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Please join us on Memorial Day morning for an interfaith prayer gathering to honor the ancestors.
Tomorrow 5/28 the Long Haul hosts a discussion and film about People's Park & how to save this beautiful experiment!
7pm. pic.twitter.com/zb2MfdZE44— Long Haul Infoshop (@Longhaulinfo) May 27, 2018
Get on the bus! This Tuesday May 29th we’ll be overwhelming Comcast and AT&T’s lobbying power in Sacramento and showing lawmakers our support for SB 822, California’s comprehensive Net Neutrality bill. SB 822 is the strongest Net Neutrality bill in the country, and the large Internet Service Providers are spending millions to try and stop it. But we’re not going to let them because we know what’s at stake.
A free and open Internet is critical to our ability to thrive as Black people and people of color in this country. Social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have proven how critical it is for our voices to be heard online while we fight for our lives offline.
That’s why Color of Change and the Center for Media Justice are teaming up take a bus full of open Internet lovers to the state capital to make sure lawmakers hear our voices and respect our digital civil rights.
Space is limited so register today to reserve your spot on the bus:
Registration is free; light breakfast and lunch will be provided. We will be meeting in downtown Oakland at 8:30am for a brief lobby day training and light breakfast before departing for the State House. We will return to Oakland by 5pm.
We are enraged and disheartened by the cowardly decision of the SF DA – George Gascón to not file charges against the officers who killed Mario Woods. The same day at the same time, DA Gascón also announced no charges in the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora Pat.
We are joined by
JUSTICE 4 LUIS GONGORA COALITION
CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY JOHN BURRIS
GWEN WOODS
NAACP
REV DR AMOS BROWN
SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (SURJ) SF
SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (SURJ) BAY AREA
SAN FRANCISCO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA
SAN FRANCISCO FOR DEMOCRACY
INDIVISIBLE SF
SF BERNIECRATS
HARVEY MILK DEMOCRATIC CLUB
FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE
And other community groups and leaders
Please come out and join us and stand for #Justice4MarioWoods and Justice for all victims of police violence.
Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wealth-and-Disparities-in-the-Black-Community-Justice-4-Mario-Woods-1597022747260594/
Corporate-free candidate for Lt. Governor, Gayle McLaughlin, discusses her new memoir, Winning Richmond: How a Progressive Alliance Won City Hall.
A group of political activists, environmentalists, and social justice advocates formed a Progressive Alliance that took their city back from the Chevron Oil Company. They transformed Richmond, long polluted and poisoned, into a national leader in sustainability, equity and grassroots democracy, giving hope to the San Francisco Bay Area, the state of California, and the world. Gayle McLaughlin was at the center of that long-term struggle, organizing with co-activists, going door-to-door campaigning and serving as the two-term Mayor of Richmond, California. This is her story. This is Richmond’s story.
..”.the eyes of the country are on you. And if Chevron can roll over you, they and their buddies will roll over every community in America. If you can stand up and beat them with all of their money, you’re going to give hope to people all over America that we can control our destinies.” — Bernie Sanders at Richmond Town Hall for the Richmond Progressive Alliance
Come stand with Critical Resistance as we call on the San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera to #EndtheSanFranciscoGangInj
Recently, the City Attorney removed 34 out of the 42 people named on the Western Addition gang injunction under pressure from community advocates. While this is a good start, we want the City Attorney to remove all listed individuals from ALL gang injunction in San Francisco.
Join us on the San Francisco City Hall steps to call for an end to the injunctions.
**Please share the event with your friends, family members, and community members.
Cyrus Farivar discusses Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech
Ars Technica senior business editor Cyrus Farivar presents a critical and historic look at how 50 years of American privacy law is inadequate for the near-future of surveillance. Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown for a discussion and book signing of Habeas Data.
ABOUT HABEAS DATA
You are being watched.
Whether through your phone or your car or your credit card, caught on a CCT camera or tracked through your online viewing history, government agencies know where you are, and are quietly collecting your most intimate, mundane, and personal information.
Is this even legal?
Habeas Data shows how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy.
Award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar makes the case by taking ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights and matching them against the capabilities of modern technology. It’s an approach that combines the charge of a legal thriller with the shock of the daily headlines.
Chapters include: the 1960s proceeding against a drug dealer that established the “expectation of privacy” in nonpublic places such as your home (but how does that ruling apply now, when police can chart your every move and hear your every conversation within your own home — without even having to enter it?); the 1970s case where the police monitored a lewd caller — the decision of which is now the linchpin of the NSA’s controversial metadata tracking program revealed by Edward Snowden; and a 2010 low-level burglary trial that revealed police had tracked a defendant’s past 12,898 locations before arrest — an invasion of privacy grossly out of proportion to the alleged crime, which showed how authorities are all too willing to take advantage of the ludicrous gap between the slow pace of legal reform and the rapid transformation of technology.
A dazzling exposé that journeys from Bonn, Germany to Oakland, California, from the halls of the Supreme Court to the back of a squad car, Habeas Data combines deft reportage, deep research, and original interviews to offer an X-ray diagnostic of our current surveillance state.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cyrus Farivar is the Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica and the author of The Internet of Elsewhere. He is also a radio producer and has reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, The Economist, Wired, The New York Times, and others.
Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad is a 2-day convening that serves to strengthen and organize people of faith in our sanctuary work across California to respond in an increasingly dangerous climate for immigrant communities in 2018. Join us to learn tools and best practices to create a more prophetic path towards liberation, caminando hacia la libertad, where all can live with dignity and wholeness.
Click Here For Program Details
Cost:
We encourage everyone to attend both days of the convening, but have provided options if you are only able to come for one day.
Registration cost includes breakfast and lunch for both days. We are accepting two forms of payment; via PayPal or via check by mail. If you have any questions or may need scholarship please contact Sarah Lee at slee@im4humanintegrity.org. We encourage anyone who may require financial assistance (scholarship) to contact Sarah as early as possible as funds are limited.
Early Registration Before May 15th
-Two day: $70
-One day: $455
After May 15th
-Two days: $80
-One day: $50
Register here
Program Details: Through speakers, seminars, and creative spaces Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad includes opportunities to build:
– Spiritual, educational, and strategic tools for faith communities to take a next step in their involvement in immigrant justice
– Relationships and networks across immigrant and ally congregations, faith traditions, and geography
– Shared vision for a faith-rooted and race equitable framework on sanctuary
Sanctuary Convening Values
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- Centering Voices of Directly-Impacted Communities: Majority of our speakers come from communities that have been directly impacted by our current and historical immigration policies and climate. Directly-impacted immigrant community members consult and guide the planning process.
- Framing Racial Justice in Our Sanctuary Work: Our content and tools are rooted in how our sanctuary work combats racial oppression on immigrant communities.
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- Integrating Interfaith Principles and Practices: Our content and tools incorporate interfaith practices throughout the convening, and teach on the challenges and opportunities for solidarity in interfaith activism
- Humanizing Our Experience: We incorporate margins for breaks and emotional processing during the convening, and address accessibility needs such as language translation
- Prophetic: We acknowledge that our sanctuary work, in collaboration with other actors, bears witness to a visionary and public morality that has national implications
We need to raise our voices against they key actors who are carrying out Trump’s family separation order: ICE and U.S. Attorneys. ICE apprehends and separates families while US Attorneys enforce the separation in legal proceedings. We need to stand up against this incompetence and the moral abomination of family separation.
We’re excited to be partnering with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, MomsRising, United We Dream, MoveOn and many others to hold family-friendly rallies across the country.
Bring your friends, wheel your stroller on over, grab your lunch boxes, and make your family’s voice heard loud and clear, that #FamiliesBelongTogether.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#WhereAreTheChildren
Sponsors: ACLU, United We Dream, National Domestic Workers Alliance, We Belong Together, MomsRising, MoveOn, Women’s Refugee Commission
RSVP below
https://go.peoplepower.org/event/action/13…
Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad is a 2-day convening that serves to strengthen and organize people of faith in our sanctuary work across California to respond in an increasingly dangerous climate for immigrant communities in 2018. Join us to learn tools and best practices to create a more prophetic path towards liberation, caminando hacia la libertad, where all can live with dignity and wholeness.
Click Here For Program Details
Cost:
We encourage everyone to attend both days of the convening, but have provided options if you are only able to come for one day.
Registration cost includes breakfast and lunch for both days. We are accepting two forms of payment; via PayPal or via check by mail. If you have any questions or may need scholarship please contact Sarah Lee at slee@im4humanintegrity.org. We encourage anyone who may require financial assistance (scholarship) to contact Sarah as early as possible as funds are limited.
Early Registration Before May 15th
-Two day: $70
-One day: $455
After May 15th
-Two days: $80
-One day: $50
Register here
Program Details: Through speakers, seminars, and creative spaces Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad includes opportunities to build:
– Spiritual, educational, and strategic tools for faith communities to take a next step in their involvement in immigrant justice
– Relationships and networks across immigrant and ally congregations, faith traditions, and geography
– Shared vision for a faith-rooted and race equitable framework on sanctuary
Sanctuary Convening Values
-
- Centering Voices of Directly-Impacted Communities: Majority of our speakers come from communities that have been directly impacted by our current and historical immigration policies and climate. Directly-impacted immigrant community members consult and guide the planning process.
- Framing Racial Justice in Our Sanctuary Work: Our content and tools are rooted in how our sanctuary work combats racial oppression on immigrant communities.
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- Integrating Interfaith Principles and Practices: Our content and tools incorporate interfaith practices throughout the convening, and teach on the challenges and opportunities for solidarity in interfaith activism
- Humanizing Our Experience: We incorporate margins for breaks and emotional processing during the convening, and address accessibility needs such as language translation
- Prophetic: We acknowledge that our sanctuary work, in collaboration with other actors, bears witness to a visionary and public morality that has national implications
On Saturday, June 2, SWers and our allies will be standing up for justice all over the country. Join us at Oscar Grant Plaza in Downtown Oakland, CA to make the voices & needs of our Bay Area communities loud & visible: Sex Worker Justice Now! (Allies wanted & welcome)
We are protesting, rallying & marching with the following goals in mind:
1/ To make more Bay Area residents & local media aware of the systematic violence against sex workers:
• Repercussions of FOSTA/SESTA legislation • Police violence • Anti-trafficking legislation that continuously conflates sex work & “sex trafficking” • How criminalization damages our communities •
2/ Sex worker justice is inherently tied to the justice of transgender, BIPOC, LGBTQ, femme & GNC, undocumented, poor/low-income, drug using communities
3/ Elevate specific SWer community voices
4/ Be visible & celebrate: come together & show each other some serious love during this tough political time
5/ Celebrate the St. James Infirmary’s 19th B-Day!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
noon-1: Gather at Oscar Grant Plaza
1-2: Community Speakers
2-3: March
3-4: Celebrate
*More info about Speakers & the March coming soon*
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
• Invite friends an allies: we have power in numbers
• Wear red
• Bring Signs (sign making parties & lists of sign ideas coming soon!)
* Our goal & expectations are that this will be a peaceful & positive gathering for SWer justice. That being said, we are aware that undocumented/on parole/BIPOC/Swers/etc are at a higher risk of police involvement, harassment & violence. We are working on creating safer spaces & systems within the rally and will have more information about this coming soon. Standing up for justice is important, but please prioritize your safety.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
• We are looking for folks that have experience with protests to help us lead our crowd.
Currently seeking:
-march leaders
-chant leaders
• Do you have a cool & affordable food truck or ice cream cart? We want to keep our people with snacks, lemonade & popsicles in hand 🙂
DONATIONS NEEDED
• We are wanting to provide the St. James Infirmary Clinic with a lovely B-day bash – seeking cake & red balloon donations
*please msg here or email maxineholloway@protonmail.
This event is sponsored by Bay Area Pros Support (Baps)twitter.com/BayProsSupport
& The St. James Infirmary Clinic stjamesinfirmary.org/
Flyer Artwork by The Rambling Hooker instagram.com/
New rally flyer for June 2 by @BayProsSupport -please retweet! pic.twitter.com/leDQnI6grK
— Maxine Holloway (@MaxineHolloway) May 6, 2018
Sponsored by Bay Area Pros Support & St. James Infirmary
@BayProsSupport for more info.
The Peace and Freedom Party presents
Socialism and Elections: 2018
From the Peace and Freedom Party Platform: “Our goals cannot be achieved by electoral means alone. We support mass organization, direct action, a militant labor movement, and establishment of alternative institutions.” And when we vote, we honor the memory of Medgar Evers and other Civil Rights martyrs. So come to our forum and let’s do it right. Mary McIlroy, Co-Chair of the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party and Movement will lead our discussion of the June 5 ballot, candidates and propositions, state and local.
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.
Save People’s Park
UCB Using “Housing Crisis” to Doze People’s Park.
• City of Berkeley told UC to LIMIT ENROLLMENT.
• UCB creates housing crisis by Uping Enrollment.
Build elsewhere in Berkeley, Save our greenspace, Save People’s Park!
If UCB gets their way, Berkeley will be covered with high-rises and hotels and the legacy of Berkeley’s historic contributions to the Free Speech, Anti War, and Community Democracy reduced to a bronze plaque. Don’t let that Happen!
• The Spirit of Democracy Lives on in People’s Park.
• The natural beauty of Berkeley’s People’s Park must never be smothered in concrete!
Website TBA ; FB: People’s Park Gardener’s or Destroy Oligarchy Forever!
Interested in local politics? Have you heard about the Democratic Socialists and wanted to find out more? Are you looking for a way to be involved in your community?
Come learn about the Democratic Socialists of America, San Francisco. Hear about our projects, our ballot measure, and ways that you can get involved. A better world is possible!
with Margaret Prescod, Pierre Labossiere, Devonte Jackson, Walter Riley, Leslie Mullin.
A report back of a recent delegation to Haiti with activists from Haiti Action Committee, BAJI-Oakland, and Global Women’s Strike. Come hear about the unbreakable resistance of the people of Haiti, who persevere in the face of US-orchestrated coups, stolen elections, violent repression and natural disasters worsened by corporate greed and government corruption.
Eyewitness accounts of the first graduation ceremony at the University of the Aristide Foundation [UniFA]; community education through radio; local food production; and grassroots mobilizations against corruption, repression and occupation.
We will share news about meetings with activists from Haiti’s popular movement including youth, agricultural workers, peasant movement leaders, human rights attorneys, school teachers, journalists/reporters, and market women. We hope you will join us!
A benefit for community radio in Haiti. Can’t make it? Donate at www.haitiemergencyrelief.org
Sponsored by Haiti Action Committee, BAJI-Oakland, Global Women’s Strike, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, and La Pena Cultural Center.
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Historical Context, United States Decline,
and the Corporate-Owned Media
We will examine the United States’ attempts to prevent its Global Hegemonic decline and the implications of that effort by situating United States foreign policy within “Historical Context.”
Current geo-political examples which need to be situated within “Historical Context” include: 1.) The United States violating the Iranian nuclear agreement by withdrawing from it; and, 2.) United States-North Korean relations, including the Trump administration pulling out of the scheduled June 12 summit.
This topic raises the following questions: 1.) What is meant by “Historical Context” and “Hegemony;” 2.) Why does the corporate-owned media (and the PBS News Hour) not situate United States foreign policy within “Historical Context;” and, 3.) What does situating United States foreign policy into “Historical Context” tell us?
To address these questions the talk will: 1.) Explain what is meant by “Historical Context” and “Hegemony;” 2.) Discuss the role of the corporate-owned media (and the PBS News Hour) in presenting “News” about United States foreign policy; 3.)Place the recent geo-political crises in “Historical Context,” with an emphasis on the Trump administration; and, 4.) Assess the geo-political contradictions that the United State policy operates in (and intensifies).
Professor George Wright taught Political Science at California State University, Chico from 1969 to 2003. He also taught History at Skyline Community College from 2004 to 2013. His major research includes United States Politics, International Political Economy, and the Politics of International Sport. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at the University of Leeds (UK).
Time will be allotted for announcements.
Donations to Occupy Forum to cover costs are encouraged; no one turned away
Meet local author Nancy Schimmel, who will discuss her work and read from her book, Occupella: Singing in the Lifeboats.
About the Book:
An account of the first year of Occupella, an activist song-leading group that grew out of song circles at Occupy Oakland and Occupy Berkeley formed by five professional singer-songwriters in 2011. Occupella is still busy leading songs at rallies, marches and meetings..
About the Author:
Nancy Schimmel is a veteran of the sixties peace movement and the women’s movement. her songs have been sung by Pete Seeger, Sally Rogers, and Grupo Raiz. She is working on a biography of her mother, Malvina Reynolds, who wrote “Little Boxes” and other songs.
The Privacy Advisory Commission provides advice to the City of Oakland on best practices to protect Oaklanders’ privacy rights in connection with the City’s purchase and use of surveillance equipment and other technology that collects or stores our data.
Agenda:
4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Oakland Department of Transportation/Vendor use of UAV/Drones. Review and take possible action on use policy and anticipated impact report.
5. 5:25pm: Illegal Dumping Project – a) staff update on project and District Attorney direct monitoring of video; b) discuss Surveillance Equipment Ordinance compliance next steps.
6. 5:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – status update regarding department outreach for survey of existing equipment.
7. 5:45pm: Drug Enforcement Administration Memorandum Of Understanding – review and take possible action on staff proposed MOU.
8. 5:55pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – “Large Scale Event” – discuss potential monitoring of Warriors championship parade.
9. 6:25pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Oakland Department of Transportation/Automated license plate reader proposal. Review and take possible action on use policy and anticipated impact report.
We are holding the event at OneFam Cafe to additionally highlight the tragic story being repeated too often across the City: Black people being pushed out of Oakland. Tony Coleman has been fighting to hold onto his 7th street spot. So we’ll show him some love and hear how we can support before diving into the evening’s topic.
This campaign is committed to building our platform in partnership with the community. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel. We want to uplift the amazing progressive grassroots work that is already happening.
Over the next few weeks, we will host People’s Assemblies on everything from public safety to education. Together we will imagine an Oakland with housing security, true public safety, sanctuary for all, and create a plan to get us there.
Our first People’s Assembly will focus on the arts, and the displacement of the very artists who make Oakland the place where everybody wants to be. Join us to dream about an Oakland where we recognize the contributions of artists to our shared culture, and support them so they can remain in the community they helped to create. We invite artists and culture keepers to join us for this critical conversation where we will explore:
– How are artists being pushed out of Oakland?
– What do artists need to stay in Oakland?
– What should the City of Oakland be doing to keep art and artists in the Town?
Light refreshments provided.