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* Take a quiz on military spending (you’ll be shocked!)
* Discuss the connection between militarism and climate
* Explore the increasing militarism of local policing
* Learn about the Global Day Against Military Spending (Wedn, Apr 15/Tax Day)
Panelists:
Barry Hermanson, SF Green, long time opponent of military spending, former candidate for Congress, exploring a run for SF Mayor in Nov 2015
Susan Schacher, Oakland Green, active with the Bay Area New Priorities Campaign
Barry’s website: http://www.notmypriorities.org/
Global Day Against Military Spending (April 15):
http://demilitarize.org/
Bay Area New Prorities Campaign
http://newprioritiescampaign.org/
SPONSOR: Green Sundays are a series of free programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County. They 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.
Iyad Burnat is the coordinator for the popular committee in Bil’in, Palestine, a small farming village 7 miles west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. For ten years Iyad and the Popular Committee have organized the people to Bil’in to participate in weekly non-violent demonstrations against the confiscation of their land, destruction of their olive trees, and Israel’s illegal Separation Wall and settlements. This past summer Iyad’s 15-year-old teenage son was shot in the leg by the Israeli military, severing a nerve and requiring ongoing medical care. This spring, Iyad will tour the U.S. describing what life is like under Israeli occupation, his village’s ongoing struggle for justice and freedom, and what inspires him to continue non-violent resistance.
Get involved with the fight against solitary confinement.
Become a human rights pen pal: Contact cws@igc.org
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
BAAQMD Do Your Job: Our Regulatory Agencies are letting us down bigtime
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s job is “To protect and improve public health, air quality, and the global climate.” So how’s that going? Not so well lately.
Come and hear from members of the Sunflower Alliance and 350.org about the latest proposal to allow
crude-by-rail, aka “bomb trains” to come through Oakland, and what you can do about it.
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!
Q&A and Announcements to follow.
Since April 10th 2012, Oakland and Stockton have become one in the fight against police brutality. Donnie Smith-Downs has gone coast to coast in support of victims of police killing. She has shown us that solidarity is an action word by her presence in the fight against police brutality and the militarization of local police departments. Her son James Rivera was shot with an AR-15, piercing his body leaving holes the size of tennis balls.
Since 4/10 /12 Stockton has had a number of police killings, and momma Dionne has become a source of strength for those families in her community. The justice for James Rivera coalition over the past few years have been able to spread the word about the racism in Stockton police department that the department of justice is giving 6 cities funding to combat racism in, and Stockton is one of them. Show your solidarity with Dionne Smith-Downs as she fights for others in her community. Let’s imitate what her and Cyndi Mitchell have shown us.
Rally and March will begin at 12:30 PM at Eden Park, Stockton.
HS student in #Oakland challenging you to #ShutDownA14 https://t.co/KAock7PZwy #WalterScott @mrdaveyd @Carl_Dix pic.twitter.com/3c1Nx2YK7P
— Revolution Club (@RevClub_bay) April 11, 2015
Stop Business as Usual.
No School! No Work!
Say No More! To The System Giving a Green Light to Killer Cops!
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month.
Our work together encompasses:
- (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers;
- (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and
- (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
At this meeting we will doing final planning for an action at 8:00 AM April 15th (4/15 = FOR $15) in tandem with other actions around the East Bay, and our FF15 March at 1:00 PM starting at Oscar Grant Plaza which will converge on a huge FF15 rally to commence at 3:30 PM at UC Berkeley.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
We look forward to learning with you and making change for the better. Please love and support one another. We have a duty to fight. We have a duty to win.
STAND UP FOR $15
JOIN THE LARGEST LOW-WAGE WORKER PROTESTS IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY. ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE’RE TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! WE’RE FED UP WITH PEOPLE BEING FORCED TO SURVICE ON POVERTY WAGES, WHILE BEING EXPLOITED BY COMPANIES RAKING IN BILLIONS.
STAND UP FOR $15
JOIN THE LARGEST LOW-WAGE WORKER PROTESTS IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY. ACROSS THE COUNTRY WE’RE TAKING TO THE STREETS BECAUSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! WE’RE FED UP WITH PEOPLE BEING FORCED TO SURVICE ON POVERTY WAGES, WHILE BEING EXPLOITED BY COMPANIES RAKING IN BILLIONS.
Sprouts is known for their low pay, labor violations and union-busting. Across the country, fast food and minimum wage workers are standing up and speaking out for their rights. On 4/15, we are shutting down Sprouts to protest their paving of historic farmland at the Gill Tract, and to stand with workers across the country demanding $15 and a Union.
Join us on April 15th, as we protest the paving of historic farmland at the opening of a new Sprouts in San Rafael – sandwiched in the middle of a DAY OF ACTIONS in solidarity with the Nationwide Fight for Fifteen.
Join us throughout the day as we travel from Oakland to San Rafael and back to Berkeley!
Tentative Schedule
8am: McDonald’s action in Oakland with Fight for Fifteen! Location TBA
12pm: Sprouts shut down in San Rafael
3pm: Return for Rally & March in Berkeley!
More information about why Occupy the Farm is calling for a national boycott of Sprouts “Farmers Market”: www.BoycottSprouts.com
We need not only land, but a complete transformation of the food system. That means challenging corporations, and lifting up workers. Join us!
Join the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly and march to Berkeley for the giant FF15 assembly there. It’s forecast to be a perfect day for a march: 75F and partly sunny!
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly is holding the Oakland action leading up to the National Fight for $15 Rally and March noted below.
Please join us at OGP (Frank Ogawa Plaza) for the Rally at 1:00pm followed by the March to UC Berkeley where we will join forces with Bay Area families, workers, people of faith, students, artists, leaders, and community supporters as we take to the streets in the largest low-wage worker protests in modern American history
Because everyone deserves a Livable Wage!
On April 15, join the Fight for $15 and be part of the largest low-wage worker protests in modern American history.
There is a crisis in America. Working families have endured decades of stagnant incomes. We are increasingly forced to choose between keeping a roof over our heads, paying our bills or feeding our kids.
Meanwhile, the corporations we work for have record profits and their executives earn ever-increasing salaries.
On April 15, here in the Bay Area, families, workers, people of faith, students, artists, leaders, and community supporters will be taking to the streets to say that “We won’t stand for this.”
This movement unites adjunctprofessors airportworkers,walmartworkers, fastfoodworkers & homecareworkers. #fightfor15 pic.twitter.com/DKLLyJJC7P
— Food Chain Workers (@foodchainworker) March 31, 2015
The Anti-Police Terrorism Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like the Alan Blueford Center for Justice, Workers World and Healthy Hoodz is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.
We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month.
Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film.
FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE BANKING CARTEL
by PressTV based on books by Dean Henderson
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
Join Boots Riley and Dave Zirin in a discussion about the role of mass culture in building resistance against racism and mass incarceration today.
ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT AK PRESS to support recovery from the fire which devastated their Oakland building. (Details here http://bit.ly/19BBYDV)
Tickets on sale next week or available at the door.
Sponsored by: Haymarket Books, SoleSpace, Howard Zinn Book Fair and The Center for Sport & Social Justice @ Cal State East Bay
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2015 Refinery Healing Walks
Idle No More SF Bay and citizens from front-line refinery communities invite you to attend one of a series of four walks, one each month from April through July. The second annual Connect the Dots: Refinery Corridor Healing Walks begins with a Walk from Pittsburg to Martinez.
The Walks bring attention and awareness to the environmental and health impacts of the five refineries along the Northeast San Francisco Bay. They are led by Native American elders and others in prayer, with those walking behind in conversation. Prayers for the water are conducted by Native American women at the beginning and end of each walk.
More details at the Refinery Corridor Healing Walks website.
DOWNLOAD FLYERS & FACT SHEET
English | Spanish
Healing Walks fact sheet, outlining goals and history of Idle No More.
WHEN AND WHERE
Saturday, April 18th: Pittsburg to Martinez
51 Marina Blvd., Pittsburg
Water Ceremony and registration 8:00 a.m. Walk begins at 9:30 a.m., ending at Martinez Waterfront Park at the end of Ferry Street.
Sunday, May 17th: Martinez to Benicia
Waterfront Park at the end of Ferry Street
Water Ceremony and registration 8:00 a.m. Walk begins at 9:30 a.m., ending at 9th Street Park in Benicia.
Saturday, June 20: Benicia to Rodeo
9th Street Park, Benicia
Water Ceremony and registration 8:00 a.m. Walk begins at 9:30 a.m., ending at Lone Tree Point in Rodeo.
Sunday, July 19: Rodeo to Richmond
Lone Tree Point, Rodeo
Water Ceremony and registration 8:00 a.m. Walk begins at 9:30 a.m., ending at Keller Beach in Point Richmond.
- There will presentations about the history of dangerous Crude By Rail, the threat from the Kinder Morgan operation in Richmond and strategies to fight for our rights to safety.
For more information contact: Andrés Soto, CBE Richmond Organizer at 510.282.5363 or at andres@cbecal.org
@crustyrustyMAD 2:00 YukonHannibal
2:15 Hali Hammer&Friends
2:45 The Harbingers
3:15Carol Denney
3:45Clyde Leland
4:15 Cracker Family Circus
— Russell Bates (@crustyrustyMAD) April 13, 2015