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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
6:30 pm
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps
Jun 1 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
 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, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-Mcdonald backed out of the deal in early December. There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th. There was another hearing in March 26th. Federal Judge … Continued
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Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
7:00 pm
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
@ Omni Commons
Jun 2 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open … Continued
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting
7:00 pm
Oscar Grant Committee Meeting
@ Neibyl Proctor Library
Jun 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality & State Repression (OGC) is a grassroots democratic organization that was formed as a conscious united front for justice against police brutality. The OGC is involved in the struggle for police accountability and is committed to stopping police brutality. In alliance with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) we organized the October 23, 2010 labor and community rally for Justice for Oscar Grant. On that day the ILWU shut down the Bay Area ports in solidarity. Our mission is to educate, organize and … Continued
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BACE Timebank General Meeting
6:30 pm
BACE Timebank General Meeting
@ Omni Commons: Treatment Room
Jun 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Every 1st Wed of the Month @ the Omni. The Bay Area Community Exchange (BACE) Timebank promotes and facilitates the use of Time instead of money in the exchange of goods and services. The foundation of the Timebank is a free, open source online directory, reputation and accounting system. These exchanges help develop stronger, more resilient connections between individuals and community service organizations which participate in them, by improving communication and the distribution of skills and resources among our participants. We work to help people meet their needs regardless of … Continued
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Whose Streets? Our Streets!
7:00 pm
Whose Streets? Our Streets!
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jun 5 @ 7:00 pm – 11:45 pm
Our streets have been stolen from us, our rights have been stolen from us, our PEOPLE have been stolen from us. It is time to take them back! It is unconstitutional to repress our right to hold space in the very place that was built on the backs of our ancestors. We’ve been told too many times that we don’t belong here: through the over-policing and criminalization of our communities, through the militarization of the police force, through gentrification, through unlawful curfews and state sanctioned violence against our communities. The … Continued
Fuck the Curfew!
8:00 pm
Fuck the Curfew!
@ First Friday
Jun 5 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
 Note: A recent callout suggests meeting at 19th & Telegraph. See below. 58864
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#Fuckthecurfew #Fuckyoursummit: We also revolt in the day!
9:00 am
#Fuckthecurfew #Fuckyoursummit: We also revolt in the day!
@ Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Jun 6 @ 9:00 am – 10:30 am
#Fuckthecurfew #Fuckyoursummit AKA We also revolt in the day! #SUNBLOC The morning after the #fuckthecurfew march the city is hosting “The 2015 Oakland Summit” where “Mayor Libby Schaaf and Chief of police Sean Whent will share their vision of Oakland through “Community Policing” We are strongly opposed to their “vision of Oakland” and seek to abolish the police as well as the state. As an alternative we hope to organize our hoods to build community and push out the police who have always brutalized us. The People will gather 9 … Continued
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Listen Up Mayors: Art Party & Meeting
12:00 pm
Listen Up Mayors: Art Party & Meeting
@ UNITE / HERE – Local 2
Jun 7 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 ART PARTY & MEETING Preparations for Conference of Mayors – Let’s make our presence visible with creative ART! 12Noon – 2:00pm ART 2:00pm – 4:00pm MEETING 4:00pm – 6:00pm ART All Are Welcome! 58951
Planning Meetings for ‘Listen Up Mayors’ Actions During Annual Conference of Mayors
2:00 pm
Planning Meetings for ‘Listen Up Mayors’ Actions During Annual Conference of Mayors
@ United Here
Jun 7 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
 San Francisco is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors June 19th, 2015 – June 22nd.. Around 250 Mayors will be in attendance. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us. Black Lives Matter Gentrification Homelessness Privatization Homophobia and Transphobia Immigration The Environment Corporate Greed Wars not People All are welcome to help plan for actions. 58894
Occupy Oakland General Assembly
4:00 pm
Occupy Oakland General Assembly
@ Oscar Grant Plaza or basement of Omni basement if raining
Jun 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
 The Occupy Oakland General Assembly meets Sundays at 4 PM at Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre at 14th Street & Broadway, often on the steps of City Hall. If it is raining (as in RAINING, not just misting) at 4:00 PM we meet in the basement of the Omni Collective, 4799 Shattuck Ave., Oakland OO General Assembly has met on a continuous basis for more than three years! Our General Assembly is a participatory gathering of Oakland community members and beyond, where everyone who shows up is treated equally . Our … Continued
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Oakland Livable Wage Assembly
6:30 pm
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly
@ SEIU Local 1000, Suite 200
Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
 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 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall in downtown Oakland at 6:30 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 wages and quality of work life. We share stories and information in … Continued
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
7:00 pm
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
@ Omni Commons
Jun 9 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open … Continued
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Reinvest in Oakland: A Day of Action.
Reinvest in Oakland: A Day of Action.
@ Various
Jun 10 all-day
Fight for a city budget that puts communities and workers first. We are a group of labor, housing, racial and social justice advocates that believes the Oakland City Council should pass a budget that reflects the needs of our communities. We fight alongside working people throughout the East Bay. 8:00 AM: Telegraph & MacArthur Blvd. Join tenats to demand the city reinvest in Healthy Housing. 11:00 AM: Oakland City Hall. Justice for low-wage workers! Join fast food workers and community members calling on the City to enforce the Minimum Wage. … Continued
Berkeley Police Review Commission: Report on the December Protests.
6:00 pm
Berkeley Police Review Commission: Report on the December Protests.
@ South Berkeley Senior Center
Jun 10 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Berkeley PD chief will present the police department’s “post-incident review of events of December 2014.” This is an important meeting for the public to attend. It will be the first disclosure, after six months, of the police narrative of their response to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Note: the meeting will begin at 6pm instead of its usual 7pm starting time to allow more time for public comment and for commissioners to question the chief. 58960
Whose Streets? Our Streets!
7:00 pm
Whose Streets? Our Streets!
@ Oscar Grant Plaza
Jun 10 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Our streets have been stolen from us, our rights have been stolen from us, our PEOPLE have been stolen from us. It is time to take them back! It is unconstitutional to repress our right to hold space in the very place that was built on the backs of our ancestors. We’ve been told too many times that we don’t belong here: through the over-policing and criminalization of our communities, through the militarization of the police force, through gentrification, through unlawful curfews and state sanctioned violence against our communities. The … Continued
Politics of Debt Reading Group.
7:30 pm
Politics of Debt Reading Group.
@ Omni Commons Basement (check whiteboard)
Jun 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
We discuss various monetary and debt-related topics. For our next meeting we will read a section from Ellen Brown’s Web of Debt. It will be chapters 25-28 and cover more on international debt in the Asian theatre and elsewhere. If people have ideas on what we should study together please bring it up during the next meeting. We encourage participation! It need only loosely pertain to debt, money, economics, and/or banking. Here it is as a Google doc https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_VeYBmQOi8FTFEwUDJVdC0wQU0/view?usp=sharing The Politics of Debt Reading Group is affiliated with the Bay Area Public School and Strike … Continued
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Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Fighting Unjust Debt.
4:00 pm
Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Fighting Unjust Debt.
@ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheater, off City Hall
Jun 13 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
 Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects! student debt resistance organizing for public banking. advocating for Postal banking. ongoing study group helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk our famous Strike Debt radio program reviewing our recent Debtors’ Assembly and preparing for the next one at the US Social Forum in San Jose Our presentation on money and debt at the US Social Forum saving the Berkeley Post Office … Continued
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26th Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence
9:30 am
26th Monthly Interfaith Prayers for Victims and Survivors of Violence
@ Bahai Center
Jun 14 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am
 Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland. We are organizing this gathering for the community to connect, share prayers, writings and poems from all spiritual traditions, reflect and recharge and build coalitions interested in healing. In April, it will be two years since we started holding these prayer meetings at the Baha’i Center. Come share prayers, quotes, poems, and favorite passages from your scriptures with us. We will serve a simple breakfast. 58944
Planning Meetings for ‘Listen Up Mayors’ Actions During Annual Conference of Mayors
2:00 pm
Planning Meetings for ‘Listen Up Mayors’ Actions During Annual Conference of Mayors
@ United Here
Jun 14 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
San Francisco is hosting the 83rd Annual Conference of Mayors June 19th, 2015 – June 22nd.. Around 250 Mayors will be in attendance. This is an opportunity to raise issues locally and nationally that are of concern to us. Black Lives Matter Gentrification Homelessness Privatization Homophobia and Transphobia Immigration The Environment Corporate Greed Wars not People All are welcome to help plan for actions. 58894
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
6:30 pm
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps
Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-Mcdonald backed out of the deal in early December. There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th. There was another hearing in March 26th. Federal Judge … Continued
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Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
7:00 pm
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
@ Omni Commons
Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open … Continued
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Anti-Police-Terrorism Project Meeting
7:30 pm
Anti-Police-Terrorism Project Meeting
@ Eastside Arts Alliance
Jun 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
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 Wednesday of every month. 58824
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Conference of Mayors Protest March
5:30 pm
Conference of Mayors Protest March
Jun 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
March from the Mission District (no location provided) to SF City Hall to the “Counter Gala.” Organized by Stop Mass Incarceration.58969
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Conference of Mayors Rally & Protest March by Code Pink
11:00 am
Conference of Mayors Rally & Protest March by Code Pink
Jun 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
“Our communities are safer and stronger when we have access to stable and supportive housing, quality healthcare and food, empowering education and employment, and freedom.” -War Resisters League San Francisco and Mayor Ed Lee will host the 83rd U.S. Conference of Mayors summer session June 19-22, 2015, the first time since 1997. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, about 200 mayors from across the country are expected to attend, along with 200 to 300 support staff and roughly the same amount of corporate sponsors. Mayors also often bring their spouses … Continued
Whose City? Our City? Protest March.
11:00 am
Whose City? Our City? Protest March.
Jun 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
The Conference of Mayors is coming to SF. Mayor Ed Lee is getting excited to play the proud host while ordinary San Franciscans struggle with a housing crisis and an epidemic of racist policing. The mayors of this country, many of them Democrats, who posture like progressives, are administering austerity and managing a police form that kills every day. Come to the rally and march to protest the Mayor’s Conference. International Socialist Organization.59015
DISRUPT U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS PARTY PLAN
5:30 pm
DISRUPT U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS PARTY PLAN
@ Hilton San Francisco Union Square
Jun 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
 The mayors plan to party hearty while cops continue to kill Black and transgender men, women, and youth across the country. They will be boarding buses to attend a “Color of Life Global Celebration” at the California Academy of Sciences. Join with APTP to dampen their party. Across the country mayors have allowed their police departments to become heavily militarized, with weapons and equipment provided by the U.S. military. They’ve invited repressive regimes like Israel to provide their departments with training. Israeli troops act as an occupying army to the … Continued
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Open Circle – in Support of Families Who’ve Lost Someone to Police Violence
3:00 pm
Open Circle – in Support of Families Who’ve Lost Someone to Police Violence
@ Omni Commons basement
Jun 21 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Open Circle, first and foremost, is an opportunity to build community with one another. Secondly, it is a space to reflect and collaborate on strategies and actions to bring an end to these egregious crimes. Please join us for the Potluck at 3:00 pm followed by the Open Circle at 3:30 pm. Please bring a dish or snacks to share! ~ Open circle will begin at 3:30 with a speaker who has lost their loved one to police terror, followed by checkins and updates from other families present. ~ Reflection … Continued
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Oakland Livable Wage Assembly
6:30 pm
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly
@ SEIU Local 1000, Suite 200
Jun 23 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall in downtown Oakland at 6:30 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 wages and quality of work life. We share stories and information in … Continued
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
7:00 pm
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
@ Omni Commons
Jun 23 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open … Continued
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Protest Mass Expulsions from the Dominican Republic
5:15 pm
Protest Mass Expulsions from the Dominican Republic
@ Civic Center / UN Plaza BART
Jun 24 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Meet at the Simon Bolivar Statue in UN Plaza (Hyde Street between McAllister & Market) – a short walk from Civic Center BART in San Francisco A draconian and racist policy of ethnic cleansing in the Dominican Republic threatens a quarter of a million people with deportation to Haiti. Second and third generation Dominicans who are classified as Haitian have been stripped of citizenship and declared “migrants.” Vigilante mobs and legal authorities alike are pushing people out of their homes and taking their property. Anyone who is Black and under … Continued
Coalition for Police Accountabilty Meeting
6:00 pm
Coalition for Police Accountabilty Meeting
@ Alan Blueford Center for Justice
Jun 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Updates on our progress, organizing strategies and developing work plan to get Public Safety Oversight measure on the Nov 2016 ballot59105
Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting
6:30 pm
Oakland Privacy Working Group Meeting
@ Omni Commons basement (check whiteboard)
Jun 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
 Join Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), Oakland’s citywide networked mass surveillance hub, and other invasions of privacy by our benighted City Government, to support privacy ordinances now being considered by the Oakland City Council emerging from the effort to fight the DAC, and help in other fights to preserve and restore our privacy around the Bay Area, in California and nationwide. OPWG was instrumental in stopping the DAC from becoming a city-wide spying network, and its members helped draft the Privacy Policy that puts … Continued
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Statewide No More Jails Mobilization
Statewide No More Jails Mobilization
@ State Capitol
Jun 26 all-day
Pull the Plug on Jail Expansion Where: 1500 Capitol Avenue, First Floor Auditorium, Sacramento, CA 95814 Who: Board of State and Community Corrections Join community members from across California as we come together to stop the funding stream for new jails. Over 40 of California’s 58 counties have plans to build new jails. While some of them claim to be for treatment or to just replace existing jails, we know we won’t be able to continue to pass sentencing reform or bring our loved ones home unless we stop building … Continued
JERRY BROWN ANTIFRACKING WELCOME PARTY!
11:15 am
JERRY BROWN ANTIFRACKING WELCOME PARTY!
@ San Francisco City Hall
Jun 26 @ 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Governor Brown, who continues to position himself as a climate leader while his own permissive dirty drilling and fracking policies undercut his efforts – and also while these policies poison untold quantities of water during an epic drought, will be speaking at a ceremony commemorating the signing of the UN Charter. We’re going to be outside to remind him that climate leaders don’t frack – and responsible leaders don’t poison our water! Join us in San Francisco as we put pressure the Governor for a fracking ban! Help us send a … Continued
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Rally and March for Justice 4 Pedie Perez
11:00 am
Rally and March for Justice 4 Pedie Perez
@ Meet at the Richmond Bart
Jun 27 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
 On Jan 20, 2015, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s office released a 3-page report completely exonerating Officer Wallace Jensen of any wrongdoing in the shooting of Pedie Perez: “We conclude that … the officer acted in lawful self- defense, Based on our review, we believe the officer’s actions constitute Justifiable Homicide.” The District Attorney’s report states that the office must be guided by the “law that states that the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer Jensen’s actions were not in self-defense” but the report in no … Continued
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Direct action against Sprouts Farmers Market in the South Bay.
10:00 am
Direct action against Sprouts Farmers Market in the South Bay.
@ Unknown - South Bay
Jun 28 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Direct action against Sprouts Farmers Market in the South Bay. Be there or be square. Location, Time TBA. Bring a wooden spoon. Email occupyfarm@gmail.com for more details59081
DEFEND EAST BAY FORESTS – MTG
3:00 pm
DEFEND EAST BAY FORESTS – MTG
@ Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park (Allston & MLK)
Jun 28 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Defenders of the forests of the East Bay Hills will be meeting to discuss and organize this weekend. Please spread the word and come join us! If you’ve not signed up on the East Bay Hills Forest Defense discussion and organizing list, please do so here (or get in touch if you need help signing up): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/eastbayhills 59110
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Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
6:30 pm
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
@ Downtown Berkeley Post Office Steps
Jun 29 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
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, a local developer. The City of Berkeley sued the post office to stop the sale. Hudson-Mcdonald backed out of the deal in early December. There was a hearing in Federal Court on December 11th. There was another hearing in March 26th. Federal Judge … Continued
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Emergency Protest Against Anti-Homeless Laws in Berkeley
6:00 pm
Emergency Protest Against Anti-Homeless Laws in Berkeley
@ Steps of Old City Hall
Jun 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
TWO SQUARE FEET! That’s the amount of bedding you’d be allowed if you had to sleep on a sidewalk in Berkeley under new anti-homeless laws the City Council will consider on June 30th. Also, you’d have to move it every hour. And it would only be permitted if you were “in transit.” Shelters are always full. The parks are closed at night. How well would you sleep if you were homeless in Berkeley? JOIN THE EMERGENCY PROTEST! Called by SAFE (Streets Are For Everyone) After the protest and before the … Continued
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
7:00 pm
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg.
@ Omni Commons
Jun 30 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
OptikAllusions is a digital filmmaking collective dedicated to social change, based in Oakland, California. We share resources, skills and knowledge to help each other tell stories that might otherwise remain untold. We make films in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity, share a lending library of film equipment for creative projects, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open … Continued
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