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.
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.
(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.
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/
Whose Money? Our Money!Join millions of people around the world in the second annual March for Science! In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered to defend science for the common good and its role in policy and society. Since then, science has continued to face increasing threats at the federal, state, and local levels.
A POETIC BENEFIT for the HAITI EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND
with
RAFAEL JESUS GONZÁLEZ (Poet Laureate of Berkeley)
AVOTCJA with BILL CROSSMAN (Piano)
& CAROLYN SCARR
also
A Report back by
PIERRE LABOSSIERE & DELEGATION
(who just returned from Haiti)
Wheelchair Accessible
Come celebrate National Poetry month for a good cause!
A benefit for the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund featuring:
Avotcja with Bill Crossman,
Rafael Jesus Gonzalez (Poet Laureate of Berkeley),
and Carolyn Scarr followed by open Mic
Until we solve the problem, it’s that time again. Join us for #FeedTheHood 5 bag lunch and hygiene kit distribution to the homeless across Oakland in #DeepEastOakland . RSVP and donate today at http://bit.ly/feedthehood5 . #housingforall
Until we solve the problem, it’s that time again. Join us for #FeedTheHood 5 bag lunch and hygiene kit distribution to the homeless across Oakland on Sunday, April 15, 7 AM at Oakland SOL in #DeepEastOakland . RSVP and donate today at https://t.co/SfAMcRjW2q. #housingforall pic.twitter.com/iAcJeQ8USf
— EOakCollective (@EOakCollective) March 16, 2018
The following alternatives will be discussed:
Should the parcels be sold to developers at the highest price?
Should real estate developers who purchase city-owned property for private investment, such as market-rate housing and office buildings be required to pay community benefits?
Should all the property be kept permanently in the public domain and developed for community needs?
82-minute documentary focusing on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and economic change in the US culture. The film examines the important historical role played by food co-ops, their pioneering quest for organic foods, and their current efforts to create regional food systems.
Film will be followed by a panel discussion with:
Adrionna Fike, Worker Owner of Mandela Foods Cooperative
Dennis Terry, Director of Seeds of Struggle
& more TBA
Here is a Liberated Lens TV interview with Adrionna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmjOqMD5J2A&t=9s
doors open at 7pm, film starts at 7:30pm
free popcorn!
Ever After Series: Stories of Violence, Accountability, and Healing
We hope you can join us in growing a strong grassroots movement to end mass incarceration. Together, we can chart a new future for California by prioritizing positive, community-based, public health solutions rather than punishment.
A short video presentation featuring survivors and people who have committed violence telling their stories, followed by a one-hour panel discussion about the application of Restorative Justice for diversion in Alameda and San Francisco counties with restorative justice experts, survivors of violence, and key law enforcement officials.
Hosted by the Restore Oakland collective impact initiative: Ella Baker Center, Community Works West, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), Restaurant Opportunities United, La Cocina, and Causa Justa/Just Cause.
Five years have passed since the death of disabled Black trans loved one Kayla Moore at the hands of Berkeley Police, so we are throwing a great big party to keep her memory alive! Expect food, music, art and updates from the family about the court case.
Accessibility: We will be setting up in a paved area, so the event will be wheelchair accessible. We will also provide chairs for those who wish to sit. Please email us at justice4kaylamoore@gmail.c
Check back here for updates about the after party!