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People of all faiths are invited to join Berkeley Congregations and members of the Justice 4 Kayla Moore coalition for an afternoon vigil in honor and celebration of Black History Month, and in remembrance of black lives murdered throughout American history: from the middle passage and slavery to the civil rights movement to the ongoing realities of hate crimes and police brutality. We will read names, sing, pray, reflect, and remember.
February 13 is the anniversary of the murder of transgender African American woman Kayla Moore by the Berkeley Police Department 4 years ago. The Vigil is being organized in partnership with the Justice 4 Kalya Moore Coalition.
Sources for names to be read include, but are not limited to: “Close Encounters of a Dangerous Kind: Unarmed African-American Women, Men, and Children and encounters with police 1970 to 2015 by Daniel Alan Buford published in Tikkun Magazine online September 28th 2016.
We Charge Genocide : The Crime of Government against the Negro people by William L Patterson historic petition to the United Nations for relief from a crime of the US government against African Americans 1951. Names of police brutality victims and those who were lynched under color of law.
#SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women includes violence on Transgender people.
We Charge Genocide- 2014 Shadow Report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committees
Tangled Roots and Trees slave name Roll Project Tangled roots and trees.Blogspot.com Plantation records auction inventory lists
Louisiana Slave Records 1800 to 1832 transcribed by Stephanie Kay Martin-Quiatte for the Louisiana genealogical project African American inventory of Plantation Slaves from all Louisiana parishes and slave auction inventories.
BART Police Citizen Review Board will discussing BART Police Use of Force Policy, as well as their Aggressive Panhandling Policy. We will be turning out… join us!
To get there the easiest way is to go in the entrance on Webster just down from CVS and take the elevator to the 3rd floor.
Sing for an hour with the Tax the Rich crew.
Event is cancelled if it is raining.
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
“Climate Refugees”
The Enormous Worldwide Consequences
of Climate Change and the Refugee Crisis
Mr. Nash poses a basic question: what will become of the millions of people whose lack of access to food and clean water leads them to take increasingly desperate measures? What type of strains will huge migration put on resources in more developed countries? Will this dislocation eventually pose a threat to Americans’ national security? How much is America’s political agenda in other nations and our disproportionate use of resources causing a refugee crisis?
Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences.
Experts predict that by mid-century hundreds of millions of people will be uprooted as a result of sea level rise and an increase in extreme weather events, droughts and desertification. Little is being done to plan for the potential mass migration of millions of refugees who will be forced to cross national borders. The Pentagon now considers climate change a national security risk and the phrase “climate wars” is being talked about in war-rooms. The film features a variety of leading scientists, relief workers, security consultants, and major political figures, including John Kerry and Newt Gingrich. All make a strong case that the changing climate is already creating humanitarian disasters and is leading inevitably lead to worldwide political instability.
For the last few years, immigrant justice leaders and organizers have focused on decreasing deportations and immigration enforcement. These priorities will not change with any incoming administration, at either the federal or state level. With the help of political supporters, we have been able to advance pro-immigrant policies and legislation to ease the tension of xenophobic political practices and attacks. In the era of Donald Trump, our political supporters must move in a direction that is led by immigrant justice organizers.
We are calling on them to adapt to innovative tactics and strategies to move past the status quo on immigration enforcement. This can be done by using some of the state-level tools that have been developed in order to decrease deportations and any other attacks on immigrant communities.
Join us for a day of action in Sacramento!
Bay Area folks, if you’re interested in taking the train out to Sacramento on Tuesday to protest ICE raids, lmk https://t.co/0pzHMwTbh1
— Parker Higgins (@xor) February 11, 2017
Tech Policy Forecast: Digital Privacy and Net Neutrality under the Trump Administration: A talk by Heather West, Senior Policy Manager, Mozilla
Sponsor: Center for Technology, Policy & Society
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Technology, Policy & Society and Technology Applications in Public Policy at the Goldman School for Public Policy.
Heather is Senior Policy Manager at Mozilla, prior to which she has worked at the intersection of policy and cyber-security at Google and CloudFare, Inc. In 2014, she became Forbes 30 under 30 for her influential role as policy-to-tech translator and Internet strategist.
This talk is open to the public. Please RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/FhCE2NvTqJ1xmlCQ2
What: Leading the Way on Bail Reform
The Ella Baker Center and our allies are tackling California’s billion dollar bail industry and we need your help!
Join us next Wednesday at Leading the Way on Bail Reform, a community discussion for formerly incarcerated people, family members, activists, and advocates about reforming California’s unjust money bail system.
We will discuss the way the California’s bail system works, the reforms we are working on, and strategies for movement building. Help us build a strong grassroots movement that will overhaul an egregious money bail system that targets poor families of color.
Vegetarian dinner will be provided and the building is wheelchair accessible. We ask that this meeting be a fragrance free zone for accessibility. Looking forward to seeing you next week.
P.S. Are you a member of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights? Join our membership today and stay updated on how to organize with us for jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs.
A panel discussion with Rosalinda Guillen and David Bacon.
What does the Trump presidency mean for farmworkers? What does it mean for the food justice & food sovereignty movements> How can people support the struggles of farmworkers under these new constraints?
It’s true. Donald Trump is now president. What does this mean for immigrant communities, regardless of their legal status? Our guest for Episode 10 of Ars Technica Live is Ahmed Ghappour, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings.
He’ll be discussing if we may see a redux of the FBI vs. Apple controversy and how this may affect people in sanctuary cities like Oakland.
Ghappour’s research bridges computer science and the law to address the contemporary challenges wrought by new technologies in the institutional design and administration of criminal justice and national security, with a focus on the emerging field of cybersecurity. His most recent publication is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review.
Filmed before a live audience in tiki bar Longitude (347 14th St., Oakland, CA), each episode of Ars Technica Live is a speculative, informal conversation between Ars Technica hosts 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.
Doors are at 7pm, and the live taping is from 7:30 to 8:00pm (be sure to get there early if you want a seat). Then you can stick around for informal discussion at the bar, along with delicious tiki drinks and snacks. Can’t make it out to Oakland? Never fear! Episodes will be posted to Ars Technica the week after the live events.
Before coming to UC Hastings, Ahmed Ghappour was at the University of Texas School of Law, where he co-taught the National Security Clinic, and the the Civil Rights Clinic. Prior to that, Prof. Ghappour was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings. He began his legal career as a patent litigator at Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP. Formerly, Ghappour was a computer engineer focused on design automation, diagnostics, distributed systems architecture and high performance computing.
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 [suh-ROOS] Farivar is the Senior Business Editor at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer. His book, The Internet of Elsewhere—about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea—was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011.
Free. Each documentary will begin promptly at 5:30 PM, discussion afterwards. Food provided.
Feb 3 – John Henrik Clarke – A Great and Mighty Walk
Feb 10 – The House I Live In
Feb 17 – The Night Tulsa Burned
Feb 24th – 13th
Constitutional Law Teach-in at the Internet Archive with EFF and Others
EFF and other lawyers will lead a conversation about the current issues and threats in constitutional law. Focusing on specific sections and amendments we will talk about current cases on censorship, surveillance, search and seizure, and more.
Workshops on using encryption tools and maybe musical performances will accompany.
If you want to present, perform, or have other ideas, please email us.
Potluck-style: Please bring apple pie or other food
Reserve your free ticket here
Streamed via Facebook Live
Donations welcome
Lawyers Attending:
- Cindy Cohn – Executive Director of EFF
- Corynne McSherry – Legal Director of EFF
- Victoria Baranetsky – First Look Media Technology Legal Fellow for the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Geoff King – Lecturer at UC Berkeley, and Non-Residential Fellow at Stanford Center for Internet and Society
- Bill Fernholz – Lecturer In Residence at Berkeley Law
For those who cannot attend in person, we will stream the event on Facebook Live, so make sure you’re following us on Facebook.
Join Berkeley Copwatch for a mass copwatching shift. 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. FOOD AND DRINK WILL BE PROVIDED DURING OUR DEBRIEF AT THE END OF THE SHIFT.
DETAILS
* If you are able to bring a car and be a shift driver, that would be GREAT!
* Dress prepared for being outdoors.
* Depending on how many cars are available, some of us may be walking or driving. The Grassroots House where we meet has a ramp. We want to be as accessible as possible, so please reach out if you would like to discuss accessibility in more detail.
SURJ invites you to show up for the Movement for Black Lives and other communities targeted by Trump. Please join us in holding signs and banners to call attention to brutality by police on unarmed Black men and women, and demonstrate solidarity to all those being attacked by the White House agenda. Let’s make our empathy and support for Black and other people of color visible and public. Rain or shine!
Meet under the awning of the Grand Lake Theater of Lakeshore and MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland.
Throughout the East Bay and nationally, folks have been holding weekly gatherings on prominent street corners and freeway overpasses, holding signs and making visible our support for Black communities in these critical times. These gatherings – or “human billboards” – have been a simple yet effective way of channeling anger and sadness over injustice into collective action and solidarity.
Are you concerned about bullying & harassment of our Muslim neighbors? Plus Anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant edicts from the new Administration? Come canvas neighborhood shops (in pairs), ask them to post signs: “We Stand With Our Muslim, Arab and Immigrant Neighbors”
Everyone welcome, rain or shine.
Hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace. Participating Organizations: Kehilla Community Synagogue, SURJ, Oakland Neighbors Inspiring Trust, Wellstone Democratic Club and more!
Honduras and Colombia are centers for US Control in Latin America which has been in
process over many years. The Colombian elite has welcomed Plan Colombia, extensive military
training and 7 US military bases in exchange for “stability”, class security, money, business
interests and help opposing the mass anti-government movements over the years. The US has
centers for intelligence gathering, a new “School of the Americas”, bases with great military
capacity, ready to invade any anti-US country, such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba and Bolivia.
The US is not supporting the Peace Process in Colombia which is being attacked by US created
paramilitary armies, Gaintanistas and Urabeños. This is not to mention the many US mining and
business. Many peasant and popular leaders are being assassinated at this very moment. We
need to build opposition to the US wars around the world, be it in the Middle East, Latin
America or at home.
In Honduras, the “Alliance for Prosperity”, modeled after Plan Colombia, increases
militarization and privatization, and is responsible for increased displacement, and corruption,
violence, and repression.
The Presentation is sponsored by Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition (BALASC)
and The Task Force on the Americas.
Alice Loaiza: Lived in Colombia for many years and works with Marcha Patriotica. Also
worked with CONAP, Coordinacion Nacional de Organizaciones Agrarias y Populares and also
in international accompaniment. She has lived and worked in many parts of the country. In the
Bay Area Alice works with BALASC and The Task Force on the Americas.
Diana Bohn: Visited Honduras for third time in December, 2016, as a member of the Root
Causes of Migration Pilgrimage, which visited groups affected by the policies of the Alliance for
Prosperity, government corruption, and violence. Diana is a Task Force on the Americas Board
member and Member of BALASC.
JOIN US to create magical shadow scenes in support of First They Come for the Homeless! Using donated tents, LED flashlights, and simple cut out shapes, we will create messages of love or inspiring scenes to promote awareness of homelessness in Berkeley. These tents will be donated to the homeless, and our shadow messages will be publicly on display on the streets of Berkeley. Now more than ever we must come together to show support and love for all.
Snacks provided
Featuring the poor, unhoused, disabled, Black, Brown, indigenous, elder and youth leaders, artists, cultural workers of POOR Magazine who have practiced this concept for 20 years through their own collective traumas.
This workshop will include an ongoing teaching of poor peoples/traumatized peoples accountability, how to redefine a western white supremacist notion of security, and how to hold each other through trauma into a true definition of inter-dependent safety.
Sing for an hour with the Tax the Rich crew.
Event is cancelled if it is raining.