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Join the Ecology Center and Grandmothers for a Green New Deal for a free, interactive online workshop introducing the Green New Deal and discussing the many ways the resolution can be used as a framework to move us towards a more sustainable future.
Grandmothers for a Green New Deal is a small group of elder women working to educate communities about the Green New Deal and how to get climate solutions enacted on a local, state and Federal level. The hosts are keeping this workshop small so everyone has a chance to share their ideas. Register early!
Please bring your signs and face masks to stand in solidarity against police terror.
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland is a documentary that looks into the death of Sandra Bland. Sandra was a politically active 28-year-old African American who, after being arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town, was found hanging in her jail cell three days later. Dashcam footage revealing her arrest went viral, leading to national protests. The film team followed the two-year case beginning shortly after Bland’s death, exploring the questions of what really happened to her, and what we may learn from her tragedy.
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87505163942
Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/3wsRe454u8s
If you have other documentary recommendations feel free to message us! 🙂
Want to know your rights & stand up for others in your community? Want to document the police & organize for change? Every 1st & 3rd Monday from 6:30-7p we're hosting New Member Mondays. Hop on zoom so we can answer yr questions & get you plugged in
Zoom: https://t.co/Henl2S4Pc9 pic.twitter.com/UHiSti3Slv— Berkeley Copwatch (@Copwatch411) May 7, 2021
TOMORROW: Palestinian civil society has called for a general strike on May 18th across historic Palestine (including the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and 1948 lands)🇵🇸
Solidarity Action @ Israeli Consulate, SF
Tuesday from 4-6pm.
456 Montgomery St. pic.twitter.com/DThC5VKiIc— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) May 17, 2021
Join us for our first ever Red Square – a discussion-based format centered around an opening topic, but open to whatever is on your mind!
We will feature a presentation by Peter Olney!
This is a space to talk through ideas, questions, and learn from each other!
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“This is NOT a re-imagining budget”
Berkeley Copwatch * Berkeley Tenants Union * Berkeley Community Safety Coalition * Cops off Campus * Where Do We Go Berkeley * Members of the Re-Imagining Public Safety Task force and the Specialized Care Unit Task Force * South Berkeley Mutual Aid Project * Latinos Unidos de Berkeley * Friends of Adeline
Berkeley community organizations will collectively oppose the City Manager’s budget proposal at a press conference this Wednesday, May 19th at 12 noon on the steps of City Hall
We’ve got something to say about the proposed budget for our city!! Bring your outrage! Bring your signs: #Justice4KaylaMoore #JusticeforVincentBryant #RacismMakesMeSick #CARENOTCOPS #DefundBPD
Get informed & get angry: Click here to view the full budget proposal
Join us on Wednesday and bring signs! Spread the word to your friends, allies, and press contacts!
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Cory Doctorow – In Conversation with Andrew Clement
Cory Doctorow is an award-winning author, journalist, and blogger who has worked for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, and is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University. Join Cory in conversation with Andrew Clement, Professor Emeritus in University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program and co-founded the Identity Privacy and Security Institute.
Co-sponsors: Edmonton Public Library, Milton Public Library, Thunder Bay Public Library, Toronto Public Library.
Zoom link to event ryerson.zoom.us/j/91941276567
This is a free event and no registration is required.
Please contact cfe@ryerson.ca if you require accommodation to ensure inclusion in this event.
Register for free on Eventbrite!
Free live streaming event via Zoom and Facebook Live
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Join the Hip Hop Caucus for its fifth annual Environmental Justice Summit. Leading environmental organizers from communities of color in the Bay Area and beyond will come together to share experiences and discuss steps to diversify the Green Movement, as well as specific needs of our most vulnerable communities.
The Hip Hop Caucus says, “Environmentalism is a movement that impacts all classes, colors, and demographics of society, and yet there is a lack of diversity in the environmental movement. People of color are strong supporters of environmental issues, more so than is commonly perceived. After all, communities of color have a much higher risk of air pollution and, historically, have been targeted as dumping sites for toxic pollution.
This lack of diversity is hurting the movement and stalling progress that’s been made to address the issue of climate change. If we want to continue making advancements in the climate change movement, we need to be more inclusive….
This event will include a revolutionary keynote address, a panel discussion of environmental leaders, and live performances by musical artists. Register for free on Eventbrite!”
We’re partnering with the Alameda County Public Health Department to host a free COVID-19 vaccination clinic for Alameda County residents age 18 and up Thursday, May 20 through Saturday, May 22! See image for details! Drop ins and appointments available! Share this info! pic.twitter.com/DSYgD0Ahq6
— Allen Temple Baptist Church (@allentemplebc) May 19, 2021
In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project, Dignity and Power Now
& Legal Action for Women present
JUSTICE IS A VITAL HEALER 2021
An Online Workshop on Justice and Healing
>FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO REGISTER VISIT:
http://bit.ly/JusticeIsAVitalHealer2021
Live ASL interpretation and captioning will be provided. For other access questions and requests, please contact jgupta@thenewpress.com.
This event will be a timely conversation about disability, madness, prison reform and abolition. Speakers will confront the entanglement of punishment and treatment, the carceral state and social work, and caging and “rehabilitation.” They will engage with the Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law’s Prison by Any Other Name and Liat Ben-Moshe’s Decarcerating Disability, and the questions these books raise.
In Prison by Any Other Name, Schenwar and Law argue that: “The entwinement of the asylum and the prison is an old story. For the past two and a half centuries, the discipline and control of people diagnosed with mental illness has ridden alongside the discipline and control of criminalized people. Very often, those populations are one and the same, and controlled by the same authorities. The solution to their existence was, and often continues to be, confinement.”
In Decarcerating Disability, Ben-Moshe refers to this as “Carceral ableism. . . the praxis and belief that people with disabilities need special or extra protections, in ways that often expand and legitimate their further marginalization and incarceration.“ She shows how deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and underscores the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom.
***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded.***
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BUY THE BOOKS:
Prison by Any Other Name: https://bookshop.org/books/prison-by-any-other-name-the-harmful-consequences-of-popular-reforms/9781620973103
Decarcerating Disability: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/decarcerating-disability
Abolition. Feminism. Now.: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1546-abolition-feminism-now
Join frontline neighbors and many thousands of others around the globe for the 8th annual Global Anti-Chevron Day. Communities from Richmond to Ecuador to Myanmar will come together in advance of Chevron’s annual shareholders’ meeting to share stories about the impact of Chevron’s environmental destruction, human rights violations, and corruption of our politics.
For over a century, Chevron has poisoned residents of Richmond and the whole S.F. Bay Area with deadly air pollution from its refinery. Its influence over Richmond politics and nonprofits is legendary—but we’re winning victories in fighting it!
Communities around the globe—in Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Burma (Myanmar) and elsewhere—suffer from Chevron’s deadly water, soil, and air pollution as well as inhumane working conditions and political interference. Chevron denies any responsibility and continues its destruction in order to keep the oil and profits flowing.
Hosted by:
Amazon Watch
Communities for a Better Environment
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Idle No More SF Bay
Sunflower Alliance
350 Bay Area
Contacts:
Paul Paz y Miño, Amazon Watch, paz [at] amazonwatch [dot] org
Janet Johnson, Sunflower Alliance, sunflowerjsj [at] gmail [dot] com
11 am
16th & Mission St, SF
March to Civic Center
1 pm Rally
Civic center, SF
SPONSORED BY:
NorCal Islamic Council
Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
American Muslims for Palestine, Bay Area
Islamophobia Studies Center
Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area
Palestinian Youth Movement
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Al-Awda
US Palestinian Community Network
Answer Coalition
WWP
ICNA Council for Social Justice
Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance
QUIT!
CODEPINK-SF
Join public housing tenants from Cypress Village and Lockwood Gardens in Oakland and Sunnydale in San Francisco in a discussion about recent tenant organizing efforts. The San Francisco and Oakland Housing Authorities, just like Housing Authorities across the country, have been forcing tenants to live in dangerous conditions in order to justify selling public housing off to the highest bidder. Tenants at the few public housing projects left in the Bay Area are coming together to fight back.
Learn about the nationwide plan by the politicians, the developers, and the banks to eliminate all public housing by handing it over to private developers and management companies, and what tenants in the Bay Area are doing to stop it! There will be a brief presentation and some roundtable discussion about how people can work together to fight against the privatization of public housing and gentrification locally and nationally.
In Oakland, tenants have been organizing at the last two public housing developments in the city: Cypress Village in West Oakland and Lockwood Gardens in East Oakland. Cypress and Lockwood are not currently facing privatization but residents have been organizing to form independent tenant unions to fight for residents’ interests and be prepared to fight against privatization.
In San Francisco, there is a citywide privatization plan called HOPE SF. The city government, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Google, Kaiser Permanente, and foundations in the city are working together via the HOPE SF scheme. HOPE SF’s plan is to eliminate the last public housing in San Francisco (Sunnydale, Potrero, Double Rock/Alice Griffith, and Hunters View) by destroying it and building mixed income developments owned and managed by different private developers like Mercy Housing, the John Stewart Company, and BRIDGE Housing.
There are only two remaining public housing developments still under the San Francisco Housing Authority: Sunnydale and Potrero. Tenants at Sunnydale have been organizing to resist the privatization and destruction of their homes, to not be bullied into signing leases with the private developer Mercy Housing, and to speak up about the truth that these private developers are just going to make the situation worse for residents and leave them more vulnerable, as we’ve seen in developments that have been privatized in the Bay Area and across the country. Sunnydale residents have been working with residents at Potrero and privatized developments like Double Rock.
Watch the recording of an event held May 4, 2021 which featured activists and public housing residents from across the country discussing their experiences and sharing updates from the struggle against the privatization of public housing: https://youtu.be/_US9KIuvYmc
This event is sponsored by the United Front Against Displacement, the Cypress Village Tenant Union, and the Residents of Sunnydale.
Email: wewontgo [at] riseup.net
Text/call: 510-815-9978
Website: theufad.org
Social media: @theufad
Tech is a new, dynamic, and growing sector of the economy. It aims to change the world and disrupt society. However, as the tech industry has matured, its innovations have proven shallow, and its incentives all too familiar – profit from exploitation.
Join DSA East Bay as we discuss some challenges and opportunities facing organizing efforts in the tech industry!
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On the one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, APTP & Defund Police Coalition demand Oakland keep its promise to defund the police.
When George Floyd was murdered by officer Derek Chauvin, mass demonstrations erupted across Oakland, the US and the rest of the world. Defunding the police became a national rallying cry. But since then, police officers continue to kill Black and Brown people with impunity.
Last month Alameda police murdered Mario Gonzalez and lied about it in almost the exact same way as Minneapolis police when they murdered George Floyd.
Law enforcement will keep doing this until we defund their departments. It’s that simple. We need to reduce the number of contacts between law enforcement and the beloved members of our community to the maximum extent possible so that we can save Black and Brown lives.
The Oakland City Council are in the middle of budget negotiations and will soon respond to the budget proposed by mayor Libby Schaaf. The Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Coalition will demand that the city rejects Libby’s budget and instead fund the people by redirecting resources to community services, such as housing, mental health, libraries, parks and recreation, and more.
Speakers:
- Cat Brooks, co founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project
- George Galvis, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ)
- Kimi Lee, Bay Rising
- Zach Norris, Ella Baker Center
- Addie Kitchen, Grandmother of Steven Taylor
- James Burch, Director of Policy, Anti Police-Terror Project
- Minister Cherri Murphy, Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy (FAME)
- Barbara Doss, Mother of Dujuan Armstrong
Last July, after intense community pressure, the Berkeley City Council approved a 12% cut to the $72 million Berkeley Police budget with an “eventual goal” of reducing BPD’s budget by 50%. Reductions in BPD’s budget would fund the new Department of Transportation and Specialized Care Unit. But once again the city is backpedaling on their promise – the city wants to approve a 9% increase in BPD’s budget. This doesn’t even include the $280,000 BPD wants for phone and vehicle upgrades.
Berkeley Copwatch says: We need to hold the Berkeley City Council to their promise: Defund BPD! Fund community-based alternatives!
Read the meeting agenda for May 25 here. The zoom link to join the meeting is on the agenda.