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The local filmmaker series continues!
This time, we’ve paired two short documentary films that seemed to complement each other quite well. They depict stories about gentrification on both sides of the Bay: the Bulb in Albany, and the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco.
All We Did Was Live: Voices of the Albany Bulb (20 mins)
Directed by Andrew Schrader and Travis Schirmer
This film follows several residents of the Albany Bulb community after they are forcibly removed from their encampments by the city, but the harassment doesn’t stop there…
Saving Midtown (13 mins)
Produced and Directed by Marianne Maeckelbergh and Brandon Jourdan
This is the story of the Midtown rent strike, the largest rent strike in San Francisco since 1978.
Doors open at 7, screening at 7:30. The films will be shown in sequence, with Q&A afterwards. $5 donation appreciated, but no one turned away! Free popcorn and snacks, as always.
~ Sponsored by Liberated Lens ~
Target one of Alameda County’s largest landlords and demand an end to rent increases and evictions.
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Oakland’s rents are rising faster than almost every city in the United States creating a displacement crisis that touches all of our communities. The crisis has particular negative impacts on Black residents that manifest in lack of access to quality housing, jobs, and education, as well as increased racialized profiling.
Meanwhile, the Oakland Police continue to be out of control.
STOP the hemorrhaging of severely impacted populations.
STAY – Retain current & long-time residents of Oakland.
EXPAND opportunities for displaced persons to return to the City.
and put the Oakland Police under civilian control.
The Week of Action is Supported by: ACCE Action, Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), Community Ready Corps (CRC) and East Bay Organizing Committee (EBOC, Fight 4 $15).
JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner
Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided.
Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner.
On the steps facing Market Street, below Feinstein’s office,
Directly above the Montgomery BART/Muni station.
Even if we stopped extracting and burning fossil fuels today, the wheels of catastrophic climate change have been set in motion. While reducing emissions is essential, it’s half the battle – we must also sequester carbon out of the atmosphere. The world’s soils hold roughly three times more carbon than the amount stored in the atmosphere. Carbon farming uses intensive composting and innovative land management strategies to draw down even more carbon into our soil. The Bay Area is a hub for this exciting, potentially planet-changing research and practice.
Join our panel of local experts – Jeanne Merrill, Policy Director at CalCAN; UC Berkeley Professor Miguel Altieri; and farmers Elizabeth & Paul Kaiser from Singing Frogs Farm – to explore how improving the health of the planet’s soils holds tremendous potential to slow climate change.
We’ll also hear from Nathan Dahl on the BCAC Land Use Working Group’s campaign to include community gardens as a “by-right” land use in Berkeley’s zoning code, and from Councilmember Jesse Arreguin on the Urban Agriculture Package, which would incentivize food growing in vacant lots.
Email rebecca@ecologycenter.org by Thursday, June 9 to reserve a meal.
Co-sponsored by Berkeley Food Institute.
Invite friends, colleagues, and neighbors and keep growing our local climate movement!
About the Berkeley Climate Action Coalition
The BCAC is a network of local organizations and community members joining together to help implement the City of Berkeley’s ambitious, forty-year Climate Action Plan. We include residents, nonprofits, the City of Berkeley, neighborhood groups, faith-based organizations, schools, businesses, UC Berkeley, and anyone else interested in helping to achieve the critical goal of 80% emissions reductions. Visit the Coalition website to learn more:
www.berkeleyclimatecoalition.org
This event is wheelchair accessible.
A 16 year old Black girl was killed in #Oakland last night. Tonight, we'll gather to honor her. 6 pm at 13th & Franklin. Be there.
— Nicole Deane (@sassmasterdeane) June 15, 2016
TODAY, 6pm, #Oakland: Vigil for 16-Year-Old Reggina Jefferies https://t.co/bD0dzsmmYP pic.twitter.com/NbV4ZFAiPp
— Indybay (@Indybay) June 15, 2016
My Brother Tur-Ha Ak says this:
If you have ever appreciated my work in this community, I need folks at 13th & Franklin at 6:00 p.m. this evening to let the world know we love us, we are unafraid, & we will address harm no matter where it comes from. If yall care about me, my family, our work or our people, be there. I’m takin the intersection, if I’m there by myself, so be it but 13th & Franklin belongs to our babies tonight.
WEDNESDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm
Building Our Visions
Highlighting visionary projects like Homefulness, POC Sustainable Housing Network, Sustainable Economies Law Center, La Biblioteca, Afrikatown / Qilombo, and more. While the Planning Commission rubber-stamps a segregated luxury tower (with objection from our few yet wonderful allies on the commission), we stay steadfast on the People’s Visions.
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THURSDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm
Healing
Blessed with an abundance of local healing pracitioners in so many modalities, we assert the right of people and land to Heal. Herbal pain patches from Shift Acupuncture Collective; Danza Azteca with CuauhTonal; South African songs with the Vukani Mawethu choir; free food, and more.
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FRIDAY: 3:00–4:00pm
Rally & March Kickoff with #StopStayExpand
“WE DEMAND immediate protections for renters, redirecting City money to protect low wage workers & public education around connection between police terror, displacement and the impact on our schools/young people!”
More info on the Week of Action to ReClaim Oakland:
https://www.facebook.com/events/504950389694691/
Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state, against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, especially by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland City Council.
- We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, requirements for “backdoors” to your cellphone and against other invasions of privacy by our benighted City, County, State and Federal Governments.
OPWG originally came together to fight against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network; its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts further restrictions on the now Port-restricted DAC, and made Oakland’s Advisory Privacy Committee to the City Council happen. We were also the lead in having Alameda County pass the most comprehensive privacy and usage policy in the country for deployment of “Stingray” technology (cell phone interceptors).
We have presented our work at the recent RightsCon in San Francisco and will have done so at Left Forum in New York City by this meeting.
Stop by and learn how you can help guard our right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
For more information on the DAC check out
Meet with community advocates in the fight against homelessness, those without houses, Berkeley City Councils staffers and interested citizens to discuss progress on Tiny Homes solutions to homelessness, and starting a Tiny Homes village.
Join journalist Sarah Jeong for a conversation about online trolling, which she referred to as the “Internet of Garbage.”
Jeong is a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale and the author of the book The Internet of Garbage. She writes for Vice Motherboard, and other magazines and newspapers about the overlap between policy, tech, and the law.
Filmed before a live audience in Oakland tiki bar Longitude (347 14th St., Oakland, CA), each episode is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar and an invited guest. The audience, drawn from Ars Technica’s readers, is also invited to join the conversation and ask questions. These aren’t soundbyte setups; they are deepcuts from the frontiers of research and creativity.
Doors are at 7pm, and the live taping is from 7:30 to 8:00pm (be sure to get there early if you want a seat). Then you can stick around for informal discussion at the bar, along with delicious tiki drinks and snacks. Can’t make it out to Oakland? Never fear! Episodes will be posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.
For those who attended last month, we’ll have a new speaker setup so it should be easier to hear everything. Audio technology is the final frontier.
Sarah Jeong is a journalist who was trained as a lawyer. She is a contributing editor at Vice Motherboard who writes about technology, policy, and law. She is the author of “The Internet of Garbage”, and has bylines at the Atlantic, the Verge, Forbes, the Guardian, Slate, WIRED, Vice Magazine, and Bitch Magazine. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2014. As a law student, she edited the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She is a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale for 2016, and also currently a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.
Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica. Previously she was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo and io9. She is the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday). Her first novel, Autonomous, comes out in 2017 from Tor Books.
Cyrus Farivar is the senior business editor at Ars Technica. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere (Rutgers University Press) is about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea. He previously was the Sci-Tech Editor, and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English, Germany’s international broadcaster.
CAN THE POLICE IN SF REALLY BE REFORMED?
With the growing movement for Black Lives, and the struggle against racist policing continuing, many people are asking questions about how we can be safe from police terror. The violence of modern day policing has its roots in the capitalist state. Come join us to discuss this history and what’s next for the movement to get killer cops charged, fired, and jailed. What should we be demanding to defend Black, Latino, homeless, and working people in San Francisco and beyond?
Open as MANY homes as possible…
Hold them as long as possible…
Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Please join us for this important general meeting. We will be working specifically on the four demands we put forth following the OPD Rape Scandal:
1) Nancy O’Malley must publicly state she intends to launch a full investigation into the police officers who raped and trafficked a 17 year old child and press charges against all officers involved.
2) Divest 50% of the Oakland Police Department’s budget and redirect those funds to career centers, job training programs, mental health services, youth programming and services for sex workers.
3) The establishment of a CIVILIAN controlled police review commission
4) Libby Schaaf must to resign�
We will also be discussing next steps in the Teodora Valencia case, as well as First Responders needs and work.
See you in the streets~
The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country.
We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition.
The Sheriff wants to build a new $55 million jail expansion at Santa Rita for treating mentally ill inmate. It needs to be stopped in its tracks and the money redirected to mental health treatment outside of jail.
We’ve got some momentum to re-invigorate and have a lot to discuss with the decarceration plan. Here a tentative agenda for 7/28, feel free to add additional items by directly replying to me.
- Check in
- What’s happening, what’s coming up in the community
- LeeLoo Update
- Individual and org commitments
- Shared leadership structure and coalition admin.
- agenda setting
- meeting location
- facilitation
- meeting frequency
- listservs
- Decarceration Plan
East of Salinas: Film & Discussion for Immigrant Heritage Month, 6/16/16
East of Salinas takes us to the heart of California’s “Steinbeck Country,” the Salinas Valley, to meet a bright boy and his dedicated teacher – both sons of migrant farm workers. With parents who are busy working long hours in the fields, third grader Jose Ansaldo often turns to his teacher, Oscar Ramos, for guidance. But Jose is undocumented; he was born in Mexico. Like many other migrant children, he is beginning to understand the situation – and the opportunities that may be lost to him through no fault of his own.
Sponsored by MomsRising’s Good Food Force, Ecology Center, Civic Engagement Laboratory and Welcome.US for Immigrant Heritage Month. Light snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be served.
Click here to get your tickets for this free event!
The demand for justice is happening and needs you!
THURSDAY: 6:30pm–9:00pm
Healing
Blessed with an abundance of local healing pracitioners in so many modalities, we assert the right of people and land to Heal. Herbal pain patches from Shift Acupuncture Collective; Danza Azteca with CuauhTonal; South African songs with the Vukani Mawethu choir; free food, and more.
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FRIDAY: 3:00–4:00pm
Rally & March Kickoff with #StopStayExpand
“WE DEMAND immediate protections for renters, redirecting City money to protect low wage workers & public education around connection between police terror, displacement and the impact on our schools/young people!”
More info on the Week of Action to ReClaim Oakland:
https://www.facebook.com/events/504950389694691/
Averi Sellassie Blackwell, 39, will lead a frank conversation with Bobby Seale, 79. Tickets are available for $20.
March to City Hall, Rally at OGP.
Oakland’s rents are rising faster than almost every city in the United States creating a displacement crisis that touches all of our communities. The crisis has particular negative impacts on Black residents that manifest in lack of access to quality housing, jobs, and education, as well as increased racialized profiling.
Meanwhile, the Oakland Police continue to be out of control.
STOP the hemorrhaging of severely impacted populations.
STAY – Retain current & long-time residents of Oakland.
EXPAND opportunities for displaced persons to return to the City.
and put the Oakland Police under civilian control.
The Week of Action is Supported by: ACCE Action, Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), Community Ready Corps (CRC) and East Bay Organizing Committee (EBOC, Fight 4 $15).
Forty-five years ago, before Watergate, Wikipedia Leaks and Eric Snowden, there was Media, Pennsylvania, 1971. It was the town where eight brave souls broke into the FBI office and stole secret files and shared them with the public. In doing so they uncovered the FBI’s illegal domestic spying program COINTELPRO.
The film was produced and directed by Johanna Hamilton bringing this crucial but little known episode to life.
This riveting heist story told through a combination of exclusive interviews, rare primary documents, the investigation, and national news coverage spurs dramatic reactions. The film reveals the haunting echoes to today’s question of privacy in the era of government surveillance.
As usual, popcorn and other refreshments will also be available.
Free Admission (donations appreciated).