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California Progressive Alliance founding convention
@ San Luis Obispo Guild Hall
California Progressive Alliance founding convention
@ San Luis Obispo Guild Hall
Mar 31 all-day
The new California Progressive Alliance seeks to elevate progressive ideas; promote the creation of local political alliances and coalitions for political power; support corporate-free progressive candidates and issue-based electoral campaigns; and expand the communication and dialogue among all our progressive family in the state of California, respecting and supporting the work done by all. The CPA is having is founding convention in San Luis Obispo March 30-31! Register by January 31 and get 25% off with early bird registration for our founding Convention in San Luis Obispo March 30-31. Speakers … Continued
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ACLU: A Tour on your rights and freedoms.
@ Jack London Square
ACLU: A Tour on your rights and freedoms.
@ Jack London Square
Mar 31 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Walk through groundbreaking interactive and immersive exhibits. Meet leading civil rights activists. Learn how to reduce prison populations, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone’s constitutional right to vote. Take action. A family-friendly event for people of all ages. Free + open to all. RSVP at ACLU100.org Schedule below (subject to change) ALL DAY ACTIVITIES: Art workshops led by Artismobilus, Justice For Our Lives. Screen printing with Lukas WhatWhat and face painting with Miss Naomi Bee. Network with Bay Area and California non-profits making the change happen, including: Ella Baker Center for … Continued
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Antidotes to White Fragility Workshop
@ Sierra Club
Antidotes to White Fragility Workshop
@ Sierra Club
Mar 31 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
What skills, tools and approaches are useful in encouraging white people to sustain balanced engagement with anti-racism/racial justice education and work? How can we cultivate resilience (as opposed to white fragility) in ourselves, our communities, and our movements? White Fragility is defined by Robin DiAngelo as “A state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation … Continued
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Democratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream?
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
Democratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream?
@ Niebyl Proctor Library
Mar 31 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Is industrial civilization compatible with economic democracy, or is democratic socialism impossible in a globalized industrial society? This presentation will examine the powerful material conditions that have frustrated every effort to replace capitalism with genuine democratic socialism. Hopefully, this will become the starting point for a discussion about what kinds of energy sources and technologies are most conducive to democratic control. Strongly suggested background reading: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/30/democratic-socialism-the-impossible-dream/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/why-did-socialism-fail/ Craig Collins, Ph.D. is the author of Toxic Loopholes (Cambridge University Press), which examines America’s dysfunctional system of environmental protection. He teaches political science and environmental … Continued
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What Can We Do About Mass Incarceration?
@ First Unitarian Church of Oakland
What Can We Do About Mass Incarceration?
@ First Unitarian Church of Oakland
Mar 31 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Panel and Dialog: Jose Bernal: Senior Organizer Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Serves on the S.F. Reentry Council; advocates for restorative justice policies; spearheaded campaigns to de-privatize reentry services and end gang injunctions. Graduate of Stanford University’s Project ReMade program, a course aimed at empowering the formerly incarcerated. Jonathon Simon: directs the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC and teaches about punishment, prisons, and mass incarceration. His books include, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Society and Created a Culture of … Continued
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Free Dinner and a Movie Discussion Night – Oakland Greens
@ It's Your Move Games
Free Dinner and a Movie Discussion Night – Oakland Greens
@ It's Your Move Games
Mar 31 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
 The Oakland Greens 2019 FREE Dinner and a Movie discussion series. As usual, the doors at the It’s Your Move Games and Hobbies store will open at 6:30 p.m., a free dinner will be provided at 7 p.m., and the movie will start promptly at 7:30 p.m. 65437
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Film: “From Soweto to Berkeley”
@ Redwood Gardens Community Room
Film: “From Soweto to Berkeley”
@ Redwood Gardens Community Room
Mar 31 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
From Soweto to Berkeley, an important, seldom-seen documentary, made in 1987 by Scott Wiseman, about the massive, militant anti-Apartheid movement at U.C. Berkeley in 1985-86 that succeeded in getting the University to divest its holdings in companies doing business with South Africa. When Nelson Mandela spoke at the Oakland Coliseum on 30 June 1990, he thanked specifically both ILWU Local 10 and the movement at U.C. Berkeley for their contribution to the struggle that had led to his release a few months earlier and the beginning of the end of … Continued
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