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THIS FRIDAY – PACK THE COURT! 🖤🔥
Please join us this Friday, March 22 at 2pm to show solidarity in the fight for #Justice4StevenTaylor ! We will be in Department 8, at 1225 Fallon St.
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— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) March 21, 2024
Ready to advance climate and health justice in Berkeley? A grassroots community and worker coalition is organizing to get two exciting ballot measures on the Berkeley ballot in 2024!
Join us for a signature gathering launch and training. We will meet in the middle of the Park across from the flag poll. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided! If you can’t make it this weekend, stay tuned for a subsequent kick-off announcement for next weekend.
RSVP Here
Berkeley Large Buildings Fossil Fuel Emissions Tax
Healthy City Buildings Ordinance
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Please let us know if you are part of an organization that would like to endorse these measures, and whether you wish to donate to the signature gathering effort. We intend to rely mostly on volunteer signature gathering, but may also need some paid signature gatherers to qualify by the May 9 deadline.
Sincerely,
Healthy Buildings Berkeley Coalition
This will be the Court’s first serious return to the issue of abortion since overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. If successful, this case can impact healthcare access for millions of women across the US —INCLUDING IN STATES WHERE ABORTION IS LEGAL.
People with disabilities and people of color are disproportionally underserved with reproductive care. Speakers will address this as well as the legal and political problem of the Supreme Court having agreed to hear this case. The abortion pill mifepristone has been proven effective and FDA approved for almost 25 years. It is safer than either viagra or tylenol.
Join us for a rousing rally that will include speakers, open mic and music to get us revved up by the Raging Grannies with Brass Liberation Orchestra (together again!)
Sponsored by a coalition of organizations and spearheaded by National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice San Francisco Chapter.
If your group would like to table at and/or endorse this action please email us. There is power in numbers. Join us everyone!
Photo by: Leon Kunstenaar, ProBonoPhoto
Ryan Gainer was a 15-year-old child with autism who was senselessly murdered by San Bernardino Sheriffs after his family called 911.
Murdering a 15-year-old Black boy experiencing a crisis is enraging and another example why the carceral system must be dismantled. Black people with disabilities face compounded risks when interacting with police.
Black neurodivergent children who are having an episode deserve to live. Black children deserve to live. PERIOD. We shouldn’t have to say anymore names. No one should have to bury their child. Ryan Gainer should still be here.
Join the Anti Police-Terror Project, Disability Justice Culture Club, Disability Justice League Bay Area, and the Center for Independent Living this Sunday
Accessibility: The amphitheater is a wheelchair accessible space, we will have ASL available and will be livestreaming the event. Bathrooms are available at the public library across the street which will be open till 5:30pm. Mask up!
We will have a brief program of speakers who will connect the dots between our interconnected struggles, there will be space for young people and healers, and we will close with a short de-escalation training and seed planting.
Abolition is a disability justice issue. The solutions we need require centering the needs, ideas and testimonies of neurodivergent and/or disabled people. Abolition cannot wait. Justice for Ryan Gainer!
In service and solidarity,
APTP
On March 8, community members served a subpoena to Eric Swalwell for his support for the ongoing illegal genocide in Gaza. Two weeks later, Swalwell doubled down and voted to defund UNRWA, which provides vital aid to Palestinian refugees
ATTEND THE TRIAL: https://t.co/L2asDl7mDL pic.twitter.com/0mZu5uHpfx
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) March 27, 2024
Calling all Bay Area journalists: May 11 marks 2 years since the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. Had Israel faced accountability for her killing, maybe some 140 Palestinian journalists wouldn’t have been killed. Come gather and mourn at this family friendly vigil. Wear black. pic.twitter.com/R0ToMmaqdj
— Isabeau Doucet (@IsabeauD_) April 30, 2024
@google workers will lead URGENT #NoTechForGen0c1de rallies in NYC, Seattle, Sunnyvale to demand Google stop profiting from the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
This morning @TIME Magazine -confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the public for years, is in fact providing direct cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense & the Israeli Occupation Forces, and has ACTIVELY DEEPENED its partnership with Israeli military during the genocide in Gaza, signing a new $1M agreement as recently as 3 weeks ago: https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/
JOIN US TO STAND WITH PRINCIPLED GOOGLE WORKERS‼️✊🏽🍉
In January 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Johnson v. Grants Pass, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that barred municipalities across the western United States from punishing their unhoused residents for sleeping outside, even when there are no available shelter options. With its hard-right conservative majority, SCOTUS will likely overturn Grants Pass, creating a devastating ripple effect for homeless people across the country. Democratic leaders across local and state governments have submitted amicus briefs, or “Friends of the Court” briefs, in support of the overturning of Grants Pass– a deliberate attempt to use the hyper conservative court to enact violence on their poorest constituents.
On April 22nd, 2024, cities across the country will mobilize to show their support for the rights of unhoused people, demanding that the Supreme Court recognize sweeps without the offer of adequate shelter constitute cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of the Eighth Amendment. In San Francisco, where the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is located and the fight for the human rights of homeless people is most storied, join us in mobilizing from the Federal Building, to the State Building, and then ending at City Hall on April 22nd.
STOP THE SWEEPS!
Wednesday 5/1: May Day General Strike to Stop Genocide & Rally at Harry Bridges Plaza https://t.co/ohbvkOKm6i
— Indybay (@Indybay) April 6, 2024
🚨 This May Day, workers across the Bay Area and across the country will Rise for Palestine 🇵🇸 !
Join an action in Oakland or San Francisco, talk to your coworkers and get them involved.
Check this thread for Bay Area actions happening on 5/1! pic.twitter.com/2EatggvEX9
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) April 26, 2024
Emergency Call to Action!
All out for Rafah!
Sproul Plaza, at UC Berkeley!
Tuesday, May 7th at 4pm! pic.twitter.com/aCQ3WVzhfI— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) May 7, 2024
Bay Area! The police & officials are attempting to surveil and disrupt our community with a $44 million Cop City in San Pablo. Come together in the nationwide fight to stop Cop City!
🌟Date: Thursday, May 16th
🌟Time: 3-6pm
🌟Location: Point Richmond (900 Dornan Dr, Richmond) pic.twitter.com/79sPjlhUwz— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) May 12, 2024
On May 22, @StrikeDebt is rallying in DC to demand Biden fund education NOT genocide. Join us!
Can’t make it in person? Support by sharing, liking, and telling your friends in the DC area to come out.
Cancel debt & defund the war machine.
RSVP here: https://t.co/FpecspnVui pic.twitter.com/tZT7SSYH9B
— magnetic deviation 🟥 (@thingsinthesink) May 13, 2024
Tonight, May 27th
All Eyes on Rafah
Vigil for Palestine
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
7:30pm@YallaBerkeley @AROCBayArea pic.twitter.com/kgafEG7Rv3— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) May 27, 2024
Why do we do mass copwatching shifts?
This is a chance for us to teach our shifts practice: listening to the scanner, how to copwatch as a team, incident documentation, entry into our database, and more.
We hope that people will take what they learn into their daily lives AND join copwatch for some of our weekly shifts! We are always seeking to train up more shift facilitators.
Wanna know more about our shifts? Check out the copwatch handbook packed with 30+ years of experience. (https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/handbook)
Accessibility info: Meet in the backroom of Grassroots House. There is a ramp at the front. Masks are encouraged.
Our trainings are offered free to the public. We encourage all people, with any amount of prior knowledge or experience, to attend these trainings and contribute your questions and experience.
We will meet in the back room of the Grassroots House. There is a ramp at the front of the house. Masking recommended but not required.
Basic Copwatching Techniques and Intro to Copwatch and Your Rights
TUE JULY 2 at 7-9pm
Copwatching at Protests and Preparing for Arrests
WED JULY 10 at 7-9pm
Trainings are offered in a series but attendance to one is not a requirement to attend another. We will do some basic rights review during part 2 to bring everyone up to speed.
If you want us to facilitate a training for your org/group, reach out to us at berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com
Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more.
Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without healing there is no justice. Sign up today to join us for free healing services this Friday!
Our Clinic draws upon the revolutionary history of the Young Lords and seeks to honor the legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur. Ancestral medicine is one of the greatest strengths that our movement has to combat state violence, and it is a central value of APTP to utilize healing justice as a strategy for the longevity of organized resistance.
APTP Healing Justice Team