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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?
MoveOn Community Potluck at the Farm!
Connect with MoveOn Members near you at a Resist & Win Community Potluck!
Our path to ending Republican control of the House begins in our own communities: marching, calling, canvassing, and … eating! Come together with fellow activists in your area to share a meal and recharge for the work ahead at a Resist & Win Community Potluck near you!
Here’s a brief description of this Resist & Win Potluck from the host:
Meet your neighbors and share some grub; as we draw, sing and speak about what community means to us in Oakland. Join us at our local West Oakland community garden – City Slicker Farms – from 2-4pm. Bring your favorite dish or drink, guitar or drum, paint brush or sharpie! Let’s build some community and momentum as we organize with MoveOn for the 2018 mid-terms. City Slicker Farms is an urban farm and park providing individuals and groups a comprehensive farm to table, we hope that in joining our event you can also learn more about what they do to address food scarcity in our community.
for KPFA Movie Matinee
On Saturday July 28th, KPFA in partnership with The New Parkway Theater in Oakland present our inaugural movie matinee All The President’s Men.
All The President’s Men, stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein who uncovered the Watergate scandal. This film is the story of a story: of two reporters covering a suspicious third-rate burglary and following it, all the way to the White House.
All the President’s Men is as smart and as cautionary today as it was in 1976. “Nothing’s riding on this except the first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.”
Saturday at 3pm at the New Parkway Theater 474 24th St, between Telegraph and Broadway in Oakland for All The Presidents Men, an intelligent and provocative film about our nation’s political failings, and a near-perfect depiction of journalism at its most inspired.
Join us to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of the attack on the Moncada barracks that marked the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. The program will include Bay Area Participants of the XIII May Day International Brigade to Cuba and US graduated from the Latin America School of Medicine in Cuba. Music by DUAMUX – Marci Valdivieso and Ricardo Valdivieso. Co-sponsored by National Network on Cuba, BFUU SJC, International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity.
Photo by Bill Hackwell
Documentary, 97 minutes, Rated NR
This depressing documentary, focusing mostly on matters in the state of Montana, shows the effect of untraceable corporate money on the American political system. It tries to be hopeful, but hope is hard to come by.
join us in the campaign for Proposition 10: 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 repealing Costa-Hawkins and then we’ll hit the streets to talk with our neighbors about housing justice and the Affordable Housing Act!
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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The Village (homeless intentional community) will be having an open pizza party. If you attend feel free to bring food and snacks or / and toppings for the pizzas to share. Folks and organizations that support will be coming through. Miguel who built the cob oven and the cob house on wheels will also be present. This is a good opportunity to touch base with volunteers and groups.
Dinner: 6:30 PM
Movie: 7:30 PM
Dara’a is an epicenter of the Putin-Trump led march toward global fascism. Dara’a is the southern Syrian region that initiated the 2011 Arab Spring inspired, democratic, peaceful revolution against the fascist (“national socialist”) Assad regime. Once again Russian bombs rain down and, with the help of Assad’s army and Iranian militia, usher in a total reign of terror on the civilian population. This human catastrophe created additional 300,000 refugees after over 400,000 Syrians have been killed. The cabal creates these refugees only to designate them as a less-than-human “infestation.”
Not since WWII have we faced such an abyss. How can one retain one’s humanity in these times?
From Yassin al-Haj Saleh’s Impossible Revolution:
My impression about this curious situation is that they simply do not see us; it is not about us at all. Syria is only an additional occasion for their old anti-imperialist tirades, never the living subject of the debate … We, rank-and-file Syrians, refugees, women, students, intellectuals, human rights activists, political prisoners … do not exist … But honestly I’ve failed to discern who is right and who is left in the West from a leftist Syrian point of view … Before helping Syrians or showing solidarity with Syrians, the mainstream Western left need to help themselves.
Documentary, 97 minutes, Rated NR
This depressing documentary, focusing mostly on matters in the state of Montana, shows the effect of untraceable corporate money on the American political system. It tries to be hopeful, but hope is hard to come by.
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.
7/29 #AbolishICESF 48 Hour Vigil: Create art, share music, hold workshops, & celebrate resilience as a community in solidarity w/ the national week of action to #AbolishICE & ALL prison structures & to honor our loved ones lost to these systems of violence #OccupyICE #OccupyICESF pic.twitter.com/kGasAEKuuP
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) July 27, 2018
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.
7/29 #AbolishICESF 48 Hour Vigil: Create art, share music, hold workshops, & celebrate resilience as a community in solidarity w/ the national week of action to #AbolishICE & ALL prison structures & to honor our loved ones lost to these systems of violence #OccupyICE #OccupyICESF pic.twitter.com/kGasAEKuuP
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) July 27, 2018
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?
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?
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
In July, Contra Costa County Sheriff Livingston announced that he is ending the contract with ICE to hold immigration detainees at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. This represents a major victory for advocates who have pushed for years to end the contract with ICE – but it will not be a real victory until those currently detained are released and reunited with their families, friends, and community, and those already transferred to other states are returned.
Join the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity for a vigil at WCDF, to call for detainees to be reunited with their families and for a complete end to cooperation between the Sheriff’s office and ICE.
UPDATE: Sign up to carpool here! https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/638ctx
Parking/Transit Alert: Parking is limited at WCDF. If you’re driving, please carpool if possible! Please try to only use the jail parking lot if you have accessibility issues, are visiting family there, or cannot afford the adjacent parking lot. Others, please pay $3 to park at the adjacent Point Pinole Regional Shoreline/Bay Trail parking lot at 5551 Giant Highway, and walk 0.4 miles (turn left) to West County Detention Facility next door. Another option: the 71 bus leaves from Richmond BART every hour and stops at WCDF.