For all people heading to Standing Rock, come get trained and prepared to be an effective water protector and stand in solidarity with indigenous people defending their land. This training will also be useful for folks organizing local direct actions in the Bay Area in solidarity with Standing Rock, and otherwise. All are invited to attend. While folks are invited to come for any part of the training or for the entire thing, we ask everyone coming to please make it a point to be there if at all possible for the 10am-12pm piece on walking with humility and respect when working with indigenous communities.

Connect with other people heading to Standing Rock from the Bay Area. Keep up to date with this page for caravans to Standing Rock from the Bay Area being planned. Learn Direct Action and Civil Disobedience Basics, Medical Supporters Training and Group Health, Legal and Know Your Rights, Security Culture, Tech and Communications Security, and Best Practices for Working Alongside Indigenous People with Humility and Respect.

We will gather from 10am-6pm on Ohlone land at PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland located at 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608 (64th off San Pablo). See the schedule below for a breakdown of the day.

***Schedule***

10-10:15am: Welcome and Intro to Day’s Schedule and Topics w/ Permaculture Action Network

10:15-10:45am: Report Back on Standing Rock, Situation on the Ground, and Brief History of Dakota Access Pipeline and Indigenous Resistance to it w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz, Camille Seaman, and Richie Beltran

10:45-12pm: How To Work Alongside Indigenous Communities w Humility and Respect w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz, Camille Seaman, and Richie Beltran

12-12:15pm: Light Lunch and Potluck Spread

12:15-2:00pm: Direct Action and Civil Disobedience w. Krystof Lopaur

2:15pm-3:15pm: Medical Supporters Training and Group Health w. MASH Clinic, Timber, and Amani William

3:15-4:30pm: Tech and Communications Security w. Lisha Sterling (Geeks Without Bounds) remote from Standing Rock, Bill Budington (EFF), Jen Helsby (Freedom of the Press, tentative), Scott LaMorte (May First) and Jenny Ryan (Sudo Room / Peoples Open Network)

4:30pm: Legal and Know Your Rights w. John Viola, Ben Rosenfeld, and Gabriela Lopez

5:30pm: Transport Networking and Caravan Debrief w. Ryan Rising and Kammer Moss (Permaculture Action Network)

6pm: Closing

We’ll be posting an extended outline of the training curriculum soon. To get in touch, please write to us at Contact (A) PermacultureAction.org

Hotline Training

Hotline Training

This will be non-violent direct action training.
This training will take participants through the strategies and tools used in non-violent direct action. It will include a legal briefing and an overall plan for #NoDAPL and Keystone XL responses.

This training will be an important place to get plugged into for the DAPL and KXL solidarity.

For more information, email diablorisingtide@riseup.net

Do you think internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate monopoly?

Come on over to the Omni Commons to learn about the history of the internet, how it works, and how to build your own. Meet and mingle with civic hackers and organizers behind peoplesopen.net: an open, community-based network in the East Bay.

Agenda:
* 1:00pm – Why/what/how of the internet (< 30 minutes)
* 1:30pm – Snack, mingle, share and experiment
* 2:00pm – Hands-on workshop with a variety of learning stations

Donations for pizza and internet are enthusiastically accepted ; )

The Omni Commons’ ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift in the Entrance Hall, where there is also located a wheelchair-accessible single-stall bathroom.

The Peoples Open Network enables anyone to share their Internet connection or extend signal from neighboring nodes. Learn more atpeoplesopen.net.

The Omni Commons is a 100% volunteer-run space for community organizing, collaboration, and creative production located in North Oakland. Learn more at omnicommons.org.

Don’t miss free ‘Science Talk @Cal‘ conference 4/22 w/ #BayArea reporters/experts on food, water & climate change: https://t.co/shSA5gaH5V pic.twitter.com/1ZvN6oCw3M

— UC Berkeley J-School (@ucbsoj) March 7, 2017

Today’s political environment bears witness to unprecedented attacks on truth, science, and our planet. This Earth Day, April 22nd, we march to affirm that:

– public funding for scientific research is a social good
– climate change is real
– environmental abuses are human rights abuses
– scientific truths are not subject to political manipulation
– scientists MUST engage with government to support these truths

Bring your lab coats! Bring your rally signs! We gather together to defend our planet and our institutions through civic engagement and sustained political action at local, state, and federal levels.

RESIST!

Please note: This event is in the evening, so it will be possible to support both this march and other marches for science in San Francisco or Sacramento, or to participate in UC Berkeley’s Cal Day. We support ALL efforts to promote Earth rights and science literacy on this important day, and we want all to have the opportunity to fully participate!

Tomorrow (Sunday 4/30) at 5:00 PM in Vallejo at 545 Magazine St. pic.twitter.com/PljvQSIwT5

— dr. hoopoe (@thehoopoe) April 29, 2017

The first in a series of monthly classes that include Zapatista history, projects and thinking and discussion of how the Zapatista experience has relevance to those of us outside of Chiapas and Mexico. Classes are open to all those interested in learning about the Zapatista movement, which governs its own territory through a government parallel to that of the Mexican State. We’re also serving waffles and coffee to welcome participants.

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict for the officer who shot and killed our son, Philando Castile, on July 6, 2016. Join us to voice our intolerance for this injustice on Saturday June 17th.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, SHARE THIS EVENT NOW! 🚨

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict made by the jury members in Minnesota this past week. The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile, while his wife and daughter were present, IS GUILTY.

There is no debate, and there is no justification for murdering an innocent man. Oakland wishes to stand in solidarity with Philando’s family, and we wish to voice our intolerance for police terror NOW. There is no time to wait–the system has and continues to fail black folks in Amerikkka.

RALLY: 6:00 PM
MARCH: 7:30 PM

Bring signs, drums, any materials to make your voice heard. THE BAY AREA STANDS WITH PHILANDO CASTILE AND HIS FAMILY. WE WILL FIGHT AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR BLACK LIVES.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

Living Graveyard (monthly protest)

Covered with sheets to represent the dead of wars, people lie down on the city sidewalk in front of the Federal Building, This is legal, non-violent witness.  People stop, look and think. (Bring your own sheet)

Iraqi Deaths 2,973,613
U.S. Deaths 4,520   Coalition 4,841

Syrian Deaths, unknown
 
Afghan Deaths 30,000+
U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan 2,399  Coalition 3,535

Pakistani Deaths over 1,000 from drone attacks

Sponsor: Ecumenical Peace Institute www.epicalc.org
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Rally today at Alameda Co. BOS Budget meeting 12:30-1:30pm to demand the promised jobs for formerly incarcerated people.#JobsForJustice https://t.co/PpNlKp9uCM

— LSPC (@LSPC_) June 28, 2017

Demo against SFPD police brutality of young SF queers following Pride:
FRIDAY JUNE 30TH, 2PM, MISSION POLICE STATION, 630 VALENCIA ST. #ftp pic.twitter.com/wlpRf0GgOR

— AntiDisplacementCoup (@AsterZephyrIsis) June 29, 2017

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

The second in our series of Second Saturday Skillshares. This month we are sharing skillz related to lockpicking, locksmithing and using bolt cutters. Come get some hands-on experience with these ninja skills! Additionally, we will be talking about other methods of gaining entry, bypassing security, etc.

ALL INFORMATION IS SHARED FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES ONLY!!!!!

Donations are collected to support East Bay Homes not Jails and the Omni Commons

July 11 we head to city hall and demand land so we can create villages.

We created an effective, immediate, humane and dignified solution that addressed the housing and homeless state of emergency. we cant wait for the city’s slow, money driven bureaucratic process. folks need homes and services NOW! not 5 years from now. the monies and programs the city is FINALLY putting towards low income and no income housing won’t house folks immediately.

but #TheVillage can house folks NOW until the city has secured permanent #HomesForAll.

There are 6,000 folks without homes in oakland. that number will continue to grow unless the city acts like we are in a state of emergency and allows the community to enact our creative and effective solution.

Our displaced residents on the streets want land to build a village for folks in recovery. we want land for a harm reduction village. we want land for a village for families with children and homeless youth. we want land for a lgbtq village. we want land for a village of elders. we want land for a village for women.

please share far and wide.

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members this and every Friday to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER! We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.

Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

July 15th Nationwide Protests – Rally at UN Plaza then March to the Mission

To all who agonize and rage at what’s being done to the people, protest and demand:

THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America!

Only the people acting together in the streets and public square can force this demand before the world. Should we fail to do so, the future and values we aspire to could be brutally cut short by the actions of the Trump/Pence regime.

The Trump/Pence government has been step by step criminalizing dissent and bludgeoning the truth with worse to come. Stripping away basic rights and the rule of law is at the core of fascism. Group after group is demonized and targeted along a trajectory leading to real horrors. We must not let this be normalized. History has shown that fascism must be stopped before it becomes too late.

July 15th must be a day when every person, every group –religious, community, service, political organization – all who feel the tremendous threat to humanity posed by the Trump/Pence regime – stand together showing the world that people here are determined that this regime must go …not in two years or four, but now.

On July 15, with conviction and courage, overcoming fear and uncertainty, we will act together to resist and say NO!… Not for ourselves alone, but in the name of humanity.

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