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Alameda Jail Fight Meeting
@ CURB
Alameda Jail Fight Meeting
@ CURB
Oct 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Help stop new jail construction in Alameda County!61828
6:00 pm
Come Here, Get Rich: Immigration, Upward Mobility and California Labor History
@ UC Berkeley Labor Center
Come Here, Get Rich: Immigration, Upward Mobility and California Labor History
@ UC Berkeley Labor Center
Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Join us for a conversation with Fred Glass, longtime friend of the Labor Center and author of a new book, From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement. The author will delve deep into the vibrant labor history of the Golden State where workers have engaged in politics, strikes, and a variety of organizing strategies to find common ground among its diverse communities to achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. About the book There is no better time than now to consider the labor … Continued
6:00 pm
Film Screenings: WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra
@ Impact HUB Oakland
Film Screenings: WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra
@ Impact HUB Oakland
Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us as we welcome award winning filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, co-directors of the PBS film Shift Change as they screen their latest documentaries, WEconomics and La Empresa es Nuestra. WEconomics was filmed in the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy which has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna, is an industrial powerhouse, where prosperity is widely shared, and cooperatives of teachers and social workers play a key role in the provision of government services. La Empresa es Nuestra, filmed … Continued
6:00 pm
MEETING TO: FREE MUMIA ABU – JAMAL.
@ Omni Commons
MEETING TO: FREE MUMIA ABU – JAMAL.
@ Omni Commons
Oct 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
A meeting is being held to join Bay Area organizations with the national struggle in December to free Mumia: Many of us in the Bay Area have been fighting against the racist murders by police, and racist policies by those in Administrative Positions, (City Councils, School Boards, Boards of Supervisors, etc.) for a long time. Unfortunately many of our protests have been small and separate despite our common agreement on the issues. Those of us fighting back in the Bay Area include: -Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal … Continued
6:30 pm
Film on Sexual Assault: Audrie & Daisy
@ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse
Film on Sexual Assault: Audrie & Daisy
@ Ellen Driscoll Playhouse
Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
6:30 pm reception, 7:00 film, 8:30 discussion in Piedmont Audrie & Daisy is an urgent real-life drama that examines the ripple effects on families, friends, schools and communities when two underage young women find that sexual assault against them has been caught on camera and distributed online. From acclaimed filmmakers Bonni Cohen and John Shenk, “Audrie & Daisy”– which made its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival — takes a hard look at America’s teenagers who are coming of age in this new world of social media bullying, … Continued
6:30 pm
FILM SCREENING: THE LAST CROP
@ David Brower Center
FILM SCREENING: THE LAST CROP
@ David Brower Center
Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
This screening is the Bay Area premiere of The Last Crop documentary. The Last Crop is an intimate exploration into the lives of small family farmers Jeff and Annie Main of California’s Central Valley. The film follows these organic pioneers’ ten-year pursuit to ensure that a farm need not be imperiled at the end of every generation. Theirs is a story that is being echoed on farms across our nation as our largely aging farming population faces retirement. What sets the Mains apart is their resolve to create an alternative … Continued
6:30 pm
POLICING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
POLICING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
Oct 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
 Because policing fails to meet people’s needs, and puts people in danger of arrest, imprisonment, and/or even death, we must eliminate connections between policing and healthcare. Critical Resistance Oakland and The Oakland Power Projects present: The “Know Your Options: Chronic illness” workshop This workshop is designed to increase people’s understanding of mental health-related experiences, events, trauma, and conditions so that we don’t default to 911 or the cops when a baseline or escalated mental health-related event or experience happens. The “Know Your Options” workshop series aims to increase people’s access … Continued
7:00 pm
OUR PEOPLE, OUR FOOD: TURNING THE TABLES ON HUNGER
@ Nile Hall at Preservation Park
OUR PEOPLE, OUR FOOD: TURNING THE TABLES ON HUNGER
@ Nile Hall at Preservation Park
Oct 27 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Food First is the original food policy think tank, founded in 1975 by activist author Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. Over the years, they’ve produced action-oriented research and analysis in order to help build the movement for food justice and food sovereignty around the world. Their projects range from working to stop ‘land grabs’ in the Americas to pollinator restoration and farmer to farmer education. Their Food Sovereignty tours to places such as Italy and Cuba are well known and sought after. The October gala gathering celebrates the work … Continued
7:30 pm
On The Hill: I Am Alex Nieto
@ Brava Theater
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