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March with community members from across the Bay Area in the streets of Oakland! 3:30PM: Fruitvale Bart Plaza Opening Rally 4 pm: March Starts 5:30: Return to Fruitvale Bart Plaza for Closing Rally and Celebration! Hosted by Oakland Sin Frontera (OSF) and Partners WHY ARE WE MARCHING? Oakland Sin Frontera · LEGALIZATION FOR ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS · STOP THE DEPORTATION OF ALL IMMIGRANTS & SHUT DOWN DETENTION CENTERS · UPHOLD WORKERS RIGHTS · STOP FEDERAL AND LOCAL POLICE VIOLENCE, AND BRING OUR LOVED ONES HOME FROM PRISONS AND JAILS · … Continued

The committee to create a DAC privacy policy, formed because of the protests against the DAC, will hold its first meeting.  By City Council resolution a privacy policy must be in place before the DAC can operate. Open to public. Come and tell the committee members:  “The only good DAC is a dead DAC.” 55496

As the April 12th construction groundbreaking ceremony for the controversial UCB Jacobs Hall site at Ridge and Le Roy, community outrage grew about the planned destruction of a beautiful redwood grove, the damage inflicted to the neighborhood’s historical character, and major concerns about the privatized funding in general and Qualcomm’s untrustworthiness in particular. Instead of addressing the concerns of the community transparently, the University cowardly transferred the ceremony to a location that was undisclosed to protestors, intentionally suppressing their first-amendment right to express legitimate grievances publicly. Over the past several … Continued

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

Here is the PDF for the final class meeting on Michael Hudson’s The Bubble and Beyond. We will like meet upstairs. HudsonCh19-2055485

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

Panel Discussion on anarchism — past, present, and future — with Ramsey Kanaan (AK Press & PM Press), Liz Highleyman (journalist and historian), and Joey Cain (Bound Together Bookstore, LGBT activist)       Anarchism is the belief in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion. Anarchism began as what it remains today: a direct challenge by the underprivileged to their oppression and exploitation. It opposes both the growth of state power and the ethos of possessive individualism, which, together or separately, ultimately serve … Continued

Did you know Governor Brown will release his revised 2014-15 budget proposal tomorrow? In recent years we’ve seen $15 billion dollars of cuts to social safety net programs, and we know to build a stronger healthier California for everyone we need invest in programs not prisons. Folks across California are furious that the the Governor has proposed more prison spending including $500 million to build new jails. On Wednesday, we’ll be joining up with the California Partnership organizing rallies and press conferences across the state. Can you can join us … Continued

Join striking fast food workers and allies from 36 countries and 150 U.S. cities, including Oakland, as we call out some of the world’s worst corporate behavior. With success in exposing widespread wage theft and in the wake of new reports showing an industry with the largest pay gaps between CEOs and workers, we’re demanding change, $15 for workers and a union. 5:30 AM Meet at ACCE Oakland Offices 2501 International Blvd 10:30 AM Meet at 14th St and Alice the Library in Downtown Oakland, 135 14th St. On May … Continued

The KPFA Community Advisory Board invites you to an information and music sharing Town Hall gathering in West Oakland . We want to hear from youth, listeners, community members, musicians and media activists about your favorite music, community actions and programming ideas. Learn about creating press releases and posting announcements. Help KPFA to address our cultural, political and economic challenges now.55518

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.   Thomas Gokey from Strike Debt New York City – creative debt thinker and Rolling Jubilee organizer – will be joining us! – The latest on our coalition efforts to … Continued

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

Cyclists from around the Bay Area will meet outside Richmond BART at 10am to bike the math of climate change to Chevron and tell the company to stop fueling climate chaos and become a renewable energy company. For more info: tubernation@sbcglobal.net   Chevron Corporation’s victims around the world have come together in a joint Statement to reject the transnational’s substandard operations and corporate practices. The affected communities extend an invitation to actively participate in the International Anti Chevron Day, on May 21st, 2014. The Statement is also signed by the … Continued

Or next politics of debt class will be at Xolo Taqueria on Telegraph avenue in downtown Oakland  in the upstairs room. We will be reading from Richard Heinberg’s The End of Growth, which looks at the energy limitations facing our politician’s attempts to restart the economic growth machine.  There are implications for finance and bubble making as well. Much thanks to Spencer for scanning the chapters! Heinberg doc Heinberg 255724

Occupy Monsanto: Action Against Genetic Biohazards. With music by Fresh Juice Party, Occupella and more. More info.55474

If you are one of the 100,000 workers and students that shut down the Port Of Oakland November 2nd, 2011 we are asking you to defend the Bulb with a peaceful picketline.  PS: There will also be autonomous actions.  Dare to struggle, dare to win!  What kind of pie?  Occupie. Orion (510) 541-3835    55807

  Why do we march? � Protect our food supply � Support local farms � Protect our environment � Promote organic solutions � Expose the cronyism between big business and the government (Agribiz) � Bring accountability to those responsible for the corruption More info.55809

Please join us on Sunday at 10 AM as the Salinas Community Unites to PEACEFULLY Protest against the Salinas Police Department. There have been 3 homicides within the last 90 days! Two of which were committed within these past 11 Days!! The two young men were farmworkers and had their farmworker tools when they were fatally shot multiple times including the face. We will be gathering today (5/22) at ROSA DE SARON CHURCH at 6:30pm to prepare for Sunday’s March. Please join us! OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS US! WE MUST ALL … Continued

This Sunday, May 25th GA will be held at Mike Wilson’s digs in El Cerrito as part of a festive potluck BBQ that starts at noon.  We will stop sucking down brews and scarfing BBQ flesh for a reasonable period between 2PM & 3PM at our normally scheduled OGP GA time and discuss how to overthrow capitalism and all the awesome stuff we’ve done in the past week and plan to do in the next week. A BARBECUE FOR HERBIVORES AND CARNIVORES ALIKE The time of year cries out for … Continued

Protest the cancellation of the Morning Mix, a radio show on KPFA during morning drive time, which was hosted by diverse programmers who are based in the local community. It is being replaced with a show, with one radio personality, that will be piped in from Los Angeles. Only some Morning Mix segments have been rescheduled, and at times of the day when most working people are at work and unable to listen, including the labor show Work Week Radio (https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio), and Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org/category/radio/). This removal of the Morning … Continued

The regularly scheduled meeting has been postponed until next week, Monday, June 2nd, at 6:00 PM, at the Downtown Berkeley Post Office at 2000 Allston Way.55827

Protest the cancellation of the Morning Mix, a radio show on KPFA during morning drive time, which has been hosted by diverse programmers who are based in the local community. KPFA management wants to replace it with a show, with one radio personality, that will be piped in from Los Angeles. Only some Morning Mix segments have been rescheduled, and at times of the day when most working people are at work and unable to listen, including the labor show Work Week Radio (https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio), and Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org/category/radio/). This removal … Continued

Protest the cancellation of the Morning Mix, a radio show on KPFA during morning drive time, which was hosted by diverse programmers who are based in the local community. KPFA management is replacing it with a show, with one radio personality, that will be piped in from Los Angeles. Only some Morning Mix segments have been rescheduled, and at times of the day when most working people are at work and unable to listen, including the labor show Work Week Radio (https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio), and Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org/category/radio/). This removal of the … Continued

Park Garden is under the threat of development. A recent notice posted in the area indicates an intent to build a 6-story building on the lot we garden in. There is a Design Review hearing at City Hall this coming Wednesday, May 28th, at 4:30pm. We need as many friends, neighbors, and allies to show up and speak out on such issues as: – The already dangerous traffic situation along the entire length of Park. – Parking, which is already an issue. – Pedestrian access, or lack of. We have … Continued

The strategy meeting for how to keep tasers out of Berkeley. We’ll talk about how to run this campaign and what’s our strategy.  Sponsored by Berkeley Copwatch.    55839

Protest the cancellation of the Morning Mix, a radio show on KPFA during morning drive time, which was hosted by diverse programmers who are based in the local community. KPFA management is replacing it with a show, with one radio personality, that will be piped in from Los Angeles. Only some Morning Mix segments have been rescheduled, and at times of the day when most working people are at work and unable to listen, including the labor show Work Week Radio (https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio), and Project Censored (http://www.projectcensored.org/category/radio/). This removal of the … Continued

A rally to support the Salinas Police Department has been organized for Sat. from 11am-2pm. This is a response to that rally. The Direct Action Monterey Network and our comrades in Salinas are mobilizing for a counter demonstration because a pro-cop rally in response to what’s been going on is a pro-murder-of-Latino-farmworkers rally and can not be left unanswered. This is not about specific cops or their personal attitudes and beliefs. This is about exposing the Salinas PD for being the violent, oppressive institution that it is. Their daily intimidation and harassment, … Continued

OAKLAND: BUS FROM OAKLAND, MEET AT OGP 11:00AM For all those who have suffered police brutality please join us, and speak out about the corruption in San Joaquin county that affects us all. When? Saturday May 31st 2014 for the 3rd annual Speak out for victims of police violence/brutality. Bring your friends, invite your friends. In 2010 16 year old James Rivera Jr, was driving a mini van that was violently forced off of the road by multiple Police units. The vehicle was forced to crash, going through two residential … Continued

If the Government Won’t, the People Will….. STOP CRUDE OIL BY RAIL SHIPMENTS TO RICHMOND! Stop pollution of our communities and our climate! PROTEST AT KINDER MORGAN’S RAIL YARD SHUTTLES WILL PROVIDE RIDES FROM RICHMOND BART — 12:15-12:30 pm Meet at Castro St. entrance to Kinder Morgan train yard between entrance to Chevron Refinery/Hwy 580 & Hensley Street, close to Hensley across Castro Street from General Chemical’s entrance at525 Castro Street. (Closet parking is up Hensley Street) The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a permit to Kinder Morgan … Continued