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Apr
8
Sun
#METOO WORLD-WIDE AND ACROSS SOCIETIES, FROM HOLLYWOOD TO PRISONS IN THE U.S. @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Apr 8 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

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.

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APRIL 22nd MEETING IS CANCELLED: Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Apr 8 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

April 22nd Meeting is CANCELLED: Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice.

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Bystander Intervention Training @ St. Alban's Parish Hall
Apr 8 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Or Zarua and St. Albans are partnering to host a “Bystander Training” put on by the Council on American Islamic Relations.

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

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:

occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

 

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)

On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

Welcome & Introductions
Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
Announcements
(Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

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Green Sunday: A Fight for Our Future, with Veronika Fimbres @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Apr 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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/

 

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Indivisible Berkeley monthly General Assembly – all welcome @ Finnish Hall
Apr 8 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

The Science and Environment Team will host the April 8 General Assembly. The Team has invited speakers from the Union of Concerned Scientists and other organizations to discuss timely issues and ways to take constructive action. Please join us to learn how you can support science and the environment in this challenging time. RSVP in the “tickets” link.

There will also be a training that evening in the Finnish Hall Cafe (same address, downstairs, enter from the parking lot to the right of the building) on ‘How to Stay in the Loop With IB’ by our own Daron Sharps. This session will be great if you’re a newer member. Training begins at 6:30pm. RSVP: https://www.indivisibleberkeley.org/event/pre-ga-training-staying-in-the-loop

Come to the April General Assembly at 7 to mix and mingle. The meeting will convene at 7:30.
Bring a friend!
Bring snacks to share!

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Apr
9
Mon
No Tar Sands in SF Bay
Apr 9 @ 8:30 am – 12:00 pm

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/action/phillips-66-wants-more-tar-sands-tankers-our-bay

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/story/10000-people-protested-this-proposed-kinder-morgan-pipeline

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://insideclimatenews.org/news/09122015/unique-hazards-tar-sands-oil-spills-dilbit-diluted-bitumen-confirmed-national-academies-of-science-kalamazoo-river-enbridge).

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

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MAY DAY 2018 Organizing Committee @ ILWU, Local 10 Henry Schmidt Room 2nd floor behind Hiring Hall
Apr 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Greetings Brothers and Sisters,

The rank and file LWU Local 10 May Day Committee invites you to a meeting to organize the 2018 May Day march and rally.

ILWU Local 10 MAY DAY 2018 Organizing Committee Meeting This Monday 4/9 !

We are planning for a Tuesday May 1 march and rallies gathering at noon at the Oakland Matson Terminal  (near the end of the Adeline viaduct) and marching to Oscar Grant Plaza to join the 3pm Oakland Sin Fronteras rallies and march.

We look forward to seeing you Monday.

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Occupy Forum Planning Meeting
Apr 9 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm

This will be a planning meeting for the next OccupyForum which will meet Monday, April 23rd 2018.

We’ll also discuss OccupyForum altogether and how to proceed from here! I sure hope you can make it

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Forum on Student Debt and Public Banking @ Richmond Public Library
Apr 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

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.

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Oakland Tenants Union monthly meeting @ Madison Park Apartments, community room
Apr 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

OTU’s Mission

The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf.

Monthly Meetings

The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 pm on the second Monday evening of each month. Our monthly meetings are held in the Community Room of the Madison Park Apartments, 100 – 9th Street (at Oak Street, across from the Lake Merritt BART Station). To enter, gently knock on the window of the room to the right of the main entrance to the building. At the meetings, first we focus on general issues affecting renters city-wide and then second we offer advice to renters regarding their individual concerns.

If you have an issue, a question, or need advice about a tenant/landlord issue, please call us at (510) 704-5276. Leave a message with your name and phone number and someone will get back to you.

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Apr
10
Tue
Notice to Appear – Peoples’ Tribunal. The People v Sheriff Ahern @ County Sheriff's Oakland Offices
Apr 10 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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.

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Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee – Surveillance Regulation Ordinance @ Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, Oscar Grant Plaza
Apr 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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

 

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VICTORIES FROM INSIDE OUT: DISMANTLING THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX @ First Congregational Church of Oakland
Apr 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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.

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Apr
11
Wed
Free Name and Gender Change Workshop @ East Bay Community Law Center
Apr 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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.

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Our Housing Crisis – A Call to Action @ Pro Arts
Apr 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

We have the power to make sure that everyone has a safe and stable home. Come to this CDP Community Conversation event to find out how to get involved and meet groups already working in our community. Join a discussion about how to take immediate action and create long-term solutions. Featured speakers include representatives from: Causa Justa Just CauseThe Village in Oakland #feedthepeopleOakland Warehouse CoalitionSafer DIY SpacesEveryOne Home, and our City Council representative, Rebecca Kaplan.

Venue is wheelchair accessible,
Located a short walk from Downtown Oakland 12th Street BART station.

Doors will open at 6p for food and mingling. 🍯🎊
The conversation will start promptly at 6:30p.

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URBAN VILLAGES & SHARING CITIES: A COMMUNITY DISCUSSION @ Oakstop
Apr 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

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.

RSVP online.

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No Coal in Richmond @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Apr 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

What exactly can be done about the Levin-Richmond coal terminal on the Richmond waterfront?  Join the ongoing community discussion about how to remove this blight from our midst.  Why do we have huge, uncovered piles of dirty, dusty coal sitting right next to our Bay—and contaminating several of our neighborhoods?  Why is the Richmond terminal one of the last three ports left in the state to export this dirty fossil fuel when California doesn’t even use coal power?  Why does the Bay Area, a region renowned for its environmental leadership, still allow coal trains to travel through our communities?  Thanks to the falling price of clean energy and the commitment of activists all across the country, the coal industry is in retreat. We’ve retired 259 coal plants in seven years—that’s one plant retired every eleven days!  And more than three million people work in the clean energy economy, which now employs more people than the fossil fuel industry in almost every state in the country.  So let’s finish the job here!

For more background, see “While Oakland is Worried About Getting Coal, Richmond Is Covered In It.”   East Bay Express, February 7, 2018.

 

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Filmmaker screening of “The Long Shadow” – a racial justice movie @ Grand Lake Theater
Apr 11 @ 7:15 pm – 9:15 pm
Resistance Action East Bay and KPFA Radio Bring Uplifting Documentary “The Long Shadow” to Oakland
The Long Shadow is a wonderful new feature-length documentary on the origins and legacy of slavery.
Filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore her
personal family history of slaveholding.
Join this special one-time screening of a film that explores the origins and legacy of Slavery, White Supremacy and the political role of the South.The Long Shadow is a gripping new feature-length documentary on the origins and legacy of slavery. Filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore her personal family history of slaveholding. Her investigation traces slavery’s history from America’s founding up through its insidious ties to racism today.Indivisible Affiliate Resistance Action East Bay (RAEB) is a local group promoting active citizenship, and is hosting this event. This showing of the film is being co-sponsored by KPFA radio.View the Trailer for the film at: thelongshadowfilm.com
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.

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Apr
12
Thu
HARD WORK IS NOT ENOUGH: GENDER AND RACIAL INEQUALITY IN AN URBAN WORKSPACE @ Warren Room, 295 Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
Apr 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

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.

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