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Dec
3
Sun
Liberated Lens Film Collective Meeting @ Omni Commons
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Dec 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Steward an Editing Suite
  • Share an equipment library
  • Teach each other and make films together
  • Host screenings with local filmmakers
  • Organize a short film festival

We have flexible rates for event videography, music videos, short documentaries, etc.

Anyone with an interest is welcome to attent.

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Dec
4
Mon
Halt the Trump Tax Heist @ UN Plaza
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Dec 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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Berkeley: Charters, Privatization and School Bankruptcies @ UAW 2865
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Dec 4 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
rocketship_computer.jpeg  Berkeley Forum-Charters, Privatization And School Bankruptcies
Charters, Privatizations and School Bankruptcies-How We Can Fight Back And Defend Public Education Now!

If door is locked call (415)282-1908

Charters are proliferating throughout California and the US. They are pushed by billionaires like the Bill Gates and his foundation, The Walton Family Foundation owned by the family that owns Walmart, The KIPP Foundation owned by the Fisher family which own the GAP corporation, the A’s and runs Rocketship Schools, The California Charters School Association CCSA which Netflix owner Reed Hastings runs, Facebook owner Zuckerberg’s Foundation which is setting up charters schools in the bay area and nationally.

These billionaires helped pass California charters school laws in 1992 and Prop 39 which forces public schools to co-locate breaking up public schools and relieves them of the Field Act to protect school kids health and safety.

Now LAUSD and OUSD may go bankrupt because billions of dollars (5) are being siphoned off from the public school systems. Also, these same profiteers are privatizing community colleges at CCSF and Laney where John L. Fisher owner of the A’s and the Gap who also runs KIPP want to take Laney land for his ball park and corporate land development plans.

This forum will have teachers, educators and advocates of public education who will report on the growing assault on public education and what we can do to fight back in the bay area, statewide, nationally and internationally.

Initial List of Speakers:
Kristyn Jones, UTR elected rep to NEA convention
Steve White, Teacher
Carlos Taboada, Retired UTR Teacher
Kimberly King, Peralta Federation of Teachers Executive Board Member and Laney Professor or a representative from Local

Sponsored by Labor Rising
Endorsed by Defend Public Education NOW!

For more information go to
https://www.facebook.com/laborrisingagainstrump
https://www.facebook.com/groups/defendpublicednow/

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Oscar Grant Committee Meeting @ Zoom Meeting
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Dec 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.

Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186

If you wish to get the password please subscribe to the Oscar Grant Committee mailing list by sending an email to:

The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.

In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.

We meet on the 1st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to

oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

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Dec
5
Tue
Action/Rally to #RepealCostaHawkins! Real Rent Control NOW @ SF City Hall (front steps)
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Dec 5 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Action & Rally to #RepealCostaHawkins & Demand #RealRentControl NOW

Meet-up at 11:30am on the front steps of SF’s City Hall
(please be on time; group will be leaving around 11:45 to a nearby location (walkable from City Hall). Follow us on Twitter @stopsfevictions for location updates.)

Tenants are taking action to demand an end to the evictions and rent gouging that are destroying their health, livelihoods and futures. Join them in the fight to close the loopholes in our rent-control laws that leave them unprotected or that incentivize speculators to force out long-time tenants in order to jack up prices to luxury/market rates. Our seniors, families, workers, children, disabled folks and vulnerable residents can’t wait any longer while greedy speclator landlords profit off their displacement.

*Costa Hawkins is the main state law that incentivizes landlords to harass and push out long-time tenants to spike the rents to rates most of us can’t afford.

This law legalizes a landlord’s ability to raise rents on vacant units…that is, when someone moves out, the landlord can jack up the rent, and when a master tenant moves out, subtenants are left unprotected. It also restricts rent controlled units in SF to units that were built on or before 1979 and does not allow for rent control on single family homes or condos. We need to repeal Costa Hawkins NOW!

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Berkeley City Council – Community Safety and Surveillance Regulation Ordinance @ Old Berkeley City Hall
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Dec 5 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

The Surveillance Regulation Ordinance that a coalition of groups, including Oakland Privacy, has been working on for a year and a half is finally up for consideration before the Berkeley City Council (agenda).

Support 23a and oppose 23b.

23a. Proposed Ordinance: Surveillance Technology Use and Community Safety
From: Police Review Commission
Recommendation: Adopt first reading of an Ordinance governing the approval, acquisition, and use of surveillance technology by the City of Berkeley.
Financial Implications: Staff time
Contact: Katherine Lee, Commission Secretary, 981-4950
23b. Companion Report: Proposed Ordinance: Surveillance Technology and Community Safety
From: City Manager
Recommendation: Refer this item to the City Council Agenda Committee for scheduling to return to the City Council no later than January 30, 2018 to allow additional time for City staff to resolve differences with the Police Review Commission’s recommendations or develop alternative recommendations for the City Council to consider.
Financial Implications: Staff time
Contact: Andrew Greenwood, Police, 981-5900 and David Brannigan, Fire, 981-34
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INDIGENOUS AUTONOMY: Convivial Tools Building a Common Roof @ Oakstop
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Dec 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

 

We will be hosting Ángel Kú and Valiana Aguilar, two compañeros from
the Center for Encounters and Intercultural Dialogues and the
Universidad de la Tierra, Oaxaca for a conversatorio on Indigenous
autonomy.

They will be traveling throughout California to share
information about Indigenous autonomy and community self-determination
across Mexico but especially in Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatán. They will
provide important updates about the current initiative of the Congreso
Nacional Indígena (CNI) and the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación
Nacional (EZLN), especially their effort to support the CNI’s Consejo
Indígena de Gobierno’s spokesperson, María de Jesús Patricio
Martínez, (Marichuy) and her effort to enter the national election as
an official candidate.

Finally, we will be informed about the current
autonomous efforts to rebuild communities impacted by the hurricane and
earthquake in Oaxaca’s Isthmus.

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Oakland City Council Public Safety – #DeportICE Legislation @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza
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Dec 5 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Update: The SEIU/IPTE strike has caused the cancellation of the 12-5 Public Safety Committee. New date (12-12) is tentative and will be confirmed as soon as possible.

Deport ICE: The Resolution To End Cooperation With ICE

On December 5th, Oakland’s Public Safety Committee will debate a resolution from Desley Brooks and Rebecca Kaplan to end all Oakland Police Department cooperation with ICE, after assistance in an August 16 raid violated the city’s sanctuary policy.

Video Samples from the November 28 hearing on the ICE Raid
https://oaklandprivacy.org/2017/11/29/oakland-turns-out-for-long-delayed-ice-raid-hearing/

On August 16, HSI/ICE conducted an AM raid on the 700th block of 27th Street in West Oakland with OPD assistance. The raid was advertised (erroneously) as a search warrant for the sexual trafficking of juveniles, biut there were no actual allegations of sexual abuse, no juveniles were removed from the home and the solitary arrest was for being undocumented. The 25 year old arrestee is now in the deportation process. At an October 5th investigation and hearing that the OPD Chief did not attend, Oakland’s Privacy Commission concluded that the raid violated Oakland’s sanctuary city policy and several statements made by OPD chief Anne Kirkpatrick about the raid were false.

Video of the OPAC hearing is here. https://oaklandprivacy.org/2017/10/06/privacy-advisory-commission-investigation-of-oakland-ice-raid-concludes-violation-of-sanctuary-city-policy/

East Bay Express coverage is here:
https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/oakland-police-chief-made-false-statements-about-ice-raid/Content?oid=9793923

City Council members Desley Brooks and Rebecca Kaplan have now initiated legislation to end the sanctuary loophole but need our help to get it through the full Council.

Oaklanders and other Bay Area residents who want sanctuary legislation taken seriously around the Bay should attend.

Much else also of interest on the agenda for activists keeping tabs on OPD, Urban Shield and ICE.

https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=574689&GUID=4AFF07E1-1E60-4C10-8516-7C380353658B&Options=info&Search=

  • Bay Area Urban Area Security Initiative Program MOU
  • Fiscal Year 2017 Urban Area Security Initiative Program Grant Agreement
  • OPD Crime Analysis Software Contracts
  • Regarding The HSI/ICE Raid In West Oakland On August 16, 2017
  • Resolution Clarifying And Reaffirming Policy On Non-Cooperation With ICE
  • Overtime Expenditures In The Police And Fire Departments For FY 2017-18

 

NOTE: THERE IS SOME POSSIBILITY THIS MEETING WILL BE CANCELLED DUE TO OAKLAND CITY WORKERS GOING OUT ON STRIKE.

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Know Your Options Workshop: Opiate Overdose First Response @ Qilombo
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Dec 5 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
“POLICING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE”

Because policing fails to meet people’s needs, and puts people in danger of arrest, imprisonment, and/or even death, we must eliminate connections between policing and healthcare.

Critical Resistance Oakland and The Oakland Power Projects present: The “Know Your Options: Opiate Overdose First Response” workshop

This workshop is designed to increase people’s understanding of how policing, incarceration and gentrification drive health inequalities manifest as chronic illnesses and to empower folks who live with them to access the care they need with minimal contact with law enforcement. The workshop ends with the problem of substance use and specific training on responding to and reversing drug overdoses.

The “Know Your Options” workshop series aims to increase people’s access to the healthcare they need and to decrease people’s contact with law enforcement. Workshops are facilitated by healthcare workers and community organizers.

Please enable accessibility to the space and come fragrance free.

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No Coal in Richmond Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
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Dec 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Only three ports in the state of California still export dirty coal, and one of them, the Levin-Richmond Coal Terminal, is right here in the Bay Area on the Richmond waterfront.  Our goal:  Take Richmond off that list.

Join the Sierra Club Bay Chapter, 350 Bay Area, Sunflower Alliance and community residents at a meeting to discuss ideas and strategies for stopping coal exports through the Bay Area.   We’ll have a few updates, then break into groups to start planning different paths forward.  Betsey Noth, a researcher at UC Berkeley who is setting up monitoring stations around Richmond, will be there to speak as well.   Help Move the Bay Area Beyond Coal!

 

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Dec
6
Wed
Reform BAAQMD (Air Quality) Permitting Rules @ First Floor Hearing Room
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Dec 6 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

This is a big one!  For the first time in many years, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) will be considering revisions to their permitting process.   The Air District’s past permitting record indicates a very bad habit of rubber stamping projects that endanger community health and destabilize the climate.  Can that behavior be reformed?

Unfortunately, the Air District is once again using AB 398—the recently passed cap and trade extension bill—to argue that it is prohibited from any direct regulation of CO2 emissions.  Although the bill specifically restricts Air Districts from taking actions that produce CO2reductions, BAAQMD legal staff insists that this also prohibits them from preventing future emission increases.

As a result, staff’s proposed improvements to current permitting rules, Rules 2-X,  intentionally do nothing to control future CO2 emissions.  The result is that dangerous projects—like the proposed expansion of crude-by-ship into the Phillips 66 marina at the Rodeo refinery—will continue to be rubber stamped.  The “improvements” fail to prevent the increased emissions that inevitably follow from changes to dirtier, more GHG- and toxics- emitting crude sources.

Staff is using the same interpretation of AB 398 to argue that Rule 12-16, the proposed refinery emissions cap, can no longer be considered.

Please join us on Wednesday, December 6th, to demand permitting rules and refinery emission caps that truly prevent increased future emission of carbon dioxide and toxic co-pollutants.  We must have Rule 12-16 back on the BAAQMD agenda where it  belongs. Talking points will be provided before the meeting.

 

 

Thanks to 350Bay Area and Jed Holtzman for this excellent analysis of the Proposed Changes to the Permits Regulations.  

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ELLA BAKER CENTER END OF YEAR CELEBRATION! @ Fruitvale San Antonio Senior Center’s Multi-Purpose Room
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Dec 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join our end of the year celebration! We will celebrate our 2017 victories and plan for our state level campaigns in the year ahead! Can’t wait to see you there.

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Fingerprints on a Hunger Strike: Launch For Tony Robles’ New Book on the Frisco 5 @ The Green Arcade
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Dec 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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San Francisco Arts Commission award-winning poet Tony Robles focuses on the Frisco Five’s hunger strike held in April and May 2016 in front of the Valencia Street cop shop, protesting police killings.

Robles also speaks of incarceration with a unique eye within the lens that is Frisco. The continuing displacement and neglect of elderly and low-income residents in the face of property development build another topic of concern, emerging from the poet’s great love of San Francisco and all its inhabitants.

Kim Shuck, the current Poet Laureate of the City, maintains that “Robles does the work on the streets and on the pages” while he “speaks of the city as a relative with a life-threatening illness: with love and anger.” Tony’s first book is Cool Don’t Live Here Anymore.

Jackie Ramos — Poetess. Actress. Educator. Urban Health Researcher. Truth Liberator. Born and raised in Frisco.

Equipto — Frisco Five Hunger Striker. A member of Bored Stiff, a hip hop group from San Francisco. He has collaborated with other artists such as Andre Nickatina, Berner. Just completed the “California Harvest Tour” of the Midwest and South.

Ben Bac Sierra — Author of Barrio Bushido, English Professor at City College of San Francisco and a Renaissance Homeboy whose poetry and community work honors Frisco.

Tiny — Tiny (aka Lisa Gray–Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, PO’ Poet, spoken word artist, welfareQUEEN, lecturer, mixed race mama of Tiburcio and daughter of Dee and the co–founder and executive director of POOR Magazine/PoorNewsNetwork.

SaicoXskitS are members of a Tagalog English rap group called KASAMAS. Currently working together as a duo on an album that talks about Filipino Immigrants and migrants story and linking it back home. Saico and Skits are also community organizers in the South of Market whose work focuses on youth and tenants.

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On Being American: Khizr Khan in Conversation with May Elawar @ Glide Memorial Church ( Use Taylor Street entrance)
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Dec 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
sm_khan-khzir-raw-fw17.jpg Last July, Khizr Khan captivated the nation with his speech at the Democratic National Convention in which he criticized Donald Trump for his stance against immigrants and Muslims.

He spoke as the father of a Muslim US soldier killed in combat about what it means to dedicate your life to the promise of the American dream, inspiring a renewed patriotism and pride in the hearts of many Americans. His six-minute speech became a powerful cultural touchstone when he pulled a pocket-size copy of the Constitution out of his suit jacket and asked Donald Trump directly “Let me ask you: have you even read the United States Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy.”

In his memoir, An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice, he tells the story of his family’s pursuit of the American dream and why—especially in these tumultuous times—we must not be afraid to step forward for what we believe in when it matters most. An American Family is an intensely personal story about the nature of true patriotism in which Khzir traces his remarkable journey from humble beginnings on a poultry farm in Pakistan, to obtaining a degree from Harvard Law School, and raising a family in America. He shows what it means to leave the limitations of one’s country behind for the best values and promises of another. He also tells the story of his middle child, US Army Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed while protecting his base camp in Iraq, and the ways in which undying pride in their son and his sacrifice have helped him and his wife endure the deepest despair a parent can know.

CIIS Public Programs and GLIDE Center for Social Justice invite you to this important and inspiring discussion with Khizr Khan and May Elawar about what an American looks like, what being a nation of immigrants really means, and what it is to live, rather than simply to pay lip service to, our ideals.

We have a Buy One Get One Free Sale when you reserve two seats and two copies of Khizr Khan’s memoir to help make this event more accessible and encourage book sales. Sale ends Monday Dec 4th at 12PM.

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Sudo Room (Hackerspace) Weekly PARTY! – Potluck! @ Sudo Room, Omni Commons
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Dec 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice.

Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish!

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Dec
7
Thu
CANCELLED: Protest outside Verizon store against the rollback of net neutrality protections Emeryville. @ Emeryville’s Verizon store.
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Dec 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

THIS EVENT HAS APPARENTLY BEEN CANCELLED.

Protest outside Verizon store against the rollback of net neutrality protections.

Host:
Joseph Liesner

Protest outside Verizon store against the rollback of net neutrality protections.

Join other Team Internet members at the protest. Internet users outraged by top Verizon lawyer turned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to gut net neutrality are planning to protest at Verizon retail stores across the country on Thursday, December 7th, one week before an expected vote at the FCC. Protesters will make it clear to members of Congress that the time is now to stand for net neutrality, not Verizon’s bottom line. And please remember, this event is about protesting actions of Verizon executives, lobbyists and their supporters in Washington, not the employees at these stores.

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Protest the Ongoing Attempted Murder of Net Neutrality @ Verizon
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Dec 7 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The new chairman of the FCC was a top guy at Verizon, and he just called a vote to kill net neutrality. On December 7, one week before the vote, we’ll protest at retail stores across the U.S. and demand that Congress stop Verizon’s FCC from destroying the Internet as we know it.

And please remember, this event is about protesting actions of Verizon executives, lobbyists and their supporters in Washington, not the employees at these stores. Please treat them with nothing but the utmost respect.

RSVP

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Bay Area Rally Against the Libyan Slave Trade! @ Oscar Grant Plaza
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Dec 7 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

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Protest against the rollback of net neutrality protections – Berkeley @ Verizon Store
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Dec 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Join other Team Internet members at the protest. Internet users outraged by top Verizon lawyer turned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to gut net neutrality are planning to protest across the country on Thursday, December 7th, one week before an expected vote at the FCC. Protesters will make it clear to members of Congress that the time is now to stand for net neutrality, not Verizon’s bottom line. And please remember, this event is about protesting actions of Verizon executives, lobbyists and their supporters in Washington, not the employees at these stores.

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Vigil / Town Hall for SFPD Shooting Victim Keita O’Neil @ True Hope of God in Christ Church
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Dec 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

We were just informed that SFPD changed their townhall on the police killing of Keita O’Neill to 6:00 pm. (was formerly scheduled for 1 pm). Please join us at the townhall, instead of the vigil, to demand justice. Keita O’Neil was a young Black man who was shot and killed by #SFPD on December 1 after a police chase at Griffith St and Fitzgerald Ave.

He was unarmed.

We offer our deep sympathy to his family and loved ones.

We are still trying to reach out to both his family and to witnesses of the events leading to his death. If you have information, please contact APTP either by direct message to our Facebook page or by email to aptpinfo atgmail.com

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