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Ryan Rising & Ivy Anderson
Story Telling and Discussion:
Land Access, Food Autonomy,
Permaculture and Direct Action
Come hear stories of direct actions and community organizing over the last few years that have focused on reclaiming access to land to create permaculture and common spaces in the Bay Area.
Also, hear a report back from the Zapatista Escuelita: The Little School of Freedom according to the Zapatistas – the indigenous communities in resistance in Chiapas, Mexico, who reclaimed much of their land base in 1994 and have been self-organizing and living autonomously from the Mexican government ever since. Both here in the Bay, and in the jungles of Southern Mexico, it is access to land and what people bring forth from it through the work of their hands that empowers people to live successfully.
“Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.” -Malcolm X
Our dialogue will explore how people are organizing for access to land around the world, and focusing on the Bay Area and the lessons the Zapatistas and others have to share that inform our work here. We will talk about land reclamation, creating permaculture through direct action, & local food autonomy.
Ryan Rising is a permaculture designer, community organizer, and direct action advocate living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan recently returned from the first grade of the Zapatista Little School in Chiapas, Mexico.
Ivy Anderson runs the Mendell Roots Community garden on Third and Palou and teaches gardening and healthy eating to Bayview youth. Ivy is committed to creating access to free organic food and open green space in the Bayview.
Q&A and Announcements will follow.
Crude-by-Rail in Oakland? Say NO on Tuesday, June 10
A resolution opposing transportation of hazardous fuels through Oakland will soon be considered by the Oakland City Council. The first step is a meeting of the Public Works Committee.
Tuesday, June 10, 11:30 AM
Oakland City Hall, first floor
If passed, this will go to the full council shortly thereafter. If you are available Tuesday, please attend to express support for this important step in the campaign against crude-by-rail, fossil fuels and climate change.
Councilmembers are recommending that the City Council adopt a resolution “to oppose transportation of hazardous fossil fuels material, including crude oil, coal, and petroleum coke, along California waterways, through densely populated areas, through the City of Oakland.” Please come to show support!
People who want to speak need to fill out a speaker card in person before each item starts or on line athttp://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373
What is going on in Syria? Is there a “revolution” or is this western “regime change”? What can we make of the June 3 Presidential Election in Syria? Rick Sterling is a founding member of Syria Solidarity Movement. He was in Syria with International Peace Pilgrimage in April 2014 and visited Damascus, Latakia and Homs. Rick will discuss the roots of the conflict, impressions from observations and first hand discussions with a wide variety of Syrian and Palestinian residents in Syria.
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org
Co-sponsored by Syria Solidarity Movement, and the BFUU Social Justice Committee.
Wheelchair accessible.
The West Oakland Specific Plan is a massive development project that will lead to gentrification and displacement across West Oakland. The Plan itself, while saying much about attracting business and investment by playing up West Oakland’s ‘uniqueness’ and ‘diversity,’ actually contains NO guarantees for protecting and providing for people who already live here.
JOIN THE MARCH: Leaving from Defremery Park at 4pm, through West Oakland to spread the word, arriving at City Hall for the 6pm Planning Commission meeting!
NO TO DISPLACEMENT!
NO TO GENTRIFICATION!
DEFEND WEST OAKLAND!
Original event notice on IndyBay.
Working Our Way Out of the Crisis: Climate Justice & the Working Class”
part of MG’s free public series: Race, Class and Ecology
On June 12th, Movement Generation will launch our Race, Class & Ecology series, beginning with a conversation between workers, union organizers, and climate justice leaders on moving from “Jobs OR the environment” to “Jobs FOR the environment.”
Refinery Corridor Healing Walk 3: Benicia – Rodeo. Sat. June 14
Join us for the third of four healing walks along the refinery corridor in Northeast San Francisco Bay.
We will begin at the 9th Street Park in Benicia (Valero Refinery) and walk in prayer and conversation to Lone Tree Park in Rodeo (Phillips 66 Refinery).
To RSVP, and for full details, schedule, bicycle contingent, and transportation options, please visit the Connect the Dots website.
Native American elders and community members will lead the walk, stopping to pray at certain places, including the water. We will walk from the 9th Street Park in Benicia to the Lone Tree Point in Rodeo, and will be walking over the Carquinez Bridge. The walk is approximately 14 miles with support vehicles so that walkers can rest whenever they would like. There are also several places where walkers can join the walk along the route (Details below).
Around the last mile, walkers will be encouraged to begin imagining their own communities beyond fossil fuels and what they would ideally be like. Walkers will be invited to share those ideas with their own drawings on muslin at the end of the walk. The muslin squares will be sewn in to a quilt and shared at the last walk on July 12 (Rodeo (Phillips 66) to Richmond (Chevron). Art from previous walks will be exhibited. Joining us? Please make sure to check back for more details no later than June 11.
To RSVP, and for full details, schedule, bicycle contingent, and transportation options, please visit the Connect the Dots website.
San Franciscans Deserves a Raise
The current movement to increase the minimum wage has gained momentum across the country and the time in San Francisco is now! Workers demand a dignified wage! An increase in the minimum wage would help thousands of workers keep up with rising rents, tuition and healthcare. Please join community, labor and students as San Francisco leads the fight in raising standards for all workers.
Lunch provided.
La Plaza 16 Coalición demands a moratorium on market-rate housing development at 16th/Mission until the needs for deeply affordable housing are met.
Brass Liberation Orchestra @ Noon
Other performances from 1-4PM
Join us before or after you celebrate at SF JUNETEENTH 2014!
This event will be a super fun, interactive and visual way to show that the Plaza belongs to the people and should not be sold to the highest bidder. Music, a bike repair station, tenants rights info, art making, food, and more! There will also be information about the proposed monster development and how to connect to some of the opposition to this project. The community around the 16th/Mission Plaza needs affordable housing, not ten-story towers of luxury housing!
Bring yourselves, your creativity, ideas, arts, skills, and activities.
After the extensive successful organizing of the hunger strike in the summer of 2013, the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation has used many tactics to suppress prisoner organizing. Many organizers have been moved, refused food and written-up as retaliation for their leadership and participation.
Most recently CDCR has issued proposed regulations to censor “obscene materials,” which includes “publications that indicate an association with groups that are oppositional to authority and society.”
We invite you to a discussion about the implications of these new proposed regulations on inside-outside organizing, correspondence and the fight to abolish solitary confinement.
YES!
The Zoning Overlay and Green Downtown Initiative will be on the ballot November 4th
YES!
Berkeley voters will decide the character of our Downtown for the next few decades. Let’s help voters make the right choice!
Come out and join us on Sunday, June 15th, 2014 at
Berkeley’s Juneteenth Festival
along the South Berkeley Adeline-Alcatraz corridor
from 11:00 to 1:30, or from 1:30 to 4:00
We’ll talk with people, hand out flyers and sign up volunteers to help pass the initiative
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The Initiative will protect our public buildings – including the Downtown Post Office – from commercial development, reserving our Historic Civic Center for public and civic uses.
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The Initiative will require the inclusion of affordable and family-sized housing in the large new developments downtown.
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The Initiative will require that 50% of construction workers be from Berkeley or nearby cities, and be paid a fair “Prevailing Wage.”
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The Initiative will require the inclusion of new buildings to be built to high Green standards, and to include bike parking, car share and other features that help Berkeley meet its climate action goals.
Come join us from 11:00 to 1:30, or 1:30 to 4:00
Meet on the north end of the Bar-B-Q “island” on Adeline Ave. near Harmon Street. Wear a sun hat, and carry water.
To sign up, please email Sally Nelson at sallynels7@gmail.com
Want to learn more about the Initiative to Protect the Civic Center Historic District and Promote Green Downtown Development? Please visit our web page.
Building the Nationwide Movement
Waging Nonviolent Struggle
to get Big Money out of American Politics
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America is in crisis, and our democracy on the auction block. We’re here to do something about it.
99Rise is a network of activists and organizers dedicated to building a mass movement
to reclaim our democracy from the domination of big money.
We believe that only by getting big money out of politics by winning a democracy that responds to the real needs of “the 99%” will we open the door to finally realizing thhe progressive promise of the American Dream. We thus seek a Constitutional Amendment and supplemental federal legislation that would guarantee the principle of political equality, as well as ensure that neither private wealth nor corporate privilege could be used to exercise undue influence over elections and policymaking. To this end, we are committed to deploying the most powerful tool of social and political change: strategic nonviolent resistance.
Come hear about our work and the March for Democracy currently happening now,
http://www.marchfordemocracy.org/
We hope to see you on Monday!
Jade Batstone is a 99Rise volunteer organizer and co-founder of the Next 26. Next 26 engages the next generation of key influencers from a range of emerging San Francisco industries and nonprofit groups. This network will empower individuals to collaborate in new ways, build innovative solutions to real problems facing our communities, and promote a culture of diversity and inclusivity.
Jessica Nuti is passionate about social, economic and environmental justice movements. She is currently a 99Rise volunteer organizer. And works full-time at Global Exchange in their Development department. She also holds organizer and training positions in organizations that support skill sharing for transgender and women’s rights, environmental justice, and getting money out of politics. She has a strong passion for non-violent direct action, and participating in training efforts to ensure safe and effective direct actions.
Q&A and Announcements will follow.
Demonstrate support for City Council resolution opposing shipping fossil fuel through Oakland
The resolution passed in committee and is on the consent calendar, which means it should be approved without discussion at the council meeting. Come out to show your support for this step, and wear red for visual impact/photos!
In April 2014, Greenwald and his colleagues at The Guardian received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Don’t miss Greenwald speak in-person as he fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.
Sponsored by: Haymarket Books, Center for Economic Research and Social Change, Glaser Progress Foundation, Tow Center for Digital Journalism – Columbia Journalism School.
The Montreal Student Movement Convention is a gathering of students from 5 continents that has been in the planning for nearly a year. From June 19-22, students will converge at the University of Quebec at Montreal to meet fellow organizers and learn from organizers all over the world about building student unions, creating intersectional movements, and taking a crucial step towards uniting as a global movement.
The good news is that registrations have been pouring in, and more students than originally expected will be attending the convention.
As I’m sure many of you realize, as soon as June 27th, I (Amber Whitson) am likely to be issued a stayaway order from the Albany Bulb.
I have spent SO MANY years exploring and studying the Bulb! The thought of having to just shelve that knowledge, for it to only be brought to the surface on the rare occasion that someone happens to ask me something about the Landfill, just kills me.
I would like to impart what knowledge I have about the Bulb onto as many people as I can, while I can still show the features to them myself. That way they can spread the knowledge to others whom they bring here, and so on and so forth…
To that end, I will be hosting three hikes, of graduating difficulty levels, around the Bulb, starting this coming Saturday.
The two least difficult tours (Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22) will include trips through places where people used to live: Mom-a-Bear’s, Pat’s, Gary’s, Chet’s and our place (of course) and others…
I think it is important to educate as many people as possible (who don’t already know) about the fact that pretty much ALL of the improvements that have ever been made to the Landfill were indeed done by people living there. My hope is that it will also help participants to understand a little bit better about how people lived, day to day and season to season, when we lived there.
The second level of difficulty tour (Sunday, June 22) will include a trip down to what is left of the Open Letter. As well as a trip down to the apricot trees (where the Neck and Plateau meet) and to the Buckeyes that Andy and his friends planted. The second tour will also include a venture to the remains of the Hermitage Caldarium, where Sandy lived when Phyl and I first came to the Bulb (at Sandy’s suggestion). The Caldarium sat on the far western edge of the Bulb had a fully functional, handmade hot tub, fashioned from pieces of the debris that the Landfill is made of.
When the Caldarium was burned to the ground, in late 2007, by a recently released psych-ward patient, Andy Kreamer gave Sandy his home, where Sandy lived until the recent eviction. The second tour will also include a trip down to Andy’s/Sandy’s old place on the eastern edge of the Landfill.
Both the first and second tours will start at 10:00am on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
We will meet near the Cove (aka “keyhole”, “firepit” etc.) near Albany Beach.
The most difficult hike (tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, June 24) will include a voyage down the very steep hillside on the north side of the Neck, to where the headstone of William E. Carter (born 1842/died 1889) was dumped and still lays on its back at the water’s edge.
It is very important to me that I have the opportunity to host these tours for people, so that other people can find the amazing things that are everywhere out there, for years to come, regardless of whether any of the indigenous Bulb-dwellers are allowed to come here, or not.
As I’m sure many of you realize, as soon as June 27th, I (Amber Whitson) am likely to be issued a stayaway order from the Albany Bulb.
I have spent SO MANY years exploring and studying the Bulb! The thought of having to just shelve that knowledge, for it to only be brought to the surface on the rare occasion that someone happens to ask me something about the Landfill, just kills me.
I would like to impart what knowledge I have about the Bulb onto as many people as I can, while I can still show the features to them myself. That way they can spread the knowledge to others whom they bring here, and so on and so forth…
To that end, I will be hosting three hikes, of graduating difficulty levels, around the Bulb, starting this coming Saturday. The two least difficult tours (Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22) will include trips through places where people used to live: Mom-a-Bear’s, Pat’s, Gary’s, Chet’s and our place (of course) and others…
I think it is important to educate as many people as possible (who don’t already know) about the fact that pretty much ALL of the improvements that have ever been made to the Landfill were indeed done by people living there. My hope is that it will also help participants to understand a little bit better about how people lived, day to day and season to season, when we lived there.
The second level of difficulty tour (Sunday, June 22) will include a trip down to what is left of the Open Letter. As well as a trip down to the apricot trees (where the Neck and Plateau meet) and to the Buckeyes that Andy and his friends planted. The second tour will also include a venture to the remains of the Hermitage Caldarium, where Sandy lived when Phyl and I first came to the Bulb (at Sandy’s suggestion). The Caldarium sat on the far western edge of the Bulb had a fully functional, handmade hot tub, fashioned from pieces of the debris that the Landfill is made of.
When the Caldarium was burned to the ground, in late 2007, by a recently released psych-ward patient, Andy Kreamer gave Sandy his home, where Sandy lived until the recent eviction. The second tour will also include a trip down to Andy’s/Sandy’s old place on the eastern edge of the Landfill.
Both the first and second tours will start at 10:00am on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
We will meet near the Cove (aka “keyhole”, “firepit” etc.) near Albany Beach.
The most difficult hike (tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, June 24) will include a voyage down the very steep hillside on the north side of the Neck, to where the headstone of William E. Carter (born 1842/died 1889) was dumped and still lays on its back at the water’s edge.
It is very important to me that I have the opportunity to host these tours for people, so that other people can find the amazing things that are everywhere out there, for years to come, regardless of whether any of the indigenous Bulb-dwellers are allowed to come here, or not.
We will return to W.C. BART at 7:05pm and McArthur BART at 7:30pm. This bus will allow you to go directly to the capitol rally site, or join the march for the last mile! This is a free / sliding scale donation bus. We will pass a hat on the bus.
Click on the link, then click JOIN on BUS and then fill out the form to reserve your seat:
Carpool link: http://www.groupcarpool.com/t/x6qgkn
California March for Democracy! 99Rise.
Join the Sunflower Alliance in a support rally for Democracy!99 – Rise in Sacramento
We’ll show our support for those who marched 480 miles from southern California to protest the institutionalized corruption of our government and the capture of energy policy by the fossil fuel industry.
For details visit 99rise.org or marchfordemocracy.org/
The Park Community Garden is on Park Blvd. at the corner with Cleveland street a couple of blocks down from Oakland High.
Check out all the organic veggies and free range fowl.
Park Community Garden
Sunday, June 22nd
Join us starting at 2pm.
Film at dark: Bees & Mushrooms
Bring a potluck dish, bring a friend!
To donate or coordinate, text or email:
parkcommunitygarden@gmail.com
(510) 698-9298