You’re invited to join us tonight to discuss justice and injustice at UC Berkeley, and how to build a student organization on campus.

The ISO will hold a discussion about UC Berkeley’s history of complicity with sexual harassment, and its censorship of a student-run course on Palestine, and plan how to expand socialist organization on campus.

We are asking if anyone in the community has any information, eyewitness accounts or video showing the unjust killing of Colby Friday, shot in the back by Stockton Police Officer David Wells.

The community can no longer tolerate Stockton police officers shooting their citizens in the back – it is the same tired narrative that repeats time and time again.

From Luther Brown, James Cook and James Rivera Jr., all shot and yet these officers all still work, are promoted and are allowed to stalk the streets for their next victim.

Your family many be next. Take this seriously – we don’t want to be out there for you next.

Justice 4 Colby Friday Facebook

Want to learn how to work toward eliminating the cops? Want to hear how we challenge the notion that policing keeps us safe? CR Oakland regularly offers this workshop that looks at the role and history of policing in the U.S., the way it has impacted various communities, and how people have resisted and challenged its inherent violence. This workshop also goes over how we can reduce our reliance on policing by highlighting the various ways that building up community strength and practices lead to true safety that does not depend on law enforcement.

OccupySF 5th Anniversary picnic and open mic. Bring your own food. Bring your own drink. Bring instruments. Bring megaphone.

Bring sings and banners!

Join Alameda Renters Coalition and Filipino Advocates for Justice for an intimate screening of “The Fall of the I-Hotel” documentary, as well as special showings of two short videos produced by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project about the signature drive to put M1 on the ballot.

In 1977, tenants at San Francisco’s International Hotel — mostly Filipino elders — fought a mass eviction. Students, activists, poets, and politicians joined their cause, and while the residents were eventually forced out by sheriff’s deputies, the campaign helped catalyze the Filipino-American community and the Bay Area’s anti-eviction movement.

This political season, Alamedans are remembering the I-Hotel — and are recognizing that the campaign at 470 Central on the west end connects us all to this history and to the present fight for sustainable rent increases and just-cause protections.

After the screenings, we’ll have the opportunity to plug into current opportunities for action around 470 Central and the M1 campaign. RSVP today!

After much posturing, the City FINALLY approved our petition to gather signatures for the recall of Libby Schaaf. Join us for a brief training and refreshments before we hit the streets to talk to the people and build momentum for our campaign. We will break bread as a community in Oscar Grant Plaza at the end of the afternoon.

Displacement in the name of Development
Rampant Police Corruption, Rape & Brutality
Inciting Police Violence Against Black Women, Children & Elders
Attempting to Turn Oakland Into A SunDown Town
Loss of Youth Jobs
Cultural Appropriation
Heightened Inter-Communal Violence
Pandering to Big Busines at the Expense of the People

It is time to say #BYELIBBY

www.byelibby.com

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Intentional Community in Exile (ICE) presents “Intentional Community in Exile (ICE)”

Including a treatise on ‘warming up exile without melting’ using voices, bodies.

Discussion: 2pm in the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Koret Reading Room

Action: 3:30pm

ICE (Intentional Community in Exile) is a fresh new mutual aid society, built to sustain radical, creative and political practices within a hostile economic system. ICE breaks with the assumption that the objective of this life is a house with a nuclear/biological family, through accumulation of personal property, or individual recognition. ICE is being made by a small group of precarious transient anti-capitalist women trying to survive together while being literally and metaphorically evicted.

Please join us on September 18, for a discussion and a performance of life practices as well as frameworks for material and immaterial mutual support. This project is about finding ways to exit economic precarity by building human relationships instead of accumulating capital– to make exile ‘warm.’

The entire time I have lived in “x” I have been precarious and indebted. I have only survived, and thrived, because of the networks of solidarity and mutual aid I have participated in. Now, as the city, “x” gentrifies beyond the imagination, I’m being forced to leave. I don’t want to let those networks die. If people like me are going to survive in this world, we need to imagine and create better non-monetary common resources.

BAMPFA event page: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/event/heavy-breathing-4-ice-feminist-economics-department

Presented in collaboration with Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Heavy Breathing is a monthly series of experimental movement seminars designed by artists that combine physical activity with group discussion on ideas related to their creative practice. Critical discourse often feels heady, abstract, and divorced from the body. How do conversations change when we are moving our bodies and out of breath? What new modes of thinking become possible?

Dear Friends,

There are still plenty of seats left for the SECOND in the film series and discussion group called “Fascism on Film”.

The film this time is “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” (1970), a BBC production based on the play by Bertolt Brecht.  It features an outstanding performance by Nicol Williamson in the title role. The story parallels the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich, portraying Hitler as a petty gangster in Chicago who by hook and by crook takes over the vegetable market, a.k.a. the “Cauliflower Trust”.  An informal discussion will follow the film.

The screening begins at 4:00 on Sunday, September 18th, at our house, 1171 Colusa Avenue in North Berkeley.  There is no admission charge; snacks and drinks will be provided.  For more information and/or to reserve seats for this event, please contact me at DaniellsDin@gmail.com or 510-277-6669.

Peace,

TD Daniell

510-277-6669

Cauliflower wants to be free!

Every week, the Community Democracy Project holds a space for community leaders, volunteers, and members to discuss current events, important issues impacting our communities, or to share a skillset.

On September 18, 2016, we’re proud to host the People’s Community Medics! They will conduct a training on how to provide first-aide to victims of gun shot wounds.

Read more about them below:

The People’s Community Medics (PCM) was founded in 2011 by Sharena Thomas and Lesley Phillips when members of the Oscar Grant Committee we learned that BART police refused to call an ambulance for 20 minutes for fatally wounded Oscar Grant, despite the passionate pleas for medical help from his friends who were detained at the Fruitvale station by police. That experience as well as our knowledge that 911 calls often do not result in an ambulance arriving in a timely manner to Black neighborhoods largely inspired us to teach our people basic emergency first aid so that we can help one another until an ambulance arrives.

The People’s Community Medics is a collective of volunteers that shares its knowledge of basic emergency first aid for free with community members and residents.

Oftentimes residents of Black, Brown and poor communities need to know how to treat medical emergencies until an ambulance arrives. Calling 911 does not guarantee that an ambulance will arrive promptly in low-income and communities of color; because of this inequality, we have lost numerous loved ones unnecessarily.

We do not need to depend solely upon the state to assist us when a medical emergency is in progress; it is an act of self-determination when we help one another in our communities. We are creating a people centered alternative by educating ourselves and resisting the emergency health system’s neglect of the people.

We reached out to a fellow activist who is a healthcare worker and together we developed a training curriculum and learned how to treat seizures and bleeding traumas like gunshot wounds and stabbings. The PCM launched in March 2012; since then we have been giving free trainings on treating seizures, bleeding traumas and gunshot wounds to 100s of folks in Oakland, San Francisco, Richmond, Berkeley, Seattle and Oxnard, California.

The People’s Community Medics’ trainings immediately resonate with people. We hope that one day every child will be taught basic first aid in school. We have been invited to present our training at various events and for different organizations. A few days before May Day 2012, a young man from Occupy Oakland came to the aid of a shooting victim and he utilized the first aid training he had learned from the PCM; the ambulance did not arrive for 47 minutes; unfortunately the woman succumbed to her injuries.

At our trainings, we hand out free first aid packets that have gloves, gauze, an instruction sheet in English, Spanish and Chinese, Emergen C (for diabetics) and a “know your rights” pocket card from Berkeley CopWatch. At some of our trainings we have served free, hot cooked food and given grocery bags of food free to the people. We have also had open mic speak-outs at some of our trainings.

You can reach us at 510-239-7720 or PeoplesCommunityMedics@gmail.com and at www.PeoplesCommunityMedics.org.
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OccupyForum presents…

The History of Socialism in America:
from Robert Owens’ utopian experiment
of 1825 to Bernie’s political revolution of 2016

By Eugene Ruyle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,  Cal State, Long Beach Institute for the Critical Study  of Society in Oakland

As a democratic socialist, Bernie Sanders began a political revolution to transform a political system run by the billionaire class into one that represents working and middle class Americans and creates more opportunity for everyone. This workshop will take a closer look at Bernie’s socialism by placing it within the global context of two centuries of working class struggle against capitalist rule. This will allow a better understanding of how Bernie has adapted socialism to the United States in the Twenty-First Century, and how to improve our struggles for a better world for all humanity. Now that Bernie is no longer a candidate, it’s up to us to continue the struggle.

Gene Ruyle is author of “Rethinking Marxist Anthropology,” and other essays. He is active with the Oscar Grant Committee, Veterans for Peace, and the Peace and Freedom Party.

Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!  Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue  on all sides of these critically important issues!

Q&A and Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away!

Please join us for two consecutive lectures by Cassie Thornton of the Feminist Economics Department and Alessandra Saviotti of the Asociación de Arte Útil.
Sponsored by the Birdhouse Collective and WICAN

Cassie Thornton, working under the Feminist Economics Department (FED), presents the three recent projects in Chicago, Halifax and New York. These projects involve (respectively) (a) encouraging children to use crowbars to destroy walls made out of debt-wracked adults’ imagination, (b) mobilizing citizens in a pub to use yoga to demand the economically depressed Nova Scotia be declared a postwork province, and (c) placing cursed watercolors in financial institutions.

Alessandra Saviotti is an independent curator who focuses on collaborative practices according to the motto ‘cooperation is better than competition’. She presents three projects realised in cooperation with artists, curators, cooks, architects and asylum seekers which try to implement the idea of Arte Útil. Arte Útil (roughly translated into English as ‘useful art’ or, more accurately, art as a tool or device) is an ongoing body of work that draws on artistic thinking to imagine, create and implement tactics that can change how we act in society.

We can’t let Berkeley forget Kayla. City government continues to fail to prioritize people over policing. But, what we really need is accountability, not a motion to dismiss. What we really need is community care, not killer cops!

NEXT TUESDAY, we’ll come together in community to keep Kayla’s memory alive in the streets of Berkeley.

Down Syndrome and deafness in 1950 consigned Judith Scott to a state institution for 35 nightmare years before her twin sister obtained her release. Once discarded by society, she responded to opportunities at Creative Growth Art Center by becoming a world-famous fiber artist. “Entwined”, a book by her sister Joyce, explores the twins’ closeness and the profound impact of Judith’s extraordinary life and remarkable creativity. Copies will be available for sale. Also on this program, Betsy Bayha’s film, “Outsider”, is an intimate portrait of a compelling, eccentric and talented individual who prevailed in the face of daunting odds.

Sponsored by the BFUU SJC.

This screening is co-presented by World Trust and features a post-film discussion with filmmaker Shakti Butler.

Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible allows white people to find their own voice, and to reflect on their own experience and understanding. They hear from role models — other white people who have already committed themselves to racial justice. This has been a missing piece in social justice and cultural competency work. And, when viewing this film, people of color have an opportunity to focus on their own issues of internalized racism, should they chose to do so.