The public is invited, we will be joined by a panel of professionals working in mental health to explore the rising opportunity for alternative responses to mental health emergencies in Berkeley, our current state, as well as a look at other communities already doing this work. Break out groups will follow and community dialogue will be encouraged during the zoom event.
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The topic will be the history of the 1930s. Not the Great Depression but the *responses* to it. Firstly the Great Labor Rebellion: the CP-led California farmworkers strike, the three left-led general strikes of 1934, the sitdown strikes, and the rise of the CIO. And secondly the capitalist response, the New Deal and FDR, how the capitalist class coopted Labor’s Giant Step, and how black people, Chicanos and women were mistreated under New Deal legislation.
Our speaker is John Holmes who teaches history at Merritt College in California, and is currently on the executive council of the Peralta Federation of Teachers, representing part timers. He was previously an activist in the typographical union.
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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.
Login info will be posted by here by Friday, Mar 19, 2021
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Right now the most vulnerable individuals are being exploited on a massive scale and it will only get worse if we don’t take action now. But can we as average citizens really make a difference to help them? The answer is YES. In Direct Action Everywhere’s workshop, you will learn the history of social movements, the groundbreaking new research that shows the power of ordinary people, and the bold plan to nonviolently abolish the most harmful industry on earth that kills billions of animals every year.
Join this Zoom link Sunday at 11am PST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84012361059
Meeting ID: 840 1236 1059
Please sign up to our email list before you attend this event:
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This interactive workshop was created by DxE co-founder and former Northwestern law professor Wayne Hsiung. After this workshop, you will have the tools to begin taking high impact action with thousands around the world to create historic change by saving billions of lives.
If you’re interested in joining our community for change by becoming a chapter member, this workshop is required. Sign-up to be a chapter member at dxe.io/apply.
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Mar 21 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
RSVP to action@sunflower-alliance.org to get the Zoom link.
Major developments are afoot on Contra Costa’s refinery row. Two petroleum facilities are applying for to the county for permission to pivot to biofuel refining. Is this rejection of fossil fuels cause for celebration, or closer scrutiny? Is this a real climate solution or a climate dead end?
Our Spring Equinox meeting will feature in-depth presentations on biofuels and renewable diesel refining. Our speakers are:
- Jackie Garcia Mann, of 350 Contra Costa
- Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch
- Maureen Brennan, Rodeo resident and activist
Steve Nadel will round out the program with a report on the Air District Rule 6-5, the particulate matter regulation coming up soon for a final vote by the Board of Directors.
Feel free to email us in advance with any questions you’d like our speakers to discuss. Reach out to action@sunflower-alliance.org.
This very important conversation needs your participation and your voice. Come join us!
Co-sponsored by 350 Contra Costa.
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Mar 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
March 7th Event
There are many discussions today about the nature of the working class and their capacity to fight for their own interests. Usually, we look at history to learn about the workers’ movement, but what potential exists in the modern international working class? What does a modern workers’ struggle really look like? What recent examples are there of workers organizing against the conditions they face and exerting their power? Join us in this movie series as we explore these questions by looking at workers’ struggles that happened in our lifetime.
Worker’s Republic
For six days in December of 2008 during the financial collapse, laid-off Chicago factory workers took over their closing workplace, declaring they would not leave until the owners and creditors agreed to pay them the severance they were promised. Republic’s credit line had been cut off by Bank of America, despite receiving billions of dollars in federal bank bailout money.
Succeed or fail, these 260 workers decided, “If I don’t fight, I know I’ll lose. If I do fight, at least I stand a chance of winning.”
Workers Republic shows how everyday people may be the most qualified to forge a better world. And in the struggle to save their jobs they were a beacon of hope and optimism for others to look to.
Friendly reminder this is a series occurring every two weeks
Where: Please join us at 6pm for a brief presentation and to watch via shared screen, and look for zoom and movie link upon RSVP if you prefer to watch on your own. Discussion will start at 7pm
March 21st event:
There are many discussions today about the nature of the working class and their capacity to fight for their own interests. Usually, we look at history to learn about the workers’ movement, but what potential exists in the modern international working class? What does a modern workers’ struggle really look like? What recent examples are there of workers organizing against the conditions they face and exerting their power? Join us in this movie series as we explore these questions by looking at workers’ struggles that happened in our lifetime.
Coming for A Visit
Undocumented migrants win the battle to get their papers. A historic strike filmed from within.Paris, 2009. More than 6000 undocumented migrants (sans-papiers) go on strike to demand their legalization. These are restaurant, construction, and janitorial workers who pay taxes and are all exploited by staffing companies who refuse to help them get their papers!
Coming for a Visit, shows the hard day-to-day work of organizing, the challenges of dealing with unions, and the key role that revolutionaries can play. Oh, and did we say these workers won?! This is an inspiring movie with lessons to learn.
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Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on a new, old approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.
This movie is positioned to catalyze a movement to accomplish the impossible – to solve humanity’s greatest challenge, to balance the climate and secure our species future.
This film will be open to watch from home from the 21st-23rd of March.
Free and open to all. Donations are welcome and go to support our local arts community. Make donations at https://pentanglearts.org/get-involved/donations/
Hosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Made possible by our underwriters VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and MASCOMA BANK and sponsors Ellaway Group, The Unicorn, and Mark Knott DDS.
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Learn about the brave and brilliant data scientists and activists fighting the threat artificial intelligence poses to civil rights. Watch #CodedBias through @IndependentLens on @PBS in March 2021. pic.twitter.com/flpEdLLFFl
— Coded Bias Documentary (@CodedBias) February 25, 2021
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Kiss the Ground is a full-length documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that sheds light on a new, old approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that has the potential to balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using compelling graphics and visuals, along with striking NASA and NOAA footage, the film artfully illustrates how, by drawing down atmospheric carbon, soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.
This movie is positioned to catalyze a movement to accomplish the impossible – to solve humanity’s greatest challenge, to balance the climate and secure our species future.
This film will be open to watch from home from the 21st-23rd of March.
Free and open to all. Donations are welcome and go to support our local arts community. Make donations at https://pentanglearts.org/get-involved/donations/
Hosted by Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts. Made possible by our underwriters VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and MASCOMA BANK and sponsors Ellaway Group, The Unicorn, and Mark Knott DDS.
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Mar 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
As socialists, we believe workers play a particular role under capitalism that makes them central in the fight for socialism. But in recent history in the US, labor and the left have been separated, leaving us vulnerable to capitalism attacks. How do we rebuild a fighting labor movement that can meaningfully challenge capital? Enter the Rank & File Strategy.
What is the Rank & File Strategy? How should socialists engage with it? How is it different from just “socialists taking rank & file jobs”? Join the East Bay DSA Political Education Committee for a discussion of these questions and more.
We are thrilled to feature two vital contributors to the labor movement, Jane Slaughter and John Pearson! Jane Slaughter is a journalist with a storied history in the US labor movement. She is a co-founder of Labor Notes, a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. She authored Concessions and How To Beat Them and co-authored the indispensable workplace organizing handbook Secrets of a Successful Organizer. John Pearson, RN, is a rank-and-file ER nurse at Highland Hospital and Alameda Health System Chapter President for SEIU Local 1021. He was instrumental in the East Bay’s historic, and victorious, healthcare worker strike in 2020.
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Mar
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Brockhurst St. and nearby neighbors are walking for community safety. Join us in the parking lot at St. Mary’s Center and we’ll pick the route for the day!
We are looking for “hosts” for Wednesdays in April to bring friends & neighbors, and organize the walk. Interested?
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Join a virtual training to learn about what’s currently happening with DAPL and how you can take action. Very soon the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will head to court and share their findings from the environmental impact review of the Dakota Access pipeline and the danger it poses to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. This April 9th hearing is critical because the court could order the Army Corps of Engineers to shut it down. We need to stand in solidarity with Indigenous water protectors and allies! Every single day that passes, the health and safety of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe are threatened.
To help people join the fight, 350.org is hosting a special training led by on-the-ground activists and Indigenous leaders. Attendees will learn how to take actions to stop DAPL, Line 3, and all other fossil fuel projects.
Can’t make it? RSVP and you’ll be sent a recording.
Special guests will provide the latest updates on the fight to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. These will include a representative from the Tasina Sapa Win Makwa Initiative who is running from the DAPL construction site in Standing Rock to the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota to Washington, D.C. Runners will arrive in D.C. on April 1 to deliver a clear message to President Biden: Stop the Dakota Access pipeline and all fossil fuel projects. Other speakers include Dawn Goodwin of the Rise Coalition and Nancy Beaulieu of MN350.
Experienced trainers will also lead sessions where you’ll learn about easy actions you can take to stand in solidarity with the Indigenous runners. You’ll have the option of choosing one of two training sessions:
- For those with a local Army Corps of Engineers office: “How to host an action at your local Army Corps of Engineers” led by our friends at Food and Water Watch, Shutdown DC, and the Indigenous Environmental Network.
- For everyone else: “How to host an action at the office of your local member of Congress” led by the 350 team.
Together, we can hold the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers accountable and push President Biden to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline and all fossil fuel projects, but it’s going to take all of us getting involved.
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Mar 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
For more event information: https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org
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Register for this free event: @CatsCommentary (APTP co-founder) & James Burch (APTP director of policy) speaking @cwclub on 3/25 about Reimagining Public Safety.
It's a crucial time for this convo, the safest communities don't have the most cops.https://t.co/HiBU13sltx
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) March 13, 2021
Amid nationwide reckoning with racial justice and calls to reimagine policing in America’s cities, Oakland has moved ahead with plans to change its public safety funding and performance.
The Defund OPD campaign was launched by the Anti Policy Terror Project five years ago. Join us for a discussion with two leaders in the effort to change the criminal justice system.
About the Speakers
Cat Brooks is an activist, performer, politician and speaker or who has served as the communications director for Coaching Corps, as executive director of Youth Together and executive director of the National Lawyers Guild. Brooks is the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) whose mission is to rapidly respond to and ultimately eradicate what it calls state violence in communities of color. With APTP, she shepherded the development of a “first responders” process, which provides resources and training for a rapid community-based response to police violence. She also helped negotiate the passage of AB392, AB 931 and SB 1421 and has organized with local housing advocates to bring Proposition 10 (Repeal Costa Hawkins) to the ballot in November. n late 2018, Cat was the runner up in the Oakland mayoral race. Brooks currently serves as the executive director of the Justice Teams Network, a network of grassroots activists providing rapid response and healing justice in response to all forms of state violence across California. In addition, she is touring her one-woman show, Tasha, about the in-custody murder of Natasha McKenna in the Fairfax County Jail. She lives in West Oakland with her daughter.
Born and raised in Natick, MA, James Burch grew up with the direct impacts of a punitive carceral system within his immediate family; all three of his siblings have been entangled in the criminal justice system for their entire lives. To address this, James became a lawyer after attending Yale University and Georgetown Law School. Upon moving to the Bay Area, James became an active member of the Anti Police-Terror Project, eventually becoming the director of policy and a member of the Black Leadership Team. Burch now works as the policy director for the Justice Teams Network (JTN), a statewide coalition working to end state violence in California. James is also the current president of the National Lawyers Guild of the Bay Area.
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This is a free, online-only program; you must pre-register to receive a link to the live-stream event. We welcome donations made during registration to support the production of our online programming.
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Oakland Police Commission 3/25 6:30 PM
https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Police-Commission-3.25.21-Agenda-Packet.pdf
Interesting Agenda Items:
V. 2021 California Police Reform Legislation Former Commissioner Tara Anderson and Gabriel Garcia of Youth Alive will review 2021 bill language currently being considered by the State of California. The Commission will discuss and may vote to send letters of support for these bills.
VI. Reimagining Public Safety Task Force Update Former Commissioner Ginale Harris will share an update on the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force.
VII. Resolution on Sunsetting the Use of the BearCat The Commission will review, and may vote to approve, a resolution regarding the sunsetting the use of the BearCat.
RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Department shall, within six (6) months, return to the Oakland Police Commission with a proposed replacement for the Department’s BearCat armored vehicle that satisfies the Department’s needs for sufficient protective capacity, the Department’s needs for sufficient storage capacity, and the community’s need for police equipment that can be accepted as appropriate for use by civilian law enforcement agencies; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Commission shall, within sixty (60) days of the Department’s identification of a potential replacement vehicle(s), convene a public hearing, on the appropriateness of the Department’s proposed replacement vehicle(s); and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Department shall, within twenty-four (24) months, cease its use of the BearCat armored vehicle and instead use the Department’s armored Suburban and/or replacement armored vehicles as authorized by policy unless the Department and the Commission jointly concur and report to the Council that a replacement vehicle cannot be realistically acquired in time, and a new deadline is enacted; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, the Oakland Police Department shall not, absent exigent circumstances, seek, solicit, or accept the deployment and use of overtly militarized armored vehicles by outside agencies under mutual aid agreements, overtly militarized for the purposes of this resolution, meaning any vehicle that a reasonable resident might perceive as emblematic of a militarized approach to policing in our community.
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Mar 26 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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Grandmothers for a Green New Deal, a small group of elder women (members of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations), invite you to a 90-minute, interactive zoom workshop to examine the Green New Deal as a blueprint toward a sustainable future.
Sign up for one of these workshops by clicking on the registration links below
Register for Thursday, March 18, 4-5:30 PM
Register for Friday, March 26; 4-5:30 PM
Register for Thursday, April 1, 4 – 5:30 PM
PLEASE NOTE:
Each presentation is limited to 12 participants so everyone has a chance to share their ideas. Please register early!
The workshop is centered around a 17 minute video,
http://www.vimeo.com/grandmothers4aGND/APathForward
Please watch the video before the workshop.
The video addresses the question: What is the Green New Deal and why does it matter? It reviews the basics of the threat of climate catastrophe, the need for a radical restructuring of society for racial, gender, and economic justice, and why these things are inseparably connected. All in the voices of grandmothers talking about why this matters to them.
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Mar 26 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
This two-part video is a clear, down-to-earth introduction to the “paradigm busting” economics of Modern Monetary Theory.
You are invited to make a big bowl of popcorn (or your favourite movie food), and from the comfort of your own living room, enjoy twelve minutes of delightful animation, and about thirty minutes of friendly discussion (or quiet lurking!).
- Meet the video creators.
- Meet your fellow MMT-curious and MMT-advocates.
- Ask your questions in person or anonymously.
Whether you are new to this brand of economics, or are the veteran of in-depth debates with your monetarist neighbours, this is a wonderful way to share the enthusiasm for a brand new way of looking at our world.
As the ABC news asked recently: What if everything we thought we knew about public finance over the past 40 years has been wrong?
ALL WELCOME! Free and donation tickets available. All donations very much appreciated.
YouTube Livestream also available via this link: https://youtu.be/Xe1zkJV-s8Q
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The situation in Myanmar (Burma) has become increasingly problematic since the military coup on Feb 1, 2021. We have invited journalist K.J. Hoh to discuss the background and developing situation in the area.
Our speaker, K.J. Hoh, is a journalist focusing on Asia.
Zoom info posted here a few days before the event
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Mar 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Billions today, trillions tomorrow. When debtors organize, we win.
It all started when 15 people went on a debt strike. Back in 2015, former students at Corinthian College said they were going to refuse to pay until all of their fraudulent student loans were cancelled. That kicked off a long process full of twists and turns spanning three administrations and several court cases.
This week, as a direct result of that debt strike, the Department of Education announced it was going to cancel another $1 billion dollars for 72,000 people, mostly Corinthian and ITT Tech students. Organizing works. This is just the beginning, and we can’t stop now. If we keep fighting together, we can cancel all student loan debt. We’re going to take the energy from this win to kick off our big week of actions.
Let’s celebrate our victories as we continue to fight for justice. Join the Debt Collective at 4 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. CT / 2 p.m. MT / 1 p.m. PT Sunday, March 28 to celebrate and to kick off our week of action to fight for full cancellation and College for All.
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We will be joined by several of the original Corinthian 15 debt strikers. We’ll hear from some people who recently won full debt cancellation, as well as those who are still fighting for justice. And we’ll get excited for full cancellation and our upcoming week of action.
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Join us to watch the new documentary Seaspiracy!
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86357565418
Meeting ID: 863 5756 5418
Seaspiracy is a follow-up documentary to Cowspiracy. The film explores the way government policy, the fishing industry, and even environmental organizations contribute to the devastation of marine life.
Learn more at https://www.seaspiracy.org/
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