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Older adults are now a majority of those living unhoused in the Bay Arrea.  Nearly half faced homelessness for the first time after the age of fifty.  Rapid aging, chronic illnesses, and premature death are becoming common  – at a very high cost in suffering and dollars.

Researchers at UC-San Francisco’s HOPE-HOME collaborative are shining a light at the intersection of health, housing, and aging. They are also bringing a new perspective, and now funding, to democratize the process of change, identify evidence based solutions and help communities and decision-makers better align health and housing policies.

Our speaker is Dr. Margaret Handley, public health trained epidemiologist. She is a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Center for Vulnerable Populations at San Francisco General Hospital, at the University of California San Francisco. Her research focuses on applied public health, implementation science, and health communication. She has worked with the HOPE-HOME project for several years and is on the steering committee of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.

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Full agenda: https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Police-Commission-2.27.20-Agenda-Packet.pdf

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VII. Committee Reports
Representatives from the following Standing and Ad Hoc Committees will provide updates
on their work. This is a recurring item. (Attachment 7)
i. Personnel
ii. Outreach
iii. Mental Health Model
iv. Use of Force
v. Equipment  [[ Militarized Equipment Ordinance — see full agenda ]]
vi. Rules of Procedure

IX. OPD Overtime Report
The Department will present the overtime report that was delivered at the Finance and
Management Committee meeting on February 25, 2020.

@moms4housing "Housing is a human right! Our immigrant neighbors have been on rent strike for 4 months & are on brink of historic victory – they need our support! Please join us at Rally Against Fear Thursday, 2/27, 6:30 pm, 1534 29th Ave. Moms will be speaking & sharing updates"

— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) February 26, 2020

New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to Americas future for the 2020 presidential election.

Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will they take advantage of the greatest opportunity since the New Deal Era to strengthen American democracy, foster social justice, and turn back the threats of the Trump Era?

The country is at a crossroads. Principled opposition to Trumps presidency has drawn millions of previously disengaged citizens to the streets and to the ballot boxes. This growing activism for political change hasnt been seen since the days of Franklin Roosevelts New Deal policies and the Progressive and Civil Rights movements. But if progressives and moderates are unableand unwillingto overcome their differences, they could not only enable Trump to prevail again but also squander an occasion for launching a new era of reform.

Dionne calls for a shared commitment to decency and a politics focused on freedom, fairness, and the future, encouraging progressives and moderates to explore common ground and expand the unity that brought about Democrat victories in the 2018 elections. He offers a unifying model for furthering progress with a Politics of Remedy, Dignity, and More: one that solves problems, resolve disputes, and moves forward; that posits a positive future for Americans with more covered by health insurance, more with decent wages, more with good schools, more security from gun violence, more action to roll back climate change. Because at this point in our national story, change cant wait.

A thrilling book, from one of Americas most universally respected minds. —  Rachel Maddow

E.J. DIONNE, JR., is a columnist for The Washington Post, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, visiting professor at Harvard University, and professor at Georgetown University. He is a co-author of the recent New York Times bestseller One Nation After Trump and author of Why the Right Went Wrong.

KRIS WELCH is a veteran, very popular KPFA on-air host, a mother, and a devoted                grandmother.

A benefit for the 25th anniversary of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Free Sitawa Campaign~

Please join us  for a performance of Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison.

The one-hour two-person play with music by Fred Johnson and Charlie Hinton will be followed by a panel discussion with the producers alongside Dejohnette from CCWP to speak on the DROP LWOP (Life Without Parole) campaign and CCWP’s 25th anniversary, and Minister King with updates on the campaign to free Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and the resistance inside California prisons since the 2011 and 2013 hunger strikes.

Performance description: In Solitary Man, Charlie travels to Crescent City to visit a lifer named Otis Washington (played by Fred). A 64 year old native of New York, Otis has been imprisoned since 1975 and at Pelican Bay since it opened in 1989. As they get to know each other, Otis explains some of what he has learned and experienced.

Learn more —
CCWP: https://womenprisoners.org/
DROP LWOP: https://droplwop.com/
Free Sitawa: https://sitawa.org/

Puzzles for Justice has returned!

Love jigsaw puzzles?
Love social justice?

Join us for three hours of solving puzzles Friday, February 28th from 7 to 10pm!

This quarter’s Puzzles for Justice is a fundraiser for CRC’s Safety, Survival & Self Determination Program. Think of it like a walk-a-thon except instead of raising money based how far people walk, we’re raising money based on how many puzzle pieces we can put together (a puzzle-a-thon?).

You can help out by either coming to the event and helping us put these puzzles together, or by sponsoring us by signing up to donate some money for each puzzle piece we put together here: https://puzzlesforjustice.typeform.com/to/QZKJKD.

It’s also a time to relax, chat, be social with fellow racial-justice-minded folks!

For participants, we’ll have tea and snacks and a chance to have fun and put your puzzle-solving skills to work for a great cause! This is a multi-racial, anti-racist, sober, and kid-friendly space. We also try to maintain a low-scent space, so please arrive as scent-free as possible!

Solve puzzles! Get to know your fellow activists better! Invite your friends!

Can’t attend, but still want to support this awesome cause? Sign up to be a Puzzles for Justice sponsor here: https://puzzlesforjustice.typeform.com/to/QZKJKD?fbclid=IwAR1R6WToteC1O1MyElyWAQ-VITGP6ghOn-Ah9LH-Jj9IZUGbisaRb9xU53s

Community Ready Corps (CRC) is a Black grassroots organization working to organize and empower disenfranchised communities the community towards self determination and equity. They believe that a community should be able to engage with power wherever power is expressed and that resistance must be rooted in achieving a self-determined existence. Because of this fundamental belief, they are launching their Safety, Survival & Self-Determination Program which has begun its efforts by giving out masks after recent devastating fires, and will continue with assembling & giving out Earthquake Kits for free to Black communities throughout Oakland. All money raised from the event will go to CRC for this program. Learn more about CRC & their Safety, Survival & Self Determination program here: https://www.getreadystayready.org.

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Democracy at Work present:

RICHARD D. WOLFF
Understanding Socialism
With Sabrina Jacobs

advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores, $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events

“Richard Wolff’s book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and should be.” – Cornel West

A blend of history, analysis, and theory, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and the challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. The crises of global capitalism (inequality, instability, unsustainability, and incipient fascism) deepen daily. Consider Trump’s and Boris Johnson’s desperate extreme-right efforts to be re-elected, and consider that total global debts (of corporations, governments, and households) tripled between 1999 and 2019. Brazil’s Bolsonaro blames Leonardo di Caprio for burning the Amazon. Vast crowds in Chile, Lebanon, and France are in the streets demanding basic economic change. These and many other symptoms expose a declining system in mounting troubles.

“In the same accessible style that has made his programs and lectures such a hit, he explains his subject in a way that’s not only smart, but makes the rest of us feel smart. It’s actionable intelligence for every person.” – Laura Flanders

“Lucid, brilliant and uncompromising in his dissection of the capitalist system, he also provides a sane and just socialist alternative to capitalist exploitation, one we must all fight to achieve.” – Chris Hedges

Sabrina Jacobs is host and producer of the popular A Rude Awakening, aired on KPFA Radio Monday afternoons. She covers local breaking news as well as global events, informing listeners about the latest social injustices.

$12 advance, $15 door.

Reserve a spot: https://www.facebook.com/events/242973056729410/

In this in-person, public talk, climate speakers from Extinction Rebellion will share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading and offer solutions through the study of social movements.

The talk itself goes from 9:00 – 10:15. Afterwards, until 10:50, we’ll answer any questions, including how to get involved in XR SF Bay!

Southwest of Golden Gate Fields, West of Gilman houseless encampment
(Golden Gate Fields horse track, 1100 Eastshore Hwy, Berkeley, CA 94710)

Marching to Berkeley City Hall, 2180 Milvia St, Berkeley, CA 94704

Join Sahar Delijani, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books’ 40th Anniversary.

6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments $25-50
7pm Program & champagne toast $5-up

This is a celebration – as well as a renewed and urgent call for people to support the bookstore. Right as now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a better world and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes rise, and as we confront environmental disaster–Revolution Books embodies the potential bright future for humanity.

For 40 years Revolution Books has fought for revolution and a different future for humanity. And right now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a different future and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes take root here and around the world, as we confront environmental disaster, as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock is now advanced to 100 seconds to midnight.

Revolution Books embodies the potential bright future for humanity. You feel this when you first walk through the door and find the literature, poetry, history, science, art, and the revolutionary theory for a radically different world. You experience programs and engagements with us and with each other that percolate with emancipatory possibility. What you feel at RB is precious and especially so in these dark times, when a beacon that lights the way forward is so greatly needed.

Revolution Books is alive with the scientific understanding that a different and better world is possible. RB is the political, intellectual, and cultural center of a movement for an actual revolution and that is why it is a unique, incredible bookstore—a resource for the world. The animating heart of the store is the framework for unleashing the revolutionary potential of humanity: the breakthrough in scientifically knowing and radically changing the world through revolution, the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. Avakian emerged from the 60s in Berkeley, and is a leader who never gave up asking the hard questions of the road forward to human emancipation and developing the path to that future.

Also buy tickets at  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/188944268875822/

Exhibit on display from March 1 through April 30, 2020

Reception in the Morrison Library on Thursday, March 5 at 5 pm

This exhibit showcases original silk screen political posters from the 1960s and 1970s on the 50th Anniversary of the Great Poster Workshop in Wurster Hall in May 1970, triggered by the killing of four students at Kent State University in Ohio. U.C. Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, paved the way for mass protests and prolonged student strikes across the country against the Vietnam War and the draft, for black liberation and ethnic studies, and a variety of other struggles for social justice. This legacy of protest continues to be felt in the social movements of today.

Exhibit on display from March 1 through April 30, 2020

Reception in the Morrison Library on Thursday, March 5 at 5 pm

This exhibit showcases original silk screen political posters from the 1960s and 1970s on the 50th Anniversary of the Great Poster Workshop in Wurster Hall in May 1970, triggered by the killing of four students at Kent State University in Ohio. U.C. Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, paved the way for mass protests and prolonged student strikes across the country against the Vietnam War and the draft, for black liberation and ethnic studies, and a variety of other struggles for social justice. This legacy of protest continues to be felt in the social movements of today.

OAKLAND MOVIE SCREENING

Action2020 is hosting a showing of Defies Measurement, a documentary about the wide-spread damage caused by the privatization movement in public education.https://t.co/mqs6UJctS4

March 06, 2020 at 6pm – 8pm
Red Bay Coffee (3098 E 10th Street) pic.twitter.com/KSiSmnP59x

— Action 2020 Oakland (@Action2020Oak) February 19, 2020