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I don’t see any better way to celebrate father’s day than by protesting the immoral separation of families.

I cannot in good conscience be a good father without teaching my children compassion and to fight for what is right. There was no way I could celebrate while families are being cruelly torn apart.

While searching for a way to make this day more meaningful, my friend Megan proposed the idea of the protest at the ICE detention center.

Yes, it’s last minute and 100% grassroots, but I hope you will join me in making this a meaningful Father’s Day for all of us.

As the Declaration of Independence says: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

If we do anything less, we are no longer Americans.

Please share widely!

Some activists reached out to us who are planning for an action, Tuesday, June 19, 1PM at ICE’s SF HQ. They’d like to remain anonymous, but asked us to publicize their call.

Please join in standing up to this moral horror of family separations and detention of immigrants and refugees at ICE’s SF headquarters, 630 Sansome, 1pm. #keepfamiliestogether #familiesbelongtogether

You can also share this on Twitter, https://mobile.twitter.com/treekisser/status/1008827830392647680

What to do:

1. Bring a bluetooth speaker or stereo
2. Use this link to play audio of kids in cages screaming for their parents:
https://www.facebook.com/propublica/videos/10156554134509445/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoncXfYBAVI
3. Play the audio through your bluetooth speaker
4. Let’s make ICE hear these kids!

Meet at the Light Rail parking lot on Curtner at 10:30 am on Friday. Bring your signs! We are inviting Resistance groups from the Bay Area to join us. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! RSVP so we know how many will be there. Thank you!

Join #SFLabor at a rally & march!

Workers are demanding:
1. Hotel Workers demand fair contracts and rally to say #1job is enough
2. Public Sector workers stand together to say they will stay #unionstrong in the face of corporate backed Janus case

About 600 people are expected to show up for a rally and human billboard protesting the detention camp at 6 p.m. Thursday at the entrance to El Cerrito Plaza on San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito, according to a member of El Cerrito Shows Up.

“We will hold a human billboard action in which we will line up on San Pablo at the heart of commute time and hold up signs with messages,” said Sherry Drobner, an organizer with El Cerrito Shows Up reached by telephone Saturday morning.

“This is comparable to the Japanese internment camps,” Drobner said, linking the mass detention of immigrants to camps that existed in the Bay Area during World War II. “Our country apologized for those camps, so we already know this is wrong.”

Family separation is another Trump-created crisis. This is not at all required under current law — despite the lies coming out of Trump’s mouth — and Trump could put an end to this with a phone call. And like so many other Trump-created crises, Republicans in Congress are letting it happen. Some may have expressed concerns about the policy, but none have done anything about it. That’s where you come in. Join our rally as part of a national day of action (like the airport protests) in support of keeping families together. (Why do we even need to say that?!)

Link to event information: https://actionnetwork.org/events/families-belong-together-indivisible-berkeley-mobilization

Event Issue Focus: Families Belong Together

RSVP

Be part of the human billboard campaign to send a message to our community and our officials. 2,000 children are still missing! 2,000 children are still crying, frightened and alone. Trump may reunite and then jail families together, with no end date. Can we allow this? Can we let the attack on immigrants continue? The dehumanization of men, women, and children…the criminalization of those at the border and those who live in our community are purposeful attempts to convince citizens that the cruel immigration policies can be justified. We know better and we must continue to SHOW UP. Join with other families. Bring a sign, join in song. Inspire others and be inspired.

July 8 protest at Richmond Jail/ ICE Deportation Center, 11 am – noon pic.twitter.com/1lh1MtYF8o

— Indivisible Berkeley (@IndivisibleBerk) July 4, 2018

Onefam in West Oakland is facing an un-just eviction. This is a call to action!

WHAT: Protest at Arnie’s
BRING: loud voices, signs, cars…
TRANSPORT: please contact Angie to coordinate rides. 925.695.6503.

http://www.onefam.org/

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/west-oaklands-bikes4life-fights-eviction/Content?oid=16716756

The eviction of one fam, a community center with a bike shop, performing arts venue, and cafe that is run primarily by working class people of color from the neighborhood, where all feel welcome, would be truly tragic.  We’re asking for your help.  We can win this fight, but not without all the support we can get.

We will be going to the house of the landlord who is trying to evict Onefam, Arnold Fields. We’ll be presenting him with a petition signed by members of the community urging him to sit down and work with Onefam, to find an alternative to a court facilitated eviction.

We need as many people as possible to show up.  This way, even if he is not present and we tape the petition to his door, he’ll definitely get it and be clear about how much community support and people power Onefam is rolling with.

Please let us know if you can go, how you will be getting there, and if you have capacity to help with transportation, so we can organize groups of folks getting out there. Please also consider sending this to specific people you know as opposed to any groups or lists.”

EMERGENCY RALLY TOMORROW AT NOON TO SUPPORT THE ICE BLOCKADE!!! 444 WASHINGTON STREET. PLEASE GET OFF AT EMBARCADERO BART/MUNI STATION. #abolishice #occupyicesf #occupysfice @DSA_SF @SFBayResistance

— OCCUPYICESF (@occupyicesf) July 6, 2018

Join the community protest of mass incarceration and immigrant internment at the Richmond jail, aka West County Detention Facility (WCDF)! Asylum applicants from the border are often relocated there, so those who’ve had their kids taken away from them may be held at WCDF. The cruel, racist separations rent by immigration, policing and cash bail policies deal terrible emotional and economic injuries on our loved ones, neighbors, and communities. We must fight to free our peoples!

• LEARN from Pastor Rhina Ramos of Plymouth Church about her work in the LGBTQ+ immigrant community
• HEAR impacted family members share testimonials
• SHOUT with the Let Our People Go community circle
• and MORE to be announced shortly

LET OUR PEOPLE GO is a youth-and-elder-friendly action that opposes the immorality of detentions/deportations and mass incarceration with activist debriefs, music, art, stories, poetry, interactive small groups, and representation from various faith communities and faithless humanists. Accessible site with parking, plus bathrooms right inside in the visitors waiting room.

The monthly Let Our People Go protests were initiated by members of Kehilla Community Synagogue on the 2nd Sunday of every month at 11am, modeled in part on the first Saturday vigils held by our partners at Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. A grassroots effort, Let Our People Go is organized by volunteers from Kehilla’s Immigration Committee and Congregation Beth El. The ongoing participation from regular attendees is what creates a powerful community circle, a sustained message of resistance to the powers that lets detainees and their loved ones know that estamos en la lucha con ellos. **If your school, network, affinity group or congregation is interested in getting involved, contact us at letourpeoplego@kehillasynagogue.org.**

A one-hour protest, Let Our People Go is a way for our communities—especially those with citizenship privileges—to stand up for our peoples and bring more attention to this immoral site of internment right in our community. We aim to convey a sustained message of resistance to the right wing’s racist, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, ableist, transphobic, homophobic, misogynist ramp up of authoritarian policing, mass incarceration and deportation practices—if not now, when?

OccupyICE encampments and blockades have popped up all over the land called the United States and are building a National Solidarity Coalition to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Join Abolish ICE SF as we rally and stand vigil for all those locked up and deported, and in solidarity with the #OccupyICESF blockade raided by the San Francisco Police Department on July 9th after being established on July 2nd. We also stand in solidarity with all the OccupyICE actions and blockades across the continent facing local and federal police repression.

Friday, July 13th Candlelight Vigil across the land called the United States to show solidarity with families detained by ICE and announce a national movement going forward together to #AbolishICE

Rally from 7-9pm
Vigil from 9-10pm

Please bring candles, altar materials, photos, song, and medicine to share. Art and signs are welcome.

#OneMillionFlames #AbolishICE #MeltICE #OccupyICE

Other #OccupyICE #OneMillionFlames vigils:
– Detroit: https://www.facebook.com/events/251955815609518/
– Philadelphia: https://www.facebook.com/events/284412115628635/
– Los Angeles: https://www.facebook.com/events/2186903004876420/
– New York City: https://www.facebook.com/events/289738918266462/

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!