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10:00 am Put Your Feets on the Streets! Richmond Rent Control Signature Gathering. @ Bobby Bowens Center
Put Your Feets on the Streets! Richmond Rent Control Signature Gathering. @ Bobby Bowens Center
Apr 9 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Sometimes you’ve just got to take it to the streets, and this is one of those times. Sunflower Alliance is sponsoring a canvassing day to put rent control and just cause for eviction on the Richmond ballot in November. Bring a friend, or partner up with another canvasser when you get here. And if walking isn’t your thing, you can man (or woman) a table outside FoodsCo, Walgreens or Target. We’ll provide juice, coffee, and snacks at the Bobby Bowens Center to get you jump-started or tide you over. Come … Continued
11:00 am A Fair Chance to Advance @ Imani Community Church
A Fair Chance to Advance @ Imani Community Church
Apr 9 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Please join us on Saturday, April 9th for “Fair Chance to Advance,” a community resource fair! Free services include: Proposition 47 lawyer consultation, DMV vouchers, job training, EBT and Medi-Cal Support, veteran services, immigration consultation, and housing assistance services. There will be a bouncy house and childcare services for kids. – Do you have a felony that is keeping you from securing housing, employment or public assistance? – Do you have questions about your immigration status? – Would you like information about the new DMV amnesty program? If you or … Continued
12:00 pm A Crowdsourced Surveillance Sweep, Sponsored by the EFF @ Anywhere with Internet Access
A Crowdsourced Surveillance Sweep, Sponsored by the EFF @ Anywhere with Internet Access
Apr 9 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Join EFF on Saturday, April 9 for a first-of-its-kind crowdsourcing campaign to hold California law enforcement agencies accountable for their use of surveillance technologies.  Please pre-register here. Volunteers like you will help us track down the privacy and useage policies of law enforcement agencies across California and add them to our database. We’ll show you how to do it, and you can be anywhere with an Internet connection to participate. Last year, the California legislature passed two key transparency bills. S.B. 34 requires anyone uses automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems, as … Continued
1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting
Oakland Justice Coalition General Meeting
Apr 9 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
We will have our first vote on candidate endorsements and on our final document outlining our expectations for our endorsed candidates. We’ll also do a training on how to gather signatures for our three endorsed ballot measures and connect with our neighbors district by district to create canvassing teams. Please remember that if you would like to vote at this and future Oakland Justice Coalition membership meetings, you must join as a voting member. Contact info@oaklandjustice.org to join. Check out the new OJC information flyer. The Oakland Justice Coalition is … Continued
4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudracker's Cafe
Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudracker's Cafe
Apr 9 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
IF YOU CAN’T FIND US IN MUDRAKER’S, LOOK FOR US AT WILLARD PARK, ONE BLOCK EAST ON STUART AND A HALF BLOCK NORTH ON REGENT. WE WILL GO THERE IF MUDRAKER’S IS TOO CROWDED OR TOO NOISY.  BRING A BLANKET OR SOMESUCH TO SIT ON THE GRASS. Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and … Continued
5:30 pm Boots Riley et al: Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center
Boots Riley et al: Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center
Apr 9 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
When heavily militarized police in Ferguson, Missouri, confronted African American protesters angry at the police murder of Mike Brown in 2014, Palestinians watching events unfold from Gaza began sending tweets about how to cope with the teargas filling the streets. Such an act of solidarity was more than a mere expression of support from people who, though half a world away, know firsthand about state repression.  Police in cities across the U.S. – including police in Ferguson and Baltimore – have turned to Israel for training in how to deploy … Continued
5:30 pm Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center
Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour @ Oakland Peace Center
Apr 9 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
When heavily militarized police in Ferguson, Missouri, confronted African American protesters angry at the police murder of Mike Brown in 2014, Palestinians watching events unfold from Gaza began sending tweets about how to cope with the teargas filling the streets. Such an act of solidarity was more than a mere expression of support from people who, though half a world away, know firsthand about state repression. Police in cities across the U.S. – including police in Ferguson and Baltimore – have turned to Israel for training in how to deploy … Continued