This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities.

Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it.

By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a surveillance-free future. Lessons will cover: data colonialism, race and policing, immigration enforcement, border militarization, global migration, organizing tools, and more.

Alongside key speakers, you will engage with selected readings, reflection questions, and meet other people thinking through these issues of 21st century technologies in their own communities. Join us every two weeks for one hour as we learn together and continue to build a path that centers communities targeted by the detention and deportation machinery, policing, and military operations.

We know that left unchecked, we will be facing down a new world order designed and controlled by big tech and enabled by the government.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!

Session Dates

Live sessions will take place biweekly on Wednesdays for one hour at 3pm PST/5PM CST/6pm EST. Lesson materials and content for each lesson will be unlocked prior to the live session.

Session 1: February 23rd
Session 2: March 9th
Session 3: March 23rd
Session 4: April 6th
Session 5: April 20th

New Member Orientation!

Get involved with community-based police accountability and the struggle for justice! Copwatch will be hosting a new volunteer orientation (with snacks) where we will have info sessions on copwatching shifts, Know Your Rights trainings, creative projects, casework, and our police incident database.

This even will be held outside, socially distanced with masks.
Accessibility: The location is at ground level, in a grassy area.

For questions, email: berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com

Lead the way in bringing change to the California State Capitol and all our communities!

Virtual. Link will be shared upon registration.
SIGN UP

Led by organizers from the three ACLU California affiliates and ACLU California Action, the 2022 ACLU California Action Conference will kick off on Tuesday, April 19 and be followed with training and visits to lawmakers’ offices to lobby for the change we seek.

This legislative session, activists like you will help pass key bills to:

• Increase oversight of officer-involved deaths.
• Protect students from unnecessary interactions with law enforcement.
• Limit police use of facial recognition technology.

These bills will continue to push California leaders to embrace the change our communities demand.

Register now for this free, virtual event.

In Solidarity,

Carlos Marquez III
Executive Director, ACLU California Action
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This 5-part course is designed for anyone interested in studying technology and data as the new frontier in organizing against the systems of enforcement and criminalization that harm our communities.

Three years since beginning our monumental #NoTechForICE campaign, we’re launching this course to share resources we’ve developed and to create a digital space for deepening our collective understanding of the ever-expanding state of surveillance––and how to organize against it.

By signing up for this course, you will hear from organizers, professors, and movement leaders who contribute towards this powerful movement for a surveillance-free future. Lessons will cover: data colonialism, race and policing, immigration enforcement, border militarization, global migration, organizing tools, and more.

Alongside key speakers, you will engage with selected readings, reflection questions, and meet other people thinking through these issues of 21st century technologies in their own communities. Join us every two weeks for one hour as we learn together and continue to build a path that centers communities targeted by the detention and deportation machinery, policing, and military operations.

We know that left unchecked, we will be facing down a new world order designed and controlled by big tech and enabled by the government.

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH US!

Session Dates

Live sessions will take place biweekly on Wednesdays for one hour at 3pm PST/5PM CST/6pm EST. Lesson materials and content for each lesson will be unlocked prior to the live session.

Session 1: February 23rd
Session 2: March 9th
Session 3: March 23rd
Session 4: April 6th
Session 5: April 20th

White Nationalism & Intervention webinar THIS Sunday 6/5.

One thing is clear: white supremacist terrorism will continue to escalate until the white nationalist movement is out-organized. White folks–we have a lot of work to do. https://t.co/ibTvfX2vBh pic.twitter.com/mNIeGZHDA6

— CRCAA (@crc_accomplices) June 1, 2022

This Saturday we will have an MH First Training open to ALL community members…

Register for MH First Training

Where: East Oakland � Location will be shared upon registration

Accessibility: This is a 7 hour training in person with no virtual option. We will provide materials for you to access in advanced if needed. Breaks will be provided. Lunch will also be provided for all participants. Please include any accessibility needs in the registration form.

*Participants will be required to wear a mask throughout the training, except when eating lunch, and will be socially distanced from each other.*
Register for MH First Training
We deserve community crisis response that doesn’t harm us and instead honors our lives.

Come to our annual Alameda County Budget 101 Training presented by the Care First Community Coalition.
 
You’re invited to the annual Alameda County Budget 101 Training presented by Restore Oakland, American Friends Service Committee & the Care First Community Coalition

This will be a zoom webinar, registration is required.

In this training, we will provide you with fundamental tools to demystify the county budget process and who the decisionmakers are. You’ll also learn about Care First Community Coalition‘s budget demands that are being made by incarcerated folks, their loved ones, service providers, and advocates.

That is a budget which divests from incarceration, and invests in mental health and housing resources that truly make our community safe.

Our goal is to empower Alameda County residents to make a Care First budget a reality.

REGISTER

THIS Saturday July 23, 2022, 10 AM to 6 PM, People’s Park Nonviolence Training, Nonviolent Direct Action prep/training.  Food Not Bombs provides lunch.  rsvp asap: weddress777@gmail.com  (deets below)     Text “SAVETHEPARK” to 74121 now.

Diablo Rising Tide, Oil and Gas Action Network, and Direct Action Everywhere are offering another in their series of training programs in nonviolent direct action for the climate.

This training will take participants through many of the strategies, tools and considerations of direct action, including power and privilege, de-escalation, blockades, legal, direct action organizing models, and the opportunity to form affinity groups.

And attending this training will be way to get plugged in for upcoming actions.

RSVP

Questions: Contact christina@oilgasaction.org

Join us for a teach-in session hosted by organizers across the country on how you can join the Stop Shotspotter campaign!

Register

APTP’s MH First (MH1) is Oakland’s first and only non 9-1-1 crisis response line for mental health, substance use and domestic violence and is available from 8 pm to 8 am, Fridays & Saturdays, covering the hours when traditional mental health hotlines are closed. Our MH First program is an assembly of doctors, nurses, systems-impacted people, and community members working together to build alternatives to police.

The only way to decrease police terror is to decrease police presence in our communities. A mental health crisis should not be a death sentence.

Join us this Saturday, August 27 for a full-day virtual training to build alternatives to police together!

What: Online MH First Training open to ALL* community members
Where: Online � Register to join us

*Note: Capacity is limited. Priority will be given to those who are able to start volunteering as MH First responders in the next 3 months.

Accessibility: This is a 7 hour training on Zoom. Breaks will be provided. Please include any accessibility needs in the registration form.
Register for MH First Training
We deserve community crisis response that doesn’t harm us and instead honors our lives.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Workshop

The Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force presents:

CEMTF 3RD Virtual Summit Series: CLIMATE & the ECONOMY

Which Green Matters Most?

9:00 – 9:20 AM

Land Acknowledgement

Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair, Confederated Villages of Lisjan & Co Director Sogorea Te Land Trust

Welcome

Cheryl Davila, Chair CEMTF & Former Councilmember

Speakers & Co-Speaker

9:20 – 10:00 AM

Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder Code Pink

10:00 – 10:30 AM

“The Doughnut that’s good for CA”

Franziska Raedeker & Anne Sheridan, California Doughnut Economics Coalition

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Public Banks, A Tool for building pathways to a just and sustainable future

Gayle McLaughlin, Councilmember, City of Richmond

Public Banks, A Piece of the Sustainability Jigsaw Puzzle

Debbie Notkin, Chair, Friends of the Public Bank East Bay

5 minute Break

11:05 – 11:50 AM

Zero Food Waste–

Tara McNerney & Pete Pearson, World Wildlife Fund

David Hott, Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen

Cara Morgan, Branch Chief, Local Assistance and Market Development, CalRecycle, State of California

11:50 AM – Noon

Announcements & Closing

Cheryl Davila

CEMTF.org/ @CEMTF1/ https://www.facebook.com/ClimateEmergencyMobilizationTaskForce/

What’s on the horizon for 2023?

• Mark your calendars for the State of the Debtors’ Union General Assembly on January 25, 8PM EST. We’ll highlight some accomplishments from the preceding year, and take stock for the year ahead. Hope to see you there.

https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa

— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023

https://t.co/FQYTHaNbc5 things are getting fun during our Monday night women coding nights at the SudoRoom – new flyer and a cool learning mapping project of all the languages spoken in Oakland using Jupiter pic.twitter.com/pUvHtP1sRa

— Sudo Room (@sudoroom) February 12, 2023