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Benefit for HERF [Haiti Emergency Relief Fund] @ pin The Malonga Casquelourd Center for The Arts

Mar 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Bay Area Artists Benefit featuring Souls of Mischief, Jenny Lim, Phavia Kujichagulia, Avotcja, Robert Wood, GoodLOVE, Destiny Muhammad, Toreadah Mikell, Tacuma King, Stone’s of Fire, Sankofa Akili Dance Ensemble and more! Come out for a great show and give to support Haiti at the same time. Tickets $20 Please share!!!

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Mad Max vs Green New Deal Showdown @ Glama!-Rama!

Mar 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Climate change is upon us, and the time has come to decide: will we live under socialism, or live under water? We’ll take socialism, thank you, and so come party at the launch of East Bay DSA’s Green New Deal campaign.

Explore the stark divide between the nihilism of market-driven climate destruction and the hopeful future of ecosocialism in two theme rooms, enter the costume contest to see who can enshrine each eco-timeline sartorially, and learn a little about our campaigns to support the Green New Deal and bring PG&E into public ownership. We’ll be raising funds for future work with raffle prizes, drinks and a sliding-scale cover charge.

Tickets: Set up a monthly, sustaining donation of $5 or more to East Bay DSA (or increase your existing donation by at least $5) for free admission and an open bar. Or, make a one-time donation of $5-20 sliding scale for admission — just go to eastbaydsa.org/donate and show your email receipt at the party. Donations by cash and venmo (@eastbaydsa) will also be accepted at the door.

Alcohol policy: This is an all-ages event, but you must be 21+ to drink. Non-alcoholic beverages and snacks will be abundant.

Accessibility: The space is fully wheelchair accessible, and parking is available on the street. Please message the East Bay DSA account with any accessibility questions or concerns that would help you enjoy this event.

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Meet Socialists in the Labor Movement @ East Bay Community Space

Mar 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Curious about the labor movement after the recent teachers strike wave? Trying to figure out why socialists talk to much about labor? Maybe thinking about getting a union job? Come on out, and bring your friends!

Socialists have always seen organized labor as the vital center of a broader working-class movement, and in the 19th and early 20th centuries, socialist politics largely emerged from the labor movement. But since the red-baiting and McCarythism of the Cold War, the connection between socialists and the labor movement has been dramatically loosened.

But many socialists have worked union jobs and participated in their unions as rank-and-file members over the past decades.

The first part of this event will be a panel discussion of socialists who have been rank-and-file union workers, discussing their experiences and perspectives on the labor movement.

The second part will be a kind of rank-and-file job fair. DSA members who work in union jobs in a variety of industries will have tables set up where you can chat with them about their experiences, hear about what different union jobs are like, and talk about how they navigate the broader politics of labor.

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Film Screening: The Pushouts (free!) @ The New Parkway

Mar 24 @ 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm

This is a FREE event co-presented by Appreciating Diversity Film Series

I was in prison before I was even born.’ So begins the story of Dr. Victor Rios who, by 15, was a high school “dropout,” heroin dealer, and Oakland gang member with multiple felony convictions and a death wish. But when a teacher’s quiet persistence, a mentor’s moral conviction, and his best friend’s murder converge, Rios’s path takes an unexpected turn.

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Tax the Rich Sing-A-Long with Occupella @ Outside the Old Oaks Theater

Mar 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

We’re still playing every Monday that it doesn’t rain!

Occupella organizes informal public singing at Bay Area occupation sites, marches and at BART stations. We sing to promote peace, justice, and an end to corporate domination, especially in support of the Occupy movement.

Music has the power to build spirit, foster a sense of unity, convey messages and emotions, spread information, and bring joy to participants and audience alike. See spirited clip of an action at BART. Check out the actions calendar and come add your voice. There are lots of ways to participate and everyone is welcome.

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Author Event: Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work @ Moe's

Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Join us for an evening with Jenny Brown for the Berkeley book launch of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work at Moe’s Books.

Jenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to have “morning-after pill” contraception available over-the-counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. In addition to Labor Notes, her work has appeared in Jacobin, Huffington Post, and Alternet, and she is coauthor of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now.

About Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work

When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like “age structure,” “dependency ratio,” and “entitlement crisis,” establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don’t get busy having more children, we’ll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and a stagnant economy.

Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the protracted fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S. and that politicians only attack abortion and birth control to appeal to those “values voters.” But hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women’s reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women’s work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. By some measures our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike.

In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing and childrearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children.

Praise:

“Jenny Brown compellingly explains the low U.S. birth rate: those primarily responsible for the labor of bearing and raising children (women) are responding as one should to lousy working conditions—by going on strike! Brown’s bold and brilliant book ventures into terrain that left and feminist thinkers have avoided for far too long. A breathtakingly accessible analysis, supported by riveting and intimate testimonials, it’s also an inspiring call to action.”
—Liza Featherstone, The Nation

“Birth Strike is a well-researched and wide-ranging analysis of how the public responsibilities of pregnancy and parenting have been privatized to benefit a capitalist for-profit system designed to minimize labor costs to produce wealth for the few. Offers fresh insight into how women’s biological power may be harnessed to resist reproductive oppression.”
—Loretta J. Ross, author of Reproductive Justice: An Introduction and editor of Radical Reproductive Justice

“An audacious analysis of the falling U.S. birth rate; of the exploitive, often untenable conditions for raising children here and now; and of what might be done to change things. Feminist insight illuminates every chapter of this thoughtful book.”
—Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen and A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing

“An astute analysis of power relations not only in the sphere of reproduction but also in the worlds of work, immigration, and government policy as they bear on women’s ability to control their bodies. She illuminates the historical context of the writings of Marx and Malthus, the crusades of Comstock, and recurring elite pleas for women to supply more workers and soldiers. Brown lays bare why U.S. women who want to be mothers, and those who don’t, have it far worse here than in Europe. Then she tells us how to change that.”
—Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes

“This book lays bare how U.S. politics around race and immigration are closely connected to the struggle for reproductive freedom, both in the past and today. You will never think about reproductive rights in the same way again.”
—Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in Americaand How to Be an Antiracist.

“Jenny Brown reveals to us how and why reactionary ruling interests in the United States support heavy birth rates and oppose both abortion and birth control. Also given is a good report of various other countries and their prevailing interests. In all, an excellent read!”
—Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle, Democracy for the Few, and Against Empire

“Why are we still struggling for childcare and paid leave in the U.S.? Basic rights to birth control and abortion? In Birth Strike, Jenny Brown exposes the economic interests at play and shows the mighty power of women to change the game.”
—Lise Vogel, author of Marxism and the Oppression of Women

“Jenny Brown provides a compelling case that the battle over abortion and birth control is not just a religious or cultural difference of opinion. Rather, within these battles are deeper debates over the control of human labor. Capitalism cannot exist without labor, and employers have a strong interest in ensuring a steady supply. The more women can control their own bodies, the less power capitalists have over social reproduction. Filled with fascinating history and contemporary analysis, this book illuminates how women’s liberation is in fundamental conflict with capitalism. Read this book to learn how women must take their political struggle beyond what are often narrowly misunderstood as ‘women’s issues.’”
—Stephanie Luce, professor of labor studies and sociology, City University of New York, author of Fighting for a Living Wage and Labor Movements: Global Perspectives

“Birth Strike is an important contribution to the subject of women and our reproductive rights. Unlike much of the literature on contraception and abortion, Jenny Brown situates her analysis within the larger economic context of both labor and human rights.”
—Ti-Grace Atkinson, author of Amazon Odyssey and founder of The Feminists

“Jenny Brown’s rational and forthright answer to what the abortion struggles are about will surprise American women on both sides of the issue. Hint: it’s not religion or politics.”
—Peggy Dobbins, author of From Kin to Class, WITCH founder

“Jenny Brown’s book Birth Strike is a game-changer and is equal in significance to Betty’s Friedan’s Feminine Mystique in the 1960’s, which sparked a movement.”
—Carol Downer, Feminist Women’s Health Centers founder and author of A Woman’s Book of Choices

“A few years ago, statisticians discovered that the birth rate . . . in the U.S. had hit an all-time low. . . . In her provocative book Birth Strike . . . Brown jumps off from this evidence to discuss the history of birth control and right to secure a legal abortion in the face of the ruling class of men who traditionally have dictated the rules of women’s reproductive labor. This book is worth reading.”
—Susan Brownmiller, author of In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

About the Author:
Jenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to have “morning-after pill” contraception available over-the-counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. In addition to Labor Notes, her work has appeared in Jacobin, Huffington Post, and Alternet, and she is coauthor of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. She is the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now.

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Talk by Odile Hugonot-Haber: From war system to a peace culture @ Longhaul

Mar 25 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Odile is the co-chair of the US Middle East Committee of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom.

She helped maintain the Long Haul between 1987-1993 and can tell stories about Long Haul before the Infoshop. She was also involved in the radical homeless movement in the 1980s/90s as well as the struggle to defend People’s Park. She was a “participant in the crowd” in Paris 1968.

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A Memoir of Witness and Resistance @ Hillside Club

Mar 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or
Pegasus Books (3 sites),
Moe’s,
Books Inc (Berkeley),
Walden Pond Bookstore,
East Bay Books,
Mrs. Dalloway’s

“This luminous book stands beside the memoirs of Pablo Neruda and Czeslaw Milosz in its account of a poet’s education, the struggle of a great artist to be worthy of her gifts. Carolyn Forché’s prose is shamanic: it sees both the surface of things and their inner workings, it animates the inanimate world.”
— Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

Carolyn Forché is one of the most gifted poets of her generation. Her work—including Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes—has been translated into more than twenty languages. She has received the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship.
For decades the story of how Carolyn became an effective activist has not been told. At last, in her shimmering, gripping prose, we learn how a fateful encounter and a radical act of empathy changed the course of her life. Carolyn was twenty-seven when a mysterious stranger appeared on her doorstep— a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it was brilliant. She’d heard rumors about who he might be: a lone wolf, a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a coffee farmer…He had driven from El Salvador to invite her to his country. Captivated, she accepted and became enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension; they meet with high-ranking military officers, impoverished farm workers, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked, Carolyn is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads, sheltering in safe houses, the two forge a rich friendship as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. She learns how she can act as a witness and translate that into an art that might illumine the lives of others. That is “the poetry of witness,” and she has proven to be one of North America’s rare practitioners.

What You Have Heard Is True— a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political awakening— is as beautiful as it is painful to read.”
— Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl

KPFA benefit

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ELLA BAKER UNSHELTERED CRISIS COMMITTEE MEETING @ Ella Baker Center office

Mar 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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Beer and Roses DSA Labor Social @ Blind Tiger

Mar 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses Social!

Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!

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Woman’s History Month Movie Night – “What Happened, Miss Simone?” @ East Bay Community Space

Mar 28 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Come enjoy this great film about the trail blazing Nina Simone, followed by some time to discuss the film.

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Author Event: Our History is Our Future @ St. Johns Presbyterian Church

Mar 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents

Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or

Pegasus Books (3 sites),
Books Inc (Berkeley),
Moe’s,
Walden Pond Bookstore,
East Bay Books
Mrs. Dalloway’s
$15 door

“This extraordinary history of resistance counters the myth of Indigenous disappearance and insignificance while calling into question the very notion that resistance itself is impossible in a world saturated by capital and atrophying inequality. This is a radical Indigenous history in its finest form.” —Audra Simpson, author of Mohawk Interruptus

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan – “Mni Wiconi” – Water is Life – was about more than just a pipeline. Water protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that even after the encampment was gone their anti-colonial struggle would continue. In Our History is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan Dams, the American Indian Movement and the campaign for Indigenous Rights at the United Nations. While a historian by trade, Estes also draws on personal observations from the encampments and from his own growing up as a citizen of Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires), making this book a work of authentic history, a personal story, and a stirring manifesto for native liberation.

“This book is a jewel—history and analysis that reads like the best poetry—certain to be a classic work as well as a study guide for continued and accelerated resistance.”

—Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author ofAn Indigenous People’s History of the United States

Nick Estes, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and a co-founder of The Red Nation, an organization dedicated to native liberation. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books, including Outlaw Woman, a memoir of her time in an armed underground group, Red Dirt: Growing up Okie, and Blood On the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War,and the recent, widely acclaimed An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.

KPFA benefit

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We Hate Santa Rita Jail! A Fundraiser for IWOC Oakland

Mar 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

*WE HATE SANTA RITA JAIL*
A fundraiser for Oakland IWOC
6pm to close

Come share in the hatred of our county jail (and every other jail, prison, and detention center) and support you favorite local abolitionist crew. All proceeds go toward IWOC’s direct material support program for late night releasees from Santa Rita.

Every week we bring a crew of people out to Santa Rita Jail to meet people as they are released. We share pizza, cigarettes, warm clothes, rides to BART with our neighbors who are getting out late at night. This material support and care work is a small but meaningful way to address the harm caused by incarceration in our Bay Area community. We need your help to keep this project going strong. Please spread the word and we hope to see you Friday

Food and drink provided by Tamarack
Short presentation by IWOC Oakland
Vinyl by Left of the Dial

Inside, Outside, All on the Same Side!

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California Progressive Alliance founding convention @ San Luis Obispo Guild Hall

Mar 30 – Mar 31 all-day

The new California Progressive Alliance seeks to elevate progressive ideas; promote the creation of local political alliances and coalitions for political power; support corporate-free progressive candidates and issue-based electoral campaigns; and expand the communication and dialogue among all our progressive family in the state of California, respecting and supporting the work done by all.

The CPA is having is founding convention in San Luis Obispo March 30-31!

Register by January 31 and get 25% off with early bird registration for our founding Convention in San Luis Obispo March 30-31. Speakers include former Supervisor and VP candidate Matt Gonzalez, SLO Mayor Heidi Harmon, former Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, and panels on our 2019 priorities. Organize with us!

Remember, to vote on proposals, officers, and founding documents, you must be a dues-paying CPA member (all are welcome at the convention!). Join now, here.

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ACLU: A Tour on your rights and freedoms. @ Jack London Square

Mar 30 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Walk through groundbreaking interactive and immersive exhibits. Meet leading civil rights activists. Learn how to reduce prison populations, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone’s constitutional right to vote. Take action.

A family-friendly event for people of all ages. Free + open to all.

RSVP at ACLU100.org

Schedule below (subject to change)

ALL DAY ACTIVITIES:

Art workshops led by Artismobilus, Justice For Our Lives. Screen printing with Lukas WhatWhat and face painting with Miss Naomi Bee.

Network with Bay Area and California non-profits making the change happen, including: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Heyday Books, Initiate Justice, League of Women Voters of the U.S., Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), ACILEP network for immigrant rights, Youth Speaks, Oakland Public Library, Secure Justice, Design Action Collective,
Anti-Recidivism Coalition, TGI Justice Project (TGIJP), and ACCESS Women’s Health Justice.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

10:00 am–4:00 pm
Qulture Collective vendor village featuring local queer and POC artists and makers

11:45 am–12:45 am
SambaFunk! featuring FUNKTERNAL
A collective of dancers, musicians and drummers spreading JOY and social consciousness through their work.

1:00 pm–1:05 pm
W. Kamau Bell – sociopolitical comedian and host of docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell

1:05 pm–2:00 pm
Act to Save Lives: Panel Discussion on Critical Police Reform
Featuring Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, Uncle Bobby from Love Not Blood Campaign, and James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project . Moderated by Miguel Quezada from CURYJ

2:00 pm–2:30 pm
Dancing Earth
A collaborative group of intertribal indigenous dance artists

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Audiopharmacy
Spawned from its roots in hip hop, Audiopharmacy intricately fuses live instrumentation and global musical styles

3:30 pm–4:30 pm
Jonah Melvon featuring adeshamusic
A sibling duo playing music from a new project by Jonah Melvon, Rain Water, and Adesha’s inspiring soul music collection

4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Man Haters: Women, Queers, Comedy
An all-women comedy group based in Oakland, California featuring Irene Tu, Dominique Gelin, Brooke Heinichen and Alexandria Love

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Hip Hop for Change
A non-profit dedicated to using Hip Hop as a means of positive cultural change

SUNDAY, MARCH 31

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Void
Funky jazz soul from Oakland youth

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
West Grand Brass Band
Dixieland brass band tradition combined with modern musical genres and sounds

1:00 pm– 2:00pm
Art as Activism
Panel featuring Gregory Sale, lead artist at the Future IDs Project, Inno Negara who wrote the best-selling A is for Activist, Rob Liu Trujillo illustrator, author, and co-founder of the Trust Your Struggle, and Sabiha Basrai from Design Action Collective. Moderated by Gigi Harney, ACLU of Northern California Creative Strategist.

2:00 pm– 3:00 pm
Book signing with best selling author Inno Nagara

4:00 pm– 5:00 pm
Mission Delirium
An invitation to revel in the sound of earth shaking drums and face-melting brass

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What does Zapatista autonomy mean for us in the US? @ Omni Commons

Mar 30 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm

You’re Invited to a Breakfast of Waffles & Zapatismo!

Zapatista Autonomy:
Challenging Solidarity & Organizing in the U.S.

* 10:30am Waffles, coffee, getting to know each other
* 11:00 a.m. Pablo Gonzalez presentation with discussion.

On Pablo Gonzalez

Pablo Gonzalez teaches at UC Berkeley. A first generation Chicano scholar-activist/anthropologist, Pablo is immersed in studying the political and cultural resonance of social movements. In particular, the resonance of Indigenous social movements on Chicanas/os and people of color in the U.S.

Gonzalez has a book manuscript, “Autonomy Road: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Autonomous Organizing in Los Angeles California,” which describes a 20-year history of solidarity and political organizing between Chicana/o communities in the U.S. and the Zapatista indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico.

The Chiapas Support Committee invites you to join us for a community breakfast and a discussion to deepen our understanding of and relationships with the struggles of Zapatista and Indigenous communities in Mexico and what solidarity looks like in the current political and economic climate. Expressing and organizing solidarity has many race, gender, class facets. How do we speak about Indigenous struggles, how are they linked to our struggles in the U.S., what is the task and responsibility (if any) of U.S.-based social justice movements, anti-racist, environmental justice, racial justice and Indigenous struggles and movements?

We have more questions than answers. The discussion requires we ask the right and critical questions in time and reflect and organize. What are your questions?

Join us in an urgent and intimate dialogue and discussion of what matters most to us in this period of rising capitalist strife and repression.

PLUS HOLD THE DATE:
¡Viva Zapata!
Zapata Across the Borders: Image & Reality
Film Screening & Discussion of the Marlon Brando classic: ¡Viva Zapata!
Also at the Omni
Sat. April 13, 2019, 7 pm
$5-10 donation at the door

For more info:
www.chiapas-support.org

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ACLU: A Tour on your rights and freedoms. @ Jack London Square

Mar 31 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Walk through groundbreaking interactive and immersive exhibits. Meet leading civil rights activists. Learn how to reduce prison populations, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone’s constitutional right to vote. Take action.

A family-friendly event for people of all ages. Free + open to all.

RSVP at ACLU100.org

Schedule below (subject to change)

ALL DAY ACTIVITIES:

Art workshops led by Artismobilus, Justice For Our Lives. Screen printing with Lukas WhatWhat and face painting with Miss Naomi Bee.

Network with Bay Area and California non-profits making the change happen, including: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Heyday Books, Initiate Justice, League of Women Voters of the U.S., Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), ACILEP network for immigrant rights, Youth Speaks, Oakland Public Library, Secure Justice, Design Action Collective,
Anti-Recidivism Coalition, TGI Justice Project (TGIJP), and ACCESS Women’s Health Justice.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

10:00 am–4:00 pm
Qulture Collective vendor village featuring local queer and POC artists and makers

11:45 am–12:45 am
SambaFunk! featuring FUNKTERNAL
A collective of dancers, musicians and drummers spreading JOY and social consciousness through their work.

1:00 pm–1:05 pm
W. Kamau Bell – sociopolitical comedian and host of docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell

1:05 pm–2:00 pm
Act to Save Lives: Panel Discussion on Critical Police Reform
Featuring Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, Uncle Bobby from Love Not Blood Campaign, and James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project . Moderated by Miguel Quezada from CURYJ

2:00 pm–2:30 pm
Dancing Earth
A collaborative group of intertribal indigenous dance artists

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Audiopharmacy
Spawned from its roots in hip hop, Audiopharmacy intricately fuses live instrumentation and global musical styles

3:30 pm–4:30 pm
Jonah Melvon featuring adeshamusic
A sibling duo playing music from a new project by Jonah Melvon, Rain Water, and Adesha’s inspiring soul music collection

4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Man Haters: Women, Queers, Comedy
An all-women comedy group based in Oakland, California featuring Irene Tu, Dominique Gelin, Brooke Heinichen and Alexandria Love

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Hip Hop for Change
A non-profit dedicated to using Hip Hop as a means of positive cultural change

SUNDAY, MARCH 31

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Void
Funky jazz soul from Oakland youth

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
West Grand Brass Band
Dixieland brass band tradition combined with modern musical genres and sounds

1:00 pm– 2:00pm
Art as Activism
Panel featuring Gregory Sale, lead artist at the Future IDs Project, Inno Negara who wrote the best-selling A is for Activist, Rob Liu Trujillo illustrator, author, and co-founder of the Trust Your Struggle, and Sabiha Basrai from Design Action Collective. Moderated by Gigi Harney, ACLU of Northern California Creative Strategist.

2:00 pm– 3:00 pm
Book signing with best selling author Inno Nagara

4:00 pm– 5:00 pm
Mission Delirium
An invitation to revel in the sound of earth shaking drums and face-melting brass

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Democratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream? @ Niebyl Proctor Library

Mar 31 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Is industrial civilization compatible with economic democracy, or is democratic socialism impossible in a globalized industrial society? This presentation will examine the powerful material conditions that have frustrated every effort to replace capitalism with genuine democratic socialism. Hopefully, this will become the starting point for a discussion about what kinds of energy sources and technologies are most conducive to democratic control.

Strongly suggested background reading:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/30/democratic-socialism-the-impossible-dream/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/why-did-socialism-fail/

Craig Collins, Ph.D. is the author of Toxic Loopholes (Cambridge University Press), which examines America’s dysfunctional system of environmental protection. He teaches political science and environmental law at California State University East Bay and was a founding member of the Green Party of California.

His forthcoming books: Marx & Mother Nature and Rising From the Ruins: Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance reformulate Marx’s theory of history & social change and examine the emerging struggle to replace catabolic capitalism with a thriving, just, ecologically resilient society.

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What Can We Do About Mass Incarceration? @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Mar 31 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

Panel and Dialog:
Jose Bernal: Senior Organizer Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Serves on the S.F. Reentry Council; advocates for restorative justice policies; spearheaded campaigns to de-privatize reentry services and end gang injunctions. Graduate of Stanford University’s Project ReMade program, a course aimed at empowering the formerly incarcerated.

Jonathon Simon: directs the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC and teaches about punishment, prisons, and mass incarceration. His books include, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Society and Created a Culture of Fear (2009) and Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (2014). Simon believes that invoking human dignity can fuel efforts to change the direction of the carceral state. Listen to his interview on Dignity and The Carceral State: https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-april-4-2018/

Starr King Room-light lunch provided

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Free Dinner and a Movie Discussion Night – Oakland Greens @ It's Your Move Games

Mar 31 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

The Oakland Greens 2019 FREE Dinner and a Movie discussion series.

As usual, the doors at the It’s Your Move Games and Hobbies store will open at 6:30 p.m., a free dinner will be provided at 7 p.m., and the movie will start promptly at 7:30 p.m.

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March 2019 Mar 2019

About OccupyOakland.org

This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly met in-person weekly (with a rare skip) since October 10th, 2011 up until the pandemic, at which point we went to bi-weekly Zoom meetings. We do checkins, go over the activist events of the past meeting interval, and have general discussions on politics and revolution.

For many years, until the pandemic, we put on a Feed the People event monthly at Oscar Grant Plaza, where all were welcome to come and partake of a freshly cooked, savory meal, before our GA.

If you would like to participate while the pandemic is still amidst, send an email to occupyoakland-request@lists.riseup.net. Check the calendar or this text to see if we have resumed in-person meetings.