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11:00 am Press Conference – UN Report on Homelessness @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre
Press Conference – UN Report on Homelessness @ Oscar Grant Plaza amphitheatre
Oct 23 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Press Conference For Immediate Release Bay Area Curbside Communities Respond To UN Special Report On Homelessness Naming Oakland, San Francisco As Human Rights Violators On October 19th, the United Nations Special Rapporteur to the Right to Adequate Housing, Lelani Farha, released her new report documenting the “global scandal” of homeless encampments. In January of 2017, Farha spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California to meet with unhoused residents and housed advocates and described the conditions as “cruel and inhumane”. The only U.S. cities explicitly called out … Continued
12:00 pm East Bay DSA Stands With UC Workers on Strike! @ Sproul Plaza, Bancroft & Telegraph
East Bay DSA Stands With UC Workers on Strike! @ Sproul Plaza, Bancroft & Telegraph
Oct 23 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
On October 23, more than 35,000 University of California workers across the state will be walking off the job! Pickets will happen all day at Sproul Plaza on October 23 through 25. We are particularly encouraging people to show up for a rally at noon on Tuesday, October 23. Patient care workers from AFSCME 3299 — backed up with a solidarity strike by other AFSCME service workers and UPTE technical workers — are demanding improvements on wages and working conditions, no cutbacks on benefits, and an end to management’s weaponization … Continued
2:30 pm Court Support: Pack the Courtroom for Whole Foods Suit!
Court Support: Pack the Courtroom for Whole Foods Suit!
Oct 23 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
COURTROOM SUPPORT NEEDED! On September 19th, Wayne Hsiung and DxE were served with a lawsuit from Whole Foods asking for a restraining order and monetary damages because of our protests. On September 21st, there was a hearing for a temporary restraining order. Whole Foods asked for all of DxE to be banned from all of its California stores. Luckily, the judge only granted a restraining order for the Telegraph location, where we had a successful week of protest anyway, ending in a historic action at a factory farm in Petaluma … Continued
5:00 pm Environmental Justice Panel: A Dialogue About Racial Disparities @ UC Berkeley Multicultural Center, 220 MLK Jr. Student Union
Environmental Justice Panel: A Dialogue About Racial Disparities @ UC Berkeley Multicultural Center, 220 MLK Jr. Student Union
Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Environmental Justice Panel: A Dialogue About Racial Disparities @ UC Berkeley Multicultural Center, 220 MLK Jr. Student Union | Berkeley | California | United States
As part of Climate Justice Week, the Student Environmental Resource Center at UC Berkeley (SERC) is sponsoring a panel on environmental racism featuring two very powerful warriors for environmental justice. Join them for an evening of critical dialogue surrounding race and its intersection with social justice within the environmental movement.  Both environmental degradation and benefits are distributed among racial and socioeconomic lines: toxic environmental racism works alongside the structural violence of poverty.  Yet, these forms of violence receive little to no exposure or priority in the environmental movement, which only … Continued