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DISABILITY INCARCERATED: A SYMPOSIUM
Information on visiting the Law School can be found here.

9:15 am
Coffee in the Goldberg Room (Room 297), Berkeley Law School

10:00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Susan Schweik, UC Berkeley, and Na’ilah Nasir, UC Berkeley
Opening Remarks
Angela Davis, UC Santa Cruz

Panel 1: A Discussion with the Editors of Disability Incarcerated
Liat Ben-Moshe, University of Toledo
Allison Carey, Schippensburg University
Chris Chapman, York University

Panel 2: Responses to the Book by Berkeley Faculty
Jonathan Simon, Berkeley Law
Na’ilah Nasir, School of Education and African American Studies
Peter Manoleas, School of Social Welfare
Scott Wallin, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:30

Panel 3:  What now, what next? Responses by scholars, artists and activists
D. L. Adams, University of Toledo
Ella Callow, National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families
Sascha Altman DuBrul, Icarus Project
Nora Wilson, Justice Now

2:30-3:30:  Film Showing: Deaf in Prison
Followed by discussion with Talila A. Lewis, H.E.A.R.D., Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf
3:30-4:30 Break

4:30-5:30: Performance: Disability Liberated (Part II).
Sins Invalid performs live on stage in Booth Auditorium, culminating in leading the audience back to the altar space in 120 Kroeber.

5:30-6:30
Disability Liberated Sins Invalid performance concludes.
Location: 120 Kroeber

6:15 Reception/Dinner
Registration for limited number of audience members. RSVP by March 2 on our EventBrite page.
Location: Goldberg Room (Room 297), Berkeley Law School

7:15 PM Film Showing: Bethel.
Followed by discussion with filmmaker Karen Nakamura. Location: Goldberg Room (Room 297), Berkeley Law School

This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair-accessible. Please refrain from wearing scented products so that people with chemical sensitivities can join us. If you need any other disability accommodations in order to attend, including communication services, please contact Susan Schweik at sschweik@berkeley.edu.

Sponsored by: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Center for the Study of Law and Society; Haas Institute Race & Educational Disparities Cluster, Diversity and Democracy Cluster, and Disability Studies Cluster; Dean Judith Little, School of Education; Dean Carla Hesse, Division of Social Sciences; Dean Anthony J. Cascardi, Division of Arts and Humanities; Social and Cultural Studies Program, School of Education; Canadian Studies; The Doreen K. Townsend Center for the Humanities

EVERY MONDAY IN MARCH FROM 600-800 PM AT THE QILOMBO.

THIS WILL BE AN ONGOING STUDY SESSION EXAMINING THE HISTORY OF THE ONGOING ZAPATISTA STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION.
SESSION I: First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle http://www.struggle.ws/mexico/ezln/ezlnwa.html

Future sessions will likely be described at the Facebook event.

The west coast of Canada is home to several indigenous territories whose lands have come under threat as the fossil fuel industry seeks to transport its product to empty tankers via numerous new pipeline projects. Freda and Toghestiy of the Wet’suwet’en nation decided 4 years ago to take action in helping their people stop the destruction of their lands. Exercising their right to practice their cultural customs on their land, they chose to build right in the path of the pipeline projects setting the stage for an ongoing blockade and reclamation of their lands at the Unis’tot’en camp.

In the ensuing years, they have confronted numerous pipeline employees who have come onto their lands, often without permission and by helicopter, to do surveying and other exploration activities. Support for the camp has been growing steadily in nearby towns and all across Canada as the camp raises the bar for what a non-violent resistance effort can achieve.

A website for the camp has been created and can be viewed here: http://unistotencamp.com/

First and foremost, the camp supports an effort to bring Wet’suwet’en people back to their lands to live traditionally and begin healing their families from the destruction wrought by western society on their culture. The plan for the future is to build homes and places of tribal gathering for those who wish to return to the land that sustains them. In order to make this happen, the camp needs the support of settlers and other indigenous tribes to hold off the development efforts of fossil fuel giants TransCanada, Enbridge, Chevron, and others. The camp organizers are opening their doors to anybody willing to provide their time and resources to building and maintaining the efforts at the blockade.

At tonight’s Forum, hear from a supporter who stayed at the camp for 3 weeks in February of this year, and how you or someone else can help get involved. Discussion and pictures of daily life at the camp will be shared. Success at the camp relies on spreading of information, fundraising, solidarity actions, and networking with other groups to find people willing to provide their labor on the grounds at the camp. There is a year round need for supporters at the camp with a couple specialized events planned for the summertime — an action camp for sharing skills and strategy, and a separate work camp for building new structures and implements needed at the camp. The continued organized effort will be desperately needed as pipeline crews converge on the eastern and western borders of the Wet’suwet’en territory sometime this year.

Other camps have started to emerge across Canada with the newest one going up only a few hundred kilometers north of the Unis’tot’en camp. This new blockade, known as Madii Lii, stands in the way of a new LNG project proposed by TransCanada. They will undoubtedly need the same outpouring of support to be successful. The continued existence of these ecosystems rests on the shoulders of those willing to put their bodies in the path of fossil fuel tycoons.

Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons.

The postal service wanted to sell the post office to Hudson-mcdonald, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-mcdonald backed out of the deal in early december.

Get an overview of the sale announcement here. Here’s a good more general overview piece.

 There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th.

The next hearing is March 19th. The federal judge will decide whether the lawsuit will continue or be dismissed – he’ll decide sometime after march 19th.

The Postal Police had been raiding the Occupation intermittently in the wee hours of the morning, but the Occupiers refused to leave.   Read about one of the eviction attempts here.  There haven’t been any raids since a few days before Christmas, but they might start up again at any time.

Check out the Community Garden at the Post Office.

Also check out our website and the Save the Berkeley Post Office website, and First they Came for the Homeless Facebook for updates.

BPOD is an offshoot of Strike Debt Bay Area, which itself is an offshoot of Occupy Oakland and a chapter of the national Strike Debt movement, which is an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.

The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Our work together encompasses:

• (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers;
• (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and
• (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.

We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.

We look forward to learning with you and making change for the better. Please love and support one another. We have a duty to fight. We have a duty to win.

Folks up at #AfrikaTown feeding the community this morning. This is beautiful. #WestOakland pic.twitter.com/csq99wMSL1

— Minister Flashes (@Federal_flashes) March 11, 2015

AntiRep calendar entry.

Always check there and their Facebook page for last-minute changes.

More info about Dante.

The first of eight meetings is January 28th.

This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.

March 11, 2015 people throughout the world will be acting to protest the continuing danger at Fukushima.
The Japanese pro-war Abe government has announced that the tanks surrounding Fukushima are full and they will release thousands of tons of radioactive water.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201412130042
They also are intent in reopening the nearly 50 nuclear power plants that were shutdown after the earthquake. They are also exporting nuclear power plants to Turkey and throughout the world to make more profits in this industry.

The government is also ordering families and children back to Fukushima telling them that it has been decontaminated despite continuing radiation and a growing epidemic of thyroid cancer cases. The government refused as well using a newly passed secrecy law to release information on cancer surgeries in the Fukushima region.

Reading of letters will start at 2:30 PM from around the world. Also there will be a march to PG&E on 245 Market St. near Spear St. San Francisco demanding the closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

The 32nd NNA Monthly Rally-The Fukushima Fourth Anniversary Rally
2 :30 pm The letters to PM Abe will be read loud
3 :00 The speaking out begins
Aroud 3:30 Some more letters will be read loud by actual writers.
4 :00 We start to march to the PGE headquarter on the Market St. to demand the closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

4 :30 Rally Ends
Please wear something yellow, scarf, cap and whatever!
Please bring many people, many signs and your energy!

Sponsored by No Nukes Action Committee, Fukushima Response
http://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/
http://fukushimafourthanniversaryevents.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/fukushimawatchblogspotcom?_rdr
https://nonukesaction.wordpress.com/
www.upwa.info

Speaker: Congressman Barney Frank
Sponsor: Goldman School of Public Policy

5:30 p.m. Reception with Refreshments
6:00 p.m. Presentation and Q&A

First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank represented Massachusetts’s 4th District for 32 years. He is known as a superb legislator and a pragmatic politician whose sharp intellect and sense of humor has made him one of the most influential and colorful figures in Washington. While in Congress, Frank worked to adjust America’s spending priorities to reduce the deficit, provide less funding for the military and more for important quality of life needs at home. As chair of the House Financial Services Committee, he adopted sweeping financial regulations to prevent a recurrence of the financial crisis and was a key author of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

www.facebook.com/saveccsf

www.saveccsf.org

Help plan and build the March 24 day of action to remove the dictatorship and demand an end to downsizing, pushout policies, austerity, and attacks on diversity, and the cancellation of the construction of the Performing Arts Education Center.

Registration.

We’ll be discussing the Debt and Economic systems of the ancient world for this meeting, using an article written by Michael Hudson.

Here’s the reading.  Reconstructing The Origins of Interest-Bearing Debt… We’ll be talking about pages 1-30 this time.

The Politics of Debt Reading Group is associated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.

Prof. Xiao is inviting a special guest, Stanislav Shalunov, co-founder of FireChat, to his class Internet Freedom on Thursday, March 12, 4-6pm.

FireChat in recent news: FireChat — an ‘off-the-grid’ smartphone app — emerged this month as the technological glue holding Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests together and a powerfulweapon in the hands of mass movements, dissidents and protesters. The app works by creating its own network outside the internet, relying simply on the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi link that exist between one phone and another (source).

We started hearing back from the implementers at the last meeting; OPD, PEC, Auditor, and the ER director talked. Now the committee has to decide what to do about what they said. See you at 6:00pm, Thursday, 12 March 2015, at Oakland City Hall.