Police should exhaust all alternatives before using deadly force

Next Tuesday, April 9, will be the first hearing on AB 392. Join impacted families and the Let Us Live coalition in Sacramento in support of AB 392.

What: Get on Bus to Lobby for the California Act to Save Lives!

**Check the registration form for more times and locations.
RSVP
Increasing use of force standards and requiring police to use alternatives to lethal force has been effective in several cities utilizing similar policies, such as Seattle, WA.

We are gaining momentum, but we have to seize this moment to pressure the California Legislature to embrace it!

RSVP and register for a bus ride today to let us know you can join us.

Hope to see you there!
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Anti Police-Terror Project is not a non-profit.
We are a community group powered by people like you.

The City Council will be voting on support for a
bill in the California legislature _Improving Sex Worker Health and
Safety_ (SB 233 [1]). The hearing will be in the Third Floor Council
Chambers.

US PROStitutes Collective is part of the Bay Area PPC steering committee
and has testified at several PPC hearings about the criminalization of
survival. Although PPC does not support specific pieces of legislation,
US PROS is supporting SB 233 because it aims to increase safety for sex
workers by prohibiting their arrest when they come forward to report
violent crime. The bill also prohibits the possession of condoms used
as probable cause to arrest someone for sex work.

Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, police militarization and ICE, and to advocate for surveillance regulation around the Bay.

We fight against “pre-crime” and “thought-crime,” spy drones, facial recognition, police body cameras and requirements for “backdoors” to cellphones, to list just a few invasions of our privacy by all levels of Government.

We draft and push for privacy legislation for City Councils, at the County level, and in Sacramento. We advocate in op-eds and in the streets. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and believe no one is illegal.

Oakland Privacy originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center, Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OP was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network.

Our major projects currently include local legislation to regulate state surveillance (we got the strongest surveillance regulation ordinance in the country passed in Oakland!), opposing Urban Shield (now gone!) and pushing back against ICE with local legislation.

If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy email listserv, coming to a meeting, or have questions, send an email to:

contact@oaklandprivacy.org

Check out our website: http://oaklandprivacy.org/   Follow us on twitter: @oaklandprivacy

Check out our sister site DeportICE.

“WATCHING YOU WATCHING US”

Oakland Privacy works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment.  Oakland Privacy drove the passage of surveillance regulation and transparency ordinances in Oakland and Berkeley and is kicking off new processes in Richmond and Alameda County.  To help slow down the encroaching police state all over the Bay Area, join us at the Omni.

Full agenda

Agenda items of special interest:

VII. R-02: Searches of Individuals on Probation and Parole
The Commission will review an amended version of R-02: Searches of Individuals on
Probation or Parole, and may vote on approving that version. Members of communities
directly impacted by the policy may share their experiences and views.

IX. Bey Case – Noticing the Federal Monitor
The Commission will discuss, and may vote on, a letter that will be submitted to the
Federal Monitor regarding new evidence in the Bey Case

XI. Police Commission Annual Report
Commissioner Edwin Prather will present the Commission’s annual report which is must
be submitted to the Mayor, City Council, and the public on or before April 17, 2019.

Movie Nights at Reem’s

The Arab Film and Media Institute and Reem’s are partnering to bring some of our favorite Arab films to Oakland. Screenings are free + the amazing team at Reem’s will be serving the full menu throughout the evening.  And that’s not all! There will be movie snacks (including za’atar popcorn!),

April 11: Refugee Stories
Far from a one-size-fits-all marking of “experience” so often depicted on Western media outlets when it comes to the plight of the refugee, this program of 5 powerful short documentaries spotlight the multitude of hues that should be considered when discussions of the refugee experience are had.

May 23: Shorts (Playful Pondering)
From dating drama in Bahrain and an abandoned Qatari cinemaplex, to wacky Lebanese nuns and land mine explosions, this eclectic mix of 6 whimsical, albeit socially-concerned short format narrative works will take viewers on a journey of humor, self-discovery, and provocation.

June 13: Seventeen
The Jordanian under-17 women’s soccer team prepares for the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup, hosted by Jordan in 2016. Coming from different backgrounds, each of the girls has faced a different set of challenges as a national team player. But now they come together to face their biggest challenge yet.

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This is a monthly interfaith ceremony to demonstrate our solidarity for immigrant justice. This is also an educational opportunity for the community to learn about how current immigration policies impact our neighbors. We invite the audience to get involved in concrete ways.

Join us to pray, sing, hear testimony and demand an end to detentions, deportations and policies which hurt our communities.

Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance meeting to discuss plans, outreach, organizing regarding regional homeless communities and organizations.

For more info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/541837129562482/

We acknowledge that the Bay Area P2P training weekend takes place in occupied Ohlone territory.

The Promise to Protect is a commitment to resist fossil fuels where you live and prepare to take creative action along the Keystone XL pipeline route when called upon by Indigenous leaders.

*Make sure to RSVP at one of the links below to save your spot*

Saturday training: https://actionnetwork.org/events/bayarea-saturday?source=direct_link&referrer=group-standearth

Sunday training: https://actionnetwork.org/events/bayarea-sunday?source=direct_link&referrer=group-standearth

With millions of dollars being poured into fossil fuel projects each year and TransCanada planning to begin building the pipeline this June, we must be ready to mobilize and fight back to protect our land, water and climate.

This training will educate, empower, and elevate the voices and skills of community members to resist and push out extractive oil and gas companies. After the training, community members will be equipped with the knowledge and support necessary to organize their own actions to stop the fossil fuel industry and, if invited by Indigenous leaders, be prepared to take immediate action on the route of Keystone XL.

Never before have Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies come together to build power in this way. This is an exciting opportunity for those who are committed to stopping the Keystone XL pipeline and ending the extraction of fossil fuels in their communities.

Note: This training is meant to be fun, but also not to be taken lightly. There are a limited number of spots available, therefore you should only register if you are 100% committed to attending. Because there are limited spots, only confirmed participants will receive the location information for the training leading up to the event.

Host Contact Info: Isabella Zizi isabella@stand.earth

Register here.

Want to help build a better future for Berkeley?…..
Transition Berkeley wants you!

Curious about Transition Berkeley activities and projects? Wondering how you can be involved? Do you have ideas on how to help transform Berkeley into a more livable, equitable and sustainable place? Join us! And celebrate our 8th Anniversary and new nonprofit status! To build a better future, we have to act collectively and we have to act now! We’ll have light refreshments to share!

Questions: click here

Doughnut Economics Reading Group:
Creating a world with neither human suffering nor planetary peril

Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think like a 21^st century economist

By Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing (2017)

The capitalist economic system defines every aspect of our lives: the schooling and medical care we get, where we live, and how we sustain ourselves. The system works for a lucky few and exploits everyone else. And it’s a real threat to the survival of our species (and many others) on this planet.

We know the system needs to change—but we can’t change what we don’t understand. We have to know what we’re talking about.

Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics lays out traditional economic theory—still taught as gospel at all the major temples of capitalism—with clarity, authority, lots of graphics, and quite a bit of humor. She exposes the flawed models and persistent myths that keep the system in place. Even more importantly, she presents seven big, basic ideas with which to begin creating the world we want to see. We can indeed build an economy in the “doughnut”—meeting the needs of all while maintaining the biospheres that support us.

All of us need to read this book. We’ve all grown up in this deeply unfair and absurd system; seeing it clearly and getting free of it require a group effort.

So we at Strike Debt Bay Area are sponsoring a group discussion of Doughnut Economics. We’re doing one meeting a month on the 2nd Saturday; we’ll usually do about one chapter per meeting. Please join us!

4th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, February 9th.
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 4th chapter.

5th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, March 16th.
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 5th chapter.

6th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, April 13th.
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 6th chapter.

7th meeting:

4:30 – 6:00pm, Saturday, May 11th.
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland

We’ll be discussing the 7th chapter and the concluding chapters, and discussion possible futures for the group.

Bring the book (available at your favorite online bookseller and in select local bookstores) and/or your thoughts on the topic (The first and possibly subsequent chapters are available online – http://tinyurl.com/ycysqtde ‘Look Inside’).

The book is an easy read (but full of ideas!) so it’s easy to catch up.

Author website: https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

Join us during the Promise to Protect training weekend for an evening art build to create imagery, messaging, and designs that support the fight to stop the proposed Bay Area refinery expansion.

Oil giant Phillips 66 wants to dramatically expand its San Francisco Bay marine terminal and refinery so it can process more toxic tar sands from Canada. This would threaten worker safety, degrade our climate, and worsen the quality of life for everyone living in the shadow of the Phillips 66 refinery— and the entire Bay Area. Tar sands oil is some of the dirtiest in the world, and beyond air quality concerns, even a single spill would be disastrous for communities that call the Bay home—or any community along the transport route that begins at Alberta’s tar sands in Canada.

Make art for a tar sands free SF Bay. Wear clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on. Food, drinks and childcare provided for all who make art to protect the bay with us on Saturday night.

This art build is located in a large indoor space near West Oakland BART station. Street parking is available and the space is ADA accessible.

We acknowledge that the Bay Area P2P training weekend takes place in occupied Ohlone territory.

The Promise to Protect is a commitment to resist fossil fuels where you live and prepare to take creative action along the Keystone XL pipeline route when called upon by Indigenous leaders.

*Make sure to RSVP at one of the links below to save your spot*

Saturday training: https://actionnetwork.org/events/bayarea-saturday?source=direct_link&referrer=group-standearth

Sunday training: https://actionnetwork.org/events/bayarea-sunday?source=direct_link&referrer=group-standearth

With millions of dollars being poured into fossil fuel projects each year and TransCanada planning to begin building the pipeline this June, we must be ready to mobilize and fight back to protect our land, water and climate.

This training will educate, empower, and elevate the voices and skills of community members to resist and push out extractive oil and gas companies. After the training, community members will be equipped with the knowledge and support necessary to organize their own actions to stop the fossil fuel industry and, if invited by Indigenous leaders, be prepared to take immediate action on the route of Keystone XL.

Never before have Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies come together to build power in this way. This is an exciting opportunity for those who are committed to stopping the Keystone XL pipeline and ending the extraction of fossil fuels in their communities.

Note: This training is meant to be fun, but also not to be taken lightly. There are a limited number of spots available, therefore you should only register if you are 100% committed to attending. Because there are limited spots, only confirmed participants will receive the location information for the training leading up to the event.

Host Contact Info: Isabella Zizi isabella@stand.earth