Join the African American Museum & Library at Oakland for a screening of Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary, Freedom Riders, the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil rights activists.

UnB2 Launch Party

California Progressives, this is how we do it!

Join us and hundreds of our closest friends for the official launch party for
Unbought – Unbossed (UnB2):
an incubator for the next generation of political disruptors.

It’s time to bring a few more folding chairs to the decision-making tables!

RSVP

We will hold a vigil outside the camps, and sing Spanish lullabies.

If you arrive early there will be a potluck and non-denominational service in honor of immigrants.

Please join in solidarity with the kids!

EAST OAKLAND ENCAMPMENT REMOVAL ALERT + CALL TO ACTION:

There are two encampment closures happening tomorrow, Tuesday, July 17 in East Oakland:

– 45th Ave between E.12th and E.14th (3-4 people, seniors, with A LOT of belongings).

– 45th and Bond Ave./Foothill (approximately 10 people people + belongings).

WHAT’S NEEDED:

– trash bags
– gloves (gardening or plastic)
– moving carts, hand trucks, etc.
– coffee, pastries (for 30 people)
– your compassion and calm spirit

TIME: 8-9 AM arrival for volunteers. Police usually show up between 8-9 AM. Public Works shows up around 9 AM.

To confirm assistance, please email us at info@eastoaklandcollective.com.

PLEASE READ the guidelines for handling encampment removals produced by The East Oakland Collective and The Village in Oakland

#feedthepeople.

This week, the East Bay Express published the results of a review of civil rights settlements for police misconduct by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department. Not surprisingly, they found that Alameda County leads the region in civil rights payouts. The article describes the brutal and often fatal lawless behavior that has cost us millions of dollars in just the last 3 years.

We know that the Alameda County Sheriff and deputies invested heavily in the re-election of incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to protect and preserve the status quo. We also know that O’Malley has publically stated that she will NOT swiftly, thoroughly and transparently investigate officer-involved shootings and police brutality and make her findings publicly available. Without that check, lawlessness rules the day and the taxpayers will continue to pay.

We cannot give up the fight! We have to continue the political fight to hold all law enforcement agencies and public officials in Alameda County accountable. Civil rights attorney Glenn Katon (quoted in the East Bay Express article) says it best:

“Apart from the obscene amount Alameda County taxpayers are paying for the sheriff’s incompetence and/or malice, more disturbing is the emotional trauma that has been inflicted behind those numbers, . . . The dead and maimed bodies, grieving families, and emotional trauma people will live with for the rest of their lives.”

I invite you to join us  for the first organizing meeting of local activists by the Real Justice Political Action Committee. The public is welcome to attend and help us plan the way forward. I hope to see you there. Bring a friend.

Thank you in advance for your courage and continued support,

Pamela Price

Safety Is… Rethinking Violence Using a Restorative Justice Lens

With Harvey Smith

This walk will explore the “New Deal nexus” in Berkeley that includes Berkeley High School, the Community Theater, Civic Center Park, Post Office art, the old UC Press Building (now being repurposed as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), and the old Farm Credit Building. The tour will also include the incredible mosaic mural on the UC Berkeley campus, photographs of the California Folk Music Project, Western Museum Laboratory, WPA prints at the Berkeley Public Library, and WPA projects on the UC Berkeley campus.

For more info: 510-684-0414

The one thing that everyone working towards justice can agree on is that kids are the future. As youth living in the Bay Area we demand that adults treat kids better- no border cruelty, no climate chaos.

On July 21st, young people will march in San Francisco and demand climate change legislation. We march to protect the rights of the youth: we demand an end to border cruelty and greenhouse gas emissions. While this is a youth-led movement, the march is open to all people passionate about defending the safety and prosperity of future generations. Our movement is called This is Zero Hour.

We say:
Dear Decision-Makers (Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, and our Senators)
-Replace all Fossil Fuel extraction with renewable energy sources and sustainable jobs!
-Stop the Delta Tunnels!
-Get Fossil Fuel money out of politics! Don’t accept money from the Fossil Fuel industry!
-A liveable planet means climate justice– we need justice for youth from our climate policy to our immigration policy.

Can your group help us by spreading the word and inviting participants, especially youth?

Where: ICE Headquarters, 230 Sansome Street, San Francisco, marching to Aquatic Park, Beach Street, SF
What: Our event will include drumming, chanting, a speak-out, and a live mural painting project that anyone can participate in.
Who: Zero Hour is organized by youth ages 11-18. Youth and allies encouraged to participate!
Why: My generation did not create climate change, but as the climate crisis unfolds and elected officials fail to take meaningful action, young people are standing up to defend our planet. We cannot afford to wait any longer: we must ensure that our elected officials stop ignoring the needs of young people and their right to a safe, healthy, and clean environment.

How you can help:
1. Sign up to co-sponsor!
2. Spread the word and encourage your member/contacts to attend!
3. Are you in touch with youth (or adult allies) who could help with tasks like planning, art-making, chant-leading, and social media? Please put them in touch with us by messaging Youth Vs. Apocalypse on Facebook, or email <lpaczkowski20@sandomenico.org>
4. Please share our event page widely!

#zerohour #justice #environment #familiesbelongtogether#youthvsapocalypse

Freedom Summer recalls the events of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, when more than 700 student activists worked together to register African-American voters in violently segregationist Mississippi and shatter the foundations of white supremacy in the nation’s most segregated state. Fifty years later, Stanley Nelson’s documentary film takes a look back at the epochal campaign.

Our generation is creating change in this country.

Join us for a special event. We’re having a barbecue and registering people to vote!

March For Our Lives

Feed The People!

Usually the last Sunday of every month (but this month the Sunday before) attendees of the OO GA get together a little earlier than usual, at 3 PM (2 PM during cooler months) to share some food with each other and the community.  There will be a table, utensils/plates, salad, meat and veggie entrees, dessert and whatnot, courtesy of the Kitchen Committee (such at he is), so just bring yourself, or something to share as well if you’d like. All are welcome!

After the meal the Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets at 4 PM .

The OO General Assembly has met on almost weekly basis for more than six years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

Exquisitely beautiful, immensely touching and ultimately inspiring, Albatross takes us on a journey to the Midway island where these amazing birds come to mate and breed.
We are brought into intimate contact with the albatrosses, get to witness their mating dances and caring for the young.
The beauty is soon to be broken as when the time comes to fly away, many of the young stay behind and face a long painful death. Their bellies filled with ocean plastic make them unable to fly and feed…

The Berkeley City Council will hold a special meeting on the 2018 Police MOU compendium and the recommendations of the Ad-Hoc Subcommittee on NCRIC and Urban Shield.

 Please come out tonight to MacArthur BART at 5:30 !

As Oakland braces itself for the potential invasion of white supremacists into our City today – we should continue to #sayhername Nia Wilson. Nia is the second Black woman brutally murdered in the Bay Area over the last couple of days. We are inviting community to come hold space, light a candle and be together in our collective grief. We also know that we are each others best defense. Community READY Corps will provide on-site self defense training for those who want it. We demand that our City officials respond with immediacy and efficiency and catch the man who killed this young woman. We demand that our City officials take a loud and public stand against white supremacy. Hate Speech is NOT Free Speech. We stand in solidarity with and support of Nia’s family. We know who we are as a City. Let’s stand together in our love for each other and protection of each other.

Calling all poets, storytellers, emcees, musicians, laureates, old-schoolers, and first-timers to join Solespace in the streets to reject hate and white supremacy, and to celebrate the power of the spoken word.

White supremacist groups have announced a “social gathering” at a Downtown Oakland bar for this Monday evening. In direct opposition, this “poetic emergence” calls people into Oakland’s streets to be vigilant and to clearly state: “Nazis, fascists and the alt-right are NOT welcome in Oakland or anywhere else in the Bay.”

OPEN MIC: Sign-up at 6:00 pm, 10 spots on the list, 5 minutes max per presenter. If more poets show, we’ll book subsequent sets @ 8 presenters/ set until . Note: we will practice a preferential option for Black, Brown, uniquely-abled, cis-women, trans and queer voices against racism, sexism, trans- and homophobia.

Hosted by Zoé Samudzi.

Program begins @ 6:30 pm

Join us to urge the Board of Supervisors to deny permits to E&B Natural Resources to expand and extend its drilling operation in Alameda County’s Livermore Valley.

E&B Natural Resources, a Bakersfield-based oil company, is just one step away from getting the go-ahead from the county for 10 more years of dangerous drilling in the Livermore Valley — this despite the company’s reckless track record of spills and accidents (48 since 2007!) that threaten public safety and the environment.

The permits would allow E&B to dispose of oil-drilling waste by injecting it into local aquifers. E&B also wants to nearly triple the area it can inject with wastewater, from 26 to about 70 acres. E&B’s operations use undisclosed chemicals, endangering groundwater that could be used for irrigation, landscaping, and possibly drinking water.

The oil company’s set of 10-year permits has already been approved by the zoning board, and now it’s up to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to stop it.

Please sign this petition urging them to take bold action and deny E&B’s permit application!

Are you experiencing financial hardship or homelessness?

Get a free haircut, hot coffee, hygiene kits and more.

Brookfield Branch Library is hosting a care village on July 24 for anyone experiencing homelessness and financial hardship.