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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.

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.

Whose Money? Our Money!

Everybody talks about money, but nobody knows what to do about it.  For the Full Circle show on KPFA closest to tax day, Paul Pryde of Our Money and Debbie Notkin of Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland reach into our wallets and look at what money is, who has it, who needs it, and how we could think about money in completely different ways.

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

www.Avotcja.org

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

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

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.

http://foodforchange.coop/

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!

Hey Everyone!
We’ll  meet in the back room of Muddy Waters Cafe this evening  to continue our discussion of the future of OccupyForum. Let’s include report-backs from recent actions around SF and Oakland, and insights into recent war development.

See you there!

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.com with specific access requests.

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.