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Feb
9
Sat
People’s Park Rally and Protest @ People's Park
Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

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Feb
13
Wed
Protect Refugees: Cambodian Deportation Defense Rally @ ICE San Francisco
Feb 13 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

We need your help! The Cambodian American community is under attack by ICE. ICE is scheduling check-ins for Cambodian Americans with deportation orders on March 13th at the San Francisco ICE building. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM DEPORTATION. We are hosting a rally in support of impacted folks and their families who have check-ins that day. We need folks to:

– Support folks with check-ins by showing up and letting them know there is a community that supports, loves, and will fight for them
– Support impacted folks’ families the day of check-ins to let them know we are there for them
– Show up in numbers to let ICE know they cannot tear our families apart

This event is in conjunction, and in solidarity with the Stand up to Trump in court, in the streets, and beyond happening on the same day. Link provided below.

https://www.facebook.com/events/290015418339666/

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Feb
14
Thu
Big Banks: Break up with Private Prisons or we’ll Break up with You
Feb 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

This Valentine’s Day, we’re turning up the pressure on Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase in San Francisco. Will you join us? Click here to RSVP.

  • What: Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase: Break up with private prisons or we’ll break up with you (Rally and petition delivery)

Sixty percent of the immigrants the Trump administration locked up are being held in private prisons built by companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group. Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase finance billions of dollars of their debt. All these banks need to do is stop providing loans to these companies and the private prisons they run would not be able to function.

Now is the time to use our power as customers and consumers to force these banks to act. Join us to make our demands clear to Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase on Valentine’s Day.

If Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase don’t take action to help end the criminalization and detainment of Black and Brown communities, we will by pledging and encouraging others to break up with them and switch to banks that actually respect our communities.

Click the link below to RSVP for the action in San Francisco this Thursday.

https://www.facebook.com/events/395765747898393/

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Dear Wells & CHASE, Show Your Love! Muestra Tu Amor!
Feb 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

On Valentine’s Day, join Mujeres Unidas y Activas, La Colectiva de Mujeres, MomsRising, Bay Resistance, Candide Group, Hand in Hand, the national FamiliesBelongTogether Coalition and others to ask WellsFargo and JPMorgan Chase To Break Up with Private Prisons and Immigration Detention Centers!

While professing respect for human rights, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase continue to fund GEO Group and CoreCivic; the biggest operators of private prisons and immigrant detention centers. Let’s tell Jamie Dimon (Chase) and Timothy Sloan (Wells) that we’re not afraid to align our money with our values. If Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase don’t take action, we will — by pledging to, and/or encouraging others to, break up with Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase and switch to banks that actually respect our communities instead!

Can’t come on the 14th at noon, but want to take action- join a bank branch action near you on the 14, 15, or 15th by signing up here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/show-love-this-valentines-day

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Feb
18
Mon
Human Banner: “NO WALL!” @ The Pergola at Lake Merritt
Feb 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Oakland’s First** Human Banner: “NO WALL!”

(**Believed to be) OAKLAND’S FIRST “human banner.” We will spell out NO WALL! with our bodies, and give the news helicopters a visual to go with their stories on the day’s nationwide rallies and their ongoing coverage of this saga. The event will be very short and, we hope, very sweet. No speeches, just aerial art. We will unfurl an actual USA flag (30 x 50 feet, held taut by some of the participants), and on the adjacent lawn area we will arrange our bodies (standing up, not lying down) to spell out “NO WALL!” in 50-foot lettering that will stretch 110 feet across the grass.

 

Please arrive BY 12:00 and take an instruction sheet from a volunteer and go with the flow. 500 people will fill the lettering tightly (fewer folks will also work just fine), and if we have more than 500 we’ll create a colorful human border around the message. We’re hoping for news helicopter(s?) overhead between 12:15 and 12:20 or so. If you arrive at 12:30, you will almost certainly miss the event. Further instructions at the event site on Monday, or via updates at this MoveOn page.

 

NOTES: — Signs are welcome, as they always add spice to an event — Wear whatever color of clothing you’d like — Monday’s weather prediction is good (sunny, zero percent chance of rain, negligible wind), but the grass will be at least damp from recent rains, so please do wear appropriate footwear…

 

Directions: The street address (542 Grand) is approximate. To reach the actual site, go to the Pergola (the arches and columns at the northeast tip of Lake Merritt, right near the Grand Lake Theater and Farmer’s Market area), and walk 150 yards to the southwest, toward downtown Oakland.
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Protest the Unconstitutional State of Emergency @ Ohlone Way
Feb 18 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

This protest is planned in response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency. Join in to protect the rule of law and our Constitution. On this Presidents Day holiday, stand to demand that our president respect the separation of powers.

RSVP.

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Feb
21
Thu
Oakland Teachers Strike – Rally and Picket Line Support
Feb 21 all-day

City-wide rally at 11:30 a.m at Oscar Grant Plaza.

Oakland teachers are the lowest paid teachers in Alameda County.

Every year, 1-in-5 teachers leave the district, and on top of high teacher turnover, students are already under resourced with only one academic counselor per 600 students, and only 21 nurses for all 37,000 students.

Oakland teachers and our students deserve better! Sign up for a shift at the picket line!

What: Join a picket line near you!
When: Thursday, February 21 — Morning shift: 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Afternoon shift: 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.;
Where: There will be picket lines at ALL 86 school sites. Check out this map to see a list of priority schools. The city-wide rally will be at Oakland City Hall.

Teachers on strike are demanding smaller class sizes, more student support, no more school closures, and a living wage.

If you can’t support at the picket line, but still want to get involved, check out this list of other ways to help.

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Feb
23
Sat
Hands Off Venezuela Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Feb 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join the International Action Center and Spring Action Coalition for a day of action against US intervention in Venezuela.

We will hold a rally at 14th and Broadway in Oakland to protest the Trump administration’s support for the coup against the Maduro government, and the long history of sanctions and threats against the Venezuelan people.

We demand an end to hostile actions against Venezuela!

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Rally to Demand Justice for Willie McCoy @ Taco Bell
Feb 23 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join us at a rally to demand justice for Willie McCoy, murdered by Vallejo PD. We’ll gather at the Taco Bell where he was murdered. Bring posters, candles, and your voices to support Willie’s family.

If you’re coming from Oakland and either need a ride or have space in your car, please meet us at 12:15 at the APTP office at 1201 Martin Luther King Jr Way.

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Feb
28
Thu
Oakland Teachers Strike Solidarity Sick-Out @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Feb 28 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

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Mar
7
Thu
Unite Against the Sweeps at City Hall – San Francisco @ Outside San Francisco City Hall
Mar 7 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

On Thursday, March 7th, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is having an “exploratory” hearing into the City’s cold weather policy. The Government of the City of San Francisco has endlessly harassed folks with nowhere to go. The San Francisco Police Department has confiscated peoples tents in the rain, arrested people for creating shelter and not offering more than a temporary stay in a shelter or a cot.

The People of San Francisco and the Bay Area must come together to resist these attacks on working people. Join activists from other Bay Area cities in this action against the attack on the poor and learn about local struggles and ways we can work together to fight back.

This event is sponsored by: The United Front Against Displacement, Democratic Socialists of America: San Francisco chapter, POOR Magazine, and the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance

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Mar
9
Sat
March & Rally: Hands Off Venezuela! NO coup – NO war – NO sanctions! @ UN Plaza
Mar 9 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join us on March 9 for a march and rally against the Trump administration’s effort to engineer a coup in Venezuela and a new devastating war there. The aggressive policy against Venezuela repeats the ugly pattern of wars for regime change in the oil-rich countries of Iraq and Libya.
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National Security Advisor John Bolton is reading from the same script, declaring a “troika of tyranny” in Latin America (like George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”) as a precursor for regime change first in Venezuela, and then Cuba and Nicaragua. Trump officials are openly talking about seizing Venezuela’s vast oil reserves — the largest in the world.

It is time to stand up and with a clear voice say NO to the newest example of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which the U.S. government has used for over two centuries to repeatedly invade Latin America and Caribbean, control its politics and extract its resources.

The White House aims to overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro and replace him with Juan Guaidó. Guaidó is a U.S.-trained operative who was unknown to the vast majority of Venezuelans before he proclaimed him-self president — at Vice President Mike Pence’s urging. Although Guaidó has the backing of Trump, the CIA, and the Republican and Democratic Party leaderships alike, huge numbers of Venezuelans have marched to reject this coup and defend their independence.

The San Francisco action will be held in conjunction with the National March on Washington on March 16.

Initial Signers of the National March:

ANSWER Coalition • CodePink • Black Alliance for Peace • Veterans for Peace • Alliance for Global Justice Popular Resistance • Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee • Haïti Liberté International Support Haiti Network • Popular Education Project • Abby Martin, journalist, The Empire Files • Dr. Jill Stein, 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jared Ball, Prof. of Communication Studies, Morgan State Univ., imixwhatilike • Medea Benjamin, CodePink • Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox • Berthony Dupont, Director, Haïti Liberté • Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, constitutional rights attorney • Max Blumenthal, journalist • Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer, Black Alliance for Peace • Mike Prysner, Iraq War veteran, producer, The Empire files • Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, author • Dr. Anthony Monteiro, Saturday Free School • Dr. Jodi Dean, Prof. of Political Science, Hobart & William Smith Colleges • Gloria La Riva, National Coordinator, Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee • Kim Ives, journalist • Anoa Changa, host, The Way With Anoa • Dan Cohen, journalist and filmmaker • Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice • Eugene Puryear, Stop Police Terror Project • Jeanette Charles and Lucas Koerner, Venezuela Analysis • Margaret Flowers, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance • Kevin Zeese, Co-Coordinator, Popular Resistance • Dan Kovalik, author and human rights lawyer • Mahdi Bray, National Director, American Muslim Alliance (AMA)

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Mar
12
Tue
Justice for Stephon Clark! Occupy the Police Station! @ Sacramento Police Station
Mar 12 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

FIRE TERRENCE MERCADAL!
FIRE JARED ROBINET!
TAKE THEM OFF OF OUR STREETS NOW!!

THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TILL THERE IS JUSTICE!!

COME WHEN YOU GET OFF WORK
COME IF YOU AINT GOT NO JOB
COME WHEN YOU GET OUT OF CLASS
OR SKIP WORK AND SCHOOL TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
JUST BRING YA A$$!

Meet us at the police station at 3pm!!

JUSTICE FOR STEPHON CLARK!

Hosted by Black Lives Matter Sacramento

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Mar
15
Fri
Global Climate Strike – Berkeley @ Civic Center Park (MLK Park)
Mar 15 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

March 15th, Global Climate Strike For Future! Call to the youth of the world.

In 2015, our governments committed in Paris to protecting our future by providing a safe pathway well below 2C with Social and Climate Justice..
Three years have passed, and our future looks bleaker than ever!
The greedy guess that 3C warming is ok. Climate scientists have evidence that even 2C will cause massive starvation, drought, fire tornados, floods, wars and death.

All because today’s adults do not care about tomorrow. They are stealing our future right in front of our eyes!
The adults are not mature enough to tell it how it is, even this they leave to us children!

And why should we be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future? And what is the point of learning facts when the most important facts clearly means nothing to our society?
What use is education when our governments are not listening to the educated?
Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed.

Greta Thunberg has inspired us, by striking every Friday in front of her Swedish parliament.
Since August, 2018, many thousands of students, have been striking in front of 300 parliaments and town halls in over 30 countries worldwide.

And now on March 15, we will all create a Deep strike together! To show the Climate Crisis is a Crisis! Join Us!

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Mar
16
Sat
March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ PF Chang's parking lot
Mar 16 all-day

Join the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom, ending with a rally and nonviolent direct action at the San Francisco headquarters of Big Oil’s favorite banker, Oily Wells (Fargo). The direct action will be the conclusion of a three-day, 34-mile march from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

Indigenous people and other faith leaders will lead the march  in prayer and contemplation.  The march will make twelve “stagecoach stops” along the way – one for every year that remains to take urgent action on climate change – and arrive at the bank’s world headquarters just in time to crash their annual founding day celebration. Marchers are welcome to join for the entire length or portions of the route that meet their abilities and availabilities. (“Day trippers” are welcome!)

The direct action will underscore the seriousness of the climate crisis and the strength of our resolve to combat it.

GET INVOLVED

Sign up to participate in direct action 
— by risking arrest or by playing a supporting role (such as jail support, police liaison, social media person, etc.)

Register for the march

Invite friends to donate to sponsor your participation =

Volunteer to help prepare for the march

HELP PREPARE

ART BUILD

March 9, 10 AM – 4 PM
911 Riverside Dr., San Jose

TRAINING IN NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION (PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE)

March 10, 1 – 4 PM
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609

THE MARCH

Saturday morning, March 16 – Monday afternoon, March 18

March will start in Palo Alto, at PF Chang’s parking lot, in the Stanford Shopping Center, corner of El Camino Real and Quarry Road. The march continues north on El Camino until it becomes Mission Street in South San Francisco, and continues straight into downtown San Francisco. with overnight stays in Burlingame and San Francisco’s Excelsior District.

RALLY AND DIRECT ACTION AT OILY WELLS

(including a performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe)

Monday, March 18, noon
Meet at Montgomery BART Plaza
598 Market St., San Francisco

On Facebook

The March for Fossil Fuel Freedom is hosted by 350 Silicon Valley and cosponsored by the Sierra Club, Sunflower Alliance, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More SF, and more.

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Mar
18
Mon
March/Direct Action @ Oily Wells (Fargo) @ Montgomery BART Station
Mar 18 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join the March for Fossil Fuel Freedom, ending with a rally and nonviolent direct action at the San Francisco headquarters of Big Oil’s favorite banker, Oily Wells (Fargo). The direct action will be the conclusion of a three-day, 34-mile march from Palo Alto to San Francisco.

Indigenous people and other faith leaders will lead the march  in prayer and contemplation.  The march will make twelve “stagecoach stops” along the way – one for every year that remains to take urgent action on climate change – and arrive at the bank’s world headquarters just in time to crash their annual founding day celebration. Marchers are welcome to join for the entire length or portions of the route that meet their abilities and availabilities. (“Day trippers” are welcome!)

The direct action will underscore the seriousness of the climate crisis and the strength of our resolve to combat it.

GET INVOLVED

Sign up to participate in direct action 
— by risking arrest or by playing a supporting role (such as jail support, police liaison, social media person, etc.)

Register for the march

Invite friends to donate to sponsor your participation =

Volunteer to help prepare for the march

HELP PREPARE

ART BUILD

March 9, 10 AM – 4 PM
911 Riverside Dr., San Jose

TRAINING IN NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION (PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE)

March 10, 1 – 4 PM
Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA 94609

THE MARCH

Saturday morning, March 16 – Monday afternoon, March 18

March will start in Palo Alto, at PF Chang’s parking lot, in the Stanford Shopping Center, corner of El Camino Real and Quarry Road. The march continues north on El Camino until it becomes Mission Street in South San Francisco, and continues straight into downtown San Francisco. with overnight stays in Burlingame and San Francisco’s Excelsior District.

RALLY AND DIRECT ACTION AT OILY WELLS

(including a performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe)

Monday, March 18, noon
Meet at Montgomery BART Plaza
598 Market St., San Francisco

On Facebook

The March for Fossil Fuel Freedom is hosted by 350 Silicon Valley and cosponsored by the Sierra Club, Sunflower Alliance, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, 350 Bay Area, Idle No More SF, and more.

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Mar
21
Thu
March Against the Berkeley RV Ban @ People's Park
Mar 21 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

March from People’s Park to Old City Hall, protesting Berkeley’s imminent ban on RVs from parking on City streets overnight, effectively banishing Berkeley residents.

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Mar
26
Tue
SHOW UP SPEAK OUT: Rise for Berkeley RV Neighbors! @ City Council
Mar 26 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

ON TUESDAY, MARCH 26th,
Berkeley City Council will vote on “Managing Recreational (RV) Parking:”

Berkeley Municipal Code 14.40.120 bans “parking between two a.m. and five a.m” for ALL RVs and VAN and CAR CAMPERS. City Council already voted on February 28th to PASS THIS ORDINANCE with a 6-3 vote.

TUESDAY, March 26th is the final vote.

It’s time for Berkeley residents to show up and demand their neighbors not be displaced! We will protest at city council and demand our voices be heard. Sanctuary for who? The many not the few!

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Mar
30
Sat
5th Annual Shut Down Creech! SPRING 2019 @ Creech Air Force Base
Mar 30 all-day

National Mobilization to Peacefully Stop U.S. Drone Wars
 March 30 – April 5, 2019
(Saturday through Friday)

Our beautiful, weeklong peaceful convergence in the Nevada Desert is almost here!   We can’t wait to see you all, and work together to GROUND the DRONES!
Please register HERE, so we can best serve everyone.

This is a special year because it marks the 10th anniversary of Bay Area CODEPINK’s twice yearly resistance to killer drones at Creech Air Force Base.  It is also marks the 5th annual national mobilization known as “SHUT DOWN CREECH.”  Help us make this push for peace exceptional!  Be there!

Special theme:  In solidarity with the national call to action to protest the 70th anniversary of NATO Summit in Washington DC, we will devote one day at Creech promoting: “ABOLISH NATO, DE-MILITARIZE NOW!”
Please come for part or all of this amazing Peace Convergence to nonviolently resist the illegal U.S. drone targeted assassination program.  Stay at the newly relocated CAMP JUSTICE peace encampment, set up on the “Goddess Temple” grounds, 3 miles from Creech AFB.  Most meals provided. We will send you a transportation form after you register with us, to coordinate ride shares to/from Camp Justice & Las Vegas.  Click on tabs at the top of this page for detailed info about:   Housing, Transportation, Camp Justice, Meals, Sponsorship, Registration, etc.
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Mar
31
Sun
Hands Off Venezuela @ Federal Building
Mar 31 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

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