Rally livestream here: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/
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Feb
15
Mon
Feb 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Did you know that 58.3 million workers, nearly half the U.S. workforce, make less than $15 an hour? In fact, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would put $328 billion back into the hands of families, who will spend most of that back into the economy. Amidst pandemic and recession, we need real relief, and we know that real relief includes living wages for ALL.
Join us this Moral Monday to Raise Up for $15. We’ll be streaming live from West Virginia to our nationwide online broadcast to hear from folks who know what it’s like to try to get by on minimum wage in America, and who have borne the pain of the pandemic firsthand.
Rev. Barber is joining the West Virginia PPC for a socially-distanced march and speak-out at the office of Sen. Manchin to demand the Senate pass a real relief bill that includes a $15 an hour minimum wage.
We need folks from across the country to join us online and contact their senators to do the same!
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Tell Our Senators to Support the $15 Minimum Wage as Part of COVID Relief Now!
Senator Dianne Feinstein: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710
Senator Alex Padilla: https://www.padilla.senate.gov/
Phone (202) 224 – 3553
Fax (202) 224 – 2200
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14 Priorities for the First 100 Days: The PPC Sends New Demands to Washington
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/resource/policy-and-legislative-priorities/
On behalf of the 140 million poor and low-income people in the country, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival – and our 45 state coordinating committees, thousands of religious leaders, scholars, economists, advocates and hundreds of supporting organizations – insists that the following policies from the Poor People’s Jubilee Platform take precedence during the first 50-100 days of the new administration and 117th Congress.
The 14 policy priorities include:
–Enact comprehensive and just COVID-19 relief that provides free testing, treatment, vaccines and direct payments to the poor
–Guarantee quality health care for all, regardless of any pre-existing conditions
–Raise the minimum wage to $15/ hour immediately
–Update the poverty measure
–Guarantee quality housing for all
–Enact a federal jobs program to build up investments, infrastructure, public institutions, climate resilience, energy efficiency and socially beneficial industries and jobs in poor and low-income communities
–Protect and expand voting rights and civil rights
–Guarantee safe, quality and equitable public education, with supports for protection against re-segregation
–Comprehensive and just immigration reform
–Ensure all of the rights of indigenous peoples
–Enact fair taxes and targeted tax credits
–Use the power of executive orders
–Redirect the bloated Pentagon Budget towards these priorities as matters of national security
–Work with the PPC to establish a permanent Presidential Council to advocate for this bold agenda
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Feb 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Oakland Rally To Demand 1,000 Ca-OSHA Inspectors, PPE & Health and Safety On The Job
Stop The Murders and Pandemic In Our Workplaces NOW!
Workers and trade unionists will speak about about the failure of the the California Cal-OSHA to protect workers on the job.
There are less than 200 inspectors in California for 18 million workers. In fact there are more Fish and Game inspectors than OSHA inspectors.
In Los Angeles over 700 longshoreman are infected and 12 have died. At Foster Farms in the Central Valley 13 workers have died and workers face a lack of PPE and masks to protect their lives and those of their families. Farmworkers in California are being treated as disposable workers.
This is over a year after the pandemic has ripped through California workplaces.
Healthcare workers at Highland Hospital, San Francisco General, Kaiser, Sutter and UC are still fighting against reusing PPE masks and gowns and Cal-OSHA is unable to do regular physical inspections even after complaints. Healthcare workers are dying as a result of the failure to have proper protection for them and their patients.
Plants like billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla in Fremont has no Cal-OSHA inspections to enforce the law and other workers at Amazon, UBER and even public transit agencies are not getting regular inspections because of the virtual collapse of Cal-OSHA. Governor Newsom earlier this year instituted a freeze on hiring. Although this has recently been lifted this we are seeing the death agony of this critical agency in the middle of a deadly and historic pandemic. Apparently profits are above lives for the worker of California Cal-OSHA has become a ghost agency when workers need it the most.
For more Information:
committeeforlaborparty(at)gmail.com
Sponsored by
United Public Workers For Action upwa.info
United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP
https://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com
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Feb
20
Sat
Feb 20 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
For more event information: https://supportamazonworkers.org/feb20/
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Mar
1
Mon
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Mar
11
Thu
Mar 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
No More Fukushimas, No Olympic In Japan In the Middle Of Pandemic
Sponsored by No Nukes Action
Thursday March 11, 2021 is the tenth anniversary of the earthquake and meltdown of three nuclear reactors at Fukushima.
The nightmare for the people and refugees of Fukushima and Japan continues. They are struggling to survive.
Despite promises that the melted nuclear rods would be removed they have not been and the recent earthquake has added greater dangers.
Two reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have begun leaking cooling water following last weekend’s 7.3 magnitude earthquake, indicating that the existing damage to TEPCO’s Unit 1 and 3 reactors has worsened, according to Keisuke Matsuo.
The government is also planning to dump over a million tons of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean despite the opposition of the Fisherman’s co-operative and the people of Japan and Korea.
At the same time the Japanese government under former Japanese prime minister Abe and now Suga continue their denialism mode. They say that they have overcome the nuke plant meltdowns and still want to have the Olympics in Japan this summer in the midst of the greatest world pandemic in over 100 years.
They also have shown their sexist attacks on women when the former head of the Olympics Yoshiro who was also a former prime minister said women speak too much. He was forced to
resign but their reactionary sexism, denialism and racism continues.
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 criminal negligence of having the Olympics under these circumstances with a full blown pandemic and a three leaking nuclear reactors is a sign of insanity and a danger to not only
Japan but the world.
No Nukes Action calls on all those opposed to nuclear plants and weapons, against the in Tokyo and Fukushima Olympics and those opposed to have this event in the middle of a pandemic to join the action.
It it time to remember the families and children who are still suffering from this man-made
disaster and let them know that people in the United States and around the world stand with them.
Physical distancing and masks for all participants at action
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Mar
17
Wed
Join us March 17 at 4pm at 1921 Walnut St in downtown Berkeley to protest UC’s planned evictions + demolition of our rent controlled homes. All are welcome! Help us SAVE 1921 Walnut St and save affordable housing in Berkeley! Share our poster & share our story.
Thank you
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Mar
26
Fri
Mar 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
On March 26 youth, teachers and other supporters will join to ask State Superintendent of Education Tony Thurmond why California Teachers are invested in Line 3 through CalSTRS, the statewide teacher’s retirement fund which invests billions in fossil fuels companies, and in Enbridge, which is building Line 3. We will join Youth vs. Apocalypse and Earth Guardians Bay Area in solidarity action on March 26th at 5pm at the Golden Gate Bridge. Youth know that their teachers don’t want to fund environmental destruction — come by on Friday to show your support.
Indigenous-led water protectors in Minnesota are taking action every day to disrupt the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline. This one of many actions in solidarity actions targeting financial and other corporate interests.
The youth are asking State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, who is on the board CalSTRS (the teachers’ pension fund), to join us in calling for CalSTRS to divest from fossil fuels and help #StopLine3. This is a peaceful, non-violent action and we are not planning to violate laws or risk arrest. Come masked and ready to show the water protectors at Line 3 our collective support.
RSVP here for more info : http://bit.ly/TeachersHelpStopLine3
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Apr
1
Thu
Apr 1 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
WHAT: Build Back Fossil Free Solidarity Action
COVID safe event – please wear masks and practice social distancing.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/3czwFct
On April 1, frontline Indigenous youth and organizers from the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipeline fights will travel to Washington D.C. to demand Biden Build Back Fossil Free and stop these climate-destroying projects. On Thursday we will take to the streets of San Francisco in solidarity with their courage to demand that the Biden Adminstration use executive powers to immediately stop the Line 3 and Dakota Access pipelines, stop all federal fossil fuel permits, and protect our communities.
We’ll march to two nearby U.S. Army Corps of Engineers offices, to tell President Biden and VP Harris: End the Line 3 and DAPL permits and Build Back Fossil Free!
This is an all-ages, non-violent, outdoor action. We ask everyone in attendance to adhere to common public safety guidelines.
Join us! RSVP: https://bit.ly/3czwFct
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Apr 1 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Help show that our community demands full student debt cancellation.
Join us on Thursday, 4/1 @ 4 PM PST at the U.S. Department of Education office in San Francisco (50 Beale Street) to demand student debt cancellation.
Click here for more information & to RSVP!
Help show our local representatives and President Joe Biden that our community demands full student debt cancellation. We request all attendees follow covid safety protocols (wearing masks & practicing physical distancing). Together, we will win full cancellation!
**Feel free to bring offerings(waters, snacks) to share with others & any neighbors in the Beale Street area. Music, Dancing and Costumes strongly encouraged**
If you prefer to take action digitally, join the Debt Collective’s online rally on 3/31 @ 6 PM ET. RSVP for that here!
Warm Regards –
Bay Area Debtors Union
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Apr
15
Thu
Apr 15 all-day
Chevron is not only polluting the environment and politics in Richmond, South America, and beyond, but is also propping up the murderous military dictatorship in Burma (Myanmar). Join a national day of action telling Chevron to suspend all payments to the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise until democracy is restored.
The Myanmar labor movement has led the millions-strong street demonstrations from the beginning, as well as a general strike since March 8. The Myanmar military has responded with brutal, repression. They have used war-grade weaponry on the people’s protests for weeks, killing nearly 600 peaceful protestors. They have arrested thousands, squarely targeting union leaders.
The General Federation of Workers of Myanmar (FGWM) is calling for comprehensive economic sanctions on Myanmar to pressure the military, specifically highlighting Myanmar oil and gas, the largest source of revenue for the Myanmar military. Chevron is the largest US corporate presence in Myanmar, paying over $560 million to the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise between 2015 and 2019.
Besides calling on Chevron to suspend payments to the Burmese oil industry, the FGWM is calling on the US government to place sanctions on the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise.
The FGWM and the Coalition Against Chevron in Myanmar is calling for a national day of action to demand that no US dollars go to the military dictatorship.
WHEN
Thursday, April 15, time TBD
Updates, info, and RSVP here
IF YOU’RE WONDERING: BURMA OR MYANMAR?
“The new name (Myanmar) [has] been accepted by most countries, the United Nations, and other major international organizations. A few governments, activist groups, and news media outlets, however, still cling to the old name [Burma], primarily as a protest against the former military regime’s refusal to put the question of a name change to the people of Myanmar.
“Questioned about the official name of the country soon after her party took office in 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi stated her continuing preference for the colonial-era term Burma, but said that both names were acceptable.”
— The United States Institute of Peace, “a national, nonpartisan, independent institute, founded by Congress”
Another discussion: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2016/12/20/should-you-say-myanmar-or-burma
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Apr
17
Sat
Apr 17 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Join us in celebrating the life of Kayla Moore, who died at the hands of the Berkeley Police in 2013. Kayla was a Black trans loved one who was living with a mental health condition. She was killed by the BPD during a mental health wellness check. Kayla would have been 50 years old this year.
We believe that Kayla Moore would still be alive if there had been an appropriate response while she was experiencing mental health crisis. Join us in demanding CARE NOT COPS.
This conversation is timely: last summer, the City Council approved an initiative for a Specialized Care Unit (SCU) that would respond to mental health crises without police involvement. Berkeley Copwatch demands that the City of Berkeley follow through on their commitment.
- The SCU must be well funded, so that it can actually be effective
- The SCU must be dispatched without police
- Since the police will not be responding to these incidents, funding must come directly from the police budget
- There must be options for long-term care in addition to crisis intervention
Let’s continue the fight for Justice 4 Kayla Moore! We need to make sure that what happened to her never happens again.
Follow @Justice4KaylaMoore on Facebook
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Apr
21
Wed
OAKLAND 📢📢📢📢
6.45pm TONIGHT
802 Oak St. AlamedaCome 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
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Apr
23
Fri
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Apr
24
Sat
End the UC’s displacement, gentrification, and violence!
Protect community, protect history, protect People’s Park and 1921 Walnut Street!
The University of California, Gov. Newsom and their billionaire cronies is trying to evict tenants of 1921 Walnut Street, a rent-controlled building, and destroy affordable housing in Berkeley, California to create student dorms. The UC is also trying to destroy People’s Park, an open space, center for arts and culture, mutual aid, and poor people in the East Bay.
We say NO!
Meet at 1921 Walnut Street on April 24th at 12PM.
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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
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May
1
Sat
May 1 @ 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm
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.
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No Livestreaming.
No Pictures.
No Snitches.
Wear All Black.
Group Up, Mask Up.
Bring Some Soup for your Family. 😉
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May
3
Mon
UC undergrads + grad students + staff + professors!
there'll be a UC-WIDE WORK STOPPAGE on MONDAY 5/3 as part of the demand to abolish UCPD and invest in better alternatives to community safety
(work = ur job, sync/async classes, meetings, emails, etc.)
thread with more info:
— vince (@_vicne) April 26, 2021
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May
6
Thu
May 6 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
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.
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