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THE EARTH WANTS YOU!
Prepare to be shaken, stirred and served neat on a bed of hot coals. A 90-minute show with 15 singers and a 3 piece band, on its surface the show resembles a church service but its brand of wild punk gospel will comfort even the staunchest secularist. Doors open at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm.
Tickets are $10 at the door. RSVP by phone: 646-798-2713.
Reverend Billy and The Choir open for Neil Young on 10/17 at The Greek in Berkeley.
“The intensity of the Reverend’s emotions is outlandish—but also moving because, for all the absurd trappings, the message is vital, the righteous fury on behalf of Mother Earth.”
— Time Out London
“It’s an act. It’s an art. It’s almost a religion.”
— New York Times
Susie Cagle and Sarah Jeong on the Internet and the Law
Join artist-journalist Susie Cagle and legal journalist Sarah Jeong for a brief talk inspired by the Museum’s Gallery of California History. They will speak on current issues relating to privacy, copyright law, and the Internet. This pop-up talk, originally scheduled for June, is back—mark your calendars!
Included with Museum admission. During Friday Nights @ OMCA, from 5 to 9 pm, admission is half-price for adults, free for ages 18 and under. Admission for Members is always free.
RSVP Here: http://goo.gl/forms/
We’re at a pivotal moment in Oakland – the face of our city is changing before our very eyes. Rents have gone up city wide by 50% in the last 2 years, private speculator buy out is through the roof, City leaders and the Mayor have threatened to sell public land to luxury housing developers, and families and folks of color are being pushed out on a daily basis. The reality of it all is, fighting this crisis is going to require all hands on deck in order to prevent the Bay Area from being wiped out as we know it.
Join us Saturday October 17th to hear from panelists, community and labor organizers and performers from across Bay to learn whats happening, why its happening and what you can do to fight back!
RSVP Here: http://goo.gl/forms/
We’ve all seen the hordes of Canadian geese around the lake. They are an invasive, non-native species that have taken up residence, are shitting all over everything, and are depriving local wildlife of resources.
The City has installed a bird sanctuary on the west side of the Lake, but it is not sufficient to make up for the displacement of the indigenous bird population by the relative newcomers, the Canadian geese, especially since several Canadian geese have taken up residence in and around the housing previously designated for native species.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It’s time to show those geese who’s boss! Bring your grills, your dogs, your stereos, your instruments, and your children! Let’s make sure those geese know the Lake is for the Town, not for foul-tempered fowl.
We will not be seeking a permit from the City; we are uninterested in the platitudes they give us with one hand to quash our dissent, while they use the other hand to build more and more open spaces for the geese to use at the expense of the wildlife who existed here prior to the geese’ arrival.
[[ Note: This protest may or may not be related to this cancelled protest ]]
Stop the Medical Execution*of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Free Mumia Now!
Hear:
Pam Africa
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal••
Ramona Africa
The MOVE Organization
Angela Davis**
Author, scholar social justice leader & former political prisoner
Jeff Mackler
Dir. Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal & United National Antiwar Coalition
Alice Walker, Lynne Stewart and Cuba
Special messages from afar
GREETING FROM: Diane Block, California Coalition for Women Prisoners • Claude Marks, Director, Freedom Archives & fformer political prisoner • Alicia Garcia, co-founder, #BlackLivesMaatter network • Gloria La Riva, ANSWER coalition organizer •â€¢ Laura Herrera & Vanessa Anderson, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal • Barbara Blong, Coordinating Committee, Northern California Commiittees of Correspondence for Socialism and Democracy (CCDS) • Walterr Riley, SF Bay Area National Lawyers Guild • Judith Mirkinson, Natiional Boricua Human Rights Network • Jack Heyman, ILWU retired â• Carol Seligman, Labor Action Comm. to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal •¢ Judy Greenspan, Workers World Party • Tom Lacey, Chair, SF Peace aand Freedom Party • Steve Willet, CCDS Nor Cal Coord. Comm.  ¢ Larry Shoup, Green Party & System Change Not Climate Change activist • Nick Baker, Socialist Action • Paul George, Dir., Peninnin. Peace & Justice Center • Michael Parenti, author, lecturer, llifelong political activist • Mary Prophet, Labor Comm. For Peace Justice, delegate, Alameda Labor Council, KPFA Community Adv’s Bd. • Rep. Freedom Socialist Party • Kim Serrano, Speak OutOut Now • Hip Hop artist Aaron Mirmalek/DJ Free Leonard, first cousin of Leonard Peltier
San Francisco Friday, October 16
7 pm Freedom Archives Hall, 518 Valencia Street, SF (near 16th Street BART)
Oakland Saturday, October 17
7 pm, Niebyl Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. (near 65th Street)
Tour Sponsors: Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal; International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; United National Antiwar Coalition
*Innocent political prisoner, government frame-up victim, journalist, author and lifelong fighter for human freedom and dignity, Mumia Abu-Jamal and 10,000 other prisoners have been denied readily available medical treatment to cure Hepatitis C. Mumia contracted Hepatitis C, a liver disease that can remain dormant for decades, when he received a hospital blood transfusions in 1981 following his near death shooting at the hands of Philadelphia police. When PA prison authorities recently rejected Mumia’s request for medical treatment, a Pennsylvania judge, in anticipation of Mumia’s appeal to PA courts, literally drafted a rejection of this appeal before Mumia’s attorneys submitted it!
** For Oakland meeting only
••• Benefit for International Concernecerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
An International Panel Discussion
This panel brings together organizers from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and North America to discuss the significance of anarchist ideas and tactics in the 21st century.
The participants will compare experiences from the wave of protests and uprisings that has swept the world since 2010—exploring the role of demand-based politics in both catalyzing and limiting movements, examining a variety of forms of repression, and critically evaluating experiments with direct democracy. They will conclude by assessing the prospects of contemporary struggles for self-determination in an era of globalized capitalism and state control.
All of the presenters are contributors to a recent outreach and dialogue project, To Change Everything, which appeared earlier this year in over twenty languages.
More info: http://fireworksbayarea.com/events/to-change-everything-the-promise-of-anarchism%E2%80%A8-oakland/
Shonda, a member of the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly and otherwise cool labor organizer was
fired Saturday from the KFC at 28th & Telegraph in Oakland.
People shut down the KFC for many hours on Saturday with a picket and will continue the action today (Sunday).
KFC 28th & Telegraph is now closed for today. WE’LL BE BACK tomorrow at noon – a normally big day for KFC purchases. SHUT IT DOWN!
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) October 18, 2015
A statement from EBOC about Shonda and the action:
Shonda Roberts, a dedicated original member of EBOC (for over 2 years) was unjustly terminated yesterday afternoon. She has an impeccable track record in her former place of employment, KFC/Pizza Hut on 2800 Telegraph Ave, with 0 write-ups and many loyal customers who consistently go back to the store just to see her. For over 3 years, Shonda has been the best employee in the store, she is experienced, hard working and most of all, her energy is illuminating.
EBOC has always been a union and our strength comes from people power, especially because of AMAZING support from community and labor partners. Shonda’s activism reflects the best of Oakland, we cannot let this injustice stand. Yesterday, EBOC with support of our partners held a 7 hour direct action where we demanded Shonda’s job back. With the help of OPD, KFC/Pizza Hut attempted to stop our efforts, to no avail. Today at noon we are going back because that is Shonda’s next scheduled shift. Please join us there, and send to your networks, the bigger the turn out, the better.
Tweetpics from Saturday’s picket:
#Fight4$15 Stand up with fired organizer Shonda. #Oakland come out now. #KFC Telegraph & 28th pic.twitter.com/u6g9vEG4On
— Terri Kay (@TKOakWWP) October 17, 2015
#Fight4$15 #KentuckyFriedChicken just fired organizer Shonda. Need support @ Telegraph & 28th now. #Oakland pic.twitter.com/LiKu5G5jKp
— Terri Kay (@TKOakWWP) October 17, 2015
COME OUT to support friend and comrade Janye during his preliminary hearing in court this monday! The lawyer says this is an IMPORTANT day to have a big turn out, so let’s PACK THE COURTROOM!
Details:
Janye was arrested a few weeks ago in an obvious case of racial profiling, the cops saying he ‘fit the description’ for a crime he had nothing to do with (which the witness immediately confirmed). While he was in custody, detectives questioned him about his involvement in the protests last year that followed the non-indictment of the murderers of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. After thousands took to the streets, Janye is the only person currently facing charges, and the charges are serious. He has been singled out, and we can’t let them divide and conquer us like that! PLEASE COME OUT ON MONDAY 9AM at WILEY MANUEL COURTHOUSE! Dept 115.
IF YOU CANT COME, or you are able, please considering donating to Janye’s support fund, he owes some money for his hefty 8,000 bail, and might be facing lawyer fees as high as 10,000. https://rally.org/f/
ALSO Janye is looking for work, he has begun college and was studying accounting. Do you know of any job opportunities for him? get in touch
Hope people can make this and let SFPD know this terror is unacceptable.
— APTP First Response (@aptpresponse) October 19, 2015
Information, discussion &community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Occupyforum presents
Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement
Featuring Rennie Davis, Judy Gumbo and Frank Joyce
Time will be allotted for Q&A, discussion and announcements.
Wheelchair accessible, ride shares announced.
Calling All Artists, Church Leaders, Community/Cultural Workers and Allies:
Show UP Monday! Bring your art, friends, families & congregations!
The City of Oakland is redesigning downtown and they’ve left us out of the equation. Next week, they’ll be hosting a series of public events on Planning Downtown Oakland. Let’s make sure our communities’ voices are heard – and let’s be creative!
RALLY at CITY KICKOFF EVENT & DESIGN WORKSHOP
SPUR – who is hosting the workshops that follow for the rest of the week – released a report on “shaping the future of downtown Oakland”. Of 30 recommendations in the report, only 1 mentions art – briefly. Just one.
We want Cultural Equity, Affordable Housing, and Anti-Displacement protections for the existing residents throughout the city that have made it such a vibrant and desirable place to live. We want an Oakland Arts & Culture Commission that’s representative of all the districts in Oakland. We want more City Arts staff who will work together to ensure public dollars and public policies are used appropriately to preserve, strengthen and grow our creative neighborhoods. We want more funding for arts and culture, arts education in schools for our children, and we want All Of Oakland’s neighborhoods to be resourced.
SHOW UP Monday with your people and make your voices heard!
AND be sure to show up at one of the public input “Open Studio” design workshops that run every day for the following week – 10/20 to 10/27 – from 9am to 6pm. They’ll take place at SPUR’s new offices at 1544 Broadway, right across from The Rotunda Building and the Latham Square construction.
For more information on the Downtown Specific Plan and the City’s public events next week, click here: http://
For updates on how to #KeepOaklandCreative, “like” the page:
https://www.facebook.com/
The SPUR Report is available online here: http://www.spur.org/sites/
#KeepOaklandCreative
#KeepOaklandDiverse
#KeepOaklandAffordable
#DevelopmentWithoutDisplac
A big Thank You to Desi Mundo, Campaigns Commitee Member for helping coordinate this action!
Community Meals//FREE PIZZA DAYS!!!!
Now that everyone is settled in to the new school year and getting ready for Halloween, your neighborhood sourdough bakers and pizza people, Nick and Aron’s on Telegraph and Nick’s Pizza on Shattuck will be hosting a pair of their famous COMMUNITY MEALS, opening up their doors for two hours to serve FREE PIZZA, SALADS AND HOMEMADE BEVERAGES. We organize these events in the spirit of community and neighborhood. With everyone welcome to join us, hang out, have some dinner on us and meet their neighbors
While Oakland is going through a whiplash of changes around us, we want to take an opportunity to renew our commitment to ALL the members of our community. We believe in a vision of Oakland that supports all of it’s residents, whether they rent, own or live on the street,. We believe that one of the best ways to straddle our divides is to join in a meal together. This October, Nick and Aron’s will be adopting the Nick’s Pizza tradition of Community Meals, where we host all of our neighbors to have a meal together, get to know each other and form community.
OUR INTENTION IS TO KEEP OUR RESTAURANTS, EVENTS AND NEIGHBORHOODS FRIENDLY, CARING SPACES
Free pizza, salad and housemade beverages. Happy Hour prices on beer and wine!
Good community vibes, and waiting on DJ confirmation from a very special name.
THE PROBLEM:
It is estimated that over 50 percent of the victims of police brutality and police killings nationally have a disability that contributed to the incident. Disability is glazed over or not recorded in the official police reports. Nor is the fact adequately represented in the media and even in popular movement around this issue of police brutality in general. It informs us that for them, disability doesn’t matter. But clearly disability does matter, and this documentary project makes that statement loud and clear. Police abuse of people with disabilities has reached outrageous proportions. Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder, chronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who have fought and are fighting to stop police brutality against people with disabilities
Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder, chronicles disabled victims murdered by police as well as the activists/artists who are fighting to end police brutality against people with disabilities. The work of many disabled activists and artists/activists like Leroy Moore, Keith Jones , Mesha Irizarry, Lisa “Tiny” Gray- Garcia, Lethea Warren and more are explored around this issue, especially involving disabled people of color. Notably, Director Emmitt H Thrower, is a retired NY City cop turned artist/filmmaker.
COMMUNITY FORUM for TANGIBLE CHANGE:
This film is not meant for a Saturday night at the movies enjoying popcorn with butter. It is meant for community centers, at home gatherings and other venues where communities can have discussions with activists, journalists, family, educators and others, with or without police, policymakers and so on. The “Hope” is that WHERE IS HOPE: The Art Of Murder will help initiate national dialogue between Law Enforcement and the Community of people with Disabilities as well as help us organize around this issue. We are currently inviting communities to organize events and community forums around the online film and subject matter. We envision the film as a tool to facilitate forums with discussions around this topic. This includes the showing of this film in the Bay Area, New York and elsewhere nationally.
FEATURED FORUM GUESTS:
Leroy Moore, founder of Krip Hop Nation
Sponsored by Berkeley Copwatch
An important reminder to please come scent-free.. No smoking near the venue (and again, please avoid having smoke/fragrance on your clothing!) Scented audience members will be directed to a scented section. Spread the news.
Calling all activists, allies, and legal professionals! Join us for the NLG’s annual Law for the People Convention, October 21-25 in Oakland, CA for 5 days of panels, workshops, CLEs and camaraderie.
REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Register now at early bird rates, available through September 10. Current NLG members receive 20% off! Sliding scale rates are available*
This year, our Keynote Speaker will be Alicia Garza, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, and programming will address topics including housing and labor rights, racial justice, police accountability, international law, and much more.
We’ll be updating nlg.org/convention regularly with updates and other news, so be sure to check back for more. RSVP to the Facebook event and join the conversation using the #Law4thePeople hashtag onFacebook and Twitter!
Inspired by Naomi Klein’s best-selling book, the film presents seven portraits of communities on the front lines of the climate crisis. With the UN’s Paris Climate Conference just coming up in just six weeks, this film is a call to action: to mobilize our movement and to organize for change, wherever we are.
Check out the trailer:
Films can be a powerful tool to scale up awareness, engagement, and action in the climate movement, so we really hope you can join your local screening. Bring a friend, (or several!) as movies can be a great entry point for folks not already in the climate movement.
Wed, Oct 21 Only!
(3:15 5:15) 9:30
To Purchase Tickets Click HERE
Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
The extraordinary detail and richness of the cinematography in This Changes Everything provides an epic canvas for this exploration of the greatest challenge of our time. Unlike many works about the climate crisis, this is not a film that tries to scare the audience into action: it aims to empower. Provocative, compelling, and accessible to even the most climate-fatigued viewers, This Changes Everything will leave you refreshed and inspired, reflecting on the ties between us, the kind of lives we really want, and why the climate crisis is at the centre of it all.
Will this film change everything? Absolutely not. But you could, by answering its call to action.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agency’s elitist espionage program as its token black. After mastering agency tactics, however, he becomes disillusioned and drops out to train young Chicago blacks as “Freedom Fighters”. As a story of one man’s reaction to white ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.
The novel and the film also dramatize the CIA’s history of giving training to persons and/or groups who later utilize their specialized intelligence training against the agency – an example of “blowback”.
Doors open at 7 pm.FREE POPCORN FOREVER!
~Sponsored by Liberated Lens~
Since May, the Arab Resource & Organizing Center, NorCal Friends of Sabeel, Middle East Children’s Alliance, International Anti-Zionist Netwrok, American Muslims for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace-Bay Area, UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine, and UAW Local 2865 have been supporting Berkeley Human Welfare and Community Action Commission (HWCAC) commissioner Cheryl Davila’s divestment resolution through her commission to the Berkeley City Council for discussion and action. However, on September 16, just minutes before the HWCAC meeting began, Cheryl was removed from her seat by her sponsoring city councilmember, Darryl Moore, simply for introducing the divestment resolution, and because she would not remove it. Without Cheryl, the resolution failed to pass, but it was reworked and will be brought back for a vote on Oct 21. Opponents of divestment are mobilizing for this meeting, so share this event and tell your networks to come and show support for Cheryl and this resolution.
Try to arrive early, by 6:30!
Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film.
THE SECRET OF THE SEVEN SISTERS,
Episodes 1 & 2 By Aljazeera TV
For a description of this film, see the website.
David Talbot, founder and former CEO of Salon.com, has written an explosive portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into a powerful, secretive and ruthless organization that changed world history and dragged America from democracy into the current national security state, militarily maintaining world dominance, with a government controlled by corporate power. This shocking history, “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles and the Rise of America’s Secret Government” is thoroughly and convincingly indexed. KPFA manager Quincy McCoy will host this KPFA benefit.
After relentless actions, petitioning and calls, Shonda’s regional manager (Sal) sat down with the union and Shonda to discuss the terms of her return to work! Sal said the KFC management team met and decided the best move would be to offer Shonda her job back, and is set to return on Sunday with back-pay…
Community pickets!
Shonda Roberts, a dedicated original member of EBOC (for over 2 years) and the Oakland Livable Wage Assembly was unjustly terminated Saturday afternoon. She has an impeccable track record in her former place of employment, KFC/Pizza Hut on 2800 Telegraph Ave, with no write-ups and many loyal customers who consistently go back to the store just to see her. For over 3 years, Shonda has been the best employee in the store, she is experienced, hard working and most of all, her energy is illuminating.