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Join the Women’s Entrepreneurs of Berkeley for a Women’s History Month celebration!!!
Legendary mountaineer & activist, Arlene Blum, will talk about her ascents up the world’s highest mountains and how that compared to the obstacles she overcame in her domestic science policy work.
Arlene’s talk will be followed by a networking hour kicked off with an icebreaker game featuring historical female entrepreneurs.
And to wrap up a fun evening, we will raffle off those iconic “A Woman’s Place is On Top” T-Shirts!!
El Cerrito Shows Up#Enough #ICEoutofCA
Please join us today & every Wednesday 6 – 7 PM
West entrance El Cerrito Plaza nr Daiso, San Pablo Ave & Carlson.ECSU rallies weekly to speak out in favor of equality and justice. #NoHatehttps://t.co/Wotbz2eRWM pic.twitter.com/E88ORoKhhq
— IndivisibleELCERRITO (@ECindivisible) March 14, 2018
Please join us from 6 to 7 PM at the west entrance to El Cerrito Plaza, intersection of San Pablo Ave & Carlson Ave. We’ll meet on the side nearest to Daiso.
The ECSU goals are to create a significant community presence to speak out in favor of equality, justice, inclusiveness and more. We say NO to hatred, racism, white supremacy and nationalism, bigotry, and anti-Semitism.
You can bring your own sign with your own words expressing what you stand for and against. Use BIG lettering so people in cars can see! We’ll also have some sign-making materials.
We’re from the El Cerrito area. Our Show Up location is at the borders of El Cerrito, Richmond and Albany — all are welcome!
We will assemble lawfully, and won’t block the sidewalk. All locations we select will be wheelchair-accessible. To participate you must commit to non-violent and respectful conduct. Family-friendly.
UNA-USA Eastbay Chapter presents: “International Women’s Day – Empowerment Summit and Dinner Celebration”. The United States of America is one of seven countries who still refuse to protect women’s and girl’s rights based on a United Nations convention.
For details call, 510.849.1752.
To Celebrate International Women’s Day
The United Nations Association-East Bay’s dinner celebration for International Women’s Day will address Human Rights for Women and Girls: Promise Fulfilled or Just Dreams?
The keynote address is by Keshet Bachan-Dvorat, Vice President of Partnership and Policy for The US National Committee for UN Women San Francisco; panelists include Dr. Patricia M. Valdespino Castillo on women in science, Nathalie Delrue Mcguire, Honorary Consul of Belgium on women in diplomacy, Antonia Lavine on Human Trafficking, Beverly Upton from the Domestic Violence Consortium. The panel will be moderated by Roxana Damas of the UNA-USA East Bay Chapter.
Lee Kane’s Theater Dance Program will perform with dancers Samantha Kane, Lea Schickler, Olivia Braun, & Roan Pearl. Special guest is vocalist Melanie O’Reilly, Celtic Jazz professional singer/composer, Musician-in-Residence at the University of California Berkeley.
The 2018 United Nations theme for International Women’s Day is Press for Progress, a call-to-action to press forward for gender parity. The United Nations Association-USA East Bay Chapter focus is on CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women. Can the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals be met about women’s needs and rights? How can the targets be reached locally and globally in order to achieve what the USA and 192 other UN Member Governments agreed to in the Development Agenda for 2030? Presentations will complement the understanding of this UN vision; narratives by the panelists will tell of progress by women in the arts, struggles in the diplomatic and scientific fields and their day-to-day lives.
Please RSVP through EventBrite: https://eastbayiwd2018.eventbrite.com
Cosponsors are The United Nations Association-USA East Bay Chapter, the US National Committee for UN Women, the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, the San Francisco Coalition Against Human Trafficking, The National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco, San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, Psi Upsilon Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha International Incorporated, and UC Berkeley Women and Gender Studies.
Join us Wednesday, March 28th for a discussion on basic income in the 2020 presidential race with candidate Andrew Yang.
Last month, Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur from New York, announced that he was running for president as a Democrat in the 2020 elections. What makes Andrew’s campaign unusual is his primary policy position — he believes that automation is an imminent threat to American jobs, and that we must enact universal basic income as a way to counter this danger.
On Wednesday, March 28th, Jim Pugh will sit down with Andrew for a public fireside chat in San Francisco. We’ll discuss his views on basic income and how he expects the issue to play out in his campaign, followed by an open discussion with the audience.
Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.
Join us for a screening of Beyond Recognition,
A film exploring the quest to preserve one’s culture and homeland in a society bent on erasing them. Followed by discussion with Sogorea Te Land Trust Co-founder Corrina Gould.
Sogorea’ Te Land Trust is an The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship. Sogorea Te creates opportunities for all people living in Ohlone territory to work together to re-envision the Bay Area community and what it means to live on Ohlone land.
Learn more about Sogorea Te Land Trust:
Sogoreate-landtrust.com
Learn more about Beyond Recognition :
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Learn more about our hosts the Latinx collective Hasta Muerte Coffee: http://
UPDATE 3/24: Now more than 1,000 people have joined the caravan.
Bay Area luchadorxs for immigration justice are gathering in solidarity with migrants currently forming a 1,000+ person caravan from Central America through Mexico—the “Migrants in the Struggle” 2018 Refugee Caravan. By traveling together, the caravan turns an individual’s dangerous journey into a mass mobilization. Learn more, bring friends, and support future friends forced to flee home and head north in the hope of finding safety. These caravanerxs are on the front line fighting for the right to migrate and seek refuge. Join them!
Enjoy free dinner from Cheeseboard Pizza; bring a friend; get involved; spread the word: donate to help this community on the move with basic necessities like food, medical supplies, flashlights, and more: paypal.me/refugeecaravan. If you can’t make it, pitch in here and please share: https://www.paypal.me/refugeecaravan.
For more information and ongoing posts about the caravan, follow Pueblo Sin Fronteras.
This meeting will include a discussion of the proposed Enabling Legislation for Measure LL which will provide details on the structure and operations of the Police Commission, the Inspector General and the Community Police Review Agency (CPRA).
The Coalition’s suggested edits to the Ordinance will be discussed. Of particular importance is our insistence that there be legal counsel for both the Agency and the Commission that is not part of the City Attorney’s office in order to protect the independence of the process. We encourage the community to come out and echo this point.
The Reparations Tour: White Solidarity with the Black Power Blueprint is part of a U.S. wide tour building support for the Black Power Blueprint Project, a program for economic and political power in the hands of the African working class of St. Louis in the wake of the mass resistance following the police murder of Mike Brown in 2014.The Black Power Blueprint is a community project that is purchasing and revitalizing buildings in the heart of the impoverished O’Fallon neighborhood, creating programs for community economic development such as the Uhuru House community center and the One Africa! One Nation! Marketplace and community garden. The project also includes collective renovation of a building to be used as a community kitchen, bakery and African Independence Workforce program for black workers who are coming out of the U.S. colonial prison system.
This tour offers white people an opportunity to support the projects through reparations to the black community and to stand in solidarity with the movement for self-determination and power in the hands of the black working class.
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
“No scholar has done more to shed light on Israel’s ruthless treatment of the Palestinians than Norman Finkelstein. In “Gaza” he meticulously details Israel’s massacres of the Palestinians…while demolishing the myths Israel and its supporters have invented to disguise these shocking events.”—John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
The Alliance for a Sustainable Puerto Rico presents an update on autonomous mutual aid projects thriving in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
This art exhibit and talk is to revitalize the relationships between local communities and the indigenous peoples in Chiapas through art and dialogue.
Come meet and listen to Bay Area artists that have collaborated with the Zapatista community and an update by the Chiapas Support Committee at 8pm.
Artesanías: There will also be arts and crafts for sale by the Zapatista Women’s Art Collective!
The Chiapas Support Committee Oakland with La Peña Cultural Center present this CompArte artwork created by diverse, political and powerful Bay Area artists in dialogue with the Zapatista community.
In this art exhibit, painters that create works of art imbued with symbols and images of justice, exposing capitalist exploitation and its inhumanity, share practical visions where our communities live free of oppression, want, poverty, pollution, racism and hierarchical suffocation on canvass. Social justice art shows us how to imagine the revolution.
CompArte is a play on the Spanish words “compartir” (to share) and “arte” (art), “CompArte: The Ballad of the Zapatistas” is a show of sharing art to help us dream a different world where we all fit and to show solidarity with indigenous communities in Mexico and everywhere else.
The painters from Oakland and San Francisco participating in this show include: Jhovany Rodríguez, Daniel Camacho, Yescka, the Asaro collective from Oaxaca, Rafael Sanhueso, Andres Cisneros and Agustin Barajas Amaral.
La Peña Cultural Center is a long-time community space for artists, cultural workers, women and youth of color, queer and culturally rooted groups working in specific traditions to produce and perform works of social justice and solidarity.
The Chiapas Support Committee (CSC) is a grassroots collective based in Oakland, California, and serves as a center for education and information about Chiapas, the Zapatista communities and Mexico. CSC has worked worked with Indigenous Zapatista communities since 1998 to support and accompany their process of constructing autonomous (self-governing) institutions such as health care, education and economic production. CSC organizes forums and other events and activities to share and discuss ideas, analyses and human rights issues related to the Zapatista communities, Mexico and the U.S.
Donations are welcome at the door / No one turned away for lack of funds.
100% of the donations collected at the door benefit Chiapas Support Committee Oakland and La Peña Cultural Center to continue important community programming.
The first component is an equity expungement clinic hosted by law students and supervised by volunteer attorneys. This first step is crucial to removing the stigma that a criminal convictions has on a person seeking to find employment or start a new business. We will be helping individuals fill out applications on Clearmyrecord.org.
Second, is the education component. During this section we will educate attendees on writing a business plan, avoiding the pit falls of bad equity deals, and the other first steps to starting a business under the new state cannabis regulations. One hour of this education component will be a legal panel dedicated to answering some of these initial questions.
Third, we will have a resource fair for those individuals looking to start a business or just find out more about participating in the new adult-use industry.
Business Opportunities for Communities Affected by the War on Drugs
Criminal Conviction Reduction Application Assistance with Attorneys and Law Students (10:00am to 1:00pm)
Equity Applicant Information Session (12:00pm to 12:30pm)
Business Plan Tutorial with Golden Gate University Ageno School of Business Robert Shoffner (12:30pm to 1:30pm)
Legal Panel with Leading Cannabis Industry Attorneys (1:30pm to 2:30pm)
Woman Owned Cannabis Business Panel (2:30pm to 3:00pm)
Cannabis Industry Resource Fair and Networking for Equity Applicants (1:00pm to 5:00pm)
○ Resource Fair Participants: SF Office of Cannabis and Director Nicole Elliot; Brownie Mary Democratic Club; Oaksterdam University; Kiva’s incubatee Community Gardens; New Leaf; Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz); Flower Power SF; ReLeaf; GrassRoots; Manpower; San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development; SuperNova Women; SFCLG; SFCRA; UFCW Local 648; Alan, Kumin & Associates.
This is a FREE event, if not seeking to sponsor or receive CLE credits.
For more Information, Contact: ssdp.ggu [at] gmail.com
*There will be no cannabis for sale at this event.
*Organizers reserve the right to remove individuals for disruptive behavior or public safety concerns.
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Home of the Compañero Manuel blog on the Zapatistas & Mexico
Come to the next Waffles & Zapatismo class, with an open general meeting after class from 12 Noon to 1pm. The class will focus on the 1994 Zapatista Uprising, the 1994 Democratic Convention and the 1996 1st Intercontinental Gathering. There will be discussion after the presentation and from 12-1 there will be an open general meeting with discussion about what the Chiapas Support Committee is doing and how you can participate.
Zapatista News & Analysis
!. Zapatista Captain calls on Women to “struggle together against the patriarchal capitalist system” – Captain Erika welcomed women to the Women’s Gathering in the Zapatista Caracol of Morelia and urged them to listen and speak to each other with respect as women in struggle that give each other dance, music, film, video, painting, poetry, theater, sculpture, fun, knowledge and thus nourish the struggles that we all have.
2. María de Jesús Patricio and the CIG: What was achieved – R. Aída Hernández Castillo admits her frustration that Marichuy’s campaign wasn’t able to achieve enough signatures for her to appear on this year’s presidential ballot, but also recognizes the achievements of the politics of life over the politics of death. Worth a read!
En español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2018/02/21/opinion/021a2pol
3. The Mayor of Oxchuc is removed and new municipal council elected – Following the armed attack on her opponents, the Chiapas Congress finally had enough of Oxchuc Mayor María Gloria Sánchez Gómez and removed her immunity from prosecution, removed her from office and swore in a new mayor and municipal council.
En español: http://www.proceso.com.mx/523066/desafueran-y-destituyen-alcaldesa-de-oxchuc-gobernara-consejo-municipal
4. Tillerson, Militarization and Oil II – In this second part of an opinion article about US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent Latin American tour, Carlos Fazio demonstrates how the US government’s national security strategy (reliance on fossil fuels) plays out in Latin America. The first part of the article is also posted on the blog. The articles take a deep look at US policy in Latin America, including regime change in Venezuela.
En español: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2018/02/26/politica/021a1pol
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On March 30, Israeli occupation forces murdered at least 13 Palestinians and injured more than 1,200. using live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, and huge quantities of tear gas. The massive protests in cities across Gaza — the world’s largest open-air prison — were held on Land Day and were the start of a six-week long mobilization leading up to al-Nakba Day, May 15, which commemorates the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 to make way for the state of Israel. The protest is called the Great March of Return, and demands that the expelled Palestinian be allowed to return to their land.
The Israeli occupation forces, while attempting to turn reality upside down by claiming to have been acting in “self-defense,” reported suffering zero casualties.
Join us to protest this latest atrocity by the Israeli occupiers and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Initiated by the Palestine Action Network
Tomorrow in SF – Emergency protest of Israeli massacre in Gaza. Join us to protest this latest atrocity by the Israeli occupiers and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. #GreatReturnMarch #GazaReturnMarch pic.twitter.com/WJasVtKGcd
— AROC (@AROCBayArea) March 30, 2018
The finale in the US Postal Service’s lawsuit against the City of Berkeley for rezoning the downtown Historic District, which includes the Post Office Building on Allston & Milvia, in late 2014 to prevent it from being used for most commercial purposes should it be sold, as the Post Service intended to do beginning back in 2013.
There will be two hours of oral testimony, one hour allocated to each side.
Federal District Court Judge William Alsup, who presided over a previous lawsuit by the City of Berkeley in its attempt to prevent the Postal Service from selling the property in 2014, will preside.
Berkeley activists from Berkeley Post Office Defenders, First They Came for the Homeless and Save the Berkeley Post Office have been fighting against the sale of the downtown Berkeley Post Office and the privatization of the US Postal Service since 2013. Twice the Post Office exterior was “Occupied” and numerous rallies have been held on its steps.
Demand D.A. O'Malley Charge Mateu with Murder of Sahleem Tindle
🚨 #Oakland Monday, April 2, at 3:30 p.m.
"The Tindle family will be meeting with Nancy O'Malley and we want to let them know we support them." @APTPaction#Justice4Sahleem #OMalleyChargeMateuhttps://t.co/VerGmeY22i— Indybay (@Indybay) March 29, 2018
Wednesday April 4, 2018 will mark the 50th anniversary of the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It will also mark the 51st anniversary of his visionary speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” delivered at the Riverside Church in New York City. Dr. King’s words were precautionary and prophetic, providing both a diagnosis and a cure – “a true revolution of values” – for our society’s gravest illnesses, “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.” Today his words remain as timely and relevant as ever.
Please join diverse members of our community for a public participatory reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech. We will do three readings of the complete speech, at 12 noon, 1 pm and 2 pm. We have divided the speech into 16 sections, so we can accommodate a total of 48 readers. You can read the speech at https://tinyurl.com/
Initial co-sponsors : Western States Legal Foundation, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), East Bay and San Francisco branches; Asian-Americans for Peace & Justice; Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC; Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice; Nafsi ya Jamii.
For planning purposes, please let me know which hour(s) you are available to read. PLEASE RSVP TO:
Jackie Cabasso
wslf@earthlink.net
(510) 839-5877