Trump, Musk, and their billionaire cronies are gutting Social Security, slashing Medicaid, and looting our government to bankroll their latest tax scam—unless we stop them. We’re taking to thee streets to say Hands Off. Join us!

This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.

A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

We need you to show up and speak out at 9:30AM at the Special Life Enrichment Committee Meeting at Oakland City Hall.

The fight to fully fund the Arts & Culture Manager position is not over. This role is essential to sustaining the cultural work and community healing our city desperately needs — and we must keep the pressure on City Council to do the right thing.

We’ve made progress. Last week, the East Bay Community Foundation, in partnership with the Akonadi Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, announced $600,000 in grants to support Oakland’s arts and culture ecosystem — including direct support for artists, cultural spaces, and community-centered programming. Read more here: East Bay Community Foundation Supports Arts & Culture Organizations

This investment underscores what we’ve been saying all along: Oakland’s cultural workers and creative communities are vital to our public safety and collective liberation. But we need infrastructure and leadership in place — and that means making sure the Arts & Culture Manager position is fully funded in the city budget.

Additionally, we know that there are conversations happening at City Hall about trying to find the money to fund the Cultural Arts Division management position.

Join us at 9:30AM at City Hall. Bring your signs, your voice, your art, and your solidarity. Let’s make it clear: Oakland must fund culture. Oakland must fund healing. Oakland must fund us.

Last Wednesday, we took action Wells’ global
headquarters with a building blockade and street mural that put the bank
on notice about their dirty investments and WE SHUT THEM DOWN.
Join us Wednesday, July 30th, we’ll be back at the headquarters with a
rolling rowdy picket line to keep the momentum going. We want to make a
lot of noise, so bring your noisemakers, pots and pans and whatever else
you got.

Wells Fargo funds Palantir – a tech company that’s supercharging Trump’s
surveillance state. Palantir provides surveillance and tech
infrastructure to enable the ICE raids terrorizing communities across
the nation right now. Palantir has also been contracted to build a
database of
personal information about Americans.

Furthermore, Wells Fargo funds weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems who’s
been fueling the genocide in Palestine with a constant flow of arms and
it funds some of the worst fossil fuels companies. The bank has also
recently rolled back its climate commitments (the only major U.S. bank
to do so) and are engaged in trying to stop an ongoing unionization
effort at their branches.

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While working people are struggling to stay housed, support their families, and keep our neighbors safe, Antonio Gracias is getting richer. Gracias is the founder, CEO and CIO of Valor Equity Partners with $26 billion in assets, and a close advisor to Elon Musk. As part of the DOGE team, he spearheaded massive cuts to Social Security — putting millions at risk and unfairly laying off dedicated workers, and he is fueling ICE attacks across our cities, spreading dangerous misinformation about our immigrant neighbors and friends. As our communities live in fear, and struggle with rising costs of living, Gracias’ net worth has grown to $2.2 billion.

This is what happens when billionaires hold too much power and zero accountability. Our retirement security and Social Security benefits are threatened, hard-won rights are being eroded, and our data privacy is disappearing. Enough is enough.

That’s why, on August 5, we’re coming together—in cities across the country—to say: Our families come first. Not billionaires. Not politicians. Not corporate greed. We’re joining forces with working people across the country to say no to billionaire overreach and public harm, and demanding

• Public accountability —including full transparency around Antonio Gracias’ actions at DOGE.
• Restore full staffing at the Social Security Administration.
• Stop the scapegoating and deportation of immigrants.
• A government that serves the people, not billionaires.

Billionaires like Antonio Gracias have no business shaping public policy that affects millions of working people. That’s why we’re demanding clear boundaries, transparency, and accountability for anyone in government who also answers to corporate power.

RSVP now to join Bay Area working families in Palo Alto on Tuesday, August 5, as part of the Families First Day of Action across the country, who will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and events to say — our families come first, and we will protect each other!

WHO: Working people , families, neighbors, and community allies

WHAT: Day of Action – Families First, Not Billionaires

Information: https://trivalleycares.org/2025/never-again-mark-the-solemn-80th-anniversary-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-with-us-at-livermore-lab

We invite you to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Tri-Valley CAREs and other peace and justice groups that are part of the Livermore Conversion Project.

We will gather at 9 AM on Wednesday, August 6 at the Livermore Lab West Gate, located in Livermore on Vasco Road (turn on side streets to park).

The theme this year is “80 Years of Nuclear Devastation: Remember Our History; Reshape Our Future!” We will join the cry of the Hibakusha, “Never Again,” and honor their lifelong commitment to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. And, we will do so at the West Gate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where new nuclear weapons are being developed today for potential use tomorrow.

Our program will include speakers, music, and a symbolic “die in” followed by a traditional Japanese Bon Dance, which invites the ancestors to join us. Following the program, some of the participants may choose to approach the gate for a solemn nonviolent direct action, while others may choose to use their voices in song and support while remaining in the public space.

You are invited to bring your full being and your voice to support nuclear disarmament on this important occasion. Please see the flyer below for more information, and don’t forget to mark your calendar now!

Please bring your favorite nuclear disarmament banner. And, we will have extra “Nuclear Weapons are Illegal” and other banners to share with you if you would like. Also bring water, sunscreen and, possibly, a hat � along with your aspiratioons for a more peaceful and just world.

Speakers include Arjun Makajani, PhD. (Director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Washington, DC), Helen Jacard (Veterans for Peace and the Golden Rule peace ship), Reverend Michael Yoshii (United Methodist Church and thinker on Japanese internment), Reverend Monica Cross (CA Poor Peoples Campaign), Patricia Ellsberg (peace activist and wife of the late Daniel Ellsberg), and Marylia Kelley (Senior Advisor of Livermore-based Tri-Valley CAREs).

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