OAKLAND 📢📢📢📢

6.45pm TONIGHT
802 Oak St. Alameda

Come out to support the family of Mario Gonzalez, an Oakland resident and father who was killed by Alameda PD on Monday morning.

Spread the word. #JusticeForMario pic.twitter.com/PWm94B1JKW

— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) April 21, 2021

Today at 2pm! Join Hayward community members to hold space to mourn, learn and demand action against police violence. @HayCoCoa #wekeepussafe pic.twitter.com/JBBZM0wLHP

— Ella Baker Center (@ellabakercenter) April 24, 2021

From copy violence to military violence to workers’ rights, SOLIDARITY is our strength!

People Over Profit!  Educate! Agitate! Organize!

5pm Rally in West Oakland at a to-be-disclosed location.

No Livestreaming.

No Pictures.

No Snitches.

Wear All Black.

Group Up, Mask Up.

Bring Some Soup for your Family. 😉

Bay Area transit services are passing up thousands of riders each day and yet the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) is holding back $1.67 billion in federal stimulus funds which could be used right now to restore service. They intend to hold back the American Rescue Plan (ARP) instead of using this money for its intended purpose: to restore transit service and the economy and hire more union drivers.

Not only is this a misuse of the stimulus funds, but MTC’s actions will also lead to a self-created crisis in transit as service will not be there as people return to their lives this year, leading to a permanent loss in ridership.

THIS IS A SCANDAL: the agency tasked with saving transit by distributing these funds is instead killing it. Join us as we demand that MTC release the stimulus funds this year in order to restore transit service NOW!

We will meet at the Transbay Terminal (Mission and Fremont street entrance by the Gondola). Then, we’ll march to the MTC Headquarters at 375 Beale Street.

Please bring your signs and face masks to stand in solidarity against police terror.

TOMORROW: Palestinian civil society has called for a general strike on May 18th across historic Palestine (including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and 1948 lands)🇵🇸

Solidarity Action @ Israeli Consulate, SF
Tuesday from 4-6pm.
456 Montgomery St. pic.twitter.com/DThC5VKiIc

— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) May 17, 2021

“This is NOT a re-imagining budget”

Berkeley Copwatch * Berkeley Tenants Union * Berkeley Community Safety Coalition * Cops off Campus * Where Do We Go Berkeley * Members of the Re-Imagining Public Safety Task force and the Specialized Care Unit Task Force * South Berkeley Mutual Aid Project * Latinos Unidos de Berkeley * Friends of Adeline

Berkeley community organizations will collectively oppose the City Manager’s budget proposal at a press conference this Wednesday, May 19th at 12 noon on the steps of City Hall  

We’ve got something to say about the proposed budget for our city!! Bring your outrage! Bring your signs:  #Justice4KaylaMoore #JusticeforVincentBryant #RacismMakesMeSick #CARENOTCOPS #DefundBPD

Get informed & get angry: Click here to view the full budget proposal

Join us on Wednesday and bring signs! Spread the word to your friends, allies, and press contacts!

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Join frontline neighbors and many thousands of others around the globe for the 8th annual Global Anti-Chevron Day.  Communities from Richmond to Ecuador to Myanmar will come together in advance of Chevron’s annual shareholders’ meeting to share stories about the impact of Chevron’s environmental destruction, human rights violations, and corruption of our politics.

For over a century, Chevron has poisoned residents of Richmond and the whole S.F. Bay Area with deadly air pollution from its refinery.  Its influence over Richmond politics and nonprofits is legendary—but we’re winning victories in fighting it!

Communities around the globe—in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Burma (Myanmar) and elsewhere—suffer from Chevron’s deadly water, soil, and air pollution as well as inhumane working conditions and political interference.  Chevron denies any responsibility and continues its destruction in order to keep the oil and profits flowing.

INFO/RSVP

Hosted by:

Amazon Watch
Communities for a Better Environment
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Idle No More SF Bay
Sunflower Alliance
350 Bay Area

Contacts:
Paul Paz y Miño, Amazon Watch, paz [at] amazonwatch [dot] org
Janet Johnson, Sunflower Alliance, sunflowerjsj [at] gmail [dot] com

11 am
16th & Mission St, SF
March to Civic Center
1 pm Rally
Civic center, SF

SPONSORED BY:
NorCal Islamic Council
Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
American Muslims for Palestine, Bay Area
Islamophobia Studies Center
Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area
Palestinian Youth Movement
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Al-Awda
US Palestinian Community Network
Answer Coalition
WWP
ICNA Council for Social Justice
Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance
QUIT!
CODEPINK-SF

Join the interfaith community and loved ones impacted by incarceration in prayer and reflection on the 1st Anniversary of the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, the largest outbreak in the nation leading to the deaths of 28 people incarcerated inside San Quentin and over 222 deaths in California jails, prisons and detention centers. This will be a sacred space for grief, mourning, healing, and acknowledgment. They will memorialize lives lost and offer prayers for those still incarcerated and their families, who continue to live at risk of COVID and other infectious diseases.

While the rest of our society begins to return to “normal”, we know that “normal” inside prisons means overcrowded settings which continue to put people at high risk of COVID and other infectious diseases. We must not forget those living inside prisons and continue with urgency to save lives and live up to our values of fairness, accountability and transformation. Our hope is that this memorial vigil which will be filmed will later be shown inside San Quentin, with the administration’s permission.

***For those joining in person, please RSVP here. They will be in contact with you regarding parking, and other final details. All people joining in person must wear a mask and practice social distancing even if you are vaccinated. 

CARE NOT COPS Noise Demo
Wednesday June 2, at 12 noon
Steps of City Hall (2180 Milvia Street, Berkeley)

We are gathering every Wednesday at noon on the steps of City Hall to demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE NOT COPS.https://t.co/AAIVMEHg2S

— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) May 30, 2021

JOIN US! Wednesday, June 16 at 12pm
Rally @ 12pm, Car Caravan @ 1pm, come with your car already decorated or use our supplies to decorate during the Noise Demo!

SPEAK UP! TODAY at City Council at 6pm (Item #37)
Agenda/zoom link: https://t.co/83qEceVlmZ pic.twitter.com/eO612B5PYv

— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) June 15, 2021

We are gathering every Wednesday at noon on the steps of City Hall to demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE Not Cops!

The City Manager is proposing a budget that INCREASES funding for the Berkeley Police from last year! This is despite the city’s supposed commitment to “reimagine public safety” and decrease funding to the police.

In advance of the final budget vote on June 29, we are gathering EVERY WEDNESDAY AT NOON on the steps of City Hall to make them hear us and demand a community budget that prioritizes CARE NOT COPS!

We cannot continue with business as usual. According to the City Audit, BPD stopped Black people at a significantly higher rate than their representation in the Berkeley population (34 percent compared to 8 percent). The data also shows that less than 1% of all calls for service were for violent crimes and that 55% of calls to Berkeley Police came in on their “non-emergency” line. BPD failed to even capture data on how many calls involved unhoused people or those with mental health issues.

We need to hold the City Council to their promise to reimagine public safety. We must divert our city funds to alternatives that: (1) are completely independent from the police, (2) are accountable to our most impacted community members, (3) don’t respond only during crises and then leave, and (4) are transparent to the public.

Join us and make noise on the steps of City Hall! Bring your pots, pans, noisemakers. We’ll have speakers and open mic. Tell Berkeley why this is important for everyone’s safety.

This event is wheelchair accessible.

For more info on the Care Not Cops campaign and our Five Demands for the Specialized Care Unit (SCU), go to: berkeleycopwatch.org/care-not-cops

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The plan by the International Olympics Committee IOC and Japanese government to go ahead with the Tokyo Olympics in the middle of a global Covid Pandemic is a threat to not only the people of Japan but the world. Despite the desperate pleas of doctors and many healthcare workers in Japan who are overloaded with covid patients, the government has said it doesn’t matter what they or the people of Japan think about the Olympics.

Over 80% of the people oppose having the Olympics in the midst of a full scale pandemic but the IOC and Japan government with the support of Secretary of State Blinken and the the Biden administration could care less. The profits for NBC and the media companies come first for the IOC and the Japanese government.

It is the people be damned for these politicians, governments and the IOC. Japanese medical doctors are even warning of a possible Tokyo Olympic Covid variant coming out of these events which
will bring tens of thousands of people from around the world to Japan for the Olympics.

The Suga Japanese government is also planning to restart more nuclear plants and also release over a million tons of radioactive water from Fukushima where the burned nuclear reactor plants continue to leak radioactive material more than ten years after the melt-downs.

Nuclear clean-up workers including workers from overseas and other workers continue to get contaminated with no proper health and safety education and tens of thousands of bags of radioactive waste continue to remain scattered throughout the prefecture with no place to go. The government is also seeking to spread the contaminated waste throughout Japan in road construction and other projects.

The denialism of the dangers of having the Olympics in Japan is directly connected to the denialism of the dangers of Fukushima, the denialism of the Comfort Women and the Japanese government’s denialism during the 2nd World War that they could not lose the war. This effort to deny the present reality is connected historically to the rulers of Japan and it has led to the cost of millions of lives.

No Nukes Action asks you to join us and speak out to demand the cancellation of the Olympics, the halt to re-opening Japan’s nuclear plants and defense of the Fukushima people. We oppose as well the militarization of Asia supported by the US and Biden along with Congressional leader Nancy Pelosi. Thiis includes the building of the new Haneko base in Okinawa.
The Okinawan residents continued to be terrorized by US military jets and helicopters and the US is even training with these aircraft in the center of Tokyo despite the great dangers to the people of Tokyo.

Physical distancing and masks for all participants at action