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* We will paint a few very GIANT banners with messages against Hate/fascism/white supremacy and for solidarity, dignity and justice that will be placed at key high visilbity spots around Berkeley next Sunday, as visual support for the public mobilizations.
* When you arrive at Bridge Art and Storage (23 Maine–like the State–Ave at 1st St, Ricmond, CA) facility look for the “ART BUILD” sign w/instruction on how to get in gate. Please park on street and walk in (bring bikes in). It’s 1 1/2 miles from Richmond BART.
* We will be painting outdoors, so dress for sun, and possilbe wind, some on tables, some on the ground. Wear clother you may get paint on.
* We wont be set up for any sign making or painting additional banners (there are other art parties for that UCB Thurs. https://www.facebook.com/
* Thanks to 350.org and Greenpeace for helping with banner supplies.
* Snacks and drinks to share with other painters welcome.
Their deportation is a devastating blow to our community. Maria and Eusebio are model neighbors and friends. Maria has dedicated her life to caring for cancer and cardiac patients at Highland Hospital. Eusebio has worked as a truck driver for the last twelve years. Just last year, they fulfilled their dream of purchasing a home in Oakland. In their spare time, they give back to our community.
But despite their contributions, ICE rejected our calls for compassion and targeted Maria and Eusebio for deportation. I am saddened beyond words by this decision, but my commitment to protecting our immigrant community remains unshaken.
Next week, I will be holding a community forum to discuss this administration’s enforcement and deportation policies, as well as next steps for immigration reform. I hope you and your family will be able to join me for this important discussion. Immigration experts and translators will also attend to contribute to our conversation.
Panel Discussion: “Equity in the Time of Trump.”
We’ll focus on how we can advance justice and build community at a time when exclusion and hate are so prominent in the news. I’ll be joined by Kat Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Beneficial State Bank; Mauricio Miller, author of The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong; Nwamaka Agbo, senior new-economy fellow at the Movement Strategy Center; and journalist and author Pendarvis Harshaw.
Admission is FREE but space is limited so you have to RSVP: (get there at 6 p.m. if you’d like to order food from their kitchen to take into the theater!)
We’ll gather every Wednesday at 6 pm. Please join us at our first ‘Show Up’ on Wednesday August 23 from 6 to 7:30 PM at the west entrance to El Cerrito Plaza, intersection of San Pablo Ave & Carlson Ave. We’ll meet on the side nearest to Daiso. If there are enough of us some can stand on other corners.
Our goals are to create a significant community presence to speak out in favor of equality, justice, inclusiveness and more. We say NO to hatred, racism, white supremacy and nationalism, bigotry, and anti-Semitism.
We’ll have two large poster-board signs, one that says “YES” and one “NO.” You can bring your own sign with your own words expressing what you stand for and against. Use BIG lettering so people in cars can see! We’ll also have sign-making materials.
We are from the El Cerrito area. Our first Show Up location is at the borders of El Cerrito, Richmond and Albany — all are welcome!
We will assemble lawfully, and won’t block the sidewalk. All locations we select will be wheelchair-accessible. To participate you must commit to non-violent and respectful conduct.
Want to get involved with SURJ Bay Area? Come learn about our current work and activities. You’ll also hear about SURJ’s new pathways for entering the work, including Study and Action groups as well as committee work, upcoming workshops, and events. We’ll answer your questions and share how you can get involved in the movement for racial justice.
Getting Into the Lobby:
The doors for the Sierra Club building lock right at 7pm, so please do your best to arrive prior to 7pm. We will have someone stationed at the Webster entrance to the building until 7:15 for late arrivals. If you arrive after 7pm, please use the Webster entrance.
Join us to for a sign making and art party for Bay Area Rally Against Hate. We will make banners, picket signs, posters, and more to show that Berkeley and the Bay Area stand against white supremacism and bigotry in all its forms!
Bring sign making materials: poster board, cloth for banners, markers, paint, paint brushes, etc.
Banner and sign making will be from 12 – 3pm. Then we will flyer on campus and in neighborhoods from 3 – 6pm to get the word out about the demonstration.
Please join AFSC and the Stop Urban Shield Coalition to participate in public comment at the Alameda County Urban Shield Task Force decision meeting.
Five members of Alameda County’s Urban Shield Task Force, including AFSC, proposed the abolition of Urban Shield and other regional exercises funded from sources that require a “nexus to terrorism,” as part of recommendations that will be considered at a final meeting this Friday. They cited the “controversy, opposition, and fear” generated by the Homeland Security-funded annual event, which is centered on a massive SWAT team competition in dozens of terrorist scenarios.
In response to widespread community protest against Urban Shield, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors established a Task Force in January to review several questions about the program.
Citing Alameda County’s Emergency Operations Plan, which assesses earthquakes and six other disaster scenarios as more impactful than potential terrorist incidents, the five members called for preparedness to be led by community and non-law enforcement agencies and for a primary focus on prevention of and recovery from disasters.
The final Urban Shield Task Force meeting (agenda) will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, August 25, at 125 12th Street in Oakland(at Oak St., 4 blocks from Lake Merritt BART; 6 blocks from 12th St. BART). Public comment on most proposals will likely be taken between 10:30 and 12:30.
Written public comment may also be submitted before Friday to: carol.burton@acgov.org.
Read the full list of the group’s proposals.
Upcoming:
All Out to Rally Against Urban Shield
Friday, September 8, 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Alameda County Offices, Board of Supervisors
1221 Oak St, Oakland, California 94612
In recent weeks, our nation has witnessed hate and discrimination disguised as free speech rallies by extremist groups. San Francisco has a long history of honoring freedom of expression, but hate speech has no place in our city.
On Friday, community leaders, faith-based representatives, local labor members and city officials will gather at the Civic Center Plaza to celebrate our San Francisco values of compassion, love and inclusiveness. Every San Francisco resident who rejects racist rhetoric and violent demonstrations is invited to attend this peaceful rally.
Our city will stand together to prove that in the face of hate, we will show love.
#UniteAgainstHate
#RespectOurCity #SFStandsAsOne #LoveNotHate
Featuring:
Renel Brooks-Moon, voice of The Giants, Master of Ceremonies
MC Hammer
GLIDE Memorial Church Choir
Ruth Asawa SOTA Taiko Group
In Partnership With (Not A Complete List):
US Senator Dianne Feinstein
US Senator Kamala Harris
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader
Congresswoman Jackie Speier
Senator Scott Wiener
Assemblymember Phil Ting
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club
Boys & Girls Club of SF
CARECEN
Castro Merchants
Castro Community on Patrol
GLIDE Memorial United Methodist Church
Harvey Milk Democratic Club
Hotel Council of San Francisco
Hunters Point Family
Islamic Society of San Francisco
Jewish Community Relations Council
Jewish Home
Jewish Federation
San Francisco Interfaith Council
NAACP of SF
Planned Parenthood
SEIU 87
SF Hillel
SF Labor Council
SF Muslim Community Center
Success Center
United Playaz
Women’s March San Francisco
YMCA of SF
Lets organize and unify to let these clowns know, this isn’t okay in our city. Fuck racism.
Bands, Dj’s and speakers are all welcome.
Left of the Dial and First Round Promotions come to the Uptown Nightclub on the 2nd day of a full weekend of bands, DJ’s, and speakers engaging and encouraging our communities to come out against the far-right’s upcoming activities in SF and Berkeley, and to help raise legal/medical funds for Charlottesville and local antifascist activists.
Join us at a Faith Vigil to denounce the racism on blatant display in Charlottesville last weekend and the hatred that is coming to our own backyard in 10 days, with white supremacist groups planning a similar rally at Crissy Field. On Friday evening, interfaith voices will lead us in prayerful and powerful resistance against white supremacy, and call out Governor Brown for enabling mass deportation of immigrants through his attempts to amend SB 54 Statewide Sanctuary Bill. This event is jointly sponsored by the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese Office of Human Life and Dignity, Mission Night Walks, and Faith in Action Bay Area.
Sponsor: Faith in Action Bay Area
(Look for our class down in the Basement)
This is the fourth in a series of classes and discussions that include Zapatista history, projects and thinking. The first session focused on the years before the Zapatista Uprising. The 2nd and 3rd classes focused on the 1994 Uprising, the Peace Talks, the San Andrés Accords, the first five Declarations from the Lacandón Jungle and the militarization. This fourth class will focus on the Good Government Boards (Juntas de Buen Gobierno) and the Other Campaign. Classes are free and open to all those interested in learning about the Zapatista movement, which governs its own territory through an anti-capitalist government parallel to that of the Mexican State. We’ll be serving waffles and Zapatista coffee again. Classes are held downstairs at the Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.
For more information:
Chiapas Support Committee/Comité de Apoyo a Chiapas
P.O. Box 3421, Oakland, CA 94609
Email:
LOCATION/TIME CHANGE:
WHERE: Golden Gate Park Panhandle
Central & Oak St.
WHEN: Meet at 10:30 AM
March at 10:45 AM
Keep posted. We’ll be meeting up with other groups within the San Francisco March Against Hate and marching with allies into ALAMO SQUARE from the panhandle. More details to come. Please PM us if you have any questions. If you have white or pink sheets to donate, please let us know! Limited Security training has been provided to many marchers in the ILWU & SURJ.
A silent march to
1. To divert media attention away from fascists looking to play the media, promoting their hateful propaganda to dominate.
2. Never Forget
To never forget what fascism has done to queer & vulnerable communities. From trans & queer people being the first to die in concentration camps to every other hateful death inflicted on our community before and after those moments.
3. Spread compassion in the face of intolerance & division
To use this as an opportunity to spread awareness, community, & tolerance in the face of division
4. Non-violence.
Self-defense is human.
5. To counter hate speech with compassion for those suffering, music, & flowers.
6. To honor those who died in the face of hatred:
To those who died fighting for their lives during the days of Act Up & an oppressive administration that did nothing to fight for us.
To honor queer & vulnerable people who have died in the hands of transphobic, racist, & misogynistic fascists, hate mongers, & white supremacists.
Please wear a pink triangle to symbolize that we have not forgotten (if you’re comfortable) and in either place, pledge to uphold queer, progressive, & compassionate resistance.
Will you be at one of these events?
We’re here to support community at Crissy Field & to make sure that folks who plan on being at there are able to have community & not be isolated during an event designed to divide, isolate, and hurt us.
Please be inspired and aware of the history of Act Up, compassionate, nonviolent queer actions, and the queer activism that makes the Bay Area like nowhere else in the world.
We’re here to recruit you to love one another in the face of hatred.
We’re here to set the story straight & not allow hate propaganda to dominate the media without correction.
No pressure to RSVP if you’re uncomfortable.
We’ll be creating signs, bringing flowers & music, collaborating with other non-violent groups, & demonstrating what peace & advocacy look like. We will not be taking part in any acts that will compromise our message or our fight to be rid of fascism. We’ll promote justice, co-existence, understanding, & empowerment of leaders who step up and resist.
Resistance SF was asked to post this call out under our umbrella and we are happy to oblige!
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UPDATE: August 25, 7:40pm Given the cancellation of the Patriot Prayer rally, tomorrow we meet at Alamo Square park, Steiner & Hayes at 11 AM-4PM.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Crissy Field will be under heavy security. Some items, including balloons, will be banned, so please plan your costumes and props accordingly.
If you’d like to march into the field with a group, meet at the Marina Green at 10am or 1pm.
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This is a call for a contingent of anti-racist, anti-fascist clowns to descend upon Crissy Field August 26th, 2017. We will mercilessly ridicule any neo-nazis, white supremacists, or alt right trolls who dare show their face in San Francisco.
We have no leader here but we encourage you to join with your biting wit, your absurdity, your signs, your red noses, wigs, and other clowning accoutrements.
Our goals:
* To provide safety through distraction and disguise. We can be a buffer to draw attention and shield those most vulnerable and likely to be targetted by right wing extremists.
* To provide a counter-point to the hatred of fascists, neo-nazi, white nationalist “alt-right” by exposing them for the fools that they are through humor.
* To confront and mock fragile egos, garbage ideas, and the toxic, delicate form of masculinity endemic to the far right.
* To encourage new people to join action with creative resistance.
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Has humor and mockery been used effectively when facing off against white supremacists and fascists? Yes!
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More generally “laughtivism” has proven an enduring and effective tactic in social movements.
Read more:
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There will be a Special Membership Meeting to vote on the RPA’s endorsement for the vacant Richmond City Council seat. RPA Steering Committee members have been interviewing candidates, and the Steering Committee will bring their recommendations to the membership on 8/26 for a vote. Membership (and dues renewal) available at the door.
Fifty years ago, San Francisco became world famous for the Summer of Love. It was a frightening time to be alive in 1967, and young people from across the country descended upon the City to tune into a love frequency that they hoped would reverberate against the violence and war marring the globe.
Now in 2017, we find ourselves in similarly frightening times, and any social progress we have made in the last fifty, nay, the last 200 years is at risk of being undone. Fascist ideologues have reached the highest levels of authority, and those now descending upon our fair city are fascists, not hippies. Let us remind them that the Summer of Love never ended — it’s just been resting in the fog.
Organizers of the rally-now-press-conference
We will meet at Frederick Douglass Plaza at Pierce & Fell Sts before walking up to Alamo Square Park together at NOON. We’ll proceed into the park at 12:30pm. There are bathrooms in the park, and we will take a wheel-accessible route into the park.
Access notes: Flowers Against Fascism is an all abilities inclusive contingent, as well as elder-friendly. We will be doing a check-in with each other before we proceed into the rally zone to ensure we are prepared to support each others’ access and health needs so that we can all represent to our greatest capacity without self-injury. The route is normally wheel-accessible, though it’s unclear how law enforcement precautions will impact access at this point. Bathrooms may be limited inside the rally area.
**Folks who would like to give financial contributions for locally bought flowers should contact the event host.
**Given the outcomes of recent white supremacist rallies, it is expected that violence and terrorism will be directed towards peaceful protesters without provocation. Project participants attend the rally at our own risk, and we likely won’t be able to rely on law enforcement if we are in danger. The danger level has increased significantly now that the rally has moved from Crissy Field to Alamo Square.
DIRECTIONS and TIMES:
Here is how we *hope* it will go down (check back here on FB Saturday morning for updates in case this plan must be changed).
— We will paddle out together at 1:30 pm from the Wave Organ. (search “Wave Organ SF” on google maps for how to get there).
— Some of us will be meeting at the wave organ as early as 11:30 am. Bring lunch and snacks to share.
—There will be no parking anywhere. Plan on having a friend drop you off. Marina Green will be very crowded. How close you can get dropped off will depend on how early you get there. Plan on carrying your board for some distance.
–ONLY STRONG AND EXPERIENCED PADDLERS: the current and wind in the SF Bay are no joke. You may be paddling non-stop for the entire time.
—Please wear a PFD (life vest) and use a leash for your board.
— Read the list of prohibited items if you expect that you might at some point paddle onto the beach at Crissy Field. It is unclear whether the police or park rangers will allow anyone to paddle to shore at Crissy Beach, as they have two entrances with gates and security that they want everyone to pass through.
–Bring sunscreen, a hat, wetsuit, and booties or water shoes (in case you have to get in or out on a rocky part of the shore).
–Other items to bring: waterproof dry bag, drinking water, food, marine horn (non-aerosol), whistles and other noisemakers, signs, flags, waterproof bag (for your phone and shoes and keys).
–Let’s be seen and heard! #resist
South Berkeley District Canvass
This last Saturday, a team of ten canvassers knocked on doors and had some wonderful conversations with their South Berkeley neighbors about single-payer healthcare in California.
Come join us on Saturday, August 26, in South Berkeley for our next neighborhood canvassing event. For more information, email info@eastbaydsa.org.
Aug 26 at 1 PM to Aug 27 at 5 PM
Offering free empathic listening, dialogue, empathy circles, circle facilitation training, conflict mediation, mediation training, de-escalation, arts and empathic design (human-centered design) project team building.
more: http://j.mp/2tWBVxK
BERKELEY — The film “Hate Man, street philosopher,” about the former New York Times reporter Mark Hawthorne who quit the paper and became a colorful fixture of Berkeley street life for more than three decades, will be screened on Aug. 26 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St.
The free screening of the film, made by local filmmaker Ivan Jaigirdar, will occur at 2 p.m. as part of a city-sponsored event celebrating Hawthorne that also will include a city proclamation in Hate Man’s honor. The showing, appropriately, will be outdoors.