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The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in the Bay Area July 1, 2 & 4 with its 58th season premiering “WALLS“
| WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!L. Mary Jones (Velina Brown) knows all about fear. As a top agent for I.C.E. – Immigration and Customs Enforcement – she knows how to stoke fear to keep her country safe. Fear of people like Bahdoon Samakab (Rotimi Agbabiaka), a Somali refugee escaping oppression, fear of Cliodhna Aghabullogue (Lizzie Calogero), an Irish woman yearning to be American, and fear of Zaniyah Nahuatl (Marilet Martinez), whose family comes from… here. As a foreigner in a land her people have worked for thousands of years suddenly Zaniyah is a criminal, an illegal, a “bad hombre.” What part of herself will this American give up to pass as “American?” Will she? Can she? Should she? Can someone leave part of themselves behind without losing their mind? And is it better or worse that she crossed the border to find Agent L. Mary Jones – the woman she loves? |
Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland.
“Remember the saying: ‘Of all pilgrimages the greatest is to relieve the sorrow-laden heart.'” ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
The Baha’i community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.
Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. Simple breakfast will be served.
“Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy. Nearness to Thee is my hope, and love for Thee is my companion. Thy mercy to me is my healing and my succor in both this world and the world to come. Thou, verily, art the All-Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
The city of Oakland's government won't feed it's most vulnerable people. We will. It is our duty.#PeoplesBreakfastOakland pic.twitter.com/N7z8cnhkZh
— DaHonorable Brotha B (@BlakeDontCrack) July 2, 2017
The Tony Award-winning SF Mime Troupe opens in the Bay Area July 1, 2 & 4 with its 58th season premiering “WALLS“
| WALLS asks the question: How can a nation of immigrants declare war on immigration? The answer: FEAR!L. Mary Jones (Velina Brown) knows all about fear. As a top agent for I.C.E. – Immigration and Customs Enforcement – she knows how to stoke fear to keep her country safe. Fear of people like Bahdoon Samakab (Rotimi Agbabiaka), a Somali refugee escaping oppression, fear of Cliodhna Aghabullogue (Lizzie Calogero), an Irish woman yearning to be American, and fear of Zaniyah Nahuatl (Marilet Martinez), whose family comes from… here. As a foreigner in a land her people have worked for thousands of years suddenly Zaniyah is a criminal, an illegal, a “bad hombre.” What part of herself will this American give up to pass as “American?” Will she? Can she? Should she? Can someone leave part of themselves behind without losing their mind? And is it better or worse that she crossed the border to find Agent L. Mary Jones – the woman she loves? |
What is the history of violent white supremacist groups? What is the relationship between our government and these hate groups? What are our legalcies of resisting this violence? How do we support those of us who are targeted and repressed while working towards our shared goal of community resilence? We must come together in defense of our neighbors, elders, youth, friends, families, movements and ourselves!
A panel discussion will be followed by small group sessions about how to organize effective community defense.
Speakers:
- Lara Kiswani, AROC
- Judith Mirkinson, NLG
- Tur-Ha Ak, APTP
- Danielle, AFFIRM
Our goal is the purchase of a porta potty for The Poor Tour. The city, after months, still has not helped. The encampment is stressing neighbors by needing to use the bathroom. Enough is enough. We are forced to take matters into our own hands.
Please share.
We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required!
We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at [ liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net ].
We usually meet in the basement, unless otherwise noted.
On July 11th, several key bills are being heard by California Senate and Assembly committees, and SURJ has been asked to show up to support!
PLEASE RSVP BELOW!
Earlier that day, the Assembly Public Safety committee is hearing another vital bill – SB 10, the California Bail Reform Act — which would ensure that people are not held in dangerous, overcrowded jails after arrest simply because they cannot afford to post bail. SB 10 is co-sponsored by the Ella Baker Center and Essie Justice Group.
Come join SURJ members on July 11th to attend these important hearings and support these important bills! We will be organizing carpools!
For more information, please email basebuilding@surjbayarea.org
We the People will hold a “People’s Assembly Health Committee” Hearing on SB 562 where the people will vote! We are joining with the Poor People’s Lobby day on SB 562 and will highlight stories of patients, seniors, nurses, doctors, business and it wouldn’t be complete with out a few words of doom and gloom from our industry opposition J. We have buses coming from multiple locations. Please help push out this event and mobilize a great assembly!
Buses coming from around the state!
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/PeoplesAssemblyHealthCommittee
OAKLAND:
STOP 1: Pick up @ 10:00AM at 22nd and Kaiser Plaza (next to CNA Headquarters in Oakland)
Please check Facebook and our web site for more.
City Of Oakland Public Safety Committee – Oakland City Hall
The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do online. If they get their way, they’ll allow widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees. On July 12th, the Internet will come together to stop them.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON JULY 12TH?
Websites, Internet users, and online communities will come together to sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. We’ll provide tools for everyone to make it super easy for your followers / visitors to take action. From the SOPA blackout to the Internet Slowdown, we’ve shown time and time again that when the Internet comes together, we can stop censorship and corruption. Now, we have to do it again!
HOW CAN I JOIN?
We’re just getting started with organizing this massive day of action, so sign up and we’ll get in touch soon with more information. If you have ideas or want to help, let us know. If you run a high-traffic website, startup, or small business, get in touch, your participation is extra important!
Tomorrow the Assistant Sheriff and Commander of the Alameda County Sheriff’s department will be giving an overview of Urban Shield 2017. This is an opportunity to demand the Alameda County Board of Supervisors end their reliance on Urban Shield and militarized policing.
Next opportunity to turn out against Urban Shield:
Meeting of Alameda County Taskforce on Urban Shield
Friday, August 11th, 9am
Conference and Training Center
125 12th St, 4th Fl
Oakland, CA
Join us for the Thinking Ahead speaker series with Richmond City Council member Melvin Willis and journalist Steve Early on a discussion of community empowerment and transformative policies that help get big money out of politics.
What can we do to ensure everyone shares in the prosperity that they contribute to? Come hear how progress-minded activists transformed a city dominated by a narrow corporate agenda into a model for a greater shared prosperity.
RSVP here.
Greetings all,
Decarcerate Alameda will be hosting a CURB Letter to the Editor Training and a working meeting as we prepare for an emergency mobilization.
Letters to the editor are a quick and easy way to influence reporters, editorial boards and public opinion and a great way to practice our arguments and talking points. Please try to bring in a recent article you may want to respond to (especially about Alameda County), as well as a laptop, pen & paper, or whatever writing utensil suits you.
Reach out with questions, no need to have been at any recent meeting to join!
In the summer of 1892, the nation’s largest steelmaker (Carnegie) took on its most militant labor union, with devastating consequences. Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick head a fascinating cast of characters, including Pinkerton guards and anarchist Alexander Berkman. Directed by Steffi Domike and Nicole Fauteux.
To evoke the period, the film employs documentary techniques, primary sources, dramatically staged scenes shot on location in the Pittsburgh area, and lyrical commentary found in poetry, song and fiction. Labor Singer Jimmy Kelly Will Lead a Sing-Along Song Salute to Woody Guthrie, the Dustbowl Balladeer.
‘Feminist’ Police Chief and Mayor promote ‘Good Old Boys’ Club
#FireRapistCops
#ProsecutionNotPromotion
JOIN US IN PICKETING THIS OUTRAGEOUS OPD PROMOTIONS CEREMONY, where Chief Kirkpatrick is promoting three of the criminal cops responsible for covering up the child rape actions of OPD (and other jurisdictions) police officers.
Chief Kirkpatrick has approved major promotions for the very officers who failed to properly investigate the rape scandal, notify the federal monitor, DA and Mayor, and even encouraged “Celeste Guap’ to destroy evidence in the case. Schaaf closed her investigation before findings were even issued.
According to a brief filed by Jim Chanin and John Burris, who originally filed the class-action which led to the NSA, “There is no evidence that any of the officers engaging in this behavior, or any of the supervisors who observed it and apparently failed to report it, stop it, or discipline their subordinates, were ever investigated, and if appropriate, disciplined by the Oakland Police Department.”
APTP has no faith in the Mayor’s or Chief Kirkpatrick’s ability to get a handle on the blatant culture of sexual abuse and general disregard for the rights of the Black community, people of color, LGBTQIA, undocumented, disabled and unhoused people of Oakland.
Please comment if your organization would like to endorse the event. All: please share and invite your friends. Bring your signs and your voices!
Watch this page for updates!!!
Join Berkeley Copwatch on Saturday, July 15th to get training on how to…
* deal with the police
* safely assert your rights
* safely and effectively observe the police in your community.
The trainings usually last 2 – 3 hours.
This is a free event; snacks will be included! Bring your bodies and your buddies, as well as questions, concerns, stories, resources.
And in the meantime, check out the Berkeley Copwatch Know Your Rights Pocket Card here: http://
Join us for the first coalition gathering of the Qilombo Healers Collective! Help us build a permanent healing space with ongoing programming that promotes autonomous, accessible and holistic healthcare in our communities. The Medical Industrial Complex has never given us meaningful options for accessible holistic healing. With TrumpCare threatening to cut MedicAid to 22 million low-income people across the country, the need for autonomy from America’s failed health system is more important than ever. We want to spread health and wellness knowledge and empower our communities to care for ourselves, rather than relying on the profit-driven healthcare system that values their bottomline over our lives.
We are group of about 10 healers and health educators from a wide range of backgrounds and modalities. We have been meeting since February developing our vision for an autonomous network of groups and organizations dedicated to decentralizing health knowledge and sharing our skills, practices and traditions with the community. We are renting a room in Qilombo, and have converted it into a permanent healing space. We hope to use this space as a home base for coordinating a series of classes, workshops and healing clinics, as well as a free or low-cost space for healers to practice their crafts.
So far we have been coordinating with members of the People’s Community Medics, the Healing Clinic Collective, the Black Wellness Collaborative: Healing with the People, and several herbalist, yoga teachers, massage therapist, sounds healers and Reiki practitioners. We have also reached out to a self-defense collective, a free clinic and several HIV prevention and education organizations. We are welcoming all groups and individuals who share our vision to help us build this project and coordinate our existing work to strengthen and support each other in the hard times ahead.
Please RSVP and share this event with your friends, collectives, organizations and anyone who shares our vision who you think would be interested in participating and/or sharing their knowledge and resources.
See you on the 15th!
Solidarity,
The Qilombo Healers Collective
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at Martinez Shoreline Park, end of Ferry Street in the City of Martinez, California
Please feel free to join us for the prayers for the water at 8:00 a.m. We will walk to the shore and make our prayers. Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from your area to join the waters in the Carquinez Straights (where the Delta meets the Bay) in Pittsburg.
Registration for the walk will begin at 8:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
This walk is approximately 13.5 miles from beginning to end. There will be support vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – please bring your reusable water bottle.
Walk #2: Saturday, May 20th
We will begin near the Martinez Shoreline Park at the end of Ferry Street
in the City of Martinez, California
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at the 9th Street Park in the City of Benicia, California
Please feel free to join us for the prayers for the water at 8:00 a.m. Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from your watershed to join the waters in the Carquinez Straights (where the Delta meets the Bay) in Martinez.
Registration for the walk will begin at 8:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
This walk is approximately 9.5 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – please bring your reusable water bottle.
Everyone will be taken back to their vehicles at the end of the walk. If you are coming to the walk with friends and have two vehicles, please consider leaving one vehicle at the end.
Please consider CARPOOLING – You can sign up to give rides or receive a ride here:
https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/8wh0vr
Make sure you keep this phone number with you on the walk:
(510) 619-8279
Scroll down to see the map of the walk.
We will begin in Martinez and walk through the Shell Refinery in Martinez on the public road. It gets exciting when we walk across the Martinez Benicia Bridge over the Carquinez Straights! Once we get to Benicia, we head over to the Valero Refinery where we stop to pray for clean air, water, soil and safe jobs in our communities. We then walk through town to the 9th Street Park for the closing circle, a meal and the final prayers for the waters.
All walkers are encouraged to carry the water for at least five minutes in prayer for the life of the waters around the world.
Please go to the “What to Expect” page for more information:
http://www.refineryhealingwalks.com/what-to-expect.html
Walk #3 – Sunday, June 11th
We will begin at Ninth Street Park in Benicia
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are two places along the walk where folks can join us – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at Lone Street Park in Rodeo
Please join us for prayers for the water at 8:00 a.m. Feel free to bring a small bottle of water from your watershed to join the waters that we will be carrying in prayer along the walk and putting into the Bay at the end of the walk.
Registration for the walk will begin at 9:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
We also request that walkers keep the Four Agreements in mind:
1) Be impeccable with your word
2) Don’t take anything personally
3) Don’t make assumptions
4) Always do your very best
For more information: The Four Agreements
This walk is 10.8 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – Please bring your own refillable water bottle.
There will be three “return” points where people can be taken back to their cars at mile 4 and mile 6 (see map) and at the end. If you are coming to the walk with friends and have two vehicles, please consider leaving one vehicle at the end.
Sure you’re coming? Please carpool to the walk by offering a ride or accepting a ride as soon as possible by signing up here:
CARPOOL
Let us know you’re coming! RSVP BELOW!
Make sure you keep this phone number with you on the walk:
(510) 619-8279
We will begin in Benicia, home to the Valero Refinery, and proceed through Vallejo. Crossing the Carquinez Bridge is always a treat! Then we head toward the Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery in Rodeo , ending at Lone Tree Park.
Walk #4 in July
Sunday, July 16th
Rodeo Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery to Richmond Chevron Refinery California
We encourage folks to walk with us the entire day. It is truly a beautiful, profound and inspiring way to make a difference.
We will begin at Lone Tree Park in Rodeo
8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony – Feel free to bring water from your watershed!
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Walk Begins
There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below.
The walk will end at Keller Beach in Richmond
You can join us at any time during the day of the walks.
Call this number to find out where we are: (510) 619-8279
Make sure to keep the phone number on you if you are joining us on the walk!
Registration for the walk will begin at 8:00 a.m. Walkers will be asked to agree to the Nonviolent Principles. For details on what to bring/not bring, please go to “What To Expect” in the tabs above.
This walk is approximately 13 miles from beginning to end. There will be vehicles available for people who wish to take breaks during the walk. Medics will also be available. Water will be provided – Please bring your own refillable water bottle.
Everyone will be taken back to their vehicles at the end of the walk. If you are coming to the walk with friends and have two vehicles, please consider leaving one vehicle at the end. Carpool: Sign up to drive or be a passenger here: CARPOOL
There will be two points where folks can get rides back to the beginning in Rodeo, at the Hilltop stop in Richmond and at the end at Keller Beach.
We will begin at Lone Tree Park in Rodeo within sight of the Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery and walking to Richmond, stopping to pray at several places including the Kinder Morgan facility and the gates of the Chevron refinery. We will end at Keller Beach in Richmond, the last natural beach left in the San Francisco Bay where we will all enjoy a delicious meal made by Mike Bear and his family and youth from Urban Tilth in Richmond!
Can’t come but want to support? Welcome us at Keller Beach in Point Richmond and feel free to bring a dish to share if you would like.
The Museum of Capitalism is hosting an in-person artifact donation event on July 16th from noon-5pm. RSVP, and bring your artifacts of capitalism to be considered for inclusion in the museum’s collection. If you live out of town and are interested in contributing, please visit our new artifact donation platform to submit an item for consideration.
Individuals who possess items related to the history or memory of capitalism, or tied to a personal experience that could help others to understand or feel life in capitalism, are invited to come forward and share their stories with Museum curators. All participants who submit an item for consideration will receive professional photographic documentation of their item, whether or not the Museum wishes to catalog the object for its collection. Donors will be asked to complete a short questionnaire about their donations, and Museum curators and volunteers will conduct short interviews with selected participants.