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WOMEN’S MARCH OAKLAND 2019

“The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole.” – Coretta Scott King

Women’s March Oakland 2019 will flood the streets with a wave of self-identified women and their allies from the East Bay and beyond. At this nonpartisan, peaceful event on the Saturday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we will activate our communities and publicly proclaim our commitment, in Scott King’s words, to “create new homes, new communities, new cities, a new nation. Yea, a new world, which we desperately need!”

RSVP: Ready to march? Register to get updates and give us a more accurate attendance estimate https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-march-oakland-2019-tickets-50802485602.

SCHEDULE

10:00 a.m. – Rally at Lake Merritt Amphitheate

11:00 a.m. – March to Frank Ogawa Plaza
We’ll flood 14th Street with a wave of self-identified women and their allies from the East Bay and beyond.

11:30 a.m. – Take action at our Call to Action Alley
We’ll groove with Bay Area performers, learn about organizations doing mighty work, and shop at local and women-owned businesses.

The rally and march starting point will be at Lake Merritt Amphitheater. The march will proceed up 14th Street, ending at Frank Ogawa Plaza with our Call to Action Alley.

Accessibility information for the route: The route is 0.9 miles. It is uphill for the first couple of blocks to Oak Street. There is a slight uphill slope from Oak to Madison. There is a bad curb cut at 14th and Alice on the right, and another one at 14th and Franklin on the right.

Want to volunteer before or during the event? Sign up today: https://womensmarchoakland.org/volunteer

Gear up for the march! Order your T-shirt or hoodie now: https://www.bonfire.com/store/womens-march-oakland/.

While we are part of a national movement, Women’s March Oakland is independently operated and funded. We do not have a shared funding arrangement with Women’s March Bay Area, Women’s March California, or Women’s March.

Women’s March Oakland is run by and for all womxn and their allies with deep roots in Oakland, Alameda County and the East Bay. Our leadership team includes women of color, queer womxn, and women with disabilities who are dedicated to representing this beautiful, diverse region.

HOSTS: The 2019 march is co-hosted by Women’s March Oakland, Black Women Organized for Political Action, and Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center.

The Bay Area Street Medic Collective (BASMC) is a collective of folks active in various Community Defense organizations and projects in the Bay Area.

Our fundamental goals are to offer basic medical skills training and provide access to information, supplies, resources, communication and networking to all members of our communities to take care of ourselves and each other and help to decolonize health care.
This event will be an introduction to who we are as a collective, open discussion on community needs and Q&A, and a two hour workshop on basic patient assessment with demo and practice of hands-on first aid skills.

In honor of the annual “Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy” weekend 2019:

Lead to Life & Permaculture Action Network invite you to the Sogorea Te Land Trust and Planting Justice Nursery in East Oakland for a Permaculture Action Day on Sunday, January 20th!

This is a free, family-friendly event filled with ecologically regenerative hands-on projects, workshops & skill-shares, music, and a community meal. This is the sister event to this past April’s Lead to Life series in Atlanta, Georgia, where 50 guns were melted down into 50 shovels to plant 50 trees in honor of the 50 years since MLK’s assassination.

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For this Oakland action day, our partner James Brenner Sculpture is forging a reimagined arsenal of 40 additional shovels, made from weapons collected at Bay Area gun buybacks. Folks from across the East Bay are coming together to use these ceremonial tools to plant trees and build ceremonial space at the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust site at Planting Justice’s East Oakland Nursery, the first piece of land put into this urban, indigenous women-led community land trust. This will be the site of the first ceremonial arbor built on Ohlone Land in 250 years.

The day will be an act of beloved community and grassroots liberation as part of Oakland’s annual weekend to reclaim the radical legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. To honor the vision of Dr. King, the work of people across Oakland, and the indigenous stewardship of these lands, we will work with our hands in the soil to decompose colonialism. We will live into a practice of land reparations through supporting the return of Ohlone ancestral homelands. This day also auspiciously falls on the Jewish holiday of trees, Tu Bishvat!

The following evening, Monday, January 21st, we will reconvene in Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland, where we will finish transforming guns into our last shovels together in a public participatory ceremony following The People’s March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy.

SHARE the monday Facebook Event here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/304864520145992/

“Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library”

We are hosting a delegation of comrades from the Chinese Communist Party, all faculty members of Central China Normal University in Wuhan, one of the top ten Universities in China. They are visiting the Bay Area to get to know the problems of U.S. society and politics better. They will also speak at our forum. The delegation includes:
1.  Tang Min, professor, president of School of Politics and International Studies, CCNU, a  famous Chinese expert in the research of Chinese rural governance, national problems.
2. Zhong Detao,  executive vice president of Party School of CCNU, professor of School of Marxism, CCNU, a famous Chinese expert in the research of history of CPC and the political party system of CPC.
3. Zhou Huaping, associate professor, Center for Marxist Parties in Foreign Countries of CCNU, specialized in the research of European communist movement and Italian Communist Parties.
4. Pan Guangwei, doctor, office director of School of Politics and International Studies, CCNU, specialized in the research of the construction of communist party in the universities.
5. Yu Weihai, professor, dean of Center for Marxist Parties in Foreign Countries of CCNU, specializing in the researches of the communist movement and the world communist parties.
They will discuss three topics at least: history and system of CPC, communist movement, Chinese rural governance and national problem. After their talk, our guests will respond to questions and comments from the audience.

In this introductory training, we will discuss some of Dr. King’s more influential writings and his lasting connection to modern movements. This community-based conversation will cover the Six Principles of Kingian Nonviolence, Dr. King’s Six Step strategy for developing a nonviolent campaign, and an in-depth read of “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Please join Cynthia Gutierrez and Mica Stumpf of Women’s March Oakland in a highly interactive exploration of the values and philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that [they] will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “A Christmas Sermon on Peace”

In partnership with the Robby Poblete Foundation and United Playaz, Lead to Life invites you to join us for a live metal alchemy ceremony to transform guns into shovels, and to call in the prophetic future we know is possible. Our ceremony will serve as a conclusion to the Reclaim Radical King march, organized by APTP.

ABOUT THIS CEREMONY
Our metal casting artist James Brenner alongside local East Bay metal artists, will lead us in a live demonstration of making tools from weapons. The guns have been donated by our partners the Robby Poblete Foundation & United Playas, who collected them from volunteer gun buy back days across the Bay Area.

Join us as we gather in prayer, in grief, in praise, and in creative action to reimagine violence and to decompose White Supremacy in our city, our country, and our world.

Community members from the Oakland area who have been directly impacted by gun violence are invited to offer disabled weapons into the fire to be transformed. Other community members are invited to gather in solidarity and prayer to bear witness. The shovels we make together will be used in tree planting ceremonies in honor of Earth Day, April 2019, where we will plant 50 trees at sites impacted by violence, and sacred sites across Oakland.

This ceremony sustains a prayer cast in Atlanta, GA in April 2018 where we transformed 50 guns into 50 shovels to plant 50 trees to honor the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. You can watch our short film to learn about the beauty that took place in ATL: https://vimeo.com/278336825.

The ceremony is free and open to all! Tax-deductible donations of $15 – $50, though not required, are humbly appreciated to support our ongoing work to reimagine violence.

CALLING ALL ACCOMPLICES: We are seeking volunteers to support us for our Guns to Shovels Ceremony on January 21st. We’re looking for folks with audio-visual expertise, folks who can help with ceremonial support, community safety, set up and clean up, metal artist support, and more. If you’re committed to our vision for a people’s regeneration, we invite you to join our beloved community. Sign up by following this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11-Zs9638z2Ai-eot1BEw0X_8CWAIFJ7KJGLbAXJZmaQ/edit?ts=5c269c09#gid=0.

You can RVSP on our eventbrite page, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lead-to-life-reclaim-radical-king-weekend-tickets-54007880023.

POSTPONED:

“Because the consultants did not finish a draft of the UASI Ad hoc Committee report, tomorrow’s meeting has been postponed until next week. Probably to Jan. 30, 3 – 5 pm (pending confirmation of committee members).”

Thursday’s 1/10/19 meeting was not the final task force meeting after all. They will meet again on Monday January 14 from 3 to 8pm and then again on January 22 from 9-11am.

As of 1/14, the Task Force completed its votes on recommendations. This meeting on the 23rd will be pro forma to put the recommendations into final form to forward to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

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Meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors’ Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Area Security Initiative, charged with reconstituting and rethinking Urban Shield.

The committee was established by the Board of Supervisors in March 2018 in response to sustained community concerns about Urban Shield, which is funded in part by UASI grants from the Department of Homeland Security, and coordinated by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.

The Board of Supervisors decided in March, 2018 that 2018 would be the last year the county would approve Urban Shield, as currently constituted, and asked the Ad Hoc Committee to make recommendations to the Board on the UASI-funded emergency preparedness training and exercise in 2019 and beyond.

More information.

Agendas and materials for each meeting are posted at http://www.acgov.org/board/calendarcom.htm

TIME FOR TENANT AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Fed up with rising rents? Already displaced?
Working together makes the difference!

Featured Speaker: Vanessa Riles is Interfaith and Community Organizer for East Bay Housing Organizations.
She will talk about the spring Community Leadership Academy and her earlier experiences as a leader and
community organizer of the Oakland Justice/East 12th Coalition. They won a 2-year campaign, turned around city
policies in 2017, and saved public land for local affordable housing instead of subsidizing a for-profit developer.

Talk, Q&A,and discussion are followed by social time and light refreshments. Join us!

Gray Panthers supports more tenant and senior organizing in Berkeley. We will have applications on hand, but you can also download it at www.ebho.org. Deadline is January 31st.
Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers
510-842-6224 * Graypanthersberk@aol.com

Education and Action Forum
Every 4th Wednesday of the month, 1:30pm at the South
Berkeley Senior Center
All Ages Welcome, Free and Wheelchair Accessible

This presentation is for anyone interested in learning more about how Restorative Justice can change the criminal justice system and stop the school to prison pipeline.

Join in the discussion to create deeper Restorative Practices on a state, county and local level.

RSVP to gamaliel.genesisca@gmail.com

January 2019 Privacy Lab – Data Privacy Compliance Under the Law: Addressing corporate compliance with evolving US/Int’l. privacy laws.

JOINT WALK‐IN CLINICS with Public Defender and EBCLC

*Please bring your statewide CA DOJ RAP sheet
if you have it or we can give information at clinic*

We may be able to help with:
 Dismissal of Conviction – PC 1203.4
 Felony Reduction / Prop 47 and 64 Relief
 Early Termination of Probation
 Certificate of Rehabilitation
 Sealing Arrest Record – Factual Innocence
 Juvenile Record Sealing
 Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants and
Survivors of Human Trafficking
 Employment denials due to criminal background
reports
 Occupational Licensing Denials(DSS, Security
Guard)
 Voting Rights, Jury Service Rights

ALSO  1/27/19 @ 12:30 pm @ 474 24th Street, Oakland

When Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet warrior from Montana, started asking questions about missing money from government-managed Indian Trust accounts, she never imagined that one day she would be taking on the U.S. government. But what she discovered as the Treasurer of her tribe was a trail of fraud and corruption leading all the way from Montana to Washington DC. 100 Years is the story of her 30-year fight for justice for 300,000 Native Americans whose mineral- rich lands were grossly mismanaged by the United States government. In 1996, Cobell filed the largest class action lawsuit ever filed against the federal government. For fifteen long years, and through three Presidential administrations, Elouise Cobell’s unrelenting spirit never quit. This is the compelling true story of how she prevailed and made history.

As a direct result of Cobell’s work, in 2009, President Obama announced the $3.4 billion Cobell Settlement. In 2010, Congress approved the Settlement and in June of 2011 the District Court of D.C. gave it final approval. Settlement checks began to go out to the beneficiaries in 2012. In addition to these payments, a $60 million Cobell Scholarship was established. Following the Settlement, the Obama Administration continued to buy back land from interested landowners, paying fair market price for the land. The purchased land has been returned to the Tribes to manage. With the finalization of the Cobell Settlement, now is the perfect time to tell the story of 100 YEARS: ONE WOMAN’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE.

In Piedmont, 6:30 Reception, 7:00 film showing. 8:30 community discussion
In Oakland 12:30 showing, then discussion

Free; no need to RSVP.

When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench. He laughed at her. But just a few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts.

WINNER of the Best Bay Area Documentary Feature at the 2018 San Francisco Film Festival, Official Selection of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival – also featured on PBS Independent Lens. Directed by Erika Cohn.

“[Judge Kholoud] emerges as someone who’s no threat to religious law, but who’s a real problem for patriarchy.”-New York Times

Watch the trailer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5VNYkwjG30

“In its engaging fashion it strikes one inspirational note after another as it follows an ambitious, tough-minded and cheerful social revolutionary.”–The Hollywood Reporter

“The film showcases Faqih’s tireless fight for justice for women…”–The Guardian

Benefit for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, wheelchair accessible

Please join us on January 25, 2019 for a grand day of celebrating the public domain! Co-hosted by the Internet Archive and Creative Commons, this celebration will feature a keynote address by Lawrence Lessig, lightning talks, demos, multimedia displays and more to mark the “re-opening” of the public domain in the United States. The event will take place at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, and is free and open to the public.

RSVP now before the tickets run out

The public domain is our shared cultural heritage, a near limitless trove of creativity that’s been reused, remixed, and reimagined over centuries to create new works of art and science. The public domain forms the building blocks of culture because these works are not restricted by copyright law. Generally, works come into the public domain when their copyright term expires. But U.S. copyright law has greatly expanded over time, so that now many works don’t enter the public domain for a hundred years or more. Ever since the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, no new works have entered the public domain (well, none due to copyright expiration). But for the first time this January, hundreds of books, films, visual art, sheet music, and plays published in 1923 will be free of intellectual property restrictions, and anyone can use them for any purpose at all.

Join creative, legal, library, advocacy communities to celebrate the public domain growing again for the first time in decades, and come network with an amazing lineup of people and organizations who will help us welcome this new class of public domain works. Presenters include Larry Lessig, academic, political activist, and founder of Creative Commons, Corynne McSherry, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and co-editor of Boing Boing, Pam Samuelson, copyright scholar, Jamie Boyle, the man who literally wrote the book on the public domain, and many others.

In the evening, the celebration continues as we transition to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for the World Premiere of Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky’s Quantopia: The Evolution of the Internet, a live concert synthesizing data and art, both original and public domain materials, in tribute to the depth and high stakes of free speech and creative expression involved in our daily use of media. Attendees of our Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain event can get discounted tickets here. If you can’t make the daytime event, separate tickets for Quantopia are available here.

If you’d like to chip in to support the work we do at the Internet Archive, including putting on events like this one, please donate here.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets all over France in what began as a protest against a fuel-tax increase but has spread into a movement against the overall worsening economic conditions in the country. Join us for a presentation and discussion with French activists about this current movement and where it could lead.

This film that will give you a whole new understanding of the birth and the development of communist revolution. It focuses on five years from 1843 to 1848 and tells the story of the 26-year-old Karl Marx along with Frederick Engels, Jenny Marx, and Mary Burns and their fight to bring a scientific understanding to the revolutionary movement of the times.

The owner of the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland has added two free morning screenings of “The Manchurian Candidate” this weekend, citing escalating Russia collusion allegations against President Trump.

Grand Lake owner Allen Michaan has been open about his left-leaning political stances in the past, often expressing them in giant letters on the theater’s marquee — on Thanksgiving he crafted an anti-Trump message that ended “JAIL TO THE CHIEF!!”

Michaan said he set up the screenings, at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 26-27, “in honor of the cascading revelations regarding our treasonous president.”

Oakland theater owner, citing Trump, screens ‘Manchurian Candidate’ for free