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Apr
24
Wed
Who stands to benefit from the Green New Deal? What’s at stake?
Join us after the Sierra Club Green New Deal Town Hall to socialize and discuss about how the Green New Deal is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime to invest in the American people, and what that looks like for us.
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Apr
25
Thu
Apr 25 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
BART Meeting Agenda Entry:
A. Surveillance Policy: Automated License Plate Readers.*
a. Surveillance Use Policy.
b. Surveillance Impact Report.
Board requested to authorize.
BART will be considering policies for ALPR usage at all BART Stations. Their proposal is to eventually install these mass surveillance devices at all BART stations across the Bay Area that have parking facilities.
Meeting agenda is here (Item 6)
Proposed policy and impact report are here
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Apr 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us as we toast our progress so far on A PLACE TO BREATHE – a film that tells the stories of immigrant and refugee health care providers and clients in Oakland, CA and Lowell, MA. The film explores culturally responsive integrative models in health care, following individuals and families from Mexico, Guatemala, Uruguay, Congo, and Cambodia.
Enjoy a special work-in-progress fundraising screening and meet the filmmakers and key players at Street Level Health Project, one of the clinics featured in the film.
Click here to watch a five minute introduction to the film.
Learn how your financial contribution can make a difference in raising awareness, expanding definitions of wellness, and supporting cross-pollination of best practices of culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. We look forward to welcoming you into our community, and hope also that you will utilize your own potential for advocacy whether as patients, providers, or community members.
6:30 pm: Reception*
7:15 pm: Filmmaker’s Introduction
7:30 pm: Work-in-Progress Screening
8:00 pm: Filmmaker Q&A
*Enjoy delicious fresh authentic Mexo-Californio cuisine from Oakland’s own Cocina Del Corazon, while quenching your thirst with wines from Dashe Cellars, and Oakland-brewed Old Kan Beer.
Not able to attend the event? Click here to support the completion of the film and the important work that Street Level Health Project provides to the Bay Area community. Donations are tax deductible.
About the Film:
A PLACE TO BREATHE weaves together immigrant and refugee stories anchored in two public health centers – Street Level Health Project in Oakland, California and Metta Health Center (a refugee-focused branch of Lowell Community Health Center) in Lowell, Massachusetts. Each has its own approach to “Whole Community” health care, which embraces the prominent role that communities play in creating diverse paths to wellbeing. The stories portrayed in our film provide powerful insight into how the current political climate impacts individuals as the uncertainty of immigration policy intersects with the future of healthcare. Yet it is the ways that communities move forward in spite of these threats, and the coping mechanisms that they develop, that are at the center of A PLACE TO BREATHE.
About the Filmmakers:
Michelle Grace Steinberg (Producer/Director) combines her sensibilities as a filmmaker and health care provider in her current film, A PLACE TO BREATHE (release date 2019), presented by her production company, Underexposed Films. Her previous films have aired on national public television, screened in a dozen film festivals internationally, and have been used as university curriculum. Michelle is also a nutritionist and herbalist at Street Level Health Project in Oakland, CA, where she works integratively with medical and mental health practitioners to provide free culturally responsive care to uninsured communities.
Robyn Bykofsky (Producer) is a filmmaker and educator who has spent 20 years teaching media and film production in underrepresented and misrepresented communities. In addition, she has designed sound for independent films that have screened at film festivals around the globe and was staff sound engineer at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Robyn received her BA in audio and video production from San Francisco State University and holds a Masters in Education with a focus in technology from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
About Street Level Health Project:
Street Level Health Project (SLHP) is an Oakland-based community center dedicated to improving the wellbeing of underinsured, uninsured, and recently arrived immigrants in Alameda County. The organization promotes self-sufficiency for marginalized people of color by creating equitable and dignified access to health and employment regardless of socioeconomic or immigration status. SLHP engages community in constructing collective power and leadership in order to advance a more just, inclusive, and empathetic society.
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Why do we celebrate Labor Day in the United States when the rest of the world has May Day? The history of May Day reveals that the struggle for the eight-hour day, general strikes, and the socialist roots of the holiday made it anathema to the ruling class, and a goal for workers everywhere, including here. Please join East Bay DSA for a presentation on May Day’s history.
Accessibility: NPML is ADA accessible.
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Apr 25 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
The next monthly potluck and (free!) movie night at the Bobby Bowens Progressive Center will feature The Hemp Revolution:
6:30pm potluck and socializing
7-9:30pm screening and discussion
Join us for the HEMP REVOLUTION, a film that examines the history of hemp’s criminalization and the interests behind it.
A more durable fibre than thirsty cotton for making textiles. A sustainable crop requiring almost no pesticide to thrive, making farming a cleaner process for the environment. A higher quality material than wood pulp for paper making. A non-polluting fuel, providing a cleaner energy production than via petroleum. The medicinal qualities have been used for thousands of years. The list goes on.
America went from a country which produced vast quantities of the non-narcotic crop, to the complete ban on hemp production upon the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Why has a powerful plant that provides so many human needs been much condemned for decades? Grown properly, this can be a great plant to save the planet! Join us and investigate the controversy and confusion between industrial hemp and medical marijuana.
This is a free monthly event at BBPC that falls on the last Thursday each month. Mark your calendar for upcoming films:
May 30 – The One Percent
June 27 – Flow: for Love of Water
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Apr 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
POSTPONED. NOT HAPPENING THIS DAY.
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents:
MAX BLUMENTHAL
“The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State
Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump”
Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites),
Books Inc (Berkeley),
Moe’s,
Walden Pond Bookstore,
East Bay Books,
Mrs. Dalloway’s
“Max Blumenthal has spent the last decade transforming himself into one of the
most vital voices in journalism today, always speaking truth to power
with fearlessness and integrity.”—Reza Aslan, author of Zealot
“The Management of Savagery” excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s imperial designs. Washington’s secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies. The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle East. These failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism. The Trump presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism in the post–Cold War age. Trump’s dealings in the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation.
Blumenthal’s book is a damning indictment of the bipartisan national security consensus and warning of its present danger to democracy.
“Max Blumenthal audaciously takes in-your-face, on-the-ground journalism into the realm of geopolitics.” —Juan Cole, author,The New Arabs and Engaging the Muslim World
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Huffington Postand Salon, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is Senior Editor of AlterNet’s Grayzone Project and the author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, which won the 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award, the New York Time’s bestseller Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, and The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza.
Host Nora Barrows-Friedman is a journalist, Electronic Intifada Associate Editor, autho of In Our Power: U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine, and frequent KPFA Flashpoints’ guest.
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Apr
26
Fri
Apr 26 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Workers Memorial Day 2019/May Day Rally Union
Construction Jobs for Oaklanders!
WORKER’S MEMORIAL DAY 2019! MOURN FOR THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING!
Sunday, April 28, is International Workers Memorial Day, a day to mourn
and remember brothers and sisters we have lost to workplace injury and
disease. It is observed around the world by surviving family members,
friends, coworkers, and health and safety activists in workplaces and
communities.
Join Worksafe -Safety, Health, and Justice for Workers on FRIDAY, APRIL
26TH, AT NOON in Downtown Oakland to observe Workers Memorial Day 2019
[1]. Worksafe, friends and allies are going to gather in Oscar Grant /
Frank Ogawa Plaza to honor fallen workers and recommit ourselves to the
struggle for safe and healthy work in California. Short program from 12
to 12:30 with Chief of Cal/OSHA, Juliann Sum, followed by a reading of
the names of California workers killed on the job in 2018.
Please RSVP at this Eventbrite [1] or link http://bit.ly/2019WMD [2] if
you plan to attend to help Workforce get a headcount. Help us spread the
word by_ _forwarding this email to your affiliates. Lunch NOT provided,
but feel free to bring your own or support local restaurants.
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Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations.
For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/
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Apr 26 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Help support the completion of a new documentary on “Necessity: Oil, Water and Climate Resistance” and the work of Climate Defense Project.
The film features the legal defense work of Climate Defense Project attorneys at a trial in Minnesota with Indigenous activists and non-Indigenous allies fighting oil pipelines in the region. The fundraiser includes a wine and appetizer reception and a panel with CDP staff attorney Alice Cherry; Isabella Zizi, a climate activist and signatory on the Indigenous Women of the America’s Defending Mother Earth treaty; and Jan Haaken, psychologist, documentary filmmaker, and “Necessity” co-director.
Proceeds from the event support the Climate Defense Project and completion of “Necessity: Oil, Water and Climate Resistance.”
RSVP here.
Friday, April 26, 6:30 PM – Reception; 7:15 PM – Panel; 8 PM Screening of the rough cut (58 minutes running time)
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Apr 26 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Are 9-1-1 calls against black and brown people hate crimes? The verdict of “Guilty” or “Not Guilty” rests in the hands of the jurors.
On the eve of the court’s decision the doors open into the bedrooms of the prosecutors, defendants, key witnesses, BBQ Becky and Permit Patty. What happens behind closed doors in matters of race can no longer be hidden when everybody’s dirty lau
ndry is exposed.
Written and directed by Bay Area playwright Jovelyn Richards and starring a cast of local actors, this new play is based on real life 9-1-1 calls.
9-1-1 What’s Your Emergency? premiered as a one-act play at La Peña Cultural Center in 2018 as an artistic response to the local 9-1-1 calls that made BBQ Becky and Permit Patty infamous on a national level. Act one examined how the 9-1-1 call is rooted in “micro-aggression”, yet can have irreparable consequences to communities of color.
We are so pleased to be presenting a groundbreaking second act, “The Verdict”, premiering April 26-27, 2019, which further examines the intersection of structural racism and personal psychological narratives that propel the calls.
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Apr
27
Sat
Apr 27 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Should RPA endorse Bernie?
You never want to miss out on a quarterly RPA membership meeting, but you’ll be especially regretful if you don’t make our April meeting!
At the meeting we’ll be voting on whether the RPA should endorse Bernie Sanders for President — we encourage you to attend the meeting, share your thoughts, and vote. Full agenda coming soon. And of course, if you find that your membership has elapsed, you can always renew at the door.
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Apr 27 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Are 9-1-1 calls against black and brown people hate crimes? The verdict of “Guilty” or “Not Guilty” rests in the hands of the jurors.
On the eve of the court’s decision the doors open into the bedrooms of the prosecutors, defendants, key witnesses, BBQ Becky and Permit Patty. What happens behind closed doors in matters of race can no longer be hidden when everybody’s dirty laundry is exposed.
Written and directed by Bay Area playwright Jovelyn Richards and starring a cast of local actors, this new play is based on real life 9-1-1 calls.
9-1-1 What’s Your Emergency? premiered as a one-act play at La Peña Cultural Center in 2018 as an artistic response to the local 9-1-1 calls that made BBQ Becky and Permit Patty infamous on a national level. Act one examined how the 9-1-1 call is rooted in “micro-aggression”, yet can have irreparable consequences to communities of color.
We are so pleased to be presenting a groundbreaking second act, “The Verdict”, premiering April 26-27, 2019, which further examines the intersection of structural racism and personal psychological narratives that propel the calls.
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Apr
28
Sun
eastoaklandcollective
Feed the Hood 10 is next Sunday, April 28! Don’t forget to join us for this large scale opportunity to provide lunch and hygiene kits for our unhoused brothers and sisters across Oakland. Register today at bit.ly/feedthehood10.
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Apr 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
We wish to inform you of an important upcoming event this Sunday, April 28, at the start of the 50th Anniversary Concert for People’s Park at 12pm noon.
The People’s Park Committee and the People’s Park Community are pleased to announce a new, improved People’s Park FreeBox. The FreeBox is a dedicated facility for accepting and distributing donations of clothing, bedding, and other items, freely available to those in need.
A longtime People’s Park tradition, the FreeBox has been replaced and rebuilt many times, but, unfortunately, there has been no such accomodation for donations in the Park for several years now. The new FreeBox, created and donated by UC Berkeley students involved in organizing to save the Park, will be the largest yet.
Please join us on Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 12 noon for a short ceremony and ribbon cutting, inaugurating the new, improved FreeBox at the beginning of the People’s Park 50th Anniversary concert event. We invite you, or anyone else who may be available, to come and report on this historic dedication and event.
[Pictured is one of the many free boxes torn out by UCB over the years.]
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Come join East Bay DSA’s Medicare for All Committee as we discuss updates from the fight for single-payer healthcare and upcoming organizing projects. We’ll circulate some a short reading in advance, so please RSVP. All East Bay DSA members interested in getting involved with the Medicare for All campaign are welcome!
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NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:
occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 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 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! 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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Apr 28 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The Oakland Greens 2019 FREE Dinner and a Movie discussion series.
As usual, the doors at the It’s Your Move Games and Hobbies store will open at 6:30 p.m., a free dinner will be provided at 7 p.m., and the movie will start promptly at 7:30 p.m.
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Apr 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Presentation and fundraiser for Hal Far Outreach (HFO), an NGO that is aiding refugees who have crossed the Mediterranean and ended up in the Hal far open center refugee camp. Most are fleeing from Libya.
Free – donations accepted to benefit HFO
https://www.facebook.com/halfaroutreach/
http://www.halfaroutreach.com
The speaker has been to Malta 3 times since August, on 2 seized search and rescue boats, and helped form HFO in a refugee camp in Malta. “Most of these people are fleeing from Libya, which is a country that has been sent into chaos after we bombed them; now is being run completely by gangs, mafia, cartel etc. those of which make their profits on the rape, torture and extortion of African people, and people from other countries who were unlucky enough to end up there.
“The EU is funding the Libyan coastguard (cartels with warships) and has grounded all of the search and rescue boats that would try to help the people in sinking boats fleeing the war zone. They would rather see the people die in the water than let them flee to safety in Europe. 2500 people died in the water last year 30% which are children. 2/3 of the migrant deaths in the world right now.”
For more event information: http://www.thelonghaul.org
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Apr
29
Mon
Last month Asantewaa, R.N. – Co-Founder of Anti Police-TTerror Project – was illegally detained and arrested at aa silent protest along with Tanya Ikembe Faison — Founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento – at the Luccas restaurant in Downtown Sacramento, CA.
Their silent protest was meant to bring attention to DA Schubert’s track record of not holding police officers accountable when they murder our community members.
They were cited and released. Now have court dates. We ask that you please show up to support them in court TOMORROW!
Asantewaa is the lead trainer for our team of First Responders, is a registered nurse, an artist and Founder of APTP Sacramento.
These ladies are veterans in the fight for police accountability. Warriors for truth.
Help us help them. Show up!
RSVP
“There is no greater calling then being about the business of our ancestors on behalf of our children”
-Asantewaa Boykin
Hope to see you there!
APTP
P.S. We will have some carpools going up to Sacramento from the East Bay. Please respond to aptpinfo@gmail.com if you would like to join a carpool.
Anti Police-Terror Project is not a non-profit.
We are a community group powered by people like you.
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