Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer.

Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more.

Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to

• save endangered wildlife,
• protect frontline communities, and
• raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions.

IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22

• Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley
• Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm
• Films: 7 pm
• Ticket includes on-demand access to full program for one week —  April 22 – 29

VIRTUAL-LIVE FESTIVAL, APRIL 22 – 29

with live chat:

• Virtual doors & chat: 6:30 PM
• Films: 7 PM
• Full program on-demand: 7 – 10 PM

Tickets $15 – $25
$5 discount for Sunflower Alliance! Discount code WSFFSFA

Info on films and and showings and ticket purchase here.

Hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby and community partners including Sunflower Alliance

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

The founder of the Internet Archive speaks with the President of The New York Public Library about the changing roles of libraries in the digital age.

In 1996 a young computer scientist named Brewster Kahle dreamed of building a “Library of Everything” for the digital age. A library containing all the published works of humankind, free to the public, built to last the ages. He created the Internet Archive and its mission: to provide everyone with universal access to all knowledge. “The goal of the Internet Archive,” Kahle has written, “is to create a permanent memory for the Web that can be leveraged to make a new Global Mind.” In the intervening years, libraries have evolved, expanded, and adapted to thrive in the digital age.

Where do these two stories intersect? How have our understandings about the meaning and value of archives, libraries, and access undergone seismic shifts in the past 25 years? Tony Marx, the President of The New York Public Library, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle discuss.

To join in-person | Please be sure to register for an In-Person Ticket. Doors will open around 6:15 PM. For free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.

To join the livestream | A livestream of this event will be available on the NYPL event page. To receive an email reminder shortly in advance of the event, please be sure to register!

Livestream | Captions and a transcript will be provided. Media used over the course of the conversation will be accompanied by alt text and/or audio description. You can request a free ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation by emailing your request at least two weeks in advance of the event: email accessibility@nypl.org or use this Gmail template.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Brewster Kahle is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world. Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker. In 1989, Kahle created the Internet’s first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), later selling the company to AOL. In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 99 unique petabytes of data—the books, Web pages, music, television, and software of our cultural heritage, working with more than 950 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.

Anthony W. Marx is President of The New York Public Library, the nation’s largest library system, with 88 neighborhood libraries and four scholarly research centers. Since joining NYPL in 2011, Marx has strengthened the Library’s role as an essential provider of educational resources and opportunities for all ages. Under his leadership, the Library has created new early literacy and after-school programs for children and teens, dramatically increased free English language classes and citizenship support for immigrants, and improved services for scholars and students who rely on the Library’s world-renowned research collections. Under Marx, the Library has also become a national leader on bridging the digital divide through its efforts to increase access to e-books, expand computer classes and coding training, and a groundbreaking program that provides home internet access to families of low-income students. Before joining the Library, Marx served as president of Amherst College from 2003 to 2011, during which time he tripled enrollment for low-income students. Before Amherst, Marx was a political science professor and director of undergraduate studies at Columbia University. Marx has a BA from Yale, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a PhD, also from Princeton.

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Please submit all press inquiries to Sara Beth Joren at least 48 hours before the event: email sarabethjoren@nypl.org or use this Gmail template.

For all other questions and inquiries, please email publicprograms@nypl.org or use this Gmail template.

Since a federal judge struck down the nationwide mask mandate, people all over the country have been talking about the need to #MaskUpInTravel.

Join SDA on Monday, April 25 at 5pm PST at #Masks4Equity: A Town Hall & Teach-in, Register here: https://t.co/knmznf4XvO pic.twitter.com/f5NcXdkumz

— Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Vice Mayor (@Kaplan4Oakland) April 24, 2022

Join a panel of faculty members in UC Berkeley’s new “cluster in climate equity and environmental justice” for a multidisciplinary perspective on the growing crisis of climate displacement — in person, livestreamed, and later on demand.

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer.

Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more.

Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to

• save endangered wildlife,
• protect frontline communities, and
• raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions.

IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22

• Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley
• Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm
• Films: 7 pm
• Ticket includes on-demand access to full program for one week —  April 22 – 29

VIRTUAL-LIVE FESTIVAL, APRIL 22 – 29

with live chat:

• Virtual doors & chat: 6:30 PM
• Films: 7 PM
• Full program on-demand: 7 – 10 PM

Tickets $15 – $25
$5 discount for Sunflower Alliance! Discount code WSFFSFA

Info on films and and showings and ticket purchase here.

Hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby and community partners including Sunflower Alliance

On TUESDAY, April 26th, join us for a Conversation on College Affordability and Black Student Debt. Seriously, you won't want to miss this!

RSVP: https://t.co/lfEZ8BpoJs pic.twitter.com/hBZWdqsVar

— The Debt Collective (@StrikeDebt) April 22, 2022

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer.

Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more.

Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to

• save endangered wildlife,
• protect frontline communities, and
• raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions.

IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22

• Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley
• Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm
• Films: 7 pm
• Ticket includes on-demand access to full program for one week —  April 22 – 29

VIRTUAL-LIVE FESTIVAL, APRIL 22 – 29

with live chat:

• Virtual doors & chat: 6:30 PM
• Films: 7 PM
• Full program on-demand: 7 – 10 PM

Tickets $15 – $25
$5 discount for Sunflower Alliance! Discount code WSFFSFA

Info on films and and showings and ticket purchase here.

Hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby and community partners including Sunflower Alliance

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer.

Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more.

Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to

• save endangered wildlife,
• protect frontline communities, and
• raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions.

IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22

• Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley
• Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm
• Films: 7 pm
• Ticket includes on-demand access to full program for one week —  April 22 – 29

VIRTUAL-LIVE FESTIVAL, APRIL 22 – 29

with live chat:

• Virtual doors & chat: 6:30 PM
• Films: 7 PM
• Full program on-demand: 7 – 10 PM

Tickets $15 – $25
$5 discount for Sunflower Alliance! Discount code WSFFSFA

Info on films and and showings and ticket purchase here.

Hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby and community partners including Sunflower Alliance

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer.

Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more.

Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to

• save endangered wildlife,
• protect frontline communities, and
• raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions.

IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22

• Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley
• Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm
• Films: 7 pm
• Ticket includes on-demand access to full program for one week —  April 22 – 29

VIRTUAL-LIVE FESTIVAL, APRIL 22 – 29

with live chat:

• Virtual doors & chat: 6:30 PM
• Films: 7 PM
• Full program on-demand: 7 – 10 PM

Tickets $15 – $25
$5 discount for Sunflower Alliance! Discount code WSFFSFA

Info on films and and showings and ticket purchase here.

Hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby and community partners including Sunflower Alliance

Celebrate Earth Week with the pick of the year’s best environmental films, in person on the big screen at the David Brower Center or live on-demand at home with your computer.

Films explore nature, community activism, adventure, conservation, water, energy and climate change, wildlife, environmental justice, agriculture and more.

Showcasing people’s ongoing heroic efforts to

• save endangered wildlife,
• protect frontline communities, and
• raise awareness about local and global environmental challenges and solutions.

IN PERSON FRIDAY APRIL 22

• Goldman Theatre, David Brower Center, Berkeley
• Eco Fair, Silent Auction, Prizes: 6 pm
• Films: 7 pm
• Ticket includes on-demand access to full program for one week —  April 22 – 29

VIRTUAL-LIVE FESTIVAL, APRIL 22 – 29

with live chat:

• Virtual doors & chat: 6:30 PM
• Films: 7 PM
• Full program on-demand: 7 – 10 PM

Tickets $15 – $25
$5 discount for Sunflower Alliance! Discount code WSFFSFA

Info on films and and showings and ticket purchase here.

Hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby and community partners including Sunflower Alliance

You are invited to the inaugural panel of the Municipalism Learning
Series. This is the municipalist moment. The movement to gain democratic
control of cities and towns is ascendant from Los Angeles to Barcelona
to Jackson, Mississippi. People are crafting municipalist platforms,
reclaiming the right to the city, and self-organizing as rebel cities.

THE MUNICIPALIST MOMENT

RSVP at http://municipalism.org [1]

Panelists:

KALI AKUNO, Cooperation Jackson
RUTH WILSON GILMORE, CUNY Graduate Center
ANANYA ROY, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE, University of Sheffield

The panel will be held in English, with interpretation into Spanish

RSVP at http://municipalism.org [1] and a Zoom webinar link
will be sent to you.

Municipalism Learning Series will convene subsequent panels every
quarter. Our next panel scheduled for September 2022 will focus on
municipalist platforms in Europe. Future topics include indigenous
municipalism, labor and municipalism, popular assemblies, and just
transition. Sign up for our mailing list to be apprised of future panels
at http://municipalism.org [1]

#MunicipalistMoment

#MakeDecisionsNotDemands

#WeDecide

Municipalism Learning Series

+1 (323) 539-7654

info@municipalism.org

municipalism.org [1]

Follow us on Facebook [4], Twitter [5], Instagram [6]

Links:
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[1] http://municipalism.org/
[2] http://losangelesforall.org/
[3] https://www.facebook.com/events/391056676173141
[4] https://www.facebook.com/municipalists
[5] https://twitter.com/municipalists/
[6] https://www.instagram.com/municipalists/
[7] https://twitter.com/municipalists

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Members from the Green Party of California and the Peace and Freedom Party have joined together to create a Left Unity Slate of statewide candidates for the upcoming June 7 election. This historic decision was based on the many shared values between the Green and Peace and Freedom parties. Among these values are guaranteed access to healthcare, also known as expanded and improved Medicare For All, truly affordable housing, union-wage jobs, public ownership of energy, ending wars for profit, and a comprehensive climate plan, including a just transition to one hundred percent renewables.

This evening, four of the Left Unity Slate candidates will discuss their campaigns, Left Unity, the election, and politics in California and beyond: Meghann Adams for Treasurer, Mohammad Arif for Lieutenant Governor, Gary Blenner for Secretary of State, and Laura Wells for Controller. Please join us for this groundbreaking, first-ever panel of Left Unity Slate statewide candidates:

Meghann Adams has been a tireless organizer of anti-war and anti-racist actions in the San Francisco area for fifteen years.  She has been a school bus driver for 7 years, active in SMART 1741, the union representing school bus drivers in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties.  She was elected president of the union last year.  Active in many community organizations over the years, she has served as treasurer of campaigns, and now is running for California Treasurer to represent working people.  Her campaign slogan, “End Poverty in California,” hearkens back to the Upton Sinclair campaign of 1934.  Sadly, the slogan is as appropriate today as it was 88 years ago, with more Californians lacking housing today than at the height of the Great Depression.  A socialist, Meghann Adams considers capitalism the reason why poverty is still so common today.

Mohammad Arif, 53, is the Kern County Chair of the Peace and Freedom Party.  He and his wife, both immigrants from the Punjab, have four children born in California.  He earned a bachelor’s degree from Hailey College and a masters in economics from Punjab University, and after coming to California in 1991 he attended Abraham Lincoln Law College in Los Angeles.  He has worked as a legal administrator for law firms to handle the legal needs of immigrants for many years.  He speaks English, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi, with some Arabic.  Mohammad Arif ran for State Senate in a 2013 special election.  A Peace and Freedom Party member, he is the Left Unity Slate candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Gary Blenner comes from a long family tree of activism and alternative party politics. He has been a social science high school teacher for the past 28 years. In 2006 (as a registered Green) Gary got elected as a trustee to the Center Joint Unified School District school board. He ran unsuccessfully in 2012 and 2016 for the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. His current campaign for California Secretary of State focuses in on electoral reform and corporate accountability. He wants the office to be a voice for a fairer, more transparent, and inclusive elections process in California.

Laura Wells is a political activist in California and in solidarity with Latin America. She lives in Oakland. She has been an organizer and a candidate for the Green Party, and is running again for state Controller in 2022. She also ran for Congress in 2018, and governor after the global financial meltdown in 2010. A former financial systems analyst, Laura focuses her platform on taxing the rich, public banking, reforming Proposition 13, and saving money and lives with an improved Medicare for All healthcare system.

Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows at 7:00 pm, after a 30-minute break. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.

(Followed by County Council business meeting at 7:00. All are welcome to attend
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Give your comments at the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors meeting when they discuss the proposed conversion of the Marathon refinery in Martinez and the much larger-scale proposed conversion of the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo from refining petroleum to refining “biofuel.”

The Planning Commission has rubber-stamped woefully inadequate environmental impact reviews of these two projects. The supervisors need to hear from county residents!

The proposed projects would make Contra Costa County the world’s largest producer of liquid biofuels based on the refining of animal fats and vegetable oils.

Biofuels are promoted as a green alternative to petroleum on the theory that the absorption of carbon dioxide by growing plants balances the carbon dioxide released by burning the oils the produce.  The truth is much more complicated.

Refining biofuels creates potential local and global hazards. It requires higher temperatures than refining petroleum, creating the potential for more fires, explosions, and flaring.  It requires larger amounts of hydrogen, usually produced in a process that releases methane, a toxic gas that is a more powerful GHG than carbon dioxide.

Some feedstocks, especially animal fats, create potential odor problems, and plant and animal fats have the potential to gum up refinery equipment.

Growing enough crops for biofuels has the potential to divert agricultural land from food crops, raising global food prices. There is also a danger that demand for biofuel feedstock will lead to increased deforestation.

The EIRs passed by the Planning Commission fail to give adequate analyses of these hazards and possible mitigations.  Come and tell the supervisors we need a thorough environmental reviews of these hazardous projects.

For more info:

Summary of problems with Phillips 66 EIR,

Summary of problems with Marathon EIR

More detailed analysis from Biofuelwatch

WHERE

Board Chambers, Administration Building
1025 Escobar St., Martinez

Get the link to join here

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Agenda Items:

5. Federal Task Force Ordinance – OPD – Presentation of Annual Reports (ATF, USMS, DEA)
a. Review and take possible action on reports

6. AB 2336 (Friedman) Speed Safety System Pilot Program – DOT/Chair – evaluation of proposed bill solely as to potential privacy impact
a. Review and take possible action on draft resolution

7. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Crime Analysis Software
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy

8. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DVP – Apricot 360 database
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy

9. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – EDW – East Oakland Security Camera Proposal
a. Review and take possible action on Impact Report and proposed Use Policy

10. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Annual Reports (Automated License Plate Readers, Cell-Site Simulator, Biometric Crime Lab, Forensic Logic/Coplink, GPS Tag Tracker, ShotSpotter, Live Stream Camera, Mobile Fingerprint ID, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Drones)
a. Review and take possible action on the reports

Please join KPFA for a special Zoom Event when we welcome\ Mark Follman and his debut book, Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America, hosted by KPFA’s Dennis Bernstein.

For the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully stopping mass shootings -a hopeful, myth-busting narrative built on new details of infamous attacks, never-before-told accounts from perpetrators and survivors, and real-time immersion in confidential threat cases, casting a whole new light on how to solve a grievous problem.

Thursday, May 5th at 7:00PM