In 1977 the International Hotel in San Francisco was occupied. A rent strike and struggle ensued over evictions and gentrification.
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Sep
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Sep
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Fri
SPEAKERS
ANGELA DAVIS & NADINE NABER
STRENGTH & RESILIENCE: AROC 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF COMMUNITY DEFENSE, MOVEMENT BUILDING & RESISTANCE
SPEAKERS
Angela Davis
Nadine Naber
FEATURING
DJ Emancipacion
Al Juthour Dabke Troupe
HONOREES
ILWU Local 10
Nancy Hormachea
Stop Urban Shield Coalition
Teachers 4 Social Justice
TICKETS
Purchase early bird tickets here!
HOST COMMITTEE
Alia Ghabra
Eyad Kishawi
Hassan Fouda
Hatem Bazian
Johnnie Batarseh
Layla Feghali
Lily Haskell
Liz Derias-Tyehimba
Monadel Herzallah
Naima Shalhoub
Noura Erakat
Ramiz Rafeedie
Renda Dabit
Samer Elbandek
Senan Elkhairi
Yousef Abudayyeh
Ziad Abbas
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Sep
15
Sat
The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual community event bringing together publishers, book sellers, artists and community groups. It is free an open to the public.
The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair is an annual event that brings together people interested and engaged in radical work to connect, learn, and discuss through books and information tables, workshops, panel discussions, skillshares, films, and more! We seek to create an inclusive space to introduce new folks to anarchism, foster a productive dialogue between various political traditions as well as anarchists from different milieus, and create an opportunity to dissect our movements’ strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and tactics.
All workshops will be at the East Bay Community Space, 507 55th Street (at Telegraph).
VENDORS: Confirmed vendors are here.
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Sep 15 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Gentrification, displacement and sky-rocketing rents. We’ve all been talking about it and now its time to DO SOMETHING about it. Proposition 10 is a historic opportunity to take on the biggest barrier to winning for real housing justice with the repeal of the Republican backed 1995 bill the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Backed by corporate landlords and real estate billionaires, the opposition to Prop 10 is raising BIG money to fight us – but WE ARE IN THE MAJORITY and with all of your help we can win!
Join us for a press conference, door knocking training and mass canvassing to launch weekly mobilizations to pass Prop 10 and build the tenant movement for rent control!!!
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It’s 2018 and socialism is ascendant. More and more people are standing up to say that they’ve had enough with a system that puts profit over people, that puts the wealth of the few over the dignity and flourishing of the many.
Democratic socialists all over the country are fighting for an improved and expanded Medicare-for-All healthcare system, a federal jobs guarantee, universal rent control, tuition-free public education pre-K through college or trade school, a powerful, militant labor movement, and the abolishment of ICE.
We’re winning elections, we’re building explicitly socialist institutions, we’re training effective socialist organizers, and we’re introducing millions of people to real-world anti-capitalist politics.
Come on out to a picnic in the park to learn more about democratic socialism and get involved in our local activities here in the East Bay. New members and not-yet-members are welcome!
If you like, stick around for the canvassing event we’re kicking off right after! From 12 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., we’ll be knocking on doors to campaign for 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.
These back-to-back events are the perfect opportunity to jump into East Bay DSA!
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Sep
17
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AN ONLINE OCCUPATION
[OR A DIGITAL VACANCY]
WE
SHUT DOWN
BIG TECH
FOR A
DAY
Big Tech competes for one thing: our attention. They exploit our basic human instincts in the pursuit of unprecedented financial and cultural control.
Facebook claims to connect us, but promotes individualism to its most divisive extreme.
Amazon endorses endless consumption, prodding people to milk mother earth for all she’s worth.
Apple infiltrates every strata of our lives, with the HomePod to the Apple Watch, ensuring its role in everything we do.
Google outsources our desires, fears, and thoughts, narrowing the great mystery of life into a manipulating machine.
We are tethered, mind and body, to these technologies and the companies behind them.
What do we give up when we allow four corporations to define our human existence—our socialization, our storytelling, our sharing? How deep will they go when so far, we’ve been complicit in letting them dig?
Enough is enough.
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Sep
18
Tue
Sep 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Over the past few years the term “neoliberalism” has become ubiquitous. But what is it exactly? Is it an ideology that espouses “free markets,” a political project to crush the labor movement, or an economic era of globalization and financialization? What is the relationship of neoliberalism to capitalism itself? How can democratic socialists best fight back against neoliberalism? Please join us as we grapple with these questions and many others!
Required Readings
See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.
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Sep
19
Wed
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.
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Sep
20
Thu
Join Idle No More SF Bay, with the support of Stand, for Oil Pipelines Connecting Resistance: Extraction, Pipelines, and Refineries. This will be a powerful discussion about how resistance to oil pipelines, oil tankers, and refinery expansions connects frontline communities in Canada and the US who are rising to stop climate change.
Moderator
Isabella Zizi member of Idle No More SF Bay and organizer with Stand
Panelists
Charlene Aleck, indigenous leader who holds the Sacred Trust Initiative portfolio and works with the STI team to oppose the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and protect TWN lands and waters for future generations.
Cedar George-Parker, 21-year-old member of the Tsleil Waututh Nation and Tulalip Tribes from the Salish Sea. Recently his nation won a victory in the courts against Kinder Morgan to protect the Burrard Inlet. He has travelled to help Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups stick up for the land and the people, worked with United Nations, and done divestment work
Dr. Melinda Micco (Seminole/Creek/Choctaw) is member of Idle No More SF Bay and a researcher and author who focuses on multiracial identity in American Indian and African American communities. She also produced the documentary Killing the 7th Generation: Reproductive Abuses against Indigenous Women.
Shoshana Wechsler is a founding mother of the Sunflower Alliance, a group dedicated to environmental justice and fossil fuel resistance in the Bay Area and a lifelong grassroots activist.
John Gioia is a Contra Costa County Supervisor whose District includes the Richmond Chevron Refinery and a member of the board the Bay Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). He recently returned from Alberta and British Columbia as a member of a fact-finding delegation on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline and the Alberta tar sands.
Space is limited to 75 seats. Reserved seats will be up front for elders, first come first serve. If you aren’t able to make it, Stand.earth will be Facebook live streaming.
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Sep
22
Sat
Sep 22 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Hey #Oakland SAVE THE DATE for training on rapid response to ICE and police terror #endpoliceterror #endwhitesupremacy pic.twitter.com/vuOtMJrqFc
— impostor hoopoe (@thehoopoe) September 6, 2018
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Sep 22 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Judge and author Lise Pearlman brings to AAMLO her well-researched book on prisoner rights activist and movement lawyer Fay Stender. Stender achieved amazing legal successes in criminal defense and prison reform, known for defending both Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton and revolutionary prisoner George Jackson, before she ultimately refocused with similar zeal on feminist and lesbian rights.
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Sep
23
Sun
Sep 23 @ 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, September 23, 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 the park. Look for the big DSA flag!
Accessibility: McClymonds Park is ADA-accessible.
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Sep 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Oakland Privacy Movie Night
Come and celebrate the big win at BART at Oakland Privacy’s Movie Night.
Two great films from the land down under, free snacks, and a bit about how we’re wiping out secret surveillance across the Bay.
Join Oakland Privacy for two award-winning Australian films about our dystopian techno-state. Cosponsored by Liberated Lens Film Collective.
Doors open at 5:30pm
Program starts at 6pm
iRony, directed by then 19-year old Radheya Jegatheya, is an 8 minute animated film exploring the relationship between human and technology …. told from the perspective of a phone. The hand drawn animated film is based on a poem by the director which won 2 national poetry awards in Australia and has received 14 “Best of” awards in film festivals around the globe.
Stare Into The Lights My Pretties, directed by Jordan Brown, investigates questions of how did we get here and who benefits to form a critical view of technological escalation driven by rapacious and pervasive corporate interests. Covering themes of addiction, privacy, surveillance, information manipulation, behavior modification and social control, the film lays the foundations as to why we may feel like we are sleep running into some dystopian nightmare with the machines at the helm. The film won the “Edward Snowden Award” in Argentina, “Most Challenging Film” from Indie Lincs in Lincoln United Kingdom, “Most Unforgettable Film” Silver Award from the Spotlight Film Festival, United States; and winner and semi-finalist accolades from events in Poland, Bangladesh, Russia, Ireland and Belgium.
With a brief q+a with Privacy Advisory Commission chair Brian Hofer about what we can do to slow down dystopia right here in our backyard.
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Sep
25
Tue
Sep 25 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE ITEM WILL NOT BE TAKEN UP BY THE COUNCIL THIS DAY.
Council Person Abel Guillen is proposing the Nordic Model for East Oakland otherwise known as End Demand legislation. The law would target clients, thereby creating a smaller pool of paying clients. This is the last thing we need while we are reeling from FOSTA/SESTA.
Every time this kind of bad legislation is put into law, anywhere in the world, it causes more violence against sex workers and unsafe working conditions. We need folks to come pack the meeting and fax City Council before hand at https://tribunus.typeform.com/to/ABrd2T
Accessibility info – This is at City hall – on the 3rd floor, there is an elevator up to the 3rd floor, in terms of scents, it is City Hall, so it’s not scent free
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Sep
26
Wed
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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ORGANIZING IN THE GONE CITY
A conversation with Dick Walker on his latest book,
Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity
in the San Francisco Bay Area
Join LeftRoots and the The Center for Political Education for an
evening with radical geographer Dick Walker. He will be joined by on-the-ground organizers against gentrification, displacement, and exploitation by the tech industry in the Bay Area, including:
• Vanessa Moses, of Causa Justa Just Cause
• Alex Tom, of Chinese Progressive Association
• Divya Sundar, of ASATA – Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
The San Francisco Bay Area is a jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. The Bay boasts of being the Left Coast, home of green cities, and the best place for workers in the USA. So, what could be wrong?
Join us to examine the dark side of this success: overheated, exploding inequality, and severe environmental damage—and how Pictures of a Gone City can help us build power and win in these changing and challenging times.
Dick Walker is one of those rare scholars who helps us understand the world in order to change it. A professor emeritus of geography at UC Berkeley, he has long been a resource for Bay Area activists seeking to understand where we live and work, its local dynamics and global context. Pictures of a Gone City—sweeping in scope and exquisitely detailed—examines the political economy and class structure of the region; displacement, internal migration and the growth of its cities; and its history of environmental and political organizing.
Wheelchair accessible.
For more information, email bayareacc@leftroots.net or center@politicaleducation.org
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Sep
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Sep 27 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
The California Air Resources Board takes testimony this week on the new state Community Emissions Reduction Program, established by Assembly Bill 617. The CARB board will decide whether to adopt their staff’s “blueprint,” and will set the communities receiving emissions reduction plans and requirements for the first year. Your important testimony could make all the difference between a weak, inequitable program and one that lives up to its promise.
- Ask the Board to include a longer list of communities receiving a Community Emission Reduction Plan, adding Richmond, East Oakland, Southeast Los Angeles, East Coachella, and others.
- Ask the Board to clean up oil refineries, implement zero emission transportation, address cumulative impacts from small stationary sources, and start a plan to Phase Down Oil Refineries.
What exactly is AB 617?
AB 617, the “Community Air Protection Act” was adopted in the summer of 2017 as a companion bill—and justification—for AB 398, which extended the much-protested state cap-and-trade program. This greenhouse gas trading program allows big polluters to pay to pollute, instead of directly cleaning up fossil fuels in impacted communities. AB 617, its intended antidote, is supposed to cut toxics and smog “co-pollutants.” These are emitted at the same time as greenhouse gases when fossil fuels are burned or evaporated in industry and transportation, especially in most impacted communities of color.
Now that AB 617 is in place, environmental justice organizations that first opposed it are working to get as much pollution cleanup as they can. Some 617 concepts do include important measures community members have long sought, such as community-level plans to cut cumulative stationary, transportation, and other emissions. But here’s the problem: only ten communities in the state are proposed to get any plan the first year, and only seven of these would get an emission reduction plan. (The rest get only air monitoring plans!) This is not enough: dozens of seriously impacted communities need such cleanup.
In the Bay Area, we’re very happy that West Oakland was chosen to receive an emission reduction plan. But East Oakland and Richmond were left out! And in southern California, Southeast Los Angeles was also passed over.
What do environmental justice groups want?
Community Selection – Add Community Emission Reduction Plan (CERP) for ► Richmond ► East Oakland ► Southeast LA.
- East Coachella is also seeking an emissions reduction plan. This is a rural community and coalition partner in the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA), a part of the South Coast Air Basin. Heavily impacted rural communities frequently are left out of receiving enough monitoring and pollution reduction measures.
- The state list should include far more than seven communities for emissions plans. Dozens of communities needing cleanup throughout the state have sought emissions reduction plans.
State Blueprint – Need Oil Industry Requirements:
- Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for existing Refinery Catalytic Cracking units—to drastically reduce deadly particulate matter responsible for thousands of additional deaths.
- Replace massive, polluting old refinery boilers & heaters to meet Best Available Control Technology (BACT) standards.
- Stop expanding oil refineries.
- Develop a plan to phaseout oil refineries by 2050.
- 2,500-foot buffer zone between oil extraction sites and neighbors.
JOIN US ON AMTRAK! Capitol Corridor #522 to Sacramento: Oakland: 6:25; Emeryville: 6:34; Berkeley: 6:38; Richmond: 6:45; Martinez: 7:11; Sacramento: 8:25 AM
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