Don’t miss the next Green Sunday June 9th at 5pm on 5G, the 5th generation Big Telecom planned roll out of close proximity so-called “small” cell antennas every 2 to 8 houses on every block emitting inescapable millimeter wave wireless radiation 24/7 which would harm mammals and pollinators, risk our privacy and security, cost more than cable or fiber optic with far less reliability and speed, interfere with weather predictions, etc.  Motive for 5G?  You guessed it….corporate greed (with no regard for human need.)
20+ Ca cities have passed related urgency ordinances, but not yet in Alameda County — comin’ up!
Panel discussion will feature scientists and organizers.

Over 20 California cities have adopted measures to restrict the rollout of 5th Generation close proximity “small” cell antennas on every block.
Panel Discussion featuring health educator Sarah Aminoff, scientist Lloyd Morgan, and author Gar Smith.  Don’t miss the audience discussion that follows!
If it proceeds as Big Telecom plans, 5G will adversely affect privacy, safety, property values, weather prediction, etc.
There are far superior alternatives, cable and fiber optic, which are more reliable, more secure, faster, and more affordable.

Lloyd Morgan is Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Health Trust, and Director, Central Brain Tumor Registry of the US.  He is a retired electronic engineer who has been working on the risks of radio frequency radiation since 1991 and has published peer-reviewed studies on that topic.  After helping the city of Berkeley adopt its Cell Phone Right to Know ordinance, he founded Wireless Radiation Education & Defense (WiRED) which is on the cusp of getting the city of Berkeley to adopt an ordinance restricting 5G.  He is a Board Member of the International EMF (Electromagnetic Frequencies) Alliance and is also a member of the international science organizations, the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the European Bioelectromagnetics Association, and the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium.

Gar Smith is editor emeritus of Earth Island Journal, co-founder of Environmentalists Against War, and director of the nonprofit Academic Publishing Inc. A veteran of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement, Smith has been jailed for anti-war actions and has engaged in environmental campaigns on three continents.  A Project Censored award-winning journalist, he is the recipient of the Health Journalism Award and the World Affairs Council’s Thomas More Storke International Journalism Award.  He is the author of Nuclear Roulette and The War and Environment Reader, and he recently wrote “How the 5G Revolution Threatens Human Health and Nature.”

Sarah Aminoff taught freshman first year experience at Sonoma State University and health education at City College of SF, College for Teens, as well as being a K-12 educator.  With United Educators of SF, she worked on a safer technology campaign for SF schools in collaboration with Environmental Health Trust’s educational campaigns on children’s health. She is the EMF Project Coordinator for FACTS (Families Advocating for Chemical & Toxics Safety) and is a member of the California Alliance for Safer Technology, a consortium of health and environmental advocates, physicians, non-profit leaders, attorneys and government officials, as well as Americans for Responsible Technology.  Successful campaigns include Sierra Club CA Conservation Committee voting to oppose 5G without environmental review or local control.  Ms. Aminoff will add a dynamic power point presentation to the 5G discussion.

The event will be live streamed and archived on the Green Party of Alameda County facebook page.
Want more info?  At the forum there’ll be free copies of the excellent Re-Inventing Wires published by the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy.

Come check out out latest Liberated Lens production: Homeless First, a documentary about First they came for the homeless, a self organized drug and alcohol free encampment in Berkeley that provides safe space for people on the streets to get out of homelessness.

Film by Anka Karewicz and Travis Schirmer

Juggling performance by Stacey, report from Houseless People Walking To Salem For Justice march and panel with camp members after the screening.

Free admission, donations for FTCFTH and Liberated Lens will be collected.

Last month, Libby Schaaf presented her budget for the 2019-2021 budget cycle. Despite a citywide survey that revealed Oakland’s two top priorities are homelessness and affordable housing, Libby’s budget increased spending for her office and the police department. And it decreased spending on everything else including public works, libraries, social services, parks & rec and race & equity. On Monday, June 10th, Council President Rebecca Kaplan will present her amended budget for community response.

The Refund Coalition has spent the last several months creating a budget that reflects our values as a city and ensures our most marginalized populations have what they need to thrive in Oakland.

Join us on Monday for a rally and then to speak at City Council in favor of Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan’s budget which most closely aligns with the People’s Platform by redirecting monies from the bloated police budget to social services, expanding our response to the homeless crisis, ensuring city services are funded at the levels we need and investing in permanently affordable housing stock.

Failure to act today ensures that tomorrow will be too late!

HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD

Alameda County-Oakland Community Action Partnership is
seeking comment from the community on its Community Action
Plan and input on the needs and gaps in services that exist for
Alameda County’s low-income residents.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL (510) 238-2362 OR VISIT www.AC-OCAP.com
This meeting location is wheelchair accessible. To request disability-related accommodations or to request an ASL,
Cantonese, Mandarin, or Spanish interpreter, please email AC-OCAP@oaklandca.gov or call (510) 238-2362 at least
five working days before the meeting.

Venezuela is facing significant difficulties and one of its worst difficulties are the lies and misinformation spread by the government and the media. Laura Wells, longtime Green Party Activist recently returned from Venezuela as part of an “End Venezuela Sanctions” delegation and will report back on what she found. There will be a Q&A session after the reportback.

In 1990 members of the L.A. janitors union launched a strike that became a turning point for the labor movement. The “Justice for Janitors” campaign pit low wage, mostly immigrant women and men against powerful local business leaders and multinational corporations.

On June 13th, we will celebrate the brave women and men that sacrificed for the struggle. Century City showed us what organized labor can be and what our power can accomplish. On this day Janitors are launching a statewide campaign to continue the fight for immigrant rights calling on building owners to support sanctuary workplaces, end to rape on the night shift and provide good jobs for immigrant workers. Join us!

Movie Nights at Reem’s

The Arab Film and Media Institute and Reem’s are partnering to bring some of our favorite Arab films to Oakland. Screenings are free + the amazing team at Reem’s will be serving the full menu throughout the evening.  And that’s not all! There will be movie snacks (including za’atar popcorn!),

April 11: Refugee Stories
Far from a one-size-fits-all marking of “experience” so often depicted on Western media outlets when it comes to the plight of the refugee, this program of 5 powerful short documentaries spotlight the multitude of hues that should be considered when discussions of the refugee experience are had.

May 23: Shorts (Playful Pondering)
From dating drama in Bahrain and an abandoned Qatari cinemaplex, to wacky Lebanese nuns and land mine explosions, this eclectic mix of 6 whimsical, albeit socially-concerned short format narrative works will take viewers on a journey of humor, self-discovery, and provocation.

June 13: Seventeen
The Jordanian under-17 women’s soccer team prepares for the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup, hosted by Jordan in 2016. Coming from different backgrounds, each of the girls has faced a different set of challenges as a national team player. But now they come together to face their biggest challenge yet.

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Agenda Items of Interest:

• Pawlik Investigation Update
• Commission Subpoenas Related to CPRA/Pawlik Investigation Communications
• OPD Budget Update
• OPD’s Policy on the Deployment of the BearCat and Other Militarized Weapons
  Analysis and OPD presentation on the use of the BearCat and the deployment of
  militarized weapons and potential Commission action on OPD’s request for a purchase of a
  second BearCat. The Commission may vote to appoint an Ad Hoc Committee on
  Equipment Acquisition and Use Policy.

• Commission Letter to City Council Regarding CAHOOTS
  The program CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) seeks to remedy the
  skill mismatch and wasted expense when police officers and EMS personnel respond to
  non-emergency mental health and health related crisis calls. The Commission will review
  and may approve a letter to the City Council to support efforts within the City Council to
  fund exploration of whether Oakland can and should implement a similar program.

Meet comrades who want to stand up to PG&E’s corruption and criminal treatment of our communities and learn more about how to get involved in the fight for energy democracy!

The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969

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