Calendar
Wednesday 5/1: May Day General Strike to Stop Genocide & Rally at Harry Bridges Plaza https://t.co/ohbvkOKm6i
— Indybay (@Indybay) April 6, 2024
🚨 This May Day, workers across the Bay Area and across the country will Rise for Palestine 🇵🇸 !
Join an action in Oakland or San Francisco, talk to your coworkers and get them involved.
Check this thread for Bay Area actions happening on 5/1! pic.twitter.com/2EatggvEX9
— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) April 26, 2024
Emergency Call to Action!
All out for Rafah!
Sproul Plaza, at UC Berkeley!
Tuesday, May 7th at 4pm! pic.twitter.com/aCQ3WVzhfI— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) May 7, 2024
Bay Area! The police & officials are attempting to surveil and disrupt our community with a $44 million Cop City in San Pablo. Come together in the nationwide fight to stop Cop City!
🌟Date: Thursday, May 16th
🌟Time: 3-6pm
🌟Location: Point Richmond (900 Dornan Dr, Richmond) pic.twitter.com/79sPjlhUwz— East Bay DSA 🌹 (@DSAEastBay) May 12, 2024
On May 22, @StrikeDebt is rallying in DC to demand Biden fund education NOT genocide. Join us!
Can’t make it in person? Support by sharing, liking, and telling your friends in the DC area to come out.
Cancel debt & defund the war machine.
RSVP here: https://t.co/FpecspnVui pic.twitter.com/tZT7SSYH9B
— magnetic deviation 🟥 (@thingsinthesink) May 13, 2024
Tonight, May 27th
All Eyes on Rafah
Vigil for Palestine
Lake Merritt Amphitheater
7:30pm@YallaBerkeley @AROCBayArea pic.twitter.com/kgafEG7Rv3— Mama Lisa (@LisTeague) May 27, 2024
Why do we do mass copwatching shifts?
This is a chance for us to teach our shifts practice: listening to the scanner, how to copwatch as a team, incident documentation, entry into our database, and more.
We hope that people will take what they learn into their daily lives AND join copwatch for some of our weekly shifts! We are always seeking to train up more shift facilitators.
Wanna know more about our shifts? Check out the copwatch handbook packed with 30+ years of experience. (https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/handbook)
Accessibility info: Meet in the backroom of Grassroots House. There is a ramp at the front. Masks are encouraged.
Our trainings are offered free to the public. We encourage all people, with any amount of prior knowledge or experience, to attend these trainings and contribute your questions and experience.
We will meet in the back room of the Grassroots House. There is a ramp at the front of the house. Masking recommended but not required.
Basic Copwatching Techniques and Intro to Copwatch and Your Rights
TUE JULY 2 at 7-9pm
Copwatching at Protests and Preparing for Arrests
WED JULY 10 at 7-9pm
Trainings are offered in a series but attendance to one is not a requirement to attend another. We will do some basic rights review during part 2 to bring everyone up to speed.
If you want us to facilitate a training for your org/group, reach out to us at berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com
Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more.
Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without healing there is no justice. Sign up today to join us for free healing services this Friday!
Our Clinic draws upon the revolutionary history of the Young Lords and seeks to honor the legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur. Ancestral medicine is one of the greatest strengths that our movement has to combat state violence, and it is a central value of APTP to utilize healing justice as a strategy for the longevity of organized resistance.
APTP Healing Justice Team
In a San Francisco action connected to the Summer of Heat civil disobedience campaign on Wall Street, a lively, peaceful parade and rally in downtown San Francisco will tell Citibank – the biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion in the past eight years — that the future of the world’s children and grandchildren matter more than Citi’s profits.
Summer of Heat on Wall Street is a 13-week sustained campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience to end financing for fossil fuels. The second week of July is Elders Week, but Third Act Bay Area and 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations encourage people of all ages to join them in this local action.
Citibank is the main target of the Summer of Heat. Since the Paris Agreement, Citibank has bankrolled fossil fuel expansion to the tune of a whopping $204.5 billion! The campaign aims to stop business-as-usual at Citi, as the world suffers through what is expected to be another record-breaking hot year.
Meet at Embarcadero/Harry Bridges Plaza, then march to two nearby Citibank offices (including their California corporate office location) before returning to the Ferry Building. Live music, singing, puppets and a rocking chair brigade.
Our trainings are offered free to the public. We encourage all people, with any amount of prior knowledge or experience, to attend these trainings and contribute your questions and experience.
We will meet in the back room of the Grassroots House. There is a ramp at the front of the house. Masking recommended but not required.
Basic Copwatching Techniques and Intro to Copwatch and Your Rights
TUE JULY 2 at 7-9pm
Copwatching at Protests and Preparing for Arrests
WED JULY 10 at 7-9pm
Trainings are offered in a series but attendance to one is not a requirement to attend another. We will do some basic rights review during part 2 to bring everyone up to speed.
If you want us to facilitate a training for your org/group, reach out to us at berkeleycopwatch@yahoo.com
DID YOU KNOW?
The city spends almost $1,500 per hour
evicting folks living on the streets?
Affordable” housing in Oakland is for “low
income” folks who make $84,600 per year
and “extrememly low income” are folks
who make $32,700?
The City of Oakland’s blueprint to end
homelessness (the PATH Plan) has zero
units of permanent extrememly
affordable housing?
Let’s talk about what has worked and
what hasn’t worked in the City of
Oakland’s homeless industrial complex.
Its the last day that city council will be meeting.
The point of the speak out will be to hold space for unhoused folks and advocates to talk about what has worked/ what has not worked in the city’s homeless industrial complex, as well share real solutions to end homelessness.
Some of the group will be joining the city council meeting to speak in the Homeless State of Emergency. programming in front of city hall will continue for folks who do not want to go to city hall.
we hope you can make it out.
Earlier this year the Anti Police-Terror Project proudly launched The People’s Clinic with scheduling options every 1st and 3rd Friday at The People’s House in West Oakland. We created The People’s Clinic as an abolitionist healing space for communities affected by police terror and state violence, frontline organizers, and our West Oakland neighbors. We offer free services for community like acupuncture, herbal consultations, massage, healing tools library, monthly workshops, and more.
Our Healing Justice framework invites community to envision and manifest a life beyond the violence we survive everyday. Without healing there is no justice. Sign up today to join us for free healing services this Friday!
Our Clinic draws upon the revolutionary history of the Young Lords and seeks to honor the legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur. Ancestral medicine is one of the greatest strengths that our movement has to combat state violence, and it is a central value of APTP to utilize healing justice as a strategy for the longevity of organized resistance.
APTP Healing Justice Team
Vallejo community vigil tomorrow at 5. Come pray for our city with us! pic.twitter.com/JRd16IUpiC
— Melissa Nold, Esq. (@savage_esquire) July 26, 2024
BAY AREA: ALL OUT TO DEMAND THE ARREST OF NETANYAHU 🚨
🗓️Saturday, July 27
⏰1:30pm
📍SF Federal Building, 90 7th St., SF pic.twitter.com/IdQ80gUOjq— CAIR-SFBA (@CAIRSFBA) July 26, 2024
National Day of Mourning: Justice for Sonya Massey & Alexander Antonio Lopez
On July 6, a 36-year-old Black woman, Sonya Massey, called 911 to report a suspected intruder at her home. Her first words when she opened her front door to them were “don’t hurt me.” Instead of protecting her, Springfield, Illinois police shot and murdered her inside of her own home. The sheriff who killed her, Sean Grayson, was on duty in his 6th policing job of his career after being disciplined in five previous police departments.
Sonya is more than a victim of the police state. She was a mother, a sister, a daughter and a loving community member. We say her name as we continue to rebuke the paradigm that dying at the hands of the state is an unpreventable leading cause of death for our people.
Join us on Sunday for a vigil, healing ceremony and community gathering. There will be speakers, performers, healing justice practitioners and an open community mic.
As we join in this national day of mourning, we also want to honor the life of Alexander Antonio Lopez who was murdered right in our backyard by SFPD just last weekend.
Antonio was killed in the Tenderloin, in an area where homeless folks are frequently swept. As the state cracks down on people sleeping in the streets with nowhere to go, we call out this murder as part of the state’s efforts to disappear our people in the name of maintaining the illusion that the status quo of white supremacy and violence works for us all. It never has and it never will. We rebuke it in the name of our divine humanity.
Sonya Massey should still be alive. Alexander Antonio Lopez should still be alive. We continue to fight for a better world in their names.
Hardware hack night – each Tuesday, we welcome sudoers new and old to bring their hardware projects to the space, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, 7pm til… whomever’s left standing!
Special Workshop Presentation and Explorations: XR in Art
What fine arts are doing with virtual reality / augmented reality and XR in general, and how can we make exhibits and virtual reality Art at SudoRoom and Beyond? We’ll be looking especially closely at the Venice Biennial Immersive and the Cannes XR Virtual Festival.
Also, how can you mix virtual reality with hardware? We have seen projects where people 3D print mountains or sculptures of maps.
Project Ideas
If we force you to watch a presentation, you’d better believe we’ll offer a workshop:
- Could we print a 3D printed map of Oakland or even make it out of paper machine and do light projection animations on it without having to use a headset?
- If we do have a VisionPro or Quest, could we use that to look at a 3D object?
- How can we make #webxr exhibits of our wonderful space and show off our projects? we already. have some throw-up explorations here https://fancy-charming-physician.glitch.me/
Hardware Hacking Tuesdays are better than ever! Plus Fix-It Clinic!
Each Tuesday we welcome all to bring their hardware (and software and firmware) projects to Omni Commons, or simply come by to learn and tinker! All welcome, about 7:30pm until ∞ …whomever’s left standing!
We are inside the Omni Commons at 48th and Shattuck, see the link at the end of this text to call in in case the doors are locked!
○ Projects: can range from building course materials for teaching local kids electronics to a robotic arm that draws, to light projection art, to people building their own microchip boards! We provide the space, tools and peer learning – you bring your project and enthusiasm!
○ Group Sewing: Learn to do simple mending or get help with technical fabric and textile projects. In addition to regular machines our Sewing Lab features heavy-duty industrial sewing machines and sergers. Our in house sewing guru CC has worked for Academy or Art College, Tesla, SuitX, and Zipline and has vast sewing machine repair and maintenance experience; bring your own machine to tune up for tip-top operation and sew alongside others.
○ General Repair: Fix it Clinic’s weekly Oakland residency: bring your broken, non-functioning things – electronic gadgets, appliances, computers, toys, sewing machines, fabric items, etc.– for assessment, disassembly, and possible repair. We’ll provide workspace, specialty tools, and guidance to help you disassemble and troubleshoot your item. First-time repairers and “Fixing Families” are heartily invited.
- Learn more at https://www.fixitclinic.org/ or https://sudoroom.org/wiki/FixitClinic
Join us every Tuesday evening for a trifecta of awesomeness; you can also jump in virtually via our zoom-like video conference at this link: https://meet.waag.org/turtlesturtlesturtles
https://sudoroom.org/events/hardware-hack-night-2024-07-30/