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Speciesism’s effect on the world is unfathomably destructive. Like other forms of oppression and prejudice, it ranges from interpersonal microaggressions, to downright bigotry, to entire societal institutions that thrive off direct or indirect exploitation and violence. It’s an issue that’s widely underrecognized so please WEAR BLACK CLOTHING and join us Saturday afternoon, August 27th to take part in the 8th annual World Day for the end of Speciesism where we’ll march a portion of the highly trafficked Bay Bridge in hopes of drawing attention to the issue along with other actions happening on the same day around the world.
At times we’ll highlight the speciesist practice of prosecuting humans who help anyone who isn’t a human escape from situations of distress and certain death. One of our current organizers (Paul Darwin Picklesimer) and one of our co-founders (Wayne Hsiung) will stand trial in Utah on September 9th for helping two piglets get to a vet and are facing up to over a decade in prison if convicted.
After marching, we’ll return to the meeting point to reflect on the day and enjoy free, delicious, plant-based food from P and A Vegan Catering.
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ACCESSIBILITY: Some marching (as much as 4.6 miles) and standing. Some chairs will be on hand for sitting as needed. Sun protection and comfortable footwear may be helpful. Smoke flares may be present so please be aware in order to distance yourself from them in case they might bother you.
WHO: Everyone is welcome! However, please do not come if you have or recently had symptoms of or exposure to COVID-19. If you’re nervous, you can come observe or hold a sign quietly.
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Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is a grassroots network of animal rights activists. Through open rescue, demonstration, and disruption, we help build a world where every animal is safe, happy and free.
DxE cultivates a welcoming and supportive community. We ask that all those who attend our events (online and offline) respect our Code of Conduct which can be reviewed at dxe.io/conduct.
To learn about our vision, goals, strategy and more check out the San Francisco Bay Area chapter Activist Handbook here: dxe.io/handbook
RSVP here. Facebook post here.
Join a broad coalition to demand that our elected officials hold the line against passing any dirty side deal with Senator Joe Manchin and the fossil fuel industry. Adoption would mean the further sacrifice of frontline communities, fasttracking dangerous fossil fuel projects, pushing approval for Manchin’s pet Mountain Valley Pipeline, and gutting bedrock environmental laws mandating review and community input on infrastructure projects. Now’s the time to take a stand and say that no community can be a sacrifice for fossil fuel profits.
This dirty side deal was engineered by a Senator who made his fortune as a coal baron and has the full power of the fossil fuel industry behind him.  Knowing that accelerating the buildout of fossil fuel infrastructure would be unpopular on its own, cunning Manchin is demanding that this legislation be attached to a critical, must-pass spending bill, potentially triggering a government shutdown.
It’s clearly time to descend on Senator Feinstein’s San Francisco office. Bay Area, present! Â
Bring signs that say “Stop the Dirty Deal.”  Please wear red or orange for all our communities impacted and threatened by climate-charged wildfires, heatwaves and drought.
WHERE
1 Post Street, San Francisco (intersection of Post and Market)
Accessible by BART and MUNI, parking two blocks away at Union Square
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Thank you to everyone who came out to Wood St encampment last week to provide support to residents during this violent displacement. Wood St encampment is home to an estimated 200 to 300 individuals, some who have lived here over a decade.
With little to no resources or support from the state, we need to keep showing up for our unhoused neighbors! Please show up again this Monday and Tuesday anytime between 6:30 am to 5 pm at 34th and Wood St in West Oakland.
This is the largest encampment in the Bay Area, and even though Libby Schaaf is on record saying Oakland does not have the beds for everyone living here, they’re going forward with the sweeps anyway. The encampment spans for blocks, and their plan is to do it in sections, with two week breaks in between each section. Keep reading below for more details on joining us!
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Thank you to everyone who came out to Wood St encampment last week to provide support to residents during this violent displacement. Wood St encampment is home to an estimated 200 to 300 individuals, some who have lived here over a decade.
With little to no resources or support from the state, we need to keep showing up for our unhoused neighbors! Please show up again this Monday and Tuesday anytime between 6:30 am to 5 pm at 34th and Wood St in West Oakland.
This is the largest encampment in the Bay Area, and even though Libby Schaaf is on record saying Oakland does not have the beds for everyone living here, they’re going forward with the sweeps anyway. The encampment spans for blocks, and their plan is to do it in sections, with two week breaks in between each section. Keep reading below for more details on joining us!
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We need you to come thru on Tuesday, 9/20 for a press conference & rally to speak out against the DA charging youth as adults. We know that charging youth as adults causes trauma and harm, the opposite of what our young people need. Let's make our voices heard! pic.twitter.com/cDeFgmDYf0— Young Women's Freedom Center (@YoungWomenFree) September 17, 2022
Join Youth vs Apocalypse to say: No to Coal in Oakland! and No to all forms of violence! This is action is part of the Global Climate Strike on September 23, 2022
This global climate strike is focused specifically on economic, racial, and international justice  “To demand policymakers and world leaders to prioritize #PeopleNotProfit! Globally, we are asking for Climate Reparations, not as charity, but as a transformative justice process in which political power will return to the people. This should be a follow through on the demands from Indigenous, black, anti-patriarchal and diverse marginalized communities to get their lands back, giving resources to the communities most affected by the climate crisis for adaptation, loss and damages.”
Now that Oakland is again threatened with coal shipment from the port, YVA is rallying to say no to coal in Oakland and also no to all forms of violence. Join the youth who are leading this important action “to support each other, express joy, celebrate life, fight to protect our lives and be able to live together.”
YVA says:
“Together let’s bring back the power to the people whose power has been stolen. Together, let’s build a system and home where we prioritize #PeopleNotProfit.”
WHERE
Gather at Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa Plaza (Broadway and 14th St. Oakland. then march on a 1-mile loop through downtown, past the Oakland Police Department and the Federal Building, then return to the plaza. Map here.
Schedule:
10am – Gather, practice chants, learn song/ movement
10:30 am – Short march
11:30pm – Speakers, Hip Hop performances and lunch
1pm – end
Background: For more information on the history of the fight against coal in Oakland, check out these google slides
School Support Request Form:Â https://forms.gle/U4kDsc4DaD3yWXM16
Volunteer Sign Up:Â https://forms.gle/8tqZwvD13rUR4PjW6
🚨Eviction Support Needed All Week For Wood St. Residents🚨 pic.twitter.com/IYcuN95zaI
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) September 27, 2022
🚨Eviction Support Needed All Week For Wood St. Residents🚨 pic.twitter.com/IYcuN95zaI
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) September 27, 2022
🚨Eviction Support Needed All Week For Wood St. Residents🚨 pic.twitter.com/IYcuN95zaI
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) September 27, 2022
With the current Wood St.evictions, community & residents still have nowhere to go!
Join the Oakland City Council meeting TOMORROW, Tues., Oct 4 @ 10am to make public comment in support of opening up vacant city land to Wood St residents!
Go to https://t.co/Ael19TBimD to join! pic.twitter.com/kiVJ4jaYV5
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) October 3, 2022
Meet us in Oscar Grant Plaza for a march and action led by two local organizations: Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) and Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA). The action will lift up both organizations’ campaigns around divesting from systems of harm and investing in healing, wellness, and community-controlled grassroots power. This will include a flashmob that we learned from our Chilean feminist friends. We will close with a dinner and rally at the Chinatown Resilience Hub that Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) has fought for and developed over many years.
Local Planning Committee
- About Face
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
- Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)
- Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA)
- PODER
- Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
- Chinese Progressive Association (CPA)
Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ) is an alliance of over 60 US-based grassroots organizing (GRO) groups comprised of working and poor people and communities of color. GGJ brings GRO groups into a long-term process of relationship building, political alignment and transformational leadership development. We weave and bridge together US-based GRO groups and global social movements working for climate justice, gender justice, an end to war, and a just transition to the next economy. At our 7th Membership Assembly in 2018, the membership of GGJ refined our framework for a holistic approach to building grassroots global justice: No War, No Warming, Build a Just Transition to a Feminist Economy, echoing the framework of Dr. Martin Luther King’s philosophy of the Triple Evils of Poverty, Racism and Militarism and integrating the current day pressing issues of climate change and feminism.
Join us on Saturday, October 8th from 10am – 12pm for a Rally to protest the Supreme Court’s taking away legal abortion and to support expanding access to full reproductive care as part of the nationwide mass actions for reproductive rights!
People all around the country are uniting for a Fall of reckoning. We will not sit back and accept the attacks on our families, future, and our freedom.
We are honored to follow the “A Day Without Us” on Sept 30th, Student Walkouts on October 6th, and to kick off the Yes on Prop 1 Weekend of Action to codify the right to an abortion in the CA State Constitution! Use the energy and momentum of our rally to launch you into concrete action that same day, or the next! Register for a phonebank shift here:Â https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/vote-yes-prop-1-statewide-phonebank
Join us.
Endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte & East Bay Democratic Socialists of America in collaboration with a growing list of groups and union and community activists.
Eviction support needed this week! Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30a-4:30p @ 26th and wood street — be prepared to take the lead from residents, recommend bringing a charged phone to document, protective shoes, gloves if able to lift items, & mask for dust/covid https://t.co/hYmNtNgTa3
— APTP First Response (@aptpresponse) October 11, 2022
Join rooftop solar defenders to tell the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)Â to reject the plans of corporate utilities like PG&E to impose high costs on households with rooftop solar panels:Â large monthly fees to connect to the grid and much lower payment for electricity they sell back to the grid.
Soon the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is expected to release a new proposal that will determine the fate of rooftop solar from now on. There will then be a 30-day public comment period, followed by a final vote of the five-person commission.
The Solar Rights Alliance, an organization of solar panel installers, says, “We don’t know what the CPUC will propose. We do know that utility lobbyists are still pushing a Solar Tax and deep cuts to the credit for sharing surplus energy with the grid.”
The Solar Rights Alliance is hosting “the biggest pro-solar event yet,” Everyone Under the Sun Rally & Festival at the State Capitol, to remind the CPUC, Governor Newsom, and the media:
- No Solar Tax or other changes that make rooftop solar unaffordable for everyday people.
- Keep rooftop solar growing so that more Californians can get it, not fewer.
RSVP
If you can’t make it to the rally, you can sign up here to be alerted when the CPUC releases its next solar rooftop proposal
Eviction support needed this week! Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30a-4:30p @ 26th and wood street — be prepared to take the lead from residents, recommend bringing a charged phone to document, protective shoes, gloves if able to lift items, & mask for dust/covid https://t.co/hYmNtNgTa3
— APTP First Response (@aptpresponse) October 11, 2022
Just saw this on the facebook page of a Wood Street resident. Looks like residents and supporters plan to rally tomorrow in front of city hall to demand access to the nearby land on the Northgate parcel to relocate them since they're facing eviction from CalTrans… pic.twitter.com/rbXFACH7dL
— Zack Haber (@ZZZZZZZZZZZack) October 17, 2022
Tomorrow at 10 AM: the families of Keita O'Neil, Luis Gongora Pat, and Sean Moore are holding a rally outside of @BrookeJenkinsSF's office.
They are calling on DA Jenkins to prosecute the officers who killed their loved ones. The delays must stop.
Address: 350 Rhode Island St
— ACLU of Northern CA (@ACLU_NorCal) October 19, 2022
Defend The Right To Strike!
An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!
Repeal The Anti-labor Railway Labor Act
US railroad workers are continuing to mostly vote against a proposed contract that does nothing to
defend their health and safety condition on he job with long dangerous hours.
Using the Railway Labor Act as a union busting tool which it is, workers are being told they really don’t have the right to strike and have to accept a contract that destroys workers lives and conditions.
Working people and unions need to rally to defend railroad workers and all other unions and working people who are under attack from striking NUHW Healthcare workers, OEA OUSD teachers, UTR WCCSD teachers and all public workers.
We also need to defend Amazon, Starbucks and all worker who are fighting to get organized and have a union. They face union busting billionaires that flagrantly violate weak US labor laws that are not even enforced by Biden & his “union” Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
We have to fight the closures of public schools and privatization of public services,
privatization of the Port of Oakland and defend all public services and fight systemic racism.
With 750,000 unionized workers whose contracts expire next year, we need to build a united
working class movement of all unions and working people to back each other up and fight together. Business unionism will not defend working people, our unions and worker rights.
Join us in a solidarity rally for Railroad workers and their right to strike and all
workers in this country and around the world.
After more than four decades, 14 000 days, spent far away from his family, the case of Mumia ABU-JAMAL will be heard in the Philadelphia, PA Court of Common Pleas. The same court system that had sentenced him to die by lethal injection, then to death by incarceration. The evidence that has now come to light — but was long kept in the dark by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office — should enable his release !
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal is the cry heard around the world for 40 years. It will reverberate in Philadelphia on Oct. 19. Here in the Bay Area we are calling for freedom for Mumia. Please join us.
Fossil fuel companies not only pollute national and state elections, they are polluting local races as well, like the Oakland mayor’s race. Five candidates for mayor have signed a pledge opposing a coal export terminal in Oakland. But one candidate, Ignacio de la Fuente, who is on record supporting the terminal, has accepted a staggering $600,000 from the coal terminal developers.
Join 350 East Bay along with No Coal in Oakland, Youth vs. Apocalypse, the Sierra Club, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, Baykeeper, and more allies to expose this outrageous attempt to buy the Oakland mayor’s race. Come to the rally and press conference to oppose toxic pollution of our local election.
Speakers: Ms. Margaret Gordon, No Coal in Oakland and West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project; Igor Tregub, Sierra Club; Julia Dowell, SF Baykeeper; Georgia Wallace, Marlay’ja, Youth vs. Apocalypse; and representatives from 350 Bay Area, Communities for a Better Environment, and Service Employees International Union, Local 1021
For clean air and clean elections,
Your 350 East Bay Team
PS You’re also invited to the Climate & Public Health Summit on November 18th.
PPS Our monthly 350 East Bay meeting is happening Saturday, November 19th at 10:30am on zoom. RSVP here to join us to talk about what SF and Bay Area activists are working on now.