Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Interrogations and Harassment of Students!

Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from returning to her classroom at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School after being placed on administrative leave.

After she helped stop a neo-Nazi recruitment rally in Sacramento this summer, and was stabbed in the process, terror threats were made against Ms. Felarca and the school if she’s not fired, and instead of defending the entire community, including Ms. Felarca, the school district is capitulating to the neo-Nazis’ demands by removing her from her job.

The school district also took some of her wages back out of her bank account. Both current and former students continue to be pulled out of class and interrogated about her, now with parental notification, but the nature of the ‘interviews’ are being misrepresented.

At the last school board meeting students from all grade levels – elementary, middle, and high school, parents, fellow teachers from Berkeley and Oakland, and a diverse range of community members rallied in defense of Ms. Felarca. When board members refused to disclose their personal positions on whether she should continue to teach, and instead scurried off into a second, unagendized “closed session”, the community held its own meeting in the board room, with many more speaking out. Video of the rally and school board meeting can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI

Voice your solidarity with Yvette Felarca, and demand that she be reinstated immediately, repaid her full wages, and the harassment of her and her students be stopped: boardofed@berkeley.net, Superintendent@berkeley.net

Defend Yvette Felarca!

Non-sectarian defense of all anti-fascists!

An injury to one is an injury to all!

For more information:

Press conference with Yvette Felarca and her lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVxvNt3vY

Details of what happened in Sacramento, and the neo-Nazis involved: http://antifasac.weebly.com/home/blood-in-the-valley-why-people-put-their-lives-on-the-line-to-run-nazis-out-of-sacramento

More about the fascist organizers of the Sacramento rally: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/27/violent-clashes-erupt-sacramento-between-white-nationalists-and-antifascists

Details about neo-Nazis converging in Berkeley prior to their attempted rally in Sacramento: https://itsgoingdown.org/big-nazis-on-campus/

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

An invitation to a class on the

When the English first got to Virginia, in the early 1600s, they didn’t see themselves as “white.” It took a century for their colonialism to produce the concepts of race and white supremacy.

We’ve been fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism since then. And still, a Trump can come along with his “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying degrees of frenzy. Today even the most liberal cities cannot stop police racial profiling  – while thee illiberal ones officiate over “stop and frisk.”

Ø                 What are we missing?

Ø                 If racism is just a “divide and rule” strategy, why has it always worked so well? Why does it still work so well?

Ø                 How is it that new groups, like immigrants and Muslims, can be continually targetted for racial assault (victim de jour)?

Ø                 If race is a social construct, what is the structure that has been constructed?

Ø                 Is it an economic structure? A cultural structure? What?

Ø                 How deep culturally does it reside in this country?

Ø                 Is “race” a noun or a verb?

This class will look at the the structures of policing today, of segregation yesterday, and of colonization and slavery the day before that. If the “modern concept of race” was constructed socially at a particular moment, does that imply an ending we can programmatize?

This class will be mostly discussion and dialogue. We will have to address our prejudices about prejudice in order to get to the issues of structure. There will be non-mandatory readings on line for the class. It will also be open to other texts that class members wish to propose.

Facilitator:         Steve Martinot

Because policing fails to meet people’s needs, and puts people in danger of arrest, imprisonment, and/or even death, we must eliminate connections between policing and healthcare.

Critical Resistance Oakland and The Oakland Power Projects present: The “Know Your Options: Chronic illness” workshop

This workshop is designed to increase people’s understanding of mental health-related experiences, events, trauma, and conditions so that we don’t default to 911 or the cops when a baseline or escalated mental health-related event or experience happens.

The “Know Your Options” workshop series aims to increase people’s access to the healthcare they need and to decrease people’s contact with law enforcement. Workshops are facilitated by healthcare workers and community organizers.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

Rally to Protest Against Extreme Rent and Fee Hikes at Trailer Haven, and all around San Leandro

Monday 11/7/16

6 pm in front of City Hall (835 East 14th St.) to tell our stories.
Bring signs, and since they have not been listening, bring pots to make some joyful noise!

7 pm City Council meeting
5:30 Trailer Haven residents can meet at Space 24. We’ll be carpooling

Let’s remind them we’re people, families, we have beloved pets, we have neighbors who are too ill to be able to join us, and others who would become homeless if this is not stopped. We own our homes; yet, we are held ransom to a group of corporate investors that sees us only as a means to their quick wealth. Not only have the new owners made dramatic rent hikes, but our home values have dropped overnight $10,000 for each $100 raise in rent/fees, according to the Golden State Manufactured Owners League. The greed we’re seeing here, of over 30% hikes in rent and fees, has to be stopped but no City, County, State, or Federal politician has agreed to help. Not one. Our City Council Member Deborah Cox has NEVER responded since a first letter 7/25. To top it off, since a month ago we’re having sewer backups and overflows on the West side of the park because of the owners not paying to have the needed work to clean out the pipes correctly. Then, when a water pipe burst 1-1/2 weeks after we got the rent hike letter, the pipe was not replaced; only a band-aid job was done. WE DESERVE BETTER!

Info: Max Ventura 510-895-2312

Please help get the word out. And if you come fragrance-free you’ll be helping to make this event more accessible to more people. Thank you!

Another protest called for 5PM tomorrow. Families & elderly leaving before cops crack down again. Others remaining. #NotMyPresident #Oakland pic.twitter.com/zpHB9oV24j

— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) November 10, 2016

For all people heading to Standing Rock, come get trained and prepared to be an effective water protector and stand in solidarity with indigenous people defending their land. This training will also be useful for folks organizing local direct actions in the Bay Area in solidarity with Standing Rock, and otherwise. All are invited to attend. While folks are invited to come for any part of the training or for the entire thing, we ask everyone coming to please make it a point to be there if at all possible for the 10am-12pm piece on walking with humility and respect when working with indigenous communities.

Connect with other people heading to Standing Rock from the Bay Area. Keep up to date with this page for caravans to Standing Rock from the Bay Area being planned. Learn Direct Action and Civil Disobedience Basics, Medical Supporters Training and Group Health, Legal and Know Your Rights, Security Culture, Tech and Communications Security, and Best Practices for Working Alongside Indigenous People with Humility and Respect.

We will gather from 10am-6pm on Ohlone land at PLACE for Sustainable Living in Oakland located at 1121 64th Street, Oakland, CA 94608 (64th off San Pablo). See the schedule below for a breakdown of the day.

***Schedule***

10-10:15am: Welcome and Intro to Day’s Schedule and Topics w/ Permaculture Action Network

10:15-10:45am: Report Back on Standing Rock, Situation on the Ground, and Brief History of Dakota Access Pipeline and Indigenous Resistance to it w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz, Camille Seaman, and Richie Beltran

10:45-12pm: How To Work Alongside Indigenous Communities w Humility and Respect w. local indigenous activists recently back from Standing Rock Hartman Deetz, Camille Seaman, and Richie Beltran

12-12:15pm: Light Lunch and Potluck Spread

12:15-2:00pm: Direct Action and Civil Disobedience w. Krystof Lopaur

2:15pm-3:15pm: Medical Supporters Training and Group Health w. MASH Clinic, Timber, and Amani William

3:15-4:30pm: Tech and Communications Security w. Lisha Sterling (Geeks Without Bounds) remote from Standing Rock, Bill Budington (EFF), Jen Helsby (Freedom of the Press, tentative), Scott LaMorte (May First) and Jenny Ryan (Sudo Room / Peoples Open Network)

4:30pm: Legal and Know Your Rights w. John Viola, Ben Rosenfeld, and Gabriela Lopez

5:30pm: Transport Networking and Caravan Debrief w. Ryan Rising and Kammer Moss (Permaculture Action Network)

6pm: Closing

We’ll be posting an extended outline of the training curriculum soon. To get in touch, please write to us at Contact (A) PermacultureAction.org

Hotline Training

Hotline Training

This will be non-violent direct action training.
This training will take participants through the strategies and tools used in non-violent direct action. It will include a legal briefing and an overall plan for #NoDAPL and Keystone XL responses.

This training will be an important place to get plugged into for the DAPL and KXL solidarity.

For more information, email diablorisingtide@riseup.net

Do you think internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate monopoly?

Come on over to the Omni Commons to learn about the history of the internet, how it works, and how to build your own. Meet and mingle with civic hackers and organizers behind peoplesopen.net: an open, community-based network in the East Bay.

Agenda:
* 1:00pm – Why/what/how of the internet (< 30 minutes)
* 1:30pm – Snack, mingle, share and experiment
* 2:00pm – Hands-on workshop with a variety of learning stations

Donations for pizza and internet are enthusiastically accepted ; )

The Omni Commons’ ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift in the Entrance Hall, where there is also located a wheelchair-accessible single-stall bathroom.

The Peoples Open Network enables anyone to share their Internet connection or extend signal from neighboring nodes. Learn more atpeoplesopen.net.

The Omni Commons is a 100% volunteer-run space for community organizing, collaboration, and creative production located in North Oakland. Learn more at omnicommons.org.

Don’t miss free ‘Science Talk @Cal‘ conference 4/22 w/ #BayArea reporters/experts on food, water & climate change: https://t.co/shSA5gaH5V pic.twitter.com/1ZvN6oCw3M

— UC Berkeley J-School (@ucbsoj) March 7, 2017

Today’s political environment bears witness to unprecedented attacks on truth, science, and our planet. This Earth Day, April 22nd, we march to affirm that:

– public funding for scientific research is a social good
– climate change is real
– environmental abuses are human rights abuses
– scientific truths are not subject to political manipulation
– scientists MUST engage with government to support these truths

Bring your lab coats! Bring your rally signs! We gather together to defend our planet and our institutions through civic engagement and sustained political action at local, state, and federal levels.

RESIST!

Please note: This event is in the evening, so it will be possible to support both this march and other marches for science in San Francisco or Sacramento, or to participate in UC Berkeley’s Cal Day. We support ALL efforts to promote Earth rights and science literacy on this important day, and we want all to have the opportunity to fully participate!

Tomorrow (Sunday 4/30) at 5:00 PM in Vallejo at 545 Magazine St. pic.twitter.com/PljvQSIwT5

— dr. hoopoe (@thehoopoe) April 29, 2017

The first in a series of monthly classes that include Zapatista history, projects and thinking and discussion of how the Zapatista experience has relevance to those of us outside of Chiapas and Mexico. Classes are open to all those interested in learning about the Zapatista movement, which governs its own territory through a government parallel to that of the Mexican State. We’re also serving waffles and coffee to welcome participants.

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict for the officer who shot and killed our son, Philando Castile, on July 6, 2016. Join us to voice our intolerance for this injustice on Saturday June 17th.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, SHARE THIS EVENT NOW! 🚨

The Bay Area refuses to accept the final verdict made by the jury members in Minnesota this past week. The officer who shot and killed Philando Castile, while his wife and daughter were present, IS GUILTY.

There is no debate, and there is no justification for murdering an innocent man. Oakland wishes to stand in solidarity with Philando’s family, and we wish to voice our intolerance for police terror NOW. There is no time to wait–the system has and continues to fail black folks in Amerikkka.

RALLY: 6:00 PM
MARCH: 7:30 PM

Bring signs, drums, any materials to make your voice heard. THE BAY AREA STANDS WITH PHILANDO CASTILE AND HIS FAMILY. WE WILL FIGHT AND DEMAND JUSTICE FOR BLACK LIVES.

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

Living Graveyard (monthly protest)

Covered with sheets to represent the dead of wars, people lie down on the city sidewalk in front of the Federal Building, This is legal, non-violent witness.  People stop, look and think. (Bring your own sheet)

Iraqi Deaths 2,973,613
U.S. Deaths 4,520   Coalition 4,841

Syrian Deaths, unknown
 
Afghan Deaths 30,000+
U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan 2,399  Coalition 3,535

Pakistani Deaths over 1,000 from drone attacks

Sponsor: Ecumenical Peace Institute www.epicalc.org
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