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12th Annual Social Justice Symposium
@ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
12th Annual Social Justice Symposium
@ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
Jan 27 @ 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
 The 12th Annual Social Justice Symposium will be on Saturday, January 27, 2018, with the theme: Raising Voices, Driving Action. The Social Justice Symposium (SJS) is a student-organized event that serves as space for the community to meet and discuss social justice work in the Bay Area. Strike Debt Bay Area will be presenting one of the seminars, from 10:30 AM – 12:00 noon, entitled Financial Inequality: How We Got Here and How We Get Out The Social Justice Symposium is an annual FREE event organized by students in the School of … Continued
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Grassroots Digital Security Training
Grassroots Digital Security Training
Jan 27 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
 Register here Bay Area activists of color and allies: Learn how to protect yourself from surveillance at a digital security training! The vast system of U.S. surveillance is in the hands of a President who is violating our constitutional and human rights. As organizers, it’s vital that we protect our digital security so we can continue to work for social change. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and The Center for Media Justice – home of the Media Action Grassroots Network – in partnership with Wellstone Action and United We Dream, would like to … Continued
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Saturday Brunch with AROC
Saturday Brunch with AROC
Jan 27 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
In January, 5% of all Saturday brunch proceeds at Reem’s will be donated to the Arab Resource & Organizing Center! Join AROC at Reem’s on Saturdays and support local Arab organizing! AROC is a local grasssroots organization that builds power in the Arab and Muslim community through immigration services, organizing and mobilizing against racism, war, repression and Zionism. @AROCBayArea www.araborganizing.org64160
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SF Bay Area Interfaith Drone Warfare Conference
@ Pacific School of Religion
SF Bay Area Interfaith Drone Warfare Conference
@ Pacific School of Religion
Jan 27 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
This interfaith gathering includes presentations, three half-hour videos, and Q&A time to inform faith communities and others about the dangers and realities of drone warfare. Action suggestions for followup. Panel Presenters include: Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar, political analyst and social critic who is editor and contributor to Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Lisa Hajjar, is a professor of sociology at the University of California … Continued
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RALLY FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
RALLY FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
Jan 27 @ 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/151943795433074/ On January 27th at 11:30 a.m., people of the Bay Area will unite to stand up for reproductive justice. This coalition will come together this year and in future years to drown out the voices of the Walk for Life, a mass march organized by sexist, right-wing, Christian fundamentalists. They are building a movement to take away our right to have an abortion and to limit access to reproductive healthcare, contraception, and sex education. They oppose the basic rights of women and other oppressed people to bodily autonomy and … Continued
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Divest from Fossil Fuels/Invest in a Healthy Future
@ North Berkeley Library
Divest from Fossil Fuels/Invest in a Healthy Future
@ North Berkeley Library
Jan 27 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
 Workshop: Divest from Fossil Fuels/Invest in a Healthy Future Join us for a workshop on the whys and hows of personal divestment from fossil fuels — a powerful tool in the struggle for climate justice. This 90-minute workshop will explain why fossil fuel divestment matters, the role divestment has played in civil rights movements throughout history, and how you can do it! This workshop is for everyone even if you are thinking about opening your first bank account or have been investing for many years, according to a study published … Continued
2:00 pm
Build Your Own Internet: discussion, demos, hands-on workshops
@ Omni Commons
Build Your Own Internet: discussion, demos, hands-on workshops
@ Omni Commons
Jan 27 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
 What if the internet wasn’t about connecting to Comcast, AT&T, Google, or Facebook? What if it meant connecting directly with your friends, neighbors, and community…?Let’s discuss how the internet works, how to build your own, and talk about existing community network projects like the Oakland-based People’s Open Network. 2:00pm Introduction 2:15pm Panel discussion: Net neutrality is dead — or is it? 3:00pm Hands-on workshops and demos 5:00pm End / clean up 64182
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Neighborhood assemblies: the possibility of direct democracy
@ West Berkeley Library
Neighborhood assemblies: the possibility of direct democracy
@ West Berkeley Library
Jan 27 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
What can we do to have a real voice in political issues? Neighborhood assemblies: the possibility of direct democracy Lessons from People’s Assemblies in Jackson, MS and Cuba’s Municipal Assemblies with Steve Martinot, neighborhood activist and Berkeley Planning Commissioner Why do important issues never seem to get resolved? � Affordable housing � An end to rent increases and rent-gouging displacement � Shelter if not housing for the homeless � Policing that serves people rather than impose social control � An end to industrial and infrastructure pollution These issues become … Continued
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