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If you’re in the Bay Area, you can secure a spot in our charter bus, which will be leaving from the Ashby BART station at 8:30 AM, taking you to and from the action!
The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet. On September 20th in New York, the UN Climate Ambition Summit will gather world leaders to commit to phasing out fossil fuels.
The “ticket to entry” will be tangible action to keep fossil fuels in the ground— in the form of policies, and not just empty declarations.
Before the summit, thousands will take to the streets in New York and around the country—including Sacramento—demanding that Biden take bold action to end fossil fuels. (Biden promised to end drilling on federal lands, yet he has approved more fossil fuel projects than Trump.)
The March to End Fossil Fuels is being organized by a coalition of local and national organizations led by the Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Popular Democracy, Climate Organizing Hub, Food & Water Watch, Fridays For Future USA & NYC, Earthworks, Greenfaith, Indigenous Environmental Network, New York Communities for Change, Oil Change International, and Oil & Gas Action Network.
In California, we’ll gather in Sacramento to demand that our leaders, Biden and Newsom, stop permitting fossil fuels and make a plan to phase out oil and gas. This family-friendly action will feature a giant puppet show, carnival games, performers and speakers who will share how you can get involved in ending the era of Fossil Fuels and building a better future together.
If you want to take on a volunteer role with outreach, making art, singing or drumming, performing or other support, sign up here.
Carpool signup sheet is here.
Members of our city council are pretending to do something about crime by proposing more of the same destructive policing approach that has never kept us safe instead of investing in our communities.
There’s always more money for cops. Only for cops, not for schools or jobs or healthcare or parks or libraries — not for any of the things that actually make healthy and safe communities.
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WHAT: Give Public Comment at Oakland City Council Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday, September 19 at 2pm
WHERE: Online or in person at Oakland City Hall
- In person — Oakland City Council Chamber, 3rd Floor, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612 — Note: We recommend wearing a high quality mask if you attend in person. Make sure to show up on time and fill out a speaker card to make public comment.
- Online — You can also join by video conference (Zoom), or by dialing (669) 900-6833, Meeting ID: 846 7751 1593 (if asked for a participant ID or code, press #). To make public comment via Zoom, you must email cityclerk@oaklandca.gov before the meeting — let them know you wish to speak on Agenda Items 6.35, 9 & 10, and your name on Zoom.
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First — to approve two resolutions restoring funds to the Department of Violence Prevention to ensure that the community based organizations interrupting violence across Oakland have the resources they need to do their work. After cuts were made in this June’s budget, the council has seen that disinvestment in violence prevention has negatively impacted our ability to stop the violence in our streets.
Let’s make sure they do the right thing and restore funds to the Department of Violence Prevention immediately!
Second — we need to demand that our city council takes a rational look at public safety. Proposals by Dan Kalb and Kevin Jenkins take a one-sided look, falsely assuming that lateral academies, foot patrols, automated license plate readers (ALPRs), high-speed chases, and increased investment in the failing Ceasefire program are what is needed to keep us safe.
We need to demand that they stop with the empty rhetoric and instead support data-driven approaches to public safety!
With so much at stake, your voice is needed! Please join us to demand that community ambassadors, increased investment in MACRO, and restoring much needed funds to our violence prevention efforts are truly what is needed.
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) is again seeking approval to increase ACSO’s stockpile of military equipment beyond what Sheriff Ahern had previously included in ACSO’s military equipment inventory.
On Thursday, the Board of Supervisors Public Protection Committee considers the sheriff’s proposal to acquire additional drones, ‘flashbang’ grenades, and ‘scattershot’ grenades and munitions.
“Scattershot” munitions are indiscriminately fired “less lethal” munitions that cannot be aimed because they are designed to spray or scatter projectiles. The sheriff wants to acquire more than 500 more of them, for an arsenal of over 1,000.
Such weapons are illegal to use by law enforcement for crowd control situations in California. They’ve been used against protesters in Oakland. Of course, these weapons are also very dangerous to use inside Santa Rita Jail. Testimony from prisoners in Santa Rita reveals that scattershot munitions – known inside as “bumblebees” – have been fired at mentally ill prisoners.
In June, Supervisor Elisa Marquez called on the sheriff to report on the sheriff’s use of munitions and chemical agents such as pepper spray over the last two years.
But given how dangerous and indiscriminate these weapons are, why should the sheriff possess them at all – much less acquire more? Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights have called for banning their use by law enforcement.
You can read more about how to craft your public comment, and more details about the sheriff’s proposal, here:
https://bit.ly/demilitarizeACSO
Please join us on Thursday, September 28 at 10am – in person or via zoom – at the Board of Supervisors Public Protection Meeting and call on the Supervisors to BAN scattershot munitions and grenades.
Connect to the meeting via zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/83246519903
From Atlanta to the Bay
Stop Police Militarization in our Communities
The City of San Pablo plans to build a $43 million police training center and shooting range for cops around the Bay Area. The people of San Pablo and the Bay Area oppose this expansion of police power because of cops long history of harassing, abusing, incarcerating, and killing Black and Brown people.
Show up and march with us against the construction. We need healthy communities not police! Together we can stop Cop Campus!
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¡Marcha en contra el Campus Policial!
¡De Atlanta a él Bay!
¡Detengamos la militarización policial en nuestras comunidades!
Sábado 30 de Septiembre a las 3pm
Kennedy Plaza en San Pablo (23rd St & Brookside Dr)
La ciudad de San Pablo planea construir un centro de entrenamiento y un campo de tiro para la policía en el Bay Área de 43 millones de dólares.
La gente de San Pablo y el Bay Área se oponen a esta expansión del poder policíaco debido a la larga historia de acoso, abuso, encarcelamiento y asesinato de personas negras y racializadas por parte de la policía.
¡Ven y marcha con nosotrxs en contra de esta construcción!
Necesitamos comunidades sanas, no a policías.
¡Juntxs podemos parar el Campus Policial!
La declaración de accesibilidad estará disponible pronto
Protest Tuesday, October 3, 5pm
970 Broad St, Newark Federal Building – In Response to the UN Security Council's Authorization of Another Military Invasion of Haiti!DEMANDS by @HaitiAction1:
Stop supporting the Ariel Henry dictatorship.
No to another US/UN/foreign military… pic.twitter.com/9YWAYLzdDo— Terri Kay (@TKJerseyCWL) October 3, 2023
ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE 
We will flood the streets of San Francisco this Saturday, October 14th, with our unwavering support for the Palestinian people and their ongoing struggle for return and liberation! 
In the wake of the indiscriminate attack by Palestinian military forces from Hamas, which has left some 1,200 people dead and 2,000 wounded, the Israeli government is blaming Palestinian’s for Hamas’s attack, and promising to make Palestinians pay “an unprecedented price.” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced that Israel has begun a “long and difficult war” to turn Gaza into “rubble.” President Biden has said that U.S. support for Israel’s massacre is “rock solid and unwavering.”
Since 1967, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been militarily occupied and controlled by Israel. Israel has used the occupation to further its genocidal erasure of the Palestinian people to take more of their land, and force Palestinians to live like prisoners, under constant violence, or trapped in Gaza, under a constant state of siege. And the U.S. has supported Israel every step of the way.
We cannot be silent in the face of this slaughter of Palestinians. We must stand up and demand:
END THE ISRAELI WAR AND OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE!
DOWN WITH THE GENOCIDAL ISRAELI STATE!
NO U.S. AID to ISRAEL!
Join us for a presentation and discussion about the current situation, what has led to this, and what role we can play here in the U.S.
Can’t join us in person? Join on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82158800683?pwd=N2J6UjgxNWhNak1WRWdUdm9CUit4QT09
Meeting ID: 821 5880 0683
Passcode: 340756
One million children in Gaza are being bombed and cut off from food and clean water. Over a thousand have already been killed. Bay Area kids, families, and friends say: NO MORE. We call for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid for Gazan kids.
Join us for a family-friendly action with street mural painting, drumming, interactive activities, and more. All are welcome!
Can you volunteer at the action or help hold banners on nearby freeway overpasses? Sign up here! https://forms.gle/43Wzq5MUSdta3kXD9
Protest for an end to the ongoing siege and genocide in Gaza. We refuse to allow our money to fund the deaths of Palestinians!
People of all religions and backgrounds are encouraged to come out.
Join a student walkout for Palestine in any of these locations across Northern California tomorrow, 10/24! pic.twitter.com/FUvs9fhbyp
— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) October 24, 2023
Folks are calling for a counter-protest against far-Right, anti-LGBTQ+ troll at UC Davis on November 3rd. #Davis #LGBTQ #LGBT https://t.co/4Jn7pWq4cR pic.twitter.com/U8ErTiMVoF
— OFF THE 99 (@Off_The_99) October 31, 2023
On November 4th, tens of thousands of people will converge in Washington, D.C. for a truly historic march to demand no more U.S. aid to Israel and an end to the siege on Gaza now. Massive sister actions will take place around the world, and the Bay Area will be no exception! Join us in San Francisco on November 4th to show that the Bay stands with Palestine!
Continued international pressure is the only way to end the genocidal Israeli siege on Gaza. Its residents continue to live cut off from food, water and electricity by Israel. The Gazan hospital system has completely collapsed from lack of fuel sources.
On an international day of action to Power Up for Climate Solutions, join an action to protest Costco’s plan to build a mega new gas station next to its Novato warehouse.
The project would include 14 fuel dispensers that accommodate 28 fueling positions, with three 40,000-gallon gasoline underground storage tanks and a 1,500-gallon additive storage tank.
The site is right next to a pediatric clinic and a pristine watershed, and close to a huge wildlife area.
In September 2022 the Marin County Superior Court ordered Novato to set aside its March 2021 approval of the Costco Gas Station, agreeing with seven concerned residents of Novato, who filed a lawsuit in April 2021, that the city needs to conduct an environmental review because the project might have significant environmental impacts related to air quality and health risks.
The City is currently drafting an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). Once a draft EIR is completed, likely towards the end of 2023, it will be made available for public review and comment. Subsequently, Planning Commission and City Council hearing dates will be scheduled.
After that the Novato City Council will vote again on approving or disapproving the building of a mega Costco gas station in the Vintage Oaks Shopping Center.
More info here.
Mothers around the globe are mourning for the mothers and children of Gaza. Join us Sunday Nov. 5th at 11 am for a march around Lake Merritt. Mothers, fathers, parents, and kin – bring your signs, strollers, carriers, and kiddos as we collectively hold our grief and RAGE.
Today at 3pm folks are mobilizing to turn out to the Oakland City Council meeting to pressure city officials to pass a resolution that calls for a ceasefire & an end to the genocide in Gaza
Join in on this autonomous effort to tell the world that Oakland stands against genocide! pic.twitter.com/ORLSfqtJoD— Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction) November 7, 2023
we call on groups to walk out of work and/or school and join us in front of the SF Federal Building (90 7th street) at 2pm for a speak out! There is a growing global movement for a Free Palestine, but we have to keep the pressure! No business as usual until Palestine is free!