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Last year, on November 15th, 39-year-old Richard Perkins was tragically murdered by Oakland police near 90th and Bancroft. Richard Perkins is the 5th person to be killed by OPD this year. His murder has been extremely difficult for the family and they have put out a call to the community for support.
We will be showing our support for the Perkins family at Eastside Arts Alliance where there will be performances, art, and speakers by the incredible voices of our community. We are asking for a $10 dollar donation at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will go to the Perkins family.
There is an option to donate online if you cannot attend:
https://www.youcaring.com/
Please share with you fam, friends, and loved ones.
PERFORMERS:
AFROFONIX
This event will be updated with more performers, vendors, and artist set to share their magical brilliance in the spirit of community love and solidarity.
organized by members of Anti Police-Terror Project & black.seed
OccupyForum presents…
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!
Malcolm X: Make it Plain
The early articulation of the global, anti-colonial struggle
Occupy Forum observes the 50th plus Anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with the screening of the film Malcolm X: Make It Plain.
Articulating concepts of race pride and black nationalism Malcolm X was an African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and ’60s. Dynamic orator and militant minister, and the leader and potential leader of the black power concept, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism “by any means necessary,” including violence.
Avoiding the life-of-a-saint tone that characterized much of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, this documentary is a careful exploration of Malcolm X’s life and thought. Directed by Orlando Bagwell, (The Great Depression and Eyes on the Prize), the film takes care to place Malcolm X’s political leadership in a context that includes not only the by-now-familiar run through his time spent as the zoot-suited hustler Detroit Red, but also his childhood as the son of Earl Little, a Michigan minister and organizer for the black-nationalist Marcus Garvey Movement. The complexity and contradictions of Malcolm X’s philosophy are discussed and debated by diverse interview subjects, ranging from Malcolm’s brothers to the New York police officer who infiltrated Malcolm’s Nation of Islam chapter in the hope of discrediting him.
After Malcolm X made the Hajj, the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during which he converted to traditional Islam, he placed the American Civil Rights Movement within the context of a global anti-colonial struggle, embracing socialism and pan-Africanism. “The true brotherhood I had seen had influenced me to recognize that anger can blind human vision,” he said. “America is the first country … that can actually have a bloodless revolution.”
Make It Plain is a first- rate piece of journalism, presenting a figure obscured by the historical context, and one who we do well to study in today’s racist emergency.
Q&A and Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum
to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away!
Come out and support our comrade Nailah who is currently facing charges after the wave of resistance in solidarity with Ferguson
Please join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity folks in Oakland at lunchtime as we hold banners and signs, speak with passers-by, and share information about the torture in CA prisons.
We are working to END solitary confinement and promote the Agreement to End Hostilities. For the past 6 1/2 months, people in Pelican Bay SHU (solitary) have been jarred awake 40-48 times a day, around the clock. We say, ” Stop the Sleep Deprivation Torture!”
Join us this Tuesday! People will be rallying at Apple stores around the country to fight the government’s attempt to put a backdoor into our iPhones, which would make all of us less safe.
See the list of national events here
LOGISTICS:
1. Show up on Tuesday at 5:30pm local time and gather in front of the store holding signs or phones, computers, and tablets open to ProtestSign.org (which turns your device into a handy protest sign!) You can also bring your own handmade sign too! Our basic message is: “FBI: Don’t break our iPhones!” and “Secure Phones Save Lives.” Check out some ideas for signs here.
2. Get some photos and videos of the group with your phones and signs up. Try some chants like “Don’t! Break! Our! Phones!” and “ Show some energy! Send your photos and videos IMMEDIATELY to team@fightforthefuture.org and we’ll help get them out to the press and on social media. The faster you can send photos the more likely we are to get press attention. You can also post photos on social media with the hashtag #DontBreakOurPhones
3. We’ll have an informational flyer soon that you can print and hand out to passers by or media who show up. Check back soon for a link to that and print some out before you come if you can!
4. Be energetic, but positive! We’re angry that the FBI is trying to make all of us less safe by undermining Apple’s security, but the goal of these events is to educate the public, lawmakers, and the press about WHY this is so dangerous. So let’s channel our anger into action!
WHAT’S GOING ON?
The FBI just got a judge to order Apple to build a software “backdoor” to help them hack into an iPhone. This is really dangerous because the FBI isn’t asking for access to just one phone — they’re asking Apple to make them a golden key that would let them unlock every iPhone.
The FBI has been wanting to do this for years, but now they’re exploiting the tragedy in San Bernardino, CA to push their agenda to weaken the security of all of our phones to enable more government surveillance.
Our basic safety and security is at stake! On Tuesday, February 23rd we will gather at Apple stores nationwide with two simple messages: “Don’t Break Our Phones!” and “Secure Phones Save Lives!”
We’re not protesting Apple, they are fighting back against this too. We’re protesting the government’s dangerous attempt to undermine our security by demanding a backdoor.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Breaking the security features of our iPhones won’t just hurt our privacy, it puts all of our safety at risk. Once a backdoor is built, there’s no way to ensure it will only be used by the government and law enforcement, and it will eventually leak either by malicious hackers, foreign governments, terrorists, or thieves and stalkers to use our data against us.
What the FBI is doing is dangerous, but it’s also illegal. Apple has a right to offer customers secure devices that protect our most sensitive information. According to the ACLU, forcing Apple to hack their own customers is unconstitutional and will undermine our privacy and safety without improving national security.
So far, Apple is vowing to fight this unlawful and reckless demand by the government, but we need to show them that they’re not standing alone. Join us at one of these important events to stand up for everyone’s safety.
On Feb 23 OpenOakland invites you to come and learn how technology can empower communities, and how you can use tech to get more civic too!
Technology plays a vital role in connecting people and their government- Connecting Oakland is an interactive event where you will learn about how Oaklanders have used tech to:
- make city hall more accessible,
- to improve transparency; and
- promote civic engagement.
You’ll see first hand how an app is built in Oakland- from an initial idea, to a concept, to the data scraping to app design. Built in Oakland, for Oaklanders!
We’ll also host a design session to help you work on an app or technology project- to prepare for the next hackathon or to work with OpenOakland’s volunteers through the year. We’ll also have speakers from the City of Oakland showing us how to engage with them and influence decisions.
We’ll also be joined by some of Kamala Harris’s team (our Attorney General) to show us their new data app that shares data on police uses of force- Open Justice.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Presented by
Join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition to
END SLEEP DEPRIVATION TORTURE IN PELICAN BAY SECURITY HOUSING UNITS/SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Solitary Man
Solo Performance by Charlie Hinton
After the performance, we will discuss how and why the men in Pelican Bay SHU have been continuously deprived of sleep since Aug 2, 2015.
SLEEP DEPRIVATION
IS TORTURE
No more torture in our name! prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com
Facebook: Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
We will teach simple and easy guided meditation and breathing techniques to let go of stress and trauma, let your hair down, and celebrate!We believe that love is the universal language. We also believe that love is the universal cure to heal what ails societies worldwide. These meditation happy hours are our love offering to the community and are the result of a beautiful new & evolving partnership with Neelam Patil from The Art of Living.
Neelam has been meditating for the past 16 years and a student of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the Art of Living Foundation, and an internationally renowned humanitaian and spiritual teacher. Neelam has done over 30 silent meditation retreats and daily seeks to live a life filled with knowledge, love, and service. She has taught trauma relief programs to inner city youth in high schools across the U.S. and abroad.
Neelam also teaches healthy cooking classes and caters out of Bliss Belly Kitchen, and currently she is working on an internet based TV show called Bliss Belly Cooking Show.
Special Showing
Occupy The Farm Film
In Solidarity With
The Indigenous Land Access Committee
The Story of Community Efforts to Save
Sacred Ohlone Land for Agriculture
and Community Resilience
Dinner at 6 p.m.
With greens from the UC Gill Tract Community Farm
Film at 7 p.m.
After the film, a conversation with Ohlone, Indigenous
and Community People Involved with this Struggle and Todd Darling, Director, Occupy The Farm Film
Learn How You Can Join in the Struggle to Save the Land
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Based on the book by Naomi Orestes and Erik M. Conway, this documentary lifts the curtain on pundits-for-hire paid by large corporations to cast doubt on scientific studies and spread confusion about a range of public threats, from toxic chemicals to climate change. The film explores the illusions created by these corporations in order distract the public from the harm their products create.
Pictured: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. Beginning in the late 1970s Exxon conducted climate research and then, without revealing what it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial and manufactured doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.
The case is moving into pretrial and court support is more important than ever. Please come support Janye and show the courts that we stand with him.
Antirepression Crew will be doing Coffee not Cops outside Rene C. Davidson starting at 8:30.
We’ll begin with a vigil at the site of his shooting (Folsom btw 24th and 25th), and then march to Mission Police Station. Afterwards, a free community dinner at St. John’s at 15th and Julian (between Valencia and Mission).
FRIDAY, 5pm, #SanFrancisco: Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez https://t.co/bxDQIj3cjU #justice4amilcar pic.twitter.com/5aRoAzBApv
— Indybay (@Indybay) February 24, 2016
Members of the Historic Original Black Panthers of Oakland, Ericka Huggins, Tarika Lewis, Clarence Thomas, and David Hilliard will join various National and Local families victimized by Police Terrorism to inspire, pass on wisdom, experience, and discuss Policing in the 21st Century, Theme “Where do we go from Here”. “If you want to hear the truth, you must let the suffering speak”. It is this truth that has fueled the Movement for Justice across the United States. These families will share their faith, strength and hope, while listening, learning, and being inspired by these revolutionaries.
There will be two panels, one mothers’ panel moderated by Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, and one mens’ panel moderated by Davey D, KPFA radio host and Hip-Hop artist.
All will have an opportunity to meet and embrace these chosen families that have taken their tragedy to move the movement toward Justice. Join us as we welcome them in Oakland for the Oscar Grant Legacy Weekend Birthday Celebration.
This free event is open to the Public.
JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: LATE NIGHT MASS COPWATCHING
· February 12, 10 PM – 1 AM
· February 27, 8 PM – 11 PM
Since October 2015, Berkeley Copwatch has been holding “mass copwatch” events that invite folks to join us for a shift. It’s been fun and very empowering to have up to five cars full of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people.
This month we have two shifts scheduled. Please join us; we will train you in the essentials of copwatching, how to document and how to stay safe!
Contact us at (510) 548-0425 or berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com to learn where we will be meeting.
We’ll teach you how to use common encryption technologies like Signal, Tor, and password managers. We’d also like to have speakers, email jehan.tremback@gmail.com if you’d like to present.
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STEALING DEMOCRACY – HAITI FIGHTS BACK FEB 28th 3-5PM at EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE, OAKLAND |
| Join Haiti Action Committee to mark the 12th anniversary of the February 29, 2004 U.S.-backed coup d’état that overthrew the progressive, democratically-elected Lavalas government headed by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and to stand with Haiti’s popular movement at a critical moment in its longstanding struggle for democracy.Eastside Arts Alliance Sunday, Feb 28th, 3-5PM2277 International Avenue, Oakland See the statement issued by 68 grassroots organizations in Haiti calling for solidarity with their struggle for free and fair elections, dignity and justice. The statement was written as tens of thousands of Haitians have taken to the streets – braving assassination, tear gas, beatings, and police torture – demanding the annulment of the fraudulent elections that gave the lead positions in the legislative and presidential races to the hand-picked candidates of President Michel Martelly, the corrupt “Haiti is Open for Business” government head imposed on Haiti. by Hilary Clinton.
The postponement of Haiti’s rigged January 24th presidential run-off election is a dramatic and hard-won victory for the people’s movement, which has insisted that no election take place until it could be free and fair and democratic. The response of the Obama administration? Blame the protesters. The struggle for the right to vote and for all Haitians to participate in the political process continues.
See this August 2003 publication Hidden From The Headlines: The U.S.War Against Haiti. to understand the relentless U.S. campaign to sabotage and destroy Haiti’s democratic government that led to the 2004 coup d’etat and military occupation. Hidden from the Headlines exposed a highly organized U.S. propaganda offensive against the Aristide government aimed at progressive activists who might otherwise have defended a democratically elected government committed to social change. We invite you to attend this challenging and informative event and come out ready to support Haitians’ struggle for democracy.  |
As a direct result of incredible community organizing over the past year, Oakland City Council is holding a special hearing of the Community Economic Development Committee, where the three proposals for development on E 12th – including A People’s Proposal – will be presented publicly. A People’s Proposal is available online here.
We need to show the depth of community support for 100% affordable housing on public land. Please join us on Monday 2/29:
- 4:00 Community gathering on steps of Oakland City Hall
- 4:30 Special CED Committee Meeting on E 12th Proposals
The fight for the E 12th A People’s Proposal is not just about one piece of public land. We need to lift up the voices of the people who are being impacted by our housing crisis and push back against development-as-usual in Oakland. Join us to demand real solutions to the housing crisis and public land for public good, not luxury towers and segregated housing.
Please sign up here to speak on Monday 2/29 at 5:30 and share your support for A People’s Proposal for E 12th. We are the only agenda item, so enter “1” where it asks for the agenda number. You can also cede your time to another speaker. (Remember to print out your confirmation page and bring it with you.)
Help us keep the public pressure up by calling or emailing Council Members, or contacting them on Twitter or Facebook!
Sample Tweet: Dear @Abel_Guillen @DanKalb @annieforoakland @LynetteGM @desleyb, please support @peoplesproposal for 100% affordable housing! #SaveE12th
www.facebook.com/AbelGuillen;
www.facebook.com/DanKalb;
www.facebook.com/anniewashington;
www.facebook.com/desleyb;
www.facebook.com/lynettemcelhaney
Sample call-in script or email:
“My name is ____ and I am calling to ask City Council Member ____ to support A People’s Proposal for 100% affordable housing on E 12th St. We need to maximize affordable housing for working families on public land, not a luxury tower. Please support A People’s Proposal when it comes before you.”
District 2 Council Member Abel Guillen (510) 238-7002, aguillen@oaklandnet.com
District 1 Council Member Dan Kalb (510) 238-7001, dkalb@oaklandnet.com
District 3 Council Member Lynette Gibson McElhaney (510) 238-7003, lmcelhaney@oaklandnet.com
District 4 Council Member Annie Campbell Washington (510) 238-7004, acampbell-washington@oaklandnet.com
District 6 Council Member Desley Brooks (510) 238-7006, dbrooks@oaklandnet.com
We are inspired by how many people and organizations have helped A People’s Proposal over the past year, and deeply grateful for every single call, email, and public support for this effort. Thank you & together we can make community-led housing development a reality in Oakland! #SaveE12th #PublicLand4PublicGood
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!OccupyForum presents
“Heist: Who Stole the American Dream” a Documentary,
and discussion with director Donald Goldmacher
Today, politics is the playground of the rich and powerful with no thought given to the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans. HEIST goes deep in explaining the greatest wealth transfer of our time. Moving beyond the white noise of today’s polarizing media, HEIST provides us with an explanation of the crisis in which we find ourselves, and the steps we must take to restore representative democracy.”
Donald Goldmacher will lead discussion on the system as it is intentionally pushed toward oligarchy, and the problematic nature of this system in any case.
Time will be allotted for announcements.