Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social half hour at 7:00 pm, followed by the films at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the films.
DOUBLE FEATURE
First Film
LOOK UP! A SOCIAL ACTION DOCUMENTARY
By George Barnes
Second Film
GEOENGINEERING DANGERS DICUSSED BY OFFICIALS,
AGENCY SCIENTISTS, AND OTHER EXPERTS.
by Dane Wigington
For a description of this film, see the website at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daGuPLXVunQ
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
Unions and Grassroots Groups to Unite for 2016 Oakland Elections
Oakland Justice Coalition to Support Three Key Ballot Measures on Housing, Police and Workers’ Rights
Oakland — This Thursday the Oakland Justice Coalition will launch their effort to support progressive ballot initiatives and candidates in 2016, uniting a diverse coalition of groups around shared priorities. The Coalition will outline their plan to achieve huge wins for three key 2016 ballot measures through collaboration and solidarity across struggles.
WHO: The Oakland Justice Coalition includes the National Union of Healthcare Workers, the Oakland Education Association, the Anti Police-Terror Project, Block by Block Organizing Network, the Coalition for Police Accountability, the Community Democracy Project, the Oakland Green Party, the Oakland Alliance, the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly, the Oakland Tenants Union and Socialist Alternative.
WHAT: A rally and press conference to launch the Oakland Justice Coalition, with visuals of diverse and unexpected groups waving signs and coming together
Farm workers and allies from Familias Unidas por la Justicia union in the state of Washington have launched a west coast tour to share their stories about Injustice in the Sakuma Berry’s strawberry fields, and the important role we can all play in advancing the struggle by boycotting Driscolls. Join them at PLACE for Sustainable Living this Thursday at 12 to learn how to support the boycott of Driscolls berries.
* Join the Boycott *
Here are some resources from Familias Unidas por la Justicia: http://
* Other tour stops in the East Bay *
https://www.facebook.com/
5-7pm Monday March 28, 2016 at the Center for Latino Policy and Research, 2420 Bowditch Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720
tentatively, 2-330 pm Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at the Multicultural Community Center, on the UC Berkeley campus.
TBD, April 13th at UC Gill Tract Community Farm
On December 2nd, 26-year-old Mario Woods was murdered execution style by 5 police officers who discharged 40 rounds, hitting Mario 20+ times. Chief Suhr stnds by this racist murder and refuses to hold his officers accountable.
Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition will be holding a Townhall meeting at Joseph Lee Gym in the Bayview.
Our purpose is to show the community the original footage of the murder of Our Brother Our Son Mario Woods.
We will share with the community our demands:
*Fire Chief Suhr or he resigns
*The cops who murdered Mario Woods be charged with murder
*Independent investigation that is defined by us.
We will also be giving updates on the Coalition and you will have an opportunity to meet coalition members and better yet also have the opportunity to join the movement for Justice.
We can’t Stop We won’t Stop
Until Justice reigns down on our community.
If you believe in Justice or if you are willing to fight for Justice then we will see you there.
Can’t wait to meet you.
Power to the People
Refreshments served.
Justice4MarioWoods Coalition
Local Premier: One Night Only! Reserve tickets before March 13th to make this screening happen.
Calling for people to put down their guns and pick up shovels, these “gangster gardeners” are creating an oasis in one of the most notorious places in America.
Online only, no tickets available at the theater.
Facebook.com/CanYouDigThisFilm
@CanYouDigThisFilm #plantsomeshit
We recognize that crucifixion is not a thing of the past–that God’s children all over the world are still being brutalized and killed because they draw attention to an unjust status quo, sometimes by their actions and often simply because of who they are. From Oakland to Ferguson to Honduras, the crucifixion continues. (And Christianity has been complicit in much of it.)
The cross is not first and foremost a religious symbol; it is a symbol of state-sponsored and state-sanctioned terror.
In the New Jim Crow America, the Body of Christ is Black. In the past year alone, seven Black people have been killed by police in Oakland, and scores of Black families have been forced to leave the city through skyrocketing rents and rapid influx of wealth and whiteness. Join us for a powerful Good Friday public liturgy and action to call on our local officials to end the crucifixion of Black life in our city.
We will gather Friday, March 25, at noon in front of Oakland City Hall.
Our demands are as follows:
1) Lay down your weapons! Take immediate steps to demilitarize the Oakland Police Department.
2) Adopt the proposal from the Coalition on Police Accountability for an elected community police review board to hold the OPD accountable to the people.
3) Work with Alameda County to find ways to decouple the District Attorney from OPD so that officers will be held legally accountabie for their actions.
4) Immediately cut OPD funding and reallocate those funds to affordable housing and health care for low income people.
We humbly welcome all people, regardless of faith tradition, to stand in solidarity at this event.
Hashtags for the event:
#TheCrucifixionContinues
#RememberingIsRevolutionary
#TheBodyofChristIsBlack
| … making caregiving central redirects economic and social policies towards survival, health and well-being – for every individual and for the planet which sustains us all. It puts caregiving at the center so that the economy is at the service of human beings, not human beings at the service of the economy. This would transform all social and political decisions – economic growth, the length of the working day, technology, war…. |
London-based Selma James is an internationally known speaker, author & organizer. Founder of the Wages for Housework Campaign, author Sex, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning.
For the fourth year Kenneth Harding Jr Foundation will represent San Francisco for FTP weekend, this year Kiss My Black Arts collective will be co-hosting. More details to come please check the event website. KHJF will donate coats and is asking for community help to provide lunches, other food and hygiene products.
BE THERE THIS SATURDAY — TEAM ASSIGNMENTS, TRAINING!
WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS! Thousands of qualified voter signatures are required to put our Charter Amendment on the NOVEMBER BALLOT!
BRING A FRIEND.
TIME IS SHORT! We have only four weeks to gather thousands of VALID SIGNATURES.
PETITIONS are being printed.
We have petitions! Come to the Firemans Hall, 2027 Clement at 2:30 for training and start collecting signatures! #Stabilize Alameda!
— Alameda Renters (@Alameda_Renters) March 25, 2016
JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: MASS COPWATCHING
· Friday March 11, 8 PM – 11 PM
· Thursday March 17, 5 PM – 7 PM
· Saturday March 26, 8 PM – 11 PM
Since October 2015, Berkeley Copwatch has been holding “mass copwatch” events that invite folks to join us for a shift. It’s been fun and very empowering to have a group of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people.
This month we have three shifts scheduled. The Thursday shift will likely be a walking shift. Please join us; we will train you in the essentials of copwatching, how to document and how to stay safe!
Contact us at (510) 548-0425 or berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com to learn where we will be meeting.
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Creech Air Force Base (“Creech” colloq.) is a United States Air Force (USAF) command and control facility used “to engage in daily Overseas Contingency Operations[7]…of remotely piloted aircraft systems which fly missions across the globe.”[8] In addition to an airport, the military installation has the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Battlelab,[9] associated aerial warfare ground equipment, and unmanned aerial vehicles of the type used in Afghanistan and Iraq
2 Vans headed to SHUT DOWN CREECH: Leaving from East Bay, funded by National CODEPINK Make Reservations now please!
In memory of Pirate Mike, founder of Occupy Veterans San Francisco, member of Veterans For Peace, I urge any and all of his able bodied comrades, to JOIN us either in one of the vans or drive yourself and bring friends! We rode our bikes there last year…. I plan to be there this year! FIRST VAN: Leaves on Sunday March 27 (Almost full), HOT NEWS: http://emilyyatesdoeseverything.com/ |
Militarization of Mental Health and the Berkeley Police
Case Study of the Death of Kayla Moore presented by Maria Moore (Sister to Kayla)
In February of 2013, BPD forcibly entered the home of Kayla Moore, an African American transgender woman with mental illness. In this all-too-familar story, a friend called police for help at 11:30pm when he thought Kayla was having a mental health crisis. Once police arrived, they attempted to forcibly take Kayla Moore into custody. Face down on a futon with five cops on top of her, Kayla died. Her case has amplified the calls for fundamental change in the way that we attend to the safety of our citizens who experience mental health crisis. Maria Moore will share her experience of what happened before and after Kayla’s passing and the lessons and reflections from her family’s struggle for justice and healing.
OccupyForum // We had a last-minute cancellation, but we will meet, program will be a surprise (to us all!)
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Q&A and Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum
to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away!
RightsCon is the world’s leading conference convened on the future of the internet. This year will see a bigger, brighter, and better RightsCon, more dynamic and outcome-oriented than ever before. Join us to shape the global conversation among human rights experts, business leaders, technologists, human rights experts, government representatives, investors, and advocates.
The janitorial industry has gone off the rails with economic exploitation, wage theft, harassment, and abuse.
25 years ago, janitors broke the silence to clean up the industruct. In 2016, we’re breaking the silence again to stop the sexual assault of immigrant women. We fight in the streets and at the bargaining table to stand up against economic exploitation.
On Cesar Chavez Day, immigrant women janitors are joining immigrant women farm workers to say !Ya Basta! and put a stop to the rampant exploitation and sexual assault of immigrant women workers.
Join us to honor the legacy of fighting for immigrant workers that was led by the United Farm Workers and its leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
Why is fracking still allowed in our county? What can we do to ban it once and for all?
Join Alameda County Against Fracking for a free film screening of Dear Governor Brown, a game-changing new film about Californians living with extreme oil. Learn how you can play a crucial role in banning fracking and extreme oil extraction in Alameda county, and how a victory here will turn the tide on California’s toxic past, present, and future.
Film followed by discussion.
Val Rosenfeld and Flor Fortunati present their book: “Voices of the Undocumented”
Voices of the Undocumented brings to life the lives of people who have been forced to live in the shadows of this society because they have no legal status. These stories give a glimpse into the reality of the lives of the 11 million people who work and struggle to live in the U.S. who are subjected to deportation and exploitation. Nine immigrants tell their stories about their lives in Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala before coming here and about their lives once they arrive. Some tell of arduous journeys, walking through the desert to cross the border while hiding from the U.S. Border Patrol. Some came with visas and overstayed their time limits. Some left their children behind in their countries – children they have not seen for years. Their stories are based on interviews done by Val Rosenfeld, an English as a Second Language teacher and Flor Fortunati, a volunteer at the Day Worker Center of Mountain View, California.
From the heartbreaking story of Salvador (an illiterate Mexican farm worker who entered the U.S. illegally four times), to Ernesto (an educated Peruvian womanizer), to the amazing accomplishments of Rocío (a graduate of a prestigious university), Voices of the Undocumented relates poignant accounts of the undocumented workers’ lives.