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activist training in nonviolence, organizing, & diversity @ Tortona Big Top
activist training in nonviolence, organizing, & diversity @ Tortona Big Top
May 20 all-day
Huge activist training 5/20-21 in nonviolence, organizing, & diversity @ former Alameda Naval Air Station. Register https://t.co/8mJ6hcPQb2 pic.twitter.com/3hYW7RIDbs— Indivisible Berkeley (@IndivisibleBerk) May 17, 2017 63026
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8:00 am Refinery Corridor Healing Walks
Refinery Corridor Healing Walks
May 20 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Walk #1:  Saturday, April 8 (Scroll down for the additional walks) We will begin near the Pittsburg Marina at 3 Marina Blvd in the City of Pittsburg, California 8:00 a.m. Water Ceremony & Registration 9:30 a.m. Walk Begins There are several places along the walk where folks can join the walk – please see the details of the route below. The walk will end at Martinez Shoreline Park, end of Ferry Street in the City of Martinez, California Please feel free to join us for the prayers for the water at 8:00 … Continued
10:00 am Waffles and Zapatismo: 23 years of Zapatista history and thought @ Omni Commons Disco Room
Waffles and Zapatismo: 23 years of Zapatista history and thought @ Omni Commons Disco Room
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
The first in a series of monthly classes that include Zapatista history, projects and thinking and discussion of how the Zapatista experience has relevance to those of us outside of Chiapas and Mexico. Classes are open to all those interested in learning about the Zapatista movement, which governs its own territory through a government parallel to that of the Mexican State. We’re also serving waffles and coffee to welcome participants.62848
12:00 pm Oil Money Out of California @ Governor's Mansion
Oil Money Out of California @ Governor's Mansion
May 20 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The only way to disrupt the oil industry’s political influence is with people power.  Join us in Sacramento for a march and rally and send a clear message to our elected officials to swear off dirty oil money! Last year, in lobbying alone, the oil industry spent $36 million to push our elected officials to do their bidding.  Over the past ten years, that number amounts to $266 million. Unsurprisingly, during this time there has been little to no headway in reining in the most toxic or damaging practices of … Continued
1:00 pm Oakland Justice Coalition General Membership Meeting @ Siegel & Yee
Oakland Justice Coalition General Membership Meeting @ Siegel & Yee
May 20 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
AGENDA INCLUDES: Electoral Committee Report and Planning for 2018 Budget report and endorsement conversation DeFundOPD (APTP’s campaign) ReFund Oakland campaign East Bay Progressive Round Table Report Planning for Community BBQ, June 11th at San Antonio  Park Education Committee Report The Oakland Justice Coalition is a coalition of organizations and individuals that came together around common goals for the 2016 Oakland elections. Our aim is to build people power and advance radical change through the arena of electoral politics. It is time for us to unite around the causes we all … Continued
4:00 pm Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudrakers Cafe
Strike Debt Bay Area: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile! @ Mudrakers Cafe
May 20 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
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 housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s projects! Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the plague of medical debt Presenting debt-related topics at … Continued
6:00 pm Stand with Refugees: A Benefit for 1951 Coffee Company @ David Brower Center
Stand with Refugees: A Benefit for 1951 Coffee Company @ David Brower Center
May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us to support and welcome newly arrived refugees and asylees to the Berkeley community. Connect with friends and community members, while supporting 1951 Coffee Company’s innovative vision to help local refugees and asylees settle into life and work in the Bay Area. Enjoy great wine, music, and delicious appetizers catered by a newly arrived Syrian family. 1951 Coffee Company is a nonprofit specialty coffee organization whose name derives from the 1951 Refugee Convention where the United Nations defined and set forth its first guidelines for the protection of refugees. … Continued