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#OakMtg #AlaMtg Alameda Co Board of Sups Public Protection Committee invites feedback on the potential establishment of Sheriff's Oversight. Monday,4/11, 5:30-7:30 p.m. pic.twitter.com/AgkRIoiA2A

— Rachel B (@UCBRachelB) April 5, 2022

Register here to receive email confirmation and a link:  https://tinyurl.com/ALCOAB1185

Come hang out at the Empty Homes Tax mobilization tomorrow at noon — we will be training for signature gathering and having a fun BBQ 😎 See you there! pic.twitter.com/CgM10SfpWy

— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) April 15, 2022

https://www.change.org/p/drop-the-charges-support-kpfa-staff-independent-journalist-frank-sterling/u/30374303

Update: New Court Date April 25th at 8:30 am Contra Costa Superior Court

There is no indication yet that Contra Costa DA Diana Becton is willing to drop the charges of resisting arrest against Frank Sterling. We would like to let Frank’s supporters know that the court date has been changed to April 25th, 2022 and we will hold a brief rally outside of the courthouse to show our support. We will also go inside to pack the courtroom.

The DA needs to be aware that the community supports Frank Sterling who was exercising his First Amendment right to protest against outgoing Chief of Police Chauncey Brooks. Brooks was resigning as Chief of the Antoich Police Department to become the Deputy Chief of Police of Boise Idaho amidst controversy over how he handled the cases of police violence especially the case of the police killing of Angela Quinto. Frank is an independent journalist and KPFA staff, Director of the Apprenticeship program.

DROP THE CHARGES! Support KPFA staff & Independent journalist Frank Sterling!

On September 17th 2021, KPFA staff member and journalist Frank Sterling was attacked by police while covering a demonstration in Antioch. He was tackled, held down, tasered, and his recording equipment taken. Compounding the injustice, Frank has been charged with resisting arrest.

Frank is Technical Director of KPFA’s Apprenticeship Program; a contributor to Friday evening’s Full Circle show; and a staff representative to the KPFA Local Station Board. Frank is part of the Bay Area’s Native American community, active in exposing police brutality and denouncing police killings and has already endured a previous attack by the Antioch police.

Take action: Sign this petition. Call Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton’s office at 925-957-2200 or tweet at @DADianaBecton and demand the dismissal of charges.

Email the DA at DAOffice@contracostada.org. Please use Subject heading:Drop the Charges.

The DA ran on criminal justice reform. We are asking she uphold her promise. We must end the criminalization of protest and of independent journalists covering these events.

For more information:
Report by Black Agenda Report contributing editor Ann Garrison: https://blackagendareport.com/activist-journalist-frank-sterling-trial

Longshoremen and teachers are united to strike against the privatization of Oakland

Please spread this far and wide to encourage everybody to participate. Begin the fightback vs the billionaires

https://tinyurl.com/7dfvez5e

The billionaires are after our public resources here in the City of
Oakland. The Oakland School Board has recently voted to close 11
public schools, despite overwhelming opposition from the
community. School closures disproportionately harm
communities of color. They are part of a long-term plan by
corporations to destroy public education – selling them off to real
estate developers or converting them into charter schools.
Oakland does not have “too many schools,” as the district says.
Oakland has too many charter schools!

Meanwhile, the City of Oakland is planning to spend $855 million in
taxpayer money to construct a new A’s stadium and condo complex at Howard Terminal, which is crucial to the port of Oakland. These privatization schemes are part of the gentrification of Oakland – attacking working-class communities, destroying union jobs, and displacing
low-income residents of the Bay Area

We must come together and fight back! This year May Day
(International Workers Day) falls on a Sunday, so our
action will be two days earlier, on April 29. The ILWU
Local 10 has informed the port that they will be having
a stop work day on this day in support of Oakland
teachers.

APRIL 29 Port Shutdown! School Shutdown!
2pm – Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza / City Hall
3pm – March to 1000 Broadway

WOMEN’S MARCH: NATIONWIDE CALL TO ACTION for ABORTION RIGHTS

Let’s be clear: Abortion is health care

That’s why in light of the dire news that SCOTUS has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, we’re showing up for abortion rights.

We’re horrified, saddened, and livid. If you are too, then now is the time to show up and show them our movement won’t back down from protecting our reproductive rights.

Show up at your courthouses, federal buildings or town square to say bans off our bodies and demand elected officials take action before SCOTUS overturns Roe.

Bring your families, your signs, your stories, your heart, and your commitment to
save Roe and access to safe & legal abortion for all who need it.

🚨 RALLY TO DEFEND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS!

Join Bay Area union members, elected leaders, Planned Parenthood, La Familia Community Clinic, and more in an emergency rally.

⏰ WHEN: Today, 5pm

📍 WHERE: In front of Ronald V. Dellums Oakland Federal Building (1301 Clay St, Oakland) pic.twitter.com/qjlGJz4NnF

— IFPTE Local 21 (@IFPTE21) May 3, 2022

Join our patner @CURBprisons and the #CloseCAPrisons community in Sacramento next week for the May Revise Budget Press Conference and Rally. We demand that legislators and Governor Newsom close at least 8 more prisons by 2025. RSVP if you can make it https://t.co/zaTJm9cQuX pic.twitter.com/XHmdXMbk6E

— SURJ Bay Area (@surjbayarea) May 3, 2022

Each year in early May, Governor Newsom releases the May Revise budget after receiving input from state government bodies and community members. While the 2022-23 proposed budget (released in January) contained many positive investments, it also allocated $18.6 billion to corrections and included no plans to close more prisons in California, despite historically low, downward trending prison populations

It’s time for Governor Gavin Newsom and elected officials to do what’s right and commit to a smart plan to close prisons in California, like The People’s Plan for Prison Closure, that demands at least 10 prisons be closed by 2025. A serious plan for prison closure must include deep investments in prison towns to move them toward new, healthy economies, as well as toward healthcare, education, reentry services, and housing for  justice impacted families communities.

We are showing up outside the California State Capitol on May 11th to demand Governor Newsom close at least 8 prisons by 2025 and adopt a final budget that reflects the values and needs of ALL Californians by investing in communities NOT prisons and policing.

When: Wednesday, May 11th at 9AM (Register To Receive Important Updates)

Your support is critical in providing public comment at the Police Commission meeting on May 11! Learn how to give public comment and other ways to support by visiting: https://t.co/yAaGq2B7uB and https://t.co/yO4EwM6c1P pic.twitter.com/5RV4mt1vw2

— GLIDE (@GLIDEsf) May 10, 2022

JOIN US THIS THURSDAY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TO OPPOSE "A Place for All"

A Place for All = A Place for Nobody. Without housing, shelter is a dead end, with no shelter turnover and no empty beds for those on the streets. pic.twitter.com/ShwNCy0pmC

— Coalition on Homelessness (@TheCoalitionSF) May 10, 2022

The Supreme Court stands poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established the right of women to abortion.  Forced motherhood is female enslavement.  When women are not free, no one is free.

Our only way forward and our best way forward is to resist.  NOW is the time to rouse thousands and soon millions in struggle so that we can look every woman and girl in the eye with the promise in word and deed that they will have a future as full human beings.  NOW  is the time to stand up, together, as if our lives depend upon it – for, in fact, they do.

Wear & DISPLAY #GREEN4Abortion

Green is the color worn by millions of women in Argentina, Colombia, and other countries to express their fierce determination to legalize abortion. We are inspired by their example!  Wear green and display green everywhere � on campuses, on the job, on public trannsport, on social media.

PLANET PEOPLE PEACE

before profit!

What: Stop the Money Pipeline Action

Join us to demand that Wells Fargo cut financing for expansion of fossil fuels. There will be street theater, signs and flyering to alert the public to the bank’s ongoing funding of climate chaos. This is part of a national Stop the Money Pipeline week of action.

We have one simple demand for Wells Fargo: stop providing financial services to any corporation expanding its fossil fuel operations. In other words, stop funding the climate crisis. At Wells Fargo’s general meeting last month, a shareholder resolution was presented, urging the bank NOT to fund ANY future fossil projects. The bank urged shareholders to vote against the resolution, which then got only 11% approval by shareholders, but even 11% gets leadership’s attention. We must keep up the pressure!

Come by between 4 and 6pm on May 18th and show that you have had it with Wells Fargo’s business as usual while people are dying and the climate crisis escalates.

We are looking for volunteers to help in the following roles:

• Safety Marshals/De-escalators
• Flyer Team
• Banner Holders
• Photographers

If you can help with any of those, please drop us an email at dawg@xrsfbay.org or let us know on our event RSVP form.

Please spread the word and invite friends through the Facebook event here…or just show up!

On Saturday, May 14th, a self proclaimed white supremacist drove 200 miles to the predominantly Black town of Buffalo, NY and shot 13 people. 10 died. As Black people in this country continue to experience anti-Blackness via violent white supremacy in the streets and by the state – we must continue to hold, heal, love, fight for and defend one another. Join APTP and allies for a vigil, healing circle and prayers.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-chevron-day-tickets-330052785767

Like the Warriors, Empty Homes Tax is on the final home stretch, join our signature gathering mobilization this Sunday at noon on Stanyan and Haight— followed by a celebratory BBQ in Dahlia Dell at 2PM!! Hope to see you there ☀️ https://t.co/DqEOmfFqmx pic.twitter.com/83NoKJ9x3S

— DSA San Francisco (@DSA_SF) May 18, 2022

TONIGHT, join us at the press conference –https://t.co/kjyhOA0hlI pic.twitter.com/iZIyk0WrO4

— Cheryl Davila (@CherylKDavila) May 24, 2022

We need all allies on deck to join us for a rally next Wednesday at 12pm on the steps of City Hall as we urge @LondonBreed & BOS to prioritize the necessary & needed funding to get CART implemented!
Bring a sign (we will have some extras), a friend, & your voices!#getCARTrolling pic.twitter.com/8dslIQ4s1f

— Compassionate Alternative Response Team – SF (@CART_SF) May 20, 2022