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Jun
22
Tue
Support Not Sweeps! Rally at CalTrans District 4 Headquarters @ CalTrans District 4 HQ
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Jun 22 @ 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm
UNHOUSED residents and liveaboard mariners of the Bay Area and the state of California are converging on CalTrans HQ to demand District 4 director Dina El-Tawansy to CEASE AND DESIST from displacing people living on CalTrans land and people living anchored out on Richardson Bay.

Join us to resist evictions at a RALLY on CalTrans District 4 HQ doorstep – 6/22 @ 2 PM. Speakers and musicians will elevate the voices of the unhoused at a press conference honoring WHY people should be allowed to REMAIN IN PLACE or be offered REASONABLE, PERMANENT housing. Hosted by a statewide coalition of CalTrans and public land and water based curbside communities, encampments and anchorages, including Wood St People’s Collective, Wood St Commons, Cob On Wood, Camp Cormorant, Where Do We Go Berkeley, Poor News Network/Homefulness, Marin County Homeless Union, Camp Compassion, SacSoup, Sacramento Homeless Union, Essential Food and Medicine, and Artists Building Communities.

Encampments around the BioRegion have come together to resist eviction by CalTrans, the largest landholder in the state of California and the most brutal landlord. ‘Sweeps’ of more than 200+ unhoused residents are planned by July 1st around the Bay Area with NO ADEQUATE OFFER OF HOUSING, promising to funnel Oakland and Berkeley residents into out of sight, out of mind Safe RV Lots that have faced heavy criticism.

As the City of Oakland’s Safe RV Lot on Wood St is set to open with capacity to host 40 functional, registered RVs as a justification for moving forward on sweeps around Oakland and Berkeley, residents say WE WON’T GO into out-of-sight-out-of-mind, inaccessible and unreasonable temporary housing. Even CDC officials guidelines as of June 7th, 2021, state: “If individual housing options are not available, allow people who are living unsheltered or in encampments to remain where they are.” These RV lots often do not provide space for adequate social distancing measures, do not allow cooking on site, have a curfew, and do not allow visitors or even children of residents to stay overnight.

El-Tawansy is also a commissioner on the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), and has supported crushing of boat homes anchored in the bay are having their homes destroyed: tinyurl.com/SFChronicleSausalito.

We are calling on state, local, city, county officials and the public health department to protect our unhoused communities – provide SUPPORT and STOP THE SWEEPS! Local health officers may take any measures to ensure the safety and protection of public health – sweeps and displacement are a CRISIS. See Section 8558 of the Government Code.

This coalition has drafted an open letter to the governor that can be accessed at tinyurl.com/DearGovNewsom to demand an end to this inhumane treatment for encampments around the state. We are asking organizational partners to endorse this letter and demanding a direct meeting with Governor Newsom himself.

Camp Compassion, Novato: Jason Sarris, +1 (415) 879-6507
Richardson Bay Anchorage (Anchor Out Community): Arthur Bruce (707) 774-4815
Marin County Homeless Union: Robbie Powelson (415)847-7500
Sacramento Homeless Union: Crystal Sanchez

#SupportNotSweeps #StopTheSweeps #HousingIsAHumanRight #ServicesNotSweeps #BasicHumanDignity #ClearTrashNotCommunities #NoMoreDeathintheStreets

For more event information: http://tinyurl.com/DearGovNewsom
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Jun
23
Wed
CARE NOT COPS Noise Demo @ New City Hall
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Jun 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

We are gathering every Wednesday at noon on the steps of City Hall to demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE Not Cops!

The City Manager is proposing a budget that INCREASES funding for the Berkeley Police from last year! This is despite the city’s supposed commitment to “reimagine public safety” and decrease funding to the police.

In advance of the final budget vote on June 29, we are gathering EVERY WEDNESDAY AT NOON on the steps of City Hall to make them hear us and demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE NOT COPS!

We cannot continue with business as usual. According to the City Audit, BPD stopped Black people at a significantly higher rate than their representation in the Berkeley population (34 percent compared to 8 percent). The data also shows that less than 1% of all calls for service were for violent crimes and that 55% of calls to Berkeley Police came in on their “non-emergency” line. BPD failed to even capture data on how many calls involved unhoused people or those with mental health issues.

We need to hold the City Council to their promise to reimagine public safety. We must divert our city funds to alternatives that: (1) are completely independent from the police, (2) are accountable to our most impacted community members, (3) don’t respond only during crises and then leave, and (4) are transparent to the public.

Join us and make noise on the steps of City Hall! Bring your pots, pans, noisemakers. We’ll have speakers and open mic. Tell Berkeley why this is important for everyone’s safety.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

For more info on the Care Not Cops campaign and our Five Demands for the Specialized Care Unit (SCU), go to: berkeleycopwatch.org/care-not-cops

Share the flyer! Share on social media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter!

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Jun
26
Sat
Tell Libby Schaaf: Housing is a Human Right! @ Safeway, then walk to Libby's house
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Jun 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Even during a global pandemic, our elected leaders keep throwing tenants under the bus. We demand: No more evictions! Cancel the rent! Decommodify housing! Housing is a human right!
Please wear a mask!
Contact us at 415-968-6090 for accessibility info.
Sponsored by: JDW Tenants Union, SMC Tenants Council, People’s Tenants Union, Madison Park Tenants Council, and PSL Bay Area – Cancel the Rents.
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Jul
7
Wed
Deadline for Democracy Rally to Demand Voting Rights Now! @ Oscar Grant Plaza
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Jul 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Follow all and any current COVID guidelines
Deadline for Democrary Rally in Oakland

Why: To demand passage of S.1 For the People Act for national voting rights & protections

Where: Oscar Grant / Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94705

When: Wednesday, July 7 @ 6:00 PM PT

MORE INFO: https://secure.everyaction.com/yXLjVmke5Ue3DTWYsr8zBQ2

We’ll be joined by Janani Ramachandran – social justice lawyer, activist and artist, currently running to represent the central East Bay in the State Assembly and other speakers.

Calling all warriors for justice! We are at a critical juncture in American history and
we MUST mobilize TOGETHER for democracy!

Republicans are shamelessly pushing hundreds of voter suppression bills through state legislatures across the country – and these authoritarian moves pose an existential threat
to our democracy. Stealing our right to vote is the only way they know they can win elections.
The good news: we can put an end to this by pushing the Senate to pass
the For the People Act (S. 1).

The Deadline for Democracy is a literal one – the bill needs to pass THIS SUMMER for states to have time to apply its provisions to the 2022 midterm elections. There will be nationwide Deadline for Democracy rallies in support of S.1.

Climate change, racial justice, humane immigration policy, an out-of-control wealth gap, and so much more – there’s too much at stake to let Republicans rig the rules so that they can steal elections for decades to come.

Stand up for every American’s right to vote at our Oakland event – and LET’S GET SO LOUD that there is no way that Congress and the media can ignore us!

ORGANIZATIONS

Indivisible East Bay
Indivisible SF
East Bay Activist Alliance
Indivisible Sonoma County.
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Jul
10
Sat
Reimagine Safety Community Celebration & Caravan @ Lake Merritt
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Jul 10 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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Jul
16
Fri
Stop Line 3 Protest at US Army COE Office
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Jul 16 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

What: To protest Biden’s inaction on Line 3 and demand that he and the Army Corp of Engineers revoke the permit now.
 
Where: Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse

This is being organized by a coalition of Bay Area climate justice activists. Come help us bring the message to Biden and the Corp that it is time to Stop Line 3!
RSVP & info on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2PsKW4Fgi

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Jul
20
Tue
All Out To Stop Privatization Of Howard Terminal: Port Workers & Community Unite @ Oscar Grant Plaza Amphiteater
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Jul 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Come to rally just before city council: July 20th, 2021 1pm PST
Oakland City Hall Oscar Grant Plaza , 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA
Get on speakers list for city council meeting by contacting: committeeforlaborparty(at)gmail.com or For a Mass Labor Party in the USA @masslaborpartyusa on Facebook and Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa/
https://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com

On July 20th, 2021, Oakland City Council will take a vote on Oakland Athletics proposal for the development of a baseball stadium and accompanying condominium complex in the current Howard Terminal and connecting area to Jack London Square.
What does this means for maritime workers and the community in and around the port of Oakland?

Ultimately our livelihoods are at stake. More traffic congestion from mass sporting events and high end entertainment will surround the real estate portion of this proposed development. The developers argue any economic growth will benefit all workers and the community as it will inevitably spread out.

We know this not to be true. Just remember how conversion of the San Francisco Embarcadero from industrial maritime use to tourism was promoted over past decades. The loss of shipyards, maritime facilities and jobs such as scalers, boilermakers and machinists has lead to a steady eroding of union scale wages such that those who work in these areas can no longer afford to live anywhere near the city front.

The Oakland Athletics stadium proposal does not democratically consider workers at the port and the surrounding maritime community. Under the A’s proposed Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District (EIFD) increases in property tax revenue on the development expected to rise from the current $30 million to over $12 billion by 2037 will be used for the area of the development itself. Infrastructure spending for schools, port facilities, and resources outside the specified EIFD area (Howard Terminal to Jack London Square) would be left out of this 30+ year projected tax revenue increase.

This type of exclusionary development planning is typical of public land privatization schemes, notably of the Fisher family (who own the A’s Franchise), which has gone on record as backing some of the biggest public land grabs for private profit in city history including AT&T park and the Charterization of public schools into the KIPP chain and Rocketship which their family controls.

Fishers enjoy bipartisan support from all corrupt politicians in the City. The Democratic Council members Ron Bonta and Nancy Skinner of Oakland City are among the foremost advocates for this privatization project. Most other Democrats and Republicans in the City or County have been silent on the issue at best, or supported this union-busting gentrification drive at worst. It is clear that we need a working-class alternative to defend our jobs, unions, residences, and environment.

Sailors, Longshore Workers, Truckers and Railroad Workers Unite! Stand with the working class and multi-ethnic communities against displacement! For well funded schools and public infrastructure through a participatory and democratic decision-making process of all who are effected and concerned!

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Jul
21
Wed
UC Regents Public Assembly
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Jul 21 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

sm_ucregentsflyer.png The Coalition for a Truly Public UC is a group of students, staff, faculty, and community members calling for justice and a truly public University of California. We come together as a group with the understanding that, although each of our respective struggles has its own unique details and dynamics, they are ultimately all rooted in the same foundation. In that spirit, we are uniting our efforts to expose and fight against the ongoing privatization of the University of California system, and accompanying exploitation of working class people in the form of real estate speculation, displacement, and militarized policing – not only within the state of California, but across the world.

We believe the UC has the potential to be an affordable, public university whose future is democratically determined by students, faculty and the surrounding communities and not the endless search for profit. However, we know that these aspirations are a far cry from the current reality. If there is to be any progress toward achieving them, we put forward the following demands:

1. We DEMAND a truly public (i.e. zero-tuition) higher education system, governed according to democratic process where regular people in the system have meaningful power and opportunity to impact major decision making.

2. We DEMAND the UC cease efforts to demolish and displace the 1921 Walnut st tenants and building on People’s Park as outlined in UC Berkeley’s 2021 Long Range Development plan. More generally, the University of California should cease ALL real estate acquisitions and real estate speculation, particularly such acquisitions that will displace people and other threatened species, and instead create housing options that are accessible to students and working class people, which necessarily means priced below the current market rate in most UC campus towns.

3. We DEMAND the demilitarization of and divestment from campus police, with reinvestment into services that actually benefit students. We call for the end to UCPD involvement in labor disputes and in harassing and displacing homeless people in the areas on and around UC campuses, such as People’s Park in Berkeley.

4. We DEMAND an end to the pattern of privatization, devaluation, and contracting out of UC labor across all 10 UC campuses.

5. We DEMAND an end to the UC’s ties to colonial and imperial projects. This means ceasing support of, and direct investment in, the Thirty Meter Telescope project on the sacred Mauna Kea in Hawaii. It also means actively supporting Indigenous-led efforts to rematriate stolen land, remains, and property held by the Regents and Anthropology Departments across the state.

JOIN US FOR A RALLY IN PROTEST OF THE UC REGENTS MEETINGS OCCURRING AT THE SAME TIME. THE UC DECISION MAKING PROCESS IS UNDEMOCRATIC AND THE REGENTS ARE HIDING FROM THE PEOPLE USING COVID RESTRICTIONS

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Aug
3
Tue
Get Debt-Free Jamboree @ SF City Hall
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Aug 3 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

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Aug
6
Fri
Free Steven Donziger. F*** Chevron! @ Castro Entrance, Chevron Refinery
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Aug 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

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Aug
12
Thu
Housing is a human right! March and rally @ Downtown Berkeley Bart
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Aug 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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Aug
17
Tue
DACA Is Not Enough! Citizenship for All Immigrants Rally
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Aug 17 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
SAN FRANCISCO RALLY FOR DACA & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

Info & Register: https://action.unitedwedream.org/events/daca-is-not-enough-citizenship-for-all-multi-city-rally-san-fransisc-ca

Nationwide week of action for immigrant rights: https://unitedwedreamaction.org/undeniable-squad/

We are hosting a rally in San Fransisco on August 17th. Kicking off at 11:00 AM at 1 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94104

Earlier this month, a judge in Texas ruled ending part of the DACA program. Initial applications are no longer accepted – leaving more than 80,000 immigrant youth in limbo. We know that DACA is only a band-aid solution to a big problem. We DEMAND a permanent solution, which is CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL IMMIGRANTS NOW! We want to put pressure on them to pass the immigration bill currently up to vote.

With the passage of this bill, millions of people in this country would be able to fully participate in our communities. This is a small window of opportunity, that if we rally up together, we can make this into a reality. If you have been wanting to help but not sure where or how to start, this is your chance!

We hope you can join us to connect and show our congress that this is an urgent bill that people in this country care about .

Best Regards,
CA U-Squad Team

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Aug
22
Sun
Afghanistan Protest: Open Your Borders! @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater
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Aug 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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Aug
25
Wed
Block Sather Gate: Defend People’s Park @ UC Berkeley
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Aug 25 all-day

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Aug
28
Sat
Stop Killing Afghans @ UN Plaza, Union Square
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Aug 28 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

THIS SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN CANCELLED

 

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Aug
30
Mon
protect environmental justice communities @ CalEPA Bldg
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Aug 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Children and families in California frontline communities are sick and dying because the agencies that should be protecting them are in bed with corporate polluters and developers.

Join Sunflower Alliance and 22 other sponsoring groups to demand that CalEPA and the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) take immediate action to protect environmental justice communities across California.

For Bay Area carpool info, email action@sunflower-alliance.org.

EJ communities from Laytonville to LA will converge on the CalEPA Building in downtown Sacramento to speak out and act up against these agencies’ refusal to follow science and protect the health of vulnerable communities.

A full bedroom set will be brought to the protest, with volunteers representing CalEPA, DTSC, lobbyists, corporate developers and polluters in bed, drinking champagne and smoking cigars.

Following the hour-long protest, we will gather at Cesar Chavez Plaza across the street for an optional EJ training by California Environmental Justice Coalition. We’ll be on our way home by 3 p.m.

You can learn more on the CA-EJ protest website, which includes information about the groups involved and the demands they’ll present to CalEPA and DTSC.

Masks and social distancing are required!  Let’s be smart and safe.

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Aug
31
Tue
Shut Down All 800 US Bases & Withdraw All US Troops Abroad @ SF Federal Bldg
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Aug 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
The collapse of the US supported government and military in Afhganistan is not an accident or mistake. The US spent over $2.3 trillion or $300 million a month for this bi-partisan operation. It helped train and arm Osama Bin Laden and tens of thousands to fight the Russians and this is now the blowback caused by the US in the Middle East wars in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

This war in Afhaniistan killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people of Afghanistan and thousands of Americans and contractors. The military industrial complex and war profiteers have made out like bandits with the US people paying the cost. It is time to close all 800 bases around the world including in Cuba, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Germany, Turkey, Guam and the Ukraine. It is also time to end the sanctions on Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and North Korea.

The more than $750 billion a year spent on the war machine should be spent instead to deal with the pandemic, our homeless, our crumbling infrastructure and full healthcare for all the people of the United States.
Join together NOW to end the military industrial complex which benefits from wars around the world only benefiting
the billionaires.

Coalition To Shut The US Bases Abroad & Bring The Troops Home NOW

Initial Endorsers
United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP
https://www.facebook.com/masslaborpartyusa/
Code Pink
To add your organization to the endorsement email and bring your banners, songs and voices.
lvpsf [at] labornet.org

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Sep
10
Fri
Stop Financing Fires and Amazon Destruction @ Blackrock HQ
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Sep 10 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join Amazon Watch, Youth vs Apocalypse, Brasil Solidarity Network, Diablo Rising Tide and more for Fires, Forest, Finance, and our Future. This action, at the SF BlackRock headquarters, is part of a Global Week of Action for the Amazon, in solidarity with indigenous organizations in Amazonia.

The action will call out financial institutions responsible for financing rainforest destruction and talk about  “How the destructive projects in the Amazon are affecting the next generation, who is financing them, and how we feel the impacts of the Amazon destruction here in California.”

Info/RSVP

The Global Week of Action for the Amazon will include:

Sunday, September 5: live-streamed panel with the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon

Monday, September 6: Online day of action for the Amazon

Tuesday, September 7: Defend the Defenders: solidarity with the indigenous and earth defenders under attack

Wednesday, September 8: Amazon Health in Crisis: Webinar on covid-19 impacts in the Amazon

Thursday, September 9: Climate Justice — Stop False Solutions

Friday, September 10: Forest, Fires, Finance, and Our Future

Saturday, September 11: Honoring and Celebrating Life and Cultures in the Amazon.

More information and details on how to participate here

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Sep
17
Fri
Stop Funding Fossil Fuels- Wells Fargo @ Wells Fargo
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Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/september-17th-end-fossil-finance-build-a-renewable-future/

We’ve got a big action in the works and we need you! Driven by the climate crisis, fires, droughts, and floods are happening everywhere. Financial institutions continue to fund new fossil fuel projects which will only increase the destruction. This needs to STOP!
On Friday, September 17th, join us at the Wells Fargo world headquarters in downtown San Francisco for the kickoff of a new round of actions demanding Wells shifts away from funding fracking and tar sands — and into clean energy and the green economy.

Let’s make some noise and let Wells know that they need to FORGO FRACKING, cancel funding for Line 3 and make measurable commitments to divesting their portfolio from planet-heating, ecosystem-destroying, treaty-violating fossil fuels.

Find out more about what we have in store at our website: https://extinctionrebellionsfbay.org/posts/2021/09/stop-funding-fossil-fuels/
And please help us spread the word on Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2HzJOdqOl

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Free Them All
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Sep 17 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

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June – September 2021 Jun – Sep 2021