This training will put gentrification and displacement in an historical context so we understand the racialized political and economic drivers. We will use this historical analysis to discuss the ways we can challenge gentrification today.
The analysis that we are presenting is based on the work of Causa Justa :: Just Cause and we are asking for $5-$20 donation, sliding scale, which will go to support CJJC’s work challegning gentrification and fighting displacement. However, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Our workshop has space for 66 people. To reserve your spot in advance, please purchase tickets at http://
ACCESS NEEDS: This event is wheelchair accessible. If you have specific access needs, please email surjbasebuilding@gmail.com
SCENT FREE: We ask that guests do their best to be as scent free as possible. Please refer to this resource from the EastBay Meditation Center for more information on what that means. There will be a scent free section of seating offered. http://
SPREAD THE WORD, INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
Directed by Suree Towfighnia (2015)
When Debra White Plume’s drinking water tests high for radiation, she sets out to determine the cause. What she finds alarms her.
A nearby uranium mining operation is extracting ore from deep in the ground by tapping the High Plains/Ogllala Aquifer, a huge underground cache of water covering 174,000 square miles from Texas to South Dakota which supplies drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary. The mine’s planned expansion further threatens the aquifer.
At a public hearing in Hot Springs, SD, Lakota tribal members and white ranchers sound off about pending permits that would expand the uranium mining industry in the area. The question on the table among those assembled boils down to this: Can we afford the depletion and possible contamination of our water supply?
Crying Earth Rise Up is an intimate portrait of the human cost of uranium mining and its impact on sacred water. It tells a timely story of protecting land, water and a way of life.
Doors open at 7pm, film starts at 7:30. $5 donation appreciated! Free snacks and popcorn!
Two native women on Pine Ridge reservation expose the human cost of u
ranium mining and its impact on the water, land and people of the Great Plains.
When Debra White Plume’s drinking water tests high for radiation, she sets out to determine the cause. What she finds alarms her.
A nearby uranium mining operation is extracting ore from deep in the ground by tapping the High Plains/Ogllala Aquifer, a huge underground cache of water covering 174,000 square miles from Texas to South Dakota which supplies drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary. The mine’s planned expansion further threatens the aquifer.
Elisha Yellow Thunder intimately understands the dangers of contaminated water. A young mother and a geology student, she unknowingly drank water with high levels of radiation while pregnant with her first daughter, whose severe medical anomalies are life-threatening.
Directed by Suree Towfighnia, 2015
Vigil to End Deportations & Crimilization
Join us in solidarity on indiginous resistance day. We will have activities for families who have been victims of deportation/crimilization.
Vigilia para No Mas Deportaciones y Crimilizacion!
Acompañe nos para un dia de solaridad en el dia de resistencia indigena. Tendremos actividades para las familias que han tenido un familiar que ha sido victim@ de la deportacion/crimilizacion.
Many have been alarmed by the recent spectacle of law enforcement in full riot gear and armored vehicles moving through peaceful demonstrations. At first glance, it’s easy to suspect our police forces are preparing for war or terrorism instead of protecting and serving citizens exercising their civil rights. In Craig Atkinson’s disquieting documentary, such suspicions are reinforced as we learn that since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has given police departments $34 billion in grants to purchase equipment, while the Department of Defense has contributed additional billions in free military equipment. What changed and where are we heading? Have the War on Drugs and the War on Terror formed an alliance that apparently justifies the use of military technology, including preemptive surveillance systems on civilians? Sure to spark debate, Do Not Resist thrusts the viewer into the action on the streets and seeks to examine the growing culture of militarized policing.
A multi-faceted documentary filmmaker, Craig Atkinson is a notable producer, editor and cinematographer. Most recently, Craig was an additional cinematographer on documentaryNorman Lear: Just Another Version of You. Craig also produced, and was the co-cinematographer on feature length documentary Detropia, a lyrical exploration about the city of Detroit trying to re-invent itself in a post-manufacturing United States. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and won the Editing Award for U.S. Documentary. Detropia went on to win ten additional awards worldwide and was short-listed for an Academy Award. While in Detroit, Craig was also a cinematographer on The Education of Muhammed Hussein, a 40-minute short documentary exploring the Muslim population in the Detroit area. The film, made for HBO, was short-listed for an Academy Award in 2012. Earlier is his career; he was Enat Sidi’s (The Wolfpack, Jesus Camp) assistant editor during 12th and Delaware, an HBO film that takes a compelling look at the ongoing abortion debate in America. The film was an official selection at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Craig holds a MA in Visual Media Arts from Emerson College.
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PRECEDED BY
THE DEAN SCREAM
US 2016, 10 min
Director Bryan Storkel
A case study of how the media can take a simple, innocent moment in time and spin it into something completely different.
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#JusticeForColbyFriday
#JusticeForJamesRevera
Transportation to a protest / rally in Stockton from Oakland, and back. Meet at OGP at 2:30 PM.
JOIN CODEPINK, WORLD CAN’T WAIT, OCCUPYSF Action Council and others at the huge PEACE banner
Theme this week is: “REFUGEES…”
Feel free to bring your own signage, photos, flyers, …Additional signs and flyers provided.
Stand (or sit) with us and the huge PEACE banner.
Two Black revolutionary socialists from Workers World Party are running for president and vice president – Monica Moorehead & Lamont Lilly 2016. Both will be reporting back from the Nogales SOA Watch Convergence at the border with Mexico. Lamont Lilly just recently returned from a WWP campaign solidarity delegation to Standing Rock.
We’re not running to win the elections – we’re running to help to build the struggle in the streets and connect with activists and freedom fighters doing the work in communities across the country – from Black Lives Matter, the struggle for migrant rights, LGBTQ liberation, solidarity with Standing Rock, women’s liberation, building international solidarity with workers across the globe resisting US imperialism, and more.
Find out more about our campaign and our revolutionary 10 point program at our website (http://www.workers.org/wwp/our-campaign/) and come out to share your thoughts, experience, and ask questions!
Location may change, check the event page for updtes. Refreshments will be provided. Wheelchair accessible.
Our weekly PARTY to get this hackerspace together, to provide a venue for those things that otherwise cannot be worked out through day-to-day practice.
Potluck! – bring your own tasty dish!
Sudo room, located in the southwast corner of the ground floor, is a creative community and hackerspace. We offer tools and project space for a wide range of activities: electronics, sewing/crafting, 3D and 2D manufacturing, coding, and good old-fashioned co-learning!
Hours: The space is open whenever a member is present. Come visit! Best times to drop in are evenings between 7 and 9pm. See the calendar for recurring meetups and upcoming events: https://sudoroom.org/calendar
WHAT: Tenants and allies, rally against deceptive campaign and delivery of formal FPPC complaints
WHO: Campaigns from Alameda, Burlingame, Mountain View, Oakland, Richmond, and San Mateo.
Representing big landlords and sending misleading mailers to voters, the California Apartment Association (CAA) is running a deceptive campaign against renter protection ballot measures in cities throughout the Bay Area. The CAA recently sent literature that falsely claims the State Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) has taken a position on the 5 ballot measures for new rent control. Tenants will hold a day of action in protest of the CAA’s deceptive campaign calling on the CAA to stop using renters’ money to subsidize lies, and will release its formal FPPC complaint against the CAA.
Residents and renters from throughout the SF Bay Area are calling for common sense solutions to protect our communities & renters amidst the worst displacement crisis in recent history.
Conscientious Projector Presents Book Party for “Nuclear Heartland”
“Nuclear Heartland Revised Edition: A guide to the 450 land-based missiles of the United States” edited by Arianne Peterson and our guest speaker John M. LarFarge of Nukewatch, an educational project based in Wisconsin which raises public awareness of nuclear weapons, reactors and waste.
Dr. Helen Caldicott states that every American should read this book, learn that under our farms and prairies are the ICBMs with nuclear warheads and take on the entities that imperil our survival. Much of the original content was by the late Sam Day who was most helpful to our SJC on past anti-nuclear actions.
www.nukewatchinfo.org
Watch, Discuss, Organize!
Sunday, Oct 16th, 1:00 PM
Oscar Grant Plaza
(meet up the steps at 14th & Broadway)
Visit places Occupy happened and learn its history, or revisit and remember.
Oakland Commune, Foreclosure Defense, Shields, Scott Olsen, Kettling, Port Shutdown, Alan Blueford, General Strike, Anti-Repression, DAC, Strike Debt, Lawsuits, Move-In Day, Kali, FTP, Occubus, OLWA, Occupy the Farm, FTP, Einstein 4 Oakland… so much more!
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. On every last Sunday we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over four years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.
At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.
General Assembly Standard Agenda
Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.
Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area
San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv
The judge will give an update on his decision about whether to let the City of Berkeley dismiss Kayla Moore’s family’s wrongful death lawsuit.
We need to show up on October 17th to pack the courtroom to make it clear to the judge that we have NOT forgotten Kayla Moore, that her life and memory matter, and that we demand an end to racist, transphobic and ableist police violence!
We can’t let the City and BPD escape responsibility for Kayla’s death and the violence she faced, alongside so many Black, Brown, trans and disabled people who are harmed and killed by police violence.
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ABOUT KAYLA MOORE & HER FAMILY’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
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Kayla Moore was a Black trans women born and raised in Berkeley. She lived in the Gaia Building in downtown Berkeley. She was a published poet, and loved to cook, dance, and help people – her neighbors, friends and even strangers on the bus.
On Feb. 12, 2013, Kayla was in her home when a friend of hers called BPD to request a mental health wellness check for Kayla. Kayla had a schizophrenia diagnosis and her family and friends had called for help from the city of Berkeley before. But this night, instead of offering assistance, they immediately tried to take her into custody. Although they had no legal basis for arresting her, they wrestled her onto the ground. Kayla died face down on a futon with six police officers on top of her.
Over three years later, the officers involved have faced no consequences. This fall, the Moore family is taking the City of Berkeley and BPD to court with a wrongful death suit. But, the supposedly ‘progressive’ City of Berkeley is continuing to shirk responsibility for Kayla’s death by trying to have the Moore family’s case thrown out.
Show up MONDAY OCTOBER 17 at 9am in downtown SF to help show the judge that although the powers that be may want the case dismissed we, the community, DO NOT!
9:00am – Gathering with coffee and light breakfast
10:00am sharp – hearing begins (**line up early**)
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OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
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-CONTACT US to come to a meeting in Berkeley or about other ways to support
-EMAIL UPDATES: http://eepurl.com/b8MJnL
-ENDORSE our demands: https://actionnetwork.org/
OccupyForum presents…
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Defiant Haiti Needs Our Solidarity…
As the U.S. plots to steal
yet another Haitian Election
Over 200 years ago, Haitians rose and overthrew both slavery and colonial rule. Now, when the enemies of freedom and sovereignty are attempting to re-colonize and re-enslave Haiti, we need to act in solidarity with our Haitian comrades, in the spirit of their fierce resistance.
The irresistible momentum of Haiti’s non-stop mass movement — with tens of thousands in the streets almost daily for many months — forced annulment of 2015’s fraudulent elections. An entirely new election was set for October 2016 (now postponed due to Hurricane Matthew). But the U.S. Embassy and their allies are still scheming to block Haiti’s most popular political party, Fanmi Lavalas, and thwart the popular will. After being excluded since the 2004 US military coup, Lavalas was finally able to run candidates again, headed by Maryse Narcisse for President. Huge crowds all over Haiti turned out for Dr. Narcisse, former President Aristide and their grassroots campaign.
Come hear the incredible story of how this resilient people is rising up and upsetting the diabolical plans of the imperialist power to the north. And watch the heart-breaking 16-minute Film, What’s Going on in Haiti? — live footage of massacres by the US/UN military force still occupying Haiti — 12 years after the US coup that ousted and kidnapped President Aristide and the people’s unbreakable will to resist.
Presenters:
Pierre Labossiere, Co-founder, Haiti Action Committee; Board member, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund,
Dave Welsh, S.F. Labor Council delegate; Member, Haiti Action Committee
Haiti is dealing with a devastating hurricane and worsening cholera epidemic. At the same time, the Haitian people are rising up to resist the wealthy elite and their foreign backers.
Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away.
An invitation to a class on the
Structures of Racialization
At the Bay Area Public School
A free university in the Omni Commons
When the English first got to Virginia, in the early 1600s, they didn’t see themselves as “white.” It took a century for their colonialism to produce the concepts of race and white supremacy.
We’ve been fighting racism, white privilege, white supremacy, and institutional racism since then. And still, a Trump can come along with his “dogwhistle” politics, and get an instant white following at varying degrees of frenzy. Today even the most liberal cities cannot stop police racial profiling – while thee illiberal ones officiate over “stop and frisk.”
Ø What are we missing?
Ø If racism is just a “divide and rule” strategy, why has it always worked so well? Why does it still work so well?
Ø How is it that new groups, like immigrants and Muslims, can be continually targetted for racial assault (victim de jour)?
Ø If race is a social construct, what is the structure that has been constructed?
Ø Is it an economic structure? A cultural structure? What?
Ø How deep culturally does it reside in this country?
Ø Is “race” a noun or a verb?
This class will look at the the structures of policing today, of segregation yesterday, and of colonization and slavery the day before that. If the “modern concept of race” was constructed socially at a particular moment, does that imply an ending we can programmatize?
This class will be mostly discussion and dialogue. We will have to address our prejudices about prejudice in order to get to the issues of structure. There will be non-mandatory readings on line for the class. It will also be open to other texts that class members wish to propose.
Facilitator: Steve Martinot
