Calendar
From Fukshima To India-
Report On March 11 Fukushima Events In Japan
And Video On Nukes In India
Join No Nukes Action NNA on a report back on the anti-nuclear movement in Japan with a video screening as well as a film on the struggle against nuclear power in India(“High Power” by Pradeep Indulkar).
Labor Videographers Steve Zeltzer and Kazumi Torri will report on their trip to Fukushima and protests throughout Japan on the 3rd anniversary of the nuclear meltdowns. They also visited Taiwan where there is a growing anti-nuclear movement. The Japanese government and TEPCO are telling the Japanese people that they can overcome radiation and “decontaminate” Fukushima and force the residents to return. They will present a rough cut video of their visit followed by a discussion.
No details available yet.
Film screening of new Greek documentary “Fascism Inc” about the connections between the rise of fascism (both then and now) and the economic elites.
The film will be followed by a discussion about anti-fascism in the Bay Area.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
And we’re fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard.
All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion to include postal banking, and to oppose subcontracting and privaztization of services. We need to support them in these endeavors!
And we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a sale! The Advisory Commission on Historical Preservation came out with its report, recommending that sales of Historic Post offices be halted until the USPS conforms with historical preservation law. Here is our response.
The Office of Inspector General’s report on the sale of Historic Post Offices came out recently – anything could happen now since Congress’ “request” that no historic Post Offices be sold until it had come out has been honored and no further Congressional request or mandate has come down. Come help us plan our response.
We join with other activists in Berkeley to put a ballot initiative on the ballot to rezone the Berkeley Post Office and other areas in the Historic District to prevent privatization, and also to insure a better Downtown Berkeley. The last two days of signature gathering will follow this meeting – come and pick up materials to help the effort by gathering signatures.
Encouraging articles have come out recently about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. We held a forum on postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
Panel Discussion on anarchism — past, present, and future — with Ramsey Kanaan (AK Press & PM Press), Liz Highleyman (journalist and historian), and Joey Cain (Bound Together Bookstore, LGBT activist)
�
Ramsey Kanaan has republished works of classical anarchist theory by Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Rudolf Rocker, Emma Goldman and others, while encouraging the development of contemporary anarchist theory and analysis, such as libertarian socialist Murray Bookchin‘s Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm, which he commissioned for AK Press. He was involved in the early UK anarcho-punk musical scene as lead singer of the Scottish anarcho-punk band Political Asylum. He belongs to Folk This, which performs folk songs from the past, including from the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the Paris Commune, and hymns and anthems of the IWW. Kanaan played a key role in the five-year anti-poll tax campaign that ultimately brought down Margaret Thatcher. He is one of the founders of the San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair and is a member of Bound Together Books in San Francisco, a collectively run anarchist bookstore. He is a contributing host and producer at KPFA.
�
Joey Cain has been a member of the Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore for three and a half decades and co-produced the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair for 17 years. He has served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, was instrumental in getting a statue of Harvey Milk placed in SF City Hall, and has been involved in advocating for Private Chelsea Manning. He curates exhibits on radical LGBT History at the SF Main Public Library and serves on the Board of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Association.
�
Liz Highleyman considers herself a philosophical anarchist, though an eclectic one without allegiance to any particular party line. She’s written widely on the topic of anarchism and radical politics, including an Introduction to Anarchism that has been propagated over the web and translated into several languages. Since 1999 she has been involved with the global justice movement and has written several related articles, including articles on drug pricing and patents for AlterNet, AIDS drug access in developing countries for BETA, and an essay on queer activism and the global justice movement for the book From ACT UP to the WTO .
The Laney College Black Student Union in association with the Campaign To End The Death Penalty will be hosting an event commemorating Malcolm X, his Legacy and Life work. We will be celebrating the 60th birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal. And standing in solidarity with Kevin Cooper a innocent man on death row in San Quentin state penitently since 1985.
Our goal is to bring attention to the in humane treatment of prisoners and the true function of the prison industrial complex ( slavery by another name). We will show a short film on Mumia Abu- Jamal followed by a statement from Kevin Cooper ( note that there will be a question and answer segment with Kevin Cooper) and a call to action to support hunger strikers protesting in prisons across California.
For tabling info contact : Jabari Shaw (510) 328-0309 or musicismyweapon223@gmail.c
The Laney College Black Student Union in association with the Campaign To End The Death Penalty will be hosting an event commemorating Malcolm X, his Legacy and Life work. We will be celebrating the 60th birthday of Mumia Abu-Jamal. And standing in solidarity with Kevin Cooper a innocent man on death row in San Quentin state penitently since 1985.
Our goal is to bring attention to the in humane treatment of prisoners and the true function of the prison industrial complex ( slavery by another name). We will show a short film on Mumia Abu- Jamal followed by a statement from Kevin Cooper ( note that there will be a question and answer segment with Kevin Cooper) and a call to action to support hunger strikers protesting in prisons across California.
Did you know Governor Brown will release his revised 2014-15 budget proposal tomorrow?
In recent years we’ve seen $15 billion dollars of cuts to social safety net programs, and we know to build a stronger healthier California for everyone we need invest in programs not prisons.
Folks across California are furious that the the Governor has proposed more prison spending including $500 million to build new jails.
On Wednesday, we’ll be joining up with the California Partnership organizing rallies and press conferences across the state.
Can you can join us and help get the word out?
Statewide Day of Action – Wednesday May 14th
San Francisco
Time: 1:30pm
Location: State Building 350 McAllister Street
Join striking fast food workers and allies from 36 countries and 150 U.S. cities, including Oakland, as we call out some of the world’s worst corporate behavior. With success in exposing widespread wage theft and in the wake of new reports showing an industry with the largest pay gaps between CEOs and workers, we’re demanding change, $15 for workers and a union.
5:30 AM Meet at ACCE Oakland Offices 2501 International Blvd
10:30 AM Meet at 14th St and Alice the Library in Downtown Oakland, 135 14th St.
On May 15th, the #FightFor15 goes global! http://t.co/qWreiqJSZO #FastFoodGlobal pic.twitter.com/AcCIkH91SW
— Occupy Wall Street (@OccupyWallStNYC) May 7, 2014
BREAKING: Fast Workers Announce GLOBAL STRIKE on May 15th! #FastFoodGlobal pic.twitter.com/SKe6Srtk3Q
— The Other 98% (@other98) May 7, 2014
Join the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, ONYX, and Davey D in a reading and discussion of “No No Doubt: The Murder’s’ of Oscar Grant with award winning journalist and author, Thandisizwe Chimurenga.
“Chimurenga uses her writing as political activism. In ‘No Doubt,’ she connects the systematic state-sanctioned violence against young Black males through the case of Oscar Grant’s murder by transit police on January 1, 2009 in California’s Bay Area.”
Watch the book trailer here: http://www.triplemurder.com./
Food will be provided and books will be available for purchase.
This video of the theatrical production of the 60th Anniversary of the execution of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg features Angela Davis, Eve Ensler, Cotter Smith, radical hip hop artists Rebel Diaz, poet Martin Espada, members of the Rosenberg/Meeropol family, and more! (This production was staged in June 2013).
The 90-minute production uses dramatic readings, acted vignettes, poetry, music, and historical photos to dramatize the last four days of the Rosenbergs’ lives through their prison letters and their sons’ firsthand accounts.
The film also tells the stories of present-day activist families the Rosenberg Fund for Children assists, and celebrates current movements for peace, environmental preservation, immigrants’ rights, civil liberties and other progressive struggles –from Idle No More and Stop, Stop and Frisk, to the fight to free political prisoners.
A Benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance & the Rosenberg Fund for Children.
Support and learn about Forest and Habitat defense in California.
Three bands, campaign updates, video clips and more.
Connect with the walk during the day:
11:45 AM: Bridgehead Road, Martinez (foot of the Benicia/Martinez bridge)
2:30 PM: East B Street & First Street in grassy area in Benicia
3:30 PM: Walk ends at 9th St. Park for Rally
| Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival In Honor of Amiri Baraka MAIN STAGE: KATHERINE DUNHAM DANCE STAGE: Also featuring: Local crafts vendors & community organizations, The Javad Jahi Soapbox stage, The Mike Dream Courts, Kid’s Court for family fun, and our Food Court featuring international flavors! |
The KPFA Community Advisory Board invites you to an information and
music sharing Town Hall gathering in West Oakland .
We want to hear from youth, listeners, community members, musicians and media activists about your favorite music, community actions and programming ideas. Learn about creating press releases and posting announcements. Help KPFA to address our cultural, political and economic challenges now.
New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals talking about debt! Show up a half hour early—at 2:30 PM—for an informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@
Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt.
Thomas Gokey from Strike Debt New York City – creative debt thinker and Rolling Jubilee organizer – will be joining us!
– The latest on our coalition efforts to Save the Berkeley Post Office and fight the privatization of our commons.
– The latest on our efforts to help Richmond and NGO allies push for principal reduction for Richmond’s homeowners. Read two articles here and here, written by two Strike Debt Bay Area members on the Richmond principal reduction / eminent domain case.
In addition, we are exploring the use of a public bank to help Richmond, CA and other communities escape the thrall of Wall Street.
– Work on our radio segment broadcast periodically on KPFA.
– A project to bring non-profit, non-usurious payday loan services to Vallejo and Oakland.
– Other projects include efforts to fight against student debt in conjunction with peeps at UC Cal via a Strike Debt UC Berkeley chapter of Strike Debt, a book group with semi-weekly discussions, investigations into the legitimacy of mortgage ownership and therefore the right to foreclose, and moe.
“Just as bosses are dependent on workers, so are lenders dependent on borrowers. If workers walk out, the enterprise stops. If borrowers refuse to pay their debts, the lenders could be in real trouble. Each side depends on the other. The millions of underwater mortgage holders, of student debtors and credit card holders, need the bank loans – but so do the banks need those borrowers, and they especially need them to cooperate by paying their monthly charges. Otherwise, the capital that the banks list on their books begins to drain away.” ~Francis Fox Piven
Check out our website, our Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.
Check out the Berkeley Post Office Defenders website too.
Oakland knows a lot about violence. It’s time to share our stories… and listen.
FREE! DELICIOUS FOOD! CHILD CARE!
Show support for Nubia Bowe, the Oakland teen brutalized in Santa Rita Jail, as she faces the district attorney in the sheriff’s backyard.
Shuttles from the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station to the courthouse will be provided. Call or text (510) 978-9206 for more info.
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!!
The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work.
And we’re fighting against both!
Come help us plan our next steps.
We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard.
All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion to include postal banking, and to oppose subcontracting and privaztization of services. the California Teachers Union passed a resolution in support of opposition to Staples. We need to continue the pressure on Staples and encourage other unions to pass resolutions denouncing the Post Office’s agreement with Staples.
And we need to be prepared if the Post Office announces a sale! The Advisory Commission on Historical Preservation came out with its report, recommending that sales of Historic Post offices be halted until the USPS conforms with historical preservation law. Here is our response. Also the Office of Inspector General’s report on the sale of Historic Post Offices came out recently – anything could happen now since Congress’ “request” that no historic Post Offices be sold until it had come out has been honored and no further Congressional request or mandate has come down. Come help us plan our response.
We have joined with other activists in Berkeley to put a ballot initiative on the ballot to rezone the Berkeley Post Office and other areas in the Historic District to prevent privatization, and also to insure a better Downtown Berkeley. The last signature gathering was last week – come find out whether we succeeded!
Encouraging articles have come out recently about using Post Offices as banking facilities for the unbanked. We held a forum on postal and public banking on March 29th on the Post Office steps.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
In conjunction with the Global Day of Action
Against Chevron, OccupyForum presents
Chevron Not Chagrined: What next?
�
Last year at this time, OccupyForum presented “Turning Point or Tipping Point? The Crimes of Chevron and the Campaigns to Stop Them”. A year later, Chevron continues to be the brutal, poisoning, lying, exploiting, oppressing, militarizing, greenwashing climate criminal it has always been. In its wake it leaves cancer, corrupted democracy, environmental disaster. Groups all over the world have fought Chevron, and must continue to do so as the list of Chevron’s Environmental Justice casualties covers the entire globe.
While our work of cajoling, regaling, guilt-tripping, regulating, threatening, suing, fining, etc. has definitely had its impact, Chevron is still not properly chagrined. Ideally, Chevron should transition into the sustainable energy business or close. The writing is on the wall anyway, and the sooner the better. Especially for the communities directly in their path, and for the entire planet’s survival.
Our panelists will include:
� Victor Menotti from the International Forum on Globalization re: the Koch Bros and their huge effort to deny climate science and promote fossil fuel dependency by buying government and media
� Grant Wilson from Earth Law Center >– Rights of nature and community rights ordinances as legal alternatives
� Eric Brooks from CleanPowerSF who will speak as an organizer disseminating clean power and about the fight against PG&E which is attempting to stop community choice aggregates from taking hold.
The panel will show how business as usual with Chevron is a losing battle (although one that still must be fought for the communities who have to live near them — worldwide), and that alternatives exist — from instituting new laws to embracing and implementing clean power.
Time will be allotted for a Q&A, group discussion and announcements.