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7:30 am Feed the Hood @ San Antonio Park
Feed the Hood @ San Antonio Park
Sep 17 @ 7:30 am – 11:00 am
FEED THE HOOD If you’ve been wondering how you can help people who are currently living on the streets, here’s a community event worth adding to your schedule — Feed the Hood. Community group East Oakland Collective (EOC) and nonprofit Struggle 2 Bubble Foundation are joining forces to host this event, where participants will assemble and distribute bagged lunches and hygiene bags to people living in homeless encampments throughout Oakland. The group is asking those who’d like to participate to either donate food items (e.g. loaves of bread, lunch meat, juice boxes, cases of water) or … Continued
3:00 pm  Hear Maxine Hong Kingston Reflect on Our Times @ Ed Roberts Campus
 Hear Maxine Hong Kingston Reflect on Our Times @ Ed Roberts Campus
Sep 17 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The East Bay-San Francisco Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom is honored to have Maxine Hong Kingston, celebrated author and professor of creative writing at UC Berkeley, in the last of our Peace Talks series. She will reflect on her life, her writing and creativity; on immigration, war, peace, and activism in conversation with Kate Raphael, author and producer of KPFA’s Women’s Magazine.  The event is free, all are welcome, wheelchair accessible, refreshments. Kingston’s first book, a memoir entitled The Woman Warrior, was published in 1976 and won the … Continued
6:30 pm Forum on Cap and Trade @ California Nurses Association headquarters
Forum on Cap and Trade @ California Nurses Association headquarters
Sep 17 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
In July Governor Jerry Brown and representatives of the oil industry crafted a bill to renew California’s greenhouse gas cap and trade program. The governor then rammed the bill through the legislature in less than two weeks.  In this forum, oil industry experts and activists in the climate and environmental justice movement will explain what cap and trade has (not) accomplished, what the new law will do, and how it passed so quickly. And we’ll talk about future strategies for stopping the fossil fuel industry from poisoning communities, increasing climate … Continued