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Bay Area rises up in solidarity with Tamir Rice’s family one year after Cleveland police officers killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Please join Black Lives Matter Bay Area, Black Lives Matter and the Last 3 Percent Coalition as we gather in solidarity with the family of Tamir Rice and Black Lives Matter Cleveland, and to uplift all of the families of those we have lost to police violence. This is a black led ceremony that is centered in Black love, Black healing and Black rage. We invite allies to join us … Continued

ARC General Meeting, Sat, Jan 2 City Council will be holding their January 5th meeting in Kofman Auditorium to accommodate what is sure to be a huge crowd to discuss their ordinances to address the rent crisis. Renters need to make a strong showing, and we also need to be well informed on what will be presented and how we can make the strongest case for rent control. Therefore, this will be the primary focus of Alameda Renters Coalition’s General Meeting, this Saturday, Jan 2nd, 2:30pm at 2027 Clement St. … Continued

Save the date! On January 3 we’ll hear a report from Paris by Pennie Opal Plant, who attended COP21 as a representative of the Indigenous Environmental Network. Sunflower Alliance general meetings offer a great opportunity to learn more about fossil fuel resistance and climate justice efforts in our region. Your voice matters, your participation makes a difference. We welcome newcomers. 60141

Planning Meeting: Interfaith Action for MLK Weekend For the second year in a row, the Bay area will mark Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday with a 96-hour period of direct action demanding thorough transformation of the social structures that contribute to the war on Black lives. If you would like to help plan a faith-based action for that weekend, please come to this planning meeting. We are open to planning a single interfaith action, multiple actions representing multiple faith traditions, or an action that consists of waves of people, with each wave representing one faith tradition. … Continued

O C C U P Y F O R U M   O F F – S I T E  M E E T I N G Enter on Rhode Island, turn to left up the stairs, conference room is to the right.   Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition Meeting: National Emergency   Everywhere across this nation, people gather in shock, despair, rage as another black person is murdered by police without accountability. This is a national emergency. For the third Monday, OccupyForum will be taking place at the Justice 4 Mario Woods … Continued

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism”  -Martin Luther King, Jr. Spokescouncil Meetings are scheduled to take place: January 5th @ 7pm at the OMNI January 9th @ 7 pm @ the OMNI January 12th @ 7pm (San Francisco Location TBD) January 14th @ 7pm (Location TBD) The MLK weekend will once again culminate in a King Day march that embodies the true spirit of King’s resistance to capitalism, imperialism and racism. Over the last year, in … Continued

Tomorrow! #ReclaimSF pic.twitter.com/PMeK4rnR2O— FireWorks (@FireWorksBAY) January 6, 2016 60233

We're holding a DIRECT ACTION TRAINING to DEFEND the Gill Tract FARM on Wednesday, the 6th between 6:30 and… https://t.co/Mzw30jeLZW— Occupy the Farm (@occupyfarm) January 5, 2016 60230

Homes Not Jails is a consensus-based collective of squatters and squat supporters who believe housing is a human right. Our goal is to open as much vacant housing as possible and to keep it open as long as possible. HNJ is a place to organize mutual aid among squatters and squat supporters and housing rights advocates in the bay. We actively fight to make our space inclusive and safe for everybody and combat oppression in all forms.60220

Calling all Twitter & Facebook users! We need your help! Thursday Jan. 7, a team from the E. 12th Coalition and SAHA (our partner developer) will meet with city staff to review a People’s Proposal for E. 12th! This is a major step in our campaign, but the fight is not over. We need to keep up the pressure on city council members to support our proposal. We are thrilled that District 5 Councilmember Noel Gallo has officially endorsed our proposal (!) and we want to lift him up as … Continued

“Suhr & Lee: Stop Killing SF & Its Black, Brown, Disabled & Poor People -Mayor Lie Must Resign & Greg Suhr Must be fired” Bring a car, truck if you have on to help folks who are disabled- we will drive, march, walk up to his house which is three blocks away Statement by impacted, displaced, and po’Lice terrorized: For Mario Woods and all crimes of displacement and police terror against our poor, Black, Brown and disabled bodies we, the most impacted, are calling for the resignations of the San … Continued

Join us at our next monthly membership meeting where we’ll discuss upcoming campaigns and how you can organize with us in 2016! 60244

Our next meeting will be on Thursday at SEIU local 1020 at 6 pm. Enter at 350 Rhode Island . Enter on Kansas Street side between 16 th and 17th street side.60232

Mayor Lee has been decidedly absent as we have sought dialogue with him about Chief Suhr’s inability to run a police force. Chief Suhr has created a culture of racism and brutalization that gave those five officers permission to assassinate Mario Woods. If he will not fire Chief Suhr, who refuses to step down, then we will let him know that he can go too. If we do not get justice, he will not get peace!!! We will be at the doors of San Francisco’s City Hall for the Mayor’s … Continued

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. fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes 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 staging Debtors’ Assemblies Working on debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts saving the Berkeley Post Office, fighting Post … Continued

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism”  -Martin Luther King, Jr. Spokescouncil Meetings are scheduled to take place: January 5th @ 7pm at the OMNI January 9th @ 7 pm @ the OMNI January 12th @ 7pm (San Francisco Location TBD) January 14th @ 7pm (Location TBD) The MLK weekend will once again culminate in a King Day march that embodies the true spirit of King’s resistance to capitalism, imperialism and racism. Over the last year, in … Continued

  Now meeting once a month, on the fourth Sunday, instead of twice a month.  59204

The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting. Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city … Continued

SUPPORTERS OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL,                   AND FREE QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL : The Oasis Clinic in Oakland, CA, which treats patients with Hepatitis-C (HCV), is calling for a demonstration to protest the outrageous price-gouging of Big Pharma corporations, like Gilead Sciences, which hike-up the cost for essential, life-saving medications such as the cure for the deadly Hepatitis-C virus, in order to reap huge profits. The Oasis Clinic’s demand is:                                                                 PUBLIC HEALTH, NOT CORPORATE WEALTH! The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal urges you to support this demonstration! … Continued

  Description: MLK Day (1/18/16) March planning committee meeting. 60235

OTU’s Mission The Oakland Tenants Union is an organization of housing activists dedicated to protecting tenant rights and interests. OTU does this by working directly with tenants in their struggle with landlords, impacting legislation and public policy about housing, community education, and working with other organizations committed to furthering renters’ rights. The Oakland Tenants Union is open to anyone who shares our core values and who believes that tenants themselves have the primary responsibility to work on their own behalf. Monthly Meetings The Oakland Tenants Union meets regularly at 7:00 … Continued

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism”  -Martin Luther King, Jr. Spokescouncil Meetings are scheduled to take place: January 5th @ 7pm at the OMNI January 9th @ 7 pm @ the OMNI January 12th @ 7pm @ the OMNI January 14th @ 7pm @ the OMNI The MLK weekend will once again culminate in a King Day march that embodies the true spirit of King’s resistance to capitalism, imperialism and racism. Over the last year, in … Continued

The Sustainable Berkeley Coalition is working for open, transparent governance that supports our diverse community with appropriate development, housing and protected environment. Meetings are planned for the second Wednesdays of the month at 7:30 pm Our Berkeley Progressive Alliance will join other civic groups and communities to help create a united voice and vision to elect  2016 Berkeley leadership. We need a city council and mayor that will represent  the true vision of our city’s people. We need affordable housing and community-oriented development projects, green developers, innovations to help the … Continued

The CPA is creating a charter amendment ballot initiative to create an accountable, civilian-controlled, police commission. The ONLY agenda item will be a discussion of whether or not we should file a petition with the City Clerk’s Office to declare our intention to collect signatures to independently place our item on the Nov 2016 ballot. We will discuss the pros and cons, including logistic challenges but also organizing opportunities. In the interim, we will try to assemble as much information about what signature initiatives involve, what the needed  capacity looks … Continued

The Occupy The Farm documentary will be screened on the Sprouts grocery building @ 30th & Broadway today 6pm; protests outside store all day— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 13, 2016 Go to grand opening of Sprouts grocery 30th & Broadway, #Oakland today & tell shoppers to boycott until company stops paving Gill Tract farm— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) January 13, 2016 60279

“Equality demands dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.” “When you have mass unemployment in the Negro community it’s called a social problem. When you have mass unemployment in the white community it’s called a depression” “We refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt” — Martin Luther King, Jr– Last year, during MLK weekend, The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) answered a national call by initiating #96Hours of Direct Action that culminated in an historic march from Fruitvale Station to Coliseum City … Continued

Our next meeting will be on Thursday at SEIU local 1020 at 6 pm. Enter at 350 Rhode Island . Enter on Kansas Street side between 16 th and 17th street side.60232

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism”  -Martin Luther King, Jr. Spokescouncil Meetings are scheduled to take place: January 5th @ 7pm at the OMNI January 9th @ 7 pm @ the OMNI January 12th @ 7pm @ the OMNI January 14th @ 7pm @ the OMNI The MLK weekend will once again culminate in a King Day march that embodies the true spirit of King’s resistance to capitalism, imperialism and racism. Over the last year, in … Continued

Meet in the Dimond district Safeway parking lot. Organized by SURJ60267

TODAY: 10:45 meet @ Walgreen's, 51st&Tel to join us for Fast food worker action! #96Hours #RECLAIMMLK— Bay Solidarity (@BaySolidarity) January 16, 2016 60303

“Oakland is being touted as a #1 tourist destination spot. Under the Mayorship of Libby Schaaf, a mandate has been issued to make the City pretty for tourists and developers. This has meant an upsurge in police terror and murders in Oakland. In what we have dubbed Libby’s Bloody Era, string of Black men were murdered in Oakland in 2015. All of them declared “justifiable”. As part of the 96 Hours of Direct Action, Join APTP at Terminal One of Oakland Airport where we will welcome people to Oakland – … Continued

Join us for reports of activities aimed at resisting the multiple fossil fuel expansion projects in our area. At this meeting we will also take up an extended discussion on strategies for movement building. Newcomers always welcome. 60272

Our Oakland airport action was very successful! The police were a no show and we had the run of the airport, and there were no arrests. Saturday is a light travel day and Oakland is a smaller airport…. So we’re going to try it again at SFO on a very busy travel day! Please bring signs this time! Lets make this even bigger. We’ll meet at the International terminal, at the BART fare gates. Try to be on time, we may move around the airport. BART goes right to the … Continued

The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting. Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city … Continued

Liberated Lens 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, and organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually meet in our editing suite (2nd floor in the ballroom, to the left of the stage) and then work … Continued

  Pre-march protest in solidarity with the fighting people of Haiti: Black Lives Matter from Haiti to the Bay   · Drummers · Report from Haiti – By Pierre Labossiere A part of the 96 Hours of Direct Action to Reclaim the Radical Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere!” We will march to join the 11AM rally and march at Oscar Grant Plaza Haiti is in the streets almost every day – as tens of thousands turn out to demand that the stolen … Continued

Reclaiming King’s Legacy “Equality demands dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.” “When you have mass unemployment in the Negro community it’s called a social problem. When you have mass unemployment in the white community it’s called a depression” “We refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt” – Martin Luther King, Jr Last year, during MLK weekend, The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) answered a national call by initiating #96Hours of Direct Action that culminated in an historic march from Fruitvale Station … Continued

Thank you for coming out to the movie showing and flyering party last week to UNwelcome Sprouts to Oakland. Join Occupy The Farm, Boycott Sprouts, and our Bay Area friends and allies again this week to let them know “no business as usual until you pull out of paving over the Gill Tract farm.” Help us to let all the new shoppers know that Sprouts Farmers Market is planning to pave over the Gill Tract farm, where the local community has been proposing a community center for regenerative agriculture, education, … Continued

Thank you for coming out to the movie showing and flyering party last week to UNwelcome Sprouts to Oakland. Join Occupy The Farm, Boycott Sprouts, and our Bay Area friends and allies again this week to let them know “no business as usual until you pull out of paving over the Gill Tract farm.” Help us to let all the new shoppers know that Sprouts Farmers Market is planning to pave over the Gill Tract farm, where the local community has been proposing a community center for regenerative agriculture, education, … Continued

Monthly APTP meeting, held on every 3rd Wednesday of the month. The Anti Police-Terror Project is a project of the ONYX ORGANIZING COMMITTEE that in coalition with other organizations like The Alan Blueford Center For Justice, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Community Ready Corps and Workers World 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.60216

Our next meeting will be on Thursday at SEIU local 1020 at 6 pm. Enter at 350 Rhode Island . Enter on Kansas Street side between 16 th and 17th street side.60232

The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting. Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city … Continued

Liberated Lens 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, and organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually meet in our editing suite (2nd floor in the ballroom, to the left of the stage) and then work … Continued

Black Lives Matter Sacramento joins the Occupation for the Right to Rest on Tuesday January 26th for a Die-In & Protest followed by flooding our City Council meeting for public comments. WITHOUT SLEEP, YOU WILL DIE Police continue to raid and harass the homeless in Sacramento: https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/welcome-to-the-occupation-sacramento/content?oid=19599427 The city of Sacramento has made it a crime to sleep. So the homeless are being arrested if they close their eyes too long, and that is disgustingly inhumane. Reference: https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/anonymous-no-more/content?oid=19663564 Our city has gentrified the hell out of Oak Park and Midtown, … Continued

Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage. The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. Our work together encompasses: (1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers, (2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and (3) Efforts by … Continued

SUNRISE PICKET! “As a housekeeper, I work very hard so that Homewood guests can have clean rooms and a good experience at the hotel, but the pressure of having to clean so many checkouts in one day gives me so much stress that I don’t have any energy for my kids when I come home at the end of the day. That’s why I am fighting for the same workload protections, fair raises and affordable health insurance for my family, that other union hotel housekeepers in Oakland have.” – Consuelo … Continued

Our next meeting will be on Thursday at SEIU local 1020 at 6 pm. Enter at 350 Rhode Island . Enter on Kansas Street side between 16 th and 17th street side.60232

Saturday January 30, 2016 is the grand opening of Mayor Lee’s Super Bowl City. He has spent all of his energy pushing out the homeless, disabling bus lines and creating traffic jams so that his precious Super Bowl City can inconvenience the city of San Francisco for two weeks. This is energy he could have spent apologizing to Mario Woods’ family, seeking justice and acting like he actually cares about the black and brown community in San Francisco. We have promised him no peace until we get justice. We will … Continued

–COME SUPPORT OUR TENANT PICKET! — Bring music and noisemakers! –ALSO– Please call and/or email Happy Homes and ask them to relocate the Morales family NOW!! -info.hhpartners@gmail.com -510.655.3253 (Bing Udinsky, owner) -510.204.9922, and/or 510.599.2015 (office lines) Don’t worry–they won’t answer the phone, so just leave a voicemail –HAPPY HOMES AND 475 ALCATRAZ—- The living conditions at 475 Alcatraz Avenue in Oakland—a property owned & managed by Happy Homes Partners, also known as Bing & Jerald Udinsky—are both dangerous and appalling. Multiple units have MOLD, WATER LEAKS, EXPOSED WALLS AND CONCRETE … Continued

The Community Democracy Project is your connection to direct democracy in Oakland! Convened out of Occupy Oakland in Fall 2011, we’re gathering steam on a campaign to bring the people back in touch with the city’s resources through participatory budgeting. Picture this: Across Oakland, Neighborhood Assemblies are regularly held in every community. People come together to tackle the important issues of their neighborhoods and of the city. At these assemblies, people don’t just have discussions–they learn from one another, from city staff, and they make fundamental decisions about how the city … Continued

Liberated Lens 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, and organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. Join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually meet in our editing suite (2nd floor in the ballroom, to the left of the stage) and then work … Continued