KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents

advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006
or Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore,
East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s
$15 door

Dahr Jamail has journeyed along many of the geographical front lines of our environmental crisis, from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Amazon rain forest, to discover the consequences of the loss of ice to nature and to humans. The End of Ice is the firsthand chronicle of his travels, during which he scaled Denali, the highest peak in North America, swam in warm crystal waters around Pacific coral reefs, explored the tundra of St. Paul Island and spoke with some of the last subsistence seal-hunters of the Bering Sea. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families for centuries have fished and farmed in the various places he visits, Dahr begins to accept the dark fact that earth is almost certainly in a hospice situation. Ironically, this renews his passion for the planet’s wild places, cherishing the earth in an entirely new way. Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a true narrative that includes photographs throughout by Dahr of his journey across the world, of the catastrophic reality of our predicament, and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable planet while it is still possible. The author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, Dahr is an accomplished mountaineer and climbing guide. He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism and the Izzy ‘Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.

Antonia Juhasz is a leading energy analyst, author, and investigative journalist specializing in oil. An award-winning writer, her articles appear in Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, CNN.com, The Nation, Ms., The Advocate, and many more. Antonia is the author of three books: Black Tide (2011), The Tyranny of Oil (2008), and The Bush Agenda (2006).  Her investigations have taken her a mile below the ocean surface in the Gulf of Mexico to the rainforests of the Ecuadoran Amazon, from the deserts of Afghanistan to the fracking fields of North Dakota, from the Alaskan Arctic to the beaches of Santa Barbara, and many more places in between. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelors Degree in Public Policy from Brown University. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors. Antonia founded and runs the (Un)Covering Oil Investigative Reporting Program. She delivered the lecture, “Covering Catastrophe: Environmental Destruction and Resistance in the Age of Trump,” at Yale in November 2017.  Antonia reported from Standing Rock on the Dakota Access Pipeline for Pacific Standard Magazine and Grist. She completed a series of six articles for Newsweek on the UN Paris climate talks, reporting from Alaska, North Dakota and Paris. Recently she co-hosted KPFA Radio’s Up/Front  show.  

KPFA benefit

CSLS SPECIAL BOOK EVENT

Location is ADA accessible

SURJ Bay Area’s Queer and Trans (QT) Committee is hosting a screening of Pride, which highlights a true story of solidarity across identities for social and economic justice. This even is open to the public. Everybody is welcome to join us for an afternoon of film and snacks!

About the film: “Realising that they share common foes in Margaret Thatcher, the police and the conservative press, London-based gay and lesbian activists lend their support to striking miners in 1984 Wales.“

Tickets: This NOTAFLAF screening is also a fundraiser for SURJ Bay Area. As a chapter, at least 50% of funds raised are sent directly to BIPOC-led partner organizations, and other funds go toward making events like this more accessible. Please choose a ticket price from the sliding scale that is meaningful to you. Our platform doesn’t allow the sale of $0 tickets, so if you’d like to attend the event for free, email queertrans@surjbayarea.org, and we’ll save your spot on our guest list.

The Peace and Freedom Party presents
Black History Is American History

As Karl Marx wrote in Das Kapital, “Labor cannot emancipate
itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.” Marx
also noted that for ALL workers Black Liberation is “not a
question of abstract justice or humanitarian sentiment but the first
condition of their own social emancipation.”

Speakers for our forum on Black history will include: Kingdom
speaking on “The Freedom Struggle–Then and Now,” and Steve
Johnson speaking on “Black Teachers Struggle for Justice,”

This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of
every month. Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30
pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk afterwards. The
opinions expressed are those of the speakers and do not reflect official views
of the Peace and Freedom Party.

The Peace and Freedom Party, born from the civil rights and
anti-war movements of the 1960s, is committed to socialism,
democracy, ecology, feminism, racial equality, and internationalism.
www.peaceandfreedom.org

The time to strike is approaching and Oakland teachers are calling on Oakland City Council to show where they stand! Are they with the Oakland community or the billionaire privatizers taking over the district? Join teachers as they put pressure on city council members to back their demands for lower class sizes, living wages, student support, and stopping school closures. Oakland teachers and their allies across the East Bay will rally in front of Oakland City Hall before entering the city council meeting where the resolution to support Oakland teachers will be put to a vote.

Meeting at OUSD offices: 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. at 1000 Broadway
March to City Hall: 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Rally at City Hall: 5:00 – 5:15 p.m. at Oscar Grant Plaza (Frank H. Ogawa Plaza) in front of Oakland City Hall
Oakland City Council Meeting: 5:30 p.m.

JOIN US TO SUPPORT OAKLAND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

OEA ASKS OAKLAND CITY COUNCILMEMBERS: _”WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?”_
OAKLAND STUDENTS, PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE EAGER TO
LEARN WHERE YOU STAND IN THE FIGHT TO SAVE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN OAKLAND!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, THE OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER
A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT OEA’S CONTRACT DEMANDS, STAND AGAINST SCHOOL
CLOSURES AND FULLY FUND OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED.
PLEASE JOIN OAKLAND TEACHERS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT
THIS CRITICAL RESOLUTION AS WE GEAR UP FOR A POTENTIAL STRIKE.

GATHER AT CITY HALL PLAZA FOR A RALLY AT 4:30PM BEFORE WE HEAD INTO THE
COUNCIL MEETING AT 5:30PM.

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO OEA WEBSITE:
HTTPS://OAKLANDEA.ORG/EVENT/CALL-ON-THE-CITY-COUNCIL-TO-SUPPORT-OAKLAND-TEACHERS/

CR Oakland and Public Health Justice Collective (formerly Occupy Public Health) are excited to invite you to join us for a learning and strategy session for ending the violence of policing in our communities.

Snacks will be provided.

PLEASE RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/PE96N1PDg6OvMkpT2

What does the fact that the American Public Health Association (APHA), a network of over 25,000 public health professionals, overwhelmingly adopted a policy statement that identifies the violence of policing as a public health issue? How can we use this statement and its recommendations for decriminalization , divestment from law enforcement, and alternatives to policing to strengthen our campaigns? Join us to learn more about this win and identify how we can use as an organizing tool.

We particularly invite people involved in campaigns against policing and criminalization to join us and to bring folks organizing with you!

Progressives and socialists have sometimes won state power in liberal, democratic regimes, and used it to rein in the worst excesses of capitalism. But, due to their structural power, capitalists exercise disproportionate control over the state, often allowing them to prevent or roll back such reforms.

Please join the Socialist Night School on Tuesday, February 5 for a discussion of the capitalist state and the sorts of reforms possible under capitalism.

Required Readings

See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.

Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006
or Pegasus (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moe’s, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s
$15 door

For decades one of the most farseeing, outspoken public intellectuals in the United States has been Robert B. Reich. Now he provides us with The Common Good, his sixteenth book, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto urging the recentering of our national economics and politics on the profound idea of the common good. Responding to the prevailing uproar of divisiveness, cynicism and blind self-interest, Reich makes a powerful case for expanding America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good not only exists, but in fact is the very essence of any functional society or notion. Societies, he asserts, undergo varying virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine It – one of which this country has been experiencing for the past five decades. This can and must be reversed.

First we must weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how as a country we should relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth and the meaning of leadership.

This is a heartfelt statement from a major political thinker devoted to saving America’s soul.

Robert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books, including The Work of Nations, Saving Capitalism and Locked In the Cabinet. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washingon Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is currently chair of the national governing board of Common Cause.

Kathryn Horsley is a retired public health researcher and civil servant who worked on demographic and reproductive health research in Bolivia, East Africa and the Middle East for 16 years. More recently she worked for Seattle-King County Public Health and Alameda County Public Health Departments on community assessment and mapping of health outcomes regarding infant and maternal mortality, teen pregnancy, etc. Kathryn has done community outreach for KPFA Radio, and over the past three years has co-produced benefit events for KPFA.          

KPFA benefit

Hosted by the Ecology Center, StopWaste and City of Berkeley, with the generous support of BayREN.

Why? Our homes and buildings are the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. But thanks to local Community Choice Energy providers, electricity in the Bay Area is clean, and is getting cleaner and greener every year. We can vastly reduce our carbon footprint by getting off natural gas in our homes and electrifying everything. Not only does electrification reduce GHGs, it also makes our homes healthier and safer.

What?

• Watch induction cooktop demos
• Talk with local residents who are electrifying homes and apartments
• Meet local contractors installing all-electric appliances
• See super-efficient heat pump water heaters & space heating/cooling systems
• Learn more at workshops with international electrification expert Sean Armstrong. Limited seating – advance registration required.
• 3:30-5:00pm – Building Professional Workshop (Plumbers, Electricians, Contractors, Architects, HVAC Installers)
• 6:00-7:30pm – Renter & Homeowner Workshop

Agenda:

3. 5:10pm: Open Forum
4. 5:15pm: UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic – introduction and discussion of scope of work, including drafting of Privacy Principles.
5. 5:20pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Exigent Use of Surveillance Technology report, and take possible action.
6. 5:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Automated License Plate Reader Anticipated Impact Report – review and take possible action.
7. 6:00pm: Federal Task Force Transparency Ordinance – OPD – presentation of inaugural annual reports (FBI/JTTF, ATF, DEA task forces), and take possible action.
8. 6:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Body Worn Camera Anticipated Impact Report – review and take possible action.

How does the dream of a college degree become a reality for low-income students?

Please join us for East Bay Community Conversations
Higher Education and the California Dream: Myth or Reality

These and many other issues facing students desiring a higher education degree in California are critical topics for a two-part series hosted by the KQED Community Advisory Panel.

Hear from and share your thoughts with higher education administrators, faculty, students, and elected officials.

Panelists include:

Dr. Marie Elaine Burns, President, Merritt College
Dr. Jowel Laguerre, Chancellor, Peralta Community College District
Dr. Kimberly Mayfield. Dean of Education, Holy Names University
Dr. Chinyere Oparah, Provost and Dean of Faculty, Mills College
The Honorable Loren Taylor, District 6, Oakland City Councilman
Merritt College Student Representative

Janet Miller Evans, Moderator, KQED Community Action Panel
LaNeice Jones, Host, KQED Community Action Panel

Event details:

Doors Open at 5:00PM

Looking for more: Join us on March 20, 2019 at Mills College for the second part of the conversation. Details here. 

Contra Costa hearing on whether police misconduct and lethal use of force records will be released retroactively (#SB1421) Case # N19-0109.

Media Alliance, as with many Bay Area media outlets, filed public record requests after the January 1, 2019 enactment of Senate Bill 1421 which allowed the release of police misconduct and use of force records. Our requests to the cities of Antioch and Richmond are tied up in litigation from the police unions, which will be heard in the consolidated Contra Costa County case Walnut Creek Police Officers Association vs City of Walnut Creek

Heather La Mastro, a school teacher in Berkeley, recently traveled to occupied Palestine. She visited several refugee camps, hospitals and pediatric mental health care programs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip administered by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Heather will share her stories meeting Palestinian people, especially her students’ Palestinian pen pals in Gaza.

She will be joined by Priscilla Wathington, the Managing Editor for Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP), an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization based in Ramallah. Priscilla will speak about the most pressing human rights concerns facing Palestinian children living in the Gaza Strip at this juncture and the grave number of child fatalities at the hands of Israeli forces that DCIP documented in 2018.

Organized by ISM-NorCal https://ism-norcal.org/

RSVP: bit.ly/feedthehood9
DONATE: bit.ly/feedthehood

Join The East Oakland Collective for their large scale community service opportunity to prepare and distribute 3,000 lunches and hygiene kits to our unhoused brothers and sisters across Oakland. This Feed the Hood is paying respect and homage to the Black Panther Party, who fed, clothed and provided resources to the community without government assistance.

<< At-A-Glance Agenda for Feed the Hood >>

7 AM: Volunteers arrive. Volunteer breakfast.
7 AM – 9 AM: Prepare bag lunches and hygiene kits
9 AM – 9:30 AM: Program and instruction
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Load caravans
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Caravans head out to distribute bag lunches and hygiene kits across Oakland and parts of Berkeley.

**Event is family friendly (kids of all ages welcome to attend with their parent(s) or guardian).
**Coffee/tea and continental breakfast will be served for volunteers.
**Venue is wheelchair accessible.

PARKING: School parking lot prioritized for those participating in the caravan distributions, then overflow on first come basis. Parking available in the neighborhood.

For questions, large donations and group volunteer opportunities contact us at feedthehood@eastoaklandcollective.com.