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Nov
16
Wed
Codepink’s Weekly Peace Vigil @ on the steps in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office
Nov 16 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner
Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…”

Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided.
Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner.

61795
Coalition to Free Mumia Planning Meeting @ Omni Commons
Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Support Immigrant Students Suing Berkeley School District for Racially Targeted Interrogations @ Berkeley Unified School District
Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm

Tell the Berkeley School Board: No More Racially Targeted Interrogations of Students!

Immigrant Students and Families Announce Lawsuit Against the Berkeley School District:
 

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
7pm Press Conference
7:30pm Speak out inside (fill out speakers cards before)
1231 Addison Street, Berkeley, California
 
 
Please join us this Wednesday as we return to the Berkeley School Board to support Yvette Felarca’s ELD (English as a Second Language) students, whose families will be announcing their lawsuit against the Berkeley Unified School District for racially targeting them for interrogation and intimidation during the school administration’s witch hunt against their teacher.

While Berkeley middle school teacher Yvette Felarca was finally returned to her classroom, after being put on administrative leave for her anti-fascist activities, there are still outstanding issues that have not been resolved, including wages that were stolen from her and not returned, which are subject of another lawsuit against the school district.

 
More Details and Background:
 
Press conference with Yvette Felarca and her lawyer, September 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVxvNt3vY

Interview with Yvette Felarca by KPFA WorkWeek Radio and Labor Video Project, which gives an overview of the bigger picture of gentrification of Berkeley schools, systemic harassment of teachers and students by the school district, and the impacts of privatization on public education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt38tXaJ6dQ

Oakland Education Association Resolution:
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/26/18792693.php

September 21 school board meeting, public comments by Yvette Felarca, her students who demonstrated how she helped empower them, parents who praised her teaching style and expressed concern about recent racist activities in the schools, fellow workers who wondered about the implications of the district’s actions for other teachers, and community members who told personal stories about fascism in their own lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg2giLt6Fu4

October 5 rally outside the school board meeting, and public comments inside by more students, parents, teachers, and community members speaking in defense of Ms. Felarca. When board members refused to disclose their personal positions on whether she should continue to teach, and instead scurried off into a second, unagendized “closed session”, the community held its own meeting in the board room, with many more speaking out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI

October 19 school board meeting, more public comments in defense of Ms. Felarca, including a description of an interrogation by a student, remote participation from a former student who called in from Mexico City, and a standing ovation from one of the student representatives on the board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az4GFkzEfSo

Details about neo-Nazis converging in Berkeley prior to their attempted rally in Sacramento: https://itsgoingdown.org/big-nazis-on-campus/

Article about racist events at Berkeley High School over the last couple of years, including racist pages in the yearbook which had to be recalled, a noose hanging from a tree, and a terror threat citing the KKK on a school computer, which resulted in a walkout by the majority of students: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/11/04/racist-threats-posted-on-berkeley-high-library-computer/

 
61983
Anti Police-Terror Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance
Nov 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.

The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community READY Corps and Workers World 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.

61985
Nov
17
Thu
Occupy the Farm Film Screening – SF @ Exploratorium
Nov 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

61992
Omni Commons General Assembly @ Omni Commons Ballroom
Nov 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Come by our open Delegates Meetings every First and Third Thursday of the month at 7pm! We’ll give space to brief announcements, updates from working groups, proposals up for consensus, and discussion around important issues. The schedule is created weekly at the following url: https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom

61760
Palestinian-American human rights lawyer Noura Erakat! @ First Congregational
Nov 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Noura will speak about “From Occupation to Warfare: How Israel Expanded its use of Force and Diminished Palestinian Resistance.”

With Special Guest Palestinian musician Yara Mubarak

Tickets: $10 low income, $15 general, $25 supporter, $50 freedom fighter, $100 change-maker!

NOURA ERAKAT is a human rights attorney, activist, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University. She is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an ezine on the Middle East and an Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. While an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Noura helped launch the first university divestment campaign in 2001. Upon graduating from Berkeley Law School, she helped seed BDS campaigns throughout the country as the National Organizer with the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

Noura has served as Legal Counsel to a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives as well as the Legal Advocacy Officer for the BADIL Resource Center for Refugee and Residency Rights. Most recently, she released a short multimedia documentary, Gaza In Context, that rehabilitates Israel’s wars on Gaza within a settler-colonial framework. She also produced the short video, Black Palestinian Solidarity. Currently Noura is writing a book tentatively titled, Law as Politics in the Palestinian-Israel Conflict.

Benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, wheelchair accessible.

$10.00 – $100.00, sliding scale.

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Nov
18
Fri
TOGETHER WE RISE! @ Civic Center Park
Nov 18 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
An Invitation to All of Berkeley
Please join us for an all-community Sunrise Gathering to reaffirm 
Berkeley’s great tradition of progressive action
TOGETHER WE RISE!

Please forward this invitation to your neighborhood lists, friends, schools, congregations, colleagues and more . . .  
Before work or school please join in a community celebration of Berkeley’s shared values in Civic Center Park to watch the sun rise and stand together.

This is a celebration!  In the wake of the national election, let’s join to reaffirm our deeply held values of inclusiveness, diversity, human rights, equity, environmental action, peace and love. Take part in the creation of a giant human peace sign by standing together in the park as the sun rises. Breakfast provided; wear your best tie dye!

Mayor-elect Jesse Arreguín and other community leaders will address the crowd on the topic of unity, positive action and Berkeley’s hallowed tradition of counterculture. Let’s let all of our precious children, students and community members know that in Berkeley, we rededicate ourselves to a fair, progressive, inclusive and sustainable world.

We invite all neighborhood organizations, faith communities, schools, organizations, and businesses to join in – all of Berkeley. Let’s show the rest of the country that we will forward our values with renewed energy, urgency and unity!
61997
Mothers on the March Against Police Murders @ DA Gascon's Office
Nov 18 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

 

Come stand with the mothers of murdered children and family members from 12:00 – 2:00 every Friday

to pressure District Atty George Gascon to charge killer SFPD cops with murder
who executed Mario Woods, Jessica Nelson, Luis Gongora Pat, Alex Nieto, and all the rest.

Bring signs! STOP POLICE MURDER!
We have signs that say “Mario Woods is our Son”, and signs for each one murdered.
Please find the box of signs and “Say Their Names” for the Media.

 

61924
BART RALLY for JAMES “NATE” GREER @ Lake Merritt BART
Nov 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

James “Nate” Greer was killed by Hayward and BART Police on May 23, 2014. Please support us in love and solidarity for our fight for his justice at a rally and candle light vigil on Friday November 18, @ 5:00 pm. We will all meet outside the Lake Merritt Bart Station in Oakland.

We welcome other coalitions, families and activists to share their stories as well and memorialize the loss of their loved ones, who were killed by police. Feel free to bring posters, banners. We are all in this fight together

Same rules apply: This is a peaceful event

For more info on the wrongful death of James Nate Greer, please follow us at

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1760883287473600/

 

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Nov
19
Sat
Free Thanksgiving Meal @ New Parkway Theater
Nov 19 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

61994
Community Town Hall for a Jail-Free San Francisco! @ Redstone Bldg
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

There is just under a week left before the No New SF Jail Coalition’s upcoming town hall on our next steps towards a jail-free city.

On December 1st, the SF Board of Supervisors will review a series of proposals put forth by the city’s work group on alternatives to the jail at 850 Bryant. Though we successfully advanced recommendations of bail reform, supportive housing and services, we will need to keep up the pressure in order to move the city away from its reliance on jails.

While we have a lot of ideas to uplift, we also need to stay vigilant against efforts to re-entrench jailing and policing as solutions to unmet needs in our communities.

On Saturday, we’ll present the concrete steps behind our vision, which we’ve also published in tools like 8 Steps to a Jail-Free San Francisco and the San Francisco Community Health Initiative. This will be your chance to learn how you can get involved in the next steps of this city-wide fight.

We hope you can make it!

Lunch will be provided.

If you would like Spanish interpretation at the Town Hall, please email us at nosfjail@curbprisonpending.org and we will be sure to provide it.

See you there!

61993
Dump Trump Rally & March – San Francisco @ Civic Center
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Fight Back Against Racism, Sexism, and Bigotry!

Donald Trump is the next President of the United States. His racist, sexist and bigoted program offers false solutions for a real crisis. He will continue the same policies of the establishment and elites that he claimed to be pushing back against.

The same Democratic Party elites that spent the majority of the campaign painting a Trump presidency as a catastrophic threat to the world are now demanding that we unite behind him. They aren’t going to stand in the way of the racist, sexist, bigoted forces let loose by Trump’s campaign. They aren’t going to stand in the way of the plans of a Trump presidency. Only a people’s movement can do that.

It is of the utmost urgency that all progressive people take to the streets in defense of immigrants, Muslims, women and all people of color. We take to the streets to advance an alternative vision. A vision of unity and solidarity in the struggle against the ravages of a system that has left half of the country in poverty and the 99% under the boot of an administration threatening to deny climate change, rights for immigrants, women and LGBTQ people, and all historically oppressed communities.

Join us in the streets to continue building a sustained mass movement fighting to take power to the people!

Initiated by the ANSWER Coalition

61990
East Bay Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives @ Lakeshore Farmers Market
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Join SURJ at Grand Lake Famers’ Market corner of Lakeshore and MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland, rain or shine, to call attention to injustice and demonstrate solidarity.

Throughout the East Bay and nationally, folks have been holding weekly gatherings on prominent street corners and freeway overpasses, holding signs and making visible our support for Black communities in these critical times. These gatherings – or “human billboards” – have been a simple yet effective way of channeling anger and sadness over injustice into collective action by demonstrating solidarity.

61950
Resource Fair: Together We Can! @ Oakland Peace Center
Nov 19 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

If you feel a drive to do something about the environment, immigrants’ rights, healthcare, Black Lives Matter, indigenous rights, reducing bullying, increasing a culture of peace and inclusion, or any other issues to make this community better, please come to this gathering and learn about the ways you can participate! Whether you are a long time activist or have never attended a rally in your life, your contributions matter!

Confirmed organizations (more to come!):

* Anti-Assault & Hate Crime Intervention Trainings
* Arab Resource and Organizing Center
* Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Asian Law Caucus
* Beyond Separation
* CAIR- Council on American-Islamic Relations
* Centro Legal de la Raza
* CFGF Consulting (restorative justice services for communities, families, government & faith-based agencies)
* CircleUp Education
* Community Democracy Project
* East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
* Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy
* First Christian Church of Oakland
* Food First
* The Green Life at San Quentin
* Healthcare for All- California
* HeartMath Trainings
* Jewish Voice for Peace
* Mustard Seed Immigration Law
* Network for Spiritual Progressives
* Niroga Institute
* Nueva Esperanza
* Oakland Peace Ambassadors
* Oakland Peace Center
* Oakland Women’s Center (of Women’s Centers International)
* Peer Counseling Collective at the Berkeley Free Clinic
* The Rotary Club Boat House
* Soul Shoppe
* Sunflower Alliance
* SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) Oakland/Bay Area
* United Roots
* Urban Peace Movement
* White Awake

62008
Trump’s Mudslide to Victory – What Happened and Now What? @ UC Berkeley, 183 Dwinelle Hall
Nov 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
What can we learn from this election? Was this a protest vote by part of the working class? Is it a racist backlash? We need to untangle myth and reality in order to respond to this situation.

Join us for a presentation and discussion on the election from a socialist perspective.

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61995
Fundraiser Show for the Land Action 4 @ Omni Commons
Nov 19 @ 6:00 pm – 11:30 pm

Benefit show for the Land Action 4 legal defense fund. The courts are really dragging us through the wringer…. So far, our estimated out of pocket expense is about $10k and that is with all of our lawyers donating all of their time!!

So, what do we do? Throw a parrrrrty!!!!!

Come out for some slammingly stellar musical performances, drinks, friends and all the good stuff.

$8-$28 Suggested and highly appreciated donation
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The line up:

Leftover Crack
http://www.leftovercrack.rocks/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aIf5_U5OG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhucBTHN4yU

Mystic Priestess
https://www.facebook.com/MysticPriestess777/?fref=ts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi9-iGpr834

Kicker
http://kickersucks.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPFQE5h-lE

Rapid Decline
https://rapiddecline1.bandcamp.com/releases

Aninako (formerly Eskapo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpUBRFIU0s

61825
Mr. Fred Gray Lecture – Lawyer for Rosa Parks @ Marriott Hotel
Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

You are invited to the next lecture featuring Civil Rights Lawyer, Mr. Fred Gray from Tuskegee, Alabama. Mr. Gray was the lawyer for Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Improvement Association. He was also Dr. King’s personal lawyer. Mr. Gray continues practicing law today, and he has been integrally involved in the struggles to transform public schools, colleges, and universities into exemplars of educational democracy.

Fred Gray

61798
MultiMedia Event for Radical Health @ 924 Gilman
Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

A benefit for NEED (Berkeley’s needle exchange) and the Radical Mental Health Collective.

  • Space Toilet
  • Skank Bank
  • Film: OASIS… One Mission: Nobody Dies From Hep C” followed by Q&A with filmmaker
  • I-MAN BANJO
  • Invisible Cinema
61928
Thanks Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving @ La Peña Cultural Center
Nov 19 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Host: La Peña and the Free Land Project


Thangs Taken: Rethinking Thanksgiving is an annual cultural arts event that brings Native and non-Native artists, activists and communities together to explore the complex history of Thanksgiving and to acknowledge the legacy of U.S. colonialism and genocide against Native Americans.
More Info
There’s also a program for kids & families, 10:00 – 11:00 am

More info

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