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https://www.change.org/p/drop-the-charges-support-kpfa-staff-independent-journalist-frank-sterling/u/30374303

Update: New Court Date April 25th at 8:30 am Contra Costa Superior Court

There is no indication yet that Contra Costa DA Diana Becton is willing to drop the charges of resisting arrest against Frank Sterling. We would like to let Frank’s supporters know that the court date has been changed to April 25th, 2022 and we will hold a brief rally outside of the courthouse to show our support. We will also go inside to pack the courtroom.

The DA needs to be aware that the community supports Frank Sterling who was exercising his First Amendment right to protest against outgoing Chief of Police Chauncey Brooks. Brooks was resigning as Chief of the Antoich Police Department to become the Deputy Chief of Police of Boise Idaho amidst controversy over how he handled the cases of police violence especially the case of the police killing of Angela Quinto. Frank is an independent journalist and KPFA staff, Director of the Apprenticeship program.

DROP THE CHARGES! Support KPFA staff & Independent journalist Frank Sterling!

On September 17th 2021, KPFA staff member and journalist Frank Sterling was attacked by police while covering a demonstration in Antioch. He was tackled, held down, tasered, and his recording equipment taken. Compounding the injustice, Frank has been charged with resisting arrest.

Frank is Technical Director of KPFA’s Apprenticeship Program; a contributor to Friday evening’s Full Circle show; and a staff representative to the KPFA Local Station Board. Frank is part of the Bay Area’s Native American community, active in exposing police brutality and denouncing police killings and has already endured a previous attack by the Antioch police.

Take action: Sign this petition. Call Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton’s office at 925-957-2200 or tweet at @DADianaBecton and demand the dismissal of charges.

Email the DA at DAOffice@contracostada.org. Please use Subject heading:Drop the Charges.

The DA ran on criminal justice reform. We are asking she uphold her promise. We must end the criminalization of protest and of independent journalists covering these events.

For more information:
Report by Black Agenda Report contributing editor Ann Garrison: https://blackagendareport.com/activist-journalist-frank-sterling-trial

Longshoremen and teachers are united to strike against the privatization of Oakland

Please spread this far and wide to encourage everybody to participate. Begin the fightback vs the billionaires

https://tinyurl.com/7dfvez5e

The billionaires are after our public resources here in the City of
Oakland. The Oakland School Board has recently voted to close 11
public schools, despite overwhelming opposition from the
community. School closures disproportionately harm
communities of color. They are part of a long-term plan by
corporations to destroy public education – selling them off to real
estate developers or converting them into charter schools.
Oakland does not have “too many schools,” as the district says.
Oakland has too many charter schools!

Meanwhile, the City of Oakland is planning to spend $855 million in
taxpayer money to construct a new A’s stadium and condo complex at Howard Terminal, which is crucial to the port of Oakland. These privatization schemes are part of the gentrification of Oakland – attacking working-class communities, destroying union jobs, and displacing
low-income residents of the Bay Area

We must come together and fight back! This year May Day
(International Workers Day) falls on a Sunday, so our
action will be two days earlier, on April 29. The ILWU
Local 10 has informed the port that they will be having
a stop work day on this day in support of Oakland
teachers.

APRIL 29 Port Shutdown! School Shutdown!
2pm – Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza / City Hall
3pm – March to 1000 Broadway

WOMEN’S MARCH: NATIONWIDE CALL TO ACTION for ABORTION RIGHTS

Let’s be clear: Abortion is health care

That’s why in light of the dire news that SCOTUS has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, we’re showing up for abortion rights.

We’re horrified, saddened, and livid. If you are too, then now is the time to show up and show them our movement won’t back down from protecting our reproductive rights.

Show up at your courthouses, federal buildings or town square to say bans off our bodies and demand elected officials take action before SCOTUS overturns Roe.

Bring your families, your signs, your stories, your heart, and your commitment to
save Roe and access to safe & legal abortion for all who need it.

🚨 RALLY TO DEFEND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS!

Join Bay Area union members, elected leaders, Planned Parenthood, La Familia Community Clinic, and more in an emergency rally.

⏰ WHEN: Today, 5pm

📍 WHERE: In front of Ronald V. Dellums Oakland Federal Building (1301 Clay St, Oakland) pic.twitter.com/qjlGJz4NnF

— IFPTE Local 21 (@IFPTE21) May 3, 2022

Join our patner @CURBprisons and the #CloseCAPrisons community in Sacramento next week for the May Revise Budget Press Conference and Rally. We demand that legislators and Governor Newsom close at least 8 more prisons by 2025. RSVP if you can make it https://t.co/zaTJm9cQuX pic.twitter.com/XHmdXMbk6E

— SURJ Bay Area (@surjbayarea) May 3, 2022

Each year in early May, Governor Newsom releases the May Revise budget after receiving input from state government bodies and community members. While the 2022-23 proposed budget (released in January) contained many positive investments, it also allocated $18.6 billion to corrections and included no plans to close more prisons in California, despite historically low, downward trending prison populations

It’s time for Governor Gavin Newsom and elected officials to do what’s right and commit to a smart plan to close prisons in California, like The People’s Plan for Prison Closure, that demands at least 10 prisons be closed by 2025. A serious plan for prison closure must include deep investments in prison towns to move them toward new, healthy economies, as well as toward healthcare, education, reentry services, and housing for  justice impacted families communities.

We are showing up outside the California State Capitol on May 11th to demand Governor Newsom close at least 8 prisons by 2025 and adopt a final budget that reflects the values and needs of ALL Californians by investing in communities NOT prisons and policing.

When: Wednesday, May 11th at 9AM (Register To Receive Important Updates)

JOIN US THIS THURSDAY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TO OPPOSE "A Place for All"

A Place for All = A Place for Nobody. Without housing, shelter is a dead end, with no shelter turnover and no empty beds for those on the streets. pic.twitter.com/ShwNCy0pmC

— Coalition on Homelessness (@TheCoalitionSF) May 10, 2022

The Supreme Court stands poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established the right of women to abortion.  Forced motherhood is female enslavement.  When women are not free, no one is free.

Our only way forward and our best way forward is to resist.  NOW is the time to rouse thousands and soon millions in struggle so that we can look every woman and girl in the eye with the promise in word and deed that they will have a future as full human beings.  NOW  is the time to stand up, together, as if our lives depend upon it – for, in fact, they do.

Wear & DISPLAY #GREEN4Abortion

Green is the color worn by millions of women in Argentina, Colombia, and other countries to express their fierce determination to legalize abortion. We are inspired by their example!  Wear green and display green everywhere � on campuses, on the job, on public trannsport, on social media.

PLANET PEOPLE PEACE

before profit!

On Saturday, May 14th, a self proclaimed white supremacist drove 200 miles to the predominantly Black town of Buffalo, NY and shot 13 people. 10 died. As Black people in this country continue to experience anti-Blackness via violent white supremacy in the streets and by the state – we must continue to hold, heal, love, fight for and defend one another. Join APTP and allies for a vigil, healing circle and prayers.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-chevron-day-tickets-330052785767

TONIGHT, join us at the press conference –https://t.co/kjyhOA0hlI pic.twitter.com/iZIyk0WrO4

— Cheryl Davila (@CherylKDavila) May 24, 2022

We need all allies on deck to join us for a rally next Wednesday at 12pm on the steps of City Hall as we urge @LondonBreed & BOS to prioritize the necessary & needed funding to get CART implemented!
Bring a sign (we will have some extras), a friend, & your voices!#getCARTrolling pic.twitter.com/8dslIQ4s1f

— Compassionate Alternative Response Team – SF (@CART_SF) May 20, 2022

We must honor those who have been killed due to the violent police state in this country so please come out to Westborough Park in San Francisco this Sunday at 1 pm to celebrate the life legacy of Derrick Gaines, as well as raise funds for his memorial. pic.twitter.com/QzRxvoB0H0

— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) June 3, 2022

RALLY AND SPEAKOUT
TELL CHANCELLOR CHRIST: HANDS OFF PEOPLE’S PARK!

People’s Park Council is hosting a rally and speakout for groups and individuals who oppose UCB’s plan to destroy People’s Park. DEMAND OPEN SPACE!

The situation is increasingly urgent as UC administration and the City of Berkeley make plans to suppress community opposition to the impending invasion of People’s Park. Tensions are rising as deadlines and rumors of deadlines circulate through the park. The placement of large dumpsters in the park; the opening of the new Rodeway Inn specifically for the residents of People’s Park and anecdotal accounts of police warning campers that it is “illegal” to trespass, all indicate that the UC will attempt to take the park soon. Despite the fact that just this week the park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, decades after it was named a City of Berkeley Landmark, UC is amassing its forces to attempt take People’s Park once and for all.

Our opposition is to the construction of ANY housing on People’s Park no matter who it is for. While the pandemic emergency required that we use public places to respond to an emergency, People’s Park is meant to be a place for all people. We all need open space and a place to be.

For the sake of the climate, for our health which depends on green spaces and trees for good air quality, for the sake of our mental health, and for the sake of our children who by nature need to have open space to explore and grow. For the sake of our history and the movement that not only built People’s Park, but also made Berkeley known internationally. We must prevent needless desecration of that sacred space. The University community and administration need to honor our rich tradition of resistance and let People’s Park remain as a community park.

Our history AND our future depend on People’s Park.

WHO: People’s Park Council
WHAT: Rally and Speakout

More information: www.peoplespark.org

June 9 in Sacramento: End the Gas Car Era

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) must step up for climate action. Join a climate justice rally outside the June 9th CARB hearing to push the Board to do the right thing and speed the transition to 100% electric vehicles. CARB’s latest clean cars proposal allows huge numbers of new dirty, gas-burning cars to be sold after 2030 and fails to ensure equitable EV access for low-income communities of color. We can’t achieve equity without a stronger 2030 sales target and mandatory provisions that support communities hit first and worst by high gas prices, tailpipe pollution and the climate crisis.

The rally will feature powerful speakers, chants, and performance art to show our collective power as we pressure CARB to take the urgent action needed. Following the rally, supporters will be encouraged to bring our policy demands inside the hearing and make public comments.

Event co-hosts include the Center for Biological Diversity, Let’s Green California, 350 Sacramento, Climate Center, Oil & Gas Action Network, Extinction Rebellion SF Bay, 350 Bay Area, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, 350 Silicon Valley, Climate Hawks Vote, Plug in America, and California Interfaith Power & Light.

Ready to rally in Sacramento? RSVP at this link.

We need a fight!

As we await Decision Day (Day X) that will more than likely overturn 50 years of legalized abortion in the US, we continue to see the Democratic Party establishment do nothing serious to fight back against this assault on bodily autonomy. Working people across the country are wringing their hands while Democratic lawmakers sit on theirs. On May 25, our comrades in New York led a sit-in at Chuck Schumer’s office calling out the gross inaction of the Democrats and demanding an immediate end to the filibuster and the codification of Roe v. Wade into law.

Here in the Bay Area, we have been planning a demonstration of our own at Nancy Pelosi’s office in San Francisco, with a similar message – we have not surrendered in this crucial fight, and we deserve leaders who won’t give up either! Baring white flags sprawled with our message of “No Surrender,” we will be calling on Speaker Pelosi to take action and end the filibuster, codify Roe, expand the Supreme Court, literally anything serious, to protect abortion rights.

Sign our petition: Democrats, No More Excuses!

We are rallying at the U.S. Supreme Court to stop reversal of Roe v. Wade. Join us!

NASW is the largest individual membership organization of social workers in the world.
The NASW organization advocates for policies that support individuals, families
and communities.

NASW supports Roe v. Wade. Join us at the U.S. Supreme Court to help us support reproductive rights for all.

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/naswsocialworkers/