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Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Please REGISTER in advance here: https://forms.gle/LcZoL7uKySCghnMP9
This training will take participants through many of the strategies, tools and considerations of non-violent direct action, including power and privilege, de-escalation, blockades, legal, direct action organizing models, and the opportunity to form affinity groups. This training will be an important place to get plugged into for upcoming actions around the Climate Strike Week of Action beginning on September 20.
WHO: DiRT (Diablo Rising Tide, the San Francisco bay area chapter of Rising Tide North America.
Alameda County PFP’s summer potluck picnic!
If you’re in the San Francisco area, the local Peace and Freedom party invites you to their annual summer potluck picnic.
Everyone is welcome to join! Come and meet PFP members, hang out and discuss the issues of the day. Please bring food which does not require additional cooking on-site. Also, please bring your own non-disposable plate, cup and eating utensils if possible.
We hope to see you there!
Come out to an East Bay DSA Racial Solidarity Committee BBQ Social at DeFremery Park on Saturday, August 17th from 1pm to 3pm! We will have delicious free food and great conversation as we hang out and talk about socialism and what the Racial Solidarity Committee has been up to! All folks interested in DSA and racial justice work are welcome, but people of color are especially encouraged to attend. Feel free to bring a dish to share, although we will provide a spread regardless! Children are very welcome! Please let us know if you have childcare needs.
RSVPs are strongly recommended so that we can be sure that we make enough food!
Accessibility Information: This event is in a public park which should be fully accessible to people with disabilities.
A presentation and discussion with Mitchel Cohen, editor of the new book, The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides
Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives. More than half a century since Rachel Carson issued Silent Spring – her call-to-arms against the poisoning of our drinking water, food, animals, air, and the natural environment – The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup looks at the politics underlying the mass use of pesticides and the challenges people around the world are making against the purveyors of poison and the governments that enable them.
“This may be one of the most important books you read this year. We are being poisoned, and this book is sounding a well-informed alarm. Read it. Get educated and then join the thousands rising up against those who care more for profit than the health of our bodies and our earth.”
– Eve Ensler
Our planned speaker will be Daniel Kovalik who will update us on current developments in Venezuela. A frequent visitor to Venezuela, his most recent book is The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil.
Dan currently teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He also served for over 25 years as Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). While with the USW, he served as lead counsel on cutting-edge labor law litigation, including the landmark NLRB cases of Lamons Gasket and Specialty Health Care. He has also worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia.
The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists subject to death threats, described Dan Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Kovalikreceived the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects.
Other books Dan Kovalik has written:
The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran.
The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin.
The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
RSVPs requested: re-presentmedia.orgLacey Schwartz grew up in a typical middle-class Jewish household with loving parents and a strong sense of her identity. She believes her family’s explanation of having a Sicilian grandfather until she discovers that her biological father is a black man with whom her mother had an affair.
This film explores what defines our identity, our family of origin, or the family that raises us.
Dialogue with Director Lacey Schwartz following the film.
Lacey Schwartz is the CEO of Truth Aid, which produces inspiring and empowering multi-media content to affect social change, and the Director of Outreach North America for Be’chol Lashon, which works on issues of racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in the Jewish community. She is a filmmaker and outreach and community strategist who has worked with a variety of companies and organizations, including MTV, BET, Be’chol Lashon, NASCAR and @radical.media. She also Executive Produced the narrative film DIFRET which won audience awards at the 2014 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. She produced the web series The Loving Generation (2018) interviewing black-white couples since the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia which overturned all laws banning interracial marriage.
Free public cultural film series centered on the historic commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the first Africans brought to British North America. The series will feature a monthly film screening over 7 months, from February 2019 for Black History Month, through August 2019.
Food at 4:30pm
Film at 5pm
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Homes Not Jails is hosting a Locksmithing Lab. Learn about locks. Even learn to Lockpick.
Join us to speak out against the police-led response to homelessness, HSOC. HSOC is a highly coordinated effort led SFPD, working in conjunction with the Dept. of Public Works, the Dept. of Homelessness, the Dept. of Emergency Management, and the Dept. of Public Health.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Please join us for a special screening of Generation Zapped. The film discusses the potential health risks from radiation emitted by wireless devices as revealed by scientific research. A Q&A on 5G and cell phones will follow. Pizza & snacks.
Hosted by the CA Brain Tumor Association and WIRED (Wireless Radiation Education and Defense).
As we move deeper into the 2020 election cycle, democratic socialists will be increasingly asked why we support Bernie Sanders and not one of the other, younger candidates. After all, many of Sanders’ challengers have adopted large chunks of his 2016 platform, and are hoping to gain traction with voters by offering policies that, at least at face value, appear to be similar. Now, more than ever, we need to be able to be able to ask and answer: what makes Bernie different? Why must we advocate for explicitly socialist policies rather than progressive-liberal ones? What is even the difference between a socialist political orientation and a progressive-liberal approach, anyway? How might we talk to our progressive neighbors about supporting Bernie in 2020 and, ultimately, supporting socialist ideas?
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Our country is falling further into a constitutional and moral crisis created by the racist and xenophobic autocrat sitting in the Oval Office. We need Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead, not play political games.
Join us on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco (888 Howard St.) to demand that Speaker Pelosi use her power to impeach Trump now. Our communities and democracy cannot afford to wait.
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators
Protests, actions, poetry readings…to demand that immigration detention centers be closed and families reunited.
Daily schedule: https://bit.ly/32MTXEs
A month-long protest outside ICE in downtown San Francisco, organized through word of mouth, networking, and social media, will take place every day from Noon to 1pm during the month of August, by a different sector, group, or organization: librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
WHEN: Every day in August from Noon to 1pm
WHERE: ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), 630 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111
WHO: Librarians, lawyers, public health and health care workers, poets, drummers, journalists, tenants rights activists, educators and students, mothers and families, bar and restaurant workers, environmental activists, grandmothers, the interfaith community…
THIS WEEK
Mon Aug 5: Climate & Environmental Justice: No Coal in Oakland, 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations and other groups
Tues Aug 6: Bend the Arc: Rabbi Shifra Tobacman, Speaker. Also in attendance: Dan Kalb, Oakland City Councilmember
Wed Aug 7: Mothers/Families
Thurs Aug 8: Refuse Fascism
Fri, Aug 9 (11:30am-12:30pm): Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (monthly vigil) and CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations)
Sat, Aug 10: Tenants Rights
Sun, Aug 11: Students/Educators