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1st Session: 10:15 – 1:00 PM
2nd Session: 1:15 PM – 4:00 PM
We’ve all been there. Someone in a public place says or does something to another person that makes us feel uncomfortable or even scared for that other person. Learn how to intervene in those situations, including tactics from de-escalation strategies to some basic self-defense.
We’ll meet in a dojo, where you’ll have an opportunity to talk about and practice different intervention tactics, including practicing different strategies in different scenarios.
This training is also being offered in the afternoon.
Accessibility Information
The training will be held on the ground floor, and will be accessible to folks who are mobility impaired, but the bathroom is old and tight and so is not accessible to folks with wheelchairs. Scent-free soap will be provided in the bathroom.
Golden Gate Branch is hosting a pop-up exhibit and film screening of original Black Panther Party (BPP) memorabilia, put together by historian Billy X Jennings, from the archives of ‘It’s About Time.’
After the film “Lords of the Revolution,” former Panthers will join us for a panel discussion of their experiences in the BPP. Delive into the history of this influential group with first-hand accounts of Party activities and programs.
Hear our panel discuss “Socialism and the Black Liberation Struggle”
Featuring:
– Monica Moorehead, 2016 Workers World Party Presidential Candidate, Managing Editor http://www.workers.org newspaper, editor “Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle”
– Pierre LaBossiere, Haiti Action Committee
– Jeremy Miller, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Last 3%
Hear about the fight for socialism and the struggle against white supremacy in the context of capitalism and imperialism. What about the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Black Panthers, Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah among others?
Join in the discussion afterwards.
Refreshments will be served. The space is wheelchair accessible.
Dr. Larry Shoup will speak and lead a discussion on:
“California’s Plutocratic Politics: Time for a Dialogue on Green Party Strategy and Tactics”
What time is it in terms of the earth’s ecologies? What time is it politically, in terms of activism for the people and the earth and against the threats posed by reactionary plutocratic Republicans and mainstream plutocratic Democrats? What are the implications for elections as the main focus of Green Party activism? What are the alternatives? The case for varied local Green Party campaigns to promote municipal grass roots democracy and community based economics. The goal of this Green Sunday is both educational and developmental in the sense of beginning a dialogue
on what should be our strategy and tactics for the immediate future and longer term.
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Larry Shoup was the Green Party candidate for California Secretary of State in 2002. He is the author of five books, including Wall Street’s Think Tank: the Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics (Monthly Review Press 2015).
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STOP DEPORTATION DEMONSTRATIONS
at ICE immigration holding center (deportations)
Mondays and Wednesdays 4 – 6 pm
Let’s build a permanent presence at I.C.E. to stop the deportations.
Bring signs, Spread widely.
Join the Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area to share stories of struggle + resilience, celebrate our strengths and collectively shift the culture of the Bay Area restaurant industry towards: *Racial Equity *Professionalization * Harassment-Free Environments & *Dignity in the Workplace!Join the Restaurant Opportunities Center of the Bay Area to share stories of struggle + resilience, celebrate our strengths and collectively shift the culture of the Bay Area restaurant industry towards: *Racial Equity *Professionalization * Harassment-Free Environments & *Dignity in the Workplace!
Find more information here.
This event is being hosted by ROC the Bay
No Ban No Wall: Confronting the Militarization of Our Borders
A panel discussion entitled No Ban, No Wall: Confronting the Militarization of Our Borders and Communities
The Trump presidency has increased attacks on immigrant and marginalized communities through targeting sanctuary cities, instituting the Muslim ban, and revoking temporary protected status for thousands. But, these actions are based on a long-standing foundation of xenophobia and criminalization. Such repression manifests not only at borders, but also in our backyards in the form of militarized policing, state surveillance, and collusion between local and federal law enforcement.
Join us for a panel discussion to analyze these intersections with some of the individuals working to defend the health and rights of immigrant communities.
� Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis
� Lara Kiswani, Executive Directoor of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
� Pierre Labossiere, Co-Founder oof the Haiti Action Committee
� Abraham Vela M.D., Clinica Marttin-Baro volunteer
This event is part of the “Social Medicine for Our Times” event series organized by BCSM and CNA/NNU.
West Oakland/Uptown/Adams Point Social
In addition to canvasses, a critical part of each canvassing district’s monthly organizing are the social events, which create a more casual space to talk about the fight to decommodify healthcare. Come meet the wonderful comrades and neighbors in your district and socialize about socialism over a beer or some food.
Mark Gomez discusses “Beyond Crisis Liberalism,” exploring the possibilities for renewed economic progress, and an end to economic exclusion, in California. For details, call 510.644.2020.
STOP DEPORTATION DEMONSTRATIONS
at ICE immigration holding center (deportations)
Mondays and Wednesdays 4 – 6 pm
Let’s build a permanent presence at I.C.E. to stop the deportations.
Bring signs, Spread widely.
Let us know if you can make it out to our next social hour in South Berkeley! Come out to connect with DSA, learn more about our Medicare for All campaign, meet your neighbors, and join us for a political discussion!
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele, and Mother Jones reporter Jamilah King will be in San Francisco to launch our event series with Mother Jones.
Cullors and bandele will present their new book, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” which follows Cullors’ own experience living as a Black woman in America.
In 2013, Cullors, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, created the Black Lives Matter movement in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin. Galvanized by injustice, the organization grew. Each year, new cases of police brutality fueled the ongoing movement.
The past five years are a testament: protesters organized en masse, #BlackLivesMatter trended consistently across the globe. Voices raised, finally heard – yet still more deaths, more acquittals.
At this special event, audience members will be privy to an intimate discussion with these three women about one of the most salient issues of today.
Tickets are limited, so be sure to reserve your spot soon.
Bay Area Book Festival
Reserve Tickets
Join the picket line with SEIU Service Employees Union EVERY FRIDAY.
STOP DEPORTATIONS and harassment of immigrants and refugees.
Also…
SF Labor Council Calls for a Clean Dream Act Now,
No Compromises;
Urges Labor Movement to Take Action!
[Resolution Adopted Unanimously by the Feb. 12, 2018, Delegates Assembly of the San Francisco Labor Council]
� For a Clean Dream Act Now and a Path to Citizenship for all Undocumented Youth!
� Not One More Deportatioon!
� No Funding for the Wall of Shame!
� No More Funding for Immigration Enforcement!
• Stop the I-9 Audits!
� No Workplace Raids!
� Defend Our Sanctuary Cities!
� Maintain TPS!
Whereas, on Feb. 9, 2018, both houses of the U.S. Congress adopted a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that does not include any protections for the close to 800,000 undocumented youth (Dreamers) brought to this country when they were children;
Whereas, United We Dream and thousands of undocumented youth organized actions and lobbied Congress in support of a Clean Dream Act — that is, continued protections and a path to citizenship for the 800,000 undocumented youth, WITHOUT any funding for the Wall of Shame and WITHOUT any further funding for ICE immigration enforcement;
Whereas, March 5, 2018, has been set as the deadline by the Trump administration for the adoption of any legislation that would extend DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals);
Whereas, House Speaker Paul Ryan — taking his lead from the Trump administration — has stated that any protection for undocumented youth, would require, in exchange, millions of dollars more to build the Wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and millions of dollars more for immigration enforcement;
Whereas, Sanctuary Cities — particularly in California — are under increased attack by the Trump administration;
Whereas, on Nov. 20, 2017, Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke cut off Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for 60,000 Haitians and for more than 240,000 other immigrants from 10 nations (mainly from Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua);
Whereas, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that 77 I-9 audits took place in Northern California at the end of January 2018 — audits that are expected to increase and become workplace raids and deportations if and when a deal is struck on protections for undocumented youth in exchange for increased immigration enforcement and funding for the Wall; and
Whereas, undocumented youth — just like all 11 million undocumented immigrants, and just like all hundreds of thousands of TPS recipients — are part of the U.S. working class and deserve protections and a path to citizenship through a just immigration reform; in particular, they deserve the labor movement’s protection and support.
Therefore be it resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council reaffirms its stance in support of the following demands: “For a Clean Dream Act and a Path to Citizenship for all Undocumented Youth! Not one More Deportation, No Funding for the Wall of Shame, No More Funding for Immigration Enforcement! Stop the I-9 Audits! No Workplace Raids! Defend Our Sanctuary Cities! Maintain TPS!”
Be it further resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council will work closely with our community partners to call on our elected representatives to take a firm and unwavering stand for a Clean Dream Act Now; and
Be it finally resolved, that the San Francisco Labor Council calls on the California Federation of Labor and the national AFL-CIO to issue statements in support of a Clean Dream Act Now and to call for mobilizations, where possible, in alliance with our immigrant sisters and brothers and their organizations, to promote the above-stated demands.
Respectfully submitted by:
Olga Miranda, SEIU Local 87; member SF Labor Council Executive Committee; Rudy Gonzalez, IBT 856, member SF Labor Council Executive Committee; Susan Solomon, UESF, member SF Labor Council Executive Committee; Alan Benjamin, OPEIU Local 29.
The Oaks Card Club earned $27 million in gross gaming revenue through various gaming platforms including the best solitaire app around last year. But Oaks Corner (also owned by John Tibbetts) has not increased its contribution to workers’ health care since 2011. The result is that dishwashers, janitors and servers – many of whom earn at or near Emeryvillle’s minimum wage – must pay over $500 per month for family medical coverage through their employer.
Join the workers on the picket line to celebrate Lunar New Year and fight for affordable health care!
We’re taking the repeal of the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act to the ballot!!!
Strong Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction laws are the way to keep people in their homes now, while we work to get more (truly) affordable housing built. In order to have strong Rent Control laws, we need to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a state law which ties the hands of local government. Costa-Hawkins prevents\ cities and counties from applying rent control to apartments built after 1995 or to single-family rental units. It also allows landlords to raise the rent as much as they want when a unit becomes vacant.
Our signature goal is 585,000 by the end of April, and well over 25% have been collected so far. We can do this, but we need all hands on deck!!!
- Come out for a community kick-off event & signature gathering, followed by lunch.
- Endorse the Affordable Housing Act & get your petitions for your organization to help repeal Costa Hawkins & allow the expansion of strong rent control.
Chairman Omali Yeshitela, leader of the Uhuru Movement and African People’s Socialist Party returns to Oakland to discuss his lifelong work organizing for the liberation of Africa and African people everywhere, the state of today’s crisis of imperialism under Trump and the struggle for black socialism.
The event will take place in a relaxed setting with time for questions and discussion from the floor.
Bakari Olatunji, Market Manager for Uhuru Foods and Pies will also participate along with Penny Hess, chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee
Food will be served.
In honor of #BlackSolidarityWeek, and in light of the recent released FBI report on so-called “Black Identity Extremists,” CRC will host a political education panel on the repression of Black dissidents.
Join leaders from the Anti Police-Terror Project and special guests Mama Akua Njeri and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. for an evening of radical truth telling, solidarity building, and self defense.
On March 4, 1968 (exactly one month before King was assassinated), FBI Director Edgar Hoover issued this directive:
Prevent the Coalition of militant black nationalist groups. In unity there is strength, a truism that is no less valid for all its triteness. An effective coalition…might be the first step toward a real “Mau Mau” in America, the beginning of a true black revolution.
Prevent the rise of a “messiah” who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement.
The assassination of 21 year old Chicago Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. about 18 months later was a very clearly documented case of the U.S. government killing an African-American leader on American soil. The historic significance of this brutal act of repression cannot be overstated, and at this event, we will have opportunity to hear the testimony of survivors of the attack.
In August of 2017, the FBI released another internal memo: “Black Identity Extremists Likely to Target Law Enforcement Officers” conflating the upsurge in organized, political resistance to police terror with a violent and criminal threat.
In this historical moment, it is clear that Black leaders are being targeted for repression and neutralization. As a community, how can we defend the rights of Black people to organize and defend their communities from State violence?
We call on all who want to be in solidarity with Black people to attend this event and to help us spread the word. SHOW UP and show the State that your eyes are open to the repression of Black people by the U.S. government.
This is a fundraiser for the Black Solidarity Fund. Ticket sales will benefit Black-led organizations.
This is a Black Solidarity Week Self Defense Event.