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Nov
29
Thu
Unions play a contradictory role in advancing a progressive agenda, and nowhere is this more true than in electoral politics.
Despite decades worth of betrayals by the Democratic Party, unions are the party’s most loyal foot soldiers and some of its biggest donors — even for candidates that are tepid at best when it comes to working-class issues. When the politician who fought harder for the working class than anyone we’ve seen in our lifetimes, Bernie Sanders, sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, almost the entire labor movement lined up behind his corporate-funded opponent Hillary Clinton. The same has been true for other candidates backed by the Left since Sanders, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cynthia Nixon. While some progressive unions supported Jovanka Beckles — a democratic socialist and champion of unions and the working class — in her 2018 campaign against billionaire-funded, centrist Democrat Buffy Wicks, many other unions backed Wicks.
Why does labor seem to make these wrongheaded decisions over and over? And how should socialists respond to them? Join East Bay DSA and Jacobin editor Micah Uetricht for a discussion on how socialists should approach unions and electoral politics.
Micah Uetricht is based in Chicago and is the managing editor of Jacobin. He is the author of Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity and is currently working on a book about socialism and Bernie Sanders. He writes frequently about the US labor movement.
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“Imprisoning a Generation” is a documentary film which follows the stories of four young Palestinians who have been detained and imprisoned under the Israeli military system. Their perspectives, along with the voices of their families, form a lens into the entangled structures of oppression that expand well beyond the prison walls. (50 minutes, Produced & Directed by Zelda Edmunds). Screened at the 2018 US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Conference. November 29 is also the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Join Us! Following the film, MECA Director Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch and film director Zelda Edmunds will give a brief update about Palestinian children being detained under house arrest and take questions.
TICKETS:
Benefit for MECA programs in Palestine & Lebanon. Wheelchair accessible.
For info: http://www.mecaforpeace.org.
https://www.facebook.com/events/184730162442385/?active_tab=about
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Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses Social! This will now be an ****after party**** for the event “Unions, Politics, and Socialism” earlier in the evening. Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2236804029868932/
Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!
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Nov
30
Fri
In her first work of literary nonfiction, HAPA TALES AND OTHER LIES, Sharon H. Chang explores her Asian American and Mixed Race identity through the prism of returning to Hawai’i as a tourist. But what begins as a journey to discover herself turns into much more as she learns the true history of the islands, Hawai’i’s Indigenous children, and the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.
Please join author Sharon H. Chang for a special Oakland Chinatown event celebrating her new memoir, co-hosted by EastwindBooks Berkeley. The evening will include reading and discussion with Sharon and NoCal writers Asha Sudra, Wei Ming Dariotis, Nia McAllister and Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd.
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Revolution Books is screening this 2007 film at this time to celebrate the spirit of the Iranian people and stand with them against the new severe sanctions on Iran imposed by Trump.
Based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The film traces Satrapi’s growth from child to rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran. Marjane grows up in a family of left-wing activist intellectuals who, after the CIA coup against Mossaddegh, opposed the brutal Shah’s dictatorship & participate in the 1979 revolution, but are soon are targeted under the rule of the mullahs.
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Dec
1
Sat
Oakland teachers are fighting to end the teacher retention crisis and provide a great education for all our students. We’ve been working without a contract for 1.5 years, and since the Oakland Unified School District is refusing to meaningfully engage with our demands, we are preparing for a possible strike in early 2019.
Join Oakland teachers for our first neighborhood canvass to get the word out about our contract fight, and to give community members the opportunity to show their support. We’ll be going door to door with our support signs for people to post in their windows, and having conversations about all that’s at stake in this fight for the future of public education in our city.
MEET OUTSIDE OF THE GRAND LAKE THEATER AT 2PM! We will provide training, materials, water, and snacks.
Oakland knows that teacher working conditions are student learning conditions, and that our kids, teachers, staff, and families deserve more. Let’s give them the opportunity to show it!
We are fighting for a public education system that puts students first, and in order to win, we need our community to fight alongside us. OUSD spends extravagantly on consultants and administrators in their central office; yet when we say we need smaller class sizes, more student support, and a living wage for educators, they say the funding just isn’t there.
Join us in getting the word out and building support for our fight for the schools that Oakland students deserve!
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Dec 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Peace and Freedom Party presents
After the 2018 Midterms: What’s changed, what hasn’t.
We have invited some knowledgeable comrades to lead our discussion of whether and how the recent elections have impacted our struggles in various areas, including foreign policy, immigration, gender relations, jobs, education, human rights, and more. Confirmed speakers include Gary Hicks, CP-USA and CCDS, Gene Ruyle, Veterans for Peace, PFP Gerald Smith, Oscar Grant Committee, PFP Tom Gallagher, Progressive Democrats of America; SF-DSA Stan Woods, will moderate for the Peace and Freedom Party.
This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30 pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk afterwards. The opinions expressed are those of the speakers and do not reflect official views of the Peace and Freedom Party.
The Peace and Freedom Party, born from the civil rights and
anti-war movements of the 1960s, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism, racial equality, and internationalism.
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org
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Dec 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
How We Get Free features three leading activist-scholars who will come together in conversation about Black Feminism past and present. The speakers, each coming from a unique radical tradition, will combine their own research and experience with the history of past movements to explore questions around race, gender, class, and ultimately, liberation. What is the role of elections? Of #BlackLivesMatter? Of Trump? How should we be organizing today for our collective liberation?
Our speakers are Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Alicia Garza and Zoe Samudzi. How We Get Free takes place Saturday, December 1 at 7pm at First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St, Oakland, CA 94612. The event is sponsored by the Fifth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair (being held Sunday, Dec. 2 from 10-6 at CCSF, 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA) and the International Socialist Organization. A donation of $5 – $10 is requested and any proceeds will go toward the Zinn Book Fair and ISO.
In the last several years, Black feminism has reemerged as the analytical framework for the activists response to the oppression of trans women of color, the fight for reproductive rights, and of course, the movement against police abuse and violence. The most visible organizations and activists connected to the Black Lives Matter movement speak openly about how Black feminism shapes their politics and strategies today.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s book, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective explores the history of the Combahee River Collective, a trailblazing 1960s-70s group of radical black feminists through interviews with the groups founders. Her research examines race, housing, and public policy.
Alicia Garza is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and the special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) which strives to get better pay and working conditions for nannies and housekeepers. She also serves on the board of directors for the School of Liberation and Unity (SOUL) in Oakland. This school works to help underprivileged youth and people with low-income develop skills so they can improve their communities. Garza is also on the board of directors of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), another Oakland organization which helps black activists further develop their organizing skills. Garza is one of the activists interview in Taylor’s How We Get Free.
Zoe Samudzi is a co-author of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation and doctoral student in medical sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed. Her writing has been featured in The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue, Black Girl Dangerous, and Bitch Media, among others.
Also featuring poetry readings by fiction writer and poet Idrissa Simmonds.
If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.
—Combahee River Collective Statement
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Dec
2
Sun
The Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of people’s history, past, present and future. We gather together authors, zinesters, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. The Howard Zinn Book Fair is a non-sectarian left event that welcomes a wide variety of political traditions left traditions.
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Dec
3
Mon
_At the moment that elected officials are entering the Capitol for the
first day of the legislative session, we will convene to testify and
demand that the Legislature address the needs of the people and the
planet._
_The Northern California Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for
Moral Revival will be joined by the Campaign to End Child Poverty in
California and the Lifting Children Out of Poverty Task Force for the
press conference._
* PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY AT 10AM- 10:45AM featuring speakers from
Northern California (North Steps)
* PUBLIC HEARING FOLLOWS INSIDE THE CAPITOL AT 11: 00AM-12:30PM.
Testimony will lift the voices of the poor and disenfranchised, along
with faith and community leaders.
Join Northern Californians (Redding, Chico, Davis, Sacramento,
Stockton, Fresno, Merced, Auburn, San Francisco, Marysville, and Oakland
and other areas) to share testimony and demand that our elected
officials act to fight systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation,
the war economy/militarism and our nation’s distorted moral narrative.
TO RSVP AND REGISTER PLEASE VISIT:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-california-poor-peoples-campaigns-rally-public-hearing-tickets-51914542795Page
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Seth Tobocman – co-founder of World War 3 Illustrated magazine and author of “You Don’t have to fuck people over to survive” – an influential propagandist for squatting, anti-capitalism and anti- war movements.
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Dec
4
Tue
Dec 4 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join @CaDebtJustice next Tuesday December 4 and speak directly to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors about the impact of court & reentry fees on your life and your community #DebtFreeJustice
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Dec 4 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association present a discussion on strategies for moving towards a post-capitalist health-care system.
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Dec
5
Wed
Help celebrate the launch of a new people-powered economy with a HUGE party. The Sustainable Economies Law Center will be celebrating the debut of two groundbreaking cooperatives: the People Power Solar Cooperative and the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. These will engage everyday people – like YOU – to co-own, develop, and steward our community’s critical assets: permanently renewable energy and affordable real estate.
Come hear about the tireless work building energy democracy through People Power Solar Cooperative, with the assistance of a team of dedicated and visionary attorneys.
Enjoy a night of food, drinks, and a special program unveiling the cooperatives. It’s going to be a blast. Come have a good time and support a great cause.
Get your tickets here! Each ticket includes free dinner (featuring Sariwa Kitchen) and free drinks.
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Dec
6
Thu
Join us as we lift up our community members who have lived and died on our streets.
Welcome by SMC’s new Executive Director Sharon Cornu
Opening Remarks by Pastor Monica J. Cross, First Christian Church of Oakland
Guest speaker: David Modersbach, Alameda County Healthcare for the Homeless
Homelessness is not a crime. It is a symptom of systemic poverty demanding diverse grassroots solutions.
Martin v. Boise – WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAY!
RSVP to Janny Castillo
jcastillo@stmaryscenter.org
510 923-9600 x 234
www.stmaryscenter.org
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Dec 6 @ 11:00 am – 11:30 am
@AROCBayArea @mdbarba @kintarasu @AmalKPIX
— Tariq Eid (@cityboy_tariq) December 6, 2018
Join us for a press conference at 11am Thursday, December 6 in front of San Francisco City Hall: Eid family and attorney, Dan Siegel, will be announcing the filing of federal lawsuit against @SFPD for the murder of 21 year old Palestinian Muslim, Jehad Eid. @APTPaction https://t.co/JwDsW5OAnr
— AROC (@AROCBayArea) December 6, 2018
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3 anti-fascist activists are facing serious charges from the June 26, 2016 Nazi shutdown in #Sacramento. Come have their backs and show up to support them at their pre-trial hearing on Thursday 12/6 @ 1:30pm. See Antifa Sacramento’s event for more info: https://t.co/XaabtP6fXZ pic.twitter.com/660r23qX1q
— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) December 1, 2018
Three antifascist activists are facing serious charges for defending our city against neo-Nazis two and a half years ago. We’re calling on our community to come out to their pretrial hearing and show support for these brave individuals. It’s up to us to make it clear that we stand with them!
We will be meeting at the courthouse and attending their court appearance. Come in casual, formal, or semi-formal attire and be prepared to go through a metal detector. Avoid arriving or leaving alone, and leave the area as soon as the court appearance is over. This is a critical way to show your solidarity and be a presence for activists being unfairly targeted by the state.
About the court case:
On June 26th, 2016, members of the neo-Nazi gang the Golden State Skinheads attempted to rally at the State Capitol here in Sacramento. Hundreds of counter-protesters mobilized and successfully shut down the Nazi rally. After the rally was canceled, the neo-Nazis attacked demonstrators with knives and clubs, stabbing and critically injuring several. Since then, one neo-Nazi has been arrested and three anti-racist activists are facing charges. After several cancellations and continuations, this is the final court date before our comrades are put on trial. So far, our community has come out to each court date to support them. This is their most important court appearance until the trial, so it’s urgent that we show up in numbers and make our support known!
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Dec 6 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Agenda:
4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action
5. 5:35pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OFD – Discuss with staff existing equipment capabilities, report and policy drafting sequence
6. 5:50pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – Discuss with OPD annual reporting metrics
7. 6:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Body Worn Camera Anticipated Impact Report and draft Use Policy – review and take possible action
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Dec 6 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Celebrate 25 years of Zapatismo by watching a love story that takes you to the heart of the Zapatista resistance.
The Chiapas Support Committee presents:
CORAZÓN DEL TIEMPO | HEART OF TIME
BENEFIT SCREENING
For the Zapatista Middle School Project
Corazón del Tiempo (Heart of Time) is a film about love in the time of Zapatista Resistance. When Sonia, a Zapatista civilian supporter, falls in love with Julio, an insurgente (rebel soldier), a problem arises because she is already engaged to Miguel, a young community leader. The film shows how the community deals with this romantic dilemma. 90 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles. Film starts at 7:30pm.
Tamales, Aguas Frescas, and Zapatista crafts available for purchase.
Zapatista artesanía (crafts) make great holiday gifts!
All proceeds benefit the Zapatista Middle School Project –
https://chiapas-support.org/2018/10/31/donate-to-decolonize-education-for-indigenous-zapatista-children/)
The Omni strives to be a low/no-scent space. We request that out of respect for people with environmental illnesses, that attendees please not wear fragrance or scented products. This includes clothing that has been laundered with fragranced detergent or softening products. We appreciate your efforts to make this event accessible to those with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. As the Omni is an old building, there may be dust and mold, although no mold has been visibly detected in the ballroom. More info on the Omni’s low-scent policy here: https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Accessibility
The Omni Ballroom is wheelchair accessible through the corner entrance and then via wheelchair lift and swinging double doors. Please note that this wheelchair lift is NOT user-operated. You will need another person to help you get up and down. The entrance hall bathroom is wheelchair accessible.
Food and beverage details (ingredients) to be announced.
For more information contact the Chiapas Support Committee
enapoyo1994@yahoo.com or visit www.chiapas-support.org
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Dec
8
Sat
The East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest is back at the Omni Commons in Oakland.
We are introducing a Zine Store at EBABZ Fest this year. Drop off your zines and let EBABZ Fest volunteers manage your sales. Apply here:
http://bit.ly/ebabzstore2018
Workshops:
12:00 – 1:15 PM: Writing From the Margins: Creativity & Embodiment for Artists of Color with Fatima Nasiyr
https://www.facebook.com/events/2025491594197387/
1:30 – 2:45 PM: Mixed Media Sticker Making with Rafael Tapia III
https://www.facebook.com/events/196382107933370/
3:00 – 4:15 PM: Letterpress Basics with Kristi Holohan
https://www.facebook.com/events/580478732409174/
After Party:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1916456818469234/
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