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5:00 pm Santa Rita Jail Fight @ Ella Baker Center Office
Santa Rita Jail Fight @ Ella Baker Center Office
Sep 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Draft agenda: Alameda County Mental Health Advisory Board Meeting report back and next steps Turnout for Friday’s meeting Outreach 61648
6:30 pm Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment, by Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment, by Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch @ Bobby Bowens Progressive Center
Sep 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
This is a great opportunity to meet Wenonah Hauter, the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, as she tours to promote her important new book, Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment. Wenonah will discuss one hundred years of political influence-peddling by the oil and gas industry and the resulting deregulation that has devastated communities across the country.  But her vision is not bleak:  she reminds us of the groundswell of public support for a clean energy revolution, and the ascendance of a grassroots movement … Continued
6:30 pm Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons
Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons
Sep 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Oakland Privacy Meeting: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. @ Omni Commons | Oakland | California | United States
NOTE DAY CHANGE – ONE TIME ONLY. MEETING IS ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF WEDNESDAY. Join the Oakland Privacy Working Group to organize against the surveillance state,  against Urban Shield, and to advocate for privacy and surveillance regulation ordinances to be passed around the Bay Area, including the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the BART Board of Directors, and by the Oakland and Berkeley City Councils. We are also engaged in the fight against Predictive Policing and other “pre-crime” and “thought-crime” abominations, drones, improper use of police body cameras, ALPRs, requirements for … Continued
7:00 pm How UC Berkeley’s System Lets You Down @ Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, Room 54
How UC Berkeley’s System Lets You Down @ Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, Room 54
Sep 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
You’re invited to join us tonight to discuss justice and injustice at UC Berkeley, and how to build a student organization on campus. The ISO will hold a discussion about UC Berkeley’s history of complicity with sexual harassment, and its censorship of a student-run course on Palestine, and plan how to expand socialist organization on campus. 61647
7:30 pm Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood @ Hillside Club
Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood @ Hillside Club
Sep 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood @ Hillside Club | Berkeley | California | United States
Nicolas Schou, award-winning investigative journalist, author of “Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb,” exposes government operatives altering media stories and films. He names names and spotlights flagrant examples of collusion, of respected reporters selling out to powerful agencies. For the first time, Schou gets CIA officers, Hollywood consultants, reporters, and entertainment executives to go on record about the ways “true stories” come about and how the CIA has embedded itself in Hollywood to ensure that the agency gets the hero treatment on-screen. We … Continued