
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Jun 5 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
In November, 2016 we succeeded in getting the Oakland City Council to instruct the City Administrator to report on the usefulness of a feasibility study for creating The Public Bank of Oakland. Our next goal is to convince the City Council to commission that study as soon as possible, and incorporate it into a business plan for a public bank in Oakland.
After that, we will pressure the Oakland City Council to pass enabling legislation that will create and fund a public bank for Oakland. Our overarching goal is to see a public bank flourish in Oakland while it helps the community, thereby providing an example for other jurisdictions wishing to rid themselves of their dependence on Wall Street banks.
We are always looking for help bringing Public Banking information to Oakland residents. There are many ways large and small to be involved; from data entry to tabling events to branding and marketing assistance. Whether you’re looking to jump in with something specific or just want to lend a hand from time-to-time, please be in touch or come to a meeting.
Donate to Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland
Thanks to the generous support of our fiscal sponsor, HERA (Housing and Economic Rights Advocates), you can now make a tax-deductible donation to support our work. Our main expenses at the moment are related to outreach materials and mechanisms.
Click here to donate
*Important: Select “Other” from program and include “Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland” in the Honoree’s name section.
Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland t-shirts are available for a $20 donation! Email us at contact@friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org for details.
Sign the Petition!
You will also be able to sign the petition in person at upcoming events. Be on the lookout for our table, and let us know if there are events where people would like to hear more about the Public Bank of Oakland.
https://friendsofpublicbankofoakland.org/petition/
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“Susan’s life story is one our nation desperately needs to hear and understand. This is a story about personal transformation and collective power. It is about one woman’s journey to freedom, but it will help free us all.” -Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow.
Join Susan Burton for her Bay Area book release! Susan will offer some remarks and will be signing copies of her books. Books will be available for purchase. Light refreshments provided.
Event Hosted By: Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, All of Us or None, Essie Justice Group
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OccupyForum presents…
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
CODEPINK: SHUT DOWN CREECH!
With Toby Blome and friends
In each of the last two years, nearly 150 activists, including over 50 veterans, joined CODEPINK from 20 different states across the country. In a series of imaginative nonviolent direct actions, involving the arrest of dozens of activists, they were able to disrupt business as usual.At this crucial point in history, come and hear Toby Blome and friends report back about the SHUT DOWN CREECH 2017 actions against drone killing and global militarism.
WHY WE PROTEST AT CREECH (from the CODEPINK website):
In 2005, Creech Air Force Base secretly became the first U.S. base in the country to carry out illegal, remotely-controlled assassinations using MQ-1 Predator drones, and in 2006, the more advanced Reaper drones were added to its arsenal. Creech drone personnel sit behind computers in the desert north of Las Vegas and kill “suspects” thousands of miles away. Recent independent research indicates that the identity of only one out of 28 victims of
U.S. drone strikes is known beforehand. Though officials deny it,
the majority killed by drones are civilians.
In 2014, it was leaked that the CIA’s criminal drone assassination program, officially a separate operation from the Air Force’s, has been piloted all along by Creech’s super-secret Squadron 17. In November 2015, four Air Force drone veterans who were based at Creech wrote to President Obama: “We came to the realization that the killing of innocent civilians only fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like ISIS, while also serving as a fundamental recruitment tool similar to Guantanamo Bay. This administration and its predecessors have built a drone program that is one of the most devastating driving forces
for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”
Since 2009 dozens of activists have been arrested for allegedly trespassing at Creech, while attempting to peacefully interrupt the indiscriminate killing and burning of innocent people by drones. The US drone program is rapidly proliferating as air bases are being converted to drone bases across the U.S. and abroad, but Creech remains the primary air base in U.S. state-sponsored global terrorism. Creech is where the killer drone program started – it is where we shall end it.
We must put an end to this desecration of our Mother Earth and all creatures who inhabit it.
We must put an end to the dehumanization of lives from Ferguson to Palestine to Syria and Yemen. CODEPINK stands with our Muslim sisters & brothers in the circle of life.
We must close all foreign U.S. military bases. Money for human needs.
We must put an end to drone murder, drone surveillance and global militarization
Recent videos of CODEPINK’s successful work at Creech:
Shut DownCreech 2016, (4 min); Fall 2016 CODEPINK Action, (6 min); ShutDownCreech 2015, (25 min); MusicVideo #1, (4 min); Music Video #2, (3 min) (music videos by Nico Colombant)
Now more than ever, the times demand that we resist US drone assassinations and perpetual wars!
WE MUST RISE, LOVE, RESIST! NO DRONES, NO BAN, NO WALLS!
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This will be a collaborative planning meeting so that we can start carrying out the next phase of our work, launching a viral social media / traditional media campaign to leverage as much pressure as possible on the council to implement our defunding demands!
Please show up! Please bring your ideas about how to spread the message as broadly as possible, demonstrate widespread public support and pressure on city council to cut OPD’s budget!
Also, please forward this note to invite organizers, people who have lots of connections, traditional media people, social media experts, artists, people who you know who have turned out or showed up for defund opd.
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The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
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