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(Potluck at 6:00, program starts at 7:00.)
Join the SF Bay Area progressive community to commemorate the first anniversary of the historic return of the Cuban 5 and the announcement from both Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama of a new tage of relations between Cuba and the U.S. Also there will be an eyewitness report from the elections in Venezuela. Program will include: Gayle McLaughlin, Richmond City Council member; Teri Matsson, Task Force on the Americas; poetry by Nina Serrano; Vic Sadot will sing Phil Ochs’ “United Fruit”; and more to be announced.
Initial endorsers: Social Justice Committee of the BFUU, and International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity. If you want to endorse the event please contact Cynthia Johnson at cyn4justice [at] gmail.com or call at 510-225-9962.http://www.facebook.com/events/686396231496536
Wheelchair accessible.
Alan’s Birthday Celebration🎂🎊🎁🎉
The Alan Blueford Foundation will be hosting Alan’s Holiday Birthday Gift giveaway. We will be giving gifts to family members that have lost loved ones in honor of Alan’s Birthday and the Holiday season. We can’t give Alan gifts, but we can give to those that struggle with lost and pain during this time of year. If you would like to donate toys, canned foods(non perishables),or monetary donations: Please contact Jeralynn Blueford at ABC4J , 2434 Telegraph Ave
Donations will be collected on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s from 1-5pm at the center.
Please support us as we bless our community and family members that have lost their loved ones. Thank you in advance
Join us12/18 11 am, 850 Bryant press conference to fire Chief Suhr! Justice for #MarioWoods #BlackLivesMatter @Isa pic.twitter.com/oaiB6X26mb
— Michelle Ann Schudel (@MichelleAnnSchu) December 17, 2015
In recent weeks, we have witnessed a new wave of racist violence against Arabs, Muslims, and perceived Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Join us in challenging scapegoating and xenophobia, and demonstrating our commitment to upholding the dignity of communities in the Bay Area
We observe and document all suspicious activities of our local law enforcement agencies.
Come learn the art of copwatching and help out as we go out afterwards on our “neighborhood watch.”
Pizza provided during debrief.
To riff off of Janice Joplin,
“Come on, take another piece of my part now, brother,
Come on, take my part in making community. . .
You know you can take it,
If you got the title to land.”
Come along on a walking tour that exposes the depth of our self-deception regarding the housing crisis in San Francisco.
Despite knowing that the rising land values in San Francisco real estate are the cause of evictions, displacement, and little-to-no-paycheck-left after paying the rent, who in the housing rights advocate army (or guerrilla brigades) is calling for socializing those land values to equalize housing access?
It’s all short term thinking, and “go after commercial Prop 13 reform” yanking, sisters and brothers. Meanwhile, the land values go to the land owners, not to the community that generated those values. Instead, the cry is for inclusive housing even as the land values saturate the wallets of land owners.
Come along on a free walking tour that amounts to a religious call to demand the earth’s rent be treated as the birthright of community. You’ve made your contribution to land values, why is it ending up in my pocket?
Led by Land Owners for Justice founder D. Giesen
Sunday December 20th, 12 Noon Stand with #Kurdistan against aggression by #Turkey https://t.co/bOLXDemanv pic.twitter.com/6Fu1p0Fq60
— FireWorks (@FireWorksBAY) December 17, 2015
Kurdish Film Series in #Oakland coming up in solidarity w #Rojava first one Dec 20th 5:30pm @ 1501 Harrison St pic.twitter.com/u2CnfVpbFC
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) December 17, 2015
In loving memory of Alan, The Alan Blueford Foundation a Non-Profit Organization will be hosting Alan’s Birthday Holiday Gift giveaway. (Alan would have been 22 on Dec 20th this year.)
In honor of Alan’s Birthday during the Holiday season of giving, we will be giving gifts to family members who have lost loved ones.
We can’t give Alan gifts, however we can celebrate his life, during this holiday season, we want to give to those who struggle with lost and pain during this time of year. It is our way of helping to heal the community, and putting a smile on the faces of children ages 0-18 that truly feel the loss. Giving is healing and we all need to heal.
If you would like to donate toys, canned foods (non perishables), or monetary donations,
please contact Jeralynn Blueford at The Alan Blueford Center for Justice located at 2434 Telegraph Ave Oakland.
Donations will be collected on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s from 1-5pm at the ABC4J center.
Please contact Jeralynn if donated items needs to be picked up: jqblueford@yahoo.com or inbox
Please support us as we bless our community and family members who have lost loved ones.
Thank you in advance!
with love & in struggle…
Innovative, “Truly Green” Vision of Housing and Land Use in Oakland for Homeless Families and Youth created by Homeless Families and Youth
Low-income and homeless indigenous youth, families and elders in collaboration with pre-eminent natural building experts, architects and engineers present an innovative housing and land use project for themselves and other very low-income, displaced and homeless families
What: Press Conference
When: 12:30pm Monday, December 21, 2015
Where: Oscar Grant Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall 14th & Broadway Oakland, Ca
“Homefulness is a visionary model of how to create affordable, sustainable housing and community at a time when we, in Oakland, could not need it more. Not only that, this effort is being led by formerly homeless and under house people setting a powerful example for all of us”,” said Dunya Alwan, one of the innovative artists/ architectural designers working on the Homefulness project.
After a 18 year journey of struggle, poverty, homelessness and displacement, the poor, indigenous and disabled people who lead the non-profit, grassroots, arts organization POOR Magazine, launched Homefulness- a truly green, amazingly innovative project which would be the first of its kind in the nation.
Homefulness, which is based in Deep East Oakland includes four straw bale multi-famiy townhomes side by side, community gardens, a school and community center.
“The Homefulness project is working to make compact, ecological shelter available to the low income city dwellers who need it most,” said Bob Theis, a pre-eminent natural builder and one of the team of architects with Homefulness
This extremely exciting project is led by a powerful collaboration of pre-eminent “natural” builder/architects including Bob Theis who was involved in the design and building of one of the first post-colonial straw bale structures in Oakland as well as youth and families who themselves have experienced homelessness, poverty, displacement, racism, immigration and eviction,
The project has also been guided by 1st nations Ohlone people of this land who are working on a self-determined land trust for this Ohlone territory as well as by an innovative concept developed by POOR Magazine called Poverty scholarship, ie, the most impacted peoples should be leading and/or directly involved in their own, self-determined solutions.
“Homefulness was always the way of our African peoples, interdependence which we practice is a truly powerful way of taking care of Mama Earth and each other, said QueenandiXSheba of POOR Magazine
“Homefulness is a poor and indigenous people-led solution to Homelessness, it was conceived by my mother and i and several other homeless,disabled, and displaced community members, while we were living in our car in Oakland, aware that our survival was linked to the survival not just of each other but to other people in homelessness and to Mama Earth, ” said Tiny Lisa Gray-Garcia, co-founder of POOR Magazine and author of the book Criminal of Poverty , Growing Up Homeless in America. Gray-Garcia continued,”In light of the recent COP21 summit in Paris, it is more important than ever for cities like Oakland to take up visionary projects like Homefulness which work with Mother Earth’s resources, not against her.
So far the planning dept approved the Homefulness project but the building department who grants the permits to begin the community -centered building project has had some trouble understanding this innovative and ancient vision to steward and care for mama earth and its earth people through age-old green materials.
“We hope the building dept and the City of Oakland can see, with us, this powerful visionary way of taking care of mama earth through truly green, age-old natural building,” Miguel Soberanis, poverty and indigenous scholar with POOR Magazine
Justice 4 Mario WoodsCoalition Meeting: Next Steps
On Wednesday, December 2nd, Mario Woods was gunned down by a firing squad of San Francisco Police officers in the Bayview, allegedly for brandishing a kitchen knife and “threatening” police at the scene. Videos showed Woods confusedly stumbling around after police shot bean bags filled with lead pellets and pepper spray at him; then being assassinated by police as he attempted to limp away. Citizens of the Bayview and throughout the city held a vigil that night, followed by testimony at a Town Hall Meeting called by Police Chief Suhr. A meeting at the San Francisco Police Commission characterized by the rage of the community was held December 9th with at least 200 protesters packing into City Hall filing public comment, including Archbishop Franzo King who said, “If the chief continues to defend the right to kill and slaughter people on the street under his command, then he becomes a co-conspirator to murder.” On December 18th, hundreds of youth, families, community and religious leaders throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area held a massive rally on the steps of 850 Bryant Street. Following the rally, the group marched to the offices of District Attorney George Gascón.
Officers be charged with the murder of Mario Woods
http://abc7news.com/news/protesters-sound-off-at-police-commission-meeting-over-sfpd-shooting/1116833/
http://sfist.com/2015/12/10/police_commission_meeting_about_mar.php
Sidewalk Stories is a 1989 low-budget, nearly silent movie directed by and starring Charles Lane. This black-and-white feature is about a homeless street artist who becomes the guardian of a small girl after her father is murdered. The film was an homage to Charlie Chaplin’s film The Kid and was a critical favorite. It won several festival awards, including the Prix du Publique at the Cannes Film Festival, where its 12-minute ovation set a new record. Lane also received three nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards: Best Director, Best First Feature and Best Male Lead. On its 25th anniversary in 2014, Sidewalk Stories was digitally remastered and re-screened at the Cannes Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival.
Doors open at 6pm, film starts at 6:30. $5 donation if you can, but we won’t turn you away if you can’t! And the popcorn is always free!
~Sponsored by Liberated Lens~
Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage.
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.
Our work together encompasses:
(1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers,
(2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and
(3) Efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:00 PM at the SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, 436 14th Street #200, Oakland, CA
Please love and support one another ~ We have a duty to fight ~ We have a duty to win!
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Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social half hour at 7:00 pm,
followed by the films at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the films.
TRIUMPH OF LIFE Episode 4: WINNING TEAMS, a PBS Nature film
Choreographed Cooperation Life may be a contest in which only the fittest individuals survive, but cooperation has also played a key role in evolution. WINNING TEAMS takes a close look at the alliances that animals have forged — with others of their own kind and very different organisms — in a bid to stay alive. In fact, teamwork occurs everywhere, from flocks of birds and herds of wildebeest to colonies of ants and termites…
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
Join us on the steps of City Hall to tell Mayor Lee that Chief Suhr must be fired!
Thurs 11am-City Hally-A call to action #JusticeForMarioWoods #MarioWoods https://t.co/dtk1ZzfQ3c … #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/UfVnkksnQv
— ms. leigh (@missleigh09) December 23, 2015
FTP
THE HATEFUL EIGHT: 70MM Filming (2015) Quentin Tarantino Movie
When human rights are under attack, what do we do?
Watch movies, fight back!
We are going to this movie because it’s director was threatened by the police union after speaking up for families who lost loved ones to police murderers. Solidarity with all who have been victims of state-sanctioned violence.
