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UC Berkeley: Graduate Student Workers Strike!
UC Berkeley: Graduate Student Workers Strike!
@ UC Berkeley
Apr 2 – Apr 3 all-day
April 2-3, 2014 Wednesday, April 2 Schedule: 8:00 AM – American Federation of Teachers Hosts Breakfast 8:00 to 10:00 – First Picket Line Shift! (Rhetoric, Film, Music, EECS, Latin American Studies) 10:00 to 12:00 – Second Picket Line Shift! (Comp. Lit, Classics, Education, French, Philosophy) 12:00 to 1:30 – MASS RALLY ON SPROUL 1:30 – AFSCME HOSTS LUNCH 1:30 to 3:30 – Third Picket Line Shift! (City planning, Public Health, Sociology, History, Geography, English) 3:30 to 5:30 – Fourth Picket Line Shift! (Political Science, Social Welfare, Anthropology) **PICKET LINES LOCATED … Continued
March and Picket at Vanguard Properties: Eviction Free San Francisco
6:30 pm
March and Picket at Vanguard Properties: Eviction Free San Francisco
@ 24th St. BART, SF
Apr 2 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Join Eviction Free San Francisco for a spirited lunchtime march and picket at Vanguard Properties to demand that Michael Harrison of Vanguard Properties rescind the Ellis Act eviction of Benito Santiago! Meet at 24th street BART station and march to Vanguard Properties at 2501 Mission Street at 21st. Co-founder of Vanguard Properties Michael Harrison is currently using the Ellis Act to attempt and evict long-term tenant and native San Franciscan Benito Santiago. Benito Santiago is a senior and disabled Filipino resident of the Duboce Triangle. He was born and raised … Continued
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UC Berkeley: Graduate Student Workers Strike!
UC Berkeley: Graduate Student Workers Strike!
@ UC Berkeley
Apr 3 – Apr 4 all-day
April 2-3, 2014 Thursday, April 3 Schedule: 8:00 AM – American Federation of Teachers Hosts Breakfast 8:00 to 10:00 – First Picket Line Shift! (Art History, Social Welfare, City planning, Public Health, Rhetoric) 10:00 to 12:00 – TEACH-IN on SPROUL 12:00 to 2:00 – Second Picket Line Shift! (Education, Sociology, Economics, Student Learning Center) 2:00 to 4:00 – TRAVELLING PICKET LINE (All departments come!) 4:00 to 6:00 – Third Picket Line Shift! (Latin American Studies, Film, Music, Philosophy) **PICKET LINES LOCATED AT BANCROFT AND TELEGRAPH** 55339
Strike Debt Bay Area: Reading Group: Politics of Debt.
2:30 am
Strike Debt Bay Area: Reading Group: Politics of Debt.
@ Bay Area Public School (Sudo room), enter on 22nd St., take elevator to 2nd floor
Apr 3 @ 2:30 am – 4:00 am
Or next class will be discussing Michael Hudson’s The Bubble and Beyond ch.9 – ‘Junk Bonding Industry.’ We will also be taking a look at the Public Banking Workbook ch 1-3 to further understand Public Banking and what it can provide. Here are the readings. HudsonCh9 PublicBankWorkbookCh1-355256
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Emergency Picket Line @ 6 AM Campbell Hall UC Berkeley!
1:00 pm
Emergency Picket Line @ 6 AM Campbell Hall UC Berkeley!
@ Campbell Hall
Apr 4 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Emergency Picket Line needed TOMORROW Thursday April 3rd 6 AM Campell Hall UC Berkeley! Tomorrow there will be a militant picket line in solidarity with UC Santa Cruz UAW that were attacked and arrested. Police used tasers while forcefully opening the west entrance to campus. http://www.ksbw.com/news/planned-2day-strike-is-underway-at-uc-santa-cruz-this-morning/25282900 Picket at the Campbell hall construction site on UC Berkeley where union workers won’t cross @ 6:00 am sharp. We need about 30 to 50 people so please forward to as many people as possible! 55360
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Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan!
10:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area: You Are Not a Loan!
@ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, next to City Hall
Apr 5 @ 10:00 pm – Apr 6 @ 12:30 am
 New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals talking about debt! Show up a half hour early—at 2:30 PM—for an informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com and let us know you’re coming. Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt. – The latest on our coalition efforts to Save the Berkeley Post Office and fight the privatization of our commons. – The latest on our efforts to help Richmond and … Continued
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Earth Day to May Day Direct Action Assembly
9:00 pm
Earth Day to May Day Direct Action Assembly
@ Mosswood Park amphitheater
Apr 6 @ 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
 We are having an assembly to plan direction actions from April 22nd to May 1st to raise awareness about the intersections of labor, immigration and environmental issues. You can propose actions or events. Examples include film screenings, sit-ins, tree-sits, guerrilla gardening, pickets, marches, blockades, strikes, etc. After the proposals are voted on we will have a discussion about strategies to unite workers and environmentalists against the bosses. Following this will be a screening of he file “Rocking the Foundations,” about the Builders Labourers Federation of Australia. Facebook event and more … Continued
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
1:00 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Apr 8 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
 The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. The Berkeley City Council … Continued
Occupy Forum;: Save the Bulb Panel Discussion.
1:00 am
Occupy Forum;: Save the Bulb Panel Discussion.
@ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART
Apr 8 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am
OccupyForum presents Save the Albany Bulb! Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win!!! Save the Bulb Panel at OccupyForum you want to see the future hike up the middle trail for 5min on the right by the solitary tree is the future STATE PARK run by the East Bay Regional Parks deconstruction they destroyed all the birds nests, ( I know because I use to play my guitar and watch those great black and yellow gold finchs in the trees) animal habitats , art ,bushes and trees what they left was … Continued
Families United March on State Capitol Sacramento
5:00 pm
Families United March on State Capitol Sacramento
@ State Capitol
Apr 8 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
ATTENTION ALL FAMILIES WHO HAS BEEN A VICTIM OF POLICE TERRORISM join us as we march on State Capital Sacramento during Crime Victim Day April 8, 2014. Please organize your communities and unite with us as we speak out against State Attorney General Kamala Harris for turning a blind eye under the Color of Law. Let’s organized now to address the Peace Officers Bill of Rights, Police Terrorism, and failure to resolve gun violence in our communities. Those families harmed by Gun Violence that are still seeking justice and an … Continued
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National Day of Action: Spies, Lies and Secret Files. Press Conference in SF.
6:00 pm
National Day of Action: Spies, Lies and Secret Files. Press Conference in SF.
@ Northern California Regional Intelligence Center
Apr 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
 April 10th is the National Day of Action against Fusion Centers. Protests, rallies, and teach-ins will take place in cities all over the country to draw attention to the spy centers in our midst. Fusion Centers facilitate the gathering, storing, and sharing of intelligence data that bares our lives and violate our basic human rights to privacy and civil liberties. There are an estimated 85 fusion centers all over the United States. There will be two Bay Area events: Press Conference at NCRIC Fusion Center in San Francisco 11:00am – … Continued
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National Day of Action: Spies, Lies and Secret Files. Rally in Oakland!
1:00 am
National Day of Action: Spies, Lies and Secret Files. Rally in Oakland!
Apr 11 @ 1:00 am – 3:00 am
 April 10th is the National Day of Action against Fusion Centers. Protests, rallies, and teach-ins will take place in cities all over the country to draw attention to the spy centers in our midst. Fusion Centers facilitate the gathering, storing, and sharing of intelligence data that bares our lives and violate our basic human rights to privacy and civil liberties. There are an estimated 85 fusion centers all over the United States. There will be two Bay Area events: Press Conference at NCRIC Fusion Center in San Francisco 11:00am – … Continued
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Protest Against Staples – Protest to Keep Living Wage Jobs at the Post Office.
6:00 pm
Protest Against Staples – Protest to Keep Living Wage Jobs at the Post Office.
@ berkeley staples
Apr 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
 STOP STAPLES SCABS. STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE POST OFFICE! Join American Postal Worker Union members protesting against Post Office counters in Staples stores staffed by low wage Staples employees instead of living wage Postal Union members. 55311
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KPFA: Community Advisory Board Meeting.
6:00 pm
KPFA: Community Advisory Board Meeting.
@ KPFA
Apr 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Meeting open to the public. Come and tell CAB members what you think about KPFA.55378
IT’S TIME TO TAX THE RICH TO HOUSE THE POOR!
6:30 pm
IT’S TIME TO TAX THE RICH TO HOUSE THE POOR!
@ Grassroots House
Apr 13 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The Robin Hood Committee needs your help gathering signatures to place two initiatives on the November ballot. The initiatives will create $4.5 million for affordable housing and other city services in Berkeley by taxing the windfall profits of large landlords. Right now, Berkeley tenants are paying more than $100 million a year in excess rent, wealth that is taken out of our community. We can recapture a fraction of that by putting these measures to a vote of the people. Join us this Sunday to pick up petitions and a … Continued
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Global Day Against Military Spending.
Global Day Against Military Spending.
@ Federal Building, Oakland
Apr 14 – Apr 15 all-day
Global Day Against Military Spending, Monday, April 14 Join the Bay Area New Priorities Campaign and folks from more than a dozen peace & justice organizations to distribute a GDAMS brochure to commuters at BART stations during morning and evening rush hours. Below is a list of BART stations and contact info. Press conference In front of the Federal Building, 13th & Clay, downtown Oakland, CA, 11:30 am Speakers will include leaders from the faith community, a representative of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, County Supervisor Wilma Chan, and a representative of … Continued
Protest Against Staples – Protest to Keep Living Wage Jobs at the Post Office.
6:00 pm
Protest Against Staples – Protest to Keep Living Wage Jobs at the Post Office.
@ El Cerrito Staples, across from BART Station
Apr 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
STOP STAPLES SCABS. STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE POST OFFICE! Join American Postal Worker Union members protesting against Post Office counters in Staples stores staffed by low wage Staples employees instead of living wage Postal Union members. 55312
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly.
1:00 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly.
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Apr 15 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. The American Postal Workers Union is planning more actions against Staples; we need to support them. There is a protest rally on Saturday, two days before this meeting, at the Berkeley Staples at 11:00 AM. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what … Continued
Occupy Forum: Our Homes, Our Neighborhoods– The Fight to Wake up the City.
1:00 am
Occupy Forum: Our Homes, Our Neighborhoods– The Fight to Wake up the City.
@ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART
Apr 15 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am
OccupyForum presents� Our Homes, Our Neighborhoods– The Fight to Wake up the City, Stop Displacement, and Take Back Control of Our Communities Guest speakers Julien Ball / SF ACCE and foreclosure and eviction fighters like Eviction-Free SF On the heels of a foreclosure crisis that devastated the southeast side, San Francisco saw a tech boom. Real estate speculators took advantage of the cheap land and are making super-profits off wealthier San Francisco transplants, while kicking long-time homeowners and renters out of their homes using foreclosures, rental evictions, and … Continued
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Strike Debt Bay Area: Politics of Debt Reading Group.
2:30 am
Strike Debt Bay Area: Politics of Debt Reading Group.
@ Public School Space (Sudo Room) (entrance on 22nd St, use buzzer)
Apr 17 @ 2:30 am – 3:30 am
Our next Politics of Debt class will be in one week, Wednesday April 16th. Here is the node on the public school website: http://thepublicschool.org/node/37127 We’ll continue our reading of Michael Hudson and the Public Banking Workbook. Bear in mind we didn’t get to discuss ch.1-3 of the Public Banking workbook, so read up on all that you can on the new chapters. Here are the chapter readings from Hudson for the meeting: 11, 15 and 18. HudsonCh11-15-18 and chapters from the Public Banking Workbook. Ch1-3 PublicBankWorkbookCh4-7 55409
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Save Knowland Park Rally
5:00 pm
Save Knowland Park Rally
@ Oakland Zoo entrance
Apr 19 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
SATURDAY, April 19, 10 am-1pm: SAVE THIS DATE for our big Friends of Knowland Park Earth Day Rally at the Oakland Zoo entrance! SPECIAL GUESTS: COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD and the duo of Hali Hammer and Randy Berge! If you can only come out to help with one thing, this is it! Our goal is to turn out even more people than our last successful rally, so please come and bring your friends! SHOWING UP MATTERS. Homemade signs are great—we will have a bunch, but bring your own if you can … Continued
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
1:00 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Apr 22 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion … Continued
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Stop Staples: US Mail is Not for Sale! National Day of Action.
5:00 pm
Stop Staples: US Mail is Not for Sale! National Day of Action.
@ San Francisco & San Leandro and all over the United States.
Apr 24 @ 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
 National website. Local actions: SAN FRANCISCO Time: 10:00 AM Address: 1700 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94109 SAN LEANDRO Time: 1:00 PM Address: 15555 East 14th Street #200, San Leandro, CA 94578 Berkeley Post Office Defenders and Save the Berkeley Post Office will be supporting these actions. Staples attacks good jobs and public post offices. Staples and the U.S. Postal Service have cut a deal that jeopardizes your mail service and your local post office. In fact, post offices across the country are at risk – along with thousands … Continued
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Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action.
10:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area: Ideas Into Action.
@ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater
Apr 26 @ 10:00 pm – Apr 27 @ 12:30 am
New to Strike Debt?? Don’t walk cold turkey into a bunch of radicals talking about debt! Show up a half hour early—at 2:30 PM—for an informal pre-meeting intro session. If you’d like to attend this pre-together please email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com and let us know you’re coming. Join Strike Debt Bay Area in working on some exciting projects locally and nationally to fight unjust debt. – The latest on our coalition efforts to Save the Berkeley Post Office and fight the privatization of our commons. – The latest on our efforts to help Richmond and … Continued
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
1:00 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Apr 29 @ 1:00 am – 2:30 am
The Postal Service has put the Berkeley Post Office up for sale!! The Postal Service has started to outsource Post Office services to Staples, replacing union jobs with low-paying, low benefit work. And we’re fighting against both! Come help us plan our next steps. We’ve started a “Don’t Shop at Staples” campaign with some awesome… what else? … postcards to send to Staples management! Here’s the front of the postcard. All four Postal Unions have joined together to support maintaining full service, public Post Offices in every community, with expansion … Continued
Occupy Forum: “How to Start a Revolution.” A Film on the Work of Gene Sharp.
1:00 am
Occupy Forum: “How to Start a Revolution.” A Film on the Work of Gene Sharp.
@ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART
Apr 29 @ 1:00 am – 4:00 am
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! David Hartsough Screening and discussion: “How to Start a Revolution” — a film on the work of Gene Sharp Any power structure relies upon the People’s obedience to the orders of the ruler(s). If the People do not obey, rulers have no power. Gene Sharp is known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which have influenced numerous anti-government resistance movements around the world. … Continued
City Council Proposes to Insult Workers Everywhere – Stop Larry Reid’s $10.20 “Dead Wage” Proposal.
9:00 pm
City Council Proposes to Insult Workers Everywhere – Stop Larry Reid’s $10.20 “Dead Wage” Proposal.
@ Oakland City Hall, Sgt. Mark Dunakin Room - 1st Floor
Apr 29 @ 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm
The Community & Economic Development Committee of the City Council will be considered a “proposal” by Larry Reid to increase the minimum wage to $10.20 beginning January 1, 2015. Come tell Reid and the other members of the committee that Oakland wants nothing less than a living wage – $15.00/hr, and that his proposal is an insult to the working class. Link to Agenda Item (Item 8).55498
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