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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85817209915 Agenda Items of interest: 4. Sanctuary Contracting Ordinance – CPO – presentation of annual report – review and take possible action. 5. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – DOT – Chinatown Camera Grant impact report and proposed use policy – review and take possible action 6. Mobile Parking Payment Systems for Parking Management and Enforcement – review and take possible action. 7. Surveillance Equipment Ordinance – OPD – presentation of Annual Reports – review and take possible action: a. Cell-site Simulator b. Live Stream Transmitter c. Mobile ID d. GPS Tag … Continued

An online meeting streamed at wsws.org/live On March 18, 1871, workers in Paris rose up to stop an attempt by the French army to steal cannons that had been purchased for the city’s defense in the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war. The French government of Adolphe Thiers fled the city in panic, and power passed into the hands of the armed working class. Elections were held on March 26 that created the Paris Commune, the first workers state in history. The Commune was an entirely new form of state power that set … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jillian-c-york-in-conversation-with-ben-tarnoff-tickets-142191597897  What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation, Jillian C. York charts the war over our digital rights. She looks … Continued

Zoom connect Join us to ask Albany City Council to take a stance against horse racing. More than 500 horses have died at the Golden Gate Fields horse racing track since 2007. Last November, the track was forced to shut down after a coronavirus outbreak there infected more than 300 people. But it reopened this year and already more than 5 horses are dead. It’s time to shut this place down for good, for the horses and the workers. — WHERE: Online, RSVP to receive the call-in link WHEN: Monday, … Continued

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The Ancestor Forest at Homefulness-honors 3 powerFULL Revolutionary Poverty /Disability Shero Ancestors with a humble a tree planting and prayer bringing ceremony Kiilu Nyasha, is a revolutionary journalist, Black Panther, Organizer, Poverty /Disability Skola and Mentor to POOR Magazine who transitioned on her spirit journey April 18, 2018 Barbara Brust, is a Poverty /Disability Skola, warrior shero in the Come-Unity and founder of Consider the Homeless in Berkeley, transitioned on her spirit journey Feb 21, 2021 Geraldine Ambrose, a domestic worker, a gentrifUKation victim, poverty disability skola, mama of 3 … Continued

Online Event Location:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fourth-branch-media-and-democracy-tickets-138703882045  Grassroots journalism is on the rise. In recent years, reporters on social media have set new journalistic norms to reach sources and break stories. Simultaneously, renewed interest in local news during COVID-19 has bolstered a movement for non-profit news, exemplified by startups like The Oaklandside and The American Journalism Project. What is non-profit news? What do developments in the local news landscape mean for journalism’s civic mission? How can timeless philosophical questions about privacy and community; democracy and the public sphere, be brought to bear on this rapidly evolving landscape? … Continued

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The Green Party of California invites you to join us for a discussion on EcoSocialism cohosted with the Green EcoSocialist Network (GEN).\ Register to attend HERE and share the Facebook event page. Many people are considering what it means to be an EcoSocialist these days. In this second presentation of our three-part series, we explore how we can build EcoSocialist programs in our own communities. Featuring Hip Hop Artist and Spoken Word Performer Shamako Noble, Guest speakers include Kali Akuno Cooperation Jackson, Misty Cross Moms4Housing, David Cobb Cooperation Humboldt, Mel … Continued

   Our speaker, Laura Wells, just returned from two weeks in Nicaragua with a delegation sponsored by Sanctions Kill, Alliance for Global Justice, and Friends of the ATC. When she received the announcement for the delegation, she felt instantly inspired. She had already visited the other two countries named as the “Troika of Tyranny” by Trump’s Secretary of State Pompeo. She knew “tyranny” was a lie about Cuba and Venezuela and wanted to see if it was also a lie about Nicaragua. She was especially interested because there is a common impression across the political … Continued

Join us for our April General Meeting of East Bay DSA! The meeting will be conducted via Zoom — please register and find the call-in info below! Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88197589947?pwd=eDJvajZYdUF1VlRxd1loRGI0QThBdz09 Meeting ID: 881 9758 9947 Passcode: 215458 One tap mobile +16699006833,,88197589947#,,,,,,0#,,215458# US (San Jose) +13462487799,,88197589947#,,,,,,0#,,215458# US (Houston)68901

Zoom connect here. Capitalism and US imperialism are faced with a crisis of legitimacy brought about by first amendment rights given to the Press. Journalists are protected from control by laws passed by Congress. However, private control of the press has allowed corporations and the capitalist class to maintain gatekeeper status for most information, news and propaganda. The internet changed that by opening a door to information and publications not controlled by the power establishment. Organizations like Wikileaks were free to reveal the brutality, corruption and hypocrisy of Western governments … Continued

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Eyes on ICE: Why ICE can’t be Reformed Only Abolished, A Truth and Accountability Forum Join United We Dream Network for #EyesOnICE: Truth and Accountability Forum! // Únete a United We Dream Network para La Migra en la Mira: Foros Sobre Verdad y Rendición de Cuentas! Online Event Location:  https://secure.everyaction.com/C8kmklw0P0CDZdI9Glz9ag268940

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Learn EV Basics. We’ll review available electric vehicles, charging at home and on the road, incentives, total cost of ownership, and you’ll have the chance to ask the questions you’ve always wondered about EVs. These are the following dates and times we are presenting. Tuesday, March 16th, 7pm REGISTER Wednesday, March 24th, 12pm REGISTER Monday, March 29th, 5pm REGISTER Wednesday, April 14th, 7pm REGISTER Tuesday, April 20th, 4:30pm REGISTER Thursday, April 29th, 12:30pm REGISTER   68864

Register here for the zoom link. Are biofuels better or worse for the climate than fossil fuels? Two Bay Area oil refineries recently announced a pivot from petroleum refining to the production of renewable diesel. And they’re not alone: in the face of current market uncertainties, the oil industry is accelerating its shift toward renewables.  But how “renewable” are their new products?  And what exactly are the local and global consequences of this escalating trend? At this invaluable webinar, two international experts on biofuels, Drs. Stephanie Searle and Chris Malins, will … Continued

Join us for an outside, Covid safe screening of Follow The Drinking Gourd and Q&A with the Director Shirah Dedman! Family-friendly, funny and moving, the film connects the legacy of slavery, land loss, and climate change to the fight for food security. Director Shirah Dedman is in town and will take part in a Q&A. Check out the trailer: https://youtu.be/DRSpJOZ7EJM Due to space limitations please get your ticket in advance. No admissions at the door. Pods should register together so we can set up seating for y’all to sit together. Tickets are … Continued

Login info wil be posted here on Friday April 16, 2021 Synopsis of the talk from Mihir Desai: I will be speaking about legislative and policy changes during the Modi Government affecting rights of people. This will include the new labour codes, farmers laws, laws concerning citizenship, love jihad laws, education policy, AADHAR act, changes in laws affecting NGOs, Environmental laws, laws concerning elections, demonetisation, etc. This will include the erosion of parliamentary democracy and  federal structure. The talk will also include the use of existing and new draconian laws. It will be in the overall … Continued

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This event will be Closed Captioned and ASL interpreted. RSVP for Zoom here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L3O0lLQeSSeOfzk5TGgr3w Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/californiappc/ Please join us Sunday April 18, 2021, 3:00 PM PT for a screening of the documentary “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution”, a powerful film chronicling this little know history from the 1960’s. There will be a panel discussion following the viewing of a 30 minute version of the film. Panelists will include Barbara Berney, the filmmaker; a low waged health care worker; a representative from the Indigenous People’s Contingent; and the California … Continued

Today’s ecological reality is that we are on the edge of a mass extinction, while corporations protect their bottom lines by pushing reusable bags, cups, straws, and “green” carbon offsets. Individual responsibility and greenwashed products are not the solutions we need. Addressing the full scope of the problem will take ecosocialist remedies, to change the system from the ground up – literally. Join us for a riveting discussion of real climate fixes from a socialist feminist perspective. The program will highlight Samuel Rubin, Marxist geographical anthropologist, ecosocialist and member of … Continued

Online Event https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdR7f6H3U2m9iFkCDMlucjAAkNONOQhpeh4xBO7h6f-sOO_kw/viewform Join Event ***Note: Please click the link above to register. Thank you!*** We extend an invitation to people of faith and congregations in Oakland from the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy and the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. The recent wave of anti AAPI violence and the ongoing impacts of policing and the COVID pandemic on Oakland communities give us reason to consider what it would look like to refund local communities, restore dignity, and reimagine public safety. Many communities and congregants are struggling to pay … Continued

Many of us will remember the heroic struggle to save the Gill Tract Farm in Albany, when 200 urban farmers walked onto a publicly-owned research farm and planted two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real estate development.  Occupy The Farm, a documentary films about this struggle, will have its broadcast premiere on Sonoma and San Mateo PBS affiliates for Earth Day.  You can see the trailer here, and the whole film at these locations: ______________________________________________________________________________________ KRCB (Sonoma).  April 20,   7-9 PM   90 min film, … Continued

Grandmothers for a Green New Deal, a small group of elder women (members of 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations), invite you to a 90-minute, interactive zoom workshop to examine the Green New Deal as a blueprint toward a sustainable future.  Register for Tuesday, April 20,  4 – 5:30 PM PLEASE NOTE: Each presentation is limited to 12 participants so everyone has a chance to share their ideas.  Please register early! The workshop is centered around a 17 minute video, http://www.vimeo.com/grandmothers4aGND/APathForward. Please watch the video before the workshop. The video addresses the question:  What … Continued

Register here Alameda Renters Coalition needs help from social and housing justice allies to fight against this plan to change the CIP formula. It will lead to many evictions of renters who have already suffered through the Covid19 Pandemic Shelter-In-Place. This benefits the largest corporate landlords. City Council will consider revisions to the current rent control law that allow for a new Capital Improvement Plan (CIP). ARC has been fighting this plan since it was brought to our attention back in the summer of 2020. We have had numerous meeting … Continued

REGISTER HERE. After registering you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join. Women’s Earth Alliance and Sierra Club’s Gender, Equity and Environment Program will host a conversation with leaders from the U.S. Grassroots Accelerator for Women Environmental Leaders, Julia Jackson of Grounded, A.Tianna Scozzaro of Sierra Club, and Kahea Pacheco of WEA.  They will discuss what CARE—Collective Action, Agency, Resilience, Equity—looks like in their communities and in the climate justice movement as a whole, and how you can take action for our communities and climate this Earth Day. They write: “For millennia, women … Continued

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A special program will celebrate Earth Day and launch a system-wide University of California Center for Climate Justice, an initiative to address climate change as a social justice and equity issue. “The UC Center for Climate Justice seeks solutions that address the root causes of climate change and, in doing so, simultaneously address a broad range of social, racial, and environmental injustices.” The Center for Climate Justice launch event will be held over two days, April 22-23, 2021, beginning on Earth Day. It will feature: * Keynote presentations by food … Continued

Tickets and film info here. Celebrate Earth Day 2021 at this year’s Wild and Scenic Film Festival!  While it’s not possible to gather at The Goldman Theater at The Brower Center due to the pandemic, this year’s online program will include twenty of the year’s top environmental films for viewing at home.  The exciting lineup is hosted by  the Alameda County chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) and this year’s co-hosts, The David Brower Center, Earth Island Institute, Communities for a Better Environment, and Green the Church.  (All ticket proceeds go to support their work.) The program features … Continued

Environmental Justice for Bayview Hunters Point & Treasure Island Residents! Meet at San Francisco City Hall/Polk Street Steps to Demand that Mayor Breed & Board of Supervisors: -Declare MORATORIUM on Lennar’s Shipyard development and unsafe soil excavation -Declare PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY! -Conduct full retesting, safe cleanup and removal of all radioactive and toxic waste at the Shipyard Superfund Site & Treasure Island *Please Social Distance and Wear a Mask* Sponsors: Hunters Point Community Lawsuit Plaintiffs, Treasure Island Community Lawsuit Plaintiffs, Bayview Hunters Point Mothers and Fathers Committee, Greenaction for Health … Continued

Register here  Since the start of the pandemic-induced shutdowns, the housing terrain has exploded with organized political activity. Be it from state-mandated shutdowns, or from poor economic conditions, millions of workers have found themselves without their usual wages. Of course, many workers are also tenants, and landlords have not ceased demanding high rents despite the ongoing economic turbulence. This has produced a series of system-wide tensions around housing in general and with the tenant-landlord relation in particular. In other words, the crisis has thrown light onto previously obfuscated fault lines … Continued

Many of us will remember the heroic struggle to save the Gill Tract Farm in Albany, when 200 urban farmers walked onto a publicly-owned research farm and planted two acres of crops in order to save the land from becoming a real estate development.  Occupy The Farm, a documentary films about this struggle, will have its broadcast premiere on Sonoma and San Mateo PBS affiliates for Earth Day.  You can see the trailer here, and the whole film at these locations: ______________________________________________________________________________________ KRCB (Sonoma).  April 20,   7-9 PM   90 min film, … Continued

A special program will celebrate Earth Day and launch a system-wide University of California Center for Climate Justice, an initiative to address climate change as a social justice and equity issue. “The UC Center for Climate Justice seeks solutions that address the root causes of climate change and, in doing so, simultaneously address a broad range of social, racial, and environmental injustices.” The Center for Climate Justice launch event will be held over two days, April 22-23, 2021, beginning on Earth Day. It will feature: * Keynote presentations by food … Continued

Join the Ella Baker Center for a virtual panel discussion with formerly incarcerated community members to share their personal journey coming home and their wisdom why communities should invest in the liberation of incarcerated community members. Our theme focuses on centering incarcerated peoples’ leadership,  building together to make our communities whole, and the urgent need for Governor Newsom to grant mass clemency and emergency releases to save lives from the devastating effects of COVID-19 in CA’s prisons. We will also have actions you can take to support incarcerated community members … Continued

Join us for a virtual panel discussion with formerly incarcerated community members to share their personal journey coming home and their wisdom why communities should invest in the liberation of incarcerated community members. Our theme focuses on centering incarcerated peoples’ leadership,  building together to make our communities whole, and the urgent need for Governor Newsom to grant mass clemency and emergency releases to save lives from the devastating effects of COVID-19 in CA’s prisons. We will also have actions you can take to support incarcerated community members with pending clemency applications. … Continued

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Online Event Location:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-and-remaking-a-world-without-prisons-visions-study-and-practice-tickets-149366973639?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch  In partnership with local and national community-based organizations that continue to lead the way to shape abolition – groups like Critical Resistance, Black & Pink, Love & Protect, Parole Illinois – Prison+Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP) is kicking off two years of programming with two events featuring key thinkers in conversation about teaching and learning, cultural work, and abolition. Join us and learn from local and national organizers, cultural workers, educators, and scholars who are building radical teaching and learning pathways for currently and formerly incarcerated communities, sustaining … Continued

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Whether you’ve got zero crafting ability or you’re a design genius, we need you to help create the art for the May Day Action! Hundreds of DSA members are joining the May Day March to call for the passage of the PRO ACT, so that means we need a lot of people to help make **hundreds** of red flags for DSA members to wave at the march! Join us for a socially distant art build on Wednesday, April 28th, 3-7 pm at San Pablo Park, Berkeley near the intersection of … Continued

Transportation accounts for over half of all greenhouse gas emissions in California. Join the Climate Center in this webinar on equitable transportation and clean mobility strategies that can wean us off fossil fuels. Speakers: Assemblymember Phil Ting Rebecca Fisher, Bay Area Air Quality Management District Dr. Joseph K. Lyou, Coalition for Clean Air Andrea Vidaurre, Peoples Collective for Environmental Justice Ricardo Hidalgo, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Register here To see the full lineup of the Climate Center’s Climate-Safe California webinar series, as well as recordings of past webinars, click here.68961

Register Amid nationwide reckoning with racial justice and calls to reimagine policing in America’s cities, Oakland has moved ahead with plans to change its public safety funding and performance. The Defund OPD campaign was launched by the Anti Policy Terror Project five years ago. Join us for a discussion with two leaders in the effort to change the criminal justice system. About the Speakers Cat Brooks is an activist, performer, politician and speaker or who has served as the communications director for Coaching Corps, as executive director of Youth Together … Continued

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