On the first and third Mondays of the month, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project holds its data viz and oral history meetings related to our project in Alameda County.
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OUR GOAL
Indivisible Berkeley is a part of the national Indivisible Movement. Our mission is to resist the agenda of the current administration and promote a progressive and inclusive agenda by effecting change through the political system at all levels of government. We seek to embracedemocratic and progressive and promote inclusivity, respect, empathy, and fairness in all of our actions.
OUR VALUES
Our team will uphold democratic and progressive values, not only in the political sphere but in our day-to-day interactions with each other. This means inclusivity, equality, respect, and empathy, in both speech and behavior, especially in times of disagreement
Our team will assume every member is acting with best intentions. We will educate each other generously, and will search for common ground
Our team will speak truth to power. We will not employ deception or underhandedness.
OUR ACTIONS
Our team will take relentless nonviolent action, focusing on as many direct political actions and engagements as meetings held
Our team will act as one Indivisible Berkeley , united through excellent communication within and between teams and members, coordination of major actions, and focus on our shared vision
Our team will hold meetings that show we value the time of our volunteers, hear the voices of all (particularly marginalized groups), and choose deliberate next steps
Sign up for email action alerts
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/indivisibleberkeley/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyIndivisible/
Twitter: @indivisibleberk
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May 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents
AMY GOODMAN & DEMOCRACY NOW!
Covering the Movements Changing America
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan, Hosted by Cat Brooks
advance tickets: $15: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2915178: T: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books, Books Inc/Berkeley, Pegasus (3 sites), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway’s, $18 door, KPFA benefit kpfa.org/events
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS
Twenty years ago Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now!. She wanted to focus on the issues and movements too often ignored by corporate media. Today Democracy Now! Is the largest public media collaboration in the entire U.S., broadcasting on more than 1400 public television and radio stations around the world, with millions accessing it online at democracynow.org.
In their new book, Democracy Now!: Twenty years covering the Movements Changing America, Amy and her journalist brother and co-author Denis Moynihan share stories of the heroes – the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protesters – who have brought about such remarkable change. They discuss the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world.
Amy goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson, to Staten Island, Wall Street to East Timor, and all the other places where people are rising up to demand justice. Democracy Now! Is the modern day underground railroad of information, bringing stories from the grassroots to a global audience.
Denis Moynihan has worked with Democracy Now! since 2000. He is a bestselling author and a syndicated columnist with King Features.
Cat Brooks is an activist and co-producer of KPFA’s Up-Front show, airing weekday mornings.
$15 advance, $18 door.
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May
15
Mon
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May 15 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Visualize Impeachment
Film: The Final Days
Based on the acclaimed book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, The Final Days chronicles president Richard Nixon’s administration during the critical period after the Watergate break-in scandal, which ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation from the office on August 1974. Facing certain impeachment on charges of obstruction of justice and abuse of power, the 37th President had virtually no choice but to resign. But it was not the actual break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972 that forced the first presidential resignation in American history, rather it was the cover-up afterward.
Stanley Kutler writes in “The Wars of Watergate” (1990):
Political Philosophers since the ancient Greeks have sought to understand the links between politics and ethical behavior. The eagerness of Nixon and his supporters to dismiss his misdeeds because “everyone does it” perversely twisted the conservative political tradition to which they subscribed that allegedly rests on virtue and morality.
As the impeachment inquiry reached its climax, Congressman William Cohen recognized that perversion and wondered “
Today, the veils have been lifted on the actuality of Washington and the American Government. Even still, we can be shocked and appalled by the actions of those we elect to represent us. Come to OccupyForum to watch The Final Days, and discuss what the hubris of Nixon meant for its time, and what the hubris our current president can mean for ours.
Time will be allotted for announcements.
We can also watch “Frost” or “All the President’s Men” depending on the wishes of the group.
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Catch up on the latest developments in the No Coal in Oakland campaign at this community meeting. Hear an update on the lawsuit and join a discussion of ongoing strategies and new directions for the campaign while the lawsuit proceeds. (The trial date is set for January 16, 2018.)
Check the website for current news and background about the campaign.
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May 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
TELL OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL: DEFUND OPD, INVEST IN COMMUNITY
Keep building on the momentum we’ve been building at the neighborhood at neighborhood budget hearings. Bring your signs! Sign up to speak during public comment.
APTP believe that the scandal-ridden and dysfunctional Oakland Police Department consumes far too many of our city’s resources. It’s time to audit police spending and performance, and redirect wasted funds to community-building, constructive strategies for making Oakland a safer and better place to live.
Our Demands:
- INDEPENDENT AND THOROUGH COST SAVINGS AND PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
- DEFUND OPD BY 50%
More information is available at defundopd.org
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May 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
You marched. You walked out. You went on strike. Now what?
Join us for “Beyond May Day,” a conversation with key organizers behind the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day 2017 march and general strike.
At this May edition of Climate Workers monthly meetups, we’ll dialogue with May Day 2017 organizers about what we built, what we learned, and where we go from here as we “ORGANIZE and DEFEND our communities from state violence and capitalist exploitation, and toward liberation and self-determination” (from the Oakland Sin Fronteras Points of Unity).
We’ll be joined in conversation by:
* Sagnicthe Salazar, Xicana Moratorium Coalition
* Armael Bulawin Malinis, Migrante Northern CA
* Denise Solis, SEIU United Service Workers West
* Kung Feng, Jobs with Justice & Bay Resistance
Come enjoy some food, debrief May Day, strategize about next steps, and get to know other workers and labor organizers who care about climate justice.
You do NOT need to be a Climate Workers member to attend, however we’ll start the evening with a brief orientation to Climate Workers and an opportunity to join, followed by the discussion.
After the meeting, we’ll be mobilizing to the Berkeley City Council to support our comrades working to Stop Urban Shield (a global weapons and militarization expo).
Can’t make the May member night? Save the date for the next one: Tues, June 20th from 6-8PM.
Become a Climate Workers MEMBER
Build a worker-led movement for climate justice. Join today!
Become a Climate Workers MEMBER today!
Climate Workers is building a worker-led labor movement for climate justice. Climate Workers is our space, our political home, to begin to reclaim our labor – insisting that our work restore, not destroy, the planet we live on and the communities we live in.
Through multilingual popular education, Climate Workers connects the lived experiences of thousands of workers with the roots, scale, and urgency of the climate crisis. As workers, we engage in hands-on projects to foster climate resilience; support our local and national unions in taking bold, public stands against dirty energy; and lead campaigns for a just transition away from extraction and toward good jobs in industries that heal the planet.
Membership in Climate Workers is open to all individuals who are:
- union members or union staff.
- non-union workers actively building power in their workplace or industry.
- staff & membership of other labor organizations (e.g. worker centers, labor centers, etc.)
Become a Climate Workers MEMBER today!
STAY CONNECTED:
climateworkers.org
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May 16 @ 6:30 pm – 11:00 pm
In an unprecedented move, the Berkeley City Council is considering fully withdrawing their support for local agency participation in the Urban Areas Security Initiative and Urban Shield. The Stop Urban Shield Coalition has been fighting Urban Shield on every front. We’ve been at Berkeley City Council Meetings to convince representatives that Urban Shield hurts Berkeley residents, particularly in Black and Brown communities. This meeting is critical for the fight against Urban Shield. A decision in favor of pulling out of Urban Shield by the Berkeley City Council paves the way for other cities in the Bay Area to do the same.
6:30pm — free guided mindfulness meditation with Buddhist Peace Fellowship, led by Sarwang Parikh of Seeds of Awareness and East Bay Meditation Center. We can prepare for emergencies by enhancing our own ability to respond.
7pm – 10pm – Berkeley City Council Meeting. Come ready to give public comment (or cede time). Talking points provided!
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After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, now engulfed by San Francisco’s sprawl, a Native woman from a non-federally recognized Ohlone tribe and her allies occupy a sacred site to prevent its desecration. When this life-altering event fails to stop the development, they vow to follow a new path- to establish the first women-led urban Indigenous land trust. Beyond Recognition explores the quest to preserve one’s culture and homeland in a society bent on erasing them.
Q&A with the director, Michelle Steinberg and Corrina Gould, lead organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change after the screening
We will also show a preview of Michell Steinberg’s new film, MET(T)A
free snacks and popcorn!
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May
17
Wed
Join us as we demand answers from Sheriff Ahern for arresting a Street vendor in San Lorenzo!
All people deserve the right to be treated with respect and dignity. Stand up against the criminalization of street vendors, against deportations, and pol-ICE collaboration!
Bring one piece of fruit to share and a luggage (*the luggage is to exposed Ahern’s past racists’ comments about how he can tell who’s undocumented based on clothing, language, and luggage.)
#NotMySheiff
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May 17 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
How can we tell fact from fiction when it comes to a controversial topic like immigration? Join us at the Internet Archive for an evening with experienced journalists from the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and Retro Report, who will work with the audience to develop strategies to fight back against propaganda and fake news.
The program will take place in three acts.
Act 1: The Story
In Act 1, we’ll go deep on the facts and stories about immigration in the U.S.
What does does the data tell us about immigration in the U.S.? Who is coming and who is going and what are the trends for both? What is the mission of the U.S. Border Patrol? What would it actually mean to build a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico Border? What does the term “sanctuary city” mean?
Act 2: The Challenge
In Act 2, we’ll work with the audience to find practical strategies to make the public debate over immigration fact-based and productive.
The CIR and Retro Report teams will work with the audience to hone in on key questions in the immigration debate, with special attention for the points of tension in the immigration debate. What are common misunderstandings about immigration? How and why do they emerge?
Act 3: Solutions
In Act 3, we’ll do a group brainstorm on how to burst filter bubbles and work for constructive debate and change on immigration–and other issues
With the audience, the journalists will identify practical strategies they can take back to the newsroom and share with other media when reporting on controversial issues. How can the media work directly with communities, provide trustworthy reporting on a complex issue, and help the public recognize fake news?
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May 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
At the Finance Committee meeting on June 13th, fund allocation and approval of the feasibility study contract will be discussed. Because the funding for the study will impact the city budget, we are asking supporters to not just contact Finance Committee members directly, but to attend all budget meetings hosted by councilpersons and voice your support for funding the study as soon as possible. Upcoming meetings are:
Wednesday, May 17: 6:30-8:30 pm, District 7 and at-large, Councilpersons Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Zoo, Snow Building, 9777 Golf Links Road
Thursday, May 18: 6:00-8:00 pm, District 6, Councilperson Desley Brooks, Eastmont Police Department Substation, 2651 73rd Avenue, Oakland
Monday, May 22, 6:00-8:30 pm, District 3, Councilperson Lynette McElhaney, West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, Oakland
Thursday, May 25, 6:30-8:30 pm, District 2, Councilperson Abel Guillen (member of the Finance Committee) [Cantonese interpretation available], Lincoln Recreation Center, 261 11th Street, Oakland
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May 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sponsored by the League of Women Voters.
Co-Sponsored by the Oakland Bay Area Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Speakers include:
- Pamela Hall, City of Oakland Housing Advocate
- Charmaine Curtis, Curtis Development
- Margaretta Lin, Executive Director of the Dellums Institute for Social Justice
- Alan Dones, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Strategic Urban Development Alliance, LLC (SUDA)
- RSVP here!
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May 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Have you ever wondered:
- What do police really spend their time doing?
- How much do they make, and why do they get paid so much?
- Could we shrink OPD and make Oakland an even safer, better place to live?
The process of allocating Oakland’s 2.6 billion dollar budget for 2017-2019 has begun. We believe that the scandal-ridden and dysfunctional Oakland Police Department consumes far too many of our city’s resources. It’s time to audit police spending and performance, and redirect wasted funds to community-building, constructive strategies for making Oakland a safer and better place to live.
Our Demands:
- INDEPENDENT AND THOROUGH COST SAVINGS AND PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
- DEFUND OPD BY 50%
PLEASE COME OUT TO YOUR LOCAL BUDGET FORUM:
Monday May 8, 6:30-8:30 pm, Councilmember Abel Guillen
St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 114 Montecito Ave
Wednesday May 10, 6:30-8:30 pm, Councilmember Annie Campbell
Bret Harte Middle School, 3700 Coolidge Ave
Saturday May 13, 10am-12pm, Councilmembers Lynette McElhaney & Dan Kalb
Beebe Memorial Church, 3900 Telegraph Ave
Wednesday May 17, 6:30-8:30 pm, Councilmembers Larry Reid & Rebecca Kaplan
Oakland Zoo- Snow Building, 9777 Golf Links Road
Thursday May 18, 6-8pm, Councilmember Desley Brooks
Eastmont Police Dept. Substation, 2651 73rd Ave
Monday May 22, 6-8pm, Councilmember Lynette McElhaney
West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline St
Thursday May 25, 6:30-8:30 pm, Councilmember Abel Guillen
Lincoln Rec Center, 261 11th St. (cantonese interpretation)
Defund OPD will be at each of these budget meetings with information about the police budget, questions to ask, and our demands! Please show up 15 minutes early if possible. More information is available at defundopd.org.
#DefundOPD
In the last few weeks we’ve built a ton of momentum and had some significant successes:
-With incredible and wide-ranging community support, we’ve succeeded in making sure that the city’s outrageous and unaccountable spending on police is the #1 topic of discussion at every single city council member budget forum.
-We’ve already gotten the mayor to stand down from her effort to increase the police force to 800 officers, and now the discussion is turning to maintaining the current staffing levels (near 750) instead of the fully budgeted levels (792).
-We’ve gotten almost every council member to commit, on the record, to supporting an independent, thorough audit of police spending, and the city auditor’s office is on board.
-We’ve built a huge amount of synergy and mutual support with dozens of organizations who are calling for various budget priorities that will ACTUALLY make Oakland a safer and more just city — and many of them are now making explicit connections between the bloated police budget and the lack of funding for these crucial measures to support housing affordability, education, homeless services, youth programs and employment, and cultural initiatives.
The last two city council members are hosting meetings TONIGHT and THURSDAY NIGHT!
Monday May 22, 6-8pm, Councilmember Lynette McElhaney
West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline St
Thursday May 25, 6:30-8:30 pm, Councilmember Abel Guillen
Lincoln Rec Center, 261 11th St. (cantonese interpretation)
For those of you looking for ways to plug in, here’s what we could use right now:
1) come out tonight and/or thursday if you can, and mobilize others to come!
2) Post to social media with the hashtag #DefundOPD and tag Defund OPD in your posts on facebook.
3) Email budgetsuggestions@oaklandnet.c om with our demand: Defund OPD, invest in community. Feel free to reach out if you want to collaborate on more specific verbiage – or just mention the budget priorities that matter to you, and state that you’d like the $ to come out of the police budget (Please cc defundopd@gmail.com)
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May 17 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join Oakland Privacy to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda and San Francisco County Boards of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond City Councils.
We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments.
Oakland Privacy (nee Oakland Privacy Working Group) originally came together in 2013 to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network; its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC, and made Oakland’s new Privacy Advisory Commission to the City Council happen. We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors). Oakland and Fremont have followed suit. In conjunction with other groups we fight against Urban Shield and other killer-cop trainings.
We have presented our work at RightsCon in San Francisco and at Left Forum and HOPE in New York City.
If you would like to attend our meeting and would like a quick introduction to what we’re doing before we dive right into the thick of our agenda, send email to contact@oaklandprivacy.org and one of us will arange to meet you before the meeting.
Stop by and learn how you can help guard our right not to be spied on by the government. Look on the whiteboard inside near the entrance to the OMNI for our exact location within the OMNI.
If you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
or send a request to contact@oaklandprivacy.org
For more information on the DAC check out
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May 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 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.
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May 18 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
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May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
At the Finance Committee meeting on June 13th, fund allocation and approval of the feasibility study contract will be discussed. Because the funding for the study will impact the city budget, we are asking supporters to not just contact Finance Committee members directly, but to attend all budget meetings hosted by councilpersons and voice your support for funding the study as soon as possible. Upcoming meetings are:
Wednesday, May 17: 6:30-8:30 pm, District 7 and at-large, Councilpersons Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Zoo, Snow Building, 9777 Golf Links Road
Thursday, May 18: 6:00-8:00 pm, District 6, Councilperson Desley Brooks, Eastmont Police Department Substation, 2651 73rd Avenue, Oakland
Monday, May 22, 6:00-8:30 pm, District 3, Councilperson Lynette McElhaney, West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, Oakland
Thursday, May 25, 6:30-8:30 pm, District 2, Councilperson Abel Guillen (member of the Finance Committee) [Cantonese interpretation available], Lincoln Recreation Center, 261 11th Street, Oakland
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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
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Join the #SinglePayer healthcare movement in CA! May 19th, we will rally for #SB562 at CA Dem Con: https://t.co/p2D70WayLG. #WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/vV8wbAobxv
— RoseAnn DeMoro (@RoseAnnDeMoro) May 11, 2017
May 19 Lobby Day for #SB562 Get on the bus! Dem Party Convention starts then too. Must show them we’re not playing! https://t.co/ocuj59CnMS pic.twitter.com/zYH5KMhf4I
— mARTha (@MWallner_) May 7, 2017
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