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Tomorrow, the Budget and Finance Committee will meet to discuss the proposed spending costs for public safety services for this year. This hearing is critical as San Francisco Police Department will ask for an additional $23 million from the general fund to hire and train at least 150 new police officers.
“More cops means more arrests,” said Chief Suhr.
This is the city’s justification for the SF replacement jail that will cost upwards of $280 million to build and operate. Last week, there were 293 prisoners locked up in CJ4, yet this replacement jail irresponsibly calls for 521 new cages. We know this new jail would only mean devasting consequences for poor, POC, trans, and LGBQ San Franciscans.
In San Francisco, the African American population is less than 5%, yet black people make up 56% of the imprisoned population. Two-thirds of women in jail have non-violent sentences and have trauma and/or substance abuse issues. As reported by the Controller’s Office, 50% of prisoners presently inside county jails have mental health issues. It’s time we invest in real solutions to public safety, housing, jobs, education, mental health care, not more of the same failed policies that harm our community.
Stand with us tomorrow as we say NO MORE JAILS, NO MORE COPS!
When: Wednesday, April 22 at 1:00 pm
Where: City Hall, Room #250, San Francisco
Together we will demand San Francisco to make real and lasting investments in the health and sustainability of our city!
Film screening of subMedia.tv’s “Street Politics 101” about the 2012 student strike in Montréal, Canada. Plus a screening of the latest Stimulator episode with updates from the student strike currently unfolding in Montréal.
Description of Street Politics 101 from subMedia.tv:
In the spring of 2012, a massive student strike in opposition to a tuition hike, rocked the streets of the Montréal for over six months. Protests and militant street actions became part of the daily and nightly reality of this Canadian metropolis. Several times during this tumultuous spring, the numbers in the streets would reach over one hundred thousand. Police routinely clubbed students and their allies, and arrested them by the hundreds. Some were even banned from entering the city. But every time the cops struck, the student movement got bigger and angrier.
This is a story about how the arrogance of a government, underestimated a dedicated group of students, who through long term organizing laid the foundation for some of the largest mass demonstrations in Canada’s history. But it is also a story of how a crews of determined anarchists, educated a new generation of students, in the importance of owning the streets.
In Street Politics 101, subMedia.tv features some of the best footage from what some called “the maple spring.” It also features interviews with students, teachers and anarchists involved in one of the most militant rebellions in Quebec.
No matter the topic, Roman Mars, creator of the wildly popular “99% Invisible” podcast, will blow your mind with his observations on everything from architectural heists to barcodes, from cow tunnels to DIY space suits. Join the “Ira Glass of Design” and his Radiotopia colleagues for a fascinating evening.
+ Roman Mars / 99% Invisible
+ Sam Greenspan / 99% Invisible
Pre-registration is required for this event. Please use the links below to sign up.
Pre-registration is required for this event. Please register below:
Free for SPUR members
$10 for non-members
Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and other invasions of privacy by our benighted City Government
Stop by and learn how you can help guard Oakland’s right not to be spied on by the government & if you are interested in joining the Oakland Privacy Working Group email listserv, send an email to:
oaklandprivacyworkinggroup-subscribe AT lists.riseup.net
For more information on the DAC check out
Compensation for rape or other violent crimes is crucial to recovery, yet many victims are denied it. Find out
what can be done!
Build on a victory: In 2013 a campaign spearheaded by US PROStitutes Collective, with key support from other sex worker organizations and women’s and prisoners rights campaigners, pushed the California Victim Compensation Program (CalVCP) to drop a discriminatory regulation that denied compensation to sex workers for involvement in the crime of prostitution. Sex workers who are victims of rape, sexual assault or had suffered domestic violence can now get compensation.
• Compensation is still denied to victims who have suffered other violence, or who are prisoners or formerly incarcerated people (FIPs).
• A “cooperation with police” requirement is a further obstacle to compensation, particularly for immigrants and people of color, and any who fear retaliation, deportation, and/or police racism or other bias.
• Similar criminalization and discrimination exists in other countries, and we are campaigning together internationally against this.
Speakers:
Linda Evans, All of Us or None – the impact of compensation programs on prisoners and FIPs.
Nina Lopez, English Collective of Prostitutes and Legal Action for Women, UK – opposing criminalization based on the ‘Swedish model’; the use of anti-trafficking laws to target sex workers & immigrants.
Margaret Prescod, Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders – fighting for justice over the murders of 100 Black women in South Central LA, dismissed by law enforcement as “no humans involved.”
Rachel West, US PROStitutes Collective – what’s next in the struggle for compensation.
From Ferguson and NYC to Los Angeles and Oakland sexism and racism ensure criminalization and even murder. In campaigning for justice we draw on our experiences to demand what we are entitled to.
Event called by: US PROStitutes Collective. Planning Group: All of Us or None, Erotic Service Providers Union: Global Women’s Strike; In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project; Queer Strike; Sin Barras; Kate Grünke-Horton, UCSF PhD Student; Meleiza Figueroa, and other individuals.
http://www.facebook.com/events/890003634396292/
The San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance and the Roxie present “Occupy The Farm” on Earth Day! This is a very special screening since Earth Day is the anniversary of the original action by Occupy the Farm . Occupy the Farm, a film by Todd Darling, tells the story of 200 urban farmers who walk onto a publicly owned research farm and plant it with two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real-estate development.
The film captures an intense conflict over one piece of land. Compelling characters on both sides of the battle create a remarkable narrative in which community members employ an ingenious strategy to confront a powerful institution in the effort to preserve public land for urban farming.
From preparing the soil to police raids, from lawsuits to overflowing harvests, Occupy the Farm reveals a determined community responding with a direct action to address a major social need: healthy food and access to public land.
Join us on April 21st & 22nd to celebrate Earth Day at the Roxie in San Francisco. Screening will be followed by Q&A with the filmmaker Todd Darling and with Ashoka Finley, one of the organizers of Occupy The Farm. Be sure to get your tickets now: http://www.roxie.com/
Critics Say:
“Riveting from the start”, says the Village Voice’s film critic Ernest Handy about OCCUPY THE FARM. “It illustrates the staggering extent to which corporate interests dictate policy and shape scientific research.”
“Sweeps up the viewer in a fast-paced, character-driven narrative,” says Sarah Burke in her film review of OCCUPY THE FARM in East Bay Express.
“Empowering food for thought,” says Los Angeles Times film critic Michael Rechtsaffen.
Informational Demonstration: PLEASE come help share information and hold a huge banner. There will be thousands of passers-by that day at Laney College!
Solidarity w/ The Prisoner Hunger Strikers Study Session:
Every week The Bay Area Solidarity Committee for Jalil Muntaqim hosts a Political Education Class “New Afrikan Prisoner Writings Study Sessions”from 5:30-7:30PM. We will dedicate the April 23rd session in solidarity with the prisoner hunger strikers. We will be reading and discussing “the five core demands” as well as the “Agreement to End Hostilities“. We will also be dissecting different writings by Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Chairman & founder of George Jackson University. The event, hosted by The Bay Area Solidarity Committee For Jalil Muntaqim and George Jackson University, will end in an open mic and political hip hop Show.
Political Education 5:30pm – 7:30pm,
Show/Open Mic 8:00 – 10:00pm
Group Website: https://www.facebook.com/committee.jalil
Wellstone Club Meeting
“What’s Happening with Greece, Spain and the European Union”
Conn HallinanPotluck at 6PM; Meeting at 6:45PM
please bring something to share
Help Movement Generation send Brooke to Palestine this summer!
Join MG for a screening of the provocative film “Enduring Roots” and take a stand against the greenwashing of the Israeli occupation.
Movement Generation is proud to send a delegate – collective member, Brooke Anderson – on the 2015 Land Defense Delegation to Palestine, hosted by the Stop the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Campaign.
The delegation connects international activists involved in land-based struggle, indigenous sovereignty movements and environmental/climate justice work to Palestinians working to defend their land from further colonization by the Jewish National Fund. Through the collection of charitable donations for “environmentalism,” the JNF confiscates land, uproots olive trees, and builds parks and fake forests over Palestinian villages to hide ethnic cleansing and to prevent Palestinians from returning to their homes.
Self-determination and freedom lie at the heart of ecological justice. Free the Land. Free the People. Free Palestine.
Join us on Thursday, April 23rd at the Orchard (Gopal’s place). We’ll watch the film, hear from activists working to stop the JNF, and enjoy some brew and snacks. Please bring a cash or check donation.
If you can’t make the event, you can still make a donation at http://www.gofundme.com/BrooketoPalestine.
For more information about the JNF, visit:
www.stopthejnf.org
www.ijan.org/category/projects-campaigns/stopthejnf
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Training 7
- Challenges to Getting Appropriate Medical or Mental Health Care On The Inside: Tools For More Effective Advocacy and Better Outcomes for Incarcerated People and Supporters On The Outside
- RSVP & Survey: Please complete to shape venue, content, and number of copies for the series.
Email List Sign up for announcements here http://eepurl.com/7WwfL
- Materials, resources, and flyers for this training series are available here http://caitlinkellyhenry.com/support/
Cost If you can afford to, please donate to cover expenses http://www.nlgsf.org/contribute.
- This training will teach participants the legal rights of inmates with medical or mental health needs. The trainer(s) will focus on strategies to advocate for better treatment, including evaluations, medications, and emergency care, for individuals in jails and prisons. Examples will be drawn from experiences with individual and systemic legal advocacy.
- 1.5 Hours General CLE Credit
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Invite Here https://www.facebook.com/events/699605036802805
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Trainers will include: Aaron Fischer, Esq., Associate, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP (San Francisco) Attorney expeerienced in disability rights, Eighth Amendment rights, systemic jail mental health reforms, diabetes anti-discrimination issues. http://rbgg.com/attorneys/associates/aaron-j-fischer
Come help plan continued actions in the fight for justice for Yvette Henderson, gunned down by Emeryville police.
| Jewish Voice for Peace – Bay Area presents “Life in Occupied Palestine”: To Exist Is to Resist! a journal launch, music and fundraiser featuring contributors to a special issue of the journal Biography on Thursday, April 23rd, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m, at La Pena!
This evening of readings and music will feature: Magid Shihade (faculty member at Birzeit University, Palestine), Sarah Ihmoud (PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, Univeristy of Texas at Austin), and Cynthia Franklin (Biography co-editor, University of Hawai’i faculty member, USACBI Organizing Collective, and co-founder of Jewish Voice for Peace – Hawai’i). There will also be sweets for all to enjoy. Come hear timely insights and analyses from these outstanding academics and activists. Invite your friends! La Pena, our wonderful community resource, has agreed to host this evening as a special “La Pena Presents!” event. Check out the La Pena website for tickets in advance: http://lapena.org/event/life-in-occupied-palestine-to-exist-is-to-resist/ |
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Selma James and Nina Lopez of Global Women’s Strike:
“Invest in Caring Not Killing”, A talk on Sex, Race, and Class plus A Living Wage for Mothers and Caregivers
Selma James is a women’s rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. From 1958 to 1962 she worked with C.L.R. James in the movement for West Indian federation and independence. In 1972 she founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and in 2000 helped launch the Global Women’s Strike whose strategy for change is “Invest in Caring not Killing”. She coined the word “unwaged” which has since entered the English language. In the 1970s she was the first spokeswoman of the English Collective of Prostitutes. She is a founding member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. She co-authored the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community which launched the “domestic labour debate.” Other publications include A Woman’s Place (1952), Women, the Unions and Work, or what is not to be done (1972), Sex, Race and Class (1974), Wageless of the World (1974), The Rapist Who Pays the Rent (1982), The Ladies and the Mammies—Jane Austen and Jean Rhys (1983), Marx and Feminism (1983), Hookers in the House of the Lord (1983), Strangers & Sisters: Women, Race and Immigration (1985), The Global Kitchen—the Case for Counting Unwaged Work (1985 and 1995), and The Milk of Human Kindness—Defending Breastfeeding from the AIDS Industry and the Global Market (2005).
Nina López is the joint co-ordinator of the Global Women’s Strike. Her writings and edited volumes include: Prostitute Women and AIDS—Resisting the Virus of Repression (1988), Some Mother’s Daughter: The Hidden Movement of Prostitute Women Against Violence (1998), The Milk of Human Kindness (2002), and Creating a Caring Economy: Nora Castañeda and the Women’s Development Bank of Venezuela
The Oakland-Santiago de Cuba Sister Cities Association
Presents
Celebrating 15 Years of the Oakland-Santiage de Cuba Sister City Association Relations Reception
Because of the latest Diplomatic Relations adjusting going on right now we have invited a representative from Cuba to join us (but that might not happen)
With Lisa Valanti, President of the US-Cuba Sister City Association
Highlighting the importance of normalizing relations between Cuba & the United States & preparing for a visit to Oakland from a Cuba delegation this July.
We cordially invite you to join us at:
Oakland City Hall
3rd Floor at the Foyer
Friday, April 24th, 2015 from 10AM-12PM
There will be refreshments and snacks accompanied by the wonderful music of international Cuban musician Tito Gonzalez
Sponsorship is open and is most welcomed.
Sponsors’
City of Oakland, Office of Rebecca Kaplan, INFOMED-USA, People to See, Places To Go, Quality Medical Relief, Building Alliances Coaching, We Tell Our Stories Film Collective, Cowan Success Solutions
For more information please contact: oakland.latinonet AT gmail DOT com
Neighbors for Justice for Amilcar are holding a vigil and march in honor of Amilcar Perez-Lopez, killed by SFPD on February 26, 2015.
On Friday, April 24th, on behalf of Amilca’rs family, Attorney Arnoldo Casillas will file a civil lawsuit against the City of San Francisco and officers Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli who killed Amilcar Perez-Lopez mere feet from his home. At 11:00am Casillas will hold a press conference and reveal information that dramatically contradicts the police narrative of the events of the night Amilcar was shot and killed.
We believe SFPD is involved in a cover-up of facts to avoid criminal and civil accountability for the unlawful killing of Amilcar Perez-Lopez. Join us that evening to mourn this tragic loss in our community, resist the forces of gentrification, and DEMAND JUSTICE for Amilcar.
6:00pm – Vigil begins on the East side of Folsom between 24th and 25th, at the site of the shooting
6:30pm – March begins
7:00pm – Stop at Mission Police Station (630 Valencia)
March will end at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (15th St between
Mission and Valencia))
**Please bring votive candles. We will lay these down at the Mission Police Station to symbolize the loss of Amilcar and other victims of police violence in San Francisco.**
learn more:
Justice4Amilcar.org
stay involved:
https://www.facebook.com/
Rising Tide North America is excited to host trouble-making authors Scott Crow, Alexander Reid Ross and others for a book event to talk about their new book “Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab”
Land grabs are a global phenomenon of our times, driven by the ever
increasing demands of both global corporations and the governments with
which they are allied.But ordinary citizens, small farmers and ordinary
citizens around the world are standing up to defend their own with passion
and ingenuity, and they are recording successes that are both
extraordinary and inspiring.
Join us for this exciting panel as scott crow, Alexander Reid Ross and
others discuss this disturbing phenomenon and the resistance fighting back
against it.
https://www.facebook.com/events/808682179224848/
About the panelists
Alexander Reid Ross is an activist and journalist. He is currently a
member of the Earth First! Journal Collective and a co-founding moderator
of the Earth First! Newswire. He edited the forthcoming book /Grabbing
Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab/ (AK Press), and is working on a
Bakunin translation for a forthcoming Bakunin Reader, published by PM
Press.
scott crow is an international speaker and author. He has spent his varied
life as an underground musician,coop business owner, political organizer,
trainer, strategist and ‘green collar’ worker advocating for anarchism. He
has been called a jackass, but thinks of those words as fond reflections
of noble animals. He is the author of *Black Flags and Windmills* (PM
Press) and a contributor to Grabbing Back, both of which can be found at
http://www.scottcrow.org/
This is a fundraiser for Flood the System (an upcoming continental
mobilization organized by Rising Tide North America.
The Anarchist Cafe is on!
The Anarchist Cafe will happen on Friday April 24th from 7-10:30pm, the night before the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair.
It is time to step away from our meetings and be social. We will have food, coffee, tea and performances. We are serving dinner until 9pm or until the food runs out, whichever comes first.
We are asking for a donations. The money will go to support the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair, the Omni Commons, Jabari Shaw and the Anti- Repression Committee.
Note the ending time, so don’t show up late and get disappointed.
If you are interested in volunteering at the Café contact Mike E. at mikee1051 [at] yahoo.com or through the event’s facebook page and include what you would like to do (make food, do dishes, or work the door) and the approximate times you can be available for.
If you are interested in performing then contact Mike E. at mikee1051 [at] yahoo.com and include what you would like to do, for how long, your experience and any prop needs, etc.
See you there!
A café collective
UNMUTE THE FUTURE–a benefit concert for KPFA 94.1 FM free speech radio media.
7 eclectic East Bay bands are playing, including Baja Sociedad, Punk Funk Mob, Sarchasm, Chuckleberries, Bankrupt District, and Public Safety, exploring a range of alternative music with political/cultural themes including social justice and equality challenges we face today. It will be livestreamed on kpfa.org with You Tube posting.
Sliding scale tickets, $8–$20 with a $2 Gilman annual membership can be purchased at the door
924 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA 94710, USA
This benefit for KPFA at the Gilman’s UNMUTES THE FUTURE with shared histories and missions of inclusive community. The Gilman is an all-ages, collectively organized music club and venue and was founded by members of KPFAs maximum Rocknroll program in 1986. Please help spread the work, buy tickets and bring your friends.
