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Aug
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#SaveTheAmazon: Action at Brazilian Consulate in Solidarity w/ Amazon’s Indigenous Peoples @ Brazilian Consulate
Aug 30 @ 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Who: Everyone is welcome and desperately needed!

The Amazon = LIFE & Capitalism = DEATH

It’s time for our August action!! EVERYONE is welcome!

The Amazon is burning at an unprecedented speed. Ranchers and cattle farmers are burning territory clearing it and creating pastures for cattle, and big agriculture to take over and buy their property. If a section of the rainforest is burned to the ground, it is then open for takeover. Indigenous people, animals, plants, everything is losing their homes and lives in this historic decimation of the lungs of our planet.

President Jair Bolsonaro initially blamed environmentalists for the fires, and later announced the country didn’t have any money to fight the fires. The devastation is nearly beyond comprehension and the consequences on the entire planet are unimaginable.

As many of you following Brasil issues have probably noticed, there has been a very public escalation of violence, murders and intimidation of indigenous people and villages in the last couple of months. Uncontacted tribes are being photographed, and witnessing the outside world, deforestation of the Brasilian Amazon is at unprecedented high, leaders are being murdered and the government is lying to the world about all of this and we must take action.

This action is standing in solidarity with all Indigenous people and territories in the Brasilian Amazon. We are doing a call out to the Bay Area and Northern California native people from all up and down the Americas, and all people here, to come and stand.

Not One More Drop of Indigenous Blood!

We talk about the Condor ~ Eagle prophecy so frequently and this is part of fulfilling the prophecy. Standing together as indigenous people is where our strength comes from. This is a call out for all native people to bring us your songs, to brings us your dances, to please come and lay down your prayers for your relatives fighting for their lives in Brasil. This will be an action of prayer offerings from the North to the South. We all have our many traditional clothes, songs and offerings for prayer and we are asking you to bring yours on behalf of indigenous people being murdered and violently intimidated in Brasil. The Amazon is being cared for by our relatives there and we stand with them, in their defense.

We will be blocking off the street in front of the Brasilian Consulate again, and again will be doing a street mural. We will have many signs again, puppets and music. This action is all about prayer so please only bring prayer and love. We invite you to bring flowers to offer. Please bring your hearts ready to have a powerful action of prayer for all we hold dear. Everyone is welcome and desperately needed.

Let us fill that space with people, let us fill the air with songs, let us flood the street with prayer and let it be heard in Brasil that the Eagle ~ Condor prophecy is real and we are standing solidly in the knowledge that we are making it come true.

PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to come and offer your traditional song and/or dance prayers PLEASE MESSAGE THE PAGE OR EMAIL US AT BrasilSolidaritySFBay [at] Protonmail.com

For more information on what is happening in Brasil go to the BSN page for news articles: https://www.facebook.com/BrasilSolidarityNetwork/

HOSTS:
–Brasil Solidarity Network
–Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network
–Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty
–Diablo Rising Tide – DiRT
–Idle No More SF Bay
–1000 Grandmothers Bay Area
–NorCal Resist

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400 Years of African American History Symposium @ International House Auditorium
Aug 30 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

This day-long symposium will kick off a year of events at UC Berkeley to mark the 400 year anniversary of the beginning of slavery in North America. The events are being co-organized by the Haas Institute, the African American studies and history departments, the African American Student Development Center, and the Black Staff & Faculty Organization.

The symposium will include remarks by Haas Institute Director and African American studies professor john a. powell, plus several panels and performances detailed below.

Register here.

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Vigil for Chelsea and Julian
Aug 30 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

SAVE CHELSEA & JULIAN

hI aLL HOPE TO SEE YA oRION
EVERY FRI 530PM TO 7PM “BASTA SAVE CHELSEA AND JULIEN ” VIGIL DEMO POTLUCK MUSIC (7PM AFTER PARTY/MEETING ) FRUITVALE &MACARTHUR OAKLAND

WE HOPE TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO OUR ON-GOING CAMPAIGNS IN THE BAY.

Here is a link to the bay area action for Julian which includes CHELSEA SUPPORT PLEASE SIGN UP
https://bayaction2freeassange.org
TELL EVERY ONE

Thanks for your letters you can write a letter directly to Chelsea here’s her address tell her who you are and why you want to save her don/t be shy
PLEASE WRITE LETTERS TO CHELSEA (only hand written and no post cards no pictures do not write any thing on the outside of the letter to Chelsea Elizebeth Manning

William G Truedale Adult Detention Center
2001MILL ROAD
ALEXANDRIA VA 22314

also join the #LettersToJulian campaign,writejulian.com

WE NEED TO HIP PEOPLE TO THE YOU TUBE SHOWS AND WEB SITES AND TWITTER FEEDS
We find the BEST INFO IS FROM CHELSEA (xychelsea.is) AND JULIEN WEB SITES and twitter feeds YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER of TWITTER JUST TYPE IN twitter.com/xychelsea or twitter.com/defendassange and you/ll be able to read and see the latest INTERNATIONAL news and support via the links
also Consortium News ,HAS A Unity4J every friday on line LIVE STREAM vigil for Julian and of course support the work of ongoing wekileaks.org

PLEASE Google the following you tube shows ADD COMENTS ..AND TELL OUR FRIENDS

JIMMY DORE show and chelsea Manning 80,000 HITS SO FAR .. news flash now 90,000 hits
REDACTED TONIGHTt Julien Assange and Chelsea Manning
our own BAY ARE STEVE ZELTZER LABOR VIDEO project  Julien and Chelsea Manning
and SECULAR TALK & julien and Chelsea Manning
and CROSS TALK Julien and Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning/s Youtube site
TULSI 2020
VETERANS FOR PEACE
CODE PINK
BLACK AGENDA REPORTS
JILL STEIN
DANIEL ELSBERG
FLASHPOINTS KPFA 5PM EVERY DAY
BRITS LABOR PARTY LEADER JEREMY CORBIN
CHRIS HEDGES FORMER NYT JOURNALIST
Thanks Orion
BELOW IS THE LINK TO her letter she wrote to judge

https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-manning-letter.

It’s an extreamly well researched LETTER TO THE JUDGE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SECRET GRAND JURIES Don/t ever forget about what she said in response to her 2nd Grand Jury Trail which they imposed a $500.00 daily fine after 30 days and a $1000.00 daily fine after 60 days “I/D RATHER STARVE THEN ANSWER YOUR SECRET GRAND JURY”

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What Happened to Dujuan? Premiere Screening and Panel @ First Unitarian Church of Oakland
Aug 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us for a benefit film showing and panel.
This fast-paced powerful documentary follows Barbara Doss’ search to discover the details of her son Dujuan Armstrong’s death in Santa Rita Jail. In June, 2018,23-year-old Dujuan Armstrong died while serving weekends for a 2014 burglary conviction. Thus began Barbara’s journey for truth and justice. The film documents her determined and courageous quest to find out what happened to her son. In her pursuit for justice she quickly runs into the resistance of the Gregory Ahern’s Sheriff’s Department and begins to learn of the opaque and powerful position of American sheriffs. The audience travels with her to the Board of Supervisors, the jail, the cemetery where Dujuan is buried, and one climatic confrontation with the sheriff himself.
Lucas Guilkey is a video journalist based in Oakland. His work focuses on important social issues from mass incarceration to climate change, and from budget cuts to reproductive healthcare. He is working on a feature documentary about what is the largest prisoner hunger strike in U.S. history, which took place in California in 2011 and 2013.
After the film there will be a panel with the filmaker Luca Guilkey and members of the Audit Ahern Coalition. Learn about what is happening in the local county jail, and what you can do to change it.
This is a benefit for the Audit Ahern Coalition and the family of Dujuan Armstrong. Donations will be accepted on a sliding scale, all are welcome.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. join us for desserts and refreshments.
Film starts promptly at 7:45.
This event is sponsored by The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, The Audit Ahern Coalition and the Ella Baker Partnership Team at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland.
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Aug
31
Sat
A Walking Tour of the 1934 SF General Strike @ Under the Clock Tower, SF Ferry Building
Aug 31 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Culmination: Month of Momentum 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps @ ICE San Francisco
Aug 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

After 30 days of daily protests outside ICE to close the camps, we invite EVERYONE to attend a culminating protest on Saturday, August 31 at Noon.

Music by:
•Emma’s Revolution – https://emmasrevolution.com
•Diana Gameros – https://www.dianagameros.com
•Betsy Rose & Bonnie Lockhart – https://www.betsyrosemusic.org
•La Peña Chorus (with Lichi Fuentes) – https://www.lapenachorus.org

Speakers (TBA)

And food

More info to come.
Please follow this page for more.

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AFROHELLA: TECH + ENTREPRENEURSHIP + SOCIAL IMPACT @ The Five and Dime
Aug 31 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm

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Sep
1
Sun
A Walking Tour of the 1934 SF General Strike @ Under the Clock Tower, SF Ferry Building
Sep 1 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Fascists Out of Berkeley! @ People's Park
Sep 1 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Amber Cummings, a known fascist organizer is planning a rally, “No to Marxism in America” in Berkeley, CA on September 1st at Sproul Plaza. It is critical that the people of the greater Bay Area show up to resist their hateful actions and rhetoric. The ideology and presence of fascist forces are on the rise not only in the United States but around the globe.

Domestically, the U.S. government is carrying out the imprisonment of tens of thousands of Latin American migrants and refugees at the southern border who are escaping war and terror in their countries created by the imperialist policies of the United States. In the Bay Area alone there are over 55,000 homeless people living on the streets. We will mobilize against the fascists and we will not forget the daily oppression of working people.

This is the environment that allows fascism to develop.

Our plan is to meet at People’s Park (2556 Haste) at 10AM. We will rally there and march to Sproul Plaza at noon.

If you would like to co-sponsor this event or if you have an accessibility request, please email wewontgo@riseup.net

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Climate Justice – Non-Violent Direct Training @ Omni Commons
Sep 1 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

ACTIVATING THE ENTIRE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
for the Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019 & beyond

WHAT IS NVDA?

NVDA stands for Non-Violent Direct Action. Examples of nonviolent direct action (also known as nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, or civil resistance) can include sit-ins, strikes, workplace occupations, or street blockades.

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Sunflower Alliance Meeting @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Sep 1 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Please join us for our regular biweekly meeting of the Sunflower Alliance.  (Yes, it’s Labor Day weekend, but come if you can.) We’ll discuss ongoing campaigns and future plans, the September actions, and other ways to fight fossil fuels and work for a just and sustainable world.  Old friends and newcomers are equally welcome.  We need your participation and your voice! Come early to hang out and share a. potluck lunch.

Potluck lunch 12:30 PM
Meeting 1 – 3 PM

 

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Pan-African Discussion @ Mosswood Park
Sep 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Join us for an informative discussion on the ideology of Pan-Africanism at the Pan-African Festival 9/1/19 at 2pm in Oakland’s Mosswood park. We’ll be discussing the fundamentals of Pan-Africanism and how it can be used as a revolutionary tool to address the conditions facing African people all over the world.

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Occupy Oakland General Assembly @ Oscar Grant Plaza
Sep 1 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

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Free Assange! @ Marines' Menoral Theater
Sep 1 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Organizer/AuthorBay Action 2 Free Assange

Join us at the Jimmy Dore Show LIVE! We’ll be out front PRE-show at 6:30pm with signs and sign up list to #FreeAssangeNOW #FreeManning. Help educate the public on this issue vital to save jailed, innocent journalists’ lives. Our future depends on it.

After our pre-show event, Jimmy’s show starts at 7:30 and requires a ticket $15- link below.

Jimmy Dore Show Live is an irreverent take on today’s headlines and hypocrites. Jimmy has fun sharing his favorite news clips and setting the record straight with hilarious results. A certified YouTube sensation, The Jimmy Dore Show boast of over 200 million views and over 580,000 subscribers. Dore’s hit show can be also heard on the Pacifica Radio Network.

The Jimmy Dore Show can be seen on YouTube and heard on the Pacifica Radio Network powered by the people for the people. The Jimmy Dore Show tours all of the country to sold out crowds.

For more information, visit https://jimmydorecomedy.com/events/list/
To purchase tickets, visit https://www.cityboxoffice.com/ordertickets.asp?p=11041&src=eventperformances

The Marines’ Memorial Theatre does not have an elevator to the Balcony. For assistance with accessible seating, please contact City Box Office at (415) 392-4400.

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Sep
2
Mon
A Walking Tour of the 1934 SF General Strike @ Under the Clock Tower, SF Ferry Building
Sep 2 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

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Bay Area Labor Day Labor Festival @ Snow Park
Sep 2 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

An historic gathering is happening THIS Labor Day, Monday, September 2nd, at Snow Park in Oakland, CA and all Union members, Affiliates, their families and friends, along with supporters of Labor, are invited to join the day and festivities!

Yes! Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, and San Mateo Labor Councils are hosting this fun day in the Park, with music, activities for the kids, and entertainment for all – with a few powerful speakers to inspire the work we do! Join us!

We will have food available but you can also bring your own picnic – and, find a place on the recently renovated and beautiful park abutting Lake Merritt. Close to 20th Street BART Station – so public transportation is encouraged!

We will also start our day at Mosswood Park – in support of SEIU-UHW’s action and then march the 1.4 miles from Mosswood to Snow Park (down Broadway, to 20th Street, and the Park).

Labor is one family and we have FOUR Counties’ Labor Councils bringing us all together in 2019!

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Sep
3
Tue
9th Annual San Francisco Green Film Festival @ Castro Theater, Roxy Theater, Exploratorium, 518 Valencia, etc
Sep 3 @ 6:00 pm – 11:45 pm

The 9th edition of the San Francisco Green Film Festival, September 24 – 29, at the Castro Theatre, Roxie, Exploratorium, Swissnex, and more! The Festival will be showing incredible new environmental films and sparking conversations on critical issues such as affordable housing, migration, habitat loss, and more. From the streets of San Francisco’s mid-Market to earth’s outer reaches on the International Space Station, this year’s Festival theme explores many different perspectives of home.

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Berkeley Tenants Union 2nd Meeting @ Sports Basement
Sep 3 @ 6:15 pm – 8:00 pm

Does your landlord keep raising the rent? Does he ignore repair requests? Are you fed up and want to do something about it?!

Join the Berkeley Tenants Union  for our second general membership meeting! Whether you were previously or already are a member of BTU, or are interested in joining for the first time, you won’t want to miss this great meeting.

Doors open/sign-ins start at 6:15 and the meeting will start at 6:30. We’ll be serving light refreshments. The meeting agenda will be posted closer to the meeting date.

Berkeley tenants unite!

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The Berkeley Tenants Union (BTU) is dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of Berkeley renters through grassroots organizing, outreach, and policy advocacy. We believe housing is a human right and rent control is Berkeley’s most effective affordable housing program. We empower and educate tenants to preserve their right to stable, quality housing, because Berkeley is a better place to live when people from all walks of life can afford to make Berkeley their home.

Our goals Include:
• Supporting a contact person or tenant organizer in every rental building in the city
• Creating a force of renters with hundreds of due paying members
• Changing policy to benefit tenants
• Organizing tenants to protect them from threats, intimidation, and bribes that lead to the loss of our homes
• Empowering tenants through tenants rights education and advocacy training

The Berkeley Tenants Union is volunteer-led and membership-supported. We are only as strong as our members.

Berkeley tenants unite!

Website: www.berkeleytenants.org
Subscribe to Our Newsletter: www.berkeleytenants.org/newsletter/
Pay dues (sliding scale of $10-$27 per year): tinyurl.com/BTUPayPal

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“Dolores” Documentary Night Screening
Sep 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day, at 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change. Directed by Peter Bratt.
After film discussion led by Vylma V. Ortiz
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DSA Socialist Night School: DSA Debates the Democratic Candidates @ East Bay Community Space
Sep 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

There’s a large field of candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination this election. The result has been a series of presidential debates that are often messy, occasionally entertaining, and only rarely informative. Fed up with the hypocritical grandstanding and “gotcha” questions? Wondering what to say about the centrist attacks on Medicare for All, or the corporate-friendly politicians who are now posing as champions of the working class? Join East Bay DSA on Tuesday, September 3 for a special edition of Socialist Night School, where we’ll screen and “debate” clips from the Democratic debates.

 

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