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5:00 pm #DefundOPD at Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza
#DefundOPD at Oakland City Council @ Oakland City Hall, Oscar Grant Plaza
May 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
TELL OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL: DEFUND OPD, INVEST IN COMMUNITY Keep building on the momentum we’ve been building at the neighborhood at neighborhood budget hearings. Bring your signs! Sign up to speak during public comment. APTP believe that the scandal-ridden and dysfunctional Oakland Police Department consumes far too many of our city’s resources.  It’s time to audit police spending and performance, and redirect wasted funds to community-building, constructive strategies for making Oakland a safer and better place to live. Our Demands: INDEPENDENT AND THOROUGH COST SAVINGS AND PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF THE … Continued
6:00 pm BEYOND MAY DAY: A Climate Workers Monthly Meetup @ IFPTE Local 20 Union Hall
BEYOND MAY DAY: A Climate Workers Monthly Meetup @ IFPTE Local 20 Union Hall
May 16 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
You marched. You walked out. You went on strike. Now what? Join us  for “Beyond May Day,” a conversation with key organizers behind the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day 2017 march and general strike. MORE INFO & RSVP At this May edition of Climate Workers monthly meetups, we’ll dialogue with May Day 2017 organizers about what we built, what we learned, and where we go from here as we “ORGANIZE and DEFEND our communities from state violence and capitalist exploitation, and toward liberation and self-determination” (from the Oakland Sin Fronteras … Continued
6:30 pm Stop Urban Shield at Berkeley City Council @ Berkeley City Council, Old City Hall
Stop Urban Shield at Berkeley City Council @ Berkeley City Council, Old City Hall
May 16 @ 6:30 pm – 11:00 pm
In an unprecedented move, the Berkeley City Council is considering fully withdrawing their support for local agency participation in the Urban Areas Security Initiative and Urban Shield. The Stop Urban Shield Coalition has been fighting Urban Shield on every front. We’ve been at Berkeley City Council Meetings to convince representatives that Urban Shield hurts Berkeley residents, particularly in Black and Brown communities. This meeting is critical for the fight against Urban Shield. A decision in favor of pulling out of Urban Shield by the Berkeley City Council paves the way … Continued
7:00 pm Liberated Lens film night: Beyond Recognition @ Omni Commons
Liberated Lens film night: Beyond Recognition @ Omni Commons
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
After decades struggling to protect her ancestors’ burial places, now engulfed by San Francisco’s sprawl, a Native woman from a non-federally recognized Ohlone tribe and her allies occupy a sacred site to prevent its desecration. When this life-altering event fails to stop the development, they vow to follow a new path- to establish the first women-led urban Indigenous land trust. Beyond Recognition explores the quest to preserve one’s culture and homeland in a society bent on erasing them. Q&A with the director, Michelle Steinberg and Corrina Gould, lead organizer for … Continued