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Join us to tell CDCr that their “security/welfare checks” are torturing the men in Pelican Bay SHU and need to stop NOW!! Learn more here about the checks and how you can further support by sharing information and making phone calls: Since August 2, 2015, men in Pelican Bay SHU have been awakened every 20-30 minutes, 48 times a day, due to so-called “security/welfare checks” by guards. The architecture of the Pelican Bay SHU (PB SHU) amplifies the loud noise of the ‘checks’ -metal pod doors opening and slamming closed, … Continued

OccupyForum presents Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Cecile Pineda Apology to a Whale Cecile Pineda has the nerve to ask the one simple question that eludes our public posturing and computations. It is the one questions that could save us: What has happened to our mind that we are killing the world? What is it, at the root of our culture, that sets us against the rest of creation? Pineda’s … Continued

Thur Feb. 4 nationwide mobilizations re TPP – Noon PROTEST outside Feinstein’s office, One Post St., SF near Montgomery St. BART Sta. STOP the biggest corporate power grab ever! Whether or not the Trans-Pacific Partnership is signed by then, rain or shine, we’ll protest, because Congress will still have to pass enabling legislation so enough public  outcry CAN still stop it!  Pls click “going” or “interested now on our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/events/461850570682429/ Organizations can leave a message at 510-595-5575 to co-sponsor this protest, which means they help publicize as able … Continued

We would like to invite anyone in the Bay Area to a special concert to rally CCHI 2016 supporters called “Free the Tree Concert and Rally for Ganja Legalization” on February 4, 2015 in downtown Santa Cruz, CA, beginning at 8 p.m. This special event continues the effort to mobilize and inform the public about qualifying the CCHI 2016 for the Nov. 8, 2016 California ballot and is generously supported by Waverider Nursery Monterey Bay. The cost is $10.00 at the door. This event is not a benefit for CCHI … Continued

This Friday, February 5th, Janet Napolitano (UC President) has invited Black Student Union leadership from all of the UC campuses to have a discussion with her about campus climate. This meeting was called to downplay the severity of anti-Blackness on UC campuses and to silence Black leaders on campus. Janet and her staff have designed this meeting to crowd out any substantive discussion about anti-Blackness and how the University of California engages in a wide range of policies and practices that are unethical and anti-Black. The students have asked the … Continued

Debating the 2016 Presidential Elections & the Key Issues of Our Time Hear: Special guest Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report (Coming from NYC) For Bernie Sanders: Tom Gallagher, Chair SF Progressive Democrats of America; former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; author, “The Primary Route: How the 99 Percent Take On the Military Industrial Complex” Peter Olney, Retired Organizing Director, ILWU; Labor organizer in Massachusetts and California for over 40 years. Activist, Labor for Bernie national network. (for Saturday only)  For Peace & Freedom Party candidate: Marsha … Continued

The Peace and Freedom Party presents Honor Black History In celebration of Black History Month and the struggles of Black students and activists which created it, we are inviting two scholar/activists James Garrett, and Ray Tompkins, to join former Black Panther Gerald Smith, to discuss these historic struggles including the 5-month student strike at San Francisco State University in 1968-69 which led to the first Black Studies Program in the country. CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH This is part of our on-going Socialist Forum Series on the first Saturday of every … Continued

We ask that all of our coalition members join us this monday on the steps of City Hall as we let the Mayor know that we will not be silenced by the bread crumbs he, the chief and the DOJ have thrown us. We have a duty to fight for our freedom and we wont stop until we get justice.60450

OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! The Stolen Election in Ukraine 2004, and What Was Done About It : Orange Revolution (Documentary film and discussion)   Presidential elections, Ukraine, 2004. One candidate is backed by the post-Soviet regime. Eight weeks before the election the opposition candidate is seriously poisoned. He survives, but with a severely disfigured face. In the final voting, blatant vote fraud hands the election to the regime. Instantly, … Continued

Valero CBR proposal poses major risks. Public comment, Feb 8 Outrageous.  Benicia City Staff is recommending approval of Valero’s dangerous crude-by-rail proposal, despite the “significant and unavoidable” impacts to air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, biological resources and public safety outlined by the Final EIR, which clearly identifies the “No Project Alternative” as the “Environmentally Superior Alternative.”  Staff declares that federal preemeption prevents it from objecting to rail-related hazards, even as it parrots Valero’s arguments about the blessings of lowered GHGs and increased jobs and economic benefits. Make sure you’ve already … Continued

Every member of the City Council says they want to stop the displacement of Black, Brown and poor people from Oakland. But there’s no better way to displace a population than to take away their access to work. Yet again, our elected leaders have failed to live up to their rhetoric or prioritize the interests of the people they represent. The behind-closed-doors deals that are made by Oakland city officials must end. Pushing an RFP that cuts services to Oakland’s unemployed (primarily Black and Latino males) must be illuminated just … Continued

From Broke-Ass Stuart: Remember last week how we got thousands of people out in the streets to for our Tackle Homelessness Super Bowl Protest? And remember how we made #TackleHomelessness trend on twitter. And remember when nearly every major publication in America wrote about it and showed the world the fuckery perpetrated by Mayor Ed Lee? Yeah, that was rad. This Tuesday, February 9th, it’s time for the next step. I just received this from the Coalition on Homelessness: #TackleHomelessness Superbowl Protest Next Step Please come to speak during public … Continued

Critical San Francisco Police Commission meeting on tasers.  Please come and stop this escalation of force by SFPD.   Police Chief Greg Suhr will be formally recommending that the SFPD be given tasers at the next Police Commission meeting, Please come and speak loudly and vociferously against the escalation in the use of force by the already unaccountable SFPD.  SFPD should never be given lethal instruments of torture, such as tasers. 60448

A film by Ron Blatman and KQED Public Television. We will also be honoring Sylvia McLaughlin who died recently at 99 years of age. She was always a most gracious friend of our BFUU and her daughter and granddaughter were treasured and active members for some years in the 90’s. So we are honoring her showing these two episodes which show how she was literally one of the miracle workers who in the 1960’s who saved this beautiful and magical bay that every human inhabitant (the Miwoks and Ohlone) of … Continued

Sponsored by the Coalition for Police Accountability. We were asked by the Federal Monitor team to convene a community event in which folks who had had encounters with OP D in the last two or three years would give testimony about their experiences. The Monitor are interested in hearing directly from those who had negative experiences. They want to know what happened — when, where – and whether or not a complaint was filed, and, if so, what was the outcome, so they can do follow up. We promised to … Continued

In conjunction with Strike Debt Bay Area Mehrsa Baradaran talks about her new book How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy How the Other Half Banks is a history of banking for the masses in the United States, the story of how it has failed in the last thirty years – to be replaced by predatory payday lenders and their ilk – and the case for Postal Banking (find out about this!)  as the way to once again provide banking services at reasonable rates for … Continued

SF Mime Troupe presents:  “COINTELSHOW: A Patriot Act”, by L.M. Bogad on February 12 & 13 in SF Follow Special Agent Christian White on a cheerfully creepy tour of declassified government surveillance documents. White probes the redacted (blacked-out) texts of the FBI’s notorious Counterintelligence Programs, searching for the words erased in the name of the Freedom of Information Act. Learn fun techniques for the infiltration of activist groups, how to earn benefits and a pension as an agent provocateur, and how to, in the words of J. Edgar Hoover, “expose, … Continued

JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: LATE NIGHT MASS COPWATCHING · February 12, 10 PM – 1 AM · February 27, 8 PM – 11 PM Since October 2015, Berkeley Copwatch has been holding “mass copwatch” events that invite folks to join us for a shift. It’s been fun and very empowering to have up to five cars full of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people. This month we have two shifts scheduled. Please join us; we will train you in the essentials of copwatching, … Continued

Food Not Bombs will be hosting a fundraiser for Oakland’s Omni Commons, and YOU’RE invited! This event will last pretty much ALL DAY– from 2pm until late in the evening (10 or 11pm). Come prepared for: *A DANCE PARTY! (or several) *Readings and book signings! *Open mic! *A DELECTABLE vegan meal! *Meeting the best friends you’ll EVER have! …and MORE!!!! FEATURING: (And this list has only just begun…) Antioquia: https://antioquia.bandcamp.com/ Carol Denney: http://www.caroldenney.com/ Bicicletas por la Paz: www.bicicletasporlapaz.com/the-band/ Maracatu Pacifico: http://www.maracatupacifico.com/#!/bio V.E.X.: http://moirascar.blogspot.com/ http://thebaybridged.com/2015/06/10/get-to-know-moira-scar-and-v-e-x/ Interested in performing? Decorating? Cooking? Promoting? … Continued

ANSWER Coalition Forum The Mario Woods Case & the Struggle Against Police Terror On Dec. 2, 2015, the life of 26-year-old Bayview resident Mario Woods tragically ended by police firing squad. The SFPD, led by notorious Chief Suhr, claimed Woods attacked the officers, but video exposed that lie. Since the shooting, the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition (J4MWC) has come together and shut down police commission meetings, disrupted Mayor Lee’s inauguration and “Super Bowl City.” As a result, the federal government has been forced to open an investigation of the … Continued

Sponsored by Strike Debt Bay Area… Writer and lawyer Mehrsa Baradaran will be at Laurel Bookstore to read from her new book How the Other Half Banks and talk about credit inequality in modern American banking. The United States has two separate banking systems today—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced … Continued

SF Mime Troupe presents:  “COINTELSHOW: A Patriot Act”, by L.M. Bogad on February 12 & 13 in SF Follow Special Agent Christian White on a cheerfully creepy tour of declassified government surveillance documents. White probes the redacted (blacked-out) texts of the FBI’s notorious Counterintelligence Programs, searching for the words erased in the name of the Freedom of Information Act. Learn fun techniques for the infiltration of activist groups, how to earn benefits and a pension as an agent provocateur, and how to, in the words of J. Edgar Hoover, “expose, … Continued

Monthly interfaith prayer meeting, held on second Sundays, dedicated to survivors and victims of violence and police terror in Oakland. The Baha’i community of Oakland is 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 was 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.60286

The Oakland City Council has the power to block coal exports out of a new terminal under development at the former Army Base. But despite an avalanche of community opposition to the prospect of dirty coal trains traveling through Bay Area communities, the Council has pushed action again and again. We need to let Council members know that we’re watching and we won’t let them delay on this critical issue. Join us on February 16th and show your support for immediate action to block coal from being a part of … Continued

The Oakland City Council has the power to halt a reckless proposal to bring in coal by rail and ship it overseas from its port. It can do that on the basis of the proposal’s significant health and safety impacts. At its Feb 16 meeting the council will discuss the issue and there may be a vote on options. We need to make sure the council votes for the option to ban coal outright. Three Ways to Help Ensure the Council Bans Coal These are not mutually exclusive. But you need … Continued

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The Alameda City Council will once again consider various proposals for tenant protection, including rent control, just cause eviction and moving-out compensation.  Come support the Alameda Renters Coalition in its battle against the powers-that-be in Alameda.60442

Gather at 4:30, rally at 5! Bring your cellphone or tablet tuned to www.protestsign.org and stand up for your privacy! This is really dangerous. The FBI just got a judge to order Apple to build a software “backdoor” to help them hack into an iPhone. They’ve been wanting to do this for years, but now they’re exploiting the tragedy in San Bernardino, CA to push their agenda to weaken the security of all of our phones to enable more government surveillance. Our basic safety and security is at stake! So … Continued

Join CURB on Thursday, February 18, from 12pm-1pm (PT) for a webinar about how the No New SF Jail Coalition stopped San Francisco’s proposed new jail, and learn valuable lessons on how to stop a jail in your town! Since early 2013, CURB members and allies have fought tirelessly to stop plans for a new jail in SF, building an incredible network of allies and encountering obstacles of all shapes and sizes. Almost three years of organizing came to fruition in December when the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously … Continued

Join us for the Bay Area premiere of Dear Governor Brown, the film that will reignite the California anti-fracking movement. California is an oil-producing powerhouse, and Governor Brown has ushered in a new era of fracking and extreme extraction, all the while claiming to be a climate leader. We’re building a movement in California to take power back from Big Oil and jumpstart a clean-energy future. But even as we’re fighting fossil fuels in communities from Porter Ranch to Livermore—yes, Virginia, there are oil wells in Livermore—Big Oil is expanding … Continued

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DOORS 6:00PM – EVENT 7:00PM FREE MOVIE! FREE POPCORN! FREE PRIZES! SELMA chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. This stirring historical drama highlights the courage of the marchers as they withstand racist and violent attacks by the police. … Continued

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Q2 is a political project that bring people together around musica tropikal – cumbia, merengue, salsa, norteñas, banda y más! We raise funds to support organizations/collectives doing work on issues impacting the community. We are all people of color, community organizers aiming to create a queer/trans friendly space that is open to chavxs, cumbierxs, and allies who support the struggle for justice in our hoods. We are Festive. We are Fierce. We are the Qumbia Qrew!!! Come support and enjoy the company, music, and dance.60509

    $15 by October, 2017. Sick leave standards equivalent to Oakland and Emeryille. Prevent tip theft. Learn about the initiative and how you can help. Brief training for signature gathering. Join a team to go out and gather signatures. Get additional petitions.   60514

Come celebrate Gigi’s birthday! Friends, music and good cheer! BBQ provided.  Pot luck BYO drinks and side dishes.60456

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Hello Everyone!  Please help with our Cleaning Day. I hope everyone has been enjoying the early spring weather.  In that spirit, we are planning a cleaning day on Sunday Feb 21st during the day and hope you can help out the building and everyone by supporting the Commons with your time. We would appreciate anyone and everyone to come on Sunday Feb 21st at 12PM. Part of the day will be cleaning the Kitchens which is a first and easy step.  That means cleaning out the fridge, sweeping and wiping down the area. … Continued

Bismillah. Please join us for a special event for El Hajj Malik Shabazz (RA) Sunday February 21st, 2016. 51yrs to the day of his martyrdom. There will be presentations on the following topics: “Malcolm the Muslim” “Malcolm and the Youth” “Malcolm the Family Man” “Malcolm and the Media” “Malcolm the Internationalist” and a special tribute to his grandson, the late El Hajj Malcolm Shabazz (RA) Also OICC will be having a survival needs drive that will be distributed to houseless folks in West Oakland so please bring any hygiene items, … Continued

Last year, on November 15th, 39-year-old Richard Perkins was tragically murdered by Oakland police near 90th and Bancroft. Richard Perkins is the 5th person to be killed by OPD this year. His murder has been extremely difficult for the family and they have put out a call to the community for support. We will be showing our support for the Perkins family at Eastside Arts Alliance where there will be performances, art, and speakers by the incredible voices of our community. We are asking for a $10 dollar donation at … Continued

OccupyForum presents… Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues! Malcolm X: Make it Plain The early articulation of the global, anti-colonial struggle   Occupy Forum observes the 50th plus Anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with the screening of the film Malcolm X: Make It Plain. Articulating concepts of race pride and black nationalism Malcolm X was an African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and ’60s. Dynamic orator and … Continued

Come out and support our comrade Nailah who is currently facing charges after the wave of resistance in solidarity with Ferguson60486

#STOPsolitary#togetherOaklandPHSS#SleepDeprivationIsTorture Please join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity folks in Oakland at lunchtime as we hold banners and signs, speak with passers-by, and share information about the torture in CA prisons. We are working to END solitary confinement and promote the Agreement to End Hostilities. For the past 6 1/2 months, people in Pelican Bay SHU (solitary) have been jarred awake 40-48 times a day, around the clock. We say, ” Stop the Sleep Deprivation Torture!”   60523

Join us this Tuesday! People will be rallying at Apple stores around the country to fight the government’s attempt to put a backdoor into our iPhones, which would make all of us less safe. See the list of national events here LOGISTICS: 1. Show up on Tuesday at 5:30pm local time and gather in front of the store holding signs or phones, computers, and tablets open to ProtestSign.org (which turns your device into a handy protest sign!) You can also bring your own handmade sign too! Our basic message is: … Continued

Prisoner Human Rights! Join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition to END SLEEP DEPRIVATION TORTURE IN PELICAN BAY SECURITY HOUSING UNITS/SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Solitary Man Solo Performance by Charlie Hinton Charlie created Solitary Man based on his letters and visits with people in solitary confinement. The show is set in 2014, a year after the largest prisoner hunger strike in history. Charlie says, “I want this show to gain an audience and become one more voice calling for the end of mass incarceration and solitary confinement.” After the performance, we will discuss … Continued

Join us for free weekly meditation happy hour on Wednesdays. We will teach simple and easy guided meditation and breathing techniques to let go of stress and trauma, let your hair down, and celebrate!We believe that love is the universal language. We also believe that love is the universal cure to heal what ails societies worldwide. These meditation happy hours are our love offering to the community and are the result of a beautiful new & evolving partnership with Neelam Patil from The Art of Living. Neelam has been meditating … Continued

Special Showing Occupy The Farm Film In Solidarity With The Indigenous Land Access Committee The Story of Community Efforts to Save Sacred Ohlone Land for Agriculture and Community Resilience Dinner at 6 p.m. With greens from the UC Gill Tract Community Farm Film at 7 p.m. After the film, a conversation with Ohlone, Indigenous and Community People Involved with this Struggle and Todd Darling, Director, Occupy The Farm Film Learn How You Can Join in the Struggle to Save the Land http://www.ilac-bayarea.net/ http://occupythefarmfilm.com/60543

How is your computer judging you? As we enter an age where who we are online is an aggregation of data, how that data gets interpreted is a matter of moral concern.  Jacky Alciné will join us to talk about his personal experience with Google Photos tagging a photo of his friend as a ‘gorilla’ , and what we can do to change the way machines learn. We will also walk through some of the words that could get you surveilled as the government turns to tech companies to identify … Continued

Based on the book by Naomi Orestes and Erik M. Conway, this documentary lifts the curtain on pundits-for-hire paid by large corporations to cast doubt on scientific studies and spread confusion about a range of public threats, from toxic chemicals to climate change. The film explores the illusions created by these corporations in order distract the public from the harm their products create. Purchase Tickets Pictured: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. Beginning in the late 1970s Exxon conducted climate research and then, without revealing what it had learned, worked at the … Continued

See here for some background. The case is moving into pretrial and court support is more important than ever. Please come support Janye and show the courts that we stand with him. Antirepression Crew will be doing Coffee not Cops outside Rene C. Davidson starting at 8:30.60441

We’ll begin with a vigil at the site of his shooting (Folsom btw 24th and 25th), and then march to Mission Police Station. Afterwards, a free community dinner at St. John’s at 15th and Julian (between Valencia and Mission). FRIDAY, 5pm, #SanFrancisco: Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez https://t.co/bxDQIj3cjU #justice4amilcar pic.twitter.com/5aRoAzBApv— Indybay (@Indybay) February 24, 2016 60527

Members of the Historic Original Black Panthers of Oakland, Ericka Huggins, Tarika Lewis, Clarence Thomas, and David Hilliard will join various National and Local families victimized by Police Terrorism to inspire, pass on wisdom, experience, and discuss Policing in the 21st Century, Theme “Where do we go from Here”. “If you want to hear the truth, you must let the suffering speak”. It is this truth that has fueled the Movement for Justice across the United States. These families will share their faith, strength and hope, while listening, learning, and … Continued

JOIN US FOR A SHIFT: LATE NIGHT MASS COPWATCHING · February 12, 10 PM – 1 AM · February 27, 8 PM – 11 PM Since October 2015, Berkeley Copwatch has been holding “mass copwatch” events that invite folks to join us for a shift. It’s been fun and very empowering to have up to five cars full of copwatchers patrolling our city and on the scene when police stop people. This month we have two shifts scheduled. Please join us; we will train you in the essentials of copwatching, … Continued

    We’ll teach you how to use common encryption technologies like Signal, Tor, and password managers. We’d also like to have speakers, email jehan.tremback@gmail.com if you’d like to present.60534

STEALING DEMOCRACY – HAITI FIGHTS BACK FEB 28th 3-5PM at EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE, OAKLAND Join Haiti Action Committee to mark the 12th anniversary of the February 29, 2004 U.S.-backed coup d’état that overthrew the progressive, democratically-elected Lavalas government headed by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide  and to stand with Haiti’s popular movement at a critical moment in its longstanding struggle for democracy.Eastside Arts Alliance Sunday, Feb 28th, 3-5PM2277 International Avenue, Oakland See the statement issued by 68 grassroots organizations in Haiti calling for solidarity with their struggle for free and fair elections, … Continued

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Will Oakland City Council prioritize the E 12th proposal with the most affordable housing, or will they build more luxury condo towers? This will be a critical moment for Oakland to stand for public land for public good and against displacement. As a direct result of incredible community organizing over the past year, Oakland City Council is holding a special hearing of the Community Economic Development Committee, where the three proposals for development on E 12th – including A People’s Proposal – will be presented publicly. A People’s Proposal is available … Continued

Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!! Occupy Forum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!OccupyForum presents “Heist: Who Stole the American Dream”  a Documentary, and discussion with director Donald Goldmacher “Heist traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System”. Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell at the behest of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, a free-market utopian treatise, called for a … Continued