MAY COPWATCH DAYS AND TIMES

– FRIDAY 5/6 – 8pm
– FRIDAY 5/13 – 8pm
– SATURDAY 5/21 – 8pm
– FRIDAY 5/27 – 8pm

You’re invited to join Berkeley Copwatch on one of our weekly copwatch shifts. We’ll be out in the streets witnessing and documenting police activity and doing outreach. No experience is required – we’ll train you in the essentials for documenting police activity and staying safe in the process.

DETAILS:
* Please RSVP (no deadline) by calling/texting 510-224-5950 or emailing CRivka@sonic.net to let us know which day(s) you plan to come. That way we can update you if we make any changes to the schedule.

* If you are able to bring a car and be a shift driver, that would be GREAT! Please let us know when you RSVP.

* Dress prepared for being outdoors

May 14, May 21, May 28, June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25, 1-5pm

Using news photographs, memorabilia, reconstructed objects, documentary fragments, and original documents, contemporary artist Kate Haug re-tells the story of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last monumental social protest prior to his assassination. The exhibition features images and objects culled from Haug’s extensive research in the archives of the Associated Press, the popular press, and eBay, which have not been seen together before, bringing to life the complex ambition of King’s vision.

King began organizing the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) in 1967 to unify America’s poor across class rather than racial lines, believing that economic parity was key to African American equality within the United States. The PPC culminated with a 3,000 person shanty town named Resurrection City, constructed on the National Mall in Washington DC. Resurrection City drew people from all over the country, was the nineteen sixties version of the 1932 Bonus March and a predecessor to “Occupy”. The exhibition time frame for this show mirrors many of the actual dates of the campaign, tracing the Resurrection City’s opening day to its final destruction.

The PPC echoes aspects of current social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Fight for Fifteen, and Our Walmart. In San Francisco, a city with one the highest rates of income inequality in the United States, King’s work asks pointed questions about the contemporary social contract and the democratic promise of America.

News Today: A History of the Poor People’s Campaign in Real Time runs from April 9, 2016 to June 25, 2016.

Gallery Talks:
Sat May 14, 2pm:
Justin Gomer Ph.D., Lecturer, American Studies, UC Berkeley
A discussion of the images in News Today as they relate to the shifting political landscape in the years after 1968.

Sat May 21, 2pm:
E.C. Feiss, Ph.D. Student, Art History, UC Berkeley
The Politics of Display

Film Screening: El Canto del Colibrí

El Canto del Colibrí es un nuevo documental que explora las relaciones entre padres Latinos inmigrantes y sus hijxs y familia LGBTQ. Ven a disfrutar comida deliciosa, ver el documental, conectarte con organizaciones LGBTQ en Oakland, y platicar sobre temas importantes en nuestras comunidades.

The film El Canto del Colibrí is a new documentary exploring the relationships between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBTQ family members. Come enjoy delicious food, watch the documentary, meet LGBTQ Latinx organizations in Oakland, and talk about important topics in our communities.
Visita nuestro página de evento en Facebook(link is external) para más información.

Visit our Facebook event page(link is external) for more information.

PETITION DRIVE COORDINATION AND TRAINING –
WE NEED YOU!

SATURDAY 2:30PM, May 14
FIREFIGHTERS’ UNION HALL 

2027 Clement Street, Alameda.
YES, WE NEED MORE SIGNATURES AND VOLUNTEERS!

Liberated Lens hosts 2 days of films.

Liberated Lens in collaboration with the Land Action 4 hosts 2 days of films, workshops and fun!! Bay Area social justice, activist organizations will be sharing their knowledge and experience throughout the festival and holding hands on activities in between the films.

Films screening:
1) Shelter
2) Edible City: Grow the Revolution
3) Occupy the Farm

A 2 day mini film fest benefit, showing a total of 4 activist/social justice films about various projects in the Bay Area. Directors and Producers of the films will hold Q&A after each screening. Various Social Justice groups will be tabling and workshops will be held as well. A dinner will be served at 6pm. The benefit is held to pay back the bail money borrowed to get Patrick Xu out of jail.

Art Exhibit and Cultural Event to remember Al Nakba, the Black Panthers, and Indigenous Resistance
May 15, Oaklandhttps://t.co/k2CQzTGpSx

— Dave Id (@DaveId) May 13, 2016

Liberated Lens hosts 2 days of films.

Liberated Lens in collaboration with the Land Action 4 hosts 2 days of films, workshops and fun!! Bay Area social justice, activist organizations will be sharing their knowledge and experience throughout the festival and holding hands on activities in between the films.

Films screening:
1) Shelter
2) Edible City: Grow the Revolution
3) Occupy the Farm

A 2 day mini film fest benefit, showing a total of 4 activist/social justice films about various projects in the Bay Area. Directors and Producers of the films will hold Q&A after each screening. Various Social Justice groups will be tabling and workshops will be held as well. A dinner will be served at 6pm. The benefit is held to pay back the bail money borrowed to get Patrick Xu out of jail.

Peace Flag raising ceremony, first at Civic Center flagpole at 2180 Milvia Street, corner of Allston Way and then at the flagpole at MLK, Jr. Civic Center Park, 2151 MLK, Jr. Way (between Center Street and Allston Way, across from Old City Hall), Berkeley

With Conscientious Objectors and War Resisters from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

David Harris, Co-founder of The Resistance, the movement to Resist the Draft during the Vietnam War

Bob Meola, Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission, War Resisters League, Courage to Resist

Melissa Keith, Courage to Resist, Chelsea Manning Support Network

Sing along with Max Ventura, Hali Hammer, and Nancy Schimmel;  Broadside Balladeer Vic Sadot

Sponsored by City of Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission

Endorsed by War Resisters League-West, Courage to Resist, BFUU Social Justice Committee

Sing for an hour on Solano Avenue at the old Oaks Theater, Berkeley.

Vigil for #AmilcarPerezLopez at Mission Police station 6 pm every Wed til @GeorgeGascon announces if #sfpd charged pic.twitter.com/TiyAAbsH6F

— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) May 19, 2016

Let's talk about the criminalization of resistance. #apeoplesprimer pic.twitter.com/htP1EOPHGK

— Dr Crystallee Crain (@crystalleecrain) May 18, 2016

Join Ars Technica writers and law professor Elizabeth Joh for a conversation about law enforcement surveillance technology.

You can participate in the second episode of Ars Technica Live, a monthly interview series with fascinating people who work at the intersections of tech, science and culture. Filmed before a live audience in Oakland, 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.

The May 18 meet-up will cover the acceleration of the intersection of cops’ use of surveillance technology, and what it means for individual privacy.

Episodes are posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.

Contact: Annalee Newitz (annalee@arstechnica.com)

Elizabeth Joh is a law professor of at the University of California, Davis. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online. She has also provided commentary for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.

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.

Episode #3: June 15, 2016 (topic/guest TBD)
Episode #4: July 22, 2016 (topic/guest TBD)

Enough is enough! We are asking the community to join #frisco500 at 5 pm SF city hall and hold a vigil until the mayor #firechiefsuhr

— HungerForJusticeSF (@hngr4justicesf) May 19, 2016

RSVP and send questions here tinyurl.com/Walls-Pre-Training-Survey

-1.5 hours General CLE credit (We ask attorneys to make a donation of $30 to support the work of the Prisoner Advocacy Network; no one will be turned away.)

-This training will teach participants about the Ashker v. Governor settlement and strategies for advocating for and with people still enduring solitary confinement or retaliation due to political activity and/or alleged gang activity. Trainers will focus on strategies for successfully advocating with and on behalf of people in SHU or otherwise related to the Ashker settlement.

The format of the training will be a question and answer session between Carol Strickman, Steven Czifra, and readings pieces on topic by incarcerated Jailhouse Lawyers. More TBA. If you have specific questions you would like addressed, please email them to: eva@delairlaw.com or rsvp here tinyurl.com/Walls-Pre-Training-Survey

Presenters Include:
-Steven Czifra, who spent 16 years in CDCR custody, 8 of which were in the SHU. He co-founded the UC Berkeley Underground Scholars Initiative (USI). Formerly incarcerated students created USI to support all prospective and current UC Berkeley students impacted by issues of mass incarceration, imprisonment, and detainment of any kind. The goal of USI is to bridge the topic of mass incarceration that is highly popularized in academia with one that is grounded in the lived experiences of UC Berkeley students. USI has the unique opportunity of making UC Berkeley a catalyst for the development of a Prison to School pipeline within the University of California educational system.

-Carol Strickman (Senior Staff Attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and named attorney on Ashker v. Gov.)

-People currently or previously housed in the SHU

This training series will focus on practical skills development for loved ones, activists, legal workers, and lawyers to understand the nitty gritty methods and best practices for supporting people in SHU

SF City Hall at 5:00. Vigil at 8:30 pm Shafter Ave & Elmira St, San Francisco, CA 94124 @BLMBAYAREA @last3% @CatsCommentary @TheFrisco5

— Anti Police-Terror (@APTPaction) May 19, 2016

Today, an SFPD sergeant shot and killed a 27 year-old Black woman and her unborn child who were in a car in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. These are all the details we have right now.

This is the same neighborhood where a sergeant recently expressed a desire to kill Black people.

At 5:00, Mama Christina from the Black and Brown Coalition has asked people to join her on the steps of City Hall.

Afterwards the #Frisco500 with the full support of the Anti Police-Terror Project, Last 3% of SF, #DoNoHarm Coalition and Black Lives Matter Bay Area – call for the whole community to come out to a candlelight vigil at the site of the murder.

We’ll see you at the corner of Shafter Avenue and Elmira Street at 8:30pm tonight.

ALL are welcome and encouraged to join. Bring signs, candles and flowers if you can.

You know that old saying, “third times a charm…” Well, this will be the 3rd time that all of you have come out to show your immense support of the Land Action 4 and this huge, grass-roots, housing rights movement.

On MAY 20th, at 9am in DEPT 10 of the RENE C DAVIDSON COURTHOUSE The Land Action 4 have been promised a full half-day of the court’s time and an entire courtroom to ourselves!!! This is really huge!! Our legal defense team, with Tony Serra leading the charge, will present our Motion to Dismiss all charges.

Having the entire courtroom to ourselves can be an immense boon, and we want to make sure that WE PACK THE COURTROOM!!! That means that we really need every single one of you to be there. Each of you will have an extremely meaningful presence at this critical legal cross-roads, as this court case stands to set strong legal precedence around the use of adverse possession laws as a means to shelter. We need to show the court, the judge and rest of Oakland that our momentum won’t be dragged down by the court’s stalling tactics.

Twice now the Land Action 4 have stood before the discerning eye of a judge with a huge show of community support, twice now the powers that be have told us that they didn’t have time to listen to our plight. And finally, we have been promised by those powers that be that we will be heard!!! But, promises from “on high” only get us so far….

Some have said that our Motion reads like a HOUSING RIGHTS MANIFESTO and no doubt Tony Serra will orate it as such with fire and passion!!

So, please join The Land Action 4, our legal defense team and this powerful community of people who care about the basic human right of all folx to have shelter on MAY 20TH, at 9AM in DEPT 10 of the RENE C DAVIDSON COURTHOUSE.

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In case you are just tuning into this Bay Area Housing Crisis Drama…
Here is the full back story as told by defendants Patrick Xu and Wren Hyde

The interview begins at minute 35:54
https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=227703

On April 8th during the show Living Room, defendant Steven Dicaprio and attorneys Walter Riley and Dan Siegel talked about the Land Action 4 case specifically and address the political and economic side of the current Housing Crisis.

Interview begins at minute 30:17
https://kpfa.org/episode/living-room-april-8-2016/

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AND…. If you have the monies, we are $495 away from reaching our goal of paying back Patrick’s bail money that he had to borrow!!! AND if we can raise even more than our goal the money will go towards the court fees that we are steadily accruing.

Donate to support the Land Action 4’s legal expenses:
http://www.gofundme.com/m3vz8wva

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Also in news and the press:

Long-form radio show with Steven Dicaprio and Wren Hyde fielding questions from the radio interviewer and taking questions from listeners calling in.
http4s://kpfa.org/player/?audio=22868

KTVU TV segment:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/114969085-video

East Bay Express:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/03/17/oakland-housing-rights-activists-face-85-years-in-prison