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2:00 pm International Working Women’s Day Action! @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater
International Working Women’s Day Action! @ Lake Merritt Amphitheater
Mar 8 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2016 International Working Women’s Day: Fight the Right, Deportations are Violence against Women! This March 8th, join working women across the world to celebrate the resistance of immigrant women and stand up against right-wing attacks against immigrant families! 2 PM: Art and cultural Celebration [Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Lake Merritt Blvd & 12th St.] March to the Federal Building [1301 Clay Street, Oakland] Vans provided to drive those with mobility needs Rally: Immigrant Women speak out against Deportations and to stop the right wing attacks to immigrant women’s rights and survival! … Continued
6:00 pm COPS Hearing (Federal Listening Session about SFPD) @ Mission High School
COPS Hearing (Federal Listening Session about SFPD) @ Mission High School
Mar 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
COPS Hearing (Federal Listening Session about SFPD) @ Mission High School | San Francisco | California | United States
The second of three community “listening sessions” to be conducted by the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, known by its acronym COPS, which was called in by police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee following the fatal shooting of Mario Woods on Dec. 2. Background article.   60553
7:00 pm Berkeley’s 2nd Annual Women’s Film Festival: Salt of the Earth @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
Berkeley’s 2nd Annual Women’s Film Festival: Salt of the Earth @ Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Our first film this year will be Salt of the Earth (1954), which was produced, directed and written by victims of U.S. Congressional blacklisting, (aka redlisting). Originally banned in the U.S., it was directed by Herbert Biberman, one of the Hollywood Ten. The cast is almost entirely workers who participated in the real-life strike that the film is based upon. In a gritty mining town in New Mexico, Mexican-American workers go on strike to protest their dangerous working conditions and low wages. They meet with fierce opposition from company thugs … Continued
7:00 pm White Allies and the Movement for Black Lives @ First Congregational
White Allies and the Movement for Black Lives @ First Congregational
Mar 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
White Allies and the Movement for Black Lives @ First Congregational | Oakland | California | United States
What is the role of white allies in the movement for racial justice? The Future of Solidarity:  How White People Can Support the Movement for Black Lives creates a space for this conversation.   Clare Bayard of Catalyst Project will moderate a panel with members of the Bay Area Chapter of Black Lives Matter: Robbie Clark, Housing Rights Campaign Lead Organizer, Just Cause/Causa Justa Devonté Jackson, Bay Area Organizer, Black Alliance for Just Immigration Janetta Johnson, Executive Director, Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex  Justice Project The evening is sponsored by Catalyst Project, … Continued