join PBS Blackside documentary
filmmaker Aleta Alston Toure’, who has been staying with Canticle Farm for two
months. Aleta is a Mother, Filmmaker, Healer and Social Change
organizer/strategist that is presently helping to build the Parable of
the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative. Aleta will be joined by
local Bay Area members Kazu Haga, East Point Peace Academy and with
Lousie Dunlap, Undoing the Silence: Six tools for Social Change Writing,
as they screen and discuss the culminating 20 years since the
“Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage Walk” which started May 30,
1998 where they were peace walkers on the 20 mile a day journey to
retrace slavery through America, The Caribbean, South America and
Africa.

Come hear about how this journey came together through the PBS Episode
6: Rise Up and Call Their Names.

Rise Up and Call Their Names, which chronicles a two-year interfaith,
multiracial, multiethnic pilgrimage from Massachusetts to Africa�by
way of Florida and the Caribbean�undertaken to heal the wounds of
slavery.

But is religious belief alone enough to hold the pilgrimage together?
Rise Up and Call Their Names follows 60 people who joined the Interfaith
Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage on a physical and spiritual voyage.
They walked from Massachusetts to Florida, then made their way to the
Caribbean and ultimately to Africa. Their purpose was to encourage
whites to join the conversation about slavery and to pray to heal the
societal racial rift.

Along the way, they visited the Masjid Khalifah Mosque (part of Imam
Wallace Mohammed’s Muslim American Society) and the Federation of
Southern Cooperatives, which works with black farmers struggling to hold
onto their land in Alabama. After months of difficult travel and deep
soul-searching, the pilgrims reach Africa with a stronger sense of
identity and purpose.

Further information:
https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/about/episode_6.html
https://middlepassagereunion.wordpress.com/about/
https://newenglandpeacepagoda.org/

See how the Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative and
the Canticle Farms Community are utilizing spiritual upliftment and
liberation as a way to bring housing and “Beloved Communities” together.

The Residents of the West Oakland Wood st Homeless Community have been continually harrassed and threatened by the City of Oakland and the real estate developer, Game Changer LLC. Over a hundred homeless people have informally settled on Wood st in West Oakland, as the developer looks to make a profit, residents are being threatened with eviction. Residents have been fighting this eviciton for over a year.
Residents are planning to deliver a letter to an Oakland politician, demanding an end to this harrassment and that no homeless community be removed without adequate housing alternatives being made available.

RSVP Here

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

On the eve of one of the holiest festivals of the Christian calendar we take a materialist and dialectical look at this influential religious denomination.  Our topic will be introduced by ICSS member Richard Fallenbaum.

So that is why we are asking you to join our Christmas Eve Press Conference 👇

Tomorrow 12/24 @ 10AM

2928 Magnolia St, Oakland

— Moms 4 Housing (@moms4housing) December 24, 2019

URGENT – @moms4housing eviction hearing date has been expedited by the courts and will now be Thursday, 12/26.

Show up to the Hayward Hall of Justice at 8:30AM

24405 AMADOR ST. Hayward, CA 94544 https://t.co/LdRfdCgDFy

— Coalition on Homelessness (@TheCoalitionSF) December 25, 2019

Lisa Savage is a hard-hitting teacher-organizer-grandmother who’s been spearheading the “Conversion” campaign at Maine’s Bath Iron Works to convert it to supply green energy and transportation, rather than billion-dollar destroyer warships that drain our budget, worsen climate change, and don’t make us safer.  She’s running in a high-profile Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) contest to challenge vulnerable Trump ally Senator Susan Collins in Maine.

Lisa’s race will also showcase RCV as the real solution to the “spoiler” hysteria used across the nation to shut down Green voices.  By lifting up the real solution to “spoiler” panic, Lisa’s race will strengthen the RCV momentum that’s well underway across the nation.

Please join us at a reception on Thursday evening to meet Lisa and to support her US Senate campaign which Jill Stein recently called, “the most hopeful race on the 2020 horizon”.  If you’re not able to attend on Thursday, you can still support Lisa at: LisaForMaine.org

V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the Wachowskis based on the 1988 DC/Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set in an alternate future where a Nordic supremacist and neo-fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the United Kingdom, the film centers on V (portrayed by Hugo Weaving), an anarchist and masked freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a revolution through elaborate terrorist acts, while Natalie Portman plays Evey, a young, working-class woman caught up in V’s mission and Stephen Rea portrays a detective leading a desperate quest to stop V.

V for Vendetta has been seen by many political groups as an allegory of oppression by government; libertarians and anarchists have used it to promote their beliefs.

David Lloyd stated: “The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny – and I’m happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.”

After movie discussion led by Sake One of KPFA’s “Oooh, They Mad” program!

This topic was suggested by ICSS member Karen Steward who will provide an introduction to this fascinating book.

freeoaklandup

Free Oakland UP is open Thursday to Sunday, 12-4.
Come in for your #free #treasures! One free treasure per person per day and for a fair monetary donation to help pay the rent you may choose more! More treasures!!
Plus! There are 2 tables where you can take all you want and may take as much Christmas stuff as you want! Sooooo much stuff!

OAKLAND!

Please join us for Oscar Grant Day today at Fruitvale Station. In 2009 on this day Oscar was murdered. I’ll be speaking this afternoon and want to see you there.

The gathering is from 12pm – 4pm. Meet Oscar’s family, activists, & organizers, and stand in solidarity.

— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 1, 2020

Talk on BDS.

Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library

Discussion Topic: Is this the year we will overthrow the hated dictatorship of the bourgeoisie?

Due to the New Year’s Holiday the January 2nd meeting of the PAC has been cancelled. A Special Meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday January 8th from 5-7pm at City Hall in Hearing Room 1.  

Agenda items of possible interest:

4. Chief Privacy Officer report – Privacy Principles status update and implementation
5. Chair/Vice Chair report – 2020 planning, PAC annual report, report tracking, agenda management
6. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – Live Stream Camera Impact Report and proposed Use Policy – review and take possible action
7. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – UAS (Drone) Impact Report and proposed Use Policy – review and take possible action