Climate Courage Forum.

Celebrate the launch of our national community-driven report that documents the experiences and resilience of families impacted by incarceration. The event will feature a gallery of data from the report and a panel discussion with formerly incarcerated individuals and their families.

Free event, light food provided. RSVP on Facebook.

Sponsored by: Forward Together, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Essie Justice and Causa Justa :: Just Cause.

Come support the family of Pedie Perez, shot and killed by the Richmond Police, as they and the community put forth a resolution to hold an open hearing whenever there is extreme use of force by the Richmond Police.

Hosted by Richard Wolinsky

Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expanding geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures rarely, and then usually with scant interest in what they saw in us. What the Rest Think of the West, unprecedented in its scope, at last provides a rich historical look through the eyes of observant outsiders as they survey and scrutinize the politics, science, technology, religion, family practices, and gender roles of civilizations not their own. The book emphasizes the broader figurative meaning of looking west in the scope of history.

Focusing on four civilizations-Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, and South Asian-Laura Nader has collected observations made over centuries by scholars, diplomats, missionaries, travelers, merchants, and students reflecting upon their own “Wests.” The accounts variously express critique, adoration, admiration, and fear, and are sometimes humorous, occasionally disturbing, at times controversial, and always enlightening. Nader provides informative introductions to each of the selections.

“There are things that only outsiders can see, and the true promise of anthropology has always been to use such insights to allow human beings to understand more of their shared humanity, to understand how we are the same through our differences.”
-David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“Intellectual exchange between the West and Asia has long been one-sided, handicapped further by lack of translations. This superbly introduced and edited anthology, which shows the diverse ways in which visitors from Asia perceived modern Western society and culture, fills a big gap in our self-understanding.” -Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia

Join us for a night with Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Barghouti will be presenting on academia’s role in the struggle for freedom and justice in Palestine.

This event is open to the public and is free of charge!

**Refreshments will be provided as well**

Sponsored by Cal Students for Justice in Palestine, UAW 2865-Berkeley, Friends of Sabeel North America, Jewish Voice for Peace- Bay Area, and Middle East Children’s Alliance.

Rummage Sale | Bake Sale | Lunch / Dinner | Live Music

Please come and donate to Omni Commons to help us cover our ongoing expenses and keep this common space thriving for positive social change!

Schedule:

10am – Open Rummage Sale + Bake Sale
12pm – Open Meal Service
All day until 8pm – Live Music / Performances

We need you to bring your friends, your enemies, and your frenemies—as long as you come to support Omni Commons, and most important to HAVE FUN!

This documentary follows Hector Salgado’s journey back to Chile where he confronts his former captors as a filmmaker. Following the 1973 coup in Chile, Hector Salgado was imprisoned, tortured, and exiled from the time he was 16- 19.

At the age of 16, Hector Salgado was imprisoned and tortured by the Chilean Military government led by Augusto Pinochet. He was held for three years before being sent into exile to the US, the financial and military sponsor of Chile’s military. Special Circumstances follows Salgado’s quest to confront his persecutors after several decades have passed.

The film was co-directed by Marianne Teleki.

*Who*: You–at ANY level of skill (newbs encouraged to attend)!
*What*: Work Party (fun, learning, labor, love)! — Also see TASKS list below!!!
*When*: *Sat 9/5 @ 12 noon* (And Every Saturday, FOREVER)!
*How*: With our bare hands, feet, noses, etc — plus tools and stuff!
*Why*: Omni Commons needs some serious elbow grease to get ship-shape, for the safety, accessibility, and delight of all!

*TASKS*
* Doors (re-hanging and installing closers)
* Carpentry in the basement
* Plumbing, tile, and other water-related activities
* Drywall ’til you drop
* Felt the feet of our ballroom furniture
* Protect our building from confused critters like pigeons!
* General cleaning / tidying / arranging / creativity / expression / explosions / excitement / activity!!!!!!!
* much much much more!

Please join your fellow volunteers, especially the zany and rambunctious
Building and Maintenance Working Group (woooohooooooooooooooooooooo)!

Matt Gonzalez, former SF supervisor and current attorney for Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez (immigrant accused of murder in the Pier 14 shooting) will join Mujeres Unidas y Activas to talk about contemporary immigration issues. What is at stake for immigrants rights in our community? What do we need to know about sactuary cities policies? What should we do in order to retain them? How the right-wing media is using this case for political revenge.

Please join Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant at a rally in Oakland for her re-election campaign! Mark your calendar now!

NEW! Richmond City Councillor and former Green Mayor, Gayle McLaughlin to speak alongside Kshama at this event!

From the streets of Baltimore to the growing movement for a $15 minimum wage, consistent protests are erupting against the endemic inequality and racism generated by Wall Street and their social system. With growing anger at the corporate policies of both main political parties, millions are looking for an alternative.

Since her election in 2013, Councilmember Sawant has led the opposition to the corporate agenda in the Pacific Northwest. An unapologetic fighter for working people, she refuses all corporate donations and accepts only the average worker’s wage, giving the rest of her salary back to social movements. Despite being a city councilmember, she has risked arrest in order to stand with workers fighting for a living wage in Sea-Tac and environmentalists blockading coal trains. Her re-election will inspire more oppressed people to fight for our rights, and it will prove again that it is completely possible to elect candidates who reject corporate cash.

Kshama Sawant has inspired movements across the country. That is why corporations across the country are funding her opponents’ campaigns. We in the Bay Area absolutely need to support her historic re-election. She cannot get re-elected without our active support. Mark your calendar, invite your friends, and join us at this rally and fundraiser!

(If you cannot join us on September 19th, please donate at http://www.kshamasawant.org/ )

Sponsored by All of Us or None, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.

“From Civil Rights to Prisoners’ Rights. The Fight for our Human Rights Continues.:

Afrikatown Garden Workday
Come anytime, we will be out gardening with our community and neighbors! Bring plants, seeds, tools, etc if you have it!!

Special City Council #oakmtg on coal scheduled for Sep. 21, 2015, at 4:00 PM. Sponsored by @DanKalb @Kaplan4Oakland and CM Reid. #oakland

— Coal Free Oakland (@CoalFreeOakland) July 16, 2015

Special Council Hearing Re: Public Health and Coal scheduled for Sept 21st, 4PM- 6PM #OakMTg

— Abel Guillen (@Abel_Guillen) August 13, 2015

No further info.

The big banner and new placards will put attention on the horrendous noise at Pelican Bay SHU 24/7, caused by the ‘wellness checks’.
SLEEP DEPRIVATION = TORTURE
The architecture of the SHU at Pelican Bay amplifies the slamming of the pod doors, the guards clambering up and down the tiers as well as the beeper and wand action by guards. The interpretation of these wellness checks by Pelican Bay staffers is unacceptable. Turn out to hear the latest and sign up for our emergency response network.

Flying Over Walls will be hosting their Oakland LGBTQ+ Prisoner Letterwriting Night again in conjunction with Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement – and discussing the recent Ashker v. Governor of California settlement, including what it means and what we are still fighting for.

As the SF Bay Area chapter of Black & Pink, our focus is to connect the non-incarcerated LGBTQ+ folks who participate in our events to B&P members in Northern California prisons.

Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the films at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the films.

WE THE TINY HOUSE PEOPLE By Kirsten Dirksen

For a detailed description of this film, see this website.

This is journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops.

Basically, Dirksen made a documentary on people living in tiny houses. For around five years she was traveling the world and filming these segments.

Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch is quietly coming to Richmond City Hall this Friday.

Once again, despite evidence, witnesses, and a video of the shooting, the police killing of an unarmed man has been ruled a justifiable homicide and will not be investigated. This is unacceptable! We need police accountability now!

Lynch has tuned out the pleas of the people for police accountability. The parents of Pedie Perez, an unarmed man who was killed by Richmond PD last September, are asking for your help.

The Oscar Grant Committee in solidarity with the Perez family, is organizing a rally in front of the Richmond City Hall on Friday. Let us speak up loud and clear demanding justice for Pedie and all those whose lives have been stolen by police terror!

#Justice4Pedie #EndPoliceTerrorNow

New time!!! 12:15pm Today!

OGC Members and Supporters,

It appears the USAG will begin speaking with reporters at 12:45pm, a revised timeline, so it is probably best to arrive at the Civic Center Plaza no later than 12:15pm tomorrow (Friday, 9/25).