We invite you to join this call for the community to come together in front of Oakland City Hall on November 29th at 5 pm to express support for the City Council’s strong stand and to help build the movement to defend our neighbors.”
Media Advisory, Community Organizations Call on California Legislators and Governor Jerry Brown to Make California a Sanctuary State
In light of Trump’s very real threats against immigrants, many people are calling for cities that have sanctuary resolutions or ordinances in place (that prevent local officials from reporting undocumented residents to ICE) to recommit to those policies (and, of course, for cities that don’t have such a resolution to pass one).
In her letter to the East Bay Express last week, Mayor Schaaf reaffirmed Oakland’s stance:
“…. [O]ur government will continue to protect all its residents and defend our progressive values. We’ll proudly stand as a sanctuary city — protecting our residents from what we deem unjust federal immigration laws — fight all forms of bigotry and advance our commitment to equity even more passionately.”
At its next meeting on November 29th, the Oakland City Council will consider a resolution expressing recommitment as a sanctuary city. The Council must also commit to work toward California standing up to Trump’s threats to cut federal funding by declaring itself a sanctuary state. This is crucial because a lot of the potential cuts to federal funding could fall most heavily on the working people of Oakland and California’s other cities.
In the face of deportations, harassment, and growing threats of violence, the immigrant, Muslim, Latino and other targeted communities, including all People of Color, LGBTQ, women and people with disabilities are experiencing stress and fear not seen since the days of Jim Crow. Children are having difficulty in school as parents seek to reassure them.
California is in a unique position in its ability to honor its diversity and protect its residents from the harm that may come under the new regime which seeks to disempower whole categories of people. A statewide resolve to not give in to the pressure on sanctuary cities would have a much better likelihood of preventing the threatened cuts and protecting Oaklanders and all California residents.
We invite you to join this call for the community to come together in front of Oakland City Hall on November 29th at 5:00 to express support for the City Council’s strong stand and to help build the movement to defend our neighbors.
For more information and to get involved-please contact Jose Dorado of the Latino Task Force, josedorado48@gmail.com, 510-326-4810 or Sharon Rose, Co-chair, Block by Block Organizing Network, sharonroseESL@gmil.com, 510-915-6894, or Pamela Drake, Local Politics Coordinator, Wellstone Democratic Club, pamelaadrake@gmail.com, 510-593-3721.
[list of signers of the call – in formation – organizations for identification purposes]
Jose Artiga, Executive Director, SHARE Foundation
Rev. Debra Avery, First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
Josie Camacho, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Alameda Labor Council
Keith Carson, Alameda County Supervisor
Jose Cartagena, National Network of Salvadorans in the Exterior
Oscar Chacon, Executive Director, Alainza de las Americas
Jose Dorado, Latino Task Force
Pamela Drake, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Deborah Lee, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Jean Quan, former Mayor, Oakland
Sharon Rose, Block by Block Organizing Network
Tulio Serrano, Committee of Central American Refugees
Angela Sanbrano, La Red Mexicana
Hey IWOCers and supporters, We’re having our next meeting on Tuesday.
We’ll be reporting on the work ongoing at the national level as well as the local level. Plus we will be sorting through all that we have in motion for future work, outreach, inreach, mutual political education, and more.
Come plug in and shape what’s in the works!
The ASG tonight at 8pm.https://t.co/UA5L6mTVGD
For the readings.— Long Haul Infoshop (@Longhaulinfo) November 29, 2016
Idle No More SF Bay is organizing this Wednesday morning action. I hope many of you can come. If you are willing to be a monitor, read guidelines attached and email inmsolidaritysf@gmail.com
Hi powerful women allies,
(and all allies in support!)
We ask for you all to come together once again for all our relations at Standing Rock
As we have seen this week with the horrible violence by law enforcement, a backwards move by the U.S.A
rmy Corps of Engineers announcing a plan to evict the Oceti Sakowin camp (from Treaty lands) rather than the DAPL permits, and the DAPL’s announcement that it plans to drill under the Missouri River soon, it is urgent that we act now and that we act quickly. Another way to stop this project (and others threatening the land, air, water, nonhuman relatives) is to stop their financing – which is why we are targeting the banks. It is so urgent that we are planning this action for NEXT week! Please help us get a strong turnout of our communities divesting DAPL.
What we are asking:
Please join us and help spread the word about our next indigenous-led NODAPL BAY AREA WIDE solidarity action. Please REPLY and let us know if your group will be joining us on Wednesday, and how.
What is to happen:
Prayer Walk to several banking institutions funding the DAPL
For more information, see:
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1834348963450855/
Website: https://www.farewellsfargo.com/
Flyers: Attached as documents. (Picture graphics at: https://www.farewellsfargo.com/new-page-1/)
The morning will begin with prayers for the water led by the women of Idle No More SF Bay. A teach-in will be conducted on why everyone needs to divest from the financial institutions funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. This will be followed by a prayer walk to several banking institutions funding the DAPL. Educational hand-outs will be available to pass out.
If you have any questions you can email us at inmsolidaritysf@gmail.com or call any of the women in Idle No More SF Bay (or 925-435-7934). Those of you whose phone contacts we have, we will be calling you to loop you in.
Thank you,
Idle No More SF Bay
One of the folks arrested in Oakland the night after the election is facing heavy charges and would love community support!
Please join him with his family on Wednesday Nov. 30th at 9am at Rene Davidson Courthouse (entrence is on 12th Street, at Oak). Department 7!
JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner
Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…”
Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided.
Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner.
Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda and San Francisco County Boards of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils.
We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments.
OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network; its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC, and made Oakland’s new Privacy Advisory Commission to the City Council happen. We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors).
We have presented our work at the recent RightsCon in San Francisco and at Left Forum and HOPE in New York City.
If you would like to attend our meeting and would like a quick introduction to what we’re doing before we dive right into the thick of our agenda, send email to contact@oaklandprivacy.org and one of us will show up twenty minutes early to give you some background on our work.
Stop by and learn how you can help guard our right not to be spied on by the government.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
or send a request to contact@oaklandprivacy.org
For more information on the DAC check out
Wells Fargo has almost half a billion dollars invested directly in DAPL. Join us in demanding that they withdraw their funding immediately.
We will congregate at the steps of Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley at 8am, and march to the Wells Fargo on Shattuck. Wear blue, if you can. Please organize yourselves into affinity groups beforehand and bring signs. Know your rights. Come prepared to protest peacefully. See here for more information on affinity group formation and utility: https://libcom.org/files/
On November 20th 2016 the police violently attacked peaceful water protectors at Standing Rock. Police used tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper spray, concussion grenades, and sprayed them with water cannons in subfreezing conditions. One ally and activist, Sophia Wilansky, may face the amputation of her arm.
In response a coalition of groups at Standing Rock are calling for a week of action starting on November 25th that will culminate in a Global Day of Action on December 1st.
The main targets are financiers of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the police departments that have been brought in from across the Midwest to brutalize water protectors.
The financial footing of the Dakota Access Pipeline is in jeopardy if they do not complete the project by January 1st. If this deadline is missed, a majority of the stakeholders with contracts to ship oil through the pipeline will be able to renegotiate or cancel their contracts. This could be devastating to Energy Transfer Partners and the other pipeline companies behind DAPL.
With its vulnerabilities exposed, our solidarity efforts are needed now more than ever.
Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom
Attend the premiere showing of a new documentary film that explores the history and consequences of one of the world’s most controversial dam projects, built on the Xingu River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. The film was directed by award-winning environmental documentarian Todd Southgate, narrated by Emmy-award-winning Hollywood actor Peter Coyote, and produced with Amazon Watch, International Rivers, and Cultures of Resistance.
The documentary chronicles the inspiring work of indigenous peoples, grassroots activists, and their allies to prevent dam construction and its many impacts. It exposes the gross disregard for the rule of law that marked the entire project, including a massive corruption scandal involving high-level politicians and construction companies. And it shows the unfulfilled promises to bring “progress” to this remote Amazonian region.
A panel discussion with Amazon Watch and International Rivers will follow the film showing.
Get more info and buy tickets here
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will discuss his new book, “Our Revolution,”
Sanders made a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful bid to become the Democratic Party’s 2016 nominee for president. The eventual Democratic nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, lost the Nov. 8 election to Republican Donald Trump.
“Our Revolution” covers Sanders’ run for the presidency, and the movement he sparked based on his ideas on college tuition, employment, health care, the environment, tax fairness, how to bring progressive activism to local, state and national elections, and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision of 2010, according to a news release from the event sponsors, Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore of Berkeley and Diesel bookstore of Oakland.
Mario Woods:
We Shall Never Forget.
Join us to Celebrate Our Son Our Brother’s Mario Woods life.
It is time, it is past time, for the Community to Stand on the Right side of Justice.
We will gather at 3:30 pm at MLK Park in the Bayview to march to the site where Mario was murdered by San Francisco Police Department.
to start our Vigil and Celebration of Mario’s Life at 4:35 the time which Our Son Our Brother was pronounced dead.
Come one Come All
Power to the People
Map and directions to MLK Park at Armstrong and 3rd Street:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir//37.7262499,-122.3926652/@37.7263849,-122.394731,17z/data=!3m1!4b1
Celebrate the season with the Ecology Center at our upcoming open house holiday party. Get to know our neighbors and their friends, including the Sierra Club, League of Women Voters, SEEDS Community Resolution Center, and others while enjoying good music, tasty treats, 10% off purchases from Store during the party, and fun giveaways. We hope to see you there!
We are also collecting warm coats for BOSS, and materials to send to Standing Rock in partnership with Victory Kitchen. Please bring cold weather sleeping bags (for temperatures below freezing), banners, insulated coveralls, overalls, and coats. Clothing should be in good condition. These will be sent to the camp on December 26th.
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For those who do not know, Stephen Bannon is Donald Trump’s newly appointed Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor. He is a white supremacist: infamous for his Alt-Right website Breitbart News, and specifically for his racist, anti-LGBTQI, anti-immigrant, anti Semitic views and disrespect of women and people of color. The KKK and other hate groups celebrate his appointment.
It is extremely dangerous to have this type of influence in the White House, and so close to the president-elect!
It’s also very straightforward: it is preposterous to have someone who represents these openly hateful views in high office.
We must have OUR voices heard! Join us in coming together to take a stand against White Supremacy in the White House!
STANDING ROCK OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE REGARDING ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN THE CAMP http://
The Bernie Sanders Brigade invites you to join us for a Solidarity Vigil in support of the Oceti Sakowin Camp. Oceti Sakowin Camp is a unified emcampment of Water Protectors decidated to protecting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s land and water against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Army Corp of Engineers has threatened to forcibly shut down the camp on December 5th. #NoDAPL We are calling for a national and international day of action at U.S. Federal Buildings and U.S. Embassies around the world in support of Oceti Sakowin Camp.
Learn more about the camp here:
OSC official website:
https://www.facebook.com/
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“Oceti Sakowin Camp values assuring the welfare of all people by honoring human rights, treaties, agreements and cultures. Our goal is to peacefully and prayerfully defend our rights. and rise up as one to sustain Mother Earth and her inhabitants.” – Oceti Sakowin Camp
The Howard Zinn Book Fair is an annual celebration of People’s History, Past Present and Future. We gather together authors, zinesters, bloggers and publishers for a day of readings, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small.
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
The New Path to Mumia’s Freedom
A precedent-setting ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court provides the basis for a new legal action filed by Mumia Abu-Jamal, providing a path for the courts to overturn Mumia’s conviction and win his freedom. But we we can never forget the continuing importance of mass action to support Mumia’s legal case. Gerald Smith will discuss Mumia’s case to date, Mary McIlroy will discuss the latest in the effort to free Leonard Peltier, and Ricardo Ortiz will bring us up to date on Oscar López Rivera.
Seating is limited, so plan to come early. We start promptly.
FREE – but hat will be passed for donations to NPML
About Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
A weekly discussion series inspired by our respect for the work of Karl Marx and our belief that his work will remain as important for the class struggles of the future as they have been for the past.
For info or to subscribe to our weekly announcements,
Call Gene Ruyle at 510-332-3865 or email: cuyleruyle [at] mac.com
Legal Observers work to insure that protesters’ right to express their political views are not violated by law enforcement. They do not participate in protests or actions, instead documenting law enforcements’ interactions with protesters. We need LOs now more than ever.
Get trained by civil rights attorney EmilyRose Johns, connect with other organizers and legal observers, and learn how you can put your legal knowledge to work to protect freedom of assembly and expression.
This training is FREE, but please register via EventBrite so that we can track how many folks will be attending and prepare accordingly: https://
Donations to support the space always welcome, but NOTAFLOF!
Legal Observers are a program of the National Lawyers Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association. Learn more about the San Francisco chapter of the NLG at http://www.nlgsf.org/. Trainings are open to anyone who does not work for law enforcement; no legal background necessary.
Childcare: If you need childcare during the event please email kids AT omnicommons DOT org
Accessibility: The building is wheelchair-accessible on the ground floor, with a wheelchair lift to the ballroom from the entrance hall, and a currently usable but incomplete wheelchair-accessible bathroom that we aim to have finished by early next year.
This talk is part of the Howard Zinn Book Fair