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EMERGENCY RALLY TOMORROW AT NOON TO SUPPORT THE ICE BLOCKADE!!! 444 WASHINGTON STREET. PLEASE GET OFF AT EMBARCADERO BART/MUNI STATION. #abolishice #occupyicesf #occupysfice @DSA_SF @SFBayResistance
— OCCUPYICESF (@occupyicesf) July 6, 2018
Join the community protest of mass incarceration and immigrant internment at the Richmond jail, aka West County Detention Facility (WCDF)! Asylum applicants from the border are often relocated there, so those who’ve had their kids taken away from them may be held at WCDF. The cruel, racist separations rent by immigration, policing and cash bail policies deal terrible emotional and economic injuries on our loved ones, neighbors, and communities. We must fight to free our peoples!
• LEARN from Pastor Rhina Ramos of Plymouth Church about her work in the LGBTQ+ immigrant community
• HEAR impacted family members share testimonials
• SHOUT with the Let Our People Go community circle
• and MORE to be announced shortly
LET OUR PEOPLE GO is a youth-and-elder-friendly action that opposes the immorality of detentions/deportations and mass incarceration with activist debriefs, music, art, stories, poetry, interactive small groups, and representation from various faith communities and faithless humanists. Accessible site with parking, plus bathrooms right inside in the visitors waiting room.
The monthly Let Our People Go protests were initiated by members of Kehilla Community Synagogue on the 2nd Sunday of every month at 11am, modeled in part on the first Saturday vigils held by our partners at Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. A grassroots effort, Let Our People Go is organized by volunteers from Kehilla’s Immigration Committee and Congregation Beth El. The ongoing participation from regular attendees is what creates a powerful community circle, a sustained message of resistance to the powers that lets detainees and their loved ones know that estamos en la lucha con ellos. **If your school, network, affinity group or congregation is interested in getting involved, contact us at letourpeoplego@kehillasynagogue.org.**
A one-hour protest, Let Our People Go is a way for our communities—especially those with citizenship privileges—to stand up for our peoples and bring more attention to this immoral site of internment right in our community. We aim to convey a sustained message of resistance to the right wing’s racist, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, ableist, transphobic, homophobic, misogynist ramp up of authoritarian policing, mass incarceration and deportation practices—if not now, when?
OccupyICE encampments and blockades have popped up all over the land called the United States and are building a National Solidarity Coalition to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Join Abolish ICE SF as we rally and stand vigil for all those locked up and deported, and in solidarity with the #OccupyICESF blockade raided by the San Francisco Police Department on July 9th after being established on July 2nd. We also stand in solidarity with all the OccupyICE actions and blockades across the continent facing local and federal police repression.
Friday, July 13th Candlelight Vigil across the land called the United States to show solidarity with families detained by ICE and announce a national movement going forward together to #AbolishICE
Rally from 7-9pm
Vigil from 9-10pm
Please bring candles, altar materials, photos, song, and medicine to share. Art and signs are welcome.
#OneMillionFlames #AbolishICE #MeltICE #OccupyICE
Other #OccupyICE #OneMillionFlames vigils:
– Detroit: https://www.facebook.com/events/251955815609518/
– Philadelphia: https://www.facebook.com/events/284412115628635/
– Los Angeles: https://www.facebook.com/events/2186903004876420/
– New York City: https://www.facebook.com/events/289738918266462/
Get organized, get united, get ready for the National #DayofactionagainstICE! July 17th.@occupyice @occupyicela @Occupy_NWDC @occupyicenyc @occupyicelou @macc_nyc @IGD_News #occupyICEPHL #OccupyICEPDX #occupyice #occupyICEeverywhere pic.twitter.com/BG8HlDokLE
— Abolish I.C.E PDX (@OccupyICEPDX) July 7, 2018
SUPPORT STRIKING PRISONERS!
Join Oakland IWOC at Mosswood Park Amphitheater on Tuesday, July 17, 6-8pm for an open infosession, where we will talk about the upcoming national prison strike and its demands, as well as how you can help collaborate in spreading awareness and building an anti-repression network to support striking prisoners!
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In April 2018, Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, a network of inside prison organizers, put out a press release calling for a two-week national strike beginning on August 21, the anniversary of George Jackson’s assassination, and extending until September 9, the anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion in 1971. The call has been taken up inside from coast to coast, and across at least 17 different states. Through a coordinated series of work strikes, hunger strikes, sit-ins, and boycotts, prisoners will demand an end to prison slavery.
However, repression of inside strike organizers is already underway as the state aims to suppress this uprising before it can begin. Support is need NOW!
Food and drinks will be provided (but you can bring some too). Bring your friends, comrades, and questions, and be ready to put in some support work!
The amphitheater is wheelchair accessible, and there are accessible restrooms at the Kaiser across the street. As an outdoor space, it will not be scent/smoke free, although we will have a smoke free area. Please contact us with any other accessability questions or needs, and we will do our best to accomodate.
SEE YOU ON TUESDAY!
For a world without prisons,
Oakland IWOC
Join East Bay DSA’s next Socialist Night School class as we tackle one of the most pressing issues facing working-class people: immigration.
We’ll explore the conditions that have led to this crisis and how we can effect change.
Aside from a short opening lecture, the bulk of class time will be spent in small, group-facilitated discussions. We’ll provide a short set of readings here beforehand, and we encourage all participants to read them before class. Members and non-members of any experience and knowledge level on this issue are warmly invited.
Required Readings
See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.
Restorative Justice for Oakland and the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council is offering free restorative justice trainings for community members wh want to help creae a restorative North Oakland.
If you are interested in attending one of the trainings, please email us your name, your desired training date and we will reply.
rjoytrainings@rjoyoakland.org
Join us to urge the Board of Supervisors to deny permits to E&B Natural Resources to expand and extend its drilling operation in Alameda County’s Livermore Valley.
E&B Natural Resources, a Bakersfield-based oil company, is just one step away from getting the go-ahead from the county for 10 more years of dangerous drilling in the Livermore Valley — this despite the company’s reckless track record of spills and accidents (48 since 2007!) that threaten public safety and the environment.
The permits would allow E&B to dispose of oil-drilling waste by injecting it into local aquifers. E&B also wants to nearly triple the area it can inject with wastewater, from 26 to about 70 acres. E&B’s operations use undisclosed chemicals, endangering groundwater that could be used for irrigation, landscaping, and possibly drinking water.
The oil company’s set of 10-year permits has already been approved by the zoning board, and now it’s up to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to stop it.
Please sign this petition urging them to take bold action and deny E&B’s permit application!
Do you sometimes get “triggered” or shutdown in stressful, racially tense situations? This workshop, facilitated by the White Noise Collective, will explore how the brain and body respond to these perceived threats, help you manage guilt and shame that can arise in learning about race and racism, and build skills that enable greater resilience in moments of challenge.
7/29 #AbolishICESF 48 Hour Vigil: Create art, share music, hold workshops, & celebrate resilience as a community in solidarity w/ the national week of action to #AbolishICE & ALL prison structures & to honor our loved ones lost to these systems of violence #OccupyICE #OccupyICESF pic.twitter.com/kGasAEKuuP
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) July 27, 2018
7/29 #AbolishICESF 48 Hour Vigil: Create art, share music, hold workshops, & celebrate resilience as a community in solidarity w/ the national week of action to #AbolishICE & ALL prison structures & to honor our loved ones lost to these systems of violence #OccupyICE #OccupyICESF pic.twitter.com/kGasAEKuuP
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) July 27, 2018
In July, Contra Costa County Sheriff Livingston announced that he is ending the contract with ICE to hold immigration detainees at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. This represents a major victory for advocates who have pushed for years to end the contract with ICE – but it will not be a real victory until those currently detained are released and reunited with their families, friends, and community, and those already transferred to other states are returned.
Join the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity for a vigil at WCDF, to call for detainees to be reunited with their families and for a complete end to cooperation between the Sheriff’s office and ICE.
UPDATE: Sign up to carpool here! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/638ctx
Parking/Transit Alert: Parking is limited at WCDF. If you’re driving, please carpool if possible! Please try to only use the jail parking lot if you have accessibility issues, are visiting family there, or cannot afford the adjacent parking lot. Others, please pay $3 to park at the adjacent Point Pinole Regional Shoreline/Bay Trail parking lot at 5551 Giant Highway, and walk 0.4 miles (turn left) to West County Detention Facility next door. Another option: the 71 bus leaves from Richmond BART every hour and stops at WCDF.
8 AM rally. Speakers include keynote Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who released “The Pentagon Papers.” Formerly an analyst at RAND Corp. and a consultant to the Defense Dept., specializing in the command and control of nuclear weapons, war plans and crisis decision-making. Ellsberg recently wrote The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Also speaking will be Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka who was an infant when the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. His mother and sister died from illnesses linked to radiation poisoning and his brother died at age 39 from premature aging associated with fallout from the bomb. Hanaoka is a retired minister in the United Methodist church. He speaks, writes and teaches about peace and human rights. Christine Hong will also be featured. From UC Santa Cruz she specializes in transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, and Pacific Rim studies. Hong is co-editor of the Critical Asian Studies special edition on North Korean Human Rights. Also speaking are Carol Hisasue, Dr. Bob Gould, Pennie Opal Plant, Fred Norman, Jackie Cabasso, and Marylia Kelley. Join us to say “Never again” to the use of nuclear weapons – and to call for their global abolition. Music by Oakland Mind.
9:30 March and Action. Join the procession to the Livermore Lab West Gate to block the entrance with a Japanese bon dance and symbolic die-in. Music by Gen yu kai (Okinawan string music). Following the die-in those who choose will peaceably risk arrest.
Reserve your free van pool from the Dublin-Pleasonton BART Station to the rally sites at http://www.trivalleycares.org or call 925-443-7148. Space is limited so reserve early.
Camping is available at a Peace Camp at Lake Del Valle. Contact scott@trivalley cares. org to RSVP.
All ages welcome!
Free
https://www.trivalleycares.org
The Bay Area National Prison Strike Solidarity Committee, stands in solidarity with the people who have declared a Nationwide Prison Strike beginning on August 21st (This date commemorates the assassination of Black Panther Party, Field Marshall, and prison activist, George Jackson, by San Quentin prison guards) and extending to September 9th, 2018. The National Prison Strike is in response to the “riot” in the Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in South Carolina on April 15, 2018. . Seven prisoners lost their lives during an instigated melee that could have been avoided had the prison not been overcrowded from the greed wrought by mass incarceration and a lack of respect for human life that is embedded in this country’s penal ideology. We support these captives behind enemy lines, demand for humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the end of modern day slavery.
The Bay Area National Prison Strike Solidarity Committee, is organizing a Mobilization and Call to Action, on August 25, 2018, at San Quentin State Prison, with the objective of raising awareness of the inhumane conditions, treatment and policies that afflict those held in these gulags throughout amerikkka. We are also mobilizing to let these sisters and brothers being held behind enemy lines know that we on the outside have their backs and that we support their Demands and the ongoing historic prison movement led and organized by those being held captive in amerikkka’s gulags.
Our Call to Action / Mobilization will rally at the West Oakland, Bart Station at 11:00 AM, from there we will Car Pool and Bus to San Quentin State Prison.
These are the National Demands of the men and women in federal, immigration, and state prisons:
1. Immediate improvements to the conditions of prisons and prison policies that recognize the humanity of imprisoned men and women.
2. An immediate end to prison slavery. All persons imprisoned in any place of detention under United States jurisdiction must be paid the prevailing wage in their state or territory for their labor.
3. The Prison Litigation Reform Act must be rescinded, allowing imprisoned humans a proper channel to address grievances and violations of their rights.
4. The Truth in Sentencing Act and the Sentencing Reform Act must be rescinded so that imprisoned humans have a possibility of rehabilitation and parole. No human shall be sentenced to Death by Incarceration or serve any sentence without the possibility of parole.
5. An immediate end to the racial overcharging, over-sentencing, and parole denials of Black and brown humans. Black humans shall no longer be denied parole because the victim of the crime was white, which is a particular problem in southern states.
6. An immediate end to racist gang enhancement laws targeting Black and brown humans.
7. No imprisoned human shall be denied access to rehabilitation programs at their place of detention because of their label as a violent offender.
8. State prisons must be funded specifically to offer more rehabilitation services.
9. Pell grants must be reinstated in all US states and territories.
10. The voting rights of all confined citizens serving prison sentences, pretrial detainees, and so-called “ex-felons” must be counted. Representation is demanded. All voices count.
Endorsers:
ENDORSERS BAY AREA NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE SOLDIDARITY COMMITTEE
Black August Organizing Committee – Oakland
Poor Magazine – Oakland
IWOC (Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee) – Oakland
California Prison Focus – Oakland
Worker World Party – Oakland
Idriss Stelly Foundation – San Francisco
Democratic Socialist of America – San Francisco Justice Committee
National Brown Berets
MILLIONS4PRISONERS – San Jose
Aztlan Press – San Jose
The Mothers On The March Against Police Murders – San Francisco
Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) – Oakland
Black & Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality – San Francisco
MLK Coalition For Jobs, Justice and Peace/ MLK Coalition of Greater LA
Puerto Rican Alliance – Los Angeles
Aztlan Realism Conecta – San Jose
ANSWER – San Franciso
SUPPORT THE NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE!
JOIN THE BAY AREA NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE!
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
We need volunteers to assist the detainees with their paperwork BEFORE WEST COUNTY closes for ICE detainees and they are forced to go to some facility somewhere else in the country, probably away from their families.
If you feel ready to take on this important role you’ll need to be trained – it’s a two hour training with Rebecca Merton from Freedom for Immigrants.
Restorative Justice for Oakland and the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council is offering free restorative justice trainings for community members wh want to help creae a restorative North Oakland.
If you are interested in attending one of the trainings, please email us your name, your desired training date and we will reply.
rjoytrainings@rjoyoakland.org
The Bay Area National Prison Strike Solidarity Committee, stands in solidarity with the people who have declared a Nationwide Prison Strike beginning on August 21st (This date commemorates the assassination of Black Panther Party, Field Marshall, and prison activist, George Jackson, by San Quentin prison guards) and extending to September 9th, 2018. The National Prison Strike is in response to the “riot” in the Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in South Carolina on April 15, 2018. . Seven prisoners lost their lives during an instigated melee that could have been avoided had the prison not been overcrowded from the greed wrought by mass incarceration and a lack of respect for human life that is embedded in this country’s penal ideology. We support these captives behind enemy lines, demand for humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the end of modern day slavery.
The Bay Area National Prison Strike Solidarity Committee, is organizing a Mobilization and Call to Action, on August 25, 2018, at San Quentin State Prison, with the objective of raising awareness of the inhumane conditions, treatment and policies that afflict those held in these gulags throughout amerikkka. We are also mobilizing to let these sisters and brothers being held behind enemy lines know that we on the outside have their backs and that we support their Demands and the ongoing historic prison movement led and organized by those being held captive in amerikkka’s gulags.
Our Call to Action / Mobilization will rally at the West Oakland, Bart Station at 11:00 AM, from there we will Car Pool and Bus to San Quentin State Prison.
These are the National Demands of the men and women in federal, immigration, and state prisons:
1. Immediate improvements to the conditions of prisons and prison policies that recognize the humanity of imprisoned men and women.
2. An immediate end to prison slavery. All persons imprisoned in any place of detention under United States jurisdiction must be paid the prevailing wage in their state or territory for their labor.
3. The Prison Litigation Reform Act must be rescinded, allowing imprisoned humans a proper channel to address grievances and violations of their rights.
4. The Truth in Sentencing Act and the Sentencing Reform Act must be rescinded so that imprisoned humans have a possibility of rehabilitation and parole. No human shall be sentenced to Death by Incarceration or serve any sentence without the possibility of parole.
5. An immediate end to the racial overcharging, over-sentencing, and parole denials of Black and brown humans. Black humans shall no longer be denied parole because the victim of the crime was white, which is a particular problem in southern states.
6. An immediate end to racist gang enhancement laws targeting Black and brown humans.
7. No imprisoned human shall be denied access to rehabilitation programs at their place of detention because of their label as a violent offender.
8. State prisons must be funded specifically to offer more rehabilitation services.
9. Pell grants must be reinstated in all US states and territories.
10. The voting rights of all confined citizens serving prison sentences, pretrial detainees, and so-called “ex-felons” must be counted. Representation is demanded. All voices count.
Endorsers:
ENDORSERS BAY AREA NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE SOLDIDARITY COMMITTEE
Black August Organizing Committee – Oakland
Poor Magazine – Oakland
IWOC (Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee) – Oakland
California Prison Focus – Oakland
Worker World Party – Oakland
Idriss Stelly Foundation – San Francisco
Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) – San Francisco
National Brown Berets
MILLIONS4PRISONERS – San Jose
Aztlan Press – San Jose
The Mothers On The March Against Police Murders – San Francisco
Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) – Oakland
Black & Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality – San Francisco
MLK Coalition For Jobs, Justice and Peace/ MLK Coalition of Greater LA
Puerto Rican Alliance – Los Angeles
Aztlan Realism Conecta – San Jose
ANSWER – San Francisco
Jericho Movement – Oakland
Committee to Free Jalil Abdul Muntaqim – Oakland
SUPPORT THE NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE!
JOIN THE BAY AREA NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE!
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!
Come protest the Bank of Montreal’s involvement in financing Oakland’s unwanted coal terminal.
We will be demonstrating outside the conference of Principles for Responsible Investment, running concurrently with Global Climate Action Summit. Inside the conference, bankers and investors will be discussing responsible investment.
Outside we will be asking why the Bank of Montreal won’t renounce its plan to finance the Oakland coal terminal.
The Bank of Montreal has been instrumental in attempting to raise the $$ to finance the proposed coal terminal on the Oakland waterfront. They lobbied to get $50 million from the State of Utah and proposed to raise $200 million from pension funds, downplaying if not outright concealing that coal is involved. You can read more about this at NoCoalinOakland.info.
We want to stop the Bank of Montreal (which claims to practice socially responsible financing) and warn pension funds and other institutions that they may be targeted for this toxic and risky investment.
If there is no funding, there will be no terminal!
This is an informational event with leafletting, colorful banners, creative picket signs, chants, singing, and possible street theater.
You can also sign our Open Letter to the Bank of Montreal at tinyurl.com/BMO-letter
Mass Action: Stand With Communities, Not Corporations!
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In September, Governor Jerry Brown is convening the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco to promote his “real climate leadership” credentials on a global stage. But Jerry Brown’s promotion of continued fossil fuel production, carbon trading markets and other incentives to oil, gas and other polluting corporations, perpetuates climate change and decimates Indigenous communities and Native nations, communities of color and other working class peoples throughout California and around the world.
Such perverse subsidies for “climate capitalism” will turn frontline communities into sacrifice zones for decades to come. Despite Brown’s efforts to show he is different from Trump and the forces of climate denial, his “climate leadership” promotes a similar corporate agenda – aimed at expanding the dig, burn, drive, dump industries, and the banks and tanks economy destroying our communities and the air, land and water we depend on.
Join us to stand in solidarity with Indigenous and frontline communities protecting Mother Earth, and cultivating real solutions to the twin crises of climate change and capitalism. Join us to demand that elected leaders stand with our communities on the streets, and not the climate profiteers gathered inside.
On September 13th, join us in mass action at the Global Climate Action Summit. Our actions will be wrapped in prayer and committed with love for all we hold dear. We call for all peoples around the world to join us on the streets of San Francisco as we tell Jerry Brown and his friends that “real climate leaders” stand with people, not the pollution profiteers.
JOIN US AS WE TAKE BOLD ACTION!
Organized by Idle No More SF Bay, Diablo Rising Tide, the Ruckus Society, It Takes Roots, Indigenous Environmental Network and Brown’s Last Chance.
For more info, go here.
**We’ve scheduled a number of direct action trainings to help prep folks for action, please check them out here:
Terry Amons, Jr. was shot and killed by Pittsburg, CA police on January 12, 2018, while eating dinner inside his car outside of Nations Burgers in Pittsburg. We hold the Pittsburg PD responsible for murdering an innocent Black man. Terry’s family deserves justice.
Please join Terry’s family to rally together and unite as a collective force against police terror.
For those coming from the Oakland area, we will try to help with rides and carpooling. If you’re able to provide a ride or if you need one, please direct message the APTP page.
This is a family friendly event. There will be water and snacks provided