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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.
Who’s Got the Power?
A Workshop for Organizers on Analyzing the Balance of Forces
Facilitated by Rebecca Gordon of University of San Francisco Department of Philosophy, a co-founder of the War Times/Tiempo de Guerras collective, and author of Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States (Oxford University Press) and American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes (Skyhorse Publishing).
Join Center for Political Education for a workshop offering a methodology for analyzing the relationship between forces of repression – social, economic, political – and those in resistance to them. Strengthening our practice of this type of analysis at local, national, and international scales helps us understand the levers of power and who controls them as well as potential areas of vulnerability through which we may take action to shift power.
For more information contact Center for Political Education.
Bay Area organizations demand:
Alameda County Sheriff Ahern’s rescind his policy to participate in mass deportations! Sheriff Ahern is not align with the community and the rest of Alameda County elected officials who have already stand on the side of the community to reject ICE entanglement and affirm Due Process for all regardless of immigration status!
We call on Sherriff Ahern to cease and reject any further entanglement with ICE and mass deportations! Ahern must comply with community demand to not participate in Trumps Policing and Militarization state. His anti-immigrant and racist policies have no place in our County!#AhernNOTmySheriff #Trumpnotmypresident.
We are also rallying in support of the California Values Act to protect all Californians by ensuring that state and local resources are not used for mass deportations or separation of families.
We will march from the Oakland Federal building plaza to Sheriff Ahern’s office!
It’s time for guaranteed healthcare for all Californians!
Join us in Sacramento to step up the campaign for a Healthy California – where healthcare is guaranteed for everyone in our state.
What California needs:
-Universal coverage
-No deductibles, co-pays
-Real patient choice
-Comprehensive benefits
With the future of healthcare in California and the U.S. at stake, now is the time to act
Hope to see you there!
The entrance to the building is down a corridor that runs between Addison and Center St – we’ll be meeting on the 6th floor in the UAW offices.
Hear from East Bay DSA members who study and work at Cal about what DSA is, what our East Bay chapter is working on, and what we’re involved in at Cal – and hope to be in the future!