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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”

Come to our new Raw Thought Salon on September 6th – from 6-9pm at the Shattuck Hotel in Berkeley with

& @lisarein from @AaronSwartzDay

(Discount code: “AaronSwartzDay” for a complementary ticket)

Tickets

Detailed Schedule
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### 6 PM – 9 PM: Raw Thought: Surveillance Salon ###

6-7:30 PM Drinks and Introductions

7:30-9 PM Info Session: Police Surveillance in Berkeley & the trouble with Berkeley’s License Plate Readers
– Hosted by Tracy Rosenberg of Oakland Privacy and co-founder of ASDPSP (the Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project) and Lisa Rein (co-founder of Aaron Swartz Day and ASDPSP)

### 9 PM onwards: Dance Party with local DJs! ###

Genesis’ 7th Annual Fundraising Breakfast
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Adapted from a Mahatma Gandhi Quote

Come support us in celebration of our continued efforts
to envision the change,
be the change, and
work for change
that we want to see in the world.

Reserve your free ticket here.<https://gamaliel-genesisca-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1lt0GmnupzADkPLUi2yrX91784Idvga7HdielQqmV-bU-0&key=YAMMID-04794029&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fgenesis-7th-annual-fundraiser-breakfast-tickets-63597728518%3Futm-medium%3Ddiscovery%26utm-campaign%3Dsocial%26utm-content%3Dattendeeshare%26aff%3Descb%26utm-source%3Dcp%26utm-term%3Dlisting>

Genesis unites and activates a multiracial, income-diverse community to promote effective, equitable solutions to stubborn regional problems. 

Come along on a FREE walking tour surveying San Francisco social movement history that builds the case for perceiving the privatization of the economic value of land/the earth as tantamount to slavery. If you doubt this, consider that the high land values of the San Francisco Bay Region, privatized, account for most of the transfer of a huge amount of produced labor and business value to the mere owner of land!

Oakland is home to hundreds of transgender people specifically of color however, the city is overshadowed by San Francisco and its popularity around LGBT community based events.

This year Oakland will host its own trans march to create visibility and bring the community together in an attempt to have our own transgender movement and celebration.

We ask that you join us in marching from Oscar Grant Plaza to the lake area where we will join community on stage for a mini rally for Black Trans Lives and the Pride in the Park Ball.

The official After Party for Trans March Oakland will be
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm the same day. Priority passes will be given to those who are marching.
21+
Food and Drinks are provided.

The Oakland Greens are co-sponsoring this “Suds and Socialism” presentation.

The topic is “PG&E and Public Power” — timely given the crisis at PG&E and the need to mobilize people around alternatives like non-profit community owned and controlled utilities.

There will be four speakers: Eric Brooks, coordinator of Californians for Energy Choice; Robin David, founder of the Labor Task Force for Public Power; Gene Coyle, an energy economist and consultant, and Barbara Stebbins of the Local Clean Energy Alliance.    

Beginning on August 10th, the Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group began discussing Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. We tackled the introduction and first chapter, available through the ‘Look Inside’ feature on Amazon, for the August 10th meeting.

For our September 7th meeting, we will be discussing the rest of the first section, Chapters 2-6.

For our October 12th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 7-9, the first part of the second section.

For our November 16th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 10 – 13.

For our December 14th meeting, we will be discussing Chapters 14 and through to the end.

All are welcome!

The Economics Book Group began with Doughnut Economics and continued with Take Back the Economy.  We read a few chapters every month.

“Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first century.”

“In Banking on the People, attorney Ellen Brown provides a much-needed roadmap for reforming monetary and credit systems and the central banks now strangling our common human future. More lucidly that any other expert I know, she shows how we can break the grip of predatory financialization now extracting value from real peoples’ productive activities all over the world. Her in-depth research and systemic overview of the global and local politics of money-creation and credit allocation include all the viable proposals of global experts and reformers. She reviews many of these reforms: from financial transaction taxes, to a universal basic income to provide purchasing power for the cornucopia of goods and services now produced, to expanding the public banks she so ably promotes via the Public Banking Institute, to returning the Fed and all banks to serving the public utility functions that economies require. This book is a must read for citizens in all societies who see the promising future as we seek to widen democracies and transform to a cleaner, greener, shared prosperity, based on the renewable abundance of free daily energy from our sun.” – Hazel Henderson, CEO of Ethical Markets Media and author of Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age and other books.

Enjoy live readings from a new anthology of poetry, prose and art by 100 Bay Area writers and artists of color and allies celebrating the rich diversity that truly makes America great.

Civil liberties matter to everyone—not just those who are targeted now. Those who keep silent may be next. Although we are 60% of the Bay Area’s population, people of color remain under represented and under published. Democracy can’t be taken for granted. We must stand up and be counted. We must reach within ourselves and reach out to others, so we can move forward together towards a just and inclusive society.

Readers: Avotcja, Ravi Chandra, Carole Chinn-Morales, Keh-Ming Lin, Tureeda Mikell, Grace Morizawa, Roji Oyama, Susana Praver-Perez, Shizue Seigel, R. Sridevi, and Kimi Sugioka.

Visual artists: Cris Matos, Joan Osato, Choppy Oshiro, Pancho Pescador, Edsel Rivera, Shizue Seigel, Leon Sun, Mel Waters, and Jess X. Wong.

Co-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of Berkeley

Can we rise up like Hong Kong? Fill Mission Street from 5th to 8th Streets. Needs at least 880 people. Bring your charged phone to hold up.

When you think of the upcoming Global Climate Strike (Sept. 20-27), who is leading the demonstrations? Young people, right? They’re increasingly taking the lead for climate related actions through organizations such as Sunrise. “The dark hour in America cannot last,” proclaims this new youth-centered activist group.

But marching beside the young people is spirit if not always in body will be revered elders in the ecology movement such as Joanna Macy, the author of 13 books and a veteran of six decades of political activism.

In fact, Macy and Sunrise people will literally be standing side by side at an upcoming event “Rising to the Climate Emergency: What Can we Count On?” at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists on September 8.

“The climate emergency is really serious,” says Macy, “but we don’t want people to feel paralyzed by the enormity of the challenge. We must help everyone find resources within themselves to realize they can make a difference.”

Macy is most noted for “The Work that Reconnects,” workshops that inspired thousands to experience their connections with each other and gain motivation to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.

Macy’s spiritual descendants in the Sunrise Movement are definitely eager to play their part. They’re building a mass movement to stop the climate crisis and create millions of good-paying jobs in the process.

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists is one of the epicenters of progressive political action in Berkeley, through its own actions and the many activist groups that meet there. All who are concerned about the climate crisis are invited to join Joanna Macy and Sunrise at 10:30 AM September 8. Free potluck and lively conversation will follow.

Free to the public.

Hosted by North Oakland Restorative Justice Council

We invite you to our next edition of our 45th St Brunches & Brooms, a neighborhood cleanup, community meal, and hygiene/winter gear kit distribution centering at the highway underpass off of 45th Street and MLK. In partnership with our neighbors who live there, we would like to gather to share some food and help with cleaning up the dumping under the 45th overpass.

Donate at
Facebook Giving: https://www.facebook.com/donate/361009014828047/
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/45th-st-community-cleanup-meal-care-kit

Help us assembles hot meals and care kits for 250 unhoused neighbors, that will be delivered to surrounding encampments during the days We are $1,000 to make the distribution happen in completion.

We need:
-$ – donate above
-Tents/Tarps/Rain Gear
-Gift card to costoco/target
-new socks, underwear
-dog food (for unhoused neighbors with pets)
-new tooth brush/toothpaste
-deodorant, small soaps, etc
-water (1 gallon or larger please)
-granola bars
-canned with pop top ready to eat stuff (tuna, sardines, jams, etc)
-Food for the brunch (high quality eggs, maple syrup (real), meats, etc)
-barber

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Many hands make for light work and we hope you can join us at some point during the early afternoon.

This event is brought to you by the Longfellow Community Association, the North Oakland Restorative Justice Council, Self Help Hunger Program, Phat Beets Produce, Oakland Communities United for Equity & Justice (OCUEJ) PLACE for Sustainable Living, RJOY, and the residents of the underpass. Special thanks to the Akonadi Foundation for their support of this event

Feel free to email Northoaklandrestorativejustice@gmail.com with questions

Save the date for the next Plant Sale fundraiser! The official Ambassador Greeters, Lulu and Deuce, will be there to gladly accept your lovin’.

Free Oakland UP 

An alternative retail space focused on the economy, the environment and building community by offering FREE art and everyday items.

One free item per person per day. For a fair monetary donation you may choose more. More treasures!! 

Gallery:offering monthly solo or group exhibitions featuring experimental, interactive projects focused on alternative economies, cultivating socially activated art, sustainability and building community through art and active participation. 

Gift/Thrift Shop: Everything is FREE – one item per person per day OR for a monetary gift to help pay the rent you may choose more!

Artist Residencies: Offering free alternative art supplies and emphasizing sustainable art practices. Everyone of all ages and abilities is invited to apply for the AIR program

Global recession is underway. Manufacturing is contracting worldwide. Trade is no longer growing. Germany and Europe are on the brink, Japan is stagnating, and China is slowing. On the financial side of the global economy, stock markets are becoming unstable, bonds and gold are in a bubble, oil, commodities and currencies are deflating, financial crises are erupting in Argentina, South America, and India, and German and Italian banks are becoming fragile. In the USA business investment and construction are contracting and manufacturing has stalled. Meanwhile, corporate, household and government debt are at dangerous levels. Will the US join the global economy slide into recession? If so, how soon? And will it be like 2008-09 or worse? Or not?

The presentation will show what role Trump’s policies have played in the scenario. It will include analyses of Trump’s trade wars, his $4.5 trillion business-investor tax cuts, his escalating War/Defense spending, and the trillion dollar annual budget deficits that tax cuts and war spending have spawned for another decade. What’s really behind the Trump tariff war with China? Why Trump is attacking the Federal Reserve chairman, Powell. Why wages and jobs are not really rising as Trump claims. And why Trump policies are leading to a political and constitutional crisis in the U.S.

The presentation will conclude with a political analysis why corporate-friendly Democrat Party leadership has not been able to stop Trump nor deal with the political movement (and money) behind him. And why their current strategy may lead to another Trump victory in 2020.

As part of the presentation, Dr. Rasmus will share some of the quantitative data and analyses from his forthcoming book, “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Policy from Reagan to Trump”,Clarity Press, October 1, 2019, which raises the theme: Neoliberalism entered a crisis after 2008-09 and Trump represents a desperate effort to restore it in a new aggressive, virulent form which requires a fundamental restriction of civil liberties and restructuring of the American democratic system.

Dr. Jack Rasmus is the author of the forthcoming book, “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Policy from Reagan to Trump”, Clarity Press, October 1, 2019. Dr Rasmus currently teaches economics at St. Marys College in Moraga, California, and publishes on subjects of US economic policy, US political change, global financial instability, financial business cycles, history of economic thought, American Labor and unions, and US Economic History. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (BA Economics) and University of Toronto, Canada (MA, PH.D Political Economy).

Prior to his academic career and publishing, Dr. Rasmus was formerly an Economist, Vice-President, and strategic market analyst for various global tech, market research, and silicon valley technology start-up companies for twenty years. Before that for more than a decade he was a local union president, vice-president, contract negotiator, strike coordinator, and organizer for various unions, including the National Writers Union/UAW, Communication Workers of America, and Hotel & Restaurant and Service Employees International Unions.

Dr. Rasmus is also author of several prior books on the USA and global economy, including, Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Fed, Lexington Books, March 2019; Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes, Clarity Press, August 2017; Looting Greece, Clarity Press, September 2016; Systemic Fragility in the Global Economy, Clarity Press, January 2016; Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression, Pluto Books, 2010; Obama’s Economy: Recovery for the Few, Pluto Books, 2012; and The War At Home: The Corporate Offensive From Reagan to George W. Bush, Kylos Books, 2006.

Dr. Rasmus blogs at jackrasmus.com and his website http://kyklosproductions.com, where his articles and radio and TV interviews are available for download. His twitter handle is @drjackrasmus. He also hosts the weekly radio show, Alternative Visions, on the Progressive Radio Network  podcasts available at http://alternativevisions.podbean.com). He may be contacted at:  drjackrasmus@gmail.com or jjr2@stmarys-ca.edu.

Green Sundays are a series of free public programs & discussions on topics “du jour” sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County and held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. Snacks are potluck. Vegetarian and vegan snacks are always welcome, but we appreciate whatever you can bring! The monthly business meeting of the County Council of the Green Party follows, at 6:45 pm. Council meetings are open to anyone who is interested.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/now-what-the-state-of-immigration-under-trump-tickets-70589357669

Border walls. Travel bans. ICE raids. Separation of families. Deaths of migrant children
at the border.

These immigration issues have been consistently pushed to the forefront since Trump took office. In the United States, immigration has been an integral part of our history.

But why has it become such a contested topic today? What is actually happening at the U.S Mexico border? How are Trump’s policies affecting migrant communities? And most importantly, what can we do to make a difference?

At this panel, we will hear from community advocates who will help us process these questions and inspire us into action.

Moderator: Miriam Warren, Yelp (Vice President of Engagement, Diversity, and Belonging)

Panelists:

–Niloufar Khonsari and Rosario Rosales, Pangea Legal
–Alan Pelaez Lopez, Black LGBTQIA + Migrant Project
–Bianca Sierra Wolff, California Change Lawyers
–Iliana G. Perez, Immigrants Rising

Schedule:

5:30PM Doors Open
6:00PM Panel Starts
6:45PM Lobby Closes (please call event organizer after this time to get inside)
7:00PM Networking
8:00PM Event Ends
Food and drinks will be provided.