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If the Government Won’t, the People Will…..
STOP CRUDE OIL BY RAIL SHIPMENTS TO RICHMOND!
Stop pollution of our communities and our climate!
PROTEST AT KINDER MORGAN’S RAIL YARD
SHUTTLES WILL PROVIDE RIDES FROM RICHMOND BART — 12:15-12:30 pm
Meet at Castro St. entrance to Kinder Morgan train yard between entrance to Chevron Refinery/Hwy 580 &
Hensley Street, close to Hensley across Castro Street from General Chemical’s entrance at525 Castro Street.
(Closet parking is up Hensley Street)
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a permit to Kinder Morgan to operate its crude-by-rail project to import highly explosive and toxic crude oil into Richmond, a low income community of color already burdened by pollution caused by the fossil fuel industry. BAAQMD issued the permit without public notice or opportunities for public comment. The number of trains carrying crude oil has risen dramatically due to increased drilling in both the Alberta tar sands in Canada and the Bakken shale oil area of North Dakota, and the number of serious accidents has also increased.
We the people must raise our voices and send a loud and clear message that more pollution from dirty crude oil and tar sands is not acceptable in the bay area or anywhere else.
KEEP THE OIL IN THE GROUND!!
Sponsors: West County Toxics Coalition, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Sunflower Alliance, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More/SF Bay, ANSWER/SF, Communities for a Better Environment, Environmental Justice Air Quality Coalition, Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Global Community Monitor, Forest Ethics
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Policy brainstorming to generate specific recommendations for community-based public policies.
FREE! DELICIOUS FOOD! CHILD CARE!
Lots of reasons to stop by the farm this Sunday June 1st!
The 1.5 acres of the farm we planted out on April 26th are taking off, and right now we are producing many pounds of delicious greens. Lettuces and kale, chard, mustard greens, etc. Perfect for salad and stir frys! We’ll be weeding and harvesting! And you can take some fresh and healthy food home with you (bring paper bags if you have them!).
Also this Sunday, two of your favorite farmers will be celebrating a joint birthday party, with a bbq grill and possibly some a fiddling or other music. And on a sadder note, one of your other favorite farmers will be leaving us and is moving away for good. So come down to say “happy birthday”, “goodbye”, or “nice to meet you” 🙂
Regular open hours are 3:30pm-7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10am-4pm on Sundays. Updates and more can be found on gilltractfarm.wordpress.com.
Elliot, an active labor organizer and Bulb supporter, was arrested on the Albany Bulb on Thursday. He is charged with
“Prisoner MFG Weapon/Etc”
“Furnish Escape Equipment”
“Appropr Lost Prop – $400”
whatever those things mean. He is being / has been held at Santa Rita over the weekend.
It is unknown at this time whether he has a lawyer or will be assigned a public defender or, really, what is going to happen.
Friend and comrade Elliot was arrested Thursday evening as he left the Albany Bulb, located near Berkeley CA in the east bay area of California. Elliot is a longtime organizer and has been involved in a variety of struggles and campaigns. Recently, Elliot, along with others, have been working with residents of the Albany Bulb, a squattter encampment that is been under attack from the police and local government. Learn more at sharethebulb.org.
Elliot’s capture comes in the wake of the arrest of two of the last bulb residents and the destruction of their house, as well as the arrest of two other Bulb supporters. Elliot is being hit with multiple trumped up charges, including possessing tools to escape from jail and possession of weapons, both felonies, as well as two misdemeanors. His bail is set at $65,000, which means that we need $6,500 to bond him. Please support!
To donate, go to: www.gofundme.com/9pkg6c
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum
Conversation
with David Korten
David Korten will join us to share his current work on a new book and engage in conversation around the central theme – changing our story from one of “sacred money and markets” to one of a “living economy on a living Earth”. He is interested in exploring this theme with members of the Occupy Forum to test the extent to which this frame has potential broad resonance:
“Our defining cultural story determines what we most value as a society and how our institutions structure our relationships with one another and nature. We are in terminal crisis because we have our story badly wrong. To find a path to a viable human future, we must replace the “sacred money and markets” story around which we currently organize with a” sacred life and living Earth” story that acknowledges our nature and reality as living beings born of a living Earth born of a living universe.”
David Korten’s seminal book and international bestseller, When Corporations Rule the World, is considered by many to be the “bible” of the global Living Democracy Movement, and helped explain globalization to thousands. � It has become a modern classic with a message that seems increasingly prophetic with each passing day. Its central message is a clear and unequivocal wake-up call to humanity. Korten also wrote The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism; The Great Turning:
From Empire to Earth Community; Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth
� to Real Wealth,� among others.
Time will be allocated for announcements.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Staff Attorney Mark Rumold will argue before a judge that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) must release key legal opinions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) regarding Section 215 of the Patriot Act—the law the National Security Agency (NSA) uses to collect telephone records on a massive scale.
Judge: Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers presiding.
Walmart Associates will be on strike to protest Walmart’s illegal retaliation against Associates who have spoken up about inequality and have gone on strike.
We’ll be talking to customers and asking them to support Walmart Associates who continue to highlight the issue of Walmart’s poverty wages deepening income inequality and the impact it has on its workers, customers, and communities as a whole and call on Walmart to raise workers’ wages to $25,000 per year.
Zaki Manian and Janet Weil will host a discussion on a year since Snowden and planning future activism efforts.
Discussion of a year of activism against mass surveillance structured around video clips of significant journalism..
Space is Limited. Please RSVP.
Look for the Strike Debt Bay Area booth somewhere between 24th & 5th streets on Telegraph.
Come hang out and learn about debt! Pick up a copy of the Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual and learn how to fight against your and others debts.
The Alan Blueford Center for Justice will be open for First Friday.
Come pay a visit!
Marxist Editor, LeiLani Dowell, speaks on Uniting Women, LGBTQ, & Workers’ Struggles as part of a California statewide speaking tour. After Oakland, she will speak in San Diego and LA.
LeiLani Dowell began her activism while studying Labor Studies at San Francisco State University shortly after 9/11, when she became actively engaged in the struggle to prevent the war against Iraq. As a queer woman, Dowell has done organizing for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer rights in both San Francisco and New York, where she currently resides. Dowell has participated in solidarity and fact-finding delegations to Colombia, Lebanon, El Salvador and Haiti, reporting on her experiences in the pages of Workers World Newspaper. She represented the U.S. delegation at a deliberative session of the World Festival of Youth and Students in 2005, and was a lead organizer of a youth delegation to Cuba in 2007.
In 2009, Dowell traveled on an International Action Center-sponsored delegation to Honduras as a right-wing coup was taking place in the country, reporting on the incredible people’s resistance that awakened in response. She was the sole U.S. representative at the 3rd All India Women’s Conference in Kerala, India, in January 2013, and returned to Honduras to monitor the national elections in November.
Dowell’s writings have been published in the books Feminism and War; Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle http://www.workers.org/reparations/reparations-marxism_bk.pdf; Gaza: Symbol of Resistance http://gazaresistancebook.com/; and What is Marxism All About http://www.amazon.com/What-Marxism-All-About-Revolutionaries/dp/0895671530.
Currently she is a Managing Editor of Workers World Newspaper.
Andy Lopez will be honored by family, friends and supporters on the occasion of his 14th birthday. Andy will be celebrated by both those who knew him personally and by those who have been seeking a just response to his death. Speakers at the opening and concluding gatherings will share what Andy’s life and memory mean to them and what they expect to be his lasting legacy.
The noon march will lead by Danza Azteca Coyolxauqui and by youth contingents from Andy’s Youth and the Windsor Bloco Youth Ensemble. Participating group members of the Justice Coalition for Andy Lopez (JCAL), and Mothers in White, as well as other local and state-wide supporters and groups.
The event, entitled, “Not Forgotten – Andy Lopez Presente!,” will begin at 11:00. At noon, participants will march to central Santa Rosa for a culminating birthday rally at Old Courthouse Square.
Time: 11-12Noon – Gather and Speakers
12-1:30pm – March To Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA
1:30-3pm – Rally and Speakers
On June 8, 2011 our beloved son, brother, father, husband, uncle, nephew, grandson, cousin & friend Justice For Ernest Duenez Jr. was murdered by John Moody of the Manteca PD.
Join us this year as we march from the place where he was murdered – 241 Flores Ave Manteca, CA – to the Manteca Police Station.
For the last 3 years you have all seen us through our darkest hours and we would be honored if you would join us as we remind the City of Manteca that we want JUSTICE FOR ERNEST & JAIL FOR MOODY!!
This will be a peaceful march. We encourage you to bring your signs representing your loved ones lost. We will never forget the lives that were stolen from us.
11:30 am meet at 241 Flores Ave Manteca, Ca
12:00 noon begin march to Manteca PD
BBQ to follow at location to be announced at march
Join us for food and family time***kids games***kids bring your swimsuits
Ernest’ murder caught on police camera:
Ryan Rising & Ivy Anderson
Story Telling and Discussion:
Land Access, Food Autonomy,
Permaculture and Direct Action
Come hear stories of direct actions and community organizing over the last few years that have focused on reclaiming access to land to create permaculture and common spaces in the Bay Area.
Also, hear a report back from the Zapatista Escuelita: The Little School of Freedom according to the Zapatistas – the indigenous communities in resistance in Chiapas, Mexico, who reclaimed much of their land base in 1994 and have been self-organizing and living autonomously from the Mexican government ever since. Both here in the Bay, and in the jungles of Southern Mexico, it is access to land and what people bring forth from it through the work of their hands that empowers people to live successfully.
“Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.” -Malcolm X
Our dialogue will explore how people are organizing for access to land around the world, and focusing on the Bay Area and the lessons the Zapatistas and others have to share that inform our work here. We will talk about land reclamation, creating permaculture through direct action, & local food autonomy.
Ryan Rising is a permaculture designer, community organizer, and direct action advocate living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan recently returned from the first grade of the Zapatista Little School in Chiapas, Mexico.
Ivy Anderson runs the Mendell Roots Community garden on Third and Palou and teaches gardening and healthy eating to Bayview youth. Ivy is committed to creating access to free organic food and open green space in the Bayview.
Q&A and Announcements will follow.
Crude-by-Rail in Oakland? Say NO on Tuesday, June 10
A resolution opposing transportation of hazardous fuels through Oakland will soon be considered by the Oakland City Council. The first step is a meeting of the Public Works Committee.
Tuesday, June 10, 11:30 AM
Oakland City Hall, first floor
If passed, this will go to the full council shortly thereafter. If you are available Tuesday, please attend to express support for this important step in the campaign against crude-by-rail, fossil fuels and climate change.
Councilmembers are recommending that the City Council adopt a resolution “to oppose transportation of hazardous fossil fuels material, including crude oil, coal, and petroleum coke, along California waterways, through densely populated areas, through the City of Oakland.” Please come to show support!
People who want to speak need to fill out a speaker card in person before each item starts or on line athttp://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/CityClerk/s/SpeakerCard/SpeakerCard/OAK032373
What is going on in Syria? Is there a “revolution” or is this western “regime change”? What can we make of the June 3 Presidential Election in Syria? Rick Sterling is a founding member of Syria Solidarity Movement. He was in Syria with International Peace Pilgrimage in April 2014 and visited Damascus, Latakia and Homs. Rick will discuss the roots of the conflict, impressions from observations and first hand discussions with a wide variety of Syrian and Palestinian residents in Syria.
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org
Co-sponsored by Syria Solidarity Movement, and the BFUU Social Justice Committee.
Wheelchair accessible.
The West Oakland Specific Plan is a massive development project that will lead to gentrification and displacement across West Oakland. The Plan itself, while saying much about attracting business and investment by playing up West Oakland’s ‘uniqueness’ and ‘diversity,’ actually contains NO guarantees for protecting and providing for people who already live here.
JOIN THE MARCH: Leaving from Defremery Park at 4pm, through West Oakland to spread the word, arriving at City Hall for the 6pm Planning Commission meeting!
NO TO DISPLACEMENT!
NO TO GENTRIFICATION!
DEFEND WEST OAKLAND!
Original event notice on IndyBay.
Working Our Way Out of the Crisis: Climate Justice & the Working Class”
part of MG’s free public series: Race, Class and Ecology
On June 12th, Movement Generation will launch our Race, Class & Ecology series, beginning with a conversation between workers, union organizers, and climate justice leaders on moving from “Jobs OR the environment” to “Jobs FOR the environment.”
Refinery Corridor Healing Walk 3: Benicia – Rodeo. Sat. June 14
Join us for the third of four healing walks along the refinery corridor in Northeast San Francisco Bay.
We will begin at the 9th Street Park in Benicia (Valero Refinery) and walk in prayer and conversation to Lone Tree Park in Rodeo (Phillips 66 Refinery).
To RSVP, and for full details, schedule, bicycle contingent, and transportation options, please visit the Connect the Dots website.
Native American elders and community members will lead the walk, stopping to pray at certain places, including the water. We will walk from the 9th Street Park in Benicia to the Lone Tree Point in Rodeo, and will be walking over the Carquinez Bridge. The walk is approximately 14 miles with support vehicles so that walkers can rest whenever they would like. There are also several places where walkers can join the walk along the route (Details below).
Around the last mile, walkers will be encouraged to begin imagining their own communities beyond fossil fuels and what they would ideally be like. Walkers will be invited to share those ideas with their own drawings on muslin at the end of the walk. The muslin squares will be sewn in to a quilt and shared at the last walk on July 12 (Rodeo (Phillips 66) to Richmond (Chevron). Art from previous walks will be exhibited. Joining us? Please make sure to check back for more details no later than June 11.
To RSVP, and for full details, schedule, bicycle contingent, and transportation options, please visit the Connect the Dots website.