“What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, ‘America, you must be born again!’”

🌹Join us tomorrow at 6:30pm tomorrow to here the King in his own words🌹https://t.co/NFajjLLeBY pic.twitter.com/uYgyqwdFTv

— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) January 16, 2023

We know it has been quite 2022 and a lot to come in 2023, so join our STATE OF THE DEBTORS UNION January 25, 8pm ET / 5pm ET as we highlight some accomplishments in the fight against housing debt, medical debt, carceral debt and student debt. We’ll discuss lessons from 2022 and take stock for the year ahead.

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland
By Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham
(Atria Books; 480 pages; $30)

9th Ave. presents “Riders” authors in conversation with Joe Eskenazi: 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Free. Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. www.greenapplebooks.com

Uncovering Brutality, Cover-Up, and Corruption in Oakland: “Riders” authors in conversation with Otis Taylor. Live stream only. 3 p.m. Jan. 25. $10-$40, free for members. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. www.commonwealthclub.org

“Riders” authors in conversation with Karym Sanchez: 4 p.m. Jan. 28. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. www.bookpassage.com

The Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force presents:

CEMTF 3RD Virtual Summit Series: CLIMATE & the ECONOMY

Which Green Matters Most?

9:00 – 9:20 AM

Land Acknowledgement

Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair, Confederated Villages of Lisjan & Co Director Sogorea Te Land Trust

Welcome

Cheryl Davila, Chair CEMTF & Former Councilmember

Speakers & Co-Speaker

9:20 – 10:00 AM

Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder Code Pink

10:00 – 10:30 AM

“The Doughnut that’s good for CA”

Franziska Raedeker & Anne Sheridan, California Doughnut Economics Coalition

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Public Banks, A Tool for building pathways to a just and sustainable future

Gayle McLaughlin, Councilmember, City of Richmond

Public Banks, A Piece of the Sustainability Jigsaw Puzzle

Debbie Notkin, Chair, Friends of the Public Bank East Bay

5 minute Break

11:05 – 11:50 AM

Zero Food Waste–

Tara McNerney & Pete Pearson, World Wildlife Fund

David Hott, Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen

Cara Morgan, Branch Chief, Local Assistance and Market Development, CalRecycle, State of California

11:50 AM – Noon

Announcements & Closing

Cheryl Davila

CEMTF.org/ @CEMTF1/ https://www.facebook.com/ClimateEmergencyMobilizationTaskForce/

January 20th marks the 2 year anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration, and the halfway point for his current administration. It also marks the birthday of an extraordinary activist and pillar of the national fossil fuel resistance movement, Joye Braun, who we sadly lost in November. Joye was instrumental in fighting and ending devastating fossil fuel projects such as Keystone XL – we are also celebrating the two year anniiversary of its death – and the Dakota Access Pipeline.

We are showing up, along with People vs. Fossil Fuel groups across the country, to demand that Biden exercise his power to Stop Fossil Fuel Projects and Declare a Climate Emergency. Our local climate fights show why.  We’ve continued to see flaring at the Martinez Refinery just in this last month, health and pollution concerns from the Chevron Richmond Refinery, and countless instances of our frontline communities facing harsh impacts from poor air quality, toxic substances, and limited resources. The climate emergency is already here – we need Biden to step up and do something about it.

Join us at the SF Federal Building on Jan. 20th from 11am-1pm for a rally with speakers and art, as we demand that President Biden:

1. Declare a Climate Emergency
2. Stop All Fossil Fuel Projects
3. Honor Indigenous & Human Rights.

RSVP here.

Rally in front of the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland

Saturday, January 21: 10 AM – 12 PM

Victory to the people of Ukraine, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Belarus & India!

  Flyer

Peoples Assemblies are new for 2023. Collaborative actions and mutual aid are valuable community responses to concerns and as alternatives to relying on unresponsive government. An Extinction Rebellion demand is to hold Peoples Assemblies to take action because government is not acting quickly or effectively on the climate emergency, threat of nuclear annihilation, racism, poverty, and other problems. Together we can generate solutions, connect in community, be heard, be creative.

Limited seating; you must register for the assembly in advance and to reserve free childcare: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berkeley-community-peoples-assembly-tickets-503288949797

Agenda: Welcome and introductions, brief presentations on

1) banking responsibly; moving your money to ‘good’ banks & credit unions that don’t finance nuclear weapons or fossil fuel projects, presented by Third Act/350.org

2) ending the war in Ukraine, presented by CODEPINK with video from Medea Benjamin

3) saving rooftop solar in California, presented by Solar Rights and Clean Energy Alliances. Discussions focusing on solutions and generating ideas for future Assemblies. Snacks, free childcare by reservation to codepinksfbay@gmail.com, handouts, door prizes.

Hosted by Mutual Aid Institute (https://mutualaid.institute), CodePink (https://codepink.org), Third Act (350.org), Extinction Rebellion Peace, Progressive Democrats of Oakland, Triple Justice.

On January 22, 2023, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, as we mourn the loss of nearly 50 years of constitutional protections, we send a clear message: We are not defeated. We are not going gently. Women are rising, and we are on the march.

We are taking our fight to every state house and every state legislator in this country. We are putting all politicians at every level of government on notice: If you come for our families, our freedoms, or our future, we are coming for your seat.

Our movement is strong. Our movement is growing. Our movement is #BiggerThanRoe

RSVP

Speaker: Mark Albertson.

The Nuclear Option:  The nuclear option was exercised twice:  At Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, followed three days later at Nagasaki, August 9.  Both by the United States against the same targeted nation, Japan.  Japan, as well. was working on the Bomb, with the Army and Navy each having programs.  Yet it was Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman who split the atom in 1938, providing Germany with the inside track towards the Bomb.  The advent of the Bomb will effect foreign relations, war, societies, and cultures.  Indeed, the Bomb will hasten the use of the helicopter among armies as a way to circumvent a nuclear battlefield with a doctrine known as Airmobility in the United States Army and the Vertical Assault Concept in the United States Marine Corps.  And while the Bomb is seen as Man’s Doomsday Weapon, it has not prevented him from deciding his options on the battlefield.  And so, just how has the Bomb altered Man’s approach to war and what is the future?

Mark Albertson is the historical research editor at Army Aviation magazine in Monroe, Connecticut; and, is the historian for the Army Aviation Association of America.

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Live Broadcast – Abolition: A Multigenerational Perspective, Lecture Hall

Due to high demand for this program, the James Moore Theatre (JMT) has sold out. HOWEVER, we are offering a limited number of tickets to view the program from our Lecture Hall. Visitors joining us in the Lecture Hall will watch the program LIVE via telecast from the JMT.  

Centering past and contemporary abolition movements, this powerful event will feature the activist, scholar, and author celebrated in Seize the Time, Angela Davis, in conversation with former Oakland Youth Poet Laureate and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley, and National Movement Building Director from the Black Organizing Project (B.O.P.), Jessica Black, whose long-term and ultimately successful efforts abolished the OUSD police force. The conversation will be moderated by Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project and Executive Director of The Justice Teams Network”

Special performances will include a spoken word by director, playwright, arts educator and Oakland Poet Laureate Ayodele Nzinga PhD, and a dance performance by Destiny Junior Company.

Live Broadcast Program Schedule: 

1–1:15 pm – Reading

1:20–1:45 pm – Destiny Junior Company

1:45–2:45 pm – Panel Discussion

2:45–3 pm – Q&A

Accessibility The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is committed to providing programs that are accessible, welcoming, and inclusive of our community. Assistive listening devices and wheelchairs are available for checkout on a first come, first served basis at the Ticketing Desk. To request other accommodations, like American Sign Language (ASL), Cantonese, Spanish or another language interpreter, please email visitor@museumca.org at least three weeks before the event.

Location of Action:  Assemble, Lake Merritt Columns; Rally, Lake Merritt Ampitheatre
Date and Time of Action:  Sunday, January 22, 2023, assemble/march-1:00 pm, rally 2:15pm

CoSponsoring Organizations: 

• Joe Lombardo, National Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition
• Jeff Mackler Dir., Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; Free Julian Assange, SF Bay Area
•  Rick Sterling, Task Force on the Americas; Mt. Diablo P&J Center
• Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Vincent De Stefano, National Organizing Director, Assange Defense.org
• Anna Scibek, Women for Racial and Economic Equality
• Roger Harris, FreeAlexSaab and US Peace Council
• Judy Greenspan, International Action Center
• Cynthia Papermaster, CodePink Women for Peace
• Dennis Bernstein, Host, KPFA’s Flashpoints

Website:  https://socialistaction.org, https://unacpeace.org, https://unac.notowar.net

As Martin Luther King, Jr. so correctly reminded us, the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Since WWII, the US has initiated more than 60 military interventions in foreign countries. The US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine, brings the US in direct confrontation with a major nuclear power as does the U.S. provocation against China over Taiwan, and now Japan! It is extremely important that we build a strong, unified antiwar movement that can break through the media propaganda and censorship and end the US military aggression around the world.

Actions linking ALL the continuing US wars and sanctions will be a unifying focus and help break through the propaganda that saturates each and every war.

“We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness that has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning. That is the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’

2023 is kicking in with the usual challenges, and we can already sense the need for a little soul-soothing.  Please join us for a concert of celestial harp and vocal music that reminds us that heaven-on-earth can sometimes be as close as the next musical performance.

Floy Andrews and Maureen Brennan are offering a late Sunday afternoon of Celtic music and camaraderie to celebrate the New Year.  Maureen will play Celtic harp alongside special guest singer, Amelia Hogan, at the Point Richmond home of Floy Andrews and Fred Page.  Light refreshments will be served.  Please join us!

Recommended minimum donation of $15 to Sunflower Alliance, collected at the Gathering.  Of course, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP to Maureen at harpmo@sbcglobal.net for address.  *Attendance limited to 20 guests; please RSVP soon.

*The event will be indoors with attendance limited to 20 guests.  Please consider the setting.  Floy and Fred have a smallish house (with a very nice view of the Bay).  It will likely be too chilly to have doors and windows open.  Masking will be optional.  If you feel ill, have recently tested positive for COVID, or have reason to believe that you might have been exposed to COVID within five days of the Gathering, please opt out of joining us (as much as we will miss your presence).  We thought about rescheduling, but intend the program as a welcome to this new year so we decided to forge ahead.  Please assess your personal COVID risk tolerance based upon the above.

Location Details:
Virtual through Google Meet: The Pursuit of Happiness framed in political-economic terms
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mqd-jtmf-gkk

Join high school US History teacher David Giesen as he vets an overview–seeking your critique–of next year’s approach to US History.

The curriculum’s theme is “Liberating the Pursuit of Happiness.”

The “elevator pitch” is: The United States was created in the stated belief that governments should exist in order to facilitate a people’s ability to pursue happiness. The pursuit of happiness requires liberty to be playfully expressive. The USA is on the continuum of aligning politico-economic conditions with the sort of liberty required for people to pursue happiness.

On three successive Sunday evenings (January 8, 15, and 22) you are invited to join a virtual conference where you will remotely watch a few videos and afterwards join in discussion of those videos as they relate to the curriculum. You need not attend every session.

I welcome those desiring a short course in US history, those desirous of critiquing an unconventional approach to US history, friends of Howard Zinn-like alternate US histories, enemies of Howard Zinn-like alternate US histories, self-described woke, self-described woke-adverse, would-be US history teachers, US history teachers, and others.

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland
By Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham
(Atria Books; 480 pages; $30)

9th Ave. presents “Riders” authors in conversation with Joe Eskenazi: 7 p.m. Jan. 19. Free. Green Apple Books, 1231 Ninth Ave., S.F. www.greenapplebooks.com

Uncovering Brutality, Cover-Up, and Corruption in Oakland: “Riders” authors in conversation with Otis Taylor. Live stream only. 3 p.m. Jan. 25. $10-$40, free for members. Commonwealth Club, 110 The Embarcadero, S.F. www.commonwealthclub.org

“Riders” authors in conversation with Karym Sanchez: 4 p.m. Jan. 28. Free. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. www.bookpassage.com

‼️Important court date THIS FRIDAY in San Francisco‼️

Rally with us before the hearing to tell DA Jenkins: Don’t let former SFPD officer Chris Samayoa get away with the murder of Keita O’Neil!

Friday, January 27 • 8:15am • 850 Bryant St pic.twitter.com/H0o7rETzp5

— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) January 25, 2023

Friday 1/27: Emergency Action: Justice for Tyre Nichols in San Francisco https://t.co/RsOX24d7Ej

— Indybay (@Indybay) January 27, 2023

Zoom discussion on the future of OPD. This Friday 1/27 6:30pm. Join us to hear @PPriceCares @Tyfahra @OaklandOIG José Dorado @OakPoliceComm Jim Chanin
What needs to happen for real structural reform & effective oversight?
Register here: https://t.co/hs0kvjdtug pic.twitter.com/go1cbWHMBb

— Coalition for Police Accountability (@oakcopoversight) January 25, 2023

If you have not yet registered for tomorrow’s Extinction Rebellion US All-Chapters Open House, there is still time. Just click on the link below to go to the registration page, and please let us know if you have any questions.

XRUS National Open House

Learn about global, national, and regional initiatives and campaigns; network with rebels from around the country; and either find a local chapter to join or learn how to start a local chapter.

The XRUS Team