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Jul
30
Mon
TANC: Last Monday Monthly Social @ Stay Gold Deli
Jul 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

onspire against the vicious housing market over drinks and/or food. Break bread, drink beer, and be merry with your neighbors. Meet some new friends. All ages friendly.

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Aug
1
Wed
San Francisco Mime Troupe: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical @ Edoff Memorial Bandstand
Aug 1 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

It’s Election Night 2018 and Bob swears she’ll never vote again. A lifetime of fading fortunes made this former Obama voter take a chance on the new guy promising change-Donald J. Trump. But it’s two years into his presidency and Bob’s still waiting to start winning. Tonight she’s telling everyone in her small-town bar that all politicians are liars, the system is rigged, and nothing’s ever gonna change.

Along comes a mysterious stranger with an intriguing offer. He’ll show her an America where working people come together to demand a brighter future, where socialism isn’t a dirty word. He’ll take her all the way … to 1912.

Bob soon finds herself traveling back to a time when the Socialist Party was winning millions of American votes; uncovering a hidden history and realizing that she may have more in common with those pesky progressives on the coasts. She begins to ask: what will it take to get people to stop voting against their interests? How do we overcome the divide-and-conquer tactics that keep us all down? When did our electoral choices get so limited? And isn’t it time to get off the swinging pendulum that’s left us at our current impasse?

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Aug
2
Thu
San Francisco Mime Troupe: Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical @ Edoff Memorial Bandstand
Aug 2 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

It’s Election Night 2018 and Bob swears she’ll never vote again. A lifetime of fading fortunes made this former Obama voter take a chance on the new guy promising change-Donald J. Trump. But it’s two years into his presidency and Bob’s still waiting to start winning. Tonight she’s telling everyone in her small-town bar that all politicians are liars, the system is rigged, and nothing’s ever gonna change.

Along comes a mysterious stranger with an intriguing offer. He’ll show her an America where working people come together to demand a brighter future, where socialism isn’t a dirty word. He’ll take her all the way … to 1912.

Bob soon finds herself traveling back to a time when the Socialist Party was winning millions of American votes; uncovering a hidden history and realizing that she may have more in common with those pesky progressives on the coasts. She begins to ask: what will it take to get people to stop voting against their interests? How do we overcome the divide-and-conquer tactics that keep us all down? When did our electoral choices get so limited? And isn’t it time to get off the swinging pendulum that’s left us at our current impasse?

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Aug
3
Fri
Funeral Service for Nia Wilson @ Acts Full Gospel Church
Aug 3 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm

Wilson along with her sister, 26-year-old Lahtifa Wilson, were traveling home from a family function Sunday night on BART.

BART spokesman Jim Allison says 27-year-old John Lee Cowel attacked the sisters at random as they exited a train at the MacArthur station in Oakland.

Wilson died soon after police arrived, and her sister was taken to a hospital.

Family and friends say Wilson had a loving spirit and hoped to pursue a career in criminal justice.

Her brutal murder sent shock waves across the nation sparking a discussion on race relations and violence against women of color.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/funeral-service-planned-for-18-year-old-nia-wilson/1329191045

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Aug
5
Sun
Pants off for the Planet @ Golden Gate Park - RSVP for exact location
Aug 5 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Strip down to your underwear along with thousands of friends gathering to protest the climate impact of the fashion industry. This event in Golden Gate Park will call on San Francisco’s Levi Strauss corporation to be an industry leader and transition the factories in its supply chain to renewable energy.

Stand.earth is hosting this event, which it hopes will get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest gathering of people in their underwear. They write:

“While we love fashion and looking stylish, the clothes we wear are really harmful to the planet and workers making our clothes. If the fashion industry were a nation, it would be the 4th largest climate polluter on Earth – just behind China, the United States, and India. Simply put, mass-produced clothes are #TooDirtyToWear.

“We’ll have music and festivities. This is a body-positive event open to all ages, gender identities, and gender expression. To qualify for the world record attempt, participants must be in underpants (boxers, briefs, panties etc.) and either a bra or black or white tank top.

By signing up you agree to be photographed and video recorded. The photos and videos will be used as evidence for breaking the Guinness World Record and by Stand. earth as promotional material about the #TooDirtyToWear campaign.”

 

 

More info/RSVP

#PantsoffDanceOff #PantsOffForThePlanet

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Sweep Out the Fascists: A Festival of Resilience @ Ohlone Playground and Greenway to MLK Park
Aug 5 @ 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Sweep Out the Fascists: A Festival of Resilience

Endorsed by:
SURJ Bay Area
SURJ S.F.
National Lawyer Guild S.F. Bay Area Chapter
Solidarity Against Fascism East Bay (SAFEBay)
John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Bay Area Queer Antifascist Network
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Critical Resistance Oakland
International Socialist Organization
East Bay DSA
Socialist Feminist Caucus

Last August (2017), groups of white supremacists, aided by police and politicians, attempted to take over Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park in order to build a base in the Bay. A crowd of thousands—including students, unionists, faith-based activists, teachers, and other everyday people—was there to confront them. We worked together to shut down the fascists and send them packing. Nationally, we sent a message that hate will not be welcome in the Bay. (Photo essay of 8/27 here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/kellyjohnsonrevelationaryphotography/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1371548832961154)

Once again, a group of white supremacists, Trump supporters, and fascists has announced a rally in downtown Berkeley for August 5, 2018. This event is part of a week-long nationwide “commemoration” of the hateful acts that took place nearly a year ago in Charlottesville, in which DeAndre Harris was beaten and Heather Heyer murdered. It is our duty to loudly and publicly reject their hate and to redouble our efforts in building a truly just and liberatory world.

We are calling on all members of our community to assemble together to stop white supremacist and state violence from growing. As history demonstrates, regular maintenance is required by people of heart and conscience to shut down white supremacy and fascism, which are foundational violences of this settler-colonial state. We’ve got to tend to the relationships and values that fuel, nourish, and inspire us to build a vision of collective liberation.

On August 5, we will gather to maintain a Bay Area free of fascism and white supremacy, sweeping out those that seek to deport, cage, harm, or extinguish members of our communities. Attacks on immigrants, Black and Indigenous people and other people of color, Muslims, the un-housed, queer and trans folks, disabled people, and/or women are becoming more prevalent as fascism reasserts itself in governments, state agencies, and increasingly organized groups across the globe. In the US, law enforcement, ICE and other deportation agents, and the jails and prisons work to remind people that this country was built on Indigenous land, on the backs of enslaved people, and that the prison industrial complex currently functions to maintain racial capitalism. We are reminded of this every time police kill another Black, Brown, and/or trans person in the streets. This country was founded on white supremacy and we must rise up with others around the world in an international movement to resist the fascism of both government and vigilantes. It’s time to take out the trash.

This is a community-wide call for each of us to perform critical community maintenance by removing fascists and white supremacists from our community. This will be a festival of resilience starting in Ohlone Park at 2pm going to MLK park for August 5, 2018. Featuring local artists, activists, musicians, comedians and everyday people. Our rally will send a clear message: “No hate in the Bay.”
#TrashtheFash #FashFreeBayArea

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Liberated Lens general meeting @ Omni Commons
Aug 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

We document current events, make films together, steward an editing suite and share a film equipment library. We also host film screenings, often with local directors, and put on an annual short film festival for independent Bay Area filmmakers. Our goal is to make the digital filmmaking accessible – no overpriced college degree or certificate program required!

We are also a good group to reach out to if you’d like to screen a film at the Omni. We can be reached at liberatedlens@lists.riseup.net

We usually meet in the basement, unless otherwise noted.

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Aug
7
Tue
End Forced Arbitraton – Lobby Day in Sacramento
Aug 7 all-day

Let’s make change! On Tuesday August 7th, join us restaurant workers from around California in Sacramento, for a push to end forced arbitration as a condition of employment!

Forced arbitration means that any complaint against an employer must be resolved through a private mediator (often hired by the employer) rather than through the public court system system! Employees must waive their right to sue, to participate in a class action lawsuit, or to appeal! Workers should not have to waive their rights to find work!

On August 7th, we will tell our stories to our representatives and demand that they protect our rights, by saying no to forced arbitration agreements!

If you are able to join us and/or have a story to share, please contact us! We will be picking up folks from 6AM-7AM from BART stations around Oakland (Ashby, Coliseum, Downtown, and MacArthur). Please send us a private message if interested and bring your friends! You can also caravan with us in your own vehicle and meet us at the State Capitol at 9AM.

This will be an all-day event; food, transportation, childcare and a great community will all be provided.

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Demand Alameda County Sheriff Accountability Mobilization @ County Building, across the street from the Courthouse
Aug 7 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

Because since 2004 the Alameda County jail population has decreased by half, yet the sheriff’s budget has since increased by 105%.

Because in the past 5 years 33 people have died while in jail custody.

Because in June, two men died in the span of just three days, both while in custody in the Santa Rita Jail.

August 7th is the last board meeting before the County Supervisors go on recess — let’s show up to demand that our elected officials do their job and hold the Sheriff accountable by allowing for a strong independent audit.

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

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Demand Justice for Jessica St. Louis
Aug 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

On July 28, 2018, Jessica St. Louis was released from Santa Rita Jail at 1:25am. She was given a BART ticket and sent on her way to walk the 1.9 miles from Santa Rita Jail to Dublin/Pleasanton BART. By 5:25am she was found at the station unresponsive and declared dead. This should never have happened. The practice of late night and early morning releases must stop!

Come join us to honor Jessica’s life and demand an end to late night and early morning release.

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Aug
9
Thu
No DAC for BART: BART Proposes Facial Recognition Surveillance Dragnet @ BART Boardroom, 20th Street Mall, Third Floor
Aug 9 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Enter to the left of the CVS.

On Thursday, BART police will propose a system-wide security dragnet for the Bay Area’s transit system. BART police are asking the board to approve the project in concept and authorize trials at Lake Merritt and Civic Center BART stations.

No privacy policy. No civil rights impact assessment. No data storage and access rules. No biased and inaccurate facial recognition for BART,

We need a strong public showing on Thursday morning to tell BART that this will not stand.

BART is planning to use the same platform that was proposed as the “brains” of the Domain Awareness Center (PSIM). The plan calls for 2000 CCTV cameras to be converted to IP-based for geospatial tagging and advanced real-time video analytics, likely facial recognition technologies already proven to be inaccurate and biased.

BART has sat on its hands and delayed the adoption of a surveillance technology ordinance approved by its tech commiitee in 2016. Now BART Police are attempting to rush through an aggressive new surveillance network with only 72 hours notice.

The Bay Area has rejected wall to wall surveillance every time it has reared its head.

There are plenty of common sense things BART could do with $15-25 million dollars to improve security on the transit system without treating every passenger like a criminal suspect.

The last thing Nia Wilson would want is her death used to increase the high-tech harassment of Black and Brown people.

BART is a subway, not a perpetual lineup.

We need you to come speak up.

Tweet at hashtag #NODACFORBART

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Art Build for Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice & Networking Potluck @ Please RSVP for full directions to event
Aug 9 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Art Build for Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice & Networking Potluck

Fossil Free California is getting ready to RISE for CLIMATE, JOBS & JUSTICE at the San Francisco march on September 8 with partners and allies from around the world.

The main march on September 8 in San Francisco will be the largest climate action on the West Coast in history!

On August 9, please join us to make signs and banners for RISE and other actions. The art build will run from 4pm to 6pm. At 6pm, we will take a break, enjoy a potluck feast, and share updates on our campaigns.

Please RSVP to reserve your space. See you then!

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DSA: West Oakland Neighborhood Social @ Ghost Town Brewing
Aug 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Comrades! Are you excited about housing justice, connecting with neighbors, and building real people-power in West Oakland? Come have a beer, meet organizers in your neighborhood, and learn about the work East Bay DSA is doing to fight for housing justice in West Oakland!

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Aug
11
Sat
Knock Doors for Housing Justice & Yes on Prop 10 in West Oakland
Aug 11 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

The housing crisis in the Bay Area and beyond is a wholly preventable disaster, created and maintained by the notion that housing is a commodity and not a human right.

On Saturday, August 11, join us in the campaign for the Yes on Prop 10, also called the Affordable Housing Act, a ballot initiative that that will give our cities and counties the power to adopt rent control necessary to address the state’s housing affordability crisis by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.

The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act upholds landlord interests, and — in tandem with the housing crisis — has deeply exacerbated social disparities, displaced longtime communities, driven homelessness, and dealt a blow to working-class power by making housing ever more insecure and inaccessible.

Come learn more about Prop 10 and repealing Costa-Hawkins, and then we’ll hit the streets to talk with our neighbors about housing justice and the Affordable Housing Act!

We will be meeting within McClymonds Mini-Park. Look for the big DSA flag!

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Aug
12
Sun
Protest at Richmond Jail / Bay Area ICE Detention @ West County Detention Facility
Aug 12 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

MASS RESISTANCE TO MASS INCARCERATION IS GROWING! Please join your voice and stand together against he horrors of family separation, racist policing and imprisonment, and criminalization of immigrants this Sunday August 12th (11am-Noon) and demand WCDF and demand “Let Our People Go!” Please read details on parking and location below.

Sheriff Livingston announced an end to WCDF contract with ICE, in part due to growing protests. Immigrant detainees are in peril of being sent to private prisons in other states, and the sheriff will likely fill the ICE budget hole by increasing the general population at WCDF. Never forget, most of the people incarcerated there are interned only because they cannot post bail.

Livingston also blocked off the entire jail property and declared no protests are allowed and threatened anyone who steps on the property without “official business” will be arrested. This is a clear violation of first amendment rights. We won’t allow the Sheriff’s blatant disregard of free speech stop us from protesting the immorality of mass incarceration and inhumane treatment of general population and immigrant detainees.

Stand with our monthly multi-face action to demand that immigrant detainees be released, not transferred, hear about community bail funds and demand an end to the racist poverty imprisonment policies. We will gather and protest across the street (read on for details).

Across the country, the situation is dire. Kidnapped migrant children are being interned alone, the regime is rapidly building internment camps—some on toxic sites—where they plan indefinite internment of immigrant families. We have to end the normalization of millions of people separated from their families in the course of racist mass incarceration policies throughout the US.

This Sunday, August 12th from 11am-Noon across the street from WCDF at 1111 Giant Highway Richmond we will:

• HEAR Samba band Sistah Boom
• Patricia Contreras Flores, healer and writer, from ACUDIR Alameda County United in Defense of Immigrant Rights who will share an indigenous perspective with prayer, updates from dispatching the ACILEP hotline and song
• GET UPDATES from families whose loved ones are imprisoned at WCDF
• WRITE letters to individuals detained by ICE
• CREATE at the children’s art table
• SHOUT & MAKE NOISE so people inside can hear they are not forgotten

MUST READ: Parking & Location Info
1. There is no longer access to parking or entry at WCDF (Google Map is HERE). There are two choices for parking: the first is anywhere possible on the sides of Great Highway, and the second is to pay $3 at the Point Pinole parking lot that is located immediately south of WCDF.

2. The only bathrooms for public to use are located in the Point Pinole parking lot. We can no longer use the jail bathrooms.

3. We will have signs and volunteers indicating the flattest place to enter the field area to guide people to the field next to the large eucalyptus trees across from WCDF.

4. Some of the scrubby plants in the field are prickly. But it is not paved and therefore not easily accessible. We suggest closed shoes and longer pants to avoid prickly plants.

5. The sheriff’s “no entry” policy is unfair, we think illegal, and especially challenging to people with limited mobility. Last Saturday, a small group of people in wheelchairs and in camping chairs clustered with signs by the entrance barricaded by patrol cars, people with mobility challenges may choose this option again and there will be helpers to offer support for folks with mobility challenges reach the prostest on the field.

LET OUR PEOPLE GO protests are held on the 2nd Sunday of every month at 11am, to oppose the immorality of mass incarceration and deportations with activist debriefs, music, art, stories, poetry, interactive small groups and more. We demonstrate at West County Detention Facility in Richmond, which holds both county jail and Bay Area ICE detainees. We stand/sit outside the front entrance, adjacent to both public parking and the visitors’ waiting room, which has public bathrooms, making this an accessible action.

Let Our People Go was initiated by members of Kehilla Community Synagogue’s Immigration Committee, modeled in part on the 1st Saturday vigils held by our partners at Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. A grassroots effort, Let Our People Go protests are organized ongoing by a few volunteers from Kehilla’s Immigration Committee, Congregation Beth El and Solidarity Sundays. The participation of a multitude of organizations, artists and regular attendees creates a powerful community circle to send a sustained message of resistance. **If your school, network, affinity group or congregation is interested in getting involved, contact us at letourpeoplego@kehillasynagogue.org.**

This one-hour Sunday morning protest is one way that Bay Area residents—especially those who currently enjoy the privileges of citizenship—can shine a spotlight on this immoral site of internment right in the East Bay. It’s our responsibility to fight the right wing’s racist, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, ableist, transphobic, homophobic, misogynist ramp up of authoritarian policing, incarceration, and deportation practices—if not now, when?

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Medicare for All National Weekend of Action – DSA Canvass @ Bushrod Park
Aug 12 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Join East Bay DSA for the second-ever Medicare for All National Weekend of Action! DSA has been at the forefront of the fight to guarantee healthcare as a human right, and our weekends of action are exciting opportunities to flex the collective power of DSA’s national membership towards winning Medicare for All—a much needed piece of democratic socialism for the American working class.

East Bay DSA will join dozens of DSA chapters from coast to coast to build the movement for Medicare for All. Join us in Bushrod Park on August 12 from noon — 4:00 p.m. for a Medicare for All Rally and canvass with Jovanka Beckles, a DSA member and candidate for State Assembly in AD-15. Jovanka has been a champion for a single-payer Medicare for All system in California, and after the rally, we’ll head out into the neighborhood to knock doors for Jovanka and Proposition 10, the Affordable Housing Act.

Medicare for All is benefiting from unprecedented popularity, but in order to get our politicians to buck their billionaire donors and side with the majority, we have to threaten them with a mass political movement. Join us on August 12 to build the movement to win Medicare for All and to support our electoral campaigns for Jovanka Beckles and the Affordable Housing Act!

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Green Sunday: Child Internment Camps in the American Refugee Crisis @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Aug 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

 

Our presentation looks at the practice of separating children from their parents – a United States policy designed to be a deterrrent to refugees, many of them from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, who have been forced to immigrate and seek asylum at the southern border. Ten thousand children ripped away from their parents are currently in internment camps – a situation far more than cruel and unusual, but indispuutably evil because this brutal traumatization of children is unnecessary.  To help us look into the abyss and understand what we are seeing, we have four activists this evening to inform us.

Karma Bennet is a Marketing Content Strategist who runs an Oakland company to help creative people publicize their books and build websites. She was arrested for her participation in the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation campaign and she protested at George Bush’s stolen election, the G8, the World Bank and the School of the Americas.

Liz DeCou is a nurse and grandmother affiliated with Solidaridad Con los Niños.  She was arrested for trespassing at a detention center in Fairfield when trying to deliver a doll to immigrant kids separated by ICE from their parents. Her arrest got over a million views on Twitter.

Jesse Smith is an Oakland community organizer and an activist focused on police corruption.  As a practitioner of civil disobedience, he recently joined with a California human rights group to engage an internment camp at the southern border.

Nohelya Zambrano is an Ecuador-born, New York City-raised Latina student from Mount Holyoke College who is interning this summer in the Bay Area. She is a proud immigrant who fights for immigrant and reproductive justice.

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25th Birthday Party for Long Haul Infoshop @ Longhaul
Aug 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Long Haul Infoshop opened August 13, 1993

Come celebrate 25 years!
— free t-shirt raffle
— silk screen your own t-shirt – bring a blank shirt
— vegan chocolate cake / celebratory food items
— tell funny stories

The Infoshop is accepting donations on its website and otherwise to continue for another 25 years.

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Aug
14
Tue
ELLA BAKER CENTER LOBBY DAY @ State Capitol
Aug 14 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Ella Baker Center members, staff, and allies will be traveling to Sacramento to advance our policy agenda. We will focus on lobbying for the Fair & Just Sentencing Reform Act (SB 1393) and other criminal justice reform bills. Transportation and food will be provided.

RSVP required. Please RSVP here.

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Intro to SURJ Meeting @ Movement Strategy Center
Aug 14 @ 6:45 pm – 9:00 pm

Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. SURJ moves white people to act for justice, with passion and accountability, as part of a multi-racial majority.

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