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On September 13, BART unanimously adopted a surveillance transparency ordinance, the 6th Bay Area entity to do so and the first transit agency in the country. Thanks to you, there will be no more secret surveillance on BART. But BART still has plans for enhanced security and has scheduled a meeting in the suburbs. What BART does affects all of its riders, so your voice should be heard – even if they make you travel a long way to do it. Pittsburg City Hall, to be exact.
Free shuttle from the Pittsburg Center BART station.
Join East Bay DSA’s Labor Committee for their regular Beer and Roses Social!
Hang out with other members who are interested in the labor movement, hear about what’s happening in the East Bay DSA Labor Committee, and learn how you can get involved!
Futbolistas 4 Life takes you into the lives of two Oakland high schoolers: One is a college hopeful and DACA applicant who’s navigating the reality of his immigration status, and the other is an American citizen who lives in fear that her undocumented parents may be deported. These youth take solace in the game of soccer that lets them, if only for a moment, put their worries on the sidelines.
The film also features the fighting spirit of their coach Dania – a former professional soccer player. At a time when Colin Kaepernick and professional athletes around the world have used their platform to speak out on injustices in the U.S., Dania also uses her role to help players understand the inequities that exist in their community. A former professional athlete and the daughter of political refugees from Chile, Dania uses her love for the game and her family’s own immigrant experience to connect with and empower her players.
Futbolistas 4 Life sheds light on the overwhelming stress experienced nationwide by immigrant youth living in communities with high rates of poverty and violence – communities increasingly in the crosshairs of harsh federal immigration policies.
Director’s Bio
Jun Stinson is an Oakland based independent filmmaker and a producer at AJ+. She has been a post-production producer and editor with Al Jazeera America, produced segments for Current TV and KQED, among others. She was also on the post-production team of the feature documentary Spark: A Burning Man Story that premiered at SXSW in 2013. Her work is published in the Washington Post, Associated Press, espnW, and SFGate.com. She is a former BAVC National MediaMaker Fellow and San Francisco Film Society FilmHouse resident. Jun was raised in both Oakland and Kobe, Japan and is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, is a founding member of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) and an erudite critic of U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Ray will speak on the “Russia thing”, the situation in Syria, Gaza, Julian Assange, and more.
Dennis Bernstein, host of KPFA’s “Flashpoints”, will M.C.
Emma’s Revolution will join us with their gorgeous soul-stirring music and will be joined by the CODEPINK Chorus.
CODEPINK dessert benefit (homemade pie and treats), Emma’s CDs and t-shirts.
Sponsored by CODEPINK and the BFUU Social Justice Committee.
The most known psychedelics are psilocybin (magic mushrooms), LSD, MDMA (ecstasy), DMT, ayahuasca, ibogaine, 5-MeO-DMT or Bufo Alvaris (frog medicine), salvia devinorum.
Psychedelic medicine has been used mostly underground to successfully cure PTSD, depression, different types of headaches, addiction to hard drugs and pharmaceuticals, autism, as well as an array of other mental and emotional conditions.
Despite their tremendous healing properties, most psychedelics are illegal in the United States.
In recent years new studies have been launched with the intent to legalize psychedelics. But the process of FDA approval is so tedious, so expensive and so prohibitively long that activists have decided to take matters in their own hands and start a movement to end prohibition of psychedelics.
Famous body freedom activist and founder of a psychedelic clinic and rehab for street kids in Mexico (Jerry Garcia Family Healing Clinic) Gypsy Taub organized the first legalization rally on August 19, 2018. It took place at Jane Warner Plaza in San Francisco and was followed by the 3rd annual Nude Summer of Love Parade.
The second rally will take place in front of the San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, September 29th and will be followed by a Nude Love Parade through Haight Street.
This very special event features storytelling and video straight from the field, from the land of the buffalo with Buffalo Field Campaign co-founder Mike Mease, along with Native Music from Mignon Geli and Karaj. The Campaign works to end the slaughter of the last of the wild herds of buffalo, in West Yellowstone, Montana.
BFC uses video documentation, non-violent direct action, education and lobbying to change archaic laws targeting buffalo. Volunteers from around the world spend every day, from sunrise to sunset, monitoring and documenting threats to the buffalo, running patrols on skis, snowshoes and cars to defend buffalo on their traditional winter habitat and advocate for their protection.
The Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) is the only group working in the field, every day, to stop the slaughter and harassment of the last wild buffalo.
They come with new stories and video each roadshow tour!
Wheelchair accessible, donations at the door / NOTAFLOF
On the 20th anniversary of the first Critical REsistance conference in 1998, we invite you to join us at our new building to celebrate the next 20 years of resistance and community power!
Food. Games. Art. Music. Fun.
Join community members, immigrants’ rights advocates, and many more advocates at the TRUTH Act forum in Alameda County to demand transparency and accountability! Sheriff Ahern has been collaborating with ICE to facilitate local deportations and the separation of families, it’s time to demand the TRUTH.
Under the TRUTH Act, any jurisdiction that has allowed ICE access in the past year is required to hold a community forum bringing transparency to local jail entanglement with immigration enforcement.
Through our advocacy efforts, the Board of Supervisors scheduled the forum to ensure that our community could obtain information and ask questions about how our county works with ICE. This is crucial as Ahern himself will be present.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1d3LmLYVz4jsV4f7xKekedFh4V9zyvz-n1yE1ynZeRhc/edit
ALL OUT ON MONDAY to get #ICEOutofAlameda! Force @SheriffAhern to be transparent about his practices of ICE collaboration so we can mount a strategic community defense against deportations and family separations. #NoPOLIMIGRA https://t.co/esXzCU11qw pic.twitter.com/TBmaNTXzOz
— CausaJusta (@CausaJusta1) September 28, 2018
Come join comrades for a night of solidarity letter writing to inside organizers facing repression from the 2018 National Prison Strike
In solidarity with the National #PrisonStrike, join comrades for a night of letterwriting to inside organizers facing repression from the strike on Monday at Telegraph Beer Garden in Oakland. Find out more info here: https://t.co/xbTbVmS7BU pic.twitter.com/45KNVrRPlS
— East Bay DSA (@DSAEastBay) September 27, 2018
Turn out for a rally and march calling for FULL sheriff accountability and transparency! In the span of just 6 days, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department has been exposed for:
- Illegally recording attorney & youth-client privileged conversations
- Brutally assaulting a 76-year old disabled woman for jaywalking
- Guards ignoring the screams of a pregnant incarcerated woman for hours while she went into labor in a cold, dirty concrete solitary confinement cell
Join us to demand that the Board of Supervisors authorize an independent audit and full transparency and accountability of the Alameda Sheriff’s Department. #AuditAhern NOW!! For more information visit our Facebook event page.
Oakland City Council will discuss creating our local public bank. To review: On September 11, the four-member finance committee looked at the feasibility study, heard from the community, and decided to send the whole matter to the full Council. Now, to make sure the Council keeps moving forward, we need to show up once more. Please attend if you can; we’ll be there with t-shirts and signs for you.
Meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Area Security Initiative.
Agenda:
Revised Meeting Schedule and Meeting Protocols
Learning Goals and Data Needs
Urban Shield Guidelines, Adopted by Board of Supervisors and Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
UASI Overview and 2019 Plan
Alameda County Emergency Management
Discussion on Criteria to Weigh Recommendations
Public Comment
Hear from @CatherineNCrump discussing the recent SCOTUS Carpenter ruling, and from Darlene Flynn – Dept. of Race & Equity, on how to measure (and mitigate) disparate impact.
Agenda:
4. 5:15pm: Election of vice-chair
5. 5:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – discussion with Director Darlene Flynn – Dept. of Race & Equity about measuring and mitigating disparate impact; take action on Surveillance Technology Acquisition Questionnaire (STAQ)
6. 5:50pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – discussion with staff and take action to adopt sequence of impact analysis and use policy writing for existing equipment7. 6:00pm: Special presentation and Q&A with UC Berkeley Law Professor Catherine Crump: Carpenter v. United States (2018)’
The Role of Women in The Great Depression
A conference, Women and the Spirit of the New Deal, will bring authors, scholars, historians, and activists together at UC Berkeley to fill in a significant gap in our understanding of the 20th Century – the role of women in the nation’s economic recovery, social welfare, and cultural life during the crisis of the 1930s Great Depression. A limited number of seats are open to the public to attend the presentations on Friday and Saturday at Maude Fife Room. Donations to the Living New Deal would be appreciated. Registration is required. Lndconference.eventbrite.com
With pivotal national elections just weeks away and unprecedented numbers of women running for office, taking power, and leading change, the topic is especially timely. Co-hosts are The Living New Deal, Frances Perkins Center, and the National New Deal Preservation Association.
UC Berkeley Professor Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, will speak. He is author of The Work of Nations; Saving Capitalism; and the documentary, Inequality. Reich will receive the Intelligence and Courage Award at the Women’s Faculty Club on Friday, Oct 5, 6:30pm. The award ceremony and Dr. Reich’s speech are open to the public on a donation basis. Registration is required to attend. Lndconference.eventbrite.com
Dr. John Roosevelt Boettiger, grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, a former professor of psychology and a founding faculty member at Hampshire College, will lead off the conference on Friday morning, Oct 5. Boettiger lived in the White House as a boy, and traveled with his grandmother during her work at United Nations while she authored the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The program includes
Kirstin Downey, co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize while a reporter for the
Washington Post, and award-winnng author of several books including
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins,
FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience.
Susan Quinn, autthor of two books about women of the New Deal:
Eleanor and Hick, Furious Improvisation, about the embattled
Federal Theatre Project and its director Hallie Flanagan.
Dyanna Taylor, granddaughter of Dorothea Lange. Lange, who lived in Berkeley,
chronicled the Great Depression as a New Deal photographer. Dyanna produced the
documentary, Grab a Hunk of Lightning, about Lange’s life and work.
Robin Gerber, <author of Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way,
an attorney and former labor leader who helped found the James MacGregor Burns
Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Eileen Boriis, Professor of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara, co-author of
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State.
See the full schedule and list of presenters here: : https://lndconference.eventbrite.com
The conference cosponsors include: the City of Berkeley, East Bay Regional Park District, Friends of the Berkeley Rose Garden, Frances Perkins Center, National New Deal Preservation Association and UC Berkeley Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies, Geography, History, and Sociology.
CONTACTS:
Susan Ives,
susan@susanivescommunications.com,
415-987-6764
Harvey Smith,
harveysmithberkeley@yahoo.com
510-684-0414
The Role of Women in The Great Depression
A conference, Women and the Spirit of the New Deal, will bring authors, scholars, historians, and activists together at UC Berkeley to fill in a significant gap in our understanding of the 20th Century – the role of women in the nation’s economic recovery, social welfare, and cultural life during the crisis of the 1930s Great Depression. A limited number of seats are open to the public to attend the presentations on Friday and Saturday at Maude Fife Room. Donations to the Living New Deal would be appreciated. Registration is required. Lndconference.eventbrite.com
With pivotal national elections just weeks away and unprecedented numbers of women running for office, taking power, and leading change, the topic is especially timely. Co-hosts are The Living New Deal, Frances Perkins Center, and the National New Deal Preservation Association.
UC Berkeley Professor Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, will speak. He is author of The Work of Nations; Saving Capitalism; and the documentary, Inequality. Reich will receive the Intelligence and Courage Award at the Women’s Faculty Club on Friday, Oct 5, 6:30pm. The award ceremony and Dr. Reich’s speech are open to the public on a donation basis. Registration is required to attend. Lndconference.eventbrite.com
Dr. John Roosevelt Boettiger, grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, a former professor of psychology and a founding faculty member at Hampshire College, will lead off the conference on Friday morning, Oct 5. Boettiger lived in the White House as a boy, and traveled with his grandmother during her work at United Nations while she authored the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The program includes
Kirstin Downey, co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize while a reporter for the
Washington Post, and award-winnng author of several books including
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins,
FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience.
Susan Quinn, autthor of two books about women of the New Deal:
Eleanor and Hick, Furious Improvisation, about the embattled
Federal Theatre Project and its director Hallie Flanagan.
Dyanna Taylor, granddaughter of Dorothea Lange. Lange, who lived in Berkeley,
chronicled the Great Depression as a New Deal photographer. Dyanna produced the
documentary, Grab a Hunk of Lightning, about Lange’s life and work.
Robin Gerber, <author of Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way,
an attorney and former labor leader who helped found the James MacGregor Burns
Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Eileen Boriis, Professor of Feminist Studies, UC Santa Barbara, co-author of
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State.
See the full schedule and list of presenters here: : https://lndconference.eventbrite.com
The conference cosponsors include: the City of Berkeley, East Bay Regional Park District, Friends of the Berkeley Rose Garden, Frances Perkins Center, National New Deal Preservation Association and UC Berkeley Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies, Geography, History, and Sociology.
CONTACTS:
Susan Ives,
susan@susanivescommunications.com,
415-987-6764
Harvey Smith,
harveysmithberkeley@yahoo.com
510-684-0414
In the now extremely likely event that Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, we will gather at 5pm on the day of the vote to show that #WeDoNotConsent to the appointment of yet another sexual predator into a position of power in the US govt. Join us to express our collective outrage and to continue the process of healing for survivors of the ‘justice’ system.
Bring silver duct tape and chapstick if you are able. We will continue to update on this page as details about the vote are released.
Resilience for Renters: Grow Your Own Food
WHAT: Growing your own food is a key resilience strategy lowers your grocery bills, makes healthier eating easy and fun, and helps combat climate change! No yard? No extra money? No problem! In this hands-on workshop at our lush outdoor classroom, you will learn many ways to grow food as a renter. Instructor Lori Caldwell, a long-time renter herself, will demonstrate creative solutions and cover topics such as:
- Container gardening, indoors and outside
- Vertical gardening (hanging pots and peats, pallets and trellises)
- From concrete to food: creating temporary raised beds (wattle, hugel, strawbale)
- Plant selection, crop rotation, and maintaining soil fertility
- Landlord incentives for lawn conversion
- Free resources (seed libraries, cuttings, crop swaps, compost giveaways)
- Other creative strategies (yardshare, funky containers, etc.)
WHO: Instructor Lori Caldwell – a renter herself! – is an avid edible gardener, Master Composter, and Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Professional. She has been teaching sustainable gardening classes all over the Bay Area since 2007.
(This workshop is part of the “Resilience for Renters” series the Ecology Center is developing for the thousands of renters in the East Bay.)
FROM DETENTION TO FREEDOM-REUNITED FAMILIES SPEAK! Join us for a community celebration of the past 7+ years of Interfaith Prayer Vigils at WCDF with people who have been freed and come home, and the Joyful Noise! Gospel Singers, a nonprofit community choir dedicated to social justice and human rights. www.joyfulnoisegospelsingers.org
Fan Shigang discusses Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China. In conversation with Li Wen.
What is the meaning of the thousands of strikes in China? Do these strikes add up to a “labor movement”? How can solidarity between Chinese and American workers be built?
Countering the popular myth that Chinese workers are “stealing American jobs,” Striking to Survive documents a recent wave of factory closures in China’s Pearl River Delta and struggles by workers there to hold onto their jobs, their pensions, and their livelihoods.
The struggles of these workers in China’s industrial centers are shaping the future of labor and democracy not only in China but throughout the world. These vivid stories of workers at factories that supply multinational corporations Walmart and Uniqlo, compiled by worker-activists and circulated underground, provide a unique, on-the-ground perspective on the most recent wave of militancy among China’s enormous working class.
Striking to Survive includes a uniquely fine-grained account of the strike organized by “Delegate Wu” – a worker activist who served more than a year in prison after the strike ended. The New York Times produced a video about Delegate Wu, which gives a sense of his work.
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Fan Shigang was born into a family of workers for state-owned enterprises in a northern Chinese city. He has worked as a basic-level employee in several machining factories. He is a contributor to the underground labor periodical, Factory Stories, conducting interviews with factory workers in southern China, documenting their lives, work, and struggles.
Li Wen has worked in electronics and jewelry factories in southern China. She interviews and documents the experience of factory workers who’ve joined collective struggles, and pays particular attention to issues of occupational injury and disease.