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Sacramento police murdered Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s backyard on March 18. The killer cops shot him in the back 8 times. Protesters have taken the streets of the state capital nearly every day since.
Police kill more people in the United States than in any comparable country. Disproportionate numbers of those killed are Black, Latinx and Native American people. Kayla Moore, Shaleem Tindle, Jesus Adolfo Delgado-Duarte, Mario Woods, Yuvette Henderson, Alan Blueford, Oscar Grant. These are the names of just a few of the black and brown people who have been killed by the police in and around the Bay Area.
Join the International Socialist Organization for a discussion of police brutality, and what it will take to put an end to police terror and racist gun violence.
A Public Forum with
Christine Hong, Michael Klare, and Andrew Lichterman
A forum on the dangers of war in Korea, options for a peaceful solution, and prospects for a movement leading to that outcome.
Christine Hong is Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz and is the author of the forthcoming book, The Price of Inclusion: Race, Militarism, and the Pax Americana in Cold War Asia and the Pacific.
Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and the defense correspondent of The Nation. He is the author of The Race for What’s Left (2012), Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet (2008), Blood and Oil (2004), and Resource Wars (2001).
Andrew Lichterman is a policy analyst and lawyer with the Oakland, California, based Western States Legal Foundation.He has represented peace and environmental activists and engaged in environmental litigation relating to nuclear weapons.His current work focuses on US nuclear weapons programs, global disarmament efforts, and the global economy.
This forum, convened by the East Bay Area chapter of Historians for Peace and Democracy, is co-sponsored by the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club and the Peace Caucus of East Bay Democratic Socialists of America. These views do not necessarily reflect the official views of EBDSA or its Local Council.
For further information, contact:
Barbara Epstein (bepstein@ucsc.edu) or Tony Platt (amplatt27@gmail.com).
The housing crisis in the Bay Area and beyond is a wholly preventable disaster, created and maintained by the notion that housing is a commodity and not a human right.
Join DSA in the campaign for the Affordable Housing Act — a proposed ballot initiative that that will give our cities and counties the power to adopt rent control necessary to address the state’s housing affordability crisis by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act upholds landlord interests, and — in tandem with the housing crisis — has deeply exacerbated social disparities, displaced longtime communities, driven homelessness, and dealt a blow to working class power by making housing ever more insecure and inaccessible.
This canvass will be the first of many! Come learn more about repealing Costa-Hawkins, and then we’ll hit the streets to talk with our neighbors about housing justice and gather signatures for the Affordable Housing Act!
The Peace and Freedom Party presents
We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us!
The Peace and Freedom Platform states: “We call for open borders. Full rights for all immigrant workers. No human is illegal. Stop ICE raids. Stop jailing and deporting immigrants.” We have four speakers to discuss immigration issues: Bree Bernwanger, Staff Attorney, Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights; Yvette Felarca, Middle School Teacher, By Any Means Necessary (BAMN); Eugene Ruyle, former PFP Congressional Candidate, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, CSULB; Antonio Trossero, political refugee arrested by the Peronist government in 1976, exiled to the United States after spending five years in jail during the military dictatorship.
This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30 pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk as long as you like. Speaker’s affiliations are listed for identification only. The opinions expressed do not reflect the official views of the Peace and Freedom Party.
The Peace and Freedom Party, born from the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism, racial equality, and internationalism.
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org
Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, 2018:
#METOO WORLD-WIDE AND ACROSS SOCIETIES,
FROM HOLLYWOOD TO PRISONS IN THE U.S.
Whether in Iran demonstrating against the compulsion to wear head scarves, or in Poland threatening the regime posed to pass the most draconian abortion law, or in the U.S. leading the largest opposition to Trump and Trumpism, women’s sustained actions strive to bring about a new world. Every aspect of women’s struggle is reflected and deepened in the experiences and ideas of women prisoners. Does Marx’s view that the man/woman relation is the most fundamental speak to today’s reality?
Speaker will be Urszula Wislanka, Marxist Humanist activist with California Coalition for Women Prisoners and Pelican Bay Hunger Strike Support Coalition.
Many Muslims and allies have been asking about the role bystanders can play in protecting targets of hate crimes since the election. The tragedy in Portland, where two heroes were killed while protecting two women who were being attacked, really brought that question to the forefront again.
The bystander effect is a psychological phenomenon that often prevents people from intervening on behalf of victims of harassment, assault, or other criminal activity. Through training in non-violent intervention methods and role playing in practice scenarios, trainees learn the methods and techniques to circumvent the powerful social pressure to stay silent.
This is a great opportunity to learn vital skills for intervening in harassment situations at this important time, as well as a chance to build relationships across faith communities.
The training is capped at 50 people. RSVP
Questions? Please contact Emily Galpern at emilygalpern@gmail.com
Ms. Veronika Fimbres (She/Her) is an award winning LGBT living legend and trans pioneer. Fimbres is the first trans officer in the San Francisco city and county history. Serving as Commissioner of Veterans Affairs for over fourteen years, Fimbres implemented policy changes including contract compliances as well as gender inclusive language and non-binary options on for demographic forms to the city, state, and nation at-large.
Fimbres staffed for Former Speaker of the California State Assembly Willie Lewis Brown Jr. during his Campaign. As Brown’s Lavender Co-Chair and Precinct Captain, Fimbres worked tirelessly to elect Matt Gonzalez , a Green Party candidate, for Mayor of San Francisco. It was during that time, Fimbres became a Green Party member. Ms. Veronika Fimbres is currently running as a Write-In Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate for Governor of California.
This Green Sunday, Veronika will talks about why she is running, inclusion of queer, trans people of color in political campaigns, as well as hurdles she has experienced during her candidacy thus far. For more information please visitveronikafimbres.com or email her at veronika4governor@gmail.com.
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 6:45 pm; council meetings are always open to anyone who is interested. Please visit our website: https://acgreens. wordpress.com/
Protect the Water – Join Idle No More SF Bay to say NO TAR SANDS IN OUR BAY!
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a permit to the Phillips 66 Refinery for the Refinery Expansion Project. This is the first part of a project leading toward the refinery processing more Alberta tar sands and allowing an additional 93+ oil tankers a year filled with tar sands into the Bay (also called oil sands or dilbit).
Please sign this petition: https://www.stand.earth/
Come early to ensure that you get a seat inside the chambers – sometimes the fossil industry tries to pack the room. There is also an overflow room where people who want to make public comments can go to the chambers when their names are called. Be prepared to stay until 1:00 – we don’t know where this items is on the agenda. Bring something to keep you occupied and snacks to eat (there is a cafe on site and you can go in and out). Make sure you get a copy of the talking points and Indigenous protocols from Idle No More members.
Details:
On Monday, 19 March 2018 the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) senior staff made several public statements about the permit it had granted to the Phillips 66 Rodeo refinery on 25 January 2018. This permit is the subject of an appeal filed by Communities for a Better Environment, San Francisco Baykeeper, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Stand.Earth, and the Sierra Club.
The Air District denied that the subject permit had increased the permitted capacity for hydrocracking at the Rodeo refinery. Instead, the Air District asserted, the refinery’s hydrocracking “Unit 240” was still limited to the same 65,000 barrels per day (b/d) limit it had set in 2007, and appearances to the contrary were due to a “transcription error.” Community members, reporters, and others have asked questions about these assertions.
This project is directly related to the Kinder Morgan pipeline in Canada which our First Nations relatives & allies are resisting. Over 10,000 People protested the proposed Kinder Morgan Pipeline on March 10th and protests and arrests are ongoing: https://www.teenvogue.com/
Oil tankers spill. This would be a disaster in our beautiful bay. Join your Indigenous water protectors and land defenders to protect and defend the Bay! Tar sands are impossible to completely clean up when accidents occur (https://
Feel free to make your own signs – suggestions: No Tar Sands in SF Bay, Transparency in BAAQMD, Can’t Clean Up Tar Sands, Save the Bay, No Phillips 66 Expansion, No Phillips 66 Wharf Expansion, We Are Here To Protect The Bay, No Tar Sands Oil Tankers, Stand Up to Big Oil, Tar Sands: Keep It In The Ground
Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland and Strike Debt Bay Area are excited to announce the Student Debt Forum happening on Monday, April 9.
Student Debt Community Forum: Facebook.
How can a public bank help relieve the burden of student debt that so many of us are struggling with? Come hear the progressive candidate for CA lieutenant governor, Gayle McLaughlin, discuss this question. All are invited to attend this free event and take part in the conversation.
California Sanctuary Campaign Media Advisory
Oakand, CA: An alliance of coalitions including ACILEP, Detention Watch Network, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Freedom for Immigrants (formerly CIVIC) and many more organizations representing immigrants, those seeking asylum and groups opposed to mass incarceration will deliver a Notice To Appear [Orden del Pueblo] at the May 5th Peoples’ Tribunal [Tribunal Popular] at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, CA.
Reverend Dr. Maria Cristina Vlassidis Burgoa of the Starr King Unitarian Universalist Church in Hayward will deliver the summons, saying, “We demand that all elected officials, especially local law enforcement officials, adhere to the letter and spirit of the law by affording everyone due process. We further demand an end to the collusion between ICE and the Alameda County Sheriff’s office and call on Sheriff Ahern to appear before the people and answer to these and other charges.”
At the same time as the Notice To Appear is being delivered to Sheriff Ahern, these demands will also be conveyed to Sheriff Livingston in Contra Costa County and David Jennings, ICE Field Director in San Francisco. Coalition members will serve Attorney General Jefferson Sessions and ICE Director Thomas Homan in Washington, D.C. tomorrow.
Tribunals are taking place nationwide during April and May to bring attention to the purposeful cruelty being afflicted on these communities by ICE and other law enforcement agencies who promote family separation, exile from community, and mass incarceration. The Tribunals call on agency directors and elected officials to listen to testimony on the harm being done to them and accept the judgement of the people who have suffered directly under these conditions.
Oakland Privacy’s, the ACLU’s and the EFF’s surveillance equipment regulation ordinance comes to City Council for the (hopefully) final go-round to be made into City law.
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Subject: Surveillance And Community Safety Ordinance
From: Office Of The City Administrator
Recommendation: Adopt An Ordinance Adding Chapter 9.64 To The Oakland Municipal Code Establishing Rules For The City’s Acquisition And Use Of Surveillance Equipment
| 1. View Report, 2. View Report 3/30/2018 |
Taina Vargas-Edmond, Executive Director of Initiate Justice, and Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None, will be in conversation with Tim Wise at this live taping of his national podcast.
Taina Vargas-Edmond, Executive Director of Initiate Justice and Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None, two leaders in the forefront of policy and advocacy work on behalf of incarcerated Californians, the formally-incarcerated, and their families, will be in conversation with anti-racism author and educator Tim Wise. They’ll look at recent victories and efforts currently underway.
Tickets are sliding scale. 100% of proceeds go to Legal Services for Prisoners with Children/All of Us or None and Initiate Justice.
THIS WEDNESDAY: FREE Name and Gender Change workshop at EBCLC’s Adeline office, right next to Ashby Bart! And because of funding from Trans Lifeline – Microgrants, we can provide fee waivers to folks who need them!
Please share widely- this will be our last Name and Gender Change Workshop until this summer.
Join Shareable for an interactive “World Cafe” style discussion to collaboratively dig into questions about the current state of Urban Villages here in the Bay Area, where we would like be, and what we need to do to get there together.
This event will also serve as the official Bay Area release of our new book, “Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons.” We’ll have plenty of copies on hand that will be available for 20% off!
Want to read more about urban villages to prepare for the discussion? Shareable has you covered. In February we published an in-depth article about their rise all over the world. Check it out by clicking here. We hope to see you there!
Event is free to attend and light food and drinks will be provided.
We are asking for a suggested $15 donation from those who can afford it to cover the cost of refreshments and the space rental. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore her
personal family history of slaveholding.
Proceeds of this event will support these important 501(c)(3) causes:
(1) To promote further distribution of this great film, including free showings to school children; and
(2) To raise funds for local People of Color-led racial justice organizations.
Following the film will be a Q and A with the filmmakers and a discussion of what we can do now to work for racial justice.
Tickets can be purchased at: http://www.Renaissancerialto.com.
http://thelongshadowfilm.com
Hard Work Is Not Enough: Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
KATRINELL DAVIS
Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
with CATHERINE FISK
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, UC Berkeley, asrespondent
Sponsored by Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley
Co-sponsored by Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Center
for the Study of Law & Society, Division of Equity and Inclusion, and
Sociology Department, UC Berkeley
ABSTRACT
In this talk, I discuss African American women’s experiences as bus
operators in a San Francisco Bay Area transit firm from 1974-1989,
during the height of affirmative action hiring. Through a series of
interviews with these transit operators alongside correspondence between
management and union leaders, grievance and arbitration data, as well as
litigation against the firm, I trace the gradual demise of job security
within this SF Bay Area transit company that once led the nation in
offering its transit operators good wages and benefits. The findings
suggest that transit operating became increasingly stressful throughout
the period of study due to declining work conditions and the arbitrary
implementation of institutional strategies designed to discipline and
eliminate workers deemed undesirable.
The Commission will be considering amendments to the proposed enabling ordinance and will be reviewing the complaints of officer misconduct that are being investigated by CPRA (Community Police Review Agency). Commissioners will also review the staffing of CPRA and the new case management software that is being implemented.
American Masters/Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disenfranchised, and people of color. His story is one of the great dramas of the 20th century–spanning an international canvas of social upheaval and ideological controversy. Directed by St. Clair Bourne, narrated by Ossie Davis. 117 minutes.
Sponsored by the BFUU SJC.
Along with being endorsed by the United Nations, this film showcases the true strain that we put on our planet’s oceans and native sea life through our production and use of plastic. After, we will discuss extending our compassion to the fullest extent possible and how not to arbitrarily decide where to draw the line when it comes to the suffering of our nonhuman friends.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/
Itinerary
6:00-6:15 Gather Zero Waste food and seats
6:15-7:45 A Plastic Ocean documentary
7:45- 8:15 Zero Waste presentation/discussion
Light food and snacks provided.
We hope to see you all there!
During World War II President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. 120,000 men, women and children, living on the West Coast were rounded up and sent to “relocation camps.” They had committed no crime other than being Japanese and Japanese American.
Tule Lake was the largest of these 10 concentration camps, a maximum security facility reserved for those the U.S. government considered disloyal. Resistance at Tule Lake tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to protest the U.S. government’s program of mass incarceration. The “No No Boys” and others resisted in the face of militarized violence, courageously standing up to beatings, abuse, torture, and food shortages. This new film, and the history it reveals is especially important now.
Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/1767302819957302/
