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Mar
10
Wed
The Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online
Mar 10 all-day

Biometrics technology is being used in a wide range of contexts and there in this range of existing and potential uses, there are many questions about the ethical and socially good uses.

Our vision for the convene a range of constituencies whose work touches on biometrics and use in the real world.

  • Biometrics Community
  • Researchers and scientist who is looking for new ideas to work on
  • Identity Community
  • Commercial Users of systems
  • Regulators and policy makers
  • Cybersecurity Professionals
  • Privacy Professionals
  • Humanitarian Groups
  • Police Accountability Groups
  • Citizen Watchdog Groups
  • Students and Researchers

We hope that the conversations catalyzed at the event are starting points for ongoing work in fora that touch on biometrics issues.

This event is a 3 day virtual virtual event.

It is on MondayWednesday and Friday the second week of March 2021.

Each day will begin at 9am PST to 1pm PST / Noon EST to 5 EST.

We ask you to as best you can fully commit to being at the event for the full time. The event is co-created by the participants and is meant to support in-depth dialogue and interaction to fully explore Thoughtful Biometrics as a community.

Each morning of the event all the attendees will gather together and co-create the agenda for the day – you can read more about the format below.

We are considering questions such as:

  • How do biometrics work?
  • How are biometrics being used?
  • What are the dangers of using biometrics?
  • What are the appropriate and even good uses of biometrics?

Our society is complex. The systems within it are complex and built by networks of professionals each with their own deep technical expertise.

One of the challenges we face now is that these professionals are so deep in their own fields they rarely talk to those in neighboring communities who are technologies all come together in these systems.

We note that there are discussions happening between these professionals but usually within companies and small groups bubbles that have never been open or include more individuals in an open and transparent discussion.

Our hope is this event creates more cross-pollination and exploration of the technologies along with the social and policy implications of them. We invite discussion about tangible risks/threat models and all levels from the micro to the macro systems.

We want to expand the conversation, inclusive to support “hearing” the voices at the edges.

We welcome the participation of people who ask serious questions about these systems.

We also want to invite those active in the industry who want to respond in a meaningful way to thoughtful criticism. Our vision for the conference is inspired by our ongoing participation in

This conference is not to “sell” biometrics products like the Connect:ID Conference or K(n)ow Identity Conference by OWI.

We have several starting axioms for this event:

Biometrics are a technology that is being used and will not be vanishing.

There are a range of uses for these technologies that can be good and can be bad.

We value discernment about the application of biometrics technology.

About the Format

Our inspiration for this event comes from the Internet Identity Workshop, an event that uses the Open Space Technology to co-create the agenda live the day of the event. There are no keynotes or panels, it’s all about exploring the topic with professional peers from a range of industries. We are curating videos that people who are attending can watch ahead of time to get up to speed about some of the technologies and topics of interest but the format at the event is discussion driven and about peer learning. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion for learning and contributing to the event that make it the success it is.

The Conveners

Asem Othman, Biometric Scientist

Jack “John Callahan” Software architect and developer

Kaliya Young “Identity Woman” – Digital Identity Expert

68391
A Conversation with Naomi Klein @ Online
Mar 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A Conversation with Naomi Klein

Join us for a casual conversation with Naomi Klein that will touch upon the pivotal moment we are in as we work to address the climate crisis, fight for climate justice, and examine the detrimental impacts that colonialism and capitalism have had on our planet and society. What needs to happen to bring about transformative, systemic change at this critical time? Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author of On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, as well as the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University.

**A link will be emailed to you prior to the event.

68830
ReImagine Everything: Lifting Suspicions @ Online
Mar 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Register Here

The Everett Program presents a two week webinar series: “Re Imagine Everything: Leveraging Transformative Justice Theory to Advance a World Beyond Incarceration”. Executive Director of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Zach Norris, and Underground Scholar, Steven Czifra join us to discuss transformative solutions to stop the school to prison pipeline on March 10th.

Website:https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucuyvrDgvHdRffC-KtNL6lc8UmKhKb3IL%20

68849
Invest in Community: An East Oakland dialogue on public safety @ Online
Mar 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Online Event

http://bit.ly/investOak

Join us for a 90 minute virtual discussion about safety in Oakland from a youth perspective on what really keeps us safe. Register here: http://bit.ly/investOak

While the nation was taking to the streets for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, the Bay Area was rocked by the murders of Steven Taylor, Sean Monterrosa, and Erik Salgado by law enforcement. Oakland youth and community took to the streets to demand police accountability and that we #DefundOPD to #ReinvestInCommunity.

Oakland Police Department takes almost half of our city’s budget. There isn’t enough money for services that create peace in our community like education, housing, health services, and youth programming. Last summer’s youth-led activism led to the creation of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force, which was tasked with figuring out how to take 50% of OPD’s budget to invest in community.

It is time for the Task Force to deliver its recommendations to the Oakland City Council to impact the City Budget. Join us for this community dialogue to discuss what really keeps us safe. Share your experiences and perspective to end criminalization of Black and Brown communities and #InvestInCommunity.

Hosted by Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice

68827
Mar
11
Thu
Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: Floaters @ Online
Mar 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

MARTIN ESPADA, a poet who stirs our social consciousness, has published twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator, including Vivas To Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Republic of Poetry.

His latest book, Floaters, offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love. The title is a term used by some Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over the border. Espada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love. Whether celebrating the visionaries – the fallen dreamers, rebels, and poets – or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.

DENNIS BERNSTEIN , a poet and investigative journalist, is the producer of Flashpoints (heard weekdays at 5pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. His political essays have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and websites. His latest book of poems is Five Oceans in a Teaspoon, with typographic visualizations by Warren Lehrer. The poems in it reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. It spans a single lifetime: from growing up confused by dyslexia to becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermath, to prison, street life, poverty, love and loss, to open heart surgery. Five Oceans in a Teaspoon speaks to the madness, vulnerability, aspiration and language of our time. The raw emotion of the writing has a freshness rarely encountered. The book was a winner for Poetry in the 2020 Best Book Awards/American Book Fest, and a finalist in the International Book award for Poetry.

Suggested Donation $1-$20.

68852
Mar
12
Fri
The Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop @ Online
Mar 12 all-day

Biometrics technology is being used in a wide range of contexts and there in this range of existing and potential uses, there are many questions about the ethical and socially good uses.

Our vision for the convene a range of constituencies whose work touches on biometrics and use in the real world.

  • Biometrics Community
  • Researchers and scientist who is looking for new ideas to work on
  • Identity Community
  • Commercial Users of systems
  • Regulators and policy makers
  • Cybersecurity Professionals
  • Privacy Professionals
  • Humanitarian Groups
  • Police Accountability Groups
  • Citizen Watchdog Groups
  • Students and Researchers

We hope that the conversations catalyzed at the event are starting points for ongoing work in fora that touch on biometrics issues.

This event is a 3 day virtual virtual event.

It is on MondayWednesday and Friday the second week of March 2021.

Each day will begin at 9am PST to 1pm PST / Noon EST to 5 EST.

We ask you to as best you can fully commit to being at the event for the full time. The event is co-created by the participants and is meant to support in-depth dialogue and interaction to fully explore Thoughtful Biometrics as a community.

Each morning of the event all the attendees will gather together and co-create the agenda for the day – you can read more about the format below.

We are considering questions such as:

  • How do biometrics work?
  • How are biometrics being used?
  • What are the dangers of using biometrics?
  • What are the appropriate and even good uses of biometrics?

Our society is complex. The systems within it are complex and built by networks of professionals each with their own deep technical expertise.

One of the challenges we face now is that these professionals are so deep in their own fields they rarely talk to those in neighboring communities who are technologies all come together in these systems.

We note that there are discussions happening between these professionals but usually within companies and small groups bubbles that have never been open or include more individuals in an open and transparent discussion.

Our hope is this event creates more cross-pollination and exploration of the technologies along with the social and policy implications of them. We invite discussion about tangible risks/threat models and all levels from the micro to the macro systems.

We want to expand the conversation, inclusive to support “hearing” the voices at the edges.

We welcome the participation of people who ask serious questions about these systems.

We also want to invite those active in the industry who want to respond in a meaningful way to thoughtful criticism. Our vision for the conference is inspired by our ongoing participation in

This conference is not to “sell” biometrics products like the Connect:ID Conference or K(n)ow Identity Conference by OWI.

We have several starting axioms for this event:

Biometrics are a technology that is being used and will not be vanishing.

There are a range of uses for these technologies that can be good and can be bad.

We value discernment about the application of biometrics technology.

About the Format

Our inspiration for this event comes from the Internet Identity Workshop, an event that uses the Open Space Technology to co-create the agenda live the day of the event. There are no keynotes or panels, it’s all about exploring the topic with professional peers from a range of industries. We are curating videos that people who are attending can watch ahead of time to get up to speed about some of the technologies and topics of interest but the format at the event is discussion driven and about peer learning. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion for learning and contributing to the event that make it the success it is.

The Conveners

Asem Othman, Biometric Scientist

Jack “John Callahan” Software architect and developer

Kaliya Young “Identity Woman” – Digital Identity Expert

68391
“Trumpism and its Discontents”: Consequences of Trumpism on U.S. Society and World @ Online
Mar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

sm_screenshot_2021-03-07_trumpism_and_its_discontents-1_pdf_1_.jpg “Trumpism and its Discontents” New Book Talk

Main Host: Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley

More info & website livestream here: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/trumpism-event

FB livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley/live/

Moderated by: Osagie K. Obasogie, Professor of Bioethics in the School of Public Health

Panelists:

Ann C. Keller, Associate Professor, School of Public Health

Zeus Leonardo, Professor, Graduate School of Education

john a. powell, Director, Othering and Belonging Institute

Please join us for a moderated panel discussion with influential UC Berkeley scholars offering a deep and crucial examination of the political conditions that led to the rise of Donald Trump and the consequences of his presidency on US society and the world.

This timely event follows the recent publication of a new book by the same name “Trumpism and its Discontents”, available for FREE download as a PDF (https://belonging.berkeley.edu/trumpism-and-its-discontents). Book chapters examine Trumpism in the context of various issues, including speech and race relations, politics of resentment, foreign policy and the existing world order, demographic shifts, and immigration policy.

The panel discussion will take place in the first 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for audience Q&A.

Sponsored by the Othering & Belonging Institute, the Center for Right-Wing Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Institute of Governmental Studies

68853
From Fighting the Power to Being the Power @ Online
Mar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Is it time to finally agree that maybe a bunch of white enslavers from the 1700s didn’t come up with the best system ever? Do you have questions about participatory budgeting, CDP’s campaign, and the future of democracy under a pandemic?

We have a few ideas (four to be exact) about HOW to replace our current system. And we have just the idea about WHAT to replace our current system with. Join us for a fishbowl conversation to learn more!

ASL interpretation and/or Closed Captioning will be provided.

Online Event

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqduGurTwpEtUZGH-dpbTY0N41B4WR7F5C

Hosted by The Community Democracy Project

68826
Mar
13
Sat
DSA Orinda Barnstorm: Demand Democrats Pass CA Medicare for All @ Orinda Community Park
Mar 13 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

COVID-19 is shining a spotlight on the cruelty of the U.S. healthcare system — a system designed to maximize profit, not patients’ well-being. Millions of working-class people have lost their jobs and their health insurance in the pandemic-driven recession. Meanwhile, in California alone, 165 billionaires have seen their wealth increase by $175,000,000,000 since March 2020.

In the wealthiest state in the wealthiest country in the world, this is unacceptable. We must make healthcare a human right for all our residents. We must pass Assembly Bill 1400, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act, also known as “CalCare.”

To win “CalCare,” we need a working-class movement to apply pressure on Democratic lawmakers into supporting Assembly Bill 1400. Our first target: California State Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of Assembly District 16, one of California’s most wealthy State Assembly districts.

Join us for our first in-person, no-contact, socially-distant Day of Action.

We will begin our Day of Action with a rally from those fighting for healthcare justice, creating a movement to win California Medicare for All, and pass AB 1400 – “CalCare.” Then, we will go throughout Orinda to hang door hangers to send a message to Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan that her constituents support a California Medicare for All system.

Join us in our movement to win California Medicare for All today. RSVP for this event here:

https://actionnetwork.org/events/doorhangers-for-medicare-for-all-in-orinda

68855
Berkeley Community Policing Webinar @ Online
Mar 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  https://us02.web.zoom.us/j/86908147095 

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You are invited to a public informational webinar to learn about the Police Accountability Board, which Berkeley voters created last November with the overwhelming passage of Measure II.

Please join Mayor Arreguin, Councilmember Harrison, and the Police Review Commission on Saturday, March 13, 2021, from 4:00 p.m. to 5: 00 p.m., and come and learn how to apply for the Board.

68856
Uphold the Legacy and Power of Women’s Resistance Here & Abroad! @ Online
Mar 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

People’s Strike Bay Area and our incredible community partners invite you to a virtual gathering to commemorate International Working Women’s Day 2021, the 113th anniversary of the first women’s strike in NYC in 1908.

FaceBook Event Details Here

Register Here: https://tinyurl.com/IWWDMarch2021

Join us on Saturday, March 13th at 4PM PST as we Uphold the Legacy and Power of Women’s Resistance Here & Abroad! Together, we will be lifting up the internationalist struggles and stories of women workers, human rights defenders and Trans, and Gender Non Conforming communities around the world.

Let us gather together to RISE Up to demand an end to gender based violence against women and TGNC communities, RESIST militarization and displacement, and UNITE for relief, adequate protections. and mental health support for all workers.

Our #IWWD201 Points of Unity are:

  • We believe in open borders and rise up against the violences of immigration, forced migration, and displacement which make unwilling detainees and refugees of our communities and rip our families apart.
  • We are committed to exposing, fighting and dismantling imperialism, militarism, and state repression-. We echo the calls to Defund the Police, and invest in community-led public safety, which does not seek to silence or control us.
  • We are in solidarity with Black, Brown, and Indigenous women from Oakland to Palestine and the Philippines, demanding sovereignty and self-determination for their peoples.
  • We support women and TGNC communities who are fighting economic injustice in the face of institutions and governments that value profit and political dominance, even in the midst of a deadly global pandemic, over the health and safety of their people.
  • We resist the extractive industries who control our current global economy and know that in order to secure a just and equitable future, we must combat the climate crisis.

 

Organizers of this event
GABRIELA Oakland
Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA)
ASATA – Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
“Comfort Women” Justice Coalition
California Nurses Association
Cal-Nev Philippine Solidarity Task Force (UMC)
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
Workers World Party
Palestinian Youth Movement -Women’s Committee
People’s Strike Bay Area
International Women’s Alliance

Co-Sponsors
Filipina Women’s Network
Jewish Voices for Peace-Bay Area
Forward Together
API Equality � Northern California (APIENC)� �
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League of Filipino Students at UC Berkeley
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Catalyst Project
V-Day/One Billion Rising

Endorsers
NLG-SF Bay Area
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Haiti Action Committee
AYPAL: Building API Community Power
Center for Political Education

If your organization would like to support this year’s #IWWD2021 please fill out this form

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Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons @ ONLINE, VIA 'ZOOM'
Mar 13 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

We’ll meet via Zoom.
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for the invite.

 

For our February meeting we’ll be reading Part I of
Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

by Silvia Federici.

For our March meeting we’ll be reading the rest of the book, pp 78-196

 

Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut EconomicsLimitsBanking on the PeopleCapital and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism and the Edge of Chaos blog symposium.

Join us – all are welcome!

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Mar
14
Sun
Collective Worker Action in the Tech Industry @ Online
Mar 14 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

A look at both the history of collective actions taken by workers in the tech industry and the current state of the movement. Tech has long been seen as an industry that has resisted worker organization for many reasons. However, there has actually been a long history of organization among tech workers. And, in the last few years, there has been a groundswell of worker organizing in many of the largest tech companies including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. What are the strategies that have been taken by the movement to build worker power and how successful have they been? What is different and unique about organizing workers in the tech industry? Come find out!
Bios:
Sarvesh Rajasekaran has been working in the tech industry as an engineer and product manager for over a decade and helps maintain Collective Action in Tech. He has also been a community organizer for Bernie 2020 and Homes not Handcuffs among other electoral and issue campaigns.
Kristen will provide her bio shortly!

LOGIN INFORMATION
The meeting will be opened up, as usual, at 10:15 for anyone to join and discuss technical matters, catch up with each other, say Hi, etc. We Intend to start the presentation as close to 10:30 am as possible. The program (and recording) will end at 12:30, but the Waiting Room will remain open for informal discussion.

 

LOG-IN INFO WILL BE POSTED BY HERE BY FRIDAY

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Coronavirus, Health Management, and Media @ Online
Mar 14 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Join Zoom Meeting
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Passcode: 2020

How are our federal agencies working for us during the pandemic, and what can they do better?  Could special interests and regulatory capture of key agencies (such as the CDC, FDA, etc.) be affecting current US coronavirus policies?  How is the mass media covering the pandemic?  What are the important aspects and/or information not being discussed, which we should be aware of?  And what can we learn from other countries in how they are managing this crisis?

How about “herd immunity”, when a large portion of a community (the herd) becomes immune to a disease, making the spread of disease from person to person unlikely?  What is the relationship between people getting one of the vaccines and the creation of herd immunity?  In addition, much of the vaccines use “mRNA” technology, which has never before been used in a mass vaccination program — what should we know about them, and are there any concerns we should be aware of?  What are some of the possible side effects, and how long will the vaccines realistically “protect us”?  What are “unknowns” about the Covid-19 crisis?  And how about the many new virus variants — how will that affect the situation?

And finally, what are some recommended self-care practices, as well as dietary choices to help support our immune systems?  Are there any alternative approaches we might consider, such as herbal-dietary agents?  What about our indoor environments?  Should we consider antiviral “air treatments” (such as “Grignard Pure”)?  What are the biggest risk factors for getting a serious case of Covid-19, and can we do anything about those factors?

Join us tonight as our panel addresses these subjects, and more.  A Q&A period will follow presentations from the panelists.  Brief bios for each of our three speakers are as follows:

Myrto Ashe, MD, MPH, originally trained as a family physician and practiced 20 years in community health centers in Massachusetts, California, and Colorado and in 2011 trained in functional medicine.
Since early 2016, Dr. Ashe has worked to understand and implement a programmatic approach for the reversal or stabilization of patients with cognitive decline, as first published by Dr. Dale Bredesen. This brings her back to her original fascination as an undergraduate in neurobioloogy and neuropathology.
Her consultation-based practice is located in San Rafael, California. She is also happy to work with providers who want advice on helping their patients with cognitive issues. Her website is unconventionalmedicine.net.

Mary Holland,  J.D., is full-time General Counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and also serves as CHD’s Vice Chair of the Board of Directors.
Holland has fought long and hard in the vaccination choice and safety movement. In the last fifteen years, she has co-written and edited two books, Vaccine Epidemic and The HPV Vaccine on Trial, and co-founded two non-profits, the Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy and the Center for Personal Rights. In addition, she has published seminal legal articles on critical dimensions of vaccine law and policy: constitutionality; herd immunity; liability for injury; and the connection between vaccines and autism.
On behalf of many organizations, she submitted amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, a case about manufacturer liability, and to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Cedillo v. HHS about vaccine-induced autism. She serves on the advisory boards for Health Choice, the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, and the Otto Specht School and Endeavor 21+, Waldorf communities for children and young adults with learning differences.
Holland has addressed legislators in Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, California, Oregon, Washington and West Virginia on vaccine law and policy. And she has also held briefings on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations, capturing international attention.

Justin Pagliano, MD, Ph.D. is a published and award-winning MD and PhD living in Connecticut who transitioned from science and virology to dedicate more time to political activism. He also teaches and plays the piano and keyboards in a few local bands. Justin has previously served as the Secretary of his town’s Democratic Town Committee and has led a Democracy for America Chapter in New Haven, CT.  He is currently an active member of the Connecticut Green Party, Physicians for a National Healthcare Program (PNHP), Medicare for All Connecticut, and Voter-Choice Connecticut (a Ranked Choice Voting grassroots group).  Justin ran on the Green Party Line for the Congressional seat of District 3 in Connecticut in 2020, a district comprising 25 towns.  Justin is running again for the same seat in 2022 because the work he set out to do is still incomplete: we still need several broadly popular Green Party policies to be implemented, including Medicare For All, a redirection of resources from warfare to the people’s welfare, urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and policies to reverse the ongoing worsening of egregious economic inequality.

Green Sundays
are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows, at 6:30 pm. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.

 

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68834
Mar
16
Tue
Recalculating the Social Cost of Carbon @ Online
Mar 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join a conversation with David Anthoff, Professor with UC Berkeley’s Energy & Resources Group, about his recent research on how to recalculate the social cost of carbon (SCC).

Anthoff helped create a roadmap for the Biden Administration to set an SCC in a way that is both scientifically rigorous and transparent; as well as specific suggestions including updating the way they calculate damage and including the inequitable effects of climate change.

The roadmap was published in the journal Nature last month.

The UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment hosts this event, which will be moderated by  Berkeley Law Professor and CLEE Faculty Director Dan Farber

Register here

68854
Electrify Your Ride @ Online
Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Learn EV Basics.

We’ll review available electric vehicles, charging at home and on the road, incentives, total cost of ownership, and you’ll have the chance to ask the questions you’ve always wondered about EVs.

These are the following dates and times we are presenting.

Tuesday, March 16th, 7pm
Wednesday, March 24th, 12pm
Monday, March 29th, 5pm
Wednesday, April 14th, 7pm
Tuesday, April 20th, 4:30pm
Thursday, April 29th, 12:30pm

 

68864
Mar
17
Wed
Re imagining Public Safety @ Online
Mar 17 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

We need your support on March 17 to show the mayor and OPD what’s right for Oakland.

Join us for the LAST MEETING of the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force!

On the table are some of the most forward-thinking proposals in the country. Thanks to our organizing, the Task Force advisory boards have proposed a set of bold, smart, transformative recommendations that will completely reimagine public safety in the Town. These proposals are overwhelmingly popular across Oakland’s communities.

But opponents aligned with the Mayor and OPD are fighting tooth and nail to thwart the people’s will, even engaging in a series of coordinated attacks against APTP and other BIPOC-led organizations in our Defund Police Coalition.

We are on the cusp of victory for our communities and we need YOUR SOLIDARITY! Join us.

Where: bit.ly/reimaginefinalmtg

Typically we have our monthly general meetings on the third Wednesday of every month, but we need a groundswell of community members to make SO MUCH NOISE at this final Task Force meeting that we drown out those who have forgotten or rejected the mandate of the Task Force: to defund OPD by 50% and invest in community services that actually keep us safe.

Please urge the Task Force to adopt the recommendations from our Defund Coalition Report. Add a personal touch to your comments when possible, as unique comments tend to have a greater impact.
RSVP
Together, we forced the city to create this Task Force last summer to chart a course towards defunding OPD by 50% and refunding our communities. We hit the streets by the THOUSANDS. We gave HUNDREDS OF HOURS of public comment. Now we need EVERYONE to show out and push the Task Force over the finish line. Join us to DEMAND that the final recommendations they send on to City Council are as strong as possible. We will accept nothing less.

 le like you.

68875
Mar
18
Thu
Inside the Fight for Public Information @ Online
Mar 18 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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In 2020, access to public information became even more challenging. Government at all levels cited the pandemic for refusing to respond to records requests. Yet news organizations across the country published essential accountability journalism, breaking through barriers to open government. Hear from journalists from The Advocate, The Brown Institute, plus a First Amendment Coalition attorney, on how they navigated barriers to public records to tell important stories about COVID-19, official misconduct and beyond.

68848
Banking for All @ Online
Mar 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

JOIN US FOR THE AB 1177 ADVOCATES’ BRIEFING. Join us for a briefing call and learn more about this crucial new bill to help close the racial financial access gap.

Advocates’ briefing invite and Zoom registration link.

Nearly 1 in 4 Californians are unbanked or underbanked – they either do not have a baank account, or despite having a bank account, still largely rely on alternative financial services, such as payday lenders, prepaid debit cards, and pawn shops. The unbanked and underbanked pay more for their financial services, have fewer opportunities to build credit, and are rejected for loans more often.

Low-wage workers earning less than $15 per hour make up 80.7% of the state’s unbanked. Nearly half of all Black households in California and 41% of all Latino households are unbanked or underbanked compared to 15.5% of white households.

AB 1177 – the California Public Banking Option Acct – will provide Californians with a no-cost banking option. This bill creates the BankCal program, allowing Californians to open a no-fee, no-penalty account with an associated debit card.

Join the fight for equitable banking access with the 3 action items above!

UPDATED AUTHORS LIST!

Authors: Assemblymembers Miguel Santiago, David Chiu, Mike Gipson, Ash Kalra, Alex Lee, Wendy Carrillo, Eduardo Garcia, Lorena Gonzalez.

Coauthors: Assemblymembers Rob Bonta, Laura Friedman, Luz Rivas, Reggie Jones-Sawyer, Phil Ting, Buffy Wicks, Senators Maria Elana Durazo, Ben Hueso, Lena Gonzalez, Scott Wiener.

Sponsors: Service Employees International Union (SEIU) CA, California Public Banking Alliance (CPBA), California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC).

Learn more at bankcalnow.com.
SAVE THE DATE!

We will hold a press conference March 30 with SEIU California to officially launch AB 1177, the California Public Banking Option Act. Details soon!
 

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Just Transition Town Hall: Decommissioning Refineries in the Bay Area @ Online
Mar 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Register here.

Join Communities for a Better Environment, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and the Richmond Our Power Coalition (ROPC) at the first of  a series of ROPC Just Transition town halls.  At Decommissioning Refineries in the Bay Area, imagine the progressive closure of Bay Area refineries where the host communities and workers are protected economically and socially!  For the City of Richmond, this means imagining a future Beyond Chevron.

Richmond is trapped in a toxic relationship with Chevron.   For over a century:

  • Chevron has polluted Richmond’s air, water, land, and politics,
  • Chevron has pitted community groups against one another through its philanthropy,
  • Chevron has gaslit and lied to Richmond, claiming that its toxic flaring and daily emissions are safe.

It’s time to envision a future Beyond Chevron.  Working together we can make sure that the inevitable transition from Chevron and the extractive economy supports communities and workers, centers justice and healing, and builds a regenerative, feminist economy.

Come join this community town hall hosted by Communities for a Better Environment to hear stories from community members and to vision together what can come next.

** Priority attendance for Richmond / San Pablo residents and those directly impacted by Chevron. **

Have any access needs, questions, or concerns?  Feel free to reach out to zolboo@cbecal.org.

 

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