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Oct
16
Wed
APTP Monthly Membership Meeting @ EastSide Arts Alliance
Oct 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The Anti Police-Terror Project meets the third Wednesday of every month.

August’s agenda will include an update on developments at Santa Rita jail and an active shooter response training.

In September we’re giving updates on our Police Commission campaign and about a local campaign to audit Sheriff Ahern; showing a short film about Dujuan Armstrong, who died in police custody at Santa Rita Jail earlier this year; and giving a quick update about our newly formed Sacramento chapter. Let us know if you can join us!

Join us to find out how you can get involved.
This space is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us for any additional accessibility questions or concerns.

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Townhall for Independent Oversight of Police @ EastSide Arts Alliance
Oct 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

RESCHEDULED FROM 10/9 to 106 BECAUSE OF POWER OUTAGE

DIFFERENT LOCATION!

SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TIME.

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Oct
17
Thu
Pushing Back on Misinformation: What’s needed to secure democracy
Oct 17 @ 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm

 

From your inbox to the ballot box, how do we keep misinformation from destroying democracy? A recent bipartisan Senate investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election confirmed that Russian agents used social media and other means to help the Trump campaign. Fake events, rampant misinformation, and other techniques were designed to sow discord and pit neighbor against neighbor. One group singled out in the report is African Americans, who were targets of the Russian agents. The Senate report recommends sweeping changes. Hear from Renee DiResta and Matt Mitchell on what’s required from Washington, DC, Silicon Valley and us to safeguard elections in 2020 and beyond.

 

Renée DiResta

Renée DiResta

Renée DiResta is a 2019 Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust. She investigates the spread of malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations, and has studied disinformation and computational propaganda in the context of pseudoscience conspiracies, terrorism, and state-sponsored information warfare.

Renée regularly writes and speaks about the role that tech platforms and curatorial algorithms play in the proliferation of disinformation and conspiracy theories. She is an Ideas contributor at Wired. Her tech industry writing, analysis, talks, and data visualizations have been featured or covered by numerous media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Politico, TechCrunch, Wired, Slate, Forbes, Buzzfeed, The Economist, Journal of Commerce, and more. She is a 2019 Truman National Security Project security fellow and a Council on Foreign Relations term member.

Renée is the author of The Hardware Startup: Building your Product, Business, and Brand, published by O’Reilly Media.

Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell is the Director of Digital Safety and Privacy at Tactical Tech. He is a hacker, security researcher, operational security trainer, developer and data journalist who founded and leads CryptoHarlem, impromptu workshops teaching basic cryptography tools to the predominantly African American community in upper Manhattan. Matt trains activists and journalists (as an independent trainer for Global Journalist Security) in digital security. His personal work focuses on marginalized, aggressively monitored, over-policed populations in the United States.

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Panel Discussion on San Francisco’s Facial Recognition Ban @ Glass Room Exhibition
Oct 17 @ 4:12 pm – 5:12 pm

As part of the Talks Program at The Glass Room, a panel discussion is being held about what the facial recognition ‘ban’ in SF really means for its citizens. We are bringing together activists from EFF, ACLU, Oakland Privacy and others to discuss the topic.
Some background info about The Glass Room and its talks program:
 The Glass Room will be open from October 16th til November 3rd, daily from 12pm-8pm, at 838 Market Street in downtown San Francisco.
The exhibits presented in the Glass Room provoke questions about who is actually building our technologies, their impact on the enviroment, their potential biases, and the impacts they are having on everything from dating to democracy. The exhibition takes the form of a pop-up tech store where nothing is actually for sale. Instead, visitors will find over 50 exhibits – ranging from readymades to animations to technical tools and unique, commissioned art works by artists such as Adam Harvey, James Bridle, Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mimi Onuoha, Tega Brain, and lots more.

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‘Hillbillly’ : Documentary @ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse
Oct 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Oct 17 7:00 pm in Piedmont; Nov. 3 12:30 pm in Oakland at The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, Oakland

Throughout American history, there has been an undeniable divide between urban and rural America. People from certain regions are viewed as “the other,” and blamed for America’s social ills. Since the 2016 presidential election, that cultural divide has only expanded and deepened. With their documentary Hillbilly, co-directors Ashley York and Sally Rubin – both natives of Appalachia- have made a complex film about complex people. Hillbilly is an entertaining, informative, and sobering look at Appalachia: its diversity, the consequences of stereotyping its people, and an examination of why so many there voted for Donald Trump.

Hillbilly goes on a personal and political journey into the heart of the Appalachian coalfields, exploring the role of media representation in the creation of the iconic American “hillbilly,” and examining the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of this infamous stereotype.

Hillbilly is a timely and urgent exploration of how we see and think about poverty and rural identity in contemporary America, offering a call for dialogue.

“I’m happy to see somebody trying to cover us as we really are and not what some people think we are. It’s wonderful the attention you’ve paid to so many areas that are so important to all of us. I’m proud to have been mentioned in the film a time or two.”
–Dolly Parton

Los Angeles Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Documentary.

6:30 pm reception
7:00 – 8:30 screening of film
8:30 – 9:00 facilitated community discussion

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Omni General Assembly @ Omni Commons
Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Come by our open Delegates Meetings! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

This meeting usually happens in the Ballroom, but the the location may change depending on the access needs of people attending and other events taking place in the building.

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Rapture, Grief, Beauty: Terry Tempest Williams introducing Erosion @ NorthBrae Community Church
Oct 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Terry Tempest Williams is a naturalist, an activist, and an introspective presence whose every word is authentic. Her new book explores the concept of erosion and its opposite, becoming, in the context of land, self, belief, and fear. She looks at the current state of American politics, implications of choices to gut wilderness and sacred lands, endangered species, drought, extraction, and contamination � aloong with transcendent moments of relief and refuge, solace and spirituality.
Rapture, Grief, Beauty:
Terry Tempest Williams introducing
Erosion
In conversation with Vijaya Nagarajan

Plenty of easy parking in church lot and on streets
Book sales and signing following event

Bundle your ticket with the new book generously discounted by Pegasus Books: $45 General Admission with hardcover book

Get tickets!
Don’t miss this opportunity to have your perspective transformed and your assumptions eroded.
We hope to see you there!

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Oct
18
Fri
Close 850 Bryant Now: Hearing at Board of Supervisors! @ Outside, then Inside, San Francisco City Hall
Oct 18 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

Join the effort to Close 850 Bryant and Build a Better San Francisco! Come to the hearing on Friday October 18th at 10:30am to hold our government accountable.

— Coffee and Comradery: Join us at 9:30am directly across from City Hall (Polk Side) in the Civic Center plaza to share in coffee, tea, and breakfast. Learn about the campaign and connect with other members of the coalition.
— Supervisors’ Hearing: Enter City Hall at 10:30am to make our presence seen and heard at the hearing. Please plan to share public comment. We will have talking points available.

In July we mobilized to demand swift action for the closure of the jail at 850 Bryant, and the Board of Supervisors heard our call, with Supervisors Matt Haney , Norman Yee, Hillary Ronen, Sandra Lee Fewer, Shamann Walton, Vallie Brown moving forward a public hearing on the issue. On October 18th the Sheriff and City Administrator are being called to this hearing to report on the City’s ability to Close the Jail at 850 Bryant. We believe that they will come with threats that in order to close the jail the City will have to resort to either building a new jail, over-crowding in the San Bruno jail, or transferring imprisoned people to Santa Rita in Alameda County. This is unacceptable! We refuse to be held hostage to these threats when the City has known of the seismic threat to the building since 1996. What’s more, in January of 2016 the City initiated a process to close the jail by reducing the jailed population size, yet the numbers of people caged at 850 Bryant have only increased since then!

Across the City, in government and community we agree that the jail at 850 Bryant must close. The difference is that we know San Francisco can do better for our communities!

• We demand that the jail close immediately. We cannot wait until the next earthquake hits.
• We demand no new jails, no transfers to other counties, no increased electronic monitoring.
• We can safely close the jail by July 2020. Decriminalize houselessness and quality of life charges and reduce the number of people held pre-trial.
• We can build lasting solutions. Invest in housing, mental health care, and voluntary substance use treatment.

The campaign is moving forward and building momentum with the newest supporters of closing 850 Bryant including the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, the SF Human Services Network of 110 SF service providers, the GLIDE foundation, and AFT 2121 City College Faculty Union! With a Board of Supervisors that has taken bold action to close the youth jail and create comprehensive mental health solutions we believe we can also shut down 850!

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OACC Movie Nights: Fall of the I-Hotel @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Oct 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join us for a screening of Curtis Choy’s 1983 documentary, “The Fall of the I-Hotel.”

After the Manongs labored to build America, their San Francisco Manilatown community is wiped out by urban renewal, and 50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International Hotel when it is slated for demolition in 1981. The film documents destruction of the last block of Manilatown on Kearny Street.

Narrated by late poet Al Robles, “The Fall of the I-Hotel” tells the story of dozens of seniors displaced by 300 cops in the dead of night, and the overall impacts of urban renewal.

Running time: 58 min.

Co-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Oakland Public Library.

RSVP here: https://oacc.liveimpact.org/li/8737/sevent/evt/home/127050/69

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Screening : The Advocate @ New Parkway Theater
Oct 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Prepare to be inspired. Screened at Sundance 2019, an unapologetic portrait of trailblazing Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented countless Palestinians since the 1970s as her life’s work whilst exposing the hypocrisy of Israel’s apartheid regime.

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Environmental Equity Summit & Concert @ Cornerstone
Oct 18 @ 7:00 pm – 11:30 pm

Adding Color to the Green Movement is the theme of the fourth annual Environmental Equity Summit, hosted by Hip Hop for Change in association with the Sierra Club, 350.org, Surfrider, and Baykeeper.

The summit elevates and amplifies the voice and power of people of color as leaders in the environmental justice movement. Participants will discuss the specific needs of vulnerable communities and steps to diversify the environmental movement. The aim is to foster collaboration between large environmental organizations and smaller grassroots environmental justice groups so the needs of underserved communities who are most impacted are better represented.

Performances by:
* Sol Development
* Locksmtih
* Triple Threat DJs (Apollo, ShortKut, and Vinroc)
* Ran the Vinyl Archeologist

Plus a panel of environmental justice thought leaders.

Free with RSVP

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Oct
19
Sat
Going Solar Workshop @ North Berkeley Library
Oct 19 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Learn about solar photovoltaic (PV) for your home. Understand the basics of solar PV, the economics benefits of going solar, the options you have and purchasing tips. Special focus will be on home owners with low electric bills averaging under $100/month (excluding EV usage)

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Human Billboard: Stop Family Separations! Asylum is a Right! @ Grand Lake Theater
Oct 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Asylum seekers caged at the border! Thousands more children separated from their families! Unrelenting inhumane conditions inside detention centers! Trump orders the end of the US asylum program except for people from Canada or Mexico and plans to send asylum seekers to El Salvador, one of the most dangerous places in the world!

Join us for a Human Billboard! We come together because we refuse to silently accept what is being done in our names. We are taking our outrage and grief out of our homes and into the streets and public spaces to demand an end to these atrocities. No human is illegal; no one deserves the treatment now imposed by our government for seeking asylum.

Funds will be raised at the event to support RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) in their mission to help separated families, detained families, unaccompanied minors and others who are seeking asylum in the United States.

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A conversation about the Adeline Community @ Pittman Library
Oct 19 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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Oct
20
Sun
Liberated Lens Video Production Training @ Omni Commons
Oct 20 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

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Feed the Hood Family Festival
Oct 20 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

We are taking a break from the traditional Feed the Hood bag lunch and hygiene kit distribution to prepare to go hard for our unhoused brothers and sisters for the winter. On October 20, 2019, join us for fun and community celebration at the Feed the Hood Family Festival. Learn more about how YOU can make impact in the lives of our unhoused brothers and sisters.

Bring essential items to donate to the large hygiene kit drive:

  • Soap
  • Lotion
  • deodorant
  • Feminine Hygiene supplies
  • toothbrush
  • toothpaste
  • toilet paper
  • baby or body wipes

Special ask for bags of dog food.

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Alternatives to Policing 6: Self- and Community Defense @ First Congregational Church of Oakland
Oct 20 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Part of our ongoing series of workshops designed to reduce our reliance on an increasingly militarized police force, this offering from Community Ready Corps (CRC) will cover basic principles and practices to help us keep ourselves and our communities safe.

What would you do if you found yourself in the middle of a violent situation? How can you safely get yourself and others out of that situation?

We will be asking for a voluntary donation to support the vital work of Community Ready Corps. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

CRC is a liberation organization that combats white supremacy and actively builds & supports self determination in disenfranchised communities. Their work focuses on nine areas:

Politics
Economics
Family
Health
Education
Art
Media
Traditions & Ways
Self Defense

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP SERIES

A growing coalition of organizations in the Bay Area is coming together to explore alternatives to calling the police to our campuses and into our neighborhoods. Over the coming year, we will be offering a series of workshops to explore alternatives to calling the police. Some of these workshops will provide deepening analysis and a grounding in alternative ways of thinking about community safety. Others, like this one, will provide practical skills. All of them will lift up a transformative justice framework and emphasize the importance of self care.

The Coalition includes First Congregational Church of Oakland, Kehilla Community Synagogue, Qal’bu Maryam, Jewish Voice for Peace, Skyline Community Church, Oakland Peace Center, Oakland LBGTQ Community Center, and the Omni Collective. We are eager to partner with additional organizations so please contact us if you are interested!

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Extinction Rebellion SF Bay October General Meeting @ South Berkeley Senior Center
Oct 20 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Join us to celebrate our action, get to know other rebels, and see how you can get further plugged in to the movement! Everyone is welcome.

Truth and science are on our side! See you in the streets.

Yours in Rebellion,
The XRSFBay Team

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Oct 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:

occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

 

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 for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. 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. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)

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 six years, since October 2011! 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

Welcome & Introductions
Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
Announcements
(Optional) Discussion Topic

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

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Oct
21
Mon
No Coal Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Oct 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Join the next regular meeting of the coalition working to keep coal out of all our cities in the Bay Area: Oakland, Richmond, Vallejo, and beyond. Hear updates on the work in progress. Find out how you can get involved in the action ahead.

Attendees are encouraged to bring snacks to share 🙂

More info on No Coal Alliance

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