Calendar
Powerful 50-minute documentary on the impact of the Iraq War.
Post-screening discussion with Executive Producer Moni Law regarding the current crisis in Syria and ongoing effects of the Iraq War.
From Palestine to California to Guantanamo.
A discussion of how to build our until and the challenges and possibilities for doing so across movements against repression, policing, incarceration and militarization and for self-determination.
Join us for a discussion amongst panelists and with audience members.
Please join Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio & Long Memory Productions
in support of the Alan Blueford Coalition
with an ADVANCED SCREENING of
OCCUPY OAKLAND: The Movie.
A Socialist Action Forum.
Speakers: Walter Riley, Jeff Mackler, Emma Cape, Scott Braley, Vanessa Aldrich, Zahra Billoo.
Sponsored by Bay Area Socialist Action.
Come to the first-ever anti-war Bridge Walk (literally, a historical “first”). Let’s show what we think to the people here and around the world, including the Syrian people:
“How to Get To That Stunning New Bay Bridge Bike Path?” KQED gives easy driving/parking, BART, and bicycle info here.
PLAN TO ARRIVE at either of the two walk/bike path entry points by 12 Noon (Emeryville or Oakland). Bicyclists can BART to W. Oakland or MacArthur, then bike there. Cars can park in Emeryville or Oakland near these “trailheads.”
Together we’ll walk, and talk, and send up our message:
WE don’t want OUR GOVERNMENT to bomb Syria!
WE don’t want any more of OUR GOVERNMENT’s endless wars based on lies!
WE say NO to OUR GOVERNMENT’s war crimes!
WE know that even if Congress, the U.N., and every government in the world say “Yes” to this war — it’s still immoral, illegal and wrong!
Everyone is welcome, and your presence will be seen and heard: students, activists, elders – people of faith, community members – revolutionaries, veterans, writers and creative artists – those who fight for the people’s rights already, and those who’ve never taken part in an independent political action before.
The new Bay Bridge includes a beautiful pedestrian+bicycle path along the eastern span (it ends just short of Treasure Island). When you drive out of San Francisco, right next to you are people of all ages walking and biking back and forth, enjoying the incredible vistas.
WORD – Women Organized to Resist and Defend is holding a rally for Marissa Alexander.
Marissa Alexander is serving a 20-year sentence for defending herself against her abusive husband by shooting a warning shot into a wall. No one was hurt, and she is currently in prison.
Support for Marissa Alexander are banding together to hold rallies all over America on Saturday, September 14th.
Angela Davis, activist, writer, and UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus, and Margaret Burnham, activist, civil rights lawyer and Northeastern University School of Law professor, will speak at a 50th commemoration of the Birmingham bombing.
Tickets: $25 per person, available at www.alumni.northeastern.edu/CRRJ
Community Gathering and Public Forum.
Oshan Anand was sentenced to more than 12 years on charges of selling psychedelics.
End the drug wars, stop the targeting of creative art and music festivals!
6:00 PM: Reception.
7:30 PM: Forum and Panel.
9:00 PM: Music, Dance, DJs.
San Francisco State University Constitution Day Panel:
“Civil Liberties and National Security in the Age of Big Data”
With panelists: Former military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg, known for leaking the Pentagon Papers; ACLU attorney, Matt Cagle; SFSU Professors, Ambassador David Fischer and Sarah Crabtree.
Please join the rally for public education and the march to the bargaining session of the UC Student-Workers Union (UAW 2865), this Tuesday, September 17, beginning at noon.
At the rally, speakers will address the meaning of Napolitano’s appointment for workers and students, and will talk about how this appointment shows the priorities of those who manage and govern the University: militarization, repression, and financial accumulation; not quality and accessible education.
The rally will be followed by a series of teach-outs on the following topics:
– financial speculation and student debt;
– austerity and the privatization of public education;
– Napolitano, the militarization of the campus and undocumented rights;
– the US threat to bomb Syria and the Syrian revolution; and
– the stakes for students and workers of the UC Student-Workers Union’s current contract campaign.
The teach-outs will be followed by a march to the bargaining session between the UC Student-Workers Union and UC management. Those who come to bargaining, which is open to all, will have the chance to speak about the importance of higher instructor / student ratios and better support for student workers to the quality and accessibility of public education in California.
Here is the schedule of the afternoon:
12-12.30pm: Rally on the Steps of Sproul Hall
12.30-1:30pm:
– Announcement of a contingent leaving to the Regents meeting to participate in public comment and possible action
– Teach-Outs in front of Sproul
1:30 – 2pm: All the groups reconvene for a common mini presentation and Q&A on the UAW contract negotiation
2 pm: March towards the UAW bargaining session
Join us in an informal book review/class of Fred Goldstein’s book, “Capitalism at a Dead End”, published in 2012. The review will be led by Dave Welsh. Extra copies of the book will be available to use for the class and/or purchase, if desired. Light refreshments will be served. No prior reading required.
Workers World office – just buzz #411
wheelchair accessible
Draw the Line for the Next Generations- Join us on Friday, September 20th to draw the line against dirty tar sands energy and for the health and power of the generations to come! Bring pictures of the young people you care about, and let your community know how the Keystone pipeline and tar sands refining our threatening kids (and grown ups) health in the Bay Area and beyond. Elders will be holding a “line” for the young ones, youth will be chalking lines of poetry, and people of all ages are welcome to come, learn more about the issues, get involved in the campaigns, and spread the word.
People will be staffing a table with information about California solitary confinement conditions in solidarity with the suspended prisoners’ hunger strike.
Come on down and hang out and help pass out literature.
Come out to the new space, OutofLine in Emeryville for a film showing on the Albany Bulb followed by a discussion on how to resist the eviction and save this wild and rebellious space.
FREE!
Recently, the Albany City Council has moved to evict the almost 20 year old squatter encampment at the Albany Bulb and develop the area into a regional park. Dogs will be leashed, the art will be destroyed, and the people that live there, made homeless. Come out to discuss and plan!
Original announcement with color flyer on IndyBay.
Find the event closest to you or of most interest to you in the Bay Area here:
Over 70 events are already planned in states coast-to-coast, and this is shaping up to be an epic — not to mention beautiful — day of action. There are a bunch of neat actions planned: from a solar-powered barn going up in the pipeline route in Nebraska, to a tug of war between the fossil fuel industry and the climate movement in Boston, to a swimming party in a park in Jacksonville that might be underwater in the not-too-distant future — and many more to come.
Join us for food, entertainment and fun while promoting community awareness.
Stand Together for a better today and a promising tomorrow.
The United Nations International Day of Peace is celebrated around the globe on September 21st. Be a part of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Peace Day rally and festival, demand a pardon for Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and other hero and shero whistleblowers, end mass incarceration, solitary torture and other abuses of the prison industrial complex, demand an end to the drone wars and the right to know what is in our food. Thank you Code Pink and many other supporting local groups such as Stop Monsanto and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on Saturday September 21, bike, walk, skate or BART to the Civic Center BART stop at the United Nations Plaza in the heart of San Francisco from noon to six. Celebrate and demand peace at home and abroad. Community, music and unity — Peace San Francisco style. Thank you for being a part of the movement!
Thousands are expected to rally for Peace this September 21st, the United Nations International Day of Peace. Peace Day San Francisco, sponsored by Code Pink Women for Peace occurs on Saturday this year at the United Nations Plaza (Civic Center) in San Francisco. From 12:00-4:00 various musicians and speakers address whistleblowers, drone warfare, mass incarceration, the industrial food complex and more. Musical acts include Pamela Parker, Thunderground Collective, Clara Bellino, Drew Southern and other local performers. Speakers include: Daniel Ellsberg on whistleblowers, Terry O’Neill and Patricia Ireland of the National Organization for Women, John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Pamm Larry of Label GMO Campaign, Stephanie Tang of World Can’t Wait and Toby Blome of Code Pink.
Berkeley Post Office Defense et al will be holding a rally/concert/teach-in on the steps of the Berkeley Post Office in solidarity with the struggle in the Bronx, NYC to save their own Post Office. The Bronx defenders will be holding their own protest rally that day.
Come learn about the latest news in the struggle to save the Berkeley Post Office and prevent the privatization of Post Offices across the country. Enjoy the music and use the public commons as it should be!
Resisting Empire on Jeju Island
On a small island on the Southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, for the past 7 years, a small group of villagers have been waging one of the most disciplined, dedicated, creative non-violent movements in the world.
Survivors of one of the most horrific genocides of the postwar era, they are struggling to prevent the Island, a UN designated biosphere reserve, from becoming a deep water military base that will uproot the traditional matrifocal culture, destroy a global ecological treasure, and destabilize the entire pacific region.
This Naval base, functioning as the lynchpin of the US Pacific pivot, will host US aircraft carriers, Aegis missile destroyers, nuclear submarines, and 8-10,000 troops, and turn the Island into a hair trigger for global confrontation.
This presentation, by activists working in solidarity with Jeju Island, will screen excerpts from “The Ghosts of Jeju”, chronicling the genocidal US intervention in Jeju Island in 1948, and the subsequent history of influence and manipulation. There will also be recent eye witness testimonies from the ground, to give a synoptic, historical view of the crucial local, cultural, ecological and geopolitical issues at stake.
For a good background summary, see:
Why Oliver Stone Came to Juju, Korea
Also KPFA show and Flashpoint
Schedule of all events at Niebyl-Proctor.