Did you have a baby at Alta Bates?
Know someone born at Alta Bates?
Join Nurses to Help Stop the Alta Bates Closure!

Sutter Health wants to close Alta Bates Medical Center — Berkeley’s only acute-care hospital — a mother and
infant-care center of excellence for more than a century! Sutter is crippling nurses’ ability to care for the community right now with unsafe short staffing! Closing Alta Bates will leave Berkeley and other cities along the Interstate 80 corridor, through the Caldecott Tunnel, without access to a full-service, acutecare hospital, putting lives at risk.

Berkeley and East Bay Communities Need Alta Bates!

Bring friends, families, and neighbors — and all available STROLLERS (no baby required) — for our march to save Alta Bates hospital!

The East Bay Must Rise Up to Save Alta Bates in Berkeley!

CNA: A Voice for Nurses. A Vision for Healthcare.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 3 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater at 14th Street & Broadway near the steps of City Hall.  If for some reason the amphitheater is being used otherwise and/or OGP itself is inaccessible, we will meet at Kaiser Park, right next to the statues, on 19th St. between San Pablo and Telegraph.  If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 3:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland.  (Note: we meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months,  once Daylight Savings Time springs forward we tend to assemble at 4 PM).

On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 2 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.

OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over five years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally. Our Assembly and the process we have collectively cultivated strives to reach agreement while building community.

At the GA committees, caucuses, and loosely associated groups whose representatives come voluntarily report on past and future actions, with discussion. We encourage everyone participating in the Occupy Oakland GA to be part of at least one associated group, but it is by no means a requirement. If you like, just come and hear all the organizing being done! Occupy Oakland encourages political activity that is decentralized and welcomes diverse voices and actions into the movement.

General Assembly Standard Agenda

1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
3. Announcements
4. (Optional) Discussion Topic

Occupy Oakland activities and contact info for some Bay Area Groups with past or present Occupy Oakland members.

Occupy Oakland Web Committee: (web@occupyoakland.org)
Strike Debt Bay Area : strikedebtbayarea.tumblr.com
Berkeley Post Office Defenders:http://berkeleypostofficedefenders.wordpress.com/
Alan Blueford Center 4 Justice:https://www.facebook.com/ABC4JUSTICE
Oakland Privacy Working Group:https://oaklandprivacy.wordpress.com
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Bay Area AntiRepression: antirepression@occupyoakland.org
Biblioteca Popular: http://tinyurl.com/mdlzshy
Interfaith Tent: www.facebook.com/InterfaithTent
Port Truckers Solidarity: oaklandporttruckers.wordpress.com
Bay Area Intifada: bayareaintifada.wordpress.com
Transport Workers Solidarity: www.transportworkers.org
Fresh Juice Party (aka Chalkupy) freshjuiceparty.com/chalkupy-gallery
Sudo Room: https://sudoroom.org
Omni Collective: https://omnicommons.org/
First They Came for the Homeless: https://www.facebook.com/pages/First-they-came-for-the-homeless/253882908111999
Sunflower Alliance: http://www.sunflower-alliance.org/
Bay Area Public School: http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area

San Francisco based groups:
Occupy Bay Area United: www.obau.org
Occupy Forum: (see OBAU above)
San Francisco Projection Department: http://tinyurl.com/kpvb3rv

The Ito Sisters – Antonia Grace Glenn –  Documentary – 83 min. Q&A Follows                                                          

The Ito Sisters is a documentary film capturing rarely told stories of the earliest Japanese immigrants to their United States and their American – born children.

To discuss, publicize, and work for the liberation of the political prisoners now being held in the US.

Treasure Island, a man-made island off the coast of San Francisco, looks more like a post-apocalyptic wasteland than a Bay Area suburb. But as demand for housing in the area continues to climb, developers including Lennar  now thee largest homebuilder in the US  turned to Treasure Island in hopes of creating the next big real-estate destination.

In 2011, the city of San Francisco approved a proposal to add 8,000 homes, 500 hotel rooms, 300 acres of parks, 140,000 square feet of retail, and 100,000 square feet of office space to the island over 15 years. The island’s population is expected to grow from 2,500 to about 20,000 by 2032, when the final stages of development wrap. Most of the existing buildings will be demolished to make room for new developments. The development project comes with a price tag of $5 billion. With construction on infrastructure underway, we are learning that there’s more to this former toxic-waste site than meets the eye.

Like the Bayview, these landfills were used by the Navy to decommission its radioactive ships and for other toxic work.  In 1993, the Navy decommissioned Treasure Island, moving sailors’ families out. The 1994 federal Base Closure Community Redevelopment and Homeless Assistance Act,“A bill to revise and improve the process for disposing of buildings and property at military installations under the base closure laws,” opened national floodgates to environmental racism. Men, women and children are stricken with tumors and cancers from exposure to radiation, chemicals and lead the Navy dumped into island soil during 50 years training sailors for nuclear war, as well as lung disease from asbestos and mold in the walls of military housing.

A 1997-1998 city government report announced, “Three hundred housing units on TI [Treasure Island] are expected to be occupied in October or November of 1998 under an interim housing plan. TIDA has contracted with the John Stewart Company to rehabilitate and manage these units. This interim plann is intended to preserve the housing stock which deteriorates rapidly with lack of use, and to provide an income stream.”San Francisco began to use HUD subsidies for maintenance and eventual island redevelopment.

As mayor, veteran of 30 years in the state Assembly and 15 as the all-powerful speaker, Willie Brown used his pull to deprive Treasure Islanders of San Franciscans’ equal rights to rent control, subjecting them to no cause evictions. Additionally, he crafted a consortium of collaborating organizations.

� The Treasure Island Development Authority Board (TIDA), which serves at the mayor’s pleasure

� Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative (TIHDI), an umbrella organization of nonprofits, which provides rehabilitation services for marginalized people

� The John Stewart Co., California’s largest poverty pimp, which manages HUD-subsidized and market rate housing

� The Navy arm of the consortium, following federal law, which began radiation and chemical cleanup.

By 2017, 18 years of subsidy money and intimidation have elapsed. As the cartel prepares the toxic soil for lucrative high-rise condos and hotels, homeless families’ incomes are no longer required. Redevelopment has begun. With three generations of subsidies in its coffers, John Stewart Co. is quietly launching evictions. Ill from chemical and radiation exposure, their offsprings’ DNA forever transformed, targeted families are, as planned, being returned to City streets.

Carol Harvey will share with us the history, and the damning revelations she continues to unearth, and what we can do about it.

Carol Harvey is a San Francisco political journalist specializing in human rights and civil rights.

http://sfbayview.com/2017/09/death-camp-treasure-island/

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-treasure-island-san-francisco-transformation-2017-8/#you-can-live-in-san-francisco-your-whole-life-and-never-set-foot-on-treasure-island-1

Time will be allotted for announcements.

The Middle East Children’s Alliance Presents

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
DR. MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI

Speaking on
100 Years after the Balfour Declaration:
The Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine

Facebook event

Mustafa Barghouti is General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative & President of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees

Introduced by linguistics professor Dr. Khalil Barhoum, Stanford University
Interviewed by Dr. Samia Shoman, Palestinian-American educator whose research was on a sovereign Palestinian state
Benefit for the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
Wheelchair Accessible

Tickets: $10 – $100, available now through Eventbrite
$100 ticket includes seats reserved up front
To avoid the service charge, buy tickets directly from MECA: email Susan@mecaforpeace.org, or call Sue 9am-4pm, Tuesday-Friday at 510-548-0542.
$15 tickets available at these East Bay bookstores: Moe’s, Laurel Books (cash and checks only), Walden Pond, and East Bay Booksellers (formerly Diesel).

Cosponsored by KPFA 94.1 FM, Friends of Sabeel, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Palestinian Youth Movement, Jewish Voice for Peace, and more!

Against Police Brutality and State Repression

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In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and mobilize people against police and state repression. Sisters and brothers! The Oscar Grant Committee invites you to join us in this vital struggle.

We meet on the 1^st Monday of each month
You can join our discussion list by sending a blank (doesn’t even need a subject) email to

oscargrantcommittee-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

Rally to Save Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants

The Trump administration is threatening to remove TPS from Salvadorans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Syrians, and Haitians and send them back to situations of life-threatening violence. Many came to the United States because of wars and natural disasters and have been here for years, and for some, even decades. Removing Temporary Protected Status will put hundreds of thousands of people at risk of deportation. Sending them back to countries where there are ongoing conflicts or economic instability is a human rights disaster.

Meet us in the First Floor Multipurpose Room for a showing of the powerful documentary, Now Is The Time Healthcare for Everybody.

With the future of the Affordable Care Act in serious doubt, millions may lose their health insurance. Medicare and Medi-Cal are under attack. This documentary explains what single payer healthcare is and how it saves money. It shows what behind-the-scenes heroes are doing to clear the fog of misperceptions that has kept us from moving forward.

Q&A and Discussion about State Senate Bill 562,The Healthy California Act (Lara/Atkins).

Link to flyer: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-SG0wM83IbIVEYzYm82R0thZ28

We need you to turn up tomorrow to support Lamesha Smith and others from Marcellus Toney’s family as we rally at OPD headquarters to tell them “We want answers!” In conjunction with the family, we are gathering to demand answers from #OPD . He was killed as a result of being tased by OPD on 9/28 at 42nd Ave and Foothill Blvd. Please come out to support his family in demanding answers about his death. Please bring signs.

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Dear Anti Police-Terror Project members, supporters, friends and allies,

APTP Co-founder Cat Brooks’ birthday is November 10 and she is asking for just one thing – that we as a community raise $5,000 for the Anti Police-Terror Project. Let’s come together to make this happen in just 5 days!

The Anti Police-Terror Project began as a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee. We are a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color. Founding coalition members include the Black Power Network, Community Ready Corps, Workers World, and the Idriss Stelley Foundation.

This work is so needed at this time and APTP relies on community support in order to do the work. Please contribute whatever you can towards our goal of 5K IN 5 DAYS FOR CAT’S BIRTHDAY – then come celebrate with us at our follow up happy hour next week!

Please visit our website and hit the “DONATE NOW” button to contribute today: antipoliceterrorproject.org

Single-Payer Social, North Oakland

East Bay comrades! There's a @jacobinmag reading group on Berkeley's campus next week, we hope to see you there 🤓✊🏾📕 pic.twitter.com/aMiJHJmkQW

— Bay Area ISO (@norcalsocialism) October 30, 2017

Zionism, Fascism and the Free Speech Debates: A Fundraiser for the Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi Defense Fund

Appetizers and Drinks Will be Provided

Sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Co-Sponsors: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP), Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA), International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)

Among the speakers will be Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, the San Francisco State University professor publicly accused by AMCHA and seven other Zionist organizations of “egregious misuse of university and taxpayer funds” and “meetings with terrorists” after a 2014 academic trip to Jordan and Palestine. In 2016, she was targeted by the David Horowitz “Freedom Center,” which posted fliers on SFSU’s campus reading “Rabab Abdulhadi: A leader of the Hamas BDS Campaign, Collaborator with Terrorists, San Francisco State Profesor, #JewHatred.” Despite SFSU’s investigation finding that AMCHA’s claims had no merit, Professor Abdulhadi was then subjected to a lawsuit this year by the Lawfare Project–whose director has repeatedly denied the existence of Palestinians–and mega-firm Winston & Strawn LLP. Last month, Professor Abdulhadi and her attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against her.

Speakers will also include NLG attorneys and others.

Pack the court on November 8th for antifascists facing charges from 6/26/16 nazi shutdown in Sacramento pic.twitter.com/jT9cPd7Syj

— Berkeley Antifa (@berkeleyantifa) November 2, 2017

Locations:

• 7th & Market St.
• 51st & Telegraph
• Spash Pad Park (Macarthur and Grand)
• 35th & Macarthur
• 98th and International
• 66th and International

We Demand: The Resources our students deserve! This is not our mess: Take $ from admin and private contracts. No Cuts to Schools or Essential Staff!

• Support a teacher contract that Oakland Families and Teachers deserve.
• The state ran up OUSD’s debt. It’s not our fault.
• No state takeover under any conditions.
• No school closures. No more charters.
• No more cuts: CA underfunds education.
• We’re 46th in student spending out of 50 states.
• CA is the 5th largest economy in the world. Make the banks and corporations pay.

If you’re still energized afterwards, then MOBILIZE TO THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING: 5:30 – 6:30