50% of those murdered by police are people with disabilities and we can reasonable guess that those who survive police terror and brutality are likely to live with some kind of impairment. Join us on Friday, September 8 as we protest police militarization of our communities by saying NO to Urban Shield, a regional effort that further weaponizes police departments to repress and criminalize our communities under the banner of “fighting terrorism” and “expanding emergency services.”

We will be joining hundreds of others at the Stop Urban Shield mobilization at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. The event will be ASL interpreted, have chairs available, and have access volunteers on-site. We would like to have a large disability contingency (50+ people).

Are you available to join us? We will use this facebook event for planning a crip and elder contingent… maybe large posters, maybe a vigil, maybe our own another way of raising visibility of violence against folks with disabilities? After the event, the Stop Urban Shield coalition is hosting a community resource fair at the ampitheater near Lake Merritt one block away. There will be stations that introduce alternatives to calling the police, safety training, emergency response, herbal medicine and more. The stations will also be ASL interpreted and designed to include people with disabilities. There will be (free) food at the fair.

Please join us and invite your folks. We want disabled folks and elders in the streets saying no to police militarization and violence!!

If you can make it, we also suggest you RSVP to the general facebook event so you can follow event updates there as well: https://www.facebook.com/events/115728319054837/

Hope to see you there.

Rally will be at the Alameda County Admin Building
Resource Fair will be held at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater

In just the past week, Trump has furthered police militarization with the greenlighting of the 1033 program and expanded his attack on immigrants by announcing an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
On the heels of these devastating policies coming from the federal government, Urban Shield will descend on the Bay Area this week, bringing police units from all over the country and world to conducted highly militarized trainings bent on further criminalizing and repressing our communities. But communities everywhere have sprung into action to declare that we will not sit quietly as militarization, racism, and xenophobia continue.

It’s time for us to stand strong against state violence and demand and end to Urban Shield! Will you join us?
As a SWAT training program that promotes militarization, Islamophobia, and repression, Urban Shield affects all of us. Black and Native communities are the most disproportionately impacted by the violence of policing and militarization. Immigrants end up in detention and deportation proceedings as a result of sweeps and SWAT raids. Arab and Muslim communities are portrayed as “terrorists” and face increased criminalization and surveillance. Working class people and all who resist this state violence are met with police repression. In order to defend ourselves from these attacks and ultimately win, we must band together and fight back in unity.

Come out to the Stop Urban Shield rally and community fair this Friday to say NO to Urban Shield! Let’s demonstrate what broad based resistance to militarization, policing, and state violence looks like!

Take Action

1) Come out this Friday for our Rally and Resource Fair
Are you with an organization, community association, religious institution, labor union, or any other group? Invite your members to come out!

2) Donate to our Wishlist
Support us in getting emergency preparedness supplies. We know the best response during emergencies is a community response – not policing and militarization. Let’s work towards relying on each other!

3) Spread the word!
We’re on facebook, twitter, and instagram, so please help us get the word out far and wide.

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The weekend of September 8th, Alameda County will host the controversial SWAT training, war games and weapons expo, Urban Shield. We will gather on September 8th, across communities, to end it & resist police militarization around the world!

With the current manifestations of violence under the Trump administration, it is more important than ever to urge the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to end this racist and Islamaphobic event and invest in emergency preparedness that benefits the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition to say NO to policing, militarization and state violence! Join us in resisting violence against our communities and in fighting for genuine visions of justice, safety, and self-determination including trainings and resources on: People’s Fire Safety, Earthquake Kits, and How to Be Cop-Free

4PM // Rally at Alameda County Board of Supervisor’s Office, 1221 Oak St., Oakland CA
5PM // Community Fair at South Amphitheater Lake Merritt

#DACA Community Forum + free consultations with attorneys in Oakland. pic.twitter.com/tk0f9F1oZk

— RYSE Center (@RYSEyouthcenter) September 7, 2017

Do you want an Oakland City government that –

Actually does something to address the issues of gentrification and displacement?

Insures that every child in Oakland receives a decent education?

Demands protection from a police department that tolerates the sexual abuse of minors and harasses people of color?

Controls rents and builds affordable housing?

Fixes our streets and picks up the garbage we see everywhere?

Then join with the Oakland Justice Coalition as it creates a platform for progressive change and prepares to run candidates in the 2018 election.

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Dolores Huerta is one of the most important, yet least known, activists in the fight for racial, class and gender equality in American history. She was an equal partner co-founding the first farm workers union with Cesar Chavez, but her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Even as she empowered a generation of immigrants to stand up for their rights, her own fiery dedication and relentless work ethic were constantly under attack. False accusations from foes and friends alike, of child neglect and immoral behavior from a woman who married three times and raised 11 children, pushed Dolores out of the very union she helped create. Still, she remains as steadfast in her fight as ever at the age of 87. Director Peter Bratt’s provocative and energizing documentary reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to the fight for justice and sets the record straight on one of the most effective and undervalued civil and labor rights leaders in modern U.S. history. Winner of Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the San Francisco, Seattle and Minneapolis Film Festivals.

Dolores Huerta in person 9/9 and Peter Bratt in person 9/10
Sat 9/9, 5:20pm – Dolores Huerta in-person
Moderated by Ericka Huggins, former Black Panther

Sat 9/9, 7:40pm – Dolores Huerta in-person
Moderated by Sasha Khokha (KQED’s The California Report)

Sun 9/10, 1:00pm – Peter Bratt in person
Moderated by Davey D (Hard Knock Radio)

TheatreFIRST invites you down to the beautiful Omni Commons Ballroom to dance, drink, eat, and explore what’s next for the arts organization that has been named “Best Theatrical Turnaround” (Oakland Magazine), and “Theater Most Likely to Make Your Diversity Initiative Look like Shit” (Bold Italic).

TheatreFIRST aims to crack the benefit model in favor of a party that celebrates the beautiful spectrum of humans who make the organization thrive. Meet the artists, see selections from the new season, learn how YOU can invest in T1’s future, and dance the night away.

What to wear? Whatever you need to look your finest while smashing imperialism.

Buy your sliding scale tickets HERE.

To celebrate the release of the second edition of second zine “Ours,” our September Second Saturday Skillshare will explore the direct action tactic of occupying homes and other buildings in a public way. We will watch some footage of epic HnJ actions from years past and explore how this tactic might be used in a contemporary context.

We will collect donations to support East Bay Homes not Jails and the Omni Commons.

Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland.

“Remember the saying: ‘Of all pilgrimages the greatest is to relieve the sorrow-laden heart.'” ~ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

The Baha’i community of Oakland is organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing.

Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. Simple breakfast will be served.

“Thy name is my healing, O my God, and remembrance of Thee is my remedy. Nearness to Thee is my hope, and love for Thee is my companion. Thy mercy to me is my healing and my succor in both this world and the world to come. Thou, verily, art the All-Bountiful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.” ~ Bahá’u’lláh

From now until October 3rd, EBSC will hold a series of workshops to provide information and to file qualifying renewal DACA applications. Below is a list of currently scheduled workshops (we will release more dates as they become available):

• 09/10/2017 2-4 pm
• 09/13/2017 6-8 pm
• 09/16/2017 3-5 pm

To register for a workshop, please fill out the following form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9794DBgzk4GePPElv02yYPHcVnKlVRN6-vOPTzixSjYc03A/viewform?usp=sf_link

Oakland has long been a center for highly polluting transportation activities. This has resulted in disproportionately high health impacts for the residents of West Oakland. Our goal is to systematically reduce the level of pollution caused by all these polluting activities, and we have made some progress.  But we can’t afford to allow brand new pollution, in the form of coal dust, to further threaten our health.  Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel on Earth, imperiling the health of workers, endangering communities along the tracks, and contributing greatly to global warming and climate change.

Michael Kaufman, co-facilitator of the No Coal in Oakland campaign, will discuss the history of the campaign, its short-lived victory last year, and the current situation.  He will also address the campaign’s importance in the larger struggle.

​Michael Kaufman has been an activist for his whole adult life in anti-racist, peace, labor and environmental movements.  He fought against the war in Vietnam as a college student while teaching guitar to finance his studies.  He performed as a semi-professional guitarist at the Ash Gove and other venues in Los Angeles in the 1960’s.  He is a founding member, and first elected Treasurer, of Washtech, a union of high tech workers, Local 37083 of the Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO.

He is a member of Vukani Mawethu, an east bay choir that has focused for thirty one years on South African anti-apartheid and U.S. Civil Rights songs.  Vukani Mawethu is Zulu for “People Arise.”  Last year Michael switched his voter registration to No-Party-Preference in order to vote for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 California Democratic primary election.  After that primary he re-registered as a Green Party member.

Most recently he became part of the leadership of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America chapter.  Last June he was elected to be a delegate to 2017 DSA National Convention, just held in August in Chicago.  Michael has been a co-facilitator of the No Coal In Oakland campaign for the last two and a half years.

Breakout Groups

We were thrilled by your enthusiasm in Breakout Groups at Green Sundays a few months ago. To grow that energy, we’re trying Breakout Groups at the beginning of the County Council meetings after the 15 minute refreshment break that follows our Green Sunday programs. Which group will you roll with?

1. ELECTIONS (including endorsements, campaigning, ballot drives, voter guide…)
   2. More CONVERSATION re No Coal in Oakland, AND Green Party ORIENTATION
   3. OUTREACH (recruiting, social events, networking with other groups…)
   4. TECH (website, social media, newsletter, recording/broadcasting our events…)
   5. OPERATIONS (including Green Sundayplans, fundraising, working with state and national Green Party…)

SPONSOR: Green Sundays are a series of free programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party of Alameda County follows at 7:45 pm; council meetings are always open to anyone who is interested. 

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