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Press conference, Mon, March 2, noon at 16th St BART plaza, SF: Mission tenants to fight mass eviction & offer "win-win" land trust solution
— Cindy Milstein (@CindyMilstein) February 28, 2015
What: 96 Hours of Direct Action Schedule of Events Statewide (Berkeley, All UCs, CSUs, Community Colleges)
Monday, March 2
All Day: Decentralized Direct Actions across Campus
10am: 20 Minute Mass Flyering: Meet on Sproul Steps
5pm: Short Debrief and Info Hub in Wheeler Commons
Tuesday, March 3
All Day: Decentralized Direct Actions across Campus
10am: 20 Minute Mass Chalking: Meet on Sproul Steps
5pm: Short Debrief and Info Hub in Wheeler Commons
Wednesday, March 4
All Day: Decentralized Direct Actions across Campus
12-1pm: Funeral for Public Education on Sproul Steps
+all students, workers, faculty, and community allies are invited to wear black and join die-in
5pm: Short Debrief and Info Hub in Wheeler Commons
Thursday, March 5
12pm-Whenever: STRIKE to Fight the Hike + Phoenix Free Education Festival on Sproul Plaza
+all students, workers, faculty, and community allies are invited to transform our campus together
+bring a tent
*To stay updated on actions around campus, text “FightTheHike” to 88202
*To post or learn about some actions being planned, visit our Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/lanwxn9
A 27% fee hike in UC tuition has been announced with a range of justifications—this on top of the 300% increase in attending the UC in the last decade alone. The administration claims that the state’s defunding of public education has forced this on us, the only option left is to displace the costs of running the university onto students. We disagree. The UC doesn’t want public money from Sacramento; it wants more of your far less regulated private tuition dollars. In spite of the increased cost of education, we endure cuts to student programs, overflowing lecture halls, classes that are difficult to get into, decreasing numbers of students of color, and many other signs of the declining quality of education.
In response to mounting pressure from students around the state, the administration has now announced plans to delay the fee hike, to wait until we’re less prepared. But a deferral is no victory; we demand far more. Rather than a signal that we should give up, we believe that now is the time to push our demands for a better UC. Students across the state–at UCs, CSUs, Community Colleges and High Schools–have called for “96 Hours of Direct Action” the first week of March, culminating in a statewide student walk out on Thursday, March 5. In 2010 similar actions won hundreds of millions of dollars in state support, and in 2012, they beat back a proposed tuition hike that would have nearly doubled of the cost of a UC education. This March, let’s demonstrate that there’s an alternative to privatization and debt. This is your call to action. On March 5, let’s shut it down.
Updated information for Monday:
- We have moved the Rally to start in front of the jail at 850 Bryant on Monday, March 2nd at 5:30pm. Come prepared to dance! We will be joined by the BLO (Brass Liberation Orchestra) and march to the CASC for the Environmental Impact Community Meeting. RSVP here.
- We’ve also learned that the Capitol Planning Committee is voting on the jail plan the same day. We need anyone who can speak out against the jail to join us
- Monday, March 2nd from noon-2pm in City Hall.
Sheriff Mirkarimi and staff from the Department of Public Works will be hosting a public meeting on the environmental impact of the $278 million dollar jail plan.
You are invited to attend a public meeting hosted by San Francisco Public Works and the San Francisco Sheriffs Department regarding the environmental review process for the proposed new jail.
No new jail in SF! Rally and voice your opposition Mar 2 at a meeting about the jail project’s environmental impact https://t.co/1WFb0AtMsL
— Critical Resistance (@C_Resistance) February 24, 2015
The new Rehabilitation Detention Facility (RDF) will replace County Jails #3 and #4, currently located on the 6th and 7th floors of the Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street.
Plan on joining us at 5:30pm at the CASC for a rally before the 6pm meeting. Bring banners and signs and your best examples of the environmental impacts that jail and incarceration has on your life and your community.
San Francisco needs real solutions to public safety, housing, jobs, education, mental health care, not more of the same failed policies that harm our community. Justice is won when we build a future of opportunity for everyone, not more jails.
We want to pack the house and show how strong San Francisco’s opposition is to this controversial replacement jail proposal. And spread the word, it’s coming up quick!
Discussion and Announcements to follow.
Town Hall, Mon, March 2, 6 pm, Cesar Chavez Elementary, SF to decry SFPD murder of Amilcar Perez Lopez on Folsom/24th two nite ago #ACAB
— Cindy Milstein (@CindyMilstein) February 28, 2015
City of Oakland Domain Awareness Center Privacy and Data Retention Policy. During discussions of the Oakland Port Domain Awareness Center (DAC) in March 2014, the City Council adopted a resolution requiring the City Administrator’s office to convene an advisory committee to develop a data retention and privacy policy to address public concerns about the DAC and its surveillance system. The DAC Ad Hoc Privacy and Data Retention Advisory Committee has been meeting since May 2014 and developed a policy and several additional recommendations to present to City Council. Joe DeVries, Assistant to the City Administrator and staff to the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee, and Brian Hofer, the Committee Chair, will provide an overview of the issue and the advisory committee process and will share the details of the proposal that is being developed. The recommendations include a potential role for the Public Ethics Commission as an impartial oversight entity. The Commission will review and discuss this issue and may take action regarding the proposal.
Full agenda and link to Proposed Privacy Policy.
EVERY MONDAY IN MARCH FROM 600-800 PM AT THE QILOMBO.
THIS WILL BE AN ONGOING STUDY SESSION EXAMINING THE HISTORY OF THE ONGOING ZAPATISTA STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION.
SESSION I: First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle http://www.struggle.ws/
Future sessions will likely be described at the Facebook event.
ALL OUT FOR JOBS NOT JAILS IN ALAMEDA COUNTY!
For the past six months, we have campaigned for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to set aside 50% for community programs and services.
But on February 9th, the Community Corrections Partnership Executive Committee recommended that the supervisors allocate $18 million—more than half of their public safety funds—to the sheriff.
On March 3rd, the Board of Supervisors will vote on the public safety budget and it’s time to tell them to vote for jobs not jails, books not bars, and healthcare not handcuffs.
The first of eight meetings is January 28th.
This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.
We are having an orientation for our hands-on study group. The focus of the project is both analytical and activist. As a group, we will develop an understanding of the relationship between gentrification and police violence thru readings, workshops and discussions. At the same time, we will be developing and implementing strategies in our neighborhoods that seek to discourage other people that are new to Oakland from calling the cops. It will last about 3 months and we would love to host it all at the Omni if that works for y’all!
Film evenings begin with optional potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by optional discussion after the film.
JEKYLL ISLAND, Part I
by William Still
For this film, see the website shown below.
Humanist Hall is wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street.
This conference promotes the development of locally-controlled clean energy economies as a necessary path to a sustainable future. The conference is a diverse gathering of policy makers, entrepreneurs, and community advocates engaged in a thoughtful and inspiring exploration of strategies and programs for advancing a local clean energy transition in the Bay Area.
To learn more about Conference goals and to register, please visit the event website.
On the 2nd Anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s death, we celebrate his legacy, embodied
in the people and their struggle
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March 5 is the second anniversary of the tragic passing of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. Yet, despite his short life, he transformed Venezuela by his courageous struggle to make the Venezuelan masses the protagonists of their destiny.
Before Chávez, Venezuela’s natural resources enriched only the oil companies and ruling class. Today the country’s wealth has been harnessed for true development — hundreds of thousands of homes, healthcare and schools throughout the country.
The goal of the Bolivarian Revolutionary process is socialism, where every human being can enjoy guaranteed rights of healthcare, education, housing, jobs, equality, culture, social peace, and international solidarity.
But the U.S. government is working to destabilize the Venezuelan revolutionary government, financing right-wing organizations, encouraging coup attempts and terrorist attacks on the population. Now, the U.S. Congress is applying sanctions on Venezuela to punish the government and people for defending their sovereignty.
It is up to us, the people of the United States, to demand that our government stop the attacks and destabilization of Venezuela, respect International Law and Venezuela’s right to live.
Join us on Thursday, March 5, 5 pm, 24th and Mission, S.F., for a rally to celebrate: “Chavez Vive! La Lucha Sigue!”
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Sponsored by Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition. Endorsed by ANSWER Coalition, SOA Watch-San Francisco; FMLN-Nor. California; FSLN-Nor. California; Haiti Action Committee; Hondurenos en Resistencia del Norte de California; Task Force on the Americas; Nicaragua Center for Community Action; Party for Socialism and Liberation; Workers World Party
The BAPS General Meeting is where our core group of organizers come together. For those looking to get involved with the school, this is the best place to start. What happens at the General Meeting?
- Anyone can bring a proposal
- for new classes
- events
- organizational procedures
- lectures, talks, speakers
- workshops
- skill-shares
- Organizers vote
- on class proposals
- important financial expenditures
- use of space
- core values
- We meet each other
- make relevant announcements
- collaborate and coalesce new visions of the school
- distribute tasks and plan to take action
- learn how to build collectivity, a commons, a life
Karibu! (Welcome!)
We are inviting everyone out to Qilombo to participate in a day of festivities, mural painting, cleaning and gardening!
This project will be part of several different phases to create Oakland’s first Afrika Town! Qilombo’s role in Afrika Town will be immense. We are in the process of upgrading the space: building onto our community garden, adding a lovely mural on the side of the building, and doing the first steps to putting in a kitchen.
This kitchen is very much needed due to all the food programs we have at Qilombo. Also we will be having a potluck bbq so we need donations of side dishes and goodies, too!
If you can make food to bring or buy food to grill, please feel free to let us know here. Please come out to help us beautify and empower the community out of love for the people!
Mwezo wote wa watu
All power to the people!
Donate money to this amazing project here: http://qilombo.org/ (and ask us for what we need materially and skill-wise).
Donate to the community breakfasts here:
http://www.gofundme.com/
~ * Mo’ Mama’s Rise Collective (childcare) is also accepting donations. We’re requesting everything miniature, from mats to desks, to chairs, toys, books, non-toxic art supplies, to chalkboard paint and chalk, baby mugs and dishes, one file cabinet, safety scissors. If you have any other ideas please message the hosts on this event page. ♥
Afrika Town (in the making)!
50th Anniversary of Selma Bloody Sunday Commemorative Bridge Walk and Rally
Walk across the span in solidarity with the marchers in Selma, Alabama
Bring Signs, Banners and your voice against InJustice
USA, 1965: Black people in Selma, Alabama, viciously attacked by cops and the Klan for seeking the right to vote, beaten with baseball bats and billy clubs, tear gas, and whips; … people murdered by brutalizing police, by racist vigilantes; … “whites only” Jim Crow segregation still prevails across the South, and in the North Black people crammed into crrumbling ghettos; forced to attend overcrowded, underfunded inner city schools; arrested, beaten, and murdered by police; kept in the lowest-paying, most dangerous jobs, if they find work at all…
USA, 2015:a full half-century later a New Jim Crow of criminalization and mass incarceration of Black and men still in full effect; more Black men in prison today than were enslaved in 1850; soaring unemployment for Black people in cities across the entire country; public schools more segregated now 60 years since the U.S. Supreme Court put an end tto the hateful “separate but equal doctrine” than they were in the late 1960s; And increasingly, Black people denied the right to vote, supposedly the most “sacred” right of U.S. citizenship, at a rate seven times higher than that for white people.
On top of that, there’s the increasing number of Black men and youths murdered by police in every city of this country choked tto death on a sidewalk in New York; shot and killed walking down the street in Ferguson, Missouri, in a park in Cleveland, on a train in Oakland; racist vigilantes murdering Black youth in cold blood, being let free by courts at every level, up to and including the Federal government. The system is once again forcefully reminding us of the Dred Scott Decision that Black people have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect”.
But, also in August 2015, the defiant youth of Ferguson stood up. They sparked a powerful movement to stop the murder of people at the hands of the police. Tens of thousands of people, of different ethnicities and all over the country, blocked highways and bridges, marched through shopping malls, did “die-ins” everywhere, walked out from school, and left work. These actions shook this country to its core.
Now We Are At a Crossroads Will we allow the system to suppress this movement and continue business as usual, or will re-take the offensive and bring even more massive waves of struggle to STOP the murder of Black, Brown and all people by the police?
On April 14, we need to take our movement to STOP wanton police murder to a whole new level. NO SCHOOL! NO WORK! NO BUSINESS AS USUAL!
On this day, thousands of students walking out of school, taking over buildings and going on strike at colleges and high schools nationwide. People gathering and marching in cities all across the U.S. The normal routine of this society, which includes wanton police murder of Black and Brown people, must be brought to a Halt!
* The murder of Black and Brown people by the police MUST STOP.
* Justice for all the victims of brutal, murdering police.
* Indict, convict and send killer cops to jail: the whole damn system is guilty as hell.
* Stop the repression targeting the protests: Drop all the chargges against all those arrested.
Stopping Police Murder is NOT a Spectator Sport!
Stop Mass Incarceration Bay Area
2501 San Pablo
Berkeley, CA 94702