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Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad is a 2-day convening that serves to strengthen and organize people of faith in our sanctuary work across California to respond in an increasingly dangerous climate for immigrant communities in 2018. Join us to learn tools and best practices to create a more prophetic path towards liberation, caminando hacia la libertad, where all can live with dignity and wholeness.
Click Here For Program Details
Cost:
We encourage everyone to attend both days of the convening, but have provided options if you are only able to come for one day.
Registration cost includes breakfast and lunch for both days. We are accepting two forms of payment; via PayPal or via check by mail. If you have any questions or may need scholarship please contact Sarah Lee at slee@im4humanintegrity.org. We encourage anyone who may require financial assistance (scholarship) to contact Sarah as early as possible as funds are limited.
Early Registration Before May 15th
-Two day: $70
-One day: $455
After May 15th
-Two days: $80
-One day: $50
Register here
Program Details: Through speakers, seminars, and creative spaces Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad includes opportunities to build:
– Spiritual, educational, and strategic tools for faith communities to take a next step in their involvement in immigrant justice
– Relationships and networks across immigrant and ally congregations, faith traditions, and geography
– Shared vision for a faith-rooted and race equitable framework on sanctuary
Sanctuary Convening Values
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- Centering Voices of Directly-Impacted Communities: Majority of our speakers come from communities that have been directly impacted by our current and historical immigration policies and climate. Directly-impacted immigrant community members consult and guide the planning process.
- Framing Racial Justice in Our Sanctuary Work: Our content and tools are rooted in how our sanctuary work combats racial oppression on immigrant communities.
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- Integrating Interfaith Principles and Practices: Our content and tools incorporate interfaith practices throughout the convening, and teach on the challenges and opportunities for solidarity in interfaith activism
- Humanizing Our Experience: We incorporate margins for breaks and emotional processing during the convening, and address accessibility needs such as language translation
- Prophetic: We acknowledge that our sanctuary work, in collaboration with other actors, bears witness to a visionary and public morality that has national implications
We need to raise our voices against they key actors who are carrying out Trump’s family separation order: ICE and U.S. Attorneys. ICE apprehends and separates families while US Attorneys enforce the separation in legal proceedings. We need to stand up against this incompetence and the moral abomination of family separation.
We’re excited to be partnering with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, MomsRising, United We Dream, MoveOn and many others to hold family-friendly rallies across the country.
Bring your friends, wheel your stroller on over, grab your lunch boxes, and make your family’s voice heard loud and clear, that #FamiliesBelongTogether.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#WhereAreTheChildren
Sponsors: ACLU, United We Dream, National Domestic Workers Alliance, We Belong Together, MomsRising, MoveOn, Women’s Refugee Commission
RSVP below
https://go.peoplepower.org/event/action/13…
Join us for a National Day of Action for Children event on Friday, June 1st to tell the Trump Administraiton that families belong together! We’ll hear from kids, parents, and local leaders, and demand that the Trump Administration stop separating children from their families, and protect the well-being of all children — no exceptions.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Children are being taken from their families, kept in separate facilities, unsure of when or if they’ll be reunited. This is the result of the cruel, new family separation policy that Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions have implemented. It’s a traumatizing, abhorrent practice that canand mustbe ended immediately.1
That’s why MoveOn members are joining neighbors, allies, immigrant leaders, and Americans of all walks of life at Families Belong Together actions this Friday to demand the Trump administration reverse this new policy immediately.
U.S. immigration policies have been broken for years—and under Trump, attacks on immigrants have gotten worse. In fact, the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants is only intensifying. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been ripping apart families and conducting terrifying raids, including staking out schools, churches, and courthouses.
And Trump’s own rhetoric makes clear his administration’s agenda: From referring to “sh*thole” countries to calling immigrants “animals,” Trump is riling up the xenophobic impulses of the darkest corners of America.
In the past week, the report of 1,500 migrant children “missing” from a survey of homes they were hosted in raised an alarm across the country reminding the American public that children, who deserve to play and learn and thrive, are part of this unfolding humanitarian crisis of Trump’s attacks on immigrants.
The story of those unaccounted-for minors is complicated, but here’s what’s clear: Every day, as the Trump administration removes children as young as 2 years old from their families at the border, they are worsening a traumatizing and dehumanizing crisis. These are families coming to the border seeking asylum, safety, and entry, and they’re granted due process by American law. Separating their children is simply a cruel and vindictive tactic brought about by an administration that is choosing to impose harm and deepen a crisis.
MoveOn members have been fighting alongside immigrant-led groups for years, and since Trump has taken office, together, we have been rallying to demand a resolution that will allow Dreamers and their families to remain in their homes and communities; promoting sanctuary cities that have chosen to respect and protect immigrant residents; calling out Trump’s inhumane decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nepal, and other countries that had been devastated by natural, economic, and political disasters; and recently calling on the Department of Homeland Security to end this family separation policy.
And now we’ll show up: MoveOn meembers of all races, ages, and backgrounds, all across the country to demand, in person, that families stay together.
There’s no secret that our country under Republican and Democratic administrations have enacted policies that have criminalized and disrespected immiigrants. Now, Trump is taking it to a new level: normalizing anti-immigrant language and contributing to a spike in anti-immigrant violence, slamming the doors on refugees and others seeking asylum, ripping record numbers of immigrants from their communities and brutally tearing apart families, and now targeting children.
We can and must do better. The Trump administration created this new family separation crisis – and it can bee reversed as quickly, if Americans from all backgrounds and walks of life speak up and demand action.
Christian fascist preacher Franklin Graham is coming to Berkeley on June 1st to hold his “Decision America California Tour” at Cesar Chavez Park. Billed as a religious revival, this is about mobilizing a blind, obedient, and fervent fascist social base for the Trump/Pence regime. And the tour stop in Berkeley delivers the message that Berkeley – and all who stand up to fascist authority – are in the cross hairs of fascist America. We must oppose Graham and the whole regime!
Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad is a 2-day convening that serves to strengthen and organize people of faith in our sanctuary work across California to respond in an increasingly dangerous climate for immigrant communities in 2018. Join us to learn tools and best practices to create a more prophetic path towards liberation, caminando hacia la libertad, where all can live with dignity and wholeness.
Click Here For Program Details
Cost:
We encourage everyone to attend both days of the convening, but have provided options if you are only able to come for one day.
Registration cost includes breakfast and lunch for both days. We are accepting two forms of payment; via PayPal or via check by mail. If you have any questions or may need scholarship please contact Sarah Lee at slee@im4humanintegrity.org. We encourage anyone who may require financial assistance (scholarship) to contact Sarah as early as possible as funds are limited.
Early Registration Before May 15th
-Two day: $70
-One day: $455
After May 15th
-Two days: $80
-One day: $50
Register here
Program Details: Through speakers, seminars, and creative spaces Sanctuary: Caminando Hacia la Libertad includes opportunities to build:
– Spiritual, educational, and strategic tools for faith communities to take a next step in their involvement in immigrant justice
– Relationships and networks across immigrant and ally congregations, faith traditions, and geography
– Shared vision for a faith-rooted and race equitable framework on sanctuary
Sanctuary Convening Values
-
- Centering Voices of Directly-Impacted Communities: Majority of our speakers come from communities that have been directly impacted by our current and historical immigration policies and climate. Directly-impacted immigrant community members consult and guide the planning process.
- Framing Racial Justice in Our Sanctuary Work: Our content and tools are rooted in how our sanctuary work combats racial oppression on immigrant communities.
-
- Integrating Interfaith Principles and Practices: Our content and tools incorporate interfaith practices throughout the convening, and teach on the challenges and opportunities for solidarity in interfaith activism
- Humanizing Our Experience: We incorporate margins for breaks and emotional processing during the convening, and address accessibility needs such as language translation
- Prophetic: We acknowledge that our sanctuary work, in collaboration with other actors, bears witness to a visionary and public morality that has national implications
On Saturday, June 2, SWers and our allies will be standing up for justice all over the country. Join us at Oscar Grant Plaza in Downtown Oakland, CA to make the voices & needs of our Bay Area communities loud & visible: Sex Worker Justice Now! (Allies wanted & welcome)
We are protesting, rallying & marching with the following goals in mind:
1/ To make more Bay Area residents & local media aware of the systematic violence against sex workers:
• Repercussions of FOSTA/SESTA legislation • Police violence • Anti-trafficking legislation that continuously conflates sex work & “sex trafficking” • How criminalization damages our communities •
2/ Sex worker justice is inherently tied to the justice of transgender, BIPOC, LGBTQ, femme & GNC, undocumented, poor/low-income, drug using communities
3/ Elevate specific SWer community voices
4/ Be visible & celebrate: come together & show each other some serious love during this tough political time
5/ Celebrate the St. James Infirmary’s 19th B-Day!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
noon-1: Gather at Oscar Grant Plaza
1-2: Community Speakers
2-3: March
3-4: Celebrate
*More info about Speakers & the March coming soon*
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
• Invite friends an allies: we have power in numbers
• Wear red
• Bring Signs (sign making parties & lists of sign ideas coming soon!)
* Our goal & expectations are that this will be a peaceful & positive gathering for SWer justice. That being said, we are aware that undocumented/on parole/BIPOC/Swers/etc are at a higher risk of police involvement, harassment & violence. We are working on creating safer spaces & systems within the rally and will have more information about this coming soon. Standing up for justice is important, but please prioritize your safety.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
• We are looking for folks that have experience with protests to help us lead our crowd.
Currently seeking:
-march leaders
-chant leaders
• Do you have a cool & affordable food truck or ice cream cart? We want to keep our people with snacks, lemonade & popsicles in hand 🙂
DONATIONS NEEDED
• We are wanting to provide the St. James Infirmary Clinic with a lovely B-day bash – seeking cake & red balloon donations
*please msg here or email maxineholloway@protonmail.
This event is sponsored by Bay Area Pros Support (Baps)twitter.com/BayProsSupport
& The St. James Infirmary Clinic stjamesinfirmary.org/
Flyer Artwork by The Rambling Hooker instagram.com/
New rally flyer for June 2 by @BayProsSupport -please retweet! pic.twitter.com/leDQnI6grK
— Maxine Holloway (@MaxineHolloway) May 6, 2018
Sponsored by Bay Area Pros Support & St. James Infirmary
@BayProsSupport for more info.
The Peace and Freedom Party presents
Socialism and Elections: 2018
From the Peace and Freedom Party Platform: “Our goals cannot be achieved by electoral means alone. We support mass organization, direct action, a militant labor movement, and establishment of alternative institutions.” And when we vote, we honor the memory of Medgar Evers and other Civil Rights martyrs. So come to our forum and let’s do it right. Mary McIlroy, Co-Chair of the Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party and Movement will lead our discussion of the June 5 ballot, candidates and propositions, state and local.
This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every month. Doors open at 2 pm and the program will start promptly at 2:30 pm. The forum will end by 4:30 pm, but folks can stay and talk as long as you like. Speaker’s affiliations are listed for identification only. The opinions expressed do not reflect the official views of the Peace and Freedom Party.
Save People’s Park
UCB Using “Housing Crisis” to Doze People’s Park.
• City of Berkeley told UC to LIMIT ENROLLMENT.
• UCB creates housing crisis by Uping Enrollment.
Build elsewhere in Berkeley, Save our greenspace, Save People’s Park!
If UCB gets their way, Berkeley will be covered with high-rises and hotels and the legacy of Berkeley’s historic contributions to the Free Speech, Anti War, and Community Democracy reduced to a bronze plaque. Don’t let that Happen!
• The Spirit of Democracy Lives on in People’s Park.
• The natural beauty of Berkeley’s People’s Park must never be smothered in concrete!
Website TBA ; FB: People’s Park Gardener’s or Destroy Oligarchy Forever!
Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance. We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and plans for the future. Newcomers and old friends welcome — we need your participation and your voice.
Interested in local politics? Have you heard about the Democratic Socialists and wanted to find out more? Are you looking for a way to be involved in your community?
Come learn about the Democratic Socialists of America, San Francisco. Hear about our projects, our ballot measure, and ways that you can get involved. A better world is possible!
with Margaret Prescod, Pierre Labossiere, Devonte Jackson, Walter Riley, Leslie Mullin.
A report back of a recent delegation to Haiti with activists from Haiti Action Committee, BAJI-Oakland, and Global Women’s Strike. Come hear about the unbreakable resistance of the people of Haiti, who persevere in the face of US-orchestrated coups, stolen elections, violent repression and natural disasters worsened by corporate greed and government corruption.
Eyewitness accounts of the first graduation ceremony at the University of the Aristide Foundation [UniFA]; community education through radio; local food production; and grassroots mobilizations against corruption, repression and occupation.
We will share news about meetings with activists from Haiti’s popular movement including youth, agricultural workers, peasant movement leaders, human rights attorneys, school teachers, journalists/reporters, and market women. We hope you will join us!
A benefit for community radio in Haiti. Can’t make it? Donate at www.haitiemergencyrelief.org
Sponsored by Haiti Action Committee, BAJI-Oakland, Global Women’s Strike, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, and La Pena Cultural Center.
NOTE: During the Plague Year of 2020 GA will be held every week or two on Zoom. To find out the exact time a date get on the Occupy Oakland email list my sending an email to:
occupyoakland-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets every Sunday at 4 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 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland. (Note: we tend to meet at 3:00 PM during the cooler months from November to early March after Daylights Savings Time.)
On every ‘last Sunday’ we meet a little earlier at 3 PM to have a community potluck to which all are welcome.
OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for over six years, since October 2011! 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
Welcome & Introductions
Reports from Committees, Caucuses, & Independent Organizations
Announcements
(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
“Climate change and healthcare are not separate issues. Marginalized communities consistently are exposed to the greatest amount of pollution. Our health, our communities health, and the health of our planet are interconnected systems.”
8:30 -9 AM: Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action and support role training, required for everyone participating in the direct action and for medics, marshals, and peacekeepers
Westminster Presbyterian Church
1300 N St, Sacramento
9-12 AM: Final Training for everyone planning on participating in the Direct Action or as a Marshal or Peacekeeper.
12 – 2 PM: Set-Up & Learning Songs (anyone who wishes to volunteer is welcome to meet up at the volunteer tent on the Capitol steps to help set-up)
2 PM: Rally and Press Conference
West Steps of the State Capitol
10th St and Capitol Mall
3 PM Demonstration.
More information and RSVP here
Arrange transportation from the Bay Area here
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue
on all sides of these critically important issues!
Historical Context, United States Decline,
and the Corporate-Owned Media
We will examine the United States’ attempts to prevent its Global Hegemonic decline and the implications of that effort by situating United States foreign policy within “Historical Context.”
Current geo-political examples which need to be situated within “Historical Context” include: 1.) The United States violating the Iranian nuclear agreement by withdrawing from it; and, 2.) United States-North Korean relations, including the Trump administration pulling out of the scheduled June 12 summit.
This topic raises the following questions: 1.) What is meant by “Historical Context” and “Hegemony;” 2.) Why does the corporate-owned media (and the PBS News Hour) not situate United States foreign policy within “Historical Context;” and, 3.) What does situating United States foreign policy into “Historical Context” tell us?
To address these questions the talk will: 1.) Explain what is meant by “Historical Context” and “Hegemony;” 2.) Discuss the role of the corporate-owned media (and the PBS News Hour) in presenting “News” about United States foreign policy; 3.)Place the recent geo-political crises in “Historical Context,” with an emphasis on the Trump administration; and, 4.) Assess the geo-political contradictions that the United State policy operates in (and intensifies).
Professor George Wright taught Political Science at California State University, Chico from 1969 to 2003. He also taught History at Skyline Community College from 2004 to 2013. His major research includes United States Politics, International Political Economy, and the Politics of International Sport. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at the University of Leeds (UK).
Time will be allotted for announcements.
Donations to Occupy Forum to cover costs are encouraged; no one turned away
Because of the COVID pandemic we will be meeting virtually via Zoom on the first Monday of the month.
Meeting ID: 828 0976 4186
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a
grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality.
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 1st 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
Meet local author Nancy Schimmel, who will discuss her work and read from her book, Occupella: Singing in the Lifeboats.
About the Book:
An account of the first year of Occupella, an activist song-leading group that grew out of song circles at Occupy Oakland and Occupy Berkeley formed by five professional singer-songwriters in 2011. Occupella is still busy leading songs at rallies, marches and meetings..
About the Author:
Nancy Schimmel is a veteran of the sixties peace movement and the women’s movement. her songs have been sung by Pete Seeger, Sally Rogers, and Grupo Raiz. She is working on a biography of her mother, Malvina Reynolds, who wrote “Little Boxes” and other songs.
For 22 years East Bay Food Not Bombs has been providing free food to the public in People’s Park and various locations in Oakland, AND bringing food to protests and encampments. Our message: you’re not poor and homeless because you suck, it’s because a sick society prioritizes war and greed over basic human needs.
Free soup for the Revolution!
The Privacy Advisory Commission provides advice to the City of Oakland on best practices to protect Oaklanders’ privacy rights in connection with the City’s purchase and use of surveillance equipment and other technology that collects or stores our data.
Agenda:
4. 5:15pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Oakland Department of Transportation/Vendor use of UAV/Drones. Review and take possible action on use policy and anticipated impact report.
5. 5:25pm: Illegal Dumping Project – a) staff update on project and District Attorney direct monitoring of video; b) discuss Surveillance Equipment Ordinance compliance next steps.
6. 5:30pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – status update regarding department outreach for survey of existing equipment.
7. 5:45pm: Drug Enforcement Administration Memorandum Of Understanding – review and take possible action on staff proposed MOU.
8. 5:55pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – “Large Scale Event” – discuss potential monitoring of Warriors championship parade.
9. 6:25pm: Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – Oakland Department of Transportation/Automated license plate reader proposal. Review and take possible action on use policy and anticipated impact report.
We are holding the event at OneFam Cafe to additionally highlight the tragic story being repeated too often across the City: Black people being pushed out of Oakland. Tony Coleman has been fighting to hold onto his 7th street spot. So we’ll show him some love and hear how we can support before diving into the evening’s topic.
This campaign is committed to building our platform in partnership with the community. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel. We want to uplift the amazing progressive grassroots work that is already happening.
Over the next few weeks, we will host People’s Assemblies on everything from public safety to education. Together we will imagine an Oakland with housing security, true public safety, sanctuary for all, and create a plan to get us there.
Our first People’s Assembly will focus on the arts, and the displacement of the very artists who make Oakland the place where everybody wants to be. Join us to dream about an Oakland where we recognize the contributions of artists to our shared culture, and support them so they can remain in the community they helped to create. We invite artists and culture keepers to join us for this critical conversation where we will explore:
– How are artists being pushed out of Oakland?
– What do artists need to stay in Oakland?
– What should the City of Oakland be doing to keep art and artists in the Town?
Light refreshments provided.