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 *
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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
We encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting.
Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its intention to enact an outright ban on coal exports. In fact, it passed a moratorium on the issuance of any permits for the terminal until the question has been resolved. Read details on the latest developmemts here.
(And for more background, see A Coaltastrophe Threatens Oakland on this website.)
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.
KPFA Community Input Meeting
Join the KPFA Community Advisory Board for a lively exchange among KPFA programmers, staff, activists, writers, artists, musicians and listeners from throughout the KPFA signal range. This is an opportunity to share conversations and proposals about how KPFA 94.1 FM and kpfa.org can address the issues that you and your organizations care about. Topics from past meetings have included coverage of escalating political, social, housing and racial injustice, economic and environmental issues, and representation of alternative culture.
The Community Advisory Board wants to hear your ideas about:
* what issues you want covered on KPFA
* suggestions for news, arts and cultural affairs, and other programming
* station operations, governance, priorities, policies etc…
* diversity, racial equality and KPFA’s mission
* how the station relates to communities in its Bay-Area-wide signal range
* what role you and others can play in supporting KPFA
* how you’d like to be involved with the station
* KPFA’s use of live streaming, podcasts, social media and new technologies
We welcome your topic suggestions, community literature and participation in small and large groups. This meeting is free to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Through this meeting the KPFA Community Advisory Board gathers information to give to the KPFA Local Station Board and management as we help to strengthen our KPFA and Pacifica community network. For more information or to send written feedback about KPFA email cab.kpfa@gmail.com
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/ |
Join us to learn about fossil fuel resistance and climate justice action in our region. We welcome your participation and your voice!
On Sunday, March 27, we’ll continue an exciting discussion on current and upcoming campaigns in Contra Costa County to counter fossil fuel industry expansion and develop local clean energy resources. How can the Sunflower Alliance contribute to county-wide organizing?
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting.
Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly
held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city should run. They decide the city budget.
Democratic, community budgeting is a powerful step toward building strong communities, real democracy, and economic justice–and it’s being done all over the world.
The budget of the City Oakland totals more than $1 billion per year. Although part of the budget must be used for specific purposes, still over half of the budget–over $500 billion per year–consists of general purpose funds paid by the taxes, fees, and fines of the people of Oakland. The Mayor and the City Council decide the city budget, with minimal input from the community.
Working together, we will not only get a seat at the table–we will REBUILD the table itself. Participatory democracy is real democracy–join us to say: Local People, Local Resources, Local Power!
Liberated Lens is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, and organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops.
Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop!
We usually meet in our editing suite (2nd floor in the ballroom, to the left of the stage) and then work on projects. It’s open to all!
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!
Meetings held Mondays at 7:00 PM
Excepting Monday March 7, when we will meet at 8:15 PM. Come one, come all!
VOLUNTEER NOW!!!
If you would like to go out on Copwatch shifts, work in our office, create art, become a Know Your Rights Trainer or help us out in other ways, WE NEED YOU! Send us an e-mail, subscribe to our email list, call our office or just come to our weekly meetings on Mondays, 2022 Blake Street, Berkeley or our weekly office hours on Wednesdays from 6:00pm – 8:00pm.
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