What: COP26 Rebellion March and Rally
Where: Meet at San Francisco Ferry Building
What to Bring: Yourself, Your Friends, Your Allies, Your Colleagues

On November 11 as the COP26 climate summit draws to a close, we must tell the powers that be that we are watching and depending on them to make the right decisions and commitments for our future. We will march with signs, hand crafted puppets, banners, a safety team and each other to demand a safe and healthy planet for future generations.
12:30pm- 1pm: Meet at The Ferry Building, grab signs and get ready to march.
1:00pm-2:00pm: March along the Embarcadero. The route is 2 miles, flat and wheelchair accessible
2:00pm-3:30pm: End march at Aquatic Park near Hyde St. Pier for a rally.
Commit now to showing up at this historic moment:

• RSVP to Facebook Event

ear Friends and Supporters for Justice in Palestine, the battle for AMED has reached a critical junctureD and to save it will take community support and for us all to do our part.

Time To Take A Stand: From 1968 ’ To 2021 – The Fight Continues to Defend AMED & Prof Rabab

Join us for a Press Conference & Community Speak Out @SFSU Weds 11/17 @11am to stand up for the Arab & Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies Program at SFSU. Facebook event pg: https://fb.me/e/2CZfI4KHh
You can also support by sending a letter to SFSU Pres Mahoney, whether you are an alumni or community member by clicking here: https://www.nationalsjp.org/save-amed

Background
Since its inception in 2007, AMED remains critically under-resourced, while enduring ongoing attacks against Dr. Abdulhadi and her students at SFSU who have experienced death threats, wanted style posters and ominous blacklists, with attacks on their freedom of speech and academic freedom from corporate and zionist outside forces.

Instead of opposing these attacks, the Administration and the Chancellor have not only refused to take a stand, they are now openly partnering with AEN:

https://academicengagement.org a known Zionist network and supporter of apartheid Israel in the censoring of AMED by Zoom, Facebook and Youtube, and in doing so clearly chosen to side with the oppressors.

The 1968 San Francisco State Student Strike hailed as the strike that Changed Higher Ed Forever was over 53 years ago, but today the struggles remain the same.

Email: defendrabab@gmail.com and let us know if your organization can endorse or how you can get involved. Share widely!

Save Our Solar Jobs Rally January 13th

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) released a proposal that would devastate solar access and jobs in California. If passed, this proposal would put solar out of reach for millions of people. We must act now and tell Governor Newsom and the CPUC to protect the solar savings policy.

We must tell him to protect solar jobs. We must tell him to protect your solar rights and savings.

Please join us for the Save our Solar Jobs Rally 

Youth vs. Apocalypse invites all students, teachers, and allies to tell the California Teachers Association to stop supporting investment in fossil fuels.

Info/RSVP

YVA and other youth have been campaigning for the California State Teachers Retirement Fund (CalSTRS) to divest from fossil fuel. They have testified at many meetings, held demonstrations, and built a growing movement of support.

But the California Teachers Association (CTA), one of two state unions for California public school teachers, has been actively blocking this effort, supporting investment in the same fossil fuel industry that is causing global destruction, environmental racism, and misinformation. CTA has a huge influence on CalSTRS and where teachers’ money goes.

Come join Youth vs. Apocalypse to target CTA headquarters. Also, tell your teachers or any teachers you know to go to bit.ly/cateachersdivest and take action.

8 years! Stay tuned for list of virtual events. join us for car caravan on 1/17 starting @ the port at 11 am. This year we unite families impacted by street & state violence – knowing deeply that ALL violence is state violence and when we end state violence- we end ALL violence pic.twitter.com/2MRMY3AUwf

— Cat Brooks (@CatsCommentary) January 7, 2022

Enough Is Enough!
No Public Funded Stadium In The Port Of Oakland
For Billionaire A’s Owner John Fisher

(Wear your masks)

It is time to call a halt to the A’s billionaire owner John Fisher’s plans for a stadium in the Port of Oakland. Why are Oakland politicians and some union officials pushing spending $700 million for a privately owned stadium, hotels and 4,000 million-dollar condos for the wealthy? We need to stop this racist gentrification project at the port.

On January 19th, there will be another environmental hearing to approve the EIR that this project will follow the environmental rules. This is another charade. State politicians Nancy Skinner and Rob Banta with the support of Governor Newsom changed the rules to allow the port to be destroyed by the billionaire’s development and for it to be funded by hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money.

While thousands are homeless in Oakland, they want Fisher who also owns the GAP and controls the KIPP and Rocketship charter school chains to take more control of the Oakland Community. Community activists and trade unionists will be speaking out against public money for this billionaire’s development scheme.

This project will also destroy 80,000 maritime jobs of ILWU and other maritime unions at the port which is critical to the Bay Area. Where will the thousands of trucks park but in the West Oakland neighborhoods. The mayor and the Port Commission and it’s chair Andreas Cluver who is also head of the Alameda Building Trades really don’ t care since they are taking orders from Fisher.

It is time to stop this scam and con game by billionaire Fisher and his rubber stamps.

Reject the EIR Report
No Union Busting In The Port Of Oakland
Working Class Housing With Public Funds
Stop Allowing Billionaires to Rip Off The People of Oakland

Initiated by United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP
Endorsed by Melody Davis
https://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa

Environmental Advocate Margaret Gordon Turns Against Oakland A’s Development
https://www.postnewsgroup.com/environmental-advocate-margaret-gordon-turns-against-oakland-as-development/

Speak out against an unnecessary war with Russia which could possibly lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
If the war starts before Feb. 1, this action will still take place, to voice our opposition.

Emergency Action to say  “Negotiate, Don’t Escalate: No War With Russia”
February 1, 2022 at 11:30- 1:30pm (PST)
Ferry Bldg., San Francisco
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/26/18847610.php

There will be banners, flyers asking people to call the White House and their member of Congress, and an info table.  Capitol Hill: 800-826-3688
We are on the brink of a massive war between the US and Russia�two nucclear-armed states. The time to speak out is now!

Biden just ordered 8,500 US troops to be on heightened alert for possible deployment to Eastern Europe, as the dangerous escalation at the Russian/Ukrainian border standoff intensifies. Biden is also considering sending more warships and aircraft, and has already delivered more “lethal aid” to Ukraine. The $500 million Congress is set to pass through a fast-track vote, could and should be used on communities and climate. The Pentagon has said that there is the possibility of sending as many as 50,000 troops!

Join the Feb 1 emergency action to say “Negotiate, Don’t Escalate: No War With Russia.”
Sponsored by CODEPINK
Endorsers:  Green Party of Alameda County, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee

CODEPINK’s recent webinar with Medea Benjamin and Larry Wilkerson: “Is the U.S. going to war with Russia over Ukraine?”

    http://www.GP.org
PLANET PEOPLE PEACE
before profit!

The U.S. and Russia have 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons. Call on Congress, the White House and the media to listen to the people of Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. who Don’t Want War, don’t want NATO expansion, don’t want to further enrich the war industry or risk nuclear annihilation.
Instead, we want universal healthcare, quality education, eco sustainability, housing for all. green jobs!

Bring signs or borrow Code Pink’s. Hold a sign and/or pass out flyers urging people to email and call the White House and Congress.
Cheryl Davila and a few others will speak briefly at a short rally on the grass just west of the peace wall fountain in the park.
Then we’ll spread out along MLK Jr Wy with signs, banners, informational action flyers, also outside the Farmers Market entrance.

Click below for more info or to please RSVP:
Berkeley, CA: No War with Russia Rally 

As you’re all aware, for the last several years I’ve been intimately involved in our MH “system”. It’s horrid and dysfunctional. In fact the WHO refers to the good old USof A, as being the worst place on the planet to be seriously mentally ill. Although it’s hard to, I believe them.

For three years now I’ve been helping to organize a very grassroots family organization – Families Advocating for the Seriously Mentally Ill (FASMI). We have lobbied, advocated, found allies, spoken up and educated and organized ourselves. Now we’re just plain fed-up and are taking our issues public as best we can.

On February 13th, Sunday, at 1:00 we will be rallying on the steps of the Board of Supervisors and some of us will stay and sleep there till their meeting Tuesday afternoon. Pamela Price and Loni Hancock will be speaking (briefly) among others – most importantly, families telling their stories (again briefly).

We’ll have art and music. Please join us and spread the word to whomever you think would be interested. I’m attaching our press release and flier.

HOSPITALS AND HOMES NOT JAILS AND STREETS

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28,2022
Event:  Rally for HOSPITALS AND HOMES, NOT JAILS AND STREETS
for our Community Members with Serious Mental Illness

Alameda County Behavioral Health Department ignores State funds earmarked for
improving and expanding mental health infrastructure, while Supervisors vote to pour
money into Santa Rita Jail, which will conOnue to be the default warehouse of people
with mental illness.

Organized by Families Advoca.ng for the Seriously Mentally Ill (FASMI)

On Sunday, February 13, the day before Valen’ne’s Day, beginning at 1:00 p.m., a broad-based
group of family ac’vists will gather on the plaza in front of the Board of Supervisors office
building at 1221 Oak Street in downtown Oakland to demand that Alameda County redirect
resources away from incarcera’on and into desperately needed community-based facilities
and services for those with Serious Mental Illness. There will be music and speakers, including
Alameda County District AQorney candidate Pamela Price, and former State Senator Loni
Hancock, throughout the aUernoon.

Participants will remain in the plaza un’l Tuesday, when the Supervisors meet, to demand a
public mee’ng to discuss recent funding decisions taken by the BOS and Alameda County
Behavior Health.

At a ‘me when the State of California is flush with tax revenue, and when the governor has
signaled that he intends to release funds to tackle the related problems of homelessness and
untreated mental illness, it is essen’al that elected officials listen to those who live with the
consequences of untreated mental illness. Families demand that all available resources are
sought and that they are allocated in a way that will make a difference in the lives of their
loved ones.
The State Legislature has already enacted the Behavioral Health ConOnuum Infrastructure
Program (BHCIP), which makes $2.2 billion in grants available to coun’es who apply for them
to “construct, acquire, and expand proper’es” that serve individuals with Mental Illness. These
funds can be used for much needed acute and/or sub-acute facili’es and suppor’ve housing.
Yet, to date, Alameda County Behavioral Health has declined to apply during the first rounds of
grants. These funds are once in a genera’on opportuni’es to create a decent con’nuum of
mental health care in the community. There are also other grants that can be used to subsidize
staffing and other needs.

At the same ‘me that the County is ignoring the opportunity to build more and beQer
community-based treatment centers, the Board of Supervisors has voted to allocate $300
Million to Sheriff Ahern for mental health facili’es at Santa Rita Jail, which has been sued for
its inhumane treatment of mentally ill prisoners. Ac’vists agree that jail condi’ons for those
with mental illness are deplorable, but they reject the idea that jail remain the default for
dealing with untreated mental illness. Public Defender Brian Bloom, who has been a fellow
advocate along with many others calling for “Care First, Jail Last” policies, said of the recent
seQlement, “Of course I want mentally ill individuals to be treated well in jail. But there’s only
so much money (and so many clinicians!) to go around: every penny that is spent in jail is a
penny not spent on keeping someone out of jail. “ Individuals frequently wind up in jail for
minor infrac’ons or innocuous behaviors simply because there is no other place to take them:
our hospitals and outpa’ent agencies are over-burdened. Jails are the beds that never say no.
Elected officials must step up and for’fy our Mental Health System so that it delivers for the
most vulnerable and overlooked members of our society: those with serious mental illness.
The demonstra’on is sponsored by Families Advoca.ng for the Seriously Mentally Ill (FASMI), a
coali’on of family members, caregivers and supporters of those with severe neurobiological
disorders (aka SMI) such as schizophrenia, schizoaffec’ve disorder and bipolar disorder. FASMI
advocates for changes to public health funding, laws, policies and prac’ces that fail to
adequately help those with these illnesses. Families are the frontline of care and sustenance
for the mentally ill, but without the support of our ins’tu’ons and laws we are helpless to
protect our loved ones, and our family members become society’s problems.

James Ramsey, a young Black Oakland resident with severe mental illness is being held on trumped up charges at Santa Rita for the alleged assault of Chinatown Chamber of Commerce President Carl Chan. James needs care, not incarceration.

James Ramsey has a history of mental illness and was living unhoused when the incident occurred. Both prosecution and defense agree that mental illness is an important factor in this case.

He has never received adequate mental health services or the support needed for his disabilities. Instead, he’s been funneled to the carceral system and subjected to punishment for incidents that likely stemmed from his mental illness, further traumatizing him. The state failed him at every turn, and now it wants to punish him for its failure.

Please join us at the courthouse this Thursday at 9:30 am to demand care and housing for James Ramsey, not incarceration!

Instructions: Participants are invited to go inside the courthouse to support. The building is wheelchair accessible. Bring a mask.

Thursday 3/3: No War with Russia/No NATO Expansion/Fund Communities, Not Warhttps://t.co/9tXkEPNgSo

— Indybay (@Indybay) February 28, 2022

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
Topic: All-hands Call on DeJoy’s Electric Vehicles Contract

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

The Save the USPS Coalition invites you to an “all-hands” meeting on Postmaster Louis DeJoy’s gas-fleet, non-union contract with Oshkosh Defense. In this meeting, we plan to bring together postal advocates and labor, environmental and contracting experts to discuss what legal and political actions we can take to slow and stop this contract. If you are interested in working in coalition to bring down this contract, fill out this Doodle Poll and let us know when works for you. Further, if you know of anyone working in this area who should be included in the call, please let us know.

Who we are:

The Save the USPS coalition is a group of nearly 300 public interest groups that came together when Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was appointed to  protect and expand the postal service into a hub for community services.

Background on the Oshkosh Contract:

With DeJoy’s direction, USPS plans to spend $11.3 billion on a new fleet of USPS trucks. This contract with Oshkosh has a slew of environmental and labor issues. The trucks would be mostly gas-powered and be built by non-union labor in right-to-work South Carolina. Watch More Perfect Union’s quick video covering the contract’s long list of issues. Our ask is a nearly entirely electric fleet built by union workers in Wisconsin. USPS claims the contract is finalized, but it’s not over yet!

Help us strategize about the next stage of this fight!

Please fill out this Doodle Poll as soon as possible.

• No closures, no cuts
• Cancel the debt and fund our schools
• Show us the money
• No state take-over

In solidarity,
APTP

P.S. The campaign to fight against school closures is accepting Venmo donations at @ShutDownTheTown.
Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. We support families surviving police terror in their fight for justice, documenting police abuses and connecting impacted families and community members with resources, legal referrals, and opportunities for healing.

We need all hands on deck for this coming Tuesday, to demand the termination of Vallejo PD’s badge benders and to protest borrowing $30M for a police station upgrade we already voted against. #PoliceBrutality #Vallejo #PoliceReform pic.twitter.com/42B0ZzsyH6

— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) March 6, 2022

MARRIOTT – STOP YOUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA! DEMONSTRATE AT THE MARRIOTT HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN OAKLAND SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1 PM

Hundreds of international corporations have suspended their business operations in Russia. Coca Cola stopped business with this statement: “Our hearts are with the people who are enduring unconscionable effects from these tragic events in Ukraine.” Starbucks said on Tuesday it is suspending all business activity in Russia, including shipment of its products and closing cafes. But there are many corporations that continue to do business in Russia. The Marriott Hotel chain is one of them. Why hasn’t Marriott Hotel pulled out?

Join us for a demonstration and vigil outside the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel at 1001 Broadway, two blocks south of the downtown Oakland BART station, on Sunday the 13th.

We will gather on the steps of the CPUC at 9 AM, where we will hear from coalition partners followed by a collective call-in to the virtual PUC meeting taking place at 10 AM. Donuts and coffee provided!

If you cannot join in person, please RSVP to call in to the virtual meeting by clicking here.