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Jan
18
Fri
Solidarity Action Against Destruction of the Amazon @ Brazilian Consulate
Jan 18 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join this solidarity rally against the attacks by Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, on the environment, human rights, and social justice, including

  • closing the Environmental Ministry
  • ending indigenous people’s rights
  • removing protections against deforestation of the Amazon
  • labeling activists as terrorists
  • and more.

This rally at the Brazilian consulate will emphasize our solidarity with people and all living beings in Brazil and around the world fighting to stop these devastating policies.

Info/RSVP

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Jan
22
Tue
Hands Off Our Park: Defend People’s Park From Cops And Chainsaws @ People's Park
Jan 22 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Last week, over 150 heavily armed police officers came with guns and chainsaws to cut down our trees and trash our homes. Six people – community members and students – were violently awoken and handcuffed at 5 am, on charges of “illegal camping” – because they had put up tents and tarps as shelter from the rain. All of their belongings were seized or trashed.

We reject the UC’s claim that this is about sick trees. This is about razing one of Berkeley’s few public spaces to turn it into privatized, luxury dorms. Some trees were supposedly removed because they were “too close to other trees”. Others were completely removed over health issues that are normally solved by removing a branch. The only thing “wrong” with those trees was that they stood in the way of the construction equipment the UC intends to bring in.

They came in the dark of night, during break, when they knew most students would be away from Berkeley, to make it look like students didn’t care. Join us in the park at 11:30 for a rally, and then march to campus, to show the UC that the park belongs to the People, not militarized cops and not private corporations!

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Jan
24
Thu
Rally Against The Attack On The Poor @ San Francisco City Hall
Jan 24 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

As DPW continually confiscates property at the behest of the city govt, the BOS appears poised to enact SB-1045, a dangerous bill meant to conserve homeless folks with a prior history of 5150 holds in mental institutions without their consent. The city puts these efforts into attacking the poor while the Bayview is still without even a full service shelter after decades of broken promises. The people of SF demand housing and appropriate services.
Join the Bay Area Landless People’s Alliance in exposing these actions of the city of SF, Oakland and Berkeley. Let’s come together and fight back!

This Rally will create an opportunity for folks to speak on their experiences being harrassed by the Department of Public Works, The police and their local city Government. The scheduled speakers will include Gwendolyn Westbrook (CEO of the United Council of Human services), representatives of the United Front Against Displacement, Berkeley Friends on Wheels, Neither Here nor There.

However, this event is open to all to participate!

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Jan
25
Fri
Say NO to the U.S.-orchestrated Coup in Venezuela
Jan 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

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Jan
26
Sat
Social Justice Symposium @ Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School
Jan 26 all-day

Thirteenth Annual Social Justice Symposium

The Social Justice Symposium (SJS) is a student-organized event that serves as space for the community to meet and discuss social justice work in the Bay Area.

 

Schedule

This year, our keynote speaker is George Galvis. Galvis holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies and a Master’s in City Planning from UC Berkeley where he was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow. Galvis is the co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ, pronounced courage). Galvis advocates for at-risk youth, prisoners and formerly imprisoned individuals with children. He has led statewide advocacy efforts to transform punitive school and juvenile justice policies that disparately impact youth of color and has developed traditional rites of passage programs as healthy alternatives to gang violence.

  • 9:00 — Doors open/Registration
  • 9:30-11:00 — Workshops
  • 11:15-12:00 — Keynote Address
  • 12:15-12:45 — FREE LUNCH
  • 1:00-2:30 — Workshops
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Oppose the “Walk for Life”: Stand Up for Women! Trump/Pence Must Go!
Jan 26 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
sm_50426224_610414866065224_4523183836426665984_n.jpg This Saturday he so-called “Walk for Life” – which should be called the March for Female Enslavement & Forced Motherhood – will organize tens of thousands to march down Market Street to demand the end of the right to abortion for women.

We call for everyone to join with Refuse Fascism to oppose the “Walk for Life,” to stand up to the anti-abortionists, and to raise the demand that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! These people march every year – this year, the stakes are very high. We are two years into the Trump/Pence regime, which has packed the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, with anti-abortion judges, along with everything else it has done to attack women, enforce white supremacy, attack immigrants and refugees, assault the environment, and more. We refuse to accept a fascist America!

We also call for all Handmaids to come forward and join us in opposing the “walk for life” – to make the visual statement that if we do not stand up, the nightmare world of brutal and extreme subjugation of women so powerfully captured in the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the recent TV show will become reality. To join the ranks of ‘Handmaids,’ contact afong [at] jps.net or contact Refuse Fascism via Facebook Messenger.

We call for everyone to join with Refuse Fascism to oppose the “Walk for Life,” to stand up to the anti-abortionists, and to raise the demand that the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! These people march every year – this year, the stakes are very high. We are two years into the Trump/Pence regime, which has packed the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, with anti-abortion judges, along with everything else it has done to attack women, enforce white supremacy, attack immigrants and refugees, assault the environment, and more. We refuse to accept a fascist America!

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Jan
27
Sun
Oakland: Protest Against Kamala Harris for President Campaign Launch Rally @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jan 27 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Kamala Harris for President has chosen Oakland for her initial Campaign Launch Rally on January 27, 12:00pm.

What are you going to do, Oakland, when Kamala Harris sets up shop in our town to push her phony “progressive prosecutor” schtick? Her campaign slogan at this point is “Kamala Harris for the People,” but we know she is anything but a candidate for the people, all of the people, those who lost their homes to predatory banks, for instance. She claims to be “tough, principled, fearless,” but we know none of that is true. She’s certainly not tough on the wealthy and powerful. She’s just another ambitious corpocrat trying to pretend she’s further to the left than she’s ever actually been.

She’s pitching herself as “a lifelong public safety and civil rights leader” and it’s time we stand up to say, “hell no.” Jailing people of color does not equal public safety and prosecutors violating defendants’ rights is not civil rights. Among the early staff members she has chosen include her sister Maya Harris, who was a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. We don’t need any more establishment democrats, and definitely not in prosecutor’s clothing.

Her main campaign headquarters will be in Baltimore, but her West Coast operations will be run out of Oakland. Let’s literally run her out of Oakland by not letting her peddle her lies here unchallenged. She doesn’t get to claim her record has been “taking on the Wall Street Banks for middle-class homeowners” without being mocked in public.

This is not a listing for an organized protest at the campaign kick-off rally, but a call for concerned citizens and organizations to make plans to resist her campaign, starting at the very first event. Bare minimum, show up on January 27 with signs and literature to let Kamala stans know how unacceptable this cop is as a presidential candidate. Let her followers on social media know the truth when she spews lies.

When you see photographs of Harris laughing, remember she’s laughing at you, especially if you fall for her liberal claptrap.

Learn more:

A thread on Kamala Harris’s terrible record on criminal justice
https://twitter.com/Copmala/status/1085688776381419520

Kamala Harris: can a ‘top cop’ win over progressives in 2020?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/19/kamala-harris-2020-election-top-cop-prosecutor

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Jan
28
Mon
CPUC Emergency Hearing re PG&E
Jan 28 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Say NO to the CPUC! The California Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a surprise emergency hearing to allow PG&E to pursue debtor-in-possession financing.

Please come to the CPUC Auditorium at 505 Van Ness to speak against giving PG&E a $6 billion bailout and allowing it to duck its debts from last year’s Camp Fire.

The first item is to determine an emergency situation under which the normal 10-day agenda notice can be waived according to Gov’t Code 11125.5(b). The second and third items grant exemptions from PUC Code sections to allow PG&E to do this.

Videocast is at http://www.adminmonitor.com/ca/cpuc/

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Stop OUSD from voting to close “Roots” Middle School! @ La Escuelita
Jan 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The Oakland School Board has just scheduled a special meeting (less than 72 hours notice) for 6pm on Monday with only one item on the agenda, a final vote in the closure of ROOTS Middle School. The school board can not be allowed to displace our students and families from their neighborhood school. We are asking everyone to help, even if you don’t live in Oakland.

1. Please email the Oakland School Board and ask them to keep ROOTS open and demand that any “redesign” of the school can not displace any of the current students.
Aimee.eng [at] ousd.org
Jody.london [at] ousd.org
Jumoke.hintonhodge [at] ousd.org
Gary.yee [at] ousd.org
Shanthi.gonzales [at] ousd.org
Roseann.torres [at] ousd.org
James.harris [at] ousd.org

2. Please sign and share the community petition. We want people outside of Oakland to also sign. There are already over 2700 signatures and we want to show maximum support when it’s submitted to the school board on Monday.
https://www.change.org/p/keeppublicschoolsopen-gmail-com-keep-our-neighborhood-public-schools-open-f805c663-e4b0-49d6-8837-bc1863c4a0ee?recruiter=926411481&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

3. Attend Monday’s 6pm school board meeting at La Escuelita 1050 2nd Ave. The ROOTS closure is the only item on the agenda. You can also submit an Ecomment on the school board website: https://ousd.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx

4. We need legal help and advice. If the school board votes to close ROOTS we will be filing an injunction and we’ll need some help and guidance.

Please help us save ROOTS and send a message to the school board that we will not accept the continued closure and displacement of our neighborhood public schools. Thanks.

#NoCutsNoClosures
#EraseTheBoard
#FailureByDesign
#WeChoose

Here’s the link to the presentation: https://ousd.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6991988&GUID=580873AF-48BE-4507-BF01-6E0C7CDBEF1D

And the resolution: https://ousd.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6991989&GUID=EF8774C2-43AA-418C-B2C7-3AAE5B440C7A

The petition: https://www.change.org/p/keeppublicschoolsopen-gmail-com-keep-our-neighborhood-public-schools-open-f805c663-e4b0-49d6-8837-bc1863c4a0ee?recruiter=926411481&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

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Jan
29
Tue
DSA Socialist Night School: Understanding Capitalism @ East Bay Community Space
Jan 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Required Readings

See the readings that we’ll be discussing after a brief introduction from our members.

 

 

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Jan
31
Thu
E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village
Jan 31 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am

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Feb
1
Fri
E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village
Feb 1 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am

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Feb
3
Sun
SURJ Bay Area Lobby Visit Workshop
Feb 3 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The Policy Working Group is excited to invite you to our upcoming, SURJ Bay Area Lobby Visit Workshop, part two of our legislative workshop series!

Workshop participants can expect to…

-Learn about lobby visits and how they fit into SURJ’s larger framework
-Practice speaking about policy to a legislative staffer
-Hear about new opportunities to engage in the legislative process with SURJ
-Hear from Essie Justice Group on their 2019 policy priorities

Tickets are sliding scale, $0 – $10. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. This workshop is a fundraiser for Essie Justice Group. Please bring a cash donation that is meaningful for you.

****This is the second workshop of a two part series. Attendance at the first workshop on 1/13/19 is not necessary but may be helpful. All are welcome.

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Feb
7
Thu
E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village
Feb 7 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am

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Feb
8
Fri
E12th & 23rd Homeless Eviction Defense @ The Village
Feb 8 @ 8:00 am – 11:00 am

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Feb
9
Sat
March from People’s Park @ People's Park
Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

On January 22nd, supporters of People’s Park marched down Telegraph Avenue to Sproul Plaza to protest the University’s overwhelming police response to the protest defending the trees. This peaceful protest was interrupted by a reckless driver who pushed up on the protesters and struck a sleeping homeless man as he fled the scene. Police have refused to release the identity of the driver or respond to this blatant attack on the poor people of Berkeley.

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People’s Park Rally and Protest @ People's Park
Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

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Feb
13
Wed
Protect Refugees: Cambodian Deportation Defense Rally @ ICE San Francisco
Feb 13 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

We need your help! The Cambodian American community is under attack by ICE. ICE is scheduling check-ins for Cambodian Americans with deportation orders on March 13th at the San Francisco ICE building. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY FROM DEPORTATION. We are hosting a rally in support of impacted folks and their families who have check-ins that day. We need folks to:

– Support folks with check-ins by showing up and letting them know there is a community that supports, loves, and will fight for them
– Support impacted folks’ families the day of check-ins to let them know we are there for them
– Show up in numbers to let ICE know they cannot tear our families apart

This event is in conjunction, and in solidarity with the Stand up to Trump in court, in the streets, and beyond happening on the same day. Link provided below.

https://www.facebook.com/events/290015418339666/

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Feb
14
Thu
Homeless Eviction Support Needed! @ Lake Merritt North Shore by the columns
Feb 14 @ 8:00 am – 12:00 pm

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Make Sure the BART Board Approves Oscar Grant Way! @ BART Boardroom, 20th Street Mall, Third Floor
Feb 14 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

Join us this Thursday at the BART Board mtg and next week to celebrate the people that made #ReclaimMLKOak possible .
Last month the Oakland City Council unanimously approved a resolution to name an unnamed street near Fruitvale Station as Oscar Grant Way. Join us and Oscar Grant’s family this Thursday at the BART Board of Directors meeting to make sure they approve the motion!

Dear APTP supporters,

Huge THANK YOU to everyone that came out last month to support the 5th Annual People’s March to Reclaim King’s Legacy!

It was a beautiful day with about 3,000 people marching in the streets, an amazing people’s concert and a deep healing ritual lead by Lead to Life to close in the evening.

Check out more photos by the talented Amir Saadiq of that day.

We lifted up the demands of the people’s platform, held People’s Assemblies on housing, education, inter-communal violence, development, use of force, and sanctuary for all.

Now it’s time to get to work!


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