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Oakland, CA.- Oakland’s progressive mayoral candidates, Cat Brooks, Pamela Price, and Saied Karamooz, will come together in front of Oakland’s City Hall to welcome the National TPS Alliance, a coalition of groups representing Temporary Protected Status holders now threatened with deportation. They will rally and reconfirm Oakland’s position as a sanctuary city for all those targeted by the Trump regime.

The TPS Alliance working in collaboration with Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) is traveling across the country visiting over 50 cities in a specially outfitted bus to highlight the contributions of TPS holders and the need to prevent the next wave of family separations.

According to the American Friends Service Committee, “The largest group of TPS recipients is from El Salvador (195,000 people) followed by Honduras (57,000 people) and Haiti (50,000 people).” https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/trump-has-ended-temporary-protected-status-hundreds-thousands-immigrants

The movement to #SaveTPS has grown in number and force. In response to the Trump Administration’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for nearly 450,000 beneficiaries, TSP holders are organizing among themselves to demand dignity and respect. As TPS holders, the recipients have been able to establish businesses, hold jobs, buy homes and raise their families–but all that is now in jeopardy.

As José Mejia, of the Save TPS Northern California committee, “Ending TPS goes against our values as Americans. The riders in the TPS Journey for Justice are men, women and children who strengthen our economy and society — we must allow them to stay in their families, homes and jobs.”

The Journey for Justice will arrive in the Bay Area Friday evening, August 24th, riders and local TPS holders will briefly tell their stories and how the threat of loss of status is affecting their lives. They will visit Daly City Friday evening where officials will host them for dinner, then stop by OUSD’s Sanctuary Training Kick-off on Saturday morning August 25^th about 10:45 am near Metwest High School https://www.ousd.org/sanctuarydistrict , next stop is a 2 pm TPS Forum at the Corpus Christi Church, 62 Santa Rosa Avenue, San Francisco, CA. This workshop will educate area TPS holders and interested parties about their rights and options. All TPS holders and people interested are invited to attend. After rallying in Oakland, they’ll be back on the bus to more events in the Bay Area before heading to Oregon. Please contact Jose Mejia, 415 963 1557, mejiaj979@gmail.com for more info on the Journey for Justice.

All out to free Mumia!

West Oakland Punks with Lunch is a guerilla not-for-profit Harm reduction outreach organization providing food and other necessities to people experiencing homelessness.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to volunteer with us! We just ask a few simple guidelines to keep PWL running smoothly.

Please come wearing closed toed shoes and dressed appropriately for the weather. We ask that you show up with a non-judgemental, come as you are attitude. Be ready to work hard and have fun!

Wednesday:  Mobile Outreach

Meet at: 36th and MLK                Hours: 6pm-8pm

We do mobile outreach from 56th St. and MLK all the way down to 30th and MLK.
We provide snacks, water, hygiene and harm reduction supplies.
If you are interested in volunteering Wednesdays, please email us at:
oaklandpunkswithlunch@gmail.com

Sunday: Fixed Sites

Meet at: 2630 Union St.               Hours:    Prep 1pm-3pm, Distribution: 3pm-6pm
We have two fixed sites on Sundays. One at 35th and Peralta St. from 3:30pm-4:15pm and the other at 4:30pm-5:15pm. Ideally we stay on time, but we don’t beat ourselves up if we are a little late.  You have the option of staying for only prep, only distribution, or BOTH!  Sundays are the perfect day to get to know our organization for the day, or continue working with us to grow as on organization.

Please join us for a panel discussion featuring award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar, whose new book, Habeas Data, explores how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy. Habeas Data explores ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights and matches them against the capabilities of modern technology. Mitch Kapor, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the book was “Essential reading for anyone concerned with how technology has overrun privacy.”

The panel will be moderated by 2017 and 2018 CTSP Fellow Steve Trush, a MIMS 2018 graduate and now a Research Fellow at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC). He was on a CTSP project starting in 2017 that provided a report to the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission.

The panelists will discuss what public governance models can help local governments protect the privacy of citizens – and what role citizen technologists can play in shaping these models. The discussion will showcase the ongoing collaboration between the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission (OPAC). Attendees will learn how they can get involved in addressing issues of governance, privacy, fairness, and justice related to state surveillance.

Panel:
Cyrus Farivar, Author, Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech
Deirdre Mulligan, Associate Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, Faculty Director, UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Catherine Crump, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, UC Berkeley; Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic.
Camille Ochoa, Coordinator, Grassroots Advocacy; Electronic Frontier Foundation
Moderated by Steve Trush, Research Fellow, UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

The panel will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.

RSVP at https://ctsp.berkeley.edu/habeas-data-panel-discussion/ to attend.

We need all your support in helping Naj K. Smith get justice! On Friday Aug. 3 naj took a group of young people on a first Friday ride. As usual Naj had his speaker and typical rig he always rides with. He was jammin his usual non offensive tunes when an OPD OFFICER grabbed his handle bars and stopped his bike. Naj politely got off his bike and proceeded to understand what the cops issue was. Being an example to the youth he was leading he remained calm and respectful even the youth were outraged. He had to dessculate the youth and talk with this cop who was upset about Najari’s music. He first stated he was giving a citation for the loud music so naj turned it off altogether next thing you know naj was in handcufffs bike rig and speaker have all been confiscated and he was booked and sent to Rita where he spent his weekend.

He was able to make bail but can you believe this?? Where is the crime?? How sway how?? I’m asking all the fellow bike riders to please make this post go viral so we can get some awareness to what’s going on. Clearly the OPD was threatened by the power naj was exuding from his pores and couldn’t take it. We want all our fellow bikers riders to please show up to downtown Oakland 6th n Washington traffic division 9am Aug 31st. court building with bikes and music in solidarity to support or community leader who did nothing wrong. We want his bike rig and speaker all back in mint condition along with the bail money returned compensation for missing work dramatizing youth and file harassment charges. Let do this bikers 🚴🏾‍♀️🤜🏽🤛🏽 #bikingwhileblack the picture shows what has been taken by OPD. 

Final Fridays at EastSide Arts Alliance

Join us for a FREE evening of information, food, and film.

Join us on FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 at EastSide Arts Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd., Oakland, CA 94606.

6-7 PM // Political Education to Build Community Power

This month’s topic: what is Black August and why should we celebrate it? Come out this Final Friday and learn more about why we should honor our People outside of February.

7-9 PM // Free film screenings on issues affecting our communities.

Refreshments provided at film screening.

Check www.eastsideartsalliance.org and www.eastoaklandcollective.com for more info.

Follow the Black Cultural Zone (BCZ) on Instagram #blackculturalzone

To commemorate Labor Day, AAMLO is screening two films on the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African American trade union and a training ground for African American leaders from WWII to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott to the 1963 March on Washington.

Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle (Producers Paul Wagner and Jack Satino), 58 minutes

A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom (Director Dante James), 83 minutes

Political Realignment in 2018?

We are inviting speakers from different political perspectives to lead our discussion of the question, “Are we seeing a major political realignment in the 2018 elections?”

FREE! Please buy food & drink at the Pub. All ages welcome! FREE!

This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Our purpose is informed political discussion, and the views expressed are those of the speakers only, not official positions of the Peace and Freedom Party.
Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30 pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk as long as you like.

JOIN SEIU-UHW RALLY FOR HEALTHCARE JUSTICE ON LABOR DAY, SEPT 3RD 10AM
AT MOSSWOOD PARK
SEIU-UHW is celebrating the toughness and solidarity of labor, community
and allies on Labor Day with a Rally for Healthcare Justice!  Kaiser is
attacking its workers and outsourcing jobs all over the state, trying to
silence workers and bad faith bargaining.  Help them show that justice
and grit always beat out corporate greed!
For more information:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0hfys4hotkzhjf/Flyer.SEIU.UHW.LaborDayRally.pdf?dl=0

While we know that May 1 is the real International Workers’ Day, we’ll happily take another day off in September to celebrate our work and our solidarity.

Join East Bay DSA and the East Bay DSA Labor Committee for an afternoon of eating, drinking, and being merry. Meet new comrades and learn more about East Bay DSA’s exciting work and how you can plug in — especially our campaigns for union member Jovanka Beckles for AD-15 and our organizing for Prop 10, the Affordable Housing Act.

Meat and vegetarian options will be provided, but if you are able to, please feel free to bring food or beverages. We will NOT be providing any alcohol, since the picnic will be taking place in a public park.

“Democratic Socialism.” The phrase is indeed everywhere.

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and now New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon have claimed the label. Meanwhile, the Democratic Socialists of America has seen its membership explode from 6,000 in summer 2016 to more than 45,000 today. And the political establishment doesn’t quite know what to make of it all.

Please join your fellow comrades as we kick off the fall Night School series with an in-depth discussion on democratic socialist theory and practice.

Required Readings

See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.

West Oakland Punks with Lunch is a guerilla not-for-profit Harm reduction outreach organization providing food and other necessities to people experiencing homelessness.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to volunteer with us! We just ask a few simple guidelines to keep PWL running smoothly.

Please come wearing closed toed shoes and dressed appropriately for the weather. We ask that you show up with a non-judgemental, come as you are attitude. Be ready to work hard and have fun!

Wednesday:  Mobile Outreach

Meet at: 36th and MLK                Hours: 6pm-8pm

We do mobile outreach from 56th St. and MLK all the way down to 30th and MLK.
We provide snacks, water, hygiene and harm reduction supplies.
If you are interested in volunteering Wednesdays, please email us at:
oaklandpunkswithlunch@gmail.com

Sunday: Fixed Sites

Meet at: 2630 Union St.               Hours:    Prep 1pm-3pm, Distribution: 3pm-6pm
We have two fixed sites on Sundays. One at 35th and Peralta St. from 3:30pm-4:15pm and the other at 4:30pm-5:15pm. Ideally we stay on time, but we don’t beat ourselves up if we are a little late.  You have the option of staying for only prep, only distribution, or BOTH!  Sundays are the perfect day to get to know our organization for the day, or continue working with us to grow as on organization.

Agenda:

4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – staff status update regarding department outreach for survey of existing equipment
5. 5:20pm: Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance – staff status update regarding review and introduction to Council
6. 5:25pm: Sanctuary “non-cooperation” Ordinance – staff status update on introduction of ordinance to Council.
7. 5: 40pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Department of Transportation – UAV/Drones. Review Anticipated Impact Report and take possible action on proposed Use Policy.

Join us this Thursday in Berkeley! We are talking about abortion and reproductive justice. 💐 Our right to an abortion wasn’t given to us by any politician but was won by a mass movement – and a mass movement is how we’ll defend it! pic.twitter.com/Skt9J0H24O

— Bay Area ISO 🚩 (@norcalsocialism) September 4, 2018

Tickets: $12 brownpapertickets.com, Pegasus Books (3 stores), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Books Inc Berkeley),
$15 door

The General’s Son: Journal of an Israeli in Palestine  2^nd edition

“This is a brilliantly rendered father and son saga amidst a background that evokes     Greek mythology. .. is a story of admiration and anger.” —Sy Hersh

“There are few books on the Israel/Palestine issue that seem as hopeful to  me as this  one.” — Alice Walker

“Matti Peled, the general of the title, was a remarkable personality. An underground Fighter, a combat soldier  and an architect of the Israeli army that won the Six Day War, he was a militaristic hawk before becoming a peace activist. The man who pushed the Israeli government into the war turned into one of the most implacable enemies of the occupation that resulted from it. During the twenty years we were close associates in this endeavor, I sometimes wondered how it was for a boy to grow up in the shadow of such a headstrong father. In this candid account, Miko Peled tells us how he followed in the footsteps of the general, from parachutist to fighter for peace, although his 12-year-old niece was killed by suicide bombers. A fascinating story that provides much food for thought.” —Uri Avnery, veteran Israeli peace activist and former member of Knesset

“This critically important memoir…is a must read.” —Naomi Wolf, author

This new edition contains an Epilogue that takes readers with Peled on his travels around the world  to promote his message of personal discovery and peacemaking to South Africa, Easst Asia,Europe, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel itself. He also reflects further on his continuing inner journey.

Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five

“Miko Peled shines a light on one of the most egregious cases of injustice committed to date against Muslim leaders in the United States. ..an ominous and important warning about the degradation of the rule of law and coivil liberties that increasingly characterizes the United States” — Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times.

Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition as we rally against the last Urban Shield to take place

Earlier this year, communities in the Bay Area achieved a huge victory by ending Urban Shield after a prolonged grassroots campaign. With 2018 as its last year  – wee want to amplify our victory and defend our gains in fighting police militarization! On September 7th, coinciding with the Peoples Climate Movement – Bay Area mobilization, we will be rallying against the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office hosting the final Urban Shield militarized war games and weapons expo. While the Sheriff’s Office and law enforcement officials continue to justify the need for militarized policing programs by citing a need to respond to emergency situations and disasters, we know that true emergency preparedness comes from building up community strength, response, and resilience.

From the recent natural disasters in Puerto Rico, Sonoma County California, and Texas, to crises in Haiti, New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, we have seen how militarized police responses only contribute to the violence and chaos that people face in these situations. During these disasters, we have seen how it is neighbors and community members themselves that are the most effective first responders. In defeating Urban Shield, we seek to uplift community based models of preparedness and response over policing and militarization.

Join us for a rally and mobilization featuring cultural artists, powerful speakers, and disaster survivors as we draw the connection between militarism and climate change, and demand real community based preparedness and responses to natural and man-made disasters that do not rely on militarization.

10:00 AM – Lineup.

11:00 AM – March.

Will we choose a safe, healthy future where everyone benefits? Or will we be stuck with the status quo?

RISE for Climate, Jobs and Justice is drawing upon the  strengths of our movement – indigenous people, labor, youth, people of faith, communities of color, families and others to build a massive mobilization that demands what our communities and the planet really need – bold, immediate action towards a just transition away from the era of false solutions and fossil fuels and towards a just, equitable, and renewable economy that protects our families, our workers, our planet and ensures that everyone has enough to thrive.

Will you join us?

ca.riseforclimate.org

We demand Real Climate Leadership, which requires:

• Environmental, racial, and economic justice for all
• No new fossil fuel development and a managed decline of existing fossil fuel production
• A just transition to 100% renewable energy that protects workers, Indigenous peoples and frontline communities — both in these extractive industries and more broadly — and ensures family-sustaining jobs with the right to unionize, that are safe for people and the planet
• Just and equitable resiliency and recovery efforts led by the communities most impacted;