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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. 2:30 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Jan 6 @ 2:30 am – 3:30 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office | Berkeley | California | United States
Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTED TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP. HUDSON-MCDONALD BACKED OUT OF THE DEAL IN EARLY DECEMBER. THE CITY OF BERKELEY SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER WAS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th, BUT WAS LIFTED BY THE JUDGE WHEN HUDSON WITHDREW.  Get an overview … Continued
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend 3:00 am
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend @ California Nurses Association
Jan 6 @ 3:00 am – 6:00 am
Facebook event.   : : : : : : Reclaiming King’s Legacy : : : : : : “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States and people across the country are demanding it comes to an end. As long as it remains business as usual to gun down Black women, men and children in the streets of this country, there will … Continued
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Book Group: The Politics of Debt. 3:30 am
Book Group: The Politics of Debt. @ OMNI Collective in the basement
Jan 8 @ 3:30 am – 5:30 am
The Strike Debt Bay Area / Public School reading group meets regularly to discuss readings on the broad subject of the Politics of Debt. We’re starting a new topic/book for the new year. We’re reading chapter 4 of the first section, and  chapters 1 & 2 of the fourth section, of ‘Small is Beautiful’ by E. F. Schumacher. Join us!57712
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Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend 2:00 am
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend @ OMNI Collective
Jan 9 @ 2:00 am – 5:30 am
 Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend @ OMNI Collective | Oakland | California | United States
: : : : : : Reclaiming King’s Legacy : : : : : : “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Facebook event & RSVP There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States and people across the country are demanding that it comes to an end. As long as it remains business as usual to gun down Black women, men and children in the streets of this country, … Continued
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Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing 7:00 pm
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ OMNI Collective
Jan 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
 Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ OMNI Collective | Oakland | California | United States
: : : : : : Reclaiming King’s Legacy : : : : : : “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Facebook event & RSVP There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States and people across the country are demanding that it comes to an end. As long as it remains business as usual to gun down Black women, men and children in the streets of this country, … Continued
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. 2:30 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Jan 13 @ 2:30 am – 3:30 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office | Berkeley | California | United States
Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTED TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP. HUDSON-MCDONALD BACKED OUT OF THE DEAL IN EARLY DECEMBER. THE CITY OF BERKELEY SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER WAS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th, BUT WAS LIFTED BY THE JUDGE WHEN HUDSON WITHDREW.  Get an overview … Continued
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing 3:00 am
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ First Presbyterian Church
Jan 13 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ First Presbyterian Church | Oakland | California | United States
: : : : : : Reclaiming King’s Legacy : : : : : : “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Facebook event & RSVP There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States and people across the country are demanding that it comes to an end. As long as it remains business as usual to gun down Black women, men and children in the streets of this country, … Continued
Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission Meeting on Police Violence 3:00 am
Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission Meeting on Police Violence @ North Berkeley Senior Center
Jan 13 @ 3:00 am – 6:00 am
On Monday the 12th, the Peace & Justice Commission will create specific proposals for the Berkeley City Council to review at its upcoming meetings.  The draft attached above is a starting point.  It needs your input and participation in Monday’s discussion to shape it into a truly transformational platform.  We look forward to hearing your ideas about changes to Berkeley’s policies on policing and accountability, along with an investigation of police practices. There will be time for extensive public comment on specific proposals for changes in city policy and practice.  Please prepare … Continued
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Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing 3:00 am
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ OMNI Collective
Jan 15 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Bay Area Spokescouncil for MLK Weekend Organizing @ OMNI Collective | Oakland | California | United States
: : : : : : Reclaiming King’s Legacy : : : : : : “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. Facebook event & RSVP There is a state-sponsored war on Black lives in the United States and people across the country are demanding that it comes to an end. As long as it remains business as usual to gun down Black women, men and children in the streets of this country, … Continued
Berkeley Police Review Commission re Police Violence 3:00 am
Berkeley Police Review Commission re Police Violence @ South Berkeley Senior Center
Jan 15 @ 3:00 am – 6:00 am
On the agenda is the use of a residential street as a staging area for the cops during the protests against killer cops beginning December 6, as well as discussion about policies regarding the use of teargas and mutual aid. Agenda and related documents here: http://www.cityofberkeley.info/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=1296257862
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Reclaiming King’s Legacy. 8:00 pm
Reclaiming King’s Legacy. @ All over the Bay Area.
Jan 16 @ 8:00 pm – Jan 20 @ 7:45 am
Reclaiming King's Legacy. @ All over the Bay Area.
“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work … Continued
BAY AREA CIVIL LIBERTIES COALITION GENERAL MEETING 2:00 am
BAY AREA CIVIL LIBERTIES COALITION GENERAL MEETING @ San Francisco Main Library, Sycip Room, 4th floor
Jan 16 @ 2:00 am – 4:00 am
BAY AREA CIVIL LIBERTIES COALITION GENERAL MEETING The Bay Area Civil Liberties Coalition works actively to empower individual efforts and support collective initiatives within the San Francisco Bay Area to support human rights, defeat illegal spying and surveillance and end abuse and militarization by local, regional, statewide and national government agencies and criminal justice/homeland security programs. Individuals and organizations that support this work are encouraged to join us. Voting memberships for new organizations are subject to approval by the founding organizations. BACLC also engages in project-based collaborative work with a … Continued
Anti-Police Terrorism Project Meeting 3:00 am
Anti-Police Terrorism Project Meeting @ Eastside Arts Alliance
Jan 16 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
The Anti-Police Terrorism Project is a project of the ONYX Organizing Committee that in coalition with other organizations like the Alan Blueford Center for Justice, Workers World and Healthy Hoodz is working to develop a replicable and sustainable model to end police terrorism in this country. We are led by the most impacted communities but are a multi-racial, mutil-generational coalition. We meet the 3rd Thursday of every month at Eastside Arts Alliance at 7:30 pm.57648
Community Meeting: Resist San Leandro Paramilitarization & Terror 3:00 am
Community Meeting: Resist San Leandro Paramilitarization & Terror @ Zocalo Coffeehouse
Jan 16 @ 3:00 am – 4:30 am
Come organize to challenge: SLPD profiling/harassment of POC SLPD shootings and killings of POC militarization, including the BearCat and military-grade weapons Increased surveillance SLPD School Resource Officers creating “dossiers” on “at risk” elementary school students more 57820
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Bay Area Spokescouncil Meeting for MLK Weekend 7:00 pm
Bay Area Spokescouncil Meeting for MLK Weekend @ OMNI Collective
Jan 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
 Last SpokesCouncil meeting for MLK weekend.  See description of previous meeting. “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism” -Martin Luther King, Jr. 57873
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Organizing at the Crossroads: What Real Climate Leadership Looks Like 3:00 am
Organizing at the Crossroads: What Real Climate Leadership Looks Like @ California Nurses Association
Jan 19 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
Organizing at the Crossroads: What Real Climate Leadership Looks Like @ California Nurses Association | Oakland | California | United States
On Sunday, January 18, the run-up to the historicMarch for Real Climate Leadership begins with an Oakland forum on “Organizing at the Crossroads: What Real Climate Leadership Looks Like,” one of seven forums to be held throughout the state on the community impacts of the gas and oil industry. California is standing at the crossroads between deadly fossil fuel-dependency and the promise of an emerging social and economic renewal. And only an equitable, green energy transition rooted in environmental justice can take us there. Come hear an inspiring panel of real … Continued
Organizing Meeting to get ready for the March for Real Climate Leadership 3:00 am
Organizing Meeting to get ready for the March for Real Climate Leadership @ California Nurses Association
Jan 19 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
What: An inspiring organizing meeting to get ready for the March for Real Climate Leadership Why: To meet local activists near you, learn about the local organizing that’s happening in the Bay, and build momentum towards the March for Real Climate Leadership Facebook event & RSVP Next month’s march is one of our best chances to demand real action to combat the climate crisis here in California — and the next step towards making Oakland part of that is coming to the community organizing meeting on Sunday. We have an … Continued
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CANCELLED: Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. 2:30 am
CANCELLED: Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Jan 20 @ 2:30 am – 3:30 am
CANCELLED For this week. Back next Monday.57853
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Berkeley City Council: Continued Discussion: Improving Police and Community Relations 1:30 am
Berkeley City Council: Continued Discussion: Improving Police and Community Relations
Jan 21 @ 1:30 am – 3:00 am
Special meeting of the Berkeley City Council: Continue the Council’s discussion on the issues raised at the January 17, 2015 City Council meeting regarding possible ways to improve community and police relations and addressing our response to what occurred in Ferguson, Missouri and beyond that will result in positive steps the City Council can pursue and, b) identify items for Council consideration at the February 10, 2015 Council meeting.  Special meeting agenda. A regular Berkeley City Council meeting begins at 7:00 PM.57924
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SAVE CCSF COALITION GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING 1:30 am
SAVE CCSF COALITION GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING @ Mission Campus, Room 154
Jan 22 @ 1:30 am – 3:30 am
Organizing meeting of City College of San Francisco students, faculty and classified staff to fight against the downsizing of public education. Unfortunately we have lots to talk about with the latest outrage of our administration closing Civic Center Campus. On December 9th, Judge Curtis Karnow heard oral closing arguments in the matter of the People of California vs. the ACCJC. He will issue a tentative ruling any day now. The attorneys will then have 15 days to submit written objections. Sometime after that Judge Karnow will issue his final ruling. … Continued
Politics of Debt Reading Group: Syriza and the Latest Greek Debt Crisis 4:00 am
Politics of Debt Reading Group: Syriza and the Latest Greek Debt Crisis @ OMNI Collective
Jan 22 @ 4:00 am – 4:00 am
We are reading up on Syriza (the Greek leftist party that could win the Jan 25th election) and the (current) Greek debt crisis for the next meeting. Here are some recent articles..  They are all pretty short.   People should pick and choose the ones that seem interesting to them, at least four of them. If we can find an in-depth analysis of the current Greek fiscal/monetary situation, the reading list may get updated/augmented. The last is an in-depth analysis of austerity in Europe.  However, it is by the Heritage … Continued
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Strike Debt Bay Area. Fighting Unjust Debt. 12:00 am
Strike Debt Bay Area. Fighting Unjust Debt. @ OMNI Collective in the basement
Jan 25 @ 12:00 am – 1:30 am
Strike Debt Bay Area. Fighting Unjust Debt. @ OMNI Collective in the basement | Oakland | California | United States
Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! organizing for public banking in Oakland and elsewhere. advocating for Postal banking. saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs working with the City of Richmond and other municipalities for eminent domain seizure of underwater mortgages from the banksters ongoing study group student debt resistance helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous … Continued
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. 2:30 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office
Jan 27 @ 2:30 am – 3:30 am
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly. @ Downtown Berkeley Post Office | Berkeley | California | United States
Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons. THE POSTAL SERVICE WANTED TO SELL THE POST OFFICE TO HUDSON-MCDONALD DEVELOPMENT GROUP. HUDSON-MCDONALD BACKED OUT OF THE DEAL IN EARLY DECEMBER. THE CITY OF BERKELEY SUED THE POST OFFICE TO STOP THE SALE. A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER WAS IN PLACE UNTIL DECEMBER 17th, BUT WAS LIFTED BY THE JUDGE WHEN HUDSON WITHDREW.  Get an overview … Continued
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Extra OccupyForum: SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON 2:00 am
Extra OccupyForum: SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON @ Global Exchange, 2nd floor, near 16th St. BART
Jan 28 @ 2:00 am – 5:00 am
Extra Occupy Forum OccupyForum hosts Harvey “No Nukes” Wasserman and allies SHUT DOWN DIABLO CANYON JOIN US in the accelerating campaign to shut California’s last nukes: the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, near San Luis Obispo. Citizen activism has closed the reactors at Humboldt, Rancho Seco and San Onofre, and stopped proposed projects at Bakersfield, Bodega and elsewhere. We believe we can force this deadly, dangerous and disastrous plant shut if you will join with us. PG&E’s Diablo is two 1200+ megawatt monsters surrounded by earthquake faults, in a tsunami zone, out of compliance with clean … Continued
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly. 2:30 am
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly. @ SEIU Local 1000, 2nd floor
Jan 28 @ 2:30 am – 4:00 am
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly. @ SEIU Local 1000, 2nd floor | Oakland | California | United States
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall, 1433 Webster Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Oakland. These assembly meetings occur from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve … Continued
Privacy Lab – a meetup for privacy minded people in San Francisco 11:00 pm
Privacy Lab – a meetup for privacy minded people in San Francisco @ Mozzilla offices, details available on registration
Jan 28 @ 11:00 pm – Jan 29 @ 1:00 am
Register here. This is a meeting for privacy minded people in San Francisco. January 28th is International Data Privacy Day, a fitting time to host the first in what we hope will be an ongoing series of Privacy Lab Meetups in the Bay Area. At this meeting our speaker will be Cooper Quintin from the EFF, who will present “A State of the Union for Privacy and Consumer Protection and Wishlist for 2015”. His presentation will be preceded by 30 minutes of socializing as people arrive, and then followed by about an hour for … Continued
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U.S. Board Calls Public Meeting on Chevron Refinery Accident & Fire 2:00 am
U.S. Board Calls Public Meeting on Chevron Refinery Accident & Fire
Jan 29 @ 2:00 am – 4:30 am
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) will convene a public meeting on January 28, 2015, starting a 6:00 p.m. at the 450 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA, 94804. Next Wednesday, January 28, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will hold a public meeting, to present the third and final investigation report and safety recommendations from the August 6, 2012, crude unit fire that occurred at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, CA. That fire endangered 19 workers and sent more than 15,000 residents to the hospital for medical attention. … Continued
Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism 3:00 am
Corporate Coloniality and the Demotion of Capitalism @ OMNI Collective
Jan 29 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am
The first of eight meetings is January 28th. This seminar will study the corporate structure, its historical development, and its modes of political control.  57909
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A careful & close analysis of the Haitian Revolution: How does it connect to today? 10:00 pm
A careful & close analysis of the Haitian Revolution: How does it connect to today? @ Niebyl Proctor Library
Jan 31 @ 10:00 pm – Feb 1 @ 12:00 am
A careful & close analysis of the Haitian Revolution (the world’s first nation of Africans to overthrow slavery)! How does it connect to today? ********************************* HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE STUDY GROUP We invite you to be apart of our monthly study group. We use films, texts, and speakers to explore Haiti’s history, current political situation, and make connections to parallel struggles throughout the U.S. and around the world. Come to this month’s meeting! Facebook event. The (Ongoing) Haitian Revolution January 1st marked the 211th anniversary of Haiti’s independence. Join us as … Continued