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May 21st is the last day to register to vote for the June 5th primary election in California! Please join us for a special rally to share information and resources! Learn about Proposed New Laws that will affect you! Get information on Education and Employment, meet local Employers. Come together as a Community!!

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights | www.ellabakercenter.org | 510.428.3939

REGISTER TO VOTE! MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!!

May 21st is the LAST DAY TO REGISTER to vote for the June 5th primary election in California! Please join us for a special rally to share information and resources!

> Register to vote THAT DAY – We will help!
> Learn about Proposed New Laws that will AFFECT YOU!
> Get information on Education and Employment
> Meet local Employers
> Come together as a Community!!

SPONSORED BY:
Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)
Californians for Safety and Justic
ACLU
League of Women Voters
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
Root & Rebound
All Of Us Or None Of Us
Community & Youth Outreach
Legal Services for Prisoners With Children
Berkeley Women Organized for Political Action

LINKING SYSTEMIC RACISM AND POVERTY: Voting Rights, Immigration, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Mistreatment of Indigenous Communities

This is the second of six weeks of nonviolent moral fusion direct action across the country to show our elected leaders we will no longer allow attention violence to keep poor and disenfranchised people down.

Join us at the Capitol in Sacramento, CA at 2:00 p.m. for a Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival rally and demonstration. The second week’s theme is “LINKING SYSTEMIC RACISM AND POVERTY: Voting Rights, Immigration, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Mistreatment of Indigenous Communities.”

If you are interested in engaging in nonviolent direct action as part of the demonstration, you must attend a pre-training at 9am at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St, Sacramento 95814.

You do NOT have to risk arrest to attend this event.

PLEASE RSVP AT THIS LINK TO RECEIVE IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE DAYS PLANS: http://bit.ly/PPCweek2

Film: Evolution of Organic by Mark Kitchell
(get tickets in advance or be put on guest list!)

The San Francisco showing of Mark’s new film: Evolution of Organic will be at the Roxie this coming Monday, May 21^st from 6 pm-9 pm. Rainbow Grocery is sponsoring the event. Appearing will be Bu Nygrens of Veritable Vegetable, Kim Kaput of Rainbow Grocery, and John Wick of the Marin Carbon Project. We recommend buying tickets in advance at ticketing.us.veezi.com or just go to the Roxie website.

From filmmaker Mark Kitchell (Berkeley in the Sixties, A Fierce Green Fire) comes a new film: Evolution of Organic. It’s the story of organic agriculture, told by those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers, spiritual seekers and farmers’ sons and daughters reject chemical farming and set out to explore organic alternatives. It’s a heartfelt journey of change, from a small band of rebels to a cultural transformation in the way we grow and eat food. By now organic has gone mainstream, split into an industry oriented toward bringing organic to all people and a movement that has realized a vision of sustainable agriculture. It’s the most popular and successful outgrowth of the environmental impulse of the last fifty years.

If you would like to be on the Guest List as OccupySF, let me (ruthiesakheim@gmail.com)  know and I’ll put your name on it.

Wilder than Wild is an hour-long documentary film about wildfires and climate change. This Bay Area premiere will be followed by a panel and Q&A with Berkeley City Councilmember Kate Harrison, UC Berkeley fire scientist Scott Stephens, Berkeley firefighter Mike Shuken, and filmmakers Kevin White and Stephen Most.

Registration required.

For more information and to register, visit their website.

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Join APEN, CEJA, Idle No More SF Bay, Jobs With Justice, North Bay Organizing Project, PODER, SEIU 1021, 350.org and over 50 other organizations at a meeting on May 22. We are organizing to plan a bold, visionary action during Jerry Brown’s “Global Climate Action Summit.” We demand real climate leadership that protects vulnerable communities, workers, and future generations: keep fossil fuels in the ground; develop a just, equitable, resilient 100% renewable energy economy that rapidly expands economic opportunity; create family sustaining jobs: Rise for Climate Jobs & Justice March on Saturday September 8th.

The whole world is coming to San Francisco for the Global Climate Summit from Sep 12-14.

Climate disruption is impacting all of our communities from jobs to justice and everything in between. And we want you, your organizations, friends, and family to rise up with the world on September 8th to demand real solutions.

You are invited to come to a meeting to build the movement leading up to the largest march for climate jobs & justice on the West Coast. There’s lots to do and your talents and gifts are welcomed!

Join your sisters and brothers as we look forward to creating a world of equity, justice, and a sustainable and safe future for the next seven generations to come. It’s up to us.

Info/RSVP

Please join Amnesty International SF Group 30 &
The Department of International & Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco

For an evening of discussion and short films about Shawkan, photojournalism, jailed journalists, and issues of press freedom.

Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Kim Komenich in conversation with award-winning Egyptian photojournalist and filmmaker Khaled Sayed.

With a special selection of Shawkan’s photographs exhibited.

Background: Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, known as “Shawkan” was recently honored with the prestigious 2018 UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize on World Press Freedom Day. Shawkan is detained in Egypt’s Tora Prison Complex, where he has been held arbitrarily for nearly five years—just for working as a photojournalist. Egyptian prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Shawkan.

Photography is not a crime. Journalism is not a crime. Come partake in photography and writing actions on behalf of Shawkan and other jailed journalists.

Panelists: After introducing themselves, panelists will be asked to answer a series of three questions:

1) What are the struggles of people who are homelessness in Berkeley?

2) What are immediate things that can be done by the Community and the City to address the needs of people who are homeless?

3) What are some long-term actions that can make a difference?

4) What are the challenges and obstacles?

Big Mama, First They Came for the Homeless Encampment

Mike Zint, First They Came for the Homeless – confirmed

Representative, Youth Spirit Art Works – confirmed

Nick Houston, East Oakland Collective – confirmed

Tiny, Poor Magazine, Oakland – confirmed

Respondents:

Paul Kealoha-Blake, Mental Health Commissioner, City of Berkeley

Osha Neumann, East Bay Community Law Center

Boona Cheema, founder of BOSS & Mental Health Commissioner, City of Berkeley – confirmed

Representative, Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center -confirmed

hey oakland folks, we're going to be filming an open discussion and workshop on copwatching at OGP on Friday at 10am – 12pm

its been a long while since @WeCopwatch has operated in the Bay. even longer since i participated in the project. Breakfast (Bagels and coffee?) on us.

— Harun ⚑☪⚑ (@ArsalaiH) May 24, 2018

This fundraiser is a traveling art show raising money to fund the Asylum Seekers: Moria documentary while spreading awareness of the inhumanity surrounding the refugee crisis in Europe. This show will feature artists from all over the world with work focussed around asylum seekers. Pieces of the documentary will be played with Q&A following by the documentarians Anne Di Grazia and Irene Hollebrandse who recently got back to the US after shooting the documentary in one of the worst refugee camps in Greece: Moria. Each art work will be part of a rolling auction sold to the highest bidder at the end of the show tour.

Come look at art, watch some of the documentary and learn about the experience from the filmmakers.

Entrance fee: $10,-

Special Community Showing with Wade Rathke, Founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN.

The ORGANIZER is a film about people who have dedicated their lives to the hidden, usually message and always controversial job of building power for the powerless. It’s also a very human story about organizational tension, personal tragedy, betrayal and ultimately resilience. The film is about how ACORN as a political force the poor, marginalized and forgotten was built.

Our comrade, Elazar Friedman, will be back in town to celebrate his 85th birthday and discuss Trotsky’s theory of fascism. He will cover:

1.) The contribution of Clara Zetkin in 1923 addressed to the ECCI will be an important source that strongly influenced Trotsky. Reprising her elements of the newly evolved aspects of Fascism differing from previous right wing dictatorships will lay the foundation for Trotsky’s comprehensive model.

2.) Ernest Mandel in his intro to Trotsky’s Struggle Against Fascism in Germany posits 6 dynamically inter-related elements that compose Trotsky’s evolutionary model of Fascism. These will be summarized and compared to the models employed at the time by the Comintern and the KPD

Trotsky struggled might an main to apprise the working class movements in Germany of the deadly menace of Nazi Fascism and to correct the suicidal adventurist positions devolving from the Comintern such as SPD being the principal Social Fascist enemy and the distortions of Lenin’s position on United Front (ultimatist United Front from below) trying to bypass that most of the German working Class was in SPD led unions and organizational SPD -KPD United Front against Fascism were needed.

The Dimitrov speech in 1935 to the 7th Congress of the ECCI and his dialogue with Stalin criticizing the dictate on Social Fascism will be discussed and the flip flop to the opportunist class collaborationist Popular Fronts that paved the way to Fascist victory rather than stopping Fascism.

This Critical Resistance workshop explores the role and history of policing in the U.S., the way it has impacted different communities, and how people have resisted and challenged its inherent violence. This workshop also goes over how we can reduce our reliance on policing by highlighting the various ways that building up community strength and practices lead to true safety that does not depend on law enforcement.

We are asking for a $5 – 20 donation, however no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 100% of donations will go to support Critical Resistance.

Dinner: 6:30 PM

Movie: 7:30 PM

Discussion after the screening with Cynthia Choy, Co-Executive Director of Chinese Affirmative Action, and Nancy Wong, daughter of victims of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Free snacks and popcorn.

Please join us on Memorial Day morning for an interfaith prayer gathering to honor the ancestors.

Tomorrow 5/28 the Long Haul hosts a discussion and film about People's Park & how to save this beautiful experiment!
7pm. pic.twitter.com/zb2MfdZE44

— Long Haul Infoshop (@Longhaulinfo) May 27, 2018

Register here.

Get on the bus! This Tuesday May 29th we’ll be overwhelming Comcast and AT&T’s lobbying power in Sacramento and showing lawmakers our support for SB 822, California’s comprehensive Net Neutrality bill. SB 822 is the strongest Net Neutrality bill in the country, and the large Internet Service Providers are spending millions to try and stop it. But we’re not going to let them because we know what’s at stake.

A free and open Internet is critical to our ability to thrive as Black people and people of color in this country. Social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo have proven how critical it is for our voices to be heard online while we fight for our lives offline.

That’s why Color of Change and the Center for Media Justice are teaming up take a bus full of open Internet lovers to the state capital to make sure lawmakers hear our voices and respect our digital civil rights.

Space is limited so register today to reserve your spot on the bus:

Registration is free; light breakfast and lunch will be provided. We will be meeting in downtown Oakland at 8:30am for a brief lobby day training and light breakfast before departing for the State House. We will return to Oakland by 5pm.

We are enraged and disheartened by the cowardly decision of the SF DA – George Gascón to not file charges against the officers who killed Mario Woods.  The same day at the same time, DA Gascón also announced no charges in the fatal police shooting of Luis Gongora Pat.

We are joined by

JUSTICE 4 LUIS GONGORA COALITION

CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY JOHN BURRIS

GWEN WOODS

NAACP

REV DR AMOS BROWN

SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (SURJ) SF

SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (SURJ) BAY AREA

SAN FRANCISCO DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA

SAN FRANCISCO FOR DEMOCRACY

INDIVISIBLE SF

SF BERNIECRATS

HARVEY MILK DEMOCRATIC CLUB

FAMILIES OF VICTIMS OF POLICE VIOLENCE

And other community groups and leaders

Please come out and join us and stand for #Justice4MarioWoods and Justice for all victims of police violence.

Wealth and Disparities in the Black Community – Justice 4 Mario Woods
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Wealth-and-Disparities-in-the-Black-Community-Justice-4-Mario-Woods-1597022747260594/

THE WAR ECONOMY: MILITARISM & THE PROLIFERATION OF GUN VIOLENCE *RSVP http://bit.ly/PPCWeek3*

50 years ago, Dr. MLK Jr. started the Poor People’s Campaign to spark a radical revolution of values across the nation. The campaign was intended to turn his dream, our dream, into a reality. Black, Brown, Yellow, Red, White, folks of every color where invited to band together across differences to build a Beloved Community across the nation. Weeks before the Campaign, King was assassinated. The original movement was unable to come to fruition.

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is picking up where the movement stopped in 1968. Join us for our third week in a SEASON OF NONVIOLENT MORAL DIRECT ACTION. America is in a crisis of values. We must take nonviolent radical action to stand for the dignity of all people in our nation and around the world.

In the third week, we are focusing on the deep violence of The War Economy, American Militarism, the Mistreatment of Veterans, and the Proliferation of Gun Violence. With 140 million American living in poverty, how can we justify spending 57 cents out of every dollar, of our discretionary budget, on the military? How can we remain silent as our veterans go homeless and American-made bombs keep dropping all over the world?

Join us in Moral Resistance as we change our national narrative with over 30 other states in coordinated nonviolent moral fusion civil disobedience.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RISK ARREST TO JOIN THIS ACTION. We need all hands on deck!

Schedule:

8:30am-9am: Arrive Sign-up for Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action and support role training @ Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St, Sacramento 95814. If you are participating in Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action, or supporting as a Marshal, Medic or Peacekeeper you must join this training. (even if you have already been trained!)

9:00am-12:00pm: Final Training for everyone planning on participating in the Direct Action or as a Marshal or Peacekeeper.

12:00pm-2:00pm: Set-Up & Learning Songs (anyone who wishes to volunteer is welcome to meet up at the volunteer tent on the Capitol steps to help set-up)

2:00pm: Rally and Press Conference on West Steps

3:00pm Demonstration.

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FOR THOSE WHO NEED FREE SIMPLE HOUSING IS OFFERED IN LOCAL CHURCHES. Fill in this form: http://bit.ly/PPCHOUSING

TRANSPORTATION
The Bay Area: Please fill out this form and local organizer will be in touch soon: http://bit.ly/2IwHBtX

Central California: Please fill out this form and local organizer will be in touch soon. http://bit.ly/2LbXt2t
As this is significantly larger zone to try and cover, we will do our best, but can’t be certain we will meet everyone’s needs. Please organize as much as you in your local communities to see what is possible with carpooling and transportation options.

Los Angeles & Southern California: Please fill out this form and a local organizer will be in touch soon. http://bit.ly/2x33VFU

San Diego: Ride-share Facebook Group (it will take a second for the group to become visible to you as you must be approved by an admin to join)

If you have any questions please be in touch at california@poorpeoplescampaign.org

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Thank you for joining with us to launch a multi-year movement to transform the moral narrative of this nation!

Meet you at the Capitol!