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“Black Ice,” the Greenpeace struggle to stop Arctic drilling
Join us for the screening of “Black Ice”, the inspiring new film about Greenpeace members who risked their lives and freedom to stop Russian Oil giant Gazprom from drilling in the Arctic. Afterwards find out about the massive call-in campaign to President Obama asking him to stop oil drilling in Alaska.
More about this award-winning movie.
Synopsis and credits at at IMDB
If you can make it to #AfrikaTown today in #WestOakland at SanPablo and Brush that would be awesome. We need bodies to defend the garden.
— Minister Flashes (@Federal_flashes) March 11, 2015
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— Bud (@buddrums) March 11, 2015
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
Our work together encompasses:
- (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers;
- (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and
- (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
We look forward to learning with you and making change for the better. Please love and support one another. We have a duty to fight. We have a duty to win.
Folks up at #AfrikaTown feeding the community this morning. This is beautiful. #WestOakland pic.twitter.com/csq99wMSL1
— Minister Flashes (@Federal_flashes) March 11, 2015
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The first of eight meetings is January 28th.
This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.
March 11, 2015 people throughout the world will be acting to protest the continuing danger at Fukushima.
The Japanese pro-war Abe government has announced that the tanks surrounding Fukushima are full and they will release thousands of tons of radioactive water.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201412130042
They also are intent in reopening the nearly 50 nuclear power plants that were shutdown after the earthquake. They are also exporting nuclear power plants to Turkey and throughout the world to make more profits in this industry.
The government is also ordering families and children back to Fukushima telling them that it has been decontaminated despite continuing radiation and a growing epidemic of thyroid cancer cases. The government refused as well using a newly passed secrecy law to release information on cancer surgeries in the Fukushima region.
Reading of letters will start at 2:30 PM from around the world. Also there will be a march to PG&E on 245 Market St. near Spear St. San Francisco demanding the closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant
The 32nd NNA Monthly Rally-The Fukushima Fourth Anniversary Rally
2 :30 pm The letters to PM Abe will be read loud
3 :00 The speaking out begins
Aroud 3:30 Some more letters will be read loud by actual writers.
4 :00 We start to march to the PGE headquarter on the Market St. to demand the closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant
4 :30 Rally Ends
Please wear something yellow, scarf, cap and whatever!
Please bring many people, many signs and your energy!
Sponsored by No Nukes Action Committee, Fukushima Response
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Speaker: Congressman Barney Frank
Sponsor: Goldman School of Public Policy
5:30 p.m. Reception with Refreshments
6:00 p.m. Presentation and Q&A
First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank represented Massachusetts’s 4th District for 32 years. He is known as a superb legislator and a pragmatic politician whose sharp intellect and sense of humor has made him one of the most influential and colorful figures in Washington. While in Congress, Frank worked to adjust America’s spending priorities to reduce the deficit, provide less funding for the military and more for important quality of life needs at home. As chair of the House Financial Services Committee, he adopted sweeping financial regulations to prevent a recurrence of the financial crisis and was a key author of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Help plan and build the March 24 day of action to remove the dictatorship and demand an end to downsizing, pushout policies, austerity, and attacks on diversity, and the cancellation of the construction of the Performing Arts Education Center.
We’ll be discussing the Debt and Economic systems of the ancient world for this meeting, using an article written by Michael Hudson.
Here’s the reading. Reconstructing The Origins of Interest-Bearing Debt… We’ll be talking about pages 1-30 this time.
The Politics of Debt Reading Group is associated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike Debt Bay Area.
Prof. Xiao is inviting a special guest, Stanislav Shalunov, co-founder of FireChat, to his class Internet Freedom on Thursday, March 12, 4-6pm.
FireChat in recent news: FireChat — an ‘off-the-grid’ smartphone app — emerged this month as the technological glue holding Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests together and a powerfulweapon in the hands of mass movements, dissidents and protesters. The app works by creating its own network outside the internet, relying simply on the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi link that exist between one phone and another (source).
In solidarity, we ask you to make time to join in sending healing prayers and healing energy to Tristan Anderson and his family on Friday March 13, 2015 the six year anniversary of Tristan’s shooting by Israeli Border Police. Tristan was shot in the head with a tear gas grenade following a demonstration against the building of the “Separation Wall” in Palestine, in the West Bank village of Ni’ilin. To this day, Tristan requires 24 hour care.
Currently, his family is in court against the government of Israel in a civil lawsuit which is scheduled to conclude on March 23. His parents, Mike and Nancy Anderson are 68 and 72 years old. This is not a symbolic lawsuit, it is a demand that the State pay for the long term care that Tristan needs to survive. Tristan is paralyzed with chronic pain on the left side of his body, he is blind in his right eye, and he has suffered severe injury to his brain. Much power lies now in the hands of the judge. But we appeal to you, our friends.
We started hearing back from the implementers at the last meeting; OPD, PEC, Auditor, and the ER director talked. Now the committee has to decide what to do about what they said. See you at 6:00pm, Thursday, 12 March 2015, at Oakland City Hall.
RETALIATE AGAINST WORKER INTIMIDATION BY FAST FOOD CORPORATIONS AND POLICE
Remember two Fridays ago in San Lorenzo, CA when Jack in the box fired a worker unjustly, then called the county sheriffs when she came back with her union comrades demanding her job back???
We are fighting back with a weekly “EFF YOU FRIDAY” picket at various local Jack stores. We gotta send the message to corporations and police that we will not back down from fighting to improve workers’ lives.
WE WILL BE CONTINUING THESE ACTIONS EVERY FRIDAY AT DIFFERENT JACK-IN-THE-BOX LOCATIONS WITH THE SAME OWNER.
FRIDAY THE 13TH: Good Luck Comes to Good Bosses!
Join us for our picket line to support our union brothers and sisters at HS Lordships!
Workers at HS Lordships have been bargaining for a contract for more than four years. These longtime workers are asking for a fair contract, but management continues to propose drastic cuts in medical benefits. Workers have offered to give up sick days and vacation time and participate in a new healthcare plan with an increased deductible and reduced benefits. The restaurant, however, continues to propose making it harder for workers to qualify for healthcare.
At the restaurant, servers make $9 an hour and pay more than $500 per month for family insurance. Workers are fighting for affordable medical insurance and saying “NO MORE” to skyrocketing healthcare costs!
“I have worked at HS Lordships restaurant for ten years. I am a mother of six boys, and my family needs medical insurance in order to provide for and protect our children so they can grow and develop in the healthiest way possible. We need medical insurance that is accessible and affordable so that our basic needs can be met.”
-Adelaida Cisneros, Pantry Cook
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East Bay Community Forum on Race Issues with W. Kamau Bell
Join the ACLU of Northern California Staff Attorney Novella Coleman at a community forum on implicit bias and microaggression experiences in the East Bay hosted by comedian W. Kamau Bell and The Elmwood Café.
Berkeley residents, W. Kamau Bell and his wife Dr. Melissa Hudson Bell,posted a blog on his website describing an incident that happened to them on January 26th at the Elmwood Cafe. It occurred between them and an employee of the café.
Very quickly, the blog spread around the Bay Area and eventually all over the country. It was the kind of story mainstream media couldn’t resist: a local TV personality, accusations of racism, and the backdrop Berkeley – reportedly the most liberal place in America. And usually that is where a story like that ends. But not this time.
Soon after the incident Michael Pearce, an advocate for social justice and owner of the Elmwood Café reached out to the Bell family and immediately apologized. He said he wanted to know what he could do to make sure that this kind of incident never happened again. Melissa and Kamau said all they wanted was a conversation with him, and they wanted to invite the community to come participate.
On March 13 that conversation is happening, and you’re invited. Thanks to the Berkeley Unified School District, it will be at Willard Middle School. The Bells and Michael Pearce will participate on a panel in Berkeley that will be facilitated byPamela Harrison-Small former Executive Director of the Berkeley Alliance.