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Howie Hawkins, candidate for the Green Party Nomination for President, will speak on

“What an Ecosocialist Green New Deal Would Look Like.”

Luis Gongora Pat, a Mayan indigenous man, was murdered by San Francisco police officers on April 7, 2016 on Shotwell near 19th Street in the Mission. His murder came in the wake of other homicides by police of Black and Brown communities members. His family pursued every legal avenue available, including a civil case which was settled in January 2019. Three and a half years later, the story of this brutal murder is at risk of being buried because the primary family eyewitnesses never got their day in court. But their story must be told.

Two primary eyewitnesses–Christine Pepin and S. Smith Patrick–will present their foregone testimony in an open setting, getting the facts onto a public record even if they couldn’t provide it in court. Adante Pointer, the family civil rights lawyers, will attend to support the narrative with facts on the record. In connection with the San Francisco Public Library One City One Book program .

Rebels around the world have taken to the streets to demand climate action. Today and tomorrow, the Bay Area will join the global rebellion.

Join us in calling for Net-Zero Carbon Emissions in California by 2025. This is the message we’re bringing into the streets as part of the Global Climate Rebellion.

This week’s events:

Join us this evening as we kick off Wednesday’s actions with guerrilla projections from the San Francisco Projection Department. We’ll be singing songs of rebellion and projecting our message onto the SF State Building. Meet by the State Building at McAllister & Van Ness in San Francisco. We hope to see you there!

Paul Butler, Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will discuss what would replace prisons, how people who cause harm could be dealt with in the absence of incarceration, and why abolition would make everyone safer and our society more just.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Read more about this lecture at https://gradlectures.berkeley.edu/lecture/prison-abolition-mule

The Bancroft hotel is wheelchair accessible.
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Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC. He frequently consults on issues of race and criminal justice. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News. Butler lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, and at colleges, law schools, and community organizations throughout the United States.

Professor Butler is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. He holds an honorary Doctor of Law Degree from City University of New York. Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. His prosecutions included a United States Senator, three FBI agents, and several law enforcement officials. He currently serves on the District of Columbia Code Revision Commission as an appointee of the D.C. City Council. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2003.

Butler’s most recent book Chokehold: Policing Black Men, published in July 2017, was named one of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2017 by The Washington Post. The New York Times described Chokehold as the best book on criminal justice reform since The New Jim Crow. It was a finalist for the 2018 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction.

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ABOUT THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL LECTURES
In 1944, the Jefferson Memorial Fund was established by the will of Elizabeth Bonestell in her name and the name of her husband, Cutler L. Bonestell, for the study and promotion of a loyal and enlightened adherence by young people to the basic principles of American democracy as embodied
in the Constitution. The fund supports an annual series of lectures on topics concerned with Jefferson or his times, with the development of the American governmental system, or with civil liberties and the Jeffersonian tradition.

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This lecture is also part of UC Berkeley’s commemorative events spotlighting African American history after the passage of the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act.
Learn more at https://400years.berkeley.edu.

When Trump first announced his “Muslim Ban” in January 2017, J.J. Mulligan Sepúlveda was one of the lawyers who protested. His new book No Human Is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War pulls back the curtain on the ingrained inhumanity found in the immigration reform currently coming to fruition in the United States. Readers are taken into the often-times merciless courts of New York City and San Francisco, the frightening detention centers on the U.S./Mexico border, and the overburdened offices of legal defense organizations. In conversation with Steven Mayers. FREE, $5 suggested donation

Venezuela: Embassy Protection Collective to Speak at BFUU in Berkeley

Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese from Baltimore and David Paul from San Francisco will be touring Northern California to speak about the latest on Venezuela and what local activists can do to oppose the US blockade against the South American country. After 37 days of struggle protecting the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC, Kevin Zeese, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Dr. Adrienne Pine, and David Paul were arrested by federal agents and are currently fighting the charges against them. The fight to protect the embassy reinvigorated the struggle for justice in the United States. Join us to hear from three of the Embassy Protection Collective in person.

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As part of the Talks Program at The Glass Room, a panel discussion is being held about what the facial recognition ‘ban’ in SF really means for its citizens. We are bringing together activists from EFF, ACLU, Oakland Privacy and others to discuss the topic.

Some background info about The Glass Room and its talks program:

 The Glass Room will be open from October 16th til November 3rd, daily from 12pm-8pm, at 838 Market Street in downtown San Francisco.

The exhibits presented in the Glass Room provoke questions about who is actually building our technologies, their impact on the enviroment, their potential biases, and the impacts they are having on everything from dating to democracy. The exhibition takes the form of a pop-up tech store where nothing is actually for sale. Instead, visitors will find over 50 exhibits – ranging from readymades to animations to technical tools and unique, commissioned art works by artists such as Adam Harvey, James Bridle, Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mimi Onuoha, Tega Brain, and lots more.

Oct 17 7:00 pm in Piedmont; Nov. 3 12:30 pm in Oakland at The New Parkway Theater, 474 24th Street, Oakland

Throughout American history, there has been an undeniable divide between urban and rural America. People from certain regions are viewed as “the other,” and blamed for America’s social ills. Since the 2016 presidential election, that cultural divide has only expanded and deepened. With their documentary Hillbilly, co-directors Ashley York and Sally Rubin – both natives of Appalachia- have made a complex film about complex people. Hillbilly is an entertaining, informative, and sobering look at Appalachia: its diversity, the consequences of stereotyping its people, and an examination of why so many there voted for Donald Trump.

Hillbilly goes on a personal and political journey into the heart of the Appalachian coalfields, exploring the role of media representation in the creation of the iconic American “hillbilly,” and examining the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of this infamous stereotype.

Hillbilly is a timely and urgent exploration of how we see and think about poverty and rural identity in contemporary America, offering a call for dialogue.

“I’m happy to see somebody trying to cover us as we really are and not what some people think we are. It’s wonderful the attention you’ve paid to so many areas that are so important to all of us. I’m proud to have been mentioned in the film a time or two.”
–Dolly Parton

Los Angeles Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Documentary.

6:30 pm reception
7:00 – 8:30 screening of film
8:30 – 9:00 facilitated community discussion

Get tickets!
Don’t miss this opportunity to have your perspective transformed and your assumptions eroded.
We hope to see you there!

Join the effort to Close 850 Bryant and Build a Better San Francisco! Come to the hearing on Friday October 18th at 10:30am to hold our government accountable.

— Coffee and Comradery: Join us at 9:30am directly across from City Hall (Polk Side) in the Civic Center plaza to share in coffee, tea, and breakfast. Learn about the campaign and connect with other members of the coalition.
— Supervisors’ Hearing: Enter City Hall at 10:30am to make our presence seen and heard at the hearing. Please plan to share public comment. We will have talking points available.

In July we mobilized to demand swift action for the closure of the jail at 850 Bryant, and the Board of Supervisors heard our call, with Supervisors Matt Haney , Norman Yee, Hillary Ronen, Sandra Lee Fewer, Shamann Walton, Vallie Brown moving forward a public hearing on the issue. On October 18th the Sheriff and City Administrator are being called to this hearing to report on the City’s ability to Close the Jail at 850 Bryant. We believe that they will come with threats that in order to close the jail the City will have to resort to either building a new jail, over-crowding in the San Bruno jail, or transferring imprisoned people to Santa Rita in Alameda County. This is unacceptable! We refuse to be held hostage to these threats when the City has known of the seismic threat to the building since 1996. What’s more, in January of 2016 the City initiated a process to close the jail by reducing the jailed population size, yet the numbers of people caged at 850 Bryant have only increased since then!

Across the City, in government and community we agree that the jail at 850 Bryant must close. The difference is that we know San Francisco can do better for our communities!

• We demand that the jail close immediately. We cannot wait until the next earthquake hits.
• We demand no new jails, no transfers to other counties, no increased electronic monitoring.
• We can safely close the jail by July 2020. Decriminalize houselessness and quality of life charges and reduce the number of people held pre-trial.
• We can build lasting solutions. Invest in housing, mental health care, and voluntary substance use treatment.

The campaign is moving forward and building momentum with the newest supporters of closing 850 Bryant including the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, the SF Human Services Network of 110 SF service providers, the GLIDE foundation, and AFT 2121 City College Faculty Union! With a Board of Supervisors that has taken bold action to close the youth jail and create comprehensive mental health solutions we believe we can also shut down 850!

Join us for a screening of Curtis Choy’s 1983 documentary, “The Fall of the I-Hotel.”

After the Manongs labored to build America, their San Francisco Manilatown community is wiped out by urban renewal, and 50 old-timers are forcibly evicted from the International Hotel when it is slated for demolition in 1981. The film documents destruction of the last block of Manilatown on Kearny Street.

Narrated by late poet Al Robles, “The Fall of the I-Hotel” tells the story of dozens of seniors displaced by 300 cops in the dead of night, and the overall impacts of urban renewal.

Running time: 58 min.

Co-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Oakland Public Library.

RSVP here: https://oacc.liveimpact.org/li/8737/sevent/evt/home/127050/69

Prepare to be inspired. Screened at Sundance 2019, an unapologetic portrait of trailblazing Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented countless Palestinians since the 1970s as her life’s work whilst exposing the hypocrisy of Israel’s apartheid regime.

Learn about solar photovoltaic (PV) for your home. Understand the basics of solar PV, the economics benefits of going solar, the options you have and purchasing tips. Special focus will be on home owners with low electric bills averaging under $100/month (excluding EV usage)

Asylum seekers caged at the border! Thousands more children separated from their families! Unrelenting inhumane conditions inside detention centers! Trump orders the end of the US asylum program except for people from Canada or Mexico and plans to send asylum seekers to El Salvador, one of the most dangerous places in the world!

Join us for a Human Billboard! We come together because we refuse to silently accept what is being done in our names. We are taking our outrage and grief out of our homes and into the streets and public spaces to demand an end to these atrocities. No human is illegal; no one deserves the treatment now imposed by our government for seeking asylum.

Funds will be raised at the event to support RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) in their mission to help separated families, detained families, unaccompanied minors and others who are seeking asylum in the United States.

We are taking a break from the traditional Feed the Hood bag lunch and hygiene kit distribution to prepare to go hard for our unhoused brothers and sisters for the winter. On October 20, 2019, join us for fun and community celebration at the Feed the Hood Family Festival. Learn more about how YOU can make impact in the lives of our unhoused brothers and sisters.

Bring essential items to donate to the large hygiene kit drive:

• Soap
• Lotion
• deodorant
• Feminine Hygiene supplies
• toothbrush
• toothpaste
• toilet paper
• baby or body wipes

Special ask for bags of dog food.