Calling All Artists, Church Leaders, Community/Cultural Workers and Allies:

Show UP Monday! Bring your art, friends, families & congregations!

The City of Oakland is redesigning downtown and they’ve left us out of the equation. Next week, they’ll be hosting a series of public events on Planning Downtown Oakland. Let’s make sure our communities’ voices are heard – and let’s be creative!

RALLY at CITY KICKOFF EVENT & DESIGN WORKSHOP

SPUR – who is hosting the workshops that follow for the rest of the week – released a report on “shaping the future of downtown Oakland”. Of 30 recommendations in the report, only 1 mentions art – briefly. Just one.

We want Cultural Equity, Affordable Housing, and Anti-Displacement protections for the existing residents throughout the city that have made it such a vibrant and desirable place to live. We want an Oakland Arts & Culture Commission that’s representative of all the districts in Oakland. We want more City Arts staff who will work together to ensure public dollars and public policies are used appropriately to preserve, strengthen and grow our creative neighborhoods. We want more funding for arts and culture, arts education in schools for our children, and we want All Of Oakland’s neighborhoods to be resourced.

SHOW UP Monday with your people and make your voices heard!

AND be sure to show up at one of the public input “Open Studio” design workshops that run every day for the following week – 10/20 to 10/27 – from 9am to 6pm. They’ll take place at SPUR’s new offices at 1544 Broadway, right across from The Rotunda Building and the Latham Square construction.

For more information on the Downtown Specific Plan and the City’s public events next week, click here: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/PlanDowntownOakland/index.htm

For updates on how to #KeepOaklandCreative, “like” the page:
https://www.facebook.com/KeepOAKCreative

The SPUR Report is available online here: http://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/publications_pdfs/SPUR_A_Downtown_for_Everyone.pdf

#KeepOaklandCreative
#KeepOaklandDiverse
#KeepOaklandAffordable
#DevelopmentWithoutDisplacement

A big Thank You to Desi Mundo, Campaigns Commitee Member for helping coordinate this action!

Join in our attempts to create an effective Citizens’ Police Review entity with real powers.

We will have many important matters to discuss: please try to attend if you can.
�         Debrief Oct 11 event
�         Promote November fundraiser: we will  need all hands on deck!
�         Report on NACOLE conference and expert feedback on our ballot measure
�         Develop work plan for remainder of 2015.
�         Report on outreach efforts thus far

Community Meals//FREE PIZZA DAYS!!!!

Now that everyone is settled in to the new school year and getting ready for Halloween, your neighborhood sourdough bakers and pizza people, Nick and Aron’s on Telegraph and Nick’s Pizza on Shattuck will be hosting a pair of their famous COMMUNITY MEALS, opening up their doors for two hours to serve FREE PIZZA, SALADS AND HOMEMADE BEVERAGES. We organize these events in the spirit of community and neighborhood. With everyone welcome to join us, hang out, have some dinner on us and meet their neighbors

While Oakland is going through a whiplash of changes around us, we want to take an opportunity to renew our commitment to ALL the members of our community. We believe in a vision of Oakland that supports all of it’s residents, whether they rent, own or live on the street,. We believe that one of the best ways to straddle our divides is to join in a meal together. This October, Nick and Aron’s will be adopting the Nick’s Pizza tradition of Community Meals, where we host all of our neighbors to have a meal together, get to know each other and form community.

OUR INTENTION IS TO KEEP OUR RESTAURANTS, EVENTS AND NEIGHBORHOODS FRIENDLY, CARING SPACES

Free pizza, salad and housemade beverages. Happy Hour prices on beer and wine!
Good community vibes, and waiting on DJ confirmation from a very  special name.

Inspired by Naomi Klein’s best-selling book, the film presents seven portraits of communities on the front lines of the climate crisis. With the UN’s Paris Climate Conference just coming up in just six weeks, this film is a call to action: to mobilize our movement and to organize for change, wherever we are.

Check out the trailer:

Films can be a powerful tool to scale up awareness, engagement, and action in the climate movement, so we really hope you can join your local screening. Bring a friend, (or several!) as movies can be a great entry point for folks not already in the climate movement.

Wed, Oct 21 Only!

Note: We are meeting at Zing’s Cafe at 5:30 instead of at the Omni at 6:30 this time to allow members to go to the Berkeley Police Review Commission Meeting at 7:00 PM to advocate that Berkeley opt out of participating in Urban Shield police militarization exercises.

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Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against Stingrays being acquired by Alameda County agencies, for various privacy ordinances to be passed by the Oakland City Council, against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, and State Governments. We are also engaged in the fight against Urban Shield, and Predictive Policing

OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network, and its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC.

Stop by and learn how you can help guard Oakland’s right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:

oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net

For more information on the DAC check out

• DAC FAQ
• Oakland Wiki Domain Awareness Page
• Oakland Privacy WordPress

The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agency’s elitist espionage program as its token black. After mastering agency tactics, however, he becomes disillusioned and drops out to train young Chicago blacks as “Freedom Fighters”. As a story of one man’s reaction to white ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.

The novel and the film also dramatize the CIA’s history of giving training to persons and/or groups who later utilize their specialized intelligence training against the agency – an example of “blowback”.

Doors open at 7 pm.FREE POPCORN FOREVER!

~Sponsored by Liberated Lens~

Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.

We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.

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.

THE SECRET OF THE SEVEN SISTERS,

Episodes 1 & 2  By Aljazeera TV

For a description of this film, see the website.

David Talbot, founder and former CEO of Salon.com, has written an explosive portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into a powerful, secretive and ruthless organization that changed world history and dragged America from democracy into the current national security state, militarily maintaining world dominance, with a government controlled by corporate power. This shocking history, “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America’s Secret Government” is thoroughly and convincingly indexed. KPFA manager Quincy McCoy will host this KPFA benefit.

advance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006  or Pegasus (3 sites), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s, S.F. – Modern Times.

After relentless actions, petitioning and calls, Shonda’s regional manager (Sal) sat down with the union and Shonda to discuss the terms of her return to work! Sal said the KFC management team met and decided the best move would be to offer Shonda her job back, and is set to return on Sunday with back-pay…

Community pickets!

Shonda Roberts, a dedicated original member of EBOC (for over 2 years) and the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly was unjustly terminated Saturday afternoon. She has an impeccable track record in her former place of employment, KFC/Pizza Hut on 2800 Telegraph Ave, with no write-ups and many loyal customers who consistently go back to the store just to see her. For over 3 years, Shonda has been the best employee in the store, she is experienced, hard working and most of all, her energy is illuminating.

More background.

Why: To demand that San Francisco’s most upwardly-mobile politician serve the City’s residents with the greatest needs, rather than the fewest.

Scott Wiener Roast

Weiner Roast 3. Scott is not on your side. Oct. 23rd, you can let him know how you feel. This type of protest will get his attention. Wear themed costumes, Les Miserables, weiner, peasant uprising with pitchforks and torches. Bring jokes.  Bring hotdogs, the fixings, and we may need additional grills. Small hibachi style or camping bbq.  An unknown number will be there and we want more than enough food. Homeless are coming, and the food won’t be wasted. Clothing optional. Spread the word.

We all know the shananigans Stupidvisor Scott Wiener pulls every day. His hatred of poor people especially the homeless is beyond belief. Well, for the third time we are going to go visit him to shout loudly:

• SF is not for sale
• End Homelessness Now
• Affordable Housing for All

Many of us have survived the shelter system and choose not to repeat that experience. Instead we camp on the sidewalks and other out of the way places. This conduct while necessary is prohibited from 7:00 AM until 11:00 PM by the SF Police Code. There are exceptions: most important is the one which deals with rallies, demonstrations, meetings and similar events.

Homeless Action Team is a self-advocacy network of homeless, unemployed and employed workers. We are an affinity group of First They Came for the Homeless our decision making process is autonomous.  We our Homeless not Helpless. We are demanding a Hand Up, Not a Handout. We promote self-reliance individually and collectively. We defend and serve our community under the terms of Mutual Aid and Voluntary Cooperation.

Our Demands:

1. Stop criminalizing homelessness  it only makes the problem worse.  Harassing homeless people for sitting or lying on sidewalks, depriving them of sleep, driving them out of parks that are their best available sanctuary makes it impossible for them to heal the damage done to their lives.
2. Allow homeless folks to take care of themselves.  With proper rest and even a minimal sense of security, homeless people will have a better chance of organizing their lives and of becoming self-sufficient.  As San Francisco provides shelter beds for less than 20% of its homeless population, urban camping areas must exist within the City limits as an alternative.
3. Create housing that the homeless can afford.  Salt Lake City has demonstrated that this is cheaper than hounding homeless folks like criminals and wasting money on emergency services that obviously don’t solve the problem of homelessness.

They left me in the room for 5 hours with my hands tied behind my back and legs tied to each other. When I refused to confess, they slapped me and tightened my hand ties even more.” – 15-year-old prisoner

Children and families in Silwan face constant violence—both physical and psychological. Illegal and armed settlers are taking over Palestinian homes and land. These settlers often harass and viciously attack Palestinians on the street. Meanwhile bulldozers carry out “administrative demolitions” which leave many homeless and threaten thousands more. And hundreds of people each year—including children as young as six and many, many teenagers—are arrested, beaten, and tortured by Israeli police.

Event includes:

Room Number 4 photo exhibit about violations of Palestinian children’s rights, accompanied by written testimonies from the children themselves

Presentation by Sahar Abbasi Baidon – direct from Palestine! Sahar is Deputy Director of Madaa Silwan Creative Center where she works with children who have been arrested, runs the women’s program and more. She is also a mother of four.

Scratchboard drawing used to create the wedding mural just painted at Shoruq Cultural Center in Dheisheh Refugee Camp – plus photos of Palestinian students creating tiles for the mural

Videos and photos of community murals painted in Silwan by US-based Art Forces & Madaa Silwan Creative Center –in response to Israel’s violent evictions and confiscation of land, house by house

Donation requested at the door, no one turned away. Benefit for the Madaa Silwan Creative Center, to raise funds for a staff psychologist to support the children and their families after the trauma of arrests, home demolitions and violence.

This event is a collaboration between Middle East Children’s Alliance & Art Forces

Cosponsored by Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Friends of Sabeel- North America, Jewish Voice for Peace/Bay Area, and more!

For info: www.mecaforpeace.org, 510-548-0542.

The KPFA Multi-Media team is holding a training/education event to help build our network for multi-media: live streaming, and use of social media to help build the KPFA streaming channel and also to help labor and community organizations build their own live streaming channels.

Help us expand KPFA and other news sources through interactive communication and get your events on the KPFA streaming channel. Get to know producers, streamers, and activists fighting for working people and immigrant rights, housing rights, against racist violence and environmental rights. The struggle against cuts in public services and privatization of education are issues that all working people need to see. We will also have presentations on how multi-media and streaming is being used to break the information blockade. Training and conference will be bi-lingual and streamed on KPFA web.

Bring your mobile devices for the  workshop because every device is a little different.
Pre-Registration Requested: Contact KPFAStream@gmail.com to register.

It’s Orion’s Birthday and their 5th Anniversary.  to open gate call gg 916 718 2105

Bring Acoustic Instruments and/or your voice.

ps Orion Sez ” We expect lotsa yaking singin , playing,and havin a good time gals bring drinks guys bring food or vice a versa LBGT    vice a versa too.NO barbeque

you may play gg/s uke and/or piano and my acoustic guitar.My Drum set will not be available .Orion/s Joy of Sextet Jazz and latin Jazz will not be playing at the Party since  they will be playing Sunday oct 25 5 to 7pm at Caffe Treiste 2400 san pablo Berk.

thanks for making the World amore peaceful and joyful Palace Orion 510 719 6429

Do you ever miss the delightful aroma of decomposing compost? Do you ever wonder what happened to that fragile vegetable start that you planted? Or that kindred spirit you met pulling bind weed?

Then come to reconnect, schmooze, eat and drink with old and new faces, past and current volunteers at the UC Gill Tract Community Farm Volunteer Appreciation Party!!!

This is our small token of appreciation to thank you for all your hard work in helping to grow and sustain this ground-breaking, amazing, and fruitful farm and community space!