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12:00 pm Protest the TPP @ Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco office
Protest the TPP @ Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco office
Jun 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
You’re Invited! #StopFastTrack Rally at Rep. Pelosi’s Office What: Now is the time to speak out against Fast Track. With important votes coming up in the next few weeks, we need to turn up the pressure on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to publicly go on the record against Fast Track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Join CREDO; Democracy for America; MoveOn.org Civic Action; Daily Kos; Fight for the Future; 350.org; SumOfUs; Other 98%; Public Citizen; Friends of the Earth; Citizens Trade Campaign; Corporate Accountability International; the Sierra Club, San Francisco … Continued
6:00 pm Eyes On Oakland: Writing Workshop About Surveillance @ SoleSpace
Eyes On Oakland: Writing Workshop About Surveillance @ SoleSpace
Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
O_O Who is watching you? O_O For a new installation at the Oakland Museum, The Center for Investigative Reporting is teaming up with local artists to host a community-focused look at surveillance in the Town. We’ve literally been driving around Oakland in an old Ford Falcon van to both educate and interview residents about the different types of technologies police use in the name of public safety, and what those technologies mean for our day-to-day lives. Now, the Off/Page Project – a collab between Youth Speaks and CIR – wants … Continued
6:30 pm Oakland Livable Wage Assembly @ SEIU Local 1000, Suite 200
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly @ SEIU Local 1000, Suite 200
Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly @ SEIU Local 1000, Suite 200 | Oakland | California | United States
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds community and power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers. We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at the SEIU Local 1000 union hall in downtown Oakland at 6:30 PM. Our work together encompasses: (1) the concerns of precarious, contingent, and care workers; (2) current campaigns to improve wages for low-wage workers; and (3) efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life. We share stories and information in … Continued
7:00 pm Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg. @ Omni Commons
Optik Allusions: Community Media Project Mtg. @ Omni Commons
Jun 9 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
OptikAllusions 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, organize free, at cost or donation-based workshops. If you’d like to make videos or want to become a member, join us for our weekly meeting and a workshop! We usually, meet briefly and then work on projects. It’s open … Continued
7:30 pm Chris Hedges: Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Chris Hedges: Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt @ First Congregational Church of Berkeley
Jun 9 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy Movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges – who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books, Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class- investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance. Drawing on an ambitious overview of prominent philosophers, historians and literary … Continued