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
Join us to rally and march to end wars at home and abroad.
Gather at 11 AM at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Rally at 11:30 AM
March to Oscar Grant Plaza at 12:30 PM
Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, 14th and Broadway at 1:30 PM
Speakers and program TBD
– End U.S. overt and covert wars, drone wars, sanction/embargo wars, and death squad assassination wars.
— Close all U.S. bases on foreign soil. Dismantle all nuclear weapons.
— Bring all U.S. troops home now. Self-determination not military intervention. U.S. hands off the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. End U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. Self-determination for Palestine. The U.S. cannot be the cop of the world.
– $Trillions for human needs. For jobs and social services, quality debt-free education and single payer health care. No to anti-union legislation. For $15 and a Union Now.
– Defend the environment against life-threatening fossil fuel-induced global warming. For a rapid transition to a 100 percent clean, sustainable energy system and retraining and jobs at union wages for all displaced energy workers.
— No to white supremacy and racist policies and actions against Muslims, immigrants, people of color, and indigenous peoples. No to police brutality/murder. End racist mass incarceration. Black Lives Matter!
— No human being is illegal. No to deportations. Yes to DACA and TPS (Temporary Protective Status) and a just and early path to citizenship. No ban, no wall!
– No to sexism, sexual violence, and harassment and targeting of LGBTQI communities. Yes to equal work and pay. Support women’s reproductive rights.
The U.S. government and its leading Pentagon generals openly and repeatedly threaten nuclear war or massive military intervention against sovereign nations. Such is the case today with North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. Simultaneously, U.S. military forces are at war in several nations including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. Haiti and Honduras also face covert and ongoing U.S. intervention.
More than 800 U.S. military bases circle the globe in more than 170 countries at the cost of $trillions, while these same $trillions are subtracted from critical social programs at home. $Trillions in tax cuts and corporate bailouts are granted to the super rich while the war at home takes on virulent racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and homophobic forms.
Current signers:
Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Alice Walker, author
Nancy Price, Exec. Comm., Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
Blanca Missé, Labor Rising; International Women’s Strike*
Alita Blanc, President, United Educators of San Francisco (UESF)*
Barbara L. Nielsen, Co-Chair, Nat’l DISARM-End Wars Committee, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, United States Section*; Member, WILPF San Francisco Branch*
Jeff Mackler, Northern California United National Antiwar Coal; Nat’l UNAC Administrative Comm.
Ellen Schwartz, former Program co-chair, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, U.S. Section
Jack Fleck, Steering Committee, 350 Bay Area*
Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View, a National Black Newspaper
Pierre La Boissiere, Co-founder, Haiti Action Committee*
Irma Bajar, GABRIELA USA, national chairperson
Tova Fry, International Action Center
Monadel Herzallah, Labor organizer, antiwar activist
Walter Riley, Board Chair, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund; Chair, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Alan Benjamin, Steering Committee, Labor Fightback Network; delegate, SF Labor Council*
David Welsh, Vets for Peace East Bay Chapter 162; Haiti Action Commi.* delegate SF Labor Council*
Don Bechler, Chair, Single Payer Now
Rick Sterling, Steering Committee, Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center; Hands Off Syria Coalition
Paul George, Director, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Kamran Nayeri, Editor, Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism
Stephen Bingham, Past President, SF Bay Area Chapter National Lawyers Guild; Marin Grassroots Coalition for Immigrant and Civil Rights*
Laura Herrera, Co-coordinator, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Alicia Jrapko, U. S. Coordinator, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity.
Tom Lacey, Chair, San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party
Karl Kramer, Campaign Co-director, San Francisco Living Wage Coalition*
Dan Kaplan, Executive Sec., San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493
Francisco Herrera, Trabajo Cultural CAMINANTE /Cultural Worker/Educator
Ron Dicks, Past International Vice President Western Region, International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees (IFPTE), retired*
Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone, Co-producers, Taking Aim, Pacifica Radio
Rhonda Ramiro, Vice Chair, BAYAN-USA
Carolina Dutton, Task Force on the Americas/Marin,
Bill Balderston, a political organizer with the Oakland Education Association; steering committee member, National Education Association Peace & Justice Caucus
Bradley Wiedmaier, SEIU Local 2015 SF Labor Council delegate*
Barry Hermanson, San Francisco Green Party
Marsha Feinland, State Executive Committee, Peace & Freedom Party
Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs
Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10, retired
Katharine Harer, Co-VP & Organizer, AFT 1493, San Mateo Community College Fed. of Teachers
Allan Fisher, AFT 2121 SF Labor Council delegate,* CISPES
Attila Nagy, Pres., Peace & Justice Ctr. Sonoma County; Comité VIDA immigrant rts. organization
Judith Mirkinson, National Lawyers Guild/ SF/Bay Area
Steve Ongerth, co-founder IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus*
PM Press
Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at, Africans Deserve Reparations Campaign
Linda Ray, SEIU 1021 delegate to San Francisco Labor Council *
Susan Lamont, Veterans for Peace; May 1st Coalition,* Green Party of Sonoma County, Police Brutality Coalition of Sonoma County*
Tarik Kanaana, Green Party of Sonoma County; May 1st Coalition*
Peace & Justice Center of Sonoma County
Comité VIDA Sonoma County
Peter Phillips, Professor Political Sociology Sonoma State University
Laurence Shoup, author, activist, Green Party*
Michael Parenti, author, lecturer
Martha Hubert and Renay Davis, San Francisco Code Pink
Eugene E . Ruyle, Veterans for Peace, East Bay Chapter #162
Speak Out Now
System Change Not Climate Change
Workers Voice/La Voz
Socialist Action
Socialist Organizer
Labor Fightback Network
Workers World Party
Veterans for Peace, Chapter 71 Sonoma County
Green Party of Sonoma County
ANSWER Coalition-Act Now to Stop War & End Racism-SF Bay Area
Rafael Jesús González, Poet Laureate City of Berkeley, Senior Founding member of Xochipilli Latino Men’s Circle
Anti Police-Terror Project
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!
When our movements make gains and win campaigns, it’s important to uplift these victories, assess how we accomplished them, and strategize on future wins.
We invite you to join us for a webinar. Come learn how the Stop Urban Shield Coalition won a resounding victory against the largest SWAT training in the world.
Featuring members of the Stop Urban Shield Coalition:
Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Tash Nguyen, Ella Baker Center
Maisa Morrar, Oakland Power Projects and Palestinian Youth Movement
Charlene Khoo, Critical Resistance Oakland
Where: Click on this link to join the webinar (on Wednesday 4/18)
Or join by phone: (669) 900-6833 or (646) 558-8656; Meeting ID: 258 159 383
IN THE TRADITION OF CESAR CHAVEZ:
STANDING UP FOR THE VULNERABLE IN
THE AGE OF TRUMP
A Talk by MARIA ECHAVESTE, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies
Maria Echaveste is a long-time community leader, attorney and public policy expert who
specializes in Latin America. She has lectured at UC Berkeley’s School of Law and was
affiliated with the UC Berkeley Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy. She is currently a
senior visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies. In 2009,
Echaveste was named Special Representative to Bolivia by then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton. From 1998 to 2001, Echaveste served as assistant to the president and deputy
chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.
When: April 18, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
Where: Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland
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KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents
Wednesday, April 18, 7:00 pm Single Screening Only
Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland
Tickets: $15 advance, $18 door, available at brownpapertickets.com ::
T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 stores), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s
TRUMP SWEPT INTO POWER BY DUSTING OFF THE VOTES OF 1.1 MILLION AFRICAN AMERICANS, LATINOS, AND ASIAN AMERICAN VOTERS- and we’re fighting mad.
Without a shadow of a doubt- Kris Kobach’s Crosscheck would – AND DID – steal the 2016 election. It’s the great untold story. Yes, there was collusion- for instance Michigan’s Secretary of State admitted they purged “aggressively” – about 50,000 voters in a state Trump won by 10,700. Same sad story in Pennsylvania, Illinois and elsewhere.
They’ll use it again in 2018. Talk about Russians all you want, but if we don’t stop the purge of 30,000-60,000 voters in each of 28 states, the 2018 mid-term will be lost – and democracy will become a distant memory. You can’t have a democracy with a government that has no integrity. Palast has put in four years of intensive, hard-core investigative reporting to uncover their game.
Here’s the problem:
Update. Greg Palast filed (along with the ACLU and Rev. Jesse Jackson) Freedom of Information requests in every Crosscheck state to get the names of the voter victims of Crosscheck – the purged… and in the lawsuits that are sure to follow the stone-wall refusal of the GOP Secretaries of State. Rev. Jackson commissioned a special 1hr 13min version which he’s been showing in churches nationwide. The NAACP is sponsoring showings in Georgia; ACLU in Kansas. Oklahoma has already revealed to us their lists. Greg Palast’s activist version of his film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy packs in the hardcore information, so everyone can see exactly how Trump stole it. Beyond the investigative shocks, this film is robustly entertaining, particularly in the cameos by Shailene Woodley, Willie Nelson, Rosario Dawson, and Ice-T). The film ends with an emotional kick that gets folks motivated. You can’t walk away from the film unaware of the continuing danger of racial voter suppression (which is still accelerating). You can’t walk away without feeling ethnic cleansing has come again to America.
KPFA benefit
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents
A FILM BY GREG PALAST
Featuring Rosario Dawson, Shailene Woodley, Willie Nelson, Ice T, Richard Belzer and Ed Asner
With live appearance by film maker Greg Palast to discuss the film
Wednesday, April 18, 7:00 pm
Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland
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When Donald Trump said, This election is rigged he should know.
His buddies rigged it.
Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans dark operation, Crosscheck, the secret purge list that helped steal the 2016 Election.
Crosscheck is controlled by a Trump henchman, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State who claims his computer program has identified 7.2 million people in 29 states who may have voted twice in the same electiona felony crime. The catch? Most of these suspects are minoritiesin other words, mainly Democratic voters. Yet the lists and the evidence remain confidential.
Palast and his investigative side-kick Badpenny do what it takes to get their hands on the data, analyze it and go find some of these 7.2 million Americans tagged suspects and potential duplicate voters.
They hunt down and confront Kobach with the evidence of his lynching by laptop. Then they are off to find the billionaires behind this voting scam. The search takes Palast from Kansas to the Arctic, the Congo, and to a swanky Hamptons dinner party held by Trumps sugar-daddy, John Paulson, a.k.a. JP The Foreclosure King.
Palast and Badpenny stake out top GOP donors, the billionaire known as The Vulture and the Koch brothers, whom Palast nails with a damning tape recording.
This real life detective story is told in a film noir style with cartoon animations, secret documents, hidden cameras, and a little help from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit detectives, Ice-T and Richard Belzer, Shailene Woodley, Rosario Dawson, Willie Nelson and Ed Asner, Palast and his associates expose the darkest plans of the uber-rich to steal Americas democracy.
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For those of us fighting for Medicare for All and health justice everywhere, Jacobin Magazine’s latest issue The Health of Nations is an indispensable tool. Join us in coming together to discuss its relevance and celebrate its release!
The program will feature the latest left perspectives on our broken healthcare system and where the fight for health justice is heading with talks by contributors to the issue, including Michael Lighty (public policy director of National Nurses United) and Meagan Day (staff writer at Jacobin).
Copies of the new issue will be available alongside other Jacobin and DSA swag. We hope to see you for a great night celebrating the new issue followed by drinks at Telegraph Beer Garden!
Accessibility: CNA is wheelchair accessible and is approximately a seven-minute walk from the 19th Street BART station.
LAND AND FREEDOM: Repression and Resistance in the Struggles for Indigenous Sovereignty, Right to Return, and Anti-Displacement
Featuring:
Corrina Gould(Ohlone), Sogorea Te Land Trust
Morningstar Gali (Pit River Nation), International Indian Treaty Council
Max Rameau, Take Back the Land Movement
Bilal Mafundi Ali, POOR Magazine Homefulness Project
Leila Sayed-Taha, AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center
Ziad Abbas, Palestine Action Network
What do organizers and activists need learn and think about in how the state seeks to repress the right to land, movement, and sovereignty from the streets of Oakland, to Indigenous Territories, to Palestine?
Join us for our continuing series with National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Chapter on defending ourselves, each other, our communities, and our movements against state repression.
This space is wheelchair accessible. For any childcare or accessibility requests, please contact antirepression2018@gmail.c
The Oakland Asian Cultural Center presents
The Muslims I Know
A documentary written and produced by filmmaker, writer, artist and social activist
MARA AHMED
Doors Open: 7:15pm
Free and Open to the Public
The events of 9/11 have created much interest in Islam and Muslims. Mainstream media have responded to this demand for information with generalizations and stereotypes. America’s community of Muslims longs to be a part of the discourse. THE MUSLIMS I KNOW is a documentary that gives them a chance to be heard and understood through dialogue with non-Muslim Americans.
The underlying idea is to highlight similarities between Islam and other Abrahamic faiths and to celebrate the cultural richness and diversity brought into the American mix by Muslim communities. It is also a much needed platform for moderate Muslims to express their views about what’s happening in the world. By being both American and Muslim they have a unique insight into the complex inner workings of American foreign policy and the role of the media.
Film Screening will be followed by Q & A with Mara Ahmed via skype
—– The Muslims I Know (2008) 58 minutes
There is an organized attack on professors and education workers by Turning Point USA and other rightwing organizations funded by billionaires like the Mercer family and Tea Party politicians like Illinois governor Bruce Rauner. This forum will hear from academics who have been targeted, what this has meant to them and how they and their unions have fought back.
Turning Point USA with a budget of over $8 million dollars has organized events for racists and neo-nazis throughout the US, and set up chapters not only on college and universities but also on high school campuses. They are hiring political operatives who are coordinating a national organized witch hunt of professors and education workers who have challenged the racist and growing fascist attacks in the United States. They are also operating internationally to link up with racist and neo-nazi movements around the world.
This forum will also look at the historic connections between the Nazi movement and the growing rightwing attacks developing in the US, and how the unions and working class can organize against these new threats to democratic and worker rights. They have also been trained on how to use social media including Facebook to organize their targeting and witch hunts against those on their “Professors Watchlistâ€.
Professor Wendy Lynne Lee was targeted by right-wing Turning Point USA using a Facebook conflagration of verbal assault, threats in person harassment, character assassination and efforts to get her University officials to punish her.
Ph.D University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate student Tariq Khan who is a unionist and anti-racist activist was also targeted by Turning Point USA and framed up by this organization to get him arrested and terminated from the University.
These organized attacks by this reactionary organization is part of their plan to “cleanse†the university and campuses of anti-racists and union activists as well as recruiting young people to a fascist movement.
Educational Forum with:
Professor Lynne Wendy Lee – Professor of Philosophy Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania, and active union member in the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF)
Tariq Khan – Graduate Student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and member of AFT GEO Local 6300 UIUC IFT/AFT AFL-CIO
Sponsored by:
Defend Public Education NOW! – https://www.facebook.com/DefendPublicEducationNOW/
KPFA WorkWeek Radio – https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio