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The rally kicks off at noon at Chelsea Manning (Justin Herman) Plaza. There will be speakers, free childcare at the plaza park, and materials for making signs – please bring extra materials to share if you can!
PARTICIPATE WITH YOUR CREW – SELF-ORGANIZATION, SELF-DETERMINATION!
At 2pm we will march from Justin Herman Plaza to I.C.E headquarters. In the spirit of direct action and participation, we encourage folks to form affinity groups: come with your family or friends, form your own bloc, or join one of the several blocs that will be coordinating. For example, there will be a feminist bloc wearing all pink & black, with pink balaclavas or other face coverings, distributing condoms & feminist propaganda. We call on self-organized groups of neighbors, coworkers, or other kinds of community members to march together, pick a color or a theme, get creative, and bloc up!
Once we reach the I.C.E. headquarters building, we will “build a wall around I.C.E.” Bring banners, signs, drawings, poems, posters and other materials to contribute to this wall and to SHUT DOWN I.C.E.!
STRIKE AGAINST GENDER
In solidarity with the International Women’s Strike, which has called for militant action, strikes, blockades, occupations, and disruption of business as usual, we call for an all out strike against gender and all its forms of oppression, and against all systems of capitalist, racist, xenophobic, and fascist domination.
On March 8th we propose a feminist strike which will not be content to pinkwash the bombs on Baghdad, or to knit crowns honoring biology as our destiny. Instead, we propose a different strike, a strike against all forms of gender exclusion, exploitation and domination. A gender strike from below.
DAY OF ACTION – SHUT DOWN ICE!
As feminists, we see the struggle against ICE, against deportations, against borders, imperialism, and nationalism, as deeply intertwined with and crucial to the struggle for gender liberation.
We call upon antagonists to these systems of oppression in the Bay Area to come out for a day of action to shut down ICE and demand the removal of any and all ICE operations from San Francisco and the wider Bay Area. If this is truly to be a sanctuary city, if sanctuary is to be more than an ideal or a convenient phrase, we must act decisively to make the concept a reality.
We call for this as one step toward fighting for a world we can survive and want to live in.
ICE is a direct manifestation of the worst forms of oppression faced by the most vulnerable women, queer and trans folks. Last week, ICE arrested and deported a trans woman on the steps of an El Paso courthouse just after she had filed a protective order against her abusive boyfriend. Aggressive ICE raids have been reported around the country, and in the Bay Area they have shown up at social services agencies such as the WOMEN’S BUILDING, at grocery stores, and at other public places, terrifying the local community and causing people to avoid going to work or to school.
THE FUTURE IS NOT FEMALE, IF IT IS TRULY FEMINIST
Our actions will honor a different feminism, a feminism which refuses to collaborate with elite power brokers, naked capital and imperial interests, opportunists, managers and tepid reformists of every pink stripe.
Our feminism will never opportunistically invoke the hollow praises of “intersectionality” because we actually *live* intersectional violence, on our bodies and in our communities daily.
We must act on our own behalf: we will not be spoken for and co-opted by upwardly mobile, white, establishment “feminists” with designs on appropriating and exploiting our labor, our struggles and our formidable strength.
THE FUTURE IS NOT GENDERED, IF IT IS TRULY REVOLUTIONARY
Ours is a feminism that always fights, uncompromisingly, in defense of all who are oppressed by gender: trans women, undocumented migrants and domestic workers, refugees, black and brown people subjected to daily harassment and murder by police, and all who are situated at the intersection of life and death, surviving so many deadly forms of racialized, feminized and gendered exploitation.
Ours is a feminism that is anti capitalist; that is antifascist; that is against all forms of white supremacy, racism, imperialism, and nationalism; ours is a feminism that must destroy every patriarchal wall or border built between us and *our future*. We proclaim, the future is our total liberation! and nothing less.
AGAINST STATE VIOLENCE AND REPRESSION
Necessarily, our strike will not call upon the police to protect our “safety” because our feminism opposes state violence, absolutely.
Police do not make everyone safer. When women, especially those of color, call the police seeking protection from abusive partners, they are met with violence from the police. When people call the police for help in a mental health crisis, they are met with fatal violence from the police.
We will rally against ALL forms of oppression! Because ALL of these oppressions deepen and contribute to patriarchy, and to all that genders us & subjects us to gendered violence, exclusion, exploitation & oppression.
The idea for the women’s strike actually didn’t originate in the United States, but it is a call in solidarity with women’s organizations from 30 different countries who put out a call for a strike on International Women’s Day, March 8. This is our effort at trying to explain why it was important that American feminists sign onto this call … in this country, part of our intention is to bring politics back to International Women’s Day by turning it into a political event, by highlighting the ways that women continue to suffer from misogyny and sexism in the United States and to give concrete descriptions of that.
But also, the strike is about highlighting the ways that “women’s work” or “women’s labor” is at times unseen. It can be undervalued, underpaid. The strike is about drawing attention to that by, in effect, extracting those many different manifestations of women’s labor on March 8 to highlight the extent to which women’s labor continues to play a central role in the political and, I would say, social economy of the United States…
International Women’s Day came out of a demonstration of working class and poor women in Petrograd in Russia in 1917 in opposition to World War I and to fight the redirection of resources out of war back into the lives of regular people. The slogan was, “Demonstration for Peace and Bread.”
We are a growing group that is interested in building collective power among women and their comrades. We reject Trump’s racist and sexist basis of power, and the entrenchment of these power asymmetries by capitalism. These forms of women’s domination, and oppression centered on gender more broadly, are not merely a women’s issue. So, unless otherwise noted, our meetings and events are open to all.
_ the plan _
We are starting this process by building towards an action on March 8th, women’s day, in Oakland. This modest goal will help us lay the groundwork for a women’s bloc on the May 1st general strike. The general strike has been called by SEIU, a labor organization that represents mostly service workers–a line of work that mostly employs women and people of color.
_ a word on “women” _
We recognize that the identity of women is fraught. Gender and sexuality are truly fluid historical constructions. These historical constructions form the basis of oppression along the lines of sexuality and become felt in everyday life. This means that oppressive regimes of sex and gender are not issues reserved only for women. Gender and the domination that follows it are a truly human issue, one which men too are not exempt. It is for this reason that we also stand in solidarity with the trans and queer movements, as they are also grappling with these facts of domination.
WOMEN’S DAY – It is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies. We must also target the ongoing neoliberal attack on social provision and labor rights. The assault on our dignity, livelihood, friends, lovers, and neighbors is only just beginning. We can expect the repeal of our healthcare, the widening of any wage equity, the elimination of overtime protections, the destruction of already weak student loan provisions. And all of this while waging a militarized police war against immigrants, black and brown communities of color.
We have got to act. Let us join together on March 8th to inagurate a new politics. Let us use the occasion of this international day of action to be done with lean-in feminism and to build in its place a feminism for the 99%, a grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism – a feminism in solidarity with working women, their families and their allies throughout the world.
Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda and San Francisco County Boards of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils.
We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments.
OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network; its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC, and made Oakland’s new Privacy Advisory Commission to the City Council happen. We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors). In conjunction with other groups we fight against Urban Shield and other killer-cop trainings.
We have presented our work at RightsCon in San Francisco and at Left Forum and HOPE in New York City.
If you would like to attend our meeting and would like a quick introduction to what we’re doing before we dive right into the thick of our agenda, send email to contact@oaklandprivacy.org and one of us will arange to meet you before the meeting.
Stop by and learn how you can help guard our right not to be spied on by the government. Look on the whiteboard inside near the entrance to the OMNI for our exact location within the OMNI.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
or send a request to contact@oaklandprivacy.org
For more information on the DAC check out
Want to get involved with SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. You’ll also hear about SURJ committees, as well as upcoming workshops and events. We’ll answer your questions, and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.
Intro to SURJ Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
Partial Agenda:
1. “Stop Trumpintelpro” ordinance requiring OPD to follow higher state, county, local standards, not weaker federal/FBI guidelines, when participating in JTTF. Guest speakers from ALC, ACLU, CAIR. Would be nice to have a few public comments in favor, but the need is greater at Public Safety than PAC.
2. Surveillance equipment ordinance returns to address City Attorney comments on Sec 8 (enforcement, same as it ever was), Sec 9 (prohibition on NDA or conflicting provisions in MOUs – not a challenge by city attorney, wants clarification), Sec 10 (whistleblower) – the proposed amendments look good. The ordinance should hit PSC on April 11.
3. Misc. federal partnerships (ICE, DEA, FBI Safe Streets Task Force) and data sharing (ARIES, NCRIC) discussion – no action. We only have 1hr 45min, so we likely won’t reach this item. I’ll bring it back for the April meeting.
Presentations by John Crew and Pastor McBride.
Discussions of ALPR, CAIR and participation in the JTTF.
Join the ACLU of Northern CA and sf.citi for an informational panel with legal scholars and San Francisco’s tech sector to discuss the issues surrounding recent immigration restrictions and ways in which our communities can move forward together. The event will be held at the LinkedIn Corporation.
Enjoy drinks on us and discuss how tech can stand together to support immigrants. Featured will be Helena Price’s latest project Banned, a photo and video series of tech workers who have been affected by the immigration ban. The photos include employees from Facebook, Google, Pinterest and other companies.
Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the panel will begin at 6 p.m.
The words of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were supposed to guarantee that slavery and involuntary servitude effectively were outlawed. The exception of punishment for a crime where the “party shall have been convicted” is the loophole. As detailed in Ava DuVernay’s “The 13th”, the injustice system in America has not changed all that much since the earliest days of slavery. The statistics DuVernay puts onscreen say it all: African-Americans make up 6.5% of the U.S. population but a whopping 40% of the prison population — in a country with the highest level of incarceration in the world; up more than tenfold since 1970 and existing mostly to put away black and Latino men.
Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Committee.
We’re ramping up for SB562, universal health care for all Californians! Come to the meeting to learn about the bill and the campaign to get it passed and how you can get involved.
The Alameda County chapter of Health Care for All – California will hold an organizing meeting in Oakland. Everyone is cordially invited! We’ll be discussing the new bill, the campaign to pass the bill, and how you and we can work to get this bill passed. So bring your friends and neighbors, and your passion and your energy.
Idle No More SF Bay and Tribal Nations in the west are in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous grassroots leaders who are calling on our allies across the United States and around the world to peacefully March for Native American rights on March 10th. We ask that you rise in solidarity with the Indigenous peoples of the world whose rights protect Mother Earth for the future generations of all.
The march will begin at 5:00 p.m. at the Federal Building at 7th & Mission. There will be a short rally there before the march to the Civic Center. The rally at the Civic Center will include a traditional California Indigenous opening with Corrina Gould, speakers on the history of Native Americans and the Federal Government, Native American leaders, and others.
This event is co-sponsored by Idle No More SF Bay and the International Indian Treaty Council.
Our Demands:
#TakeTheMeeting // President Trump must meet with tribal leaders to hear why it’s critical that the US government respect tribal rights. This administration must work with us.
#ConsentNotConsultation // Tribal interests cannot continue to be marginalized in favor of the interests of corporations and other governments. Consultation is not enough– we must require consent.
#NativeNationsRise // The Standing Rock movement is bigger than one tribe. It has evolved into a powerful global phenomenon highlighting the necessity to respect Indigenous Nations and their right to protect their homelands, environment and future generations. We are asking our Native relatives from across Turtle Island to rise with us.
[This list of demands will grow, stay tuned]
Anti-Racist Action, that will be held on Ohlone Territory.
ROAR WILL BE HELD
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ON SATURDAY at the OMNI Commons in Oakland and
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ON SUNDAY at California Institute for Integral Studies, 1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
ROAR will be a space to gather, build, and learn from each other’s struggles and continue to build an anti-racist front in the Bay Area and beyond. During these times more and more attention is being paid to those of us who use direct action and hold liberatory and revolutionary politics. We can use this moment not only to inspire others through our actions, but to also inspire with our ideas. To draw a line not just against this or that politician, or this or that alt-right figure, but to construct revolutionary positions such as returning land to the indigenous, centering black folks and their perspectives, community self defense, taking care of one another, putting women and gender non conforming people to the front, obliterating borders, opening prison doors, and gaining our freedom from the state, capitalism, and all the other damning institutions.
Indigenous Struggles
Police Brutality
Community self-defense
Political Prisoners
Intersections of racism and disability
Muslim struggles
Black + Brown unity
Anti-Patriarchy, Transphobia + Homophobia
Anti-Racism for White people
History Lessons from Movements past
IMMIGRANTS & REFUGEES: THIS IS HOME
Alameda County continues to stand strong in our commitment to uphold the rights of all members of
our community no matter your immigration status
PLEASE RSVP HERE :
http://bit.ly/2lEKBG1
*To accommodate attendees’ schedules, the important topics covered will be the same for both
workshops. Pick the time that works best for you, 10-12 or 1-3.
HOSTED BY THE FOLLOWING:
ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES
ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE EAST BAY
WEINBERG, ROGER & ROSENFELD
HON. BARBARA LEE, US REPRESENTATIVE
HON. NANCY SKINNER, CA STATE SENATOR
HON TONY THURMOND, CA ASSEMBLY, DIST 15
HON ROB BONTA, CA ASSEMBLY, DIST 18
HON. WILMA CHAN, ALAMEDA COUNTY BOS, D3
HON. SCOTT HAGGERTY, ALAMEDA COUNTY BOS, D1
HON. NATE MILEY, ALAMEDA COUNTY BOS, D4
HON. RICHARD VALLE , ALAMEDA COUNTY BOS, D2
HON. NOEL GALLO, OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL, D5
HON. REBECCA KAPLAN, OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
HON. DAN KALB, OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL, D1
HON. ABEL GUILLEN, OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL, D2
HON. MALIA VELLA, ALAMEDA CITY COUNCIL
ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL, AFL CIO
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LABOR ALLIANCE
ATU 192
CALIFORNIA LABOR FEDERATION
IBT LOCAL 70
IBT LOCAL 856
NEW HAVEN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
SEIU 1021
SEIU 2015
SEIU-UHW
SEIU-USWW
UAW 5810
UFCW 5
UNITE HERE 2850
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
COST: FREE
LIGHT BREAKFAST AND LUNCH PROVIDED
Join GABRIELA USA and the International Women’s Alliance on Saturday, March 11th in commemorating the 108th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1909. Join us as we RISE, RESIST, and UNITE to build our collective Resistance here and abroad!
So far within the first month of Trump’s administration, Trump has issued 12 Executive orders attacking everything from immigrant communities, our Muslim brothers and sisters, to the millions of us who depend on the government for subsidized health care. He’s pushed forward the Dakota Access and Keystone Pipelines against the self-determination of the indigenous peoples of this land, nominated white supremacists, climate deniers, and the super wealthy into his cabinet, and he has exposed the fascist, racist, xenophobic, and misogynist truths of this country.
But people are resisting. From the moment Trump was announced the winner, the people of the US responded immediately with demonstrations on the streets. Students are walking out of the classrooms almost daily, and mass gatherings of people are being convened by different groups to discuss how to resist a Trump presidency.
Let us continue to build our collective resistance and people power and RISE againt Fear, RESIST attacks on our communities, and UNITE for Self-Determination!
*Note* This will be a family friendly march and celebration that will be accessible for children, elders, and people with disability. We will also be organizing our own safety/security team.
Co-Organizers:
Alay Sf
Anakbayan East Bay
BAYAN USA
Causa Justa Just Cause
Filipino Community Center
Gabriela SF
ieumsae
Marcha Patriótica
Migrante NorCal
Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA)
Palestinian Youth Movement – حركة الشباب الفلسطيني
PAWIS EAST BAY CA.USA
La Colectiva de Mujeres
League of Filipino Students – SFSU-Women’s Committee
Xicana Moratorium Coalition
Workers World Party – Bay Area
Co-Sponsers:
Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
ASATA – Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
API Equality – Northern California
APIQWTC – Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community
Bay Area Rising
Bay Resistance
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
The Center for Political Education
CUAV
El/La Para Trans Latinas
Forward Together
Migrante SoMa/TL- San Francisco
National Ecumenical Forum for Filipino Concerns – North California Chapter
SURJ – Oakland/SF Bay Area
Endorsers:
Chinese Progressive Association
Interested in getting involved? Volunteering? Be an endorsing organization? E-mail gabsanfrancisco@gmail.com
Offerings:
- Massage therapy
- Energy work
- Acupuncture
- Birth Doula Practitioners
- Herbal Medicine
- Resource library
- Free Hot Meal
- Free Store
- Cafe Space to hang out, eat, make art and discuss what healing means to us by us and for us.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Alameda Jail Fight Coalition will be joining our friends and allies from AF3IRM SF Bay Area at a noise demonstration they are organizing outside the West County Detention Facility in Contra Costa County. Organized in honor of International Women’s Day, the noise demo is in solidarity with all immigrants, especially those who have been separated from their families and loved ones by imprisonment and deportation.
The West County Detention Facility is the largest I.C.E. detention facility in the Bay Area, big enough to cage over 1,100 people. Even so, Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston recently applied for state funds to pay for a jail expansion plan that would add 400 beds to the already bloated jail system. Despite mass opposition from community members, the Richmond Board of Supervisors decided to greenlight the Sheriff’s plan. As a coalition committed to stopping the violent expansion of the criminal punishment system, we look forward to joining with our neighbors in Contra Costa, both inside and out, and breaking the isolation and alienation of imprisonment with our voices, with our chants, with our songs. Join us tomorrow, and make some noise. No borders, no nations, no cages!
We are organizing carpools to the demonstration that will be leaving from Oakland and Berkeley. Send us an email at acjailfightcoalition@gmail.com to connect with us for transporation support! For more information about the event, check out AF3RIM’s facebook event.
In community,
Alameda County Jail Fight Coalition
#carenotcages #nomorejails
The Rockin’ Solidarity Labor Chorus presents:
Paul Robeson:
A Portrait in Story & Song
A musical biography of the great African American artist, athlete, and activist based on material gathered from primary sources by Alex Bagwell.
Saturday, March 11
SF Main Library
(Koret Auditorium, lower level)
100 Larkin St, Civic Center, SF
(Enter at 30 Grove St)
3pm
Sunday, March 12
Piedmont Gardens
110 41st St, Oakland
(Use entrance on Linda St)
3pm
(415) 648-3457
To carry out its raids on undocumented immigrant families, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will soon get a helping hand from one of President Donald Trump’s rare allies in the tech industry, Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder and chairman Peter Thiel.
Peter Thiel’s surveillance company Palantir is reportedly finalizing the digital framework for a potential mass deportation operation, should President Donald Trump decide to go that route.
Come protest this terrifying expansion of the surveillance state. Come protest this threat to undocumented people.
Come rally at a rich dudes house!
http://mashable.com/2017/
Anti-Racist Action, that will be held on Ohlone Territory.
ROAR WILL BE HELD
-
ON SATURDAY at the OMNI Commons in Oakland and
-
ON SUNDAY at California Institute for Integral Studies, 1453 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
ROAR will be a space to gather, build, and learn from each other’s struggles and continue to build an anti-racist front in the Bay Area and beyond. During these times more and more attention is being paid to those of us who use direct action and hold liberatory and revolutionary politics. We can use this moment not only to inspire others through our actions, but to also inspire with our ideas. To draw a line not just against this or that politician, or this or that alt-right figure, but to construct revolutionary positions such as returning land to the indigenous, centering black folks and their perspectives, community self defense, taking care of one another, putting women and gender non conforming people to the front, obliterating borders, opening prison doors, and gaining our freedom from the state, capitalism, and all the other damning institutions.
Indigenous Struggles
Police Brutality
Community self-defense
Political Prisoners
Intersections of racism and disability
Muslim struggles
Black + Brown unity
Anti-Patriarchy, Transphobia + Homophobia
Anti-Racism for White people
History Lessons from Movements past