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PRIMER ANIVERSARIO DE…
ANTONIO GUZMAN LOPEZ
VEN Y COMPARTE CON NOSOTROS….
SABADO – FEBRERO 21, 2015
RAYMOND BERNAL PARK EN SAN JOSE
SOBRE LA 7TH Y HEDDING STREET.
2PM – 5PM
COMIDA, PINTADA DE ROSTROS, ARTESANIAS, Y VENTA DE CAMISETAS
TENEMOS UNA PRESENTACION ESPECIAL PARA JOSIAH Y ANGELIQUE
COMPARTA ACERCA DE COMO FUE ANTONIO Y ESCUCHE DE OTRAS FAMILIAS , EL IMPACTO DE NO TENER JUSTICIA EN NUESTAS COMUNIDADES.
TAMBIEN PONDREMOS AL DIA ACERCA DE JUSTICIA PARA JOSIAH
LEVANTANDO CONCIENSA PARA PROTEGER NUESTROS NIÑOS Y JOVENES!
UNIENDO FAMILIAS PARA QUE NUESTRAS VOCES SEAN ESCUCHADAS!
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Oaks Corner workers are paying $533 a month for family medical insurance and have not received a raise in several years. Come support your union brothers and sisters as they picket for respect and a fair contract on the restaurant’s busiest day of the year – their annual Chinese New Year Party! Bring your family and friends!
“I’m standing up because as a single mom, I struggle to take care of my daughter and pay my rent with the wages I make at the Oaks and the rising cost of healthcare.”
-Juana Tapia Cruz, Cashier
Questions or need a ride? Contact Nicole Zapata at nzapata@unitehere.org
This Black History Month community meeting is a call to action to strategize around race and resistance, and how to sustain and broaden the movement against police violence. Speakers who will kick-off the open conversation are: Duciana Thomas, co-convener of “Sisterhood and Solidarity”, a discussion group on multi-racial organizing, and Steena Wright with the Black Woman Coalition at Mills College. Door donation $2.00 (work exchanges and sliding scale available).
A home-cooked Southern supper is served at 8:00pm for an $8 donation. Wheelchair accessible, on-site childcare provided. Sponsored by Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party. To arrange childcare or work exchanges, call two days ahead.
A benefit for collective printing equipment at the Loose Dogs print shop. Mimosas, food, bottomless coffee and the pleasant company of friends & comrades.
The print shop, located in West Oakland, holds a duplicator, off-set printing, t-shirt making equipment, and full on color/black and white copy machine. Our printing devices have helped to print and distribute tens of thousands of revolutionary communist and anarchist zines, periodicals, event flyers, and posters.
Please show your support for this project and come have a good time with great food and drinks!
This Sunday: Street Conversations for Economic Justice in Oakland
If you had a million dollars to spend on your neighborhood or community, what would you spend it on?
On Sunday we’re taking it to the streets (again!) to engage the people of Oakland in conversations about their vision for an economically just Oakland.
Specifically, we’re going to ask, “If you had a million dollars to spend on your neighborhood or community, what would you spend it on?”
We’re doing this to learn from our community. We believe what we learn on Sunday will help us create the blueprint for democracy and mass movement.
Personally, I’m going out there this Sunday because I’m sick and tired of hosting and attending fundraisers to fund programs that are doing really important work. If I had a million dollars, I’d prioritize my neighborhood’s domestic violence service organizations, rooftop edible gardens with collectively owned solar panels built by students (who get paid!), and worker-owned cooperatives.
I used to spend (or waste) a lot of time asking politicians to fund these types of projects.But now, rather than making demands from the power structure, I’m going to stand up with CDP and demand a change in the power structure itself!
If our initiative passes, we wouldn’t have to lobby politicians to spend OUR MONEY in OUR COMMUNITY. Instead, we’d have the difficult but exciting task of answering, “We have a billion-dollar budget in Oakland: What should we spend it on?”
There’ll be snacks, a short training, and then we’ll break out into small groups and fan out to neighborhoods across Oakland to speak directly with Oakland residents. Then we’ll come back together to share our experiences. All are welcome – just come ready to chat it up!
The Community Democracy Project promotes active citizenship, community learning, and direct democracy by putting the people in charge of the budget. Our voter initiative will change the Oakland City Charter so that we the people decide how our tax money is spent. There will be empowered neighborhood assemblies throughout the city where people can come together to discuss community issues and determine public priorities by directly voting on the city budget. The time has come for public decision-making to include the voices of all.
A Radio-Media Network event with Community and KPFA Staff to help develop live, diverse grassroots radio-media channels for sharing local actions, news, public affairs and alternative culture.
On the 3rd floo,r administrative wing, look for KPFA signs.
This event, sponsored by the KPFA Community Advisory Board is open to the public and is especially for individuals, community groups and social justice activists who want to be involved with KPFA’s free speech radio-media network. We want to explore new possibilities for KPFA live streaming, outreach interviews, Twitter, and other radio-media resources. We want to support the dissemination of people’s stories, perspectives, and thinking to foster effective coverage about local events as well as our responses to national and global actions such as those we witness in Ferguson, New York and Cleveland.
Join us in building a KPFA Community and Staff Network, addressing issues of democratization and justice in our lives, in our communities and for the planet.
Movie: Salad Days.
Music: Ed Masuga, Rosa of Hunters, Jeanie Jean of Future Twin, Le fomo, This Body Wants to Live
Memorial to #TamirRice & all lives stolen by pigs – speak out & march tmrw #oakland 3pm @StopMassIncNet @Carl_Dix pic.twitter.com/bKKiLrwCdr
— Revolution Club (@RevClub_bay) February 22, 2015
6th Open Circle ~Connect & Collaborate on Ending Police Brutality,
Systemic Racism and Disenfranchisement of Black People & People of Color
Let’s kick this meeting off with a potluck at 3:00 pm followed by the Open Circle at 3:45 pm. Please bring a dish or snacks to share!
Open circle will begin with report backs and announcements of upcoming actions followed by reflection and dialogue around the current state and thoughts or approaches on how to effect change.
We will end with breakout group topics and time to connect with folks with similar interests. Some great affinity groups have formed out of the breakout groups segment. Solidarity is afoot so bring your ideas!
Notes from last meeting:
omnicommons.org/connect
PROTEST AT STATE CHANCELLOR’S PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING STWEP II
Protest at 10:30 am
Press Conference at 11:00 am
State Chancellor Brice Harris and his Board of Governors appointed a Special Trustee with Extraordinary Powers (STWEP) and removed CCSF’s elected board based on the ACCJC decision to terminate CCSF’s accreditation.
The Superior Court of California has since ruled that this termination decision was based on illegal processes.
Now that STWEP I has unexpectedly retired, it would be a perfect time to re-empower our democratically elected BOT. However, Brice Harris, not content with merely two years worth of treating the San Francisco voters to taxation without representation will announce STWEP II who will once again have complete control over City College.
The full empowerment of the democratically elected Board of Trustees is crucial for the well-being and future of the school and its tens of thousands of students.
COME OUT TO HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
WE WANT DEMOCRACY!
NO STWEP II!
Occupy Forum PresentsResilience Resources
in the face of
“Slow Violence”and “Enduring Emergencies”
A Dialogue with Dennis Rivers, Writer, Activist
& Communication Skills Trainer
Many of the problems that we face are going to unfold over decades or even centuries, for example, climate change and radioactive contamination. But our models of political mobilization and participation are often models more of the hundred-yard dash than of the marathon. In this dialogue and discussion, writer and activist Dennis Rivers will explore ideas about resilience drawn from the work of eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, communication skills trainer Marshall Rosenberg, and the Appreciative Inquiry school of organizational development consultingAccording to Rivers, we need to be concerned about resilience because the crises of the world gradually become the crisis of the self. As we work on social problems that embody blatant insanities, such as nuclear weapons that are actually global suicide devices, we necessarily build mental models of those blatant insanities inside of our own minds, which can induce a disabling sort of mental and emotional indigestion.
Resilience studies focus on how people mobilize new inner resources to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles.
Dennis Rivers is a long time antinuclear activist, nonviolence trainer, communication skills coach/author, and Internet publisher. In 1978 he was arrested for the felonious planting of wildflowers on a nuclear reactor site, and has been continuously involved in political protest and social change movements ever since. In the mid-1970s Dennis trained for the Unitarian ministry, but found it impossible to fit into the social role of a parish minister, and instead became a nonviolence trainer and informal chaplain for antinuclear and antiwar groups in the 1970s and 1980s. Dennis studied with Marshall Rosenberg in the 1980s, and with Joanna Macy from the 1990s to the present time.Dennis received his MA in interpersonal communication and human development from the Vermont College Graduate Program, and has written several books. His workbook on communication skills, combining NVC with Appreciative Inquiry, is available free of charge as a PDF file at www.newconversations.net. The inspirations for his activist and scholarly work include Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Joanna Macy, Rachel Carson, Albert Schweitzer, Marshall Rosenberg, Carl Rogers, Archbishop Oscar Romero, and the Austrian Catholic conscientious objector and martyr Franz Jägerstätter.
Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons.
The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-mcdonald, a local developer. The city of berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-mcdonald backed out of the deal in early december.
Get an overview of the sale announcement here. Here’s a good more general overview piece.
There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th.
The next hearing is March 19th. The federal judge will decide whether the lawsuit will continue or be dismissed – he’ll decide sometime after march 19th.
There will be a townhall on the lawsuit and other Post Office defense developments on February 19ths.
The Postal Police had been raiding the Occupation intermittently in the wee hours of the morning, but the Occupiers refused to leave. Read about one of the eviction attempts here. There haven’t been any raids since a few days before Christmas, but they might start up again at any time.
Check out the new Community Garden at the Post Office.
Also check out our website and the Save the Berkeley Post Office website, and First they Came for the Homeless Facebook for updates.
BPOD is an offshoot of Strike Debt Bay Area, which itself is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and a chapter of the national Strike Debt movement, which is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
Dennis Bernstein will be interviewing Andrew Ross, Dawn Lueck, Ann Larson and others today on Flashpoints on KPFA, 5:00-6:00pm, 94.1FM.
BAY AREA: @dancohen3000 will speak at UC Berkeley about situation in Gaza. Tues, Feb. 24th, 6:30PM, 240 Mulford Hall. pic.twitter.com/WcUYXS8VTQ
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) February 20, 2015
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
Our work together encompasses:
- (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers;
- (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and
- (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
We look forward to learning with you and making change for the better. Please love and support one another. We have a duty to fight. We have a duty to win.
26. Establishing a Two Year Moratorium on Drones in Berkeley
From: Peace and Justice Commission
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution adopting a two year moratorium on drones in Berkeley.
The Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission sent this to the Council last June! Council promised, at its Worksession on Drones in April, to pursue a more comprehensive Policy on Drones. Yet it never voted on the comprehensive recommendation the Commission sent it before the Worksession and it has not taken a next step toward working on the issues to create a drone policy in Berkeley.
Here is the link to that recommended policy:
1. a. Drone Policy for the City of Berkeley
From: Peace and Justice Commission
It is unfortunate that Council, so far, has not taken a next step to work on this yet.
The proposed recommendation “Establishing a Two Year Moratorium on Drones in Berkeley” that Council will consider Tuesday night, gives it an opportunity to place a band-aid on this potentially critical wound, for two years, while it figures out a grand plan. More and more, drones are and will be filling the skies. It will be easier to regulate them now, sooner than later. The new guidelines that the FAA is proposing were just released this week. We do not know if or when they will be implemented. But they were originally intended to take effect by the end of this year.
Whether or not you can attend the meeting, you can contact the Mayor and the eight City Councilmembers and urge them to vote to Establish a Two Year Moratorium on Drones and to then put some time and energy into the details of the issues, as they promised to do at the end of the Workshop on Drones last April 29th, in order to have a more comprehensive plan for a Drone Policy in Berkeley. Their contact info (email addresses and phone numbers) is here: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/City_Council__Roster.aspx
Thank you.
In Peace and Resistance,
Sincerely,
Bob Meola, Vice-Chairperson, Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission
The first of eight meetings is January 28th.
This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.
Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film.
JFK to 911: EVERYTHING IS A RICH MAN’S TRICK
by Francis Richard Conolly
The first 50 Minutes of this film will be shown.
For the complete film, see YouTube.
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
We’ll be discussing the Russian economy this time:
Here is the reading for the next meeting:
Hudson on the Russian Pivot:
http://michael-hudson.com/2014/12/russian-pivot/
Putin’s gold for oil scheme:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/grandmaster-putins-trap-russia-is-selling-oil-and-gas-in-exchange-for-physical-gold/5421567
The Russia-China Currency Swap deal:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-and-china-the-dawning-of-a-new-monetary-system/5423637
The Politics of Debt Reading Group is associated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.